Chapter 26: The Tao and the Buddha
"You're mistaken!" I questioned the two of them, although the birthmark on my ankle is indeed quite magical, but it doesn't mean that I am outside the six realms, right?
In the past few days, I have listened to Zhang Nifeng tell me about these illusory things, and I have a general understanding of the so-called "six karmas" in my heart.
What are the "six realms of karma"? To put it bluntly, it is the basic law of the cycle of heaven, earth, and all things in the universe, but what kind of person can break away from this law?
If someone had come up to me a month ago and said, 'You're outside the Six Realms,' I would have thought that I was so good, even more exciting than having superpowers."
But now I already know that there are only three types of people who can escape the shackles of the "six karmas", the first is the one who has achieved the ascension of the Great Dao, the second is the lonely souls wandering between heaven and earth, and the third type is the three souls and seven spirits who have disappeared forever.
What Mr. Liu wants me to do for him is the third one, and I myself obviously don't belong to any of them.
Not only was I shocked, but Zhang Nifeng and Big Brother Gao obviously didn't understand why I, an ordinary girl, was able to get rid of karma.
"Is it really because of the Evil Star?" Zhang Nifeng raised an eyebrow and muttered to himself suspiciously.
"First, I'm not the power of the Dao Flying Immortals, and second, I'm not a ghost, can I say that I don't have three souls and seven spirits?" I speculated one by one by elimination.
"I'll see if you're still around." When Zhang Nifeng said this, he put his thumbs on the top of my head, and the strength in his hands was a little strong, which made me grin for a while.
Then he put his hands down on my eyebrows and throat, and I was defenseless against him, and I didn't have time to dodge, and when he had done all this, I straightened his messed hair and asked him what he was doing.
"The corpse dog, the arrow, and the finch are all there." He rubbed his chin again, every time he thought about it.
"Isn't there seven in all, and what about the other four?" When I saw that he had only three of his seven spirits, I opened my mouth to ask.
"The other four spirits are in your heart, navel, abdomen, and Mooladhara, do you want me to touch them?" He looked at me from top to bottom with bad intentions.
I was swept away by his radar-like gaze, and quickly waved my hand and said I didn't need to look at it.
The eldest brother on the side saw that he had found out the three spirits and said: "The seven spirits correspond to people's joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire. ”
"Forget it, let's leave it alone for the time being, let's talk about how to help Mr. Liu first." I'm not an indecisive person in the first place, so since I don't have a clue, I just don't bother with it, anyway, this result doesn't seem to have any effect on me.
Zhang Nifeng and Big Brother Gao also agreed, and the top priority was to let Mr. Liu's soul escape karma smoothly.
I suddenly remembered a very important thing, so I asked Zhang Nifeng: "Mr. Liu changed his life against the sky in his life, he had five disadvantages and three deficiencies during his lifetime, and he was afraid of retribution after death, so I am now avoiding the catastrophe for him, is it against the way of heaven?" ”
Zhang Nifeng was obviously stunned for a moment, and thought for a moment before saying to me: "Maybe it's counted, maybe it's not, in fact, which cultivator is not an ordinary person, if everyone is like you said, looking forward and thinking for fear of retribution, then what kind of Tao is cultivated, my generation only knows but does good things......
"Don't ask about the future! I know, just ask. I took over the conversation, and I couldn't help but feel that I was really a bit of a mother-in-law just now.
From ancient times to the present, there are always people who have studied the metaphysics of yin and yang feng shui, some of them follow the way of heaven, and some go against the sky, but no matter what the result is, it is the "cause" that they have planted to bear the corresponding "fruit", and I don't know how many people can really ascend to the Tao and become immortals.
The so-called heaven is not all those who have insight into the universe.
Mr. Liu saved the whole village of Zhuankou Village regardless of his own creation, if I don't save him today, it will really be called going against the sky.
At this moment, I suddenly realized that my original worldview and values were being quietly replaced by another new concept, perhaps because I had seen too much life and death recently.
An hour later, the three of us sat around a table in the courtyard with a sad face, and on the table was Mr. Liu's ashes.
"Brother, do you have anything to do?"
"No...... Little Evil Star, does your birthmark reflect it? ”
"No ......"
As the saying goes, "Three stinkers, one Zhuge Liang." But apparently the heads of the three of us ordinary people can't think of a way to resist the six karmas.
Brother Gao hung his head and bluntly said that Master Zu had a problem for us, and he couldn't escape his own life, so how could we do it.
He got up and told us not to think about it, it was too late to eat first, Zhang Nifeng and I suddenly realized that we hadn't eaten anything seriously since we got on the road, and the only bag of biscuits in the car was given away, and now after the elder brother mentioned it, we both felt empty in our stomachs.
Brother Gao was a real person, and when he heard us cry out that he was hungry, he respectfully put away Mr. Liu's ashes, and then let us sit in the courtyard and run to the kitchen alone to prepare food for us.
I turned on my phone and looked at the time, at 6:50 in the afternoon, the day in the north is much shorter than in the south, and at this moment, the sun is setting outside the hospital, the sky is already dark, and it is about to enter the night.
I was bored from sitting in the courtyard for a long time, and I had nothing to do, so I asked Zhang Nifeng about the six realms of reincarnation, and I had the impression that Buddhism talked about the "six realms" more often.
When he saw that I was interested, he told me that the "six paths" he taught were completely different from the "six paths" of the bald donkey monk, the old monk was pretended to be compassionate and the wicked did not understand the suffering of the world, and only taught people to pray for good fortune in the next life, while the way of the heavenly master has always only reappeared in the world and cultivated, if you can't even live in this life, what can you talk about in the next life?
From the first time I heard him talk about the monk, I felt that he seemed to be very disdainful of him, so I asked him why.
He didn't answer my question, but turned his head to the big brother in the kitchen and shouted, "Big brother, Buddhism is orthodox?" ”
The old brother Gao, who was busy in the kitchen, heard his question, and shouted in a loud voice: "Brother, what nonsense, when will those foreign monks become orthodox?" Don't dare to talk nonsense in front of the grandfather. ”
Zhang Nifeng didn't reply again, but looked at me with a wicked smile.
Even Big Brother Gao is so disgusted with Buddhism, is it really a peer who is wrongdoer?
Zhang Nifeng saw that I was puzzled, so he typed a word on his mobile phone - Buddha.
He pointed to this character and explained to me that the word "Buddha" means "man is false, man is Buddha", that is, everything that is deliberately pursued by man is false and true, on the contrary, if you conform to the way of heaven and do not force it, you will enter the realm of Buddha nature.
"If Mr. Liu adheres to the Buddha nature and conforms to the way of heaven, what about Zhuankou Village?" He said to me with a sneer.
When I think about the result, I can't help but break out in a cold sweat.
He asked me if I had ever heard of the phrase "the road of troubled times goes down the mountain, and the Buddha of prosperous times collects wealth", and I shook my head and said no.
And then he told me a story.
There is an ancient Taoist temple, although it is in a mountainous and dangerous place, but the incense in it is continuous all the year round, and it is also quite prestigious in several surrounding towns, but in this Taoist temple, there is only one Taoist priest to take care of it, and there is no one else in the Taoist temple.
Although there was only one person in the temple, the courtyard was still cleaned and tidy every day, and the main hall was wiped spotless.
When this Taoist priest was asked, it seemed to arouse sadness, and he told the believers that there were many masters and brothers in this Taoist temple, and everyone cleaned the courtyard, did morning classes, and practiced exercises together every day, and they were thriving.
But later, the Japanese devils entered China, turning our great rivers and mountains into a miasma, burning, killing and looting everywhere they went, and the people were struggling to make a living.
The masters in the Taoist temple immediately decided to lead all the apprentices down the mountain to fight devils, and he was the only one who was eleven or twelve years old among the senior brothers and sisters, so the master left him in the temple.
Before leaving, the master instructed himself to take good care of the Taoist temple, and when the Japanese were defeated and the land was recovered, everyone would return triumphantly.
However, this wait is decades, and none of the senior brothers who went down the mountain to resist the Japanese in the past have returned.
I was very excited to hear it, I didn't expect that there would be such a story in Taoism.
"In the prosperous times, I helped the common people in troubled times, this is what my father taught me, although there are many people in the old bald donkey, but today's Buddhism has mostly borrowed the name of the Buddha to collect wealth." He sighed, and then said leisurely, "Hey, in fact, there are quite a few Taoist liars now. ”
I didn't expect such a big ideological difference between Taoism and Buddhism, and I couldn't help but secretly curse in my heart those people who were cheated and cheated, and worked hard and lost money.
"Don't babble, let's eat first!" Big Brother Gao's shouting interrupted my train of thought.