Chapter 14: Immortals, Buddhas, and Demons
Bajie sat by the river to clean the wounds on his body, and then took out the hairpin and looked at it. "Why does she have something from the fairy world. Bajie thought to himself.
Indeed, although Bajie was reduced to the realm of beasts in the mortal world, his previous cultivation was not lost. Someone helped him and kept his memory and cultivation, what the hell is going on, that's a later story. Immortals can only be injured by two items, the first is the things produced by the fairy world, and the second is the things born of the demon world. Perhaps because of the lack of antibodies, the sharp weapons of the demon world are extremely harmful to immortals, and even a small wound will continue to deteriorate. Those wounds will continue to release the cultivation of the immortals, and when the cultivation is released, the immortals will become mortals, and then die due to the festering of the wounds. Bajie is fortunate that the thing that pierced his body was the hairpin of the heavenly fairy, otherwise it is estimated that before he reached the Western Heaven, Bajie would have to go to see the king of Hades.
The wound pierced by the hairpin healed slowly, and even though three days had passed, Bajie was still oozing blood. Tang Sanzang walked over slowly, Bajie found that he hurriedly put away the hairpin, covered the wound with clothes in pain, and then quickly stood up to help Tang Sanzang.
Bajie: "Master, slow down, you haven't eaten or drunk for three days and three nights, how can this body stand it." ”
Tang Sanzang: "As a teacher, the subjects of Heiyao Country have chanted the scriptures, and now that the fire in the city has been extinguished, these innocent souls can rest in peace." Bajie, don't blame the teacher, there are some things we can't do. After Tang Sanzang finished speaking, he looked at the sky helplessly.
Bajie: "Master, don't say it, the apprentice understands." Bajie helped Tang Sanzang to sit down by the river.
Tang Sanzang: "Eight precepts, do you know why we want to go to the West Heaven to learn scriptures, and then cultivate to become a Buddha?"
Bajie: "Because we were all kicked out of the heavenly court and blacklisted, it is impossible to be immortals no longer in any case, so we can only re-cultivate to become a Buddha, right?"
Tang Sanzang smiled and shook his head, his face showing exhaustion: "Becoming an immortal is different from becoming a Buddha. Those who become immortals have to die in the past life, and those who have become Buddhas have to die in this life, and those who die in the next life have only two paths, either they are reincarnated and become all things in the world. Either you will become a demon and become immortal. ”
Bajie: "Master, what do you mean? What is death in a previous life." ”
Tang Sanzang: "Usually we say that people can only be reincarnated in the next life after death, but in fact, people can not only be reincarnated in the next life, but also become the previous life. If a person can go back to his previous life, then it means that he has become an immortal. But after becoming an immortal, it means that what happened in this life will have nothing to do with you, and you can no longer participate in what happened in the past. But immortals also have seven emotions and six desires, so the first lesson of becoming an immortal is to take away the memories of this life, so that you can focus on practicing in your previous life. It's like what you dream about every night, it's a memory of a past life. ”
Bajie stood up and looked at the reflection in the water: "Master is saying that what I dream about every day is true, but why can't I remember these things?"
Tang Sanzang: "That's a side effect of the pill?"
Bajie: "What elixir, what did you feed to the pigs!"
Tang Sanzang: "I didn't feed it, I'll talk about this later, let's continue to discuss." ”
Bajie: "Wait a minute, master, how do you know the content of my dreams, do you know how to read minds!"
Tang Sanzang beckoned to Bajie: "You come here, and the teacher will tell you quietly." Bajie leaned his ear over, and Tang Sanzang grabbed Bajie's ear fiercely: "You are embarrassed to ask, I won't talk about sleeping like a dead pig every night, and I still talk in my dreams, which makes my teacher lose sleep every day, look, the bags under my eyes are bigger than before I met you, can you take care of your pig's mouth, please don't talk in dreams at night, okay?"
Bajie covered his ears: "Okay, master, I won't say it again." Tang Sanzang let go of his hand, sighed, and Bajie rubbed his ears on the side.
Sha Wujing sat in front of the fire, driving a casserole on the fire, all kinds of vegetables were boiling in the casserole, and the steaming fragrance wafted out with the wind: "Master, the rice is cooked, come and eat." Hmm, master, where has the master gone?" Sha Wujing walked up to Sun Wukong, who was lying on the ground looking at the sky, with a branch in his mouth.
Sha Wujing: "Senior brother, where is the master?" Sun Wukong: "Master, kill the pig." Sha Wujing: "Kill the pig? Where did the pig come from?" Sha Wujing thought for a while: "It's not good! Could it be that the master knows about the second senior brother." Hurriedly ran to the forest: "Master, leave the pig under the knife, don't kill the second senior brother." Sun Wukong glanced at him suspiciously.
Tang Sanzang and Bajie sat cross-legged with each other, and the two sat by the river, the river was flowing slowly, and the fish were swimming freely in the water.
Tang Sanzang: "Becoming a Buddha is the only way out we have left. Although we will never have seven emotions and six desires after becoming a Buddha, we have the ability to help mortals in the world and prevent tragedies like Heiyaoguo from happening again. It is also because of this that more and more people in the world have converted to Buddhism and worshiped the Buddha of the Western Heavens. ”
Eight precepts: "Isn't that good? ”
Tang Sanzang: "But what the teacher didn't figure out was whether it was better to live happily for a lifetime, or to become a Buddha without emotions and live forever." What's the point of being alive when you can no longer be happy because you're alone?"
Bajie looked at Tang Sanzang in surprise and confusion, and thought, "Master would actually say such a thing. ”
Behind him, Sha Wujing shouted: "Master, keep a pig under the knife!"
Bajie and Tang Sanzang looked at Sha Wujing who came over suspiciously. Sha Wujing knelt down in front of Tang Sanzang: "Master, don't kill the second senior brother, the second senior brother didn't mean to." ”
Bajie became nervous, sweat slid down his forehead, and he wondered if Sha Wujing knew about his trip to save the princess.
Tang Sanzang: "Wujing, why should I kill Bajie?"
Sha Wujing looked at Bajie, Bajie shook his head slightly to signal not to speak, then looked at Tang Sanzang's concerned eyes, and then closed his eyes and said loudly: "Because Master's pants were lost by the second senior brother." ”
Bajie exhaled instantly, and then saw Tang Sanzang staring at him viciously: "Dead pig, it turned out to be you! Do you know that it is a limited edition monk pants, the endorsement made by Master Zhikong himself, and he finally grabbed one for the teacher, but you lost it." Tang Sanzang's leg hair fluttered in the wind: "Moreover, the weather is getting colder and colder, if it weren't for the hair on the teacher's legs to keep warm, the teacher would have died of cold." I.... I can't spare you today. Tang Sanzang picked up a stone and was about to smash it at Bajie, when he suddenly smelled the smell of food.
Sha Wujing hurriedly relieved the siege: "Master, the meal is ready." ”
Tang Sanzang: "Is the meal ready, why didn't you say such an important thing earlier" Tang Sanzang casually threw the stone and stood up in a dashing manner, "Let's go, eat." ”
Sha Wujing ran back first, Tang Sanzang was about to stop, and then took out a smooth long white cloth from the sleeve of his robe and handed it to Bajie: "This was given to me by Sister Guanyin, it is said that it is bandaged in the wound, no matter what the injury is, it will heal the next day." ”
Bajie looked at Tang Sanzang with some surprise, and slowly took the white cloth.
Tang Sanzang turned around: "Ah, the baby is starving to death, I can't stand it without eating or drinking for three days." He trotted over, and said loudly as he ran: "Wujing, cook more food for the teacher, I'm so hungry!"