Chapter 136: Liu Yuetian and Patriarch Bodhidharma
"Hehe, little donor, think about it, that Asura kills greed, often disobeys the Buddha, and finally goes down to the heavenly realm to set up a Shura Dao, he is one of the eight members of the Buddhist family, the Buddha's scriptures are naturally clear in his heart, and the hearts of the people in the world are not much better than the Asuras, I am the Buddha of Damobi, that is just a fine dust, the Asura has read the scriptures all over the world, how can the hearts of the people in the world be changed by me?"
"Ha, if the patriarch can think about this, it also means that you are not an upright person like Cangyang Gyatso."
Cangyang Gyatso is a living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism, and he has a profound study of the Diamond Sutra, but he is too stupid and straightforward to understand the unpredictable human heart, and he is not at the same level as the Bodhidharma Patriarch.
"Although the living Buddha said by the little donor is a little stupid, but he is also a selfless person, but the Dharma is invisible, it is by no means immutable, and it is also sharpening himself while passing it on to others, what he does is all based on his heart, and it may be useful for those who are kind-hearted, but it is useless for people who are treacherous and evil, and in the end he just cultivates himself, which is not the righteousness of Buddhism, but it is just a small success, and it may be good to cultivate himself."
Patriarch Bodhidharma said the root in one sentence.
"What the patriarch said is very true, so what you mean, how can you achieve the state you said today?"
Liu Yuetian asked rhetorically.
"That's a good question...... Shaolin has Zen Buddhism as its root, what is Zen Buddhism? Intended for epiphany, what is epiphany? That's the sublimation of the mind, how to sublimate? Then we want to tempt them with all kinds of selfish interests, just like that group of martial artists, what they hope most is to improve their martial arts, I will tempt them with the Yi Jin Sutra, so that they can sublimate their hearts in silence, and like those farmers, usually they can't eat, I will give them food, in the subtle way to sublimate their souls, people's hearts are fickle, and the forcible change is absolutely impossible, only to lure them with selfish interests first, just like the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the forced blockade can only be more and more dangerous, and gradually channeling can finally turn into peace. ”
This top legend is indeed extraordinary, and his understanding of people's hearts is also extremely profound.
"What the master said is indeed right, but if the situation of the world is all in the hands of the princes of the Seven Directions, their thoughts determine the trend of the world, how to make them peaceful?"
Liu Yuetian asked again.
"Otherwise, although the power of the seven princes is monstrous, this right is still built in the hands of the people of the world, as long as the people of the world, no, as long as thirty percent of the people in the world become benevolent, their rights will be greatly weakened, if fifty percent of the people have an epiphany, then it is impossible for them to start a war."
"Power comes from the people, that's right.........!"
Patriarch Bodhidharma's ideas are somewhat similar to those of the democratic countries of Liu Yuetian's time, and even restrain the order with its own quality is more advanced than using the law to restrain it, but it is ..........
"But I'm afraid it's still difficult to realize the master's idea, there are hundreds of millions of people in the world, even if it's thirty percent, then there are nearly 100 million people, let them all practice Zen Buddhism? Even if there are tens of thousands of believers under the master, it is a difficult move, for example, you said that you want to feed the poor people in the world, this matter is impossible now, for example, there is a great drought in the Nasili area, there are hundreds of thousands of displaced people, where do you have so much food to provide them? This is operationally difficult to compare. ”
"Well, you're right, it's not possible unless the Buddha manifests, but for me, this thing still has to be done, it's my mission."
Patriarch Bodhidharma nodded, his heart was transparent, where could he not think of the key? It's just that his heart is also extremely firm, even if there is no way ahead, he will carve out a road, even if he drives to the abyss.
"Master, Buddhism is invisible, what is Zen Tibet? As long as it can transform people's minds, I think that's Buddhism! ”
Liu Yuetian said suddenly at this moment.
"Oh? This idea of the little donor is novel, let's hear it. ”
Patriarch Bodhidharma smiled.
"In today's era, the fundamental reason is actually that resources can not be fully utilized, the so-called resources, including grain, timber, iron ore, gold and silver, etc., this is the key, if these resources are extremely abundant, people can eat as much as they want, I'm afraid no one will go to war, you say?"
"Huh? What does that mean? I don't understand. ”
Patriarch Bodhidharma naturally understands this truth, but who can let people in the world eat casually? Isn't that a joke?
"Hehe, this involves the problem between the productive forces and the relations of production, master, let me tell you about .........."
Liu Yuetian has reached the scientific and technological society in his previous life, experienced the slave era, the feudal era and the autocratic era, and the human society has been very complete in the analysis of these times from the perspective of hindsight, at that time it was hindsight, but now Liu Yuetian is a prophet, as long as the material reaches a society of great abundance, human beings will no longer have wars, of course, even before the formation of the human alliance in the previous life, human beings cannot be said to have reached great abundance of materials, but at that time the so-called matter is no longer food and water, but the improvement of science and technology, each country wants to suppress other countries in science and technology, so there is still a fight between them, but at least there will be no war.
And in this era, the survival of human beings is still a problem, that is, there is still a shortage of food, and if anyone solves this problem, at least the war will not be as imminent as it is now.
A few hours later, after listening to Liu Yuetian's "long speech" again, Patriarch Bodhidharma had puzzled, comprehended and incredibly complicated feelings on his face.
He was able to write all kinds of Buddhist scriptures, which means that he is a philosopher himself, and his understanding of human beings and society has reached a level that ordinary people cannot reach.
In fact, this is what later generations called sociology, even religion is a kind of sociology, but the name of a god is placed on the head of sociology.
Liu Yuetian told Patriarch Bodhidharma what he knew about the relationship between production relations and productive forces.
This is the knowledge that Liu Yuetian gained in his previous life, he is a physicist, and his knowledge of sociology is not very deep, but it is enough to explain the various contradictions under this feudal society.
"You're ......!"
Even if he was a saint-like Bodhidharma Patriarch, there was only a stunned expression left at this time.
The fundamental purpose of Zen Buddhism is to let people get rid of the desire in their hearts, as long as there is no desire, the world will naturally become peaceful, which is a fundamental solution to all kinds of contradictions between human beings, but Bodhidharma Patriarch also knows that it is too difficult to do this, he came from the distant Tianzhu, in the Central Plains has been more than three years, these three years have gone to a lot of places, he is conducting an in-depth research on this society, in order to find a solution to the problem, preaching naturally does not work, no one will pay attention to you, In the end, he finally found a way to take advantage of the weakness of human nature, almost fighting poison with poison, but even so, in more than three years, he and his two apprentices, Jueyuan and Huineng, only accepted more than 200 apprentices, all of whom were originally simple-minded farmers, because their desires were small, and filling their stomachs could satisfy their desires.
Three years to preach 100 people, according to this rate to change the world, unless the Bodhidharma patriarch has an endless lifespan to get his wish, so he thought of using the martial arts conference to use the desire of martial artists to spread the teachings, but the real effect is still unknown.
Liu Yuetian's theory of production relations is completely different, it is to meet people's material needs to the greatest extent, as long as it is satisfied, then the desire will naturally be gone, which is like a specimen with Zen Buddhism's way of cultivating the mind, Zen Buddhism is the standard, Liu Yuetian's theory is the standard, and the difficulty is naturally the standard to be easy to book, but in fact? Patriarch Bodhidharma felt that this mark was even more unrealistic.
This is not to blame Bodhidharma Patriarch, in this society with extremely low productivity, the output of grain depends entirely on God, God is happy that the grain will be harvested, God is not happy, the harvest of that year will be in vain, God's face is sometimes not as true as the Buddha's teachings.
But then again, this theory is far ahead of its time, and no one thinks about it, but it is absolutely true.
When Liu Yuetian said it, Patriarch Bodhidharma thought about his own thinking in the past three years, and there were many overlaps with this theory, and many incomprehensible places were also found in this theory, what does this mean? It shows that this theory may not be completely correct, but most of it is still in line with the laws of current human society.
In the view of Patriarch Bodhidharma, he was proficient in various Buddhist scriptures, and then founded Zen Buddhism based on reality after integrating them.
Liu Yuetian unified the contradiction between human beings and matter to explain the origin of chaos, and was able to refine this law into a theory, and the two sides were already standing at the same level, which was enough to start a sect.