Leaving the city, Qin Mu came to the temple of Buddhism in the city early in the morning, knocked on the door and handed over the post, and said, "I'm here to see Ma Ye." ”

The monk who received him hurriedly went back to pay his respects.

The reason why Qin Mu said that he came to see Ma Ye instead of Ma Rulai was because Ma Rulai was the leader of Buddhism and needed to sit in Da Lei Yin Temple to promote Buddhism, and Ma Ye was his relative.

One is identity, and the other is affection.

When you come to see Ma Rulai, you have to show the identity of the Human Emperor and the Heavenly Saint Sect Master, and when you come to see Ma Ye, you are the child raised by Ma Ye.

After a while, the monk came and said, "Master Ma is invited." ”

Qin Mu smiled and followed him into the temple, which was the place where the gods and demons of the Emperor Heaven allocated to the Great Leiyin Temple, where the monks of the Great Leiyin Temple built a temple and practiced daily.

Qin Mu looked up and could see the hazy twenty heavens hanging above the temple, and there were many monks below the twenty heavens, chanting sutras, and the sound of chanting collided in the air, turning into a stream of Buddha light, pouring into the twenty heavens.

The twenty heavens are the Buddha's heavens, and the twenty heavens floating above the temple are projections of the real heavens, not real.

Qin Mu retracted his gaze, this is, he saw a simple old man who had taken off his robe and looked at him with a smile.

Ma Ye.

Qin Mu became excited, since Ma Ye became Ma Rulai of Da Lei Yin Temple, they had a lot less time to see each other, Ma Rulai took off Rulai's robe, and came to see him as a relative, how could he not be excited?

But after all, this is the dojo of Da Lei Yin Temple, and there are monks everywhere, so he must suppress the surging family affection in his heart, and not bring trouble to Ma Ye and bring trouble to his mood.

"Master Ma, haven't you already contacted the Twenty Heavens early?"

Qin Mu stabilized his state of mind and said curiously, "Why do you still have to keep in touch with the Twenty Heavens now? Could it be that the Buddhas in the Buddha Realm have never taught higher-level exercises and methods?"

"It's been passed on. But not much. ”

Ma Ye led him to the monks who were chanting sutras and contacting the Buddha world, only to see that the temple was quite spacious, nearly a thousand monks sat on their knees, some sat on the flat ground, some sat in the air, and some sat on the pagoda, and said: "The meaning of the Buddha world is that we want to concentrate on cultivating the Buddha and do not have to participate in the disputes of the world. They don't want to pay much attention to worldly things, and there seem to be many taboos. And what I mean is to ask them to teach the profound Dharma, because a Buddha has the heart to cross the world, how can he see ordinary people fall into suffering and not save them?"

Qin Mu looked around, thousands of monks, including men and women, and some demons, were all reciting the Buddha's name, so that the Buddhas of the twenty heavens could not be at peace.

This kind of play is like a method of harassment. Reciting the name of the Buddha, the Buddha will hear that these monks of the Great Leiyin Temple are reciting the names of the Buddhas.

"Originally, there were a few Buddhas who passed on the Dharma, but then no one preached it anymore, and it was as secretive as it was. I want to ask them to go to the lower realm, and they don't want to help them. ”

Ma Ye shook his head and said, "I think that they are not afraid of provoking the mortal world, but afraid of some terrible existence. Although they have a profound realm and profound exercises, they have fallen behind in their state of mind. A few days ago, the Buddhas in the Buddha realm were overwhelmed, so they made a proposal to test the Dharma among the Buddhas. ”

"Trying the Dharma?"

Qin Mu suddenly became interested, and said with a smile: "How can you compare?"

"It is to select the disciples of the Buddha and compare the attainments of the Dharma, and this comparison is a comparison in the air. I sent out the war sky. ”

Ma Ye raised his hand and pointed, "The battle is there, and several Buddhas of the Twenty Heavens have been defeated." ”

Qin Mu looked up and saw the demon ape sitting on the tower, the tower seemed to be the same height as the twenty heavens, and opposite him, there was a Buddha sitting on the throne, riding a treasure elephant, and the treasure elephant was draped in a jewel, which was extremely gorgeous.

Behind the treasure elephant is a gorgeous temple complex, and the halo of the tall Buddhas rotates behind their heads, and the Dharma is solemn.

The debate between the two was quite intense, and the Buddha of the Twenty Heavens was like a river, gushing endlessly, and he did not pause for half an hour, and his voice was sometimes high-pitched and passionate, sometimes low but people couldn't help but listen carefully.

This eloquence can be described as a long speech, which is irrefutable.

After the Buddha finished speaking, he finally stopped talking and looked at the demon ape with a smile on his face.

The demon ape stretched out his furry palm, five thick black fingers, and his voice was obscure, and he said word by word: "Extreme." ”

The Buddha didn't understand what he wanted to say, so he thought about it for a while, and after a while, the demon ape said again, "Empty." ”

The Buddha frowned, and suddenly thought about it. The demon ape said again: "Yes." ”

The Buddha's body shook slightly, and he lost his voice and said, "Why is there still when it's empty?"

The demon ape turned a deaf ear and said, "Quiet." ”

The Buddha was furious and shouted, "If there is, why can you still be quiet? Your words are not in line with the Dharma!"

The demon ape said: "Micro." ”

The Buddha was furious and was about to argue completely, when suddenly his body shook and he froze on the back of the treasure elephant, stunned and silent.

Behind him, a big Buddha sighed: "There is silence in the extreme sky. It's too high and wonderful, the words are like pearls, every word is a Buddhist Mahayana treatise, and the five words are connected together, and it is great and profound. Emptiness, you talked for half an hour, and said a lot of long speeches, but unfortunately it was not as good as any of his five words. You are defeated, go down. ”

The Buddha got up from the treasure elephant, saluted the demon ape, and slowly retreated.

Qin Mu was shocked and frightened, and said to Ma Ye: "Ma Ye, does the big man really have Huigen?"

Ma Ye said solemnly: "There is a great wisdom root! Even above me, it is higher than Mingxin!"

At this time, another Buddha came from the twenty heavens, from the upper heavens, followed by several Buddhas with vast bodies, just sat down, this Buddha was full of light, dazzling light, shining down from the twenty heavens, shining all over the temple.

This Buddha's light shines, so that the monks in the temple are shocked: "This Buddha is so profound in his Buddhist cultivation!"

The demon ape raised his hand and blocked it in front of him, his big hand blocked the Buddha's light, and the shadow of his hand cast on his face.

The Buddha who had just sat down was just about to speak and argue, but when he saw this, his heart was shocked, and his throat suddenly became sweet, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he lost his voice: "Your Dharma attainments are so high? Before I could say anything, I was already overwhelmed by you!"

Behind him, the big Buddhas hurriedly rescued people and finally rescued him. One Buddha praised: "What is the content of the Buddha's argument this time?" I never thought that this little Buddha would directly break his question, and it was really a good argument!

Qin Mu was dumbfounded, withdrew his gaze from the demon ape with difficulty, and looked at Ma Ye suspiciously.

He can't understand this kind of dialectic.

Ma Ye explained: "The Buddha starts with the light, the whole body shines brightly, and the Buddha's light shines." And Zhankong raised his hand to block, and the darkness under his hand was to tell him that where there is light, there is darkness, and they are interdependent. Therefore, the dialectic of the Buddha was directly truncated, unable to speak, and suffocating himself to vomit blood. This shows the wisdom of the war air. ”

Qin Mu was speechless.

He could see that the cultivation of the Buddha just now was extremely high, and most of them were a master of Buddhism in the realm of heaven and man, even if Qin Mu confronted him, he might not be able to defeat him.

Unexpectedly, the demon ape tightly blocked the light, and when the Buddha was shining, he vomited blood and almost died of anger!

The demon ape has already debated the twenty heavens of great merit, and the next heavens will be the heaven of great debate.

In the Great Debate Heaven, the Buddhas and a young Buddha came to face the demon ape. The young Buddha sat down slowly, didn't say much, pinched the Dharma seal in his hand, pinched a lotus flower, and said, "None." ”

The demon ape said, "Yes." ”

The young Buddha frowned, put down the lotus, and said, "Yes." ”

The demon ape said, "None." ”

The young Buddha got up and asked, "Are you an ordinary man?"

The demon ape shook his head: "I, saint." ”

The young Buddha asked in a deafening voice, "Are you a holy Buddha?"

The demon ape shook his head again: "I, Fan." ”

The young Buddha's face turned red, and he said angrily: "Sometimes you say you don't have it in my hands, and when you say you have nothing in my hands, I ask you if you are mortal, you say you are a holy Buddha, I ask you are a holy Buddha? You say you are a mortal! What do you want to say?"

The Buddhas behind him frowned, summoned a few Vajra to cross him down, and a Buddha apologized to the demon ape: "Senior brother forgive his sins, he has messed up his heart." There are times when there is nothing to do, and when the heart is holy, it is also holy. I admire the master's and brother's attainments in Buddhism. "Note (1)

The demon ape returned the salute, but did not speak.

Qin Mu was shocked, his head was dizzy, he held his forehead and said to Ma Ye: "Ma Ye, I don't understand it at all. I don't have this Huigen, so I still don't come to listen to the lecture. ”

Ma Ye smiled: "When I was as big as Zhankong, I never had such attainments. Since you are confused, let's go out of the temple. ”

Qin Mu was relieved.

The two walked out of the temple, Ma Ye breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Mu'er, I am now a Buddha, and I am going farther and farther away from you." Put on a robe and sit on the Buddha seat, I am not the horse master of the year, in my eyes, you are all beings. But I walked down from the Buddha seat and took off my clothes, I am the horse master of our old village, the horse god catcher, you are the child I watched grow up. ”

Qin Mu suddenly hugged him heavily.

Ma Ye was stunned, patted him on the back with a smile, and said: "Zhankong learns quickly, Mingxin is also a good child, and it will be the two of them who will inherit the mantle of Da Lei Yin Temple in the future." At that time, I will not be the same, I will return to the old village, and I will talk and laugh with you, eat wine and meat. ”

Qin Mu asked, "Why are the Buddhas of the Twenty Heavens unwilling to teach the Dharma and unwilling to help each other in the lower realm?

"Asked. A Buddha told me that the reason why the temple was able to survive the calamities of the past dynasties was because if you didn't ask, you couldn't save it. They told me not to ask. ”

Ma Ye sighed and said: "This time I used the yin trick taught by the dumb man, and the dumb man told me, let me order the monks to recite the Buddha's name, and make them pure, so that they can't stand it, and they will talk to you." If the debate is victorious this time, the Buddhas of the 20 heavens will be allowed three places to enter the Buddha realm to study. However, they still won't let the people in the Buddha realm help them in the lower realm. I've thought about it, it's better to have three places than nothing. ”

At this moment, suddenly there was an uproar in the temple, the cheers of the monks came, Qin Mu and Ma Ye glanced at each other, hurriedly turned around and rushed into the temple, only to see that the monks were throwing the demon ape high, catching it, and throwing it again!

"Victory, we victory!" the monks cheered.

Note (1): These debate questions come from the thirty-six pairs of the six ancestors of Buddhism, Huineng, and interested friends can search for them. The subtlety of the extreme emptiness is also the subtlety of the extreme emptiness from Hui Neng, which is a debate topic in Buddhism, and the artistic conception is very high.