"And since Buddhism spread in Xiniuhezhou, after thousands of years, it has deteriorated and become a national tumor. ”

Feng Zhou got up and walked on the top of the thirteen-story tower, "Do you know the origin of the pawn industry? Hehe, five hundred years ago, Xiniu Hezhou was in turmoil, but the Buddhist gate was extremely prosperous, the Buddhist temple has more money than the national treasury, and the country of Shewei and the lion camel country are at war, and the military salaries required by both sides even have to borrow from the Buddhist temple!"

Feng Zhou shook his head in the hall, "After that, there was an emergence of the pawn industry." ”

"As far as I know, the reason why the Lion Camel Country was destroyed was because he couldn't afford to repay the debt, and he had to have the idea of destroying the Buddha, so he was eaten clean by that Dapeng, and your Buddhism opened up a new industry, and then destroyed a country!"

"If a religion does not produce, but still controls the country's money and lifeline, consumes the national spirit, and even endangers the fate of the country, which king can tolerate such a religion? If you don't destroy the Buddha, you have to destroy the country, and only by destroying the Buddha can you save the country?

Chang Tingzi was silent, his true identity is not trivial, but Maitreya Buddha, although he is now in the mortal world, closed his own supernatural powers, but it does not mean that his insight does not exist. With his status, he naturally knows a lot about the past of Buddhism, and knows that what Feng Zhou said is indeed true, and it is indeed difficult to answer Feng Zhou's questioning.

Chang Tingzi was silent for a long time before he replied: "All laws are born from fate, and all laws are destroyed from fate." There must be a reason for the events of the past, the rights and wrongs have returned to the dust, who is right and wrong, and who can comment on it. ”

Feng Zhou said: "Five or six hundred years ago, it may have been hearsay, but now I am afraid that you can't justify it." ”

He looked at Chang Tingzi, "At the beginning, Gong Fenghua Relic, a tower built by the Sai Sai State, was just a brick tower, but now in my country, it has been replaced by a copper tower, and the consumables are laborious and insatiable." You monks are all empty, but why do you attach so much importance to things outside your body? Fame and fortune can't be fathomed, so what's the use of cultivating?"

Chang Tingzi lowered his head and sighed: "Your Majesty has a deep prejudice against my Buddhism, and it is no longer possible to explain it clearly in a while. ”

He smiled slightly: "But Your Majesty has a fate with my Buddha, so it is better to study my Buddhist scriptures with me here, it will only take a year and a half, and there will definitely be a time for enlightenment." ”

Chang Tingzi said with a smile: "I have the Mahayana Sutra Sanzang, just recite it every day, and I will see the nature of my mind and understand the true meaning of my Buddha's compassion." ”

Feng Zhou smiled and said, "The Buddha is in the heart, is it in the mouth?"

He sighed: "Back then, the Buddha preached the Dharma in the snow-capped mountains, holding a golden Bora flower with a calm attitude and not saying a word. The sentient beings were puzzled, but only Mahakala smiled lightly. The Buddha immediately said that the Buddha has obtained its true transmission, which shows that Buddhism pays attention to the clear mind and insight, and the heart is enlightened, that is, the heart becomes a Buddha. But you are here to recite the Mahayana Sutra Sanzang, what can you cultivate? Is it just that you have cultivated this big belly and laughed at sentient beings and let others know your true face?"

Chang Tingzi was shocked again, knowing that Feng Zhou saw his own details.

He is the successor of the world-honored Shakyamuni Buddha, and in the future, he will be born in the world of sampa and become the next Buddha in the world of sampa, that is, the fifth Buddha among the thousand Buddhas of the virtuous tribulation, and is often called "the next birth of Maitreya Buddha".

He came to the mortal world as a mortal of Chang Tingzi this time, and the purpose was to cross the boat and seal the boat, introduce him to the Buddha Gate, and obtain the Buddha Gate as soon as possible.

But now he found that the other party not only understood Buddhism, but also hated some of the shortcomings of Buddhist disciples, which was difficult for him to overcome.

After all, the two disciples of the world-honored disciples, Ekyāya and Ananda, still have unbroken desires.

If all the Buddhas on the Ling Mountain were penances, wore hundreds of clothes, drank less and did not enjoy the desires of the ears and eyes, who of the 3,000 disciples would be willing to enter the Buddha's door?

Even the Holy Realm of Lingshan is like this, not to mention many Buddhist monks all over the world?

It is necessary to know that the more great the Buddha, the more he will pay attention to going with the flow, never violating the four seasons, others can break the Buddha's son and not get the perfect appearance, refuse to enter the Buddha, even if he is your Maitreya Buddha, can not forcibly recruit people into the Buddha.

You must know that he is now a mortal body, and he cannot use mana. Even though he is the true body of Maitreya Buddha and the body of a quasi-saint, he knows that the other party is also a quasi-saint. If you really want to play the trick of "the donor has a relationship with my Buddha", you may not be able to succeed.

If you can't cross the boat and enter the Buddha, it can only mean that the other party has fallen into the devil.

If he can't beat it, then he Maitreya Buddha's future Buddha position is only afraid that it will not be good.

At this moment, Chang Tingzi sighed lightly in his heart, and asked casually: "If you want to become a Buddha, how can you be empty?"

Feng Zhou said: "There must be no Buddha in your heart, no Buddha in your eyes, and no Buddha anywhere." ”

Maitreya Buddha was slightly stunned, and faintly found the original intention of Buddhism, and seemed to be transparent about his own practice, and his heart couldn't help but be overjoyed.

You must know that the truth of all things in the universe is constantly developing and advancing, even Buddhism and Taoism are constantly pursuing the supreme truth of enlightenment, even if it is as great as Maitreya Buddha and has fully enlightened people, they must continue to understand the truth.

Nowadays, the enlightenment of the Buddhas of Lingshan is still in the "deep prajna, one line of samadhi, and who recites the Buddha".

It is necessary to learn the scriptures from Xuanzang, after twists and turns, but after flying in front of the hall, the Buddhas gradually realized the truth that the Tao should be "no phase for the body, no dwelling for the foundation, and no thought for the sect".

At this time, Chang Tingzi seemed to believe it or not, and asked, "How can you be regarded as a Buddha-free, and how do you know the method of Zen practice?"

Feng Zhou said with a smile: "I am here, there is no Buddha, there is no law, Bodhidharma is an old man, the Bodhisattva of the Ten Lands is a dung bearer, and so Miao Erjue is an ordinary man who breaks the vows, Bodhi Nirvana is a donkey peg, and the Twelve Points Sect is a ghost book." ”

Chang Tingzi was slightly stunned, "Why is Your Majesty so rude to my Buddha?"

Although he said so, there was not much blame in his tone, but he seemed to understand Feng Zhou's words, but he was not very clear.

Feng Zhou continued: "Shakya was born, pointing to the sky with one hand and the earth with the other, walking seven steps around, looking at the clouds in all directions. If Lao Tzu saw it at that time, he would kill it with a stick and eat it with a dog, and the world would be peaceful. ”

Chang Tingzi's body shook, his face showed a feeling of joy and distress, and he seemed to understand Feng Zhou's words, but it always seemed that there was always a layer of difference.

Seeing this, Feng Zhou sighed: "Everything that looks like is false!"

When he said this, the face of the monk opposite suddenly disappeared with distress, and the color of joy immediately rose, and he patted his belly lightly, laughed, and said: "The big belly can tolerate the intolerable things in the world; ”

Feng Zhou laughed and held his hand slightly to Chang Tingzi: "Congratulations to the Buddha for going one step further." ”

Chang Tingzi was full of smiles, bare his chest and abdomen, sat on the futon, smiled lovely, ignored the sealing boat, and recited a poem in his mouth: "I want to cross the emperor into the Buddha's edge, but I look up and see the tower top of the sky, the Buddha scolds the ancestor Fang to become enlightened, and the retreat turns out to be forward." ”

After reading this limerick, he clapped his hands with laughter and said with a smile: "Yes! That's it! Go to rest! Go to rest!"

He didn't return the salute, but Feng Zhou returned the salute, "The Buddha is polite!"

After speaking, Feng Zhou turned around and left the tower.

On the second day, Chang Tingzi left Jinghuang Temple, clapped his hands and sang songs, and went west, nowhere to be found.

At this time, the Ming Kingdom, like the Sui and Tang dynasties in China, although Zen Buddhism arose, it was still very different from the Sinicization of Zen in later generations.

As far as Huaxia is concerned, until after the six ancestors Huineng, the Buddhas scolded the ancestors and pursued the true nature of the Buddha, so that the body and mind were at ease, free from the great shackles, clear mind, enlightenment and liberation.

Although the Buddhas on the spiritual mountain are profound, but for the transmission of the Dharma and enlightenment, they are still in a state of diligent cultivation, and what Feng Zhou said to the mortal body of Maitreya Buddha is two famous wild words in the case of mad Zen in later generations, which is not the crazy words of a madman, but the "exceptional" epigram of the Buddhism heart sect to get rid of the inherent prejudices.

Remind the world: All those who have appearances are vain, even if they are classic Buddha statues, or saints or sages, they are all born and destroyed, and they are not normal and truthful.

After Maitreya Buddha attained enlightenment, he immediately understood that the Buddha of Fengzhou was profound, not the demon of destroying the Buddha, but his Buddha was able to open a sect in Buddhism, called the ancestor Taoism, and only one sentence was enough to be the Buddha of the right path.

At this point, he has been side by side with the great sages of the fairy world such as Bodhi Patriarch and Zhen Yuanzi who are hidden in Xiniu Hezhou.

After the departure of this holy monk Chang Tingzi, Jinghuang Temple seemed to suddenly lose everyone's protection.

Especially this temple, whitewash the golden Buddha, spend money, only the golden splendor of the Buddha gate hall in the eyes, but it is less than the Buddha's compassionate heart, only worship the Buddha, do not seek yourself, take the evil path without knowing it, forget that the root of the Buddha is to get rid of the sea of suffering, into the silence, this outside the body, there is not as good as nothing.

As soon as Chang Tingzi left, the atmosphere shrouded in Jinghuang Temple suddenly dissipated, although many monks in the Pure Buddha Temple made friends with the powerful, and even a few old monks often talked and laughed with the Taishang King, but for Feng Zhou, it was not difficult to deal with it at all.

Feng Zhou returned to the palace, and with an order, there was no resistance to the resumption of the land of the Buddha Temple, which was still a bit deadlocked.

In the name of "Buddhist disciples, the vast compassion, the victims of the Ming disaster, and the urgent need for relief", Feng Zhou took out as much as ninety percent of the silver in the treasury of the temple for ten years in the temple of Baifo Temple to make military funds.

The magnates of the Ming Kingdom immediately understood what the emperor meant, which one is really good to Buddhism, and they can't hide at this time.

Therefore, the government at all levels went out to confiscate the temple property under its rule, and the treasury of the Ming Dynasty suddenly made a ruthless payment.

After dealing with all the temples of the Ming Kingdom, making ninety percent of the monks return to the laity, and implementing the law that all religious sites must pay taxes according to law, a year has passed.

At this time, the wedding procession of the eldest princess of Huainan escorted by Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia of the Tang Dynasty, arrived in Zhu Zicheng. Feng Zhou received Li Daozong and his party with the most solemn etiquette, and then married Li Chengxia, the eldest princess of Huainan, according to Tang etiquette, and named her the mother of the Golden Sacred Palace.

Originally, after the king of Xiniu Hezhou, it was called the main palace, the east palace, and the west palace. In the Ming Dynasty, the main palace is called the Golden Sacred Palace, the East Palace is called the Jade Sacred Palace, and the West Palace is called the Silver Sacred Palace.

Now the Golden Sacred Palace is Li Chengxia, the eldest princess of Huainan of the Tang Dynasty, and the Silver Sacred Palace and the Jade Sacred Palace are the daughters of their own nobles.

This Golden Sacred Palace Li Chengxia was noble, beautiful and generous, virtuous and virtuous, in the Ming Palace, almost no less than his imperial sister-in-law Empress Changsun, although Feng Zhou married her because of a political marriage, after a long time, he was impressed by him, and he loved him more and more.

Time passed slowly, on this day, the Guanyin Dojo of Putuo Mountain in the South China Sea, on this day, I don't know if the dragon girl was negligent, or the god who guarded the mountain was dizzy, and actually threw an elixir in front of the Guanyin mount Golden Retriever......