All Chapters_Chapter 228 The Mystery of the Buddha Cave
Taoism originated in ancient China, from the ancestor of humanity Fu Xi to create a variety of cultures, research divination and gossip of the way, to the Warring States period Lao Tzu wrote a book and said, became the ancestor of Taoism, after thousands of years in the middle, the development of Taoism is booming, at that time the heaven and earth are full of spiritual energy, countless geniuses rise, so that Taoism is extremely brilliant. However, the people of the Dao Sect cultivated the ability to reach the heavens, regarded mortals as ants, and kept killing, and the people were not able to make a living.
Lao Tzu Li Er unified the Daomen, and was called Taishang Laojun by later generations, the first sage, who passed on the Tao Te Ching to restrain future generations, preach moral doctrines, and educate sentient beings.
Six hundred years later, Buddhism was introduced into China from Tianzhu, and its sectarian ideas coincided with Taoist thoughts, and advocated that all living beings were Buddhas, ascetic in the past life, and rich in the later life, which was highly respected by the mortal royal family and passed on to the people.
For the past 2,000 years, Buddhism has been used as the state religion of all dynasties, and Buddhism culture has flourished, but Taoist people have always believed that Buddhism is the Tao, and they did not pay attention to Buddhism, until Buddhism began to infiltrate Taoism and compete for cultivation resources.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi took power, promoted Buddhism, and abandoned Taoism, which made the development of Taoist culture stagnate in the secular world, and the inheritance of cultivators was cut off.
Later, Buddhism came out of a person who only practiced Buddhism and did not practice Buddhism, his name was Xiao Guyan, known as the reincarnation of the Buddha, he invited the two supremes of Buddhism and Taoism to come together to talk about peace, and pacified the two doors of Buddhism, and then Buddhism withdrew from the world's disputes, after the death of Zen Buddhism, Xiao Guyan became the master of Buddhism, he saw that the people in the world were killed by the people of Buddhism and Taoism, and could not bear the suffering of the people, and ordered Buddhism to abandon Buddhism and practice Buddhism.
This Xiao Guyan is the first person in Buddhism a hundred years ago, Master Xuyun, after four dynasties and five emperors, even if the Daomen of his era is chaotic, it will not disturb Buddhism.
There is a poem that says: "Sitting and reading the Five Emperors and Four Dynasties, I don't feel the vicissitudes of life, I have endured nine tribulations and ten difficulties, and I know that the world is impermanent." "It's about Master Void Cloud.
On the day of the death of Master Xuyun, the Dharma in the flesh and blood bones was boundless, turned into a colorful relic, the colorful relics were stolen, there is evidence that it was done by the people of the Daomen, this matter is just the introduction of the dispute between the Buddha and the Dao, and finally caused the dark turmoil of the Daomen, the Buddhism abandoned the Buddha for decades, there were not many masters left, and the Taoist people were slaughtered, and then there was a big war between the Daomen, the battle was not over, the Daomen and the military had a big war again, and finally under the impact of foreign guns and artillery, the Daomen was seriously damaged, and the few great masters of the Daomen were difficult to support, Make peace with the military.
The people need the military to rule, relying on the ideology and law of the Daomen is unreliable, for many years, the military has been secretly suppressing the Daomen, that period of history is extremely dark, and there are not many historical records, so it is called dark turmoil.
And in that turmoil, the only Buddhism that did not perish was Master Xuyun's Leiyin Temple, and the rest of the Buddhist temples were taken over by the military, controlled by secular people, and mortals could enter the temple according to the study of Buddhism and become professional monks.
Leiyin Temple, the inheritance place of the Lingshan Buddha in ancient Chinese legends, is located in Tianzhu, and this Leiyin Temple is located in Dunhuang.
It is rumored that after Buddhism entered China more than 2,000 years ago, the first temple established was Leiyin Temple.
I galloped overnight, and arrived in the Dunhuang desert at dawn the next day.
Leiyin Temple is located in the middle of the desert, next to the crescent moon spring, here few people come here all the year round, I arrived at the door of Leiyin Temple, the gate was open, and there was a young monk standing on each side.
A young monk saw me coming from a distance and asked, "Is the donor here to offer incense?" ”
I said, "Come and find someone." ”
"I don't know who the donor is looking for in my Leiyin Temple?" The young monk asked.
I said, "Find your abbot or the person in charge of the temple, if you have something important, please report it quickly." ”
The two glanced at each other, secretly winked, and one of them said: "Donor, the abbot has not been in the temple for the past two days, and I ask the donor to come back another day." ”
I shook my head and said with a somewhat impatient face: "I wouldn't have asked if I knew you were so verbose, it's really troublesome." ”
After I finished speaking, I walked straight to the Lei Yin Temple, two teenagers intercepted, I lifted my hands to their chins, the two of them flew upside down, hit the courtyard wall and fainted.
I walked through the outer courtyard of the Leiyin Temple and walked inside, and after entering the Buddha hall of the main hall, an old monk with a candlestick came out of it, and I asked, "What are you doing when you have arrested my two friends, and where are they now?" ”
"The poor monk doesn't understand what the donor means, so please say it slowly, don't worry." The old monk said.
I snorted, in the time reappearance of Xiao Zhoutian's compass, the monk with shining eyebrows almost killed Chang Liuliang, if it wasn't for the monk who took Douding to stop it, I would definitely not ask more at this time, and directly bloodbathed Leiyin Temple.
Several monks outside the main hall saw that I was not good, and they all gathered around the hall and looked at each other.
My Dao qi dispersed, my left hand was raised slightly, and these monks all floated up uncontrollably, and I said: "I don't have much patience, ten seconds, either let me see my friend, or the Buddha Gate Leiyin Temple will disappear from this world, no matter how young or old, no one will be left, you can watch and do it." ”
"Ten, nine, eight, seven......" I began the countdown.
The old monk's face was calm, and he said: "It turns out that the donor is a person from the Dao Sect, no wonder he is so murderous. ”
After the old monk finished speaking, a monk floating in the air suddenly screamed, his body was instantly torn apart, and the rest of the monks shouted and begged for mercy, the old monk's eyes changed slightly, as if he didn't expect me to dare to kill at all.
The monks of the Leiyin Temple, who heard the movement, ran to the front hall one after another, and as long as they were close to me, they all floated within ten zhang.
"There's no need for the countdown, you'll know what happened to me." I looked at the old monk and said calmly.
The fist was just about to open and kill everyone, when an angry roar came: "Demon, you dare to kill my people from Leiyin Temple!" ”
The person who appeared was the young monk who almost killed Chang Liuliang with red eyebrows in Qingliangguan.
"Just as I was looking for you, you appeared." I put everyone down and slapped the calm old monk aside, and the young monk was furious, his eyes widened and he said, "Look for death!" ”
I stood still and didn't move, but the young monk flew out upside down and smashed the Buddha statue behind me in two.
The young monk's fists twisted, he gritted his teeth, his brow glowing red, and suddenly looked at me.
I felt a palpitation in my heart, and suddenly disappeared in front of the young monk, who was puzzled, and the red light on his eyebrows disappeared, and he looked around.
I appeared at the candlestick behind him, punched him in the eye, bruising his eyes, and stabbed him in the center of the brow with a sword.
"Donor's mercy!" A majestic voice came.
I withdrew my hand in time and withdrew the fish intestine sword into my sleeve, and the face of the Chinese character and the short beard on the chin were the middle-aged monk who took Dou Ding.
The young monk was so angry that he cried out to rush at me, as if he had never suffered such a loss.
"Stand down!" The middle-aged monk drank and stopped.
The young monk looked unconvinced, covered his bruised eyes and retreated, and his mouth was fierce.
The middle-aged monk looked at me and asked, "The donor doesn't ask me to force me to show up by killing people indiscriminately, I don't know who I am looking for?" ”
I said, "Ming people don't say dark words, I have Taoist holy relics on me, I can see the past, you took people to Qingliang Mountain and took my two friends away, you need to give me an explanation." ”
The middle-aged monk frowned, as if he was hesitating, and the young monk next to him said, "Master, this madman can't stay!" ”
The middle-aged monk said: "Poor monk Haikong, ask the benefactor to respect the name." ”
I said: "In Xia Yang Hao, there is no teacher. ”
"It turned out to be the protagonist of the turmoil in Huashan, and the supreme genius Yang Hao in the Daomen." Haikong said.
I said, "Needless to say, I just want to know where my friends are?" ”
Haikong said, "You come with me." ”
I followed the monks of Haikong out of the main hall, bypassed the Buddha statue, and walked into the backyard, where on the futons on both sides of the backyard sat two rows of monks with solemn faces, they were dressed in robes, and the top of their heads were lit with ring scars.
Walking through the Buddha hall in the backyard, Haikong saluted a vicious-looking Buddha of Anger, folded his hands and said the Buddha horn, and then twisted the candlestick next to the Buddha of Anger.
The candlestick turned and made a loud sound, and the Buddha turned around, revealing a hole that stretched downward, and the cave was brightly lit, and the slope was not very steep.
"Donor, please." Haikong glanced back at me and motioned for me to come in with him.
Without hesitation, I followed Haikong towards the cave until I saw a huge space.
"Ten Thousand Buddha Grottoes?" I wondered, I once saw such a scene in a patriarch's codex in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Longhu Mountain, which said that the ancient cave of ten thousand Buddhas buried the secret of Buddhahood, and it was a place of pilgrimage for Buddhists.
The Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave in front of you is extremely spacious, there are holes on the walls around it, and there are stone Buddhas with different expressions placed in it, and in the middle of the ancient cave, a thing that looks like an altar, and in the middle is an old man who has dried up, the old man is dressed in black, his face is shriveled, and he has obviously been dead for many years.
And Douding was behind the old man, looking painful, and the golden light on his body surged and entered the old man's body, and the old man's body was beginning to regain its vitality at an alarming speed.
Around the altar, a group of monks chanted Buddhist mantras, three elderly monks sat in the altar triangle, the sound of chanting was spread all over the ancient caves, and there was a faint fragrance.
There are ancient rumors that after the death of the Buddhist master, the body will be sanctified, incorruptible and indestructible, waiting for the resurrection of future generations.
I clenched my fists and flew towards the altar, Haikong stood behind me and did not move, but the door to our entry was closed, and a group of monks with golden light stood up with murderous eyes.