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Chapter 258: Convenient Silver Ring (I)

"Originally, I would give some magic weapons to those who entered my door, but I don't have any Buddhist magic weapons suitable for you now, so I have to owe them for the time being, and I will make up for them later. Xu Changqing was not surprised by Andy's expression, patted him on the shoulder, made him sober up, and then said slightly apologetically.

"It's okay! Master can accept the disciple, which already makes the disciple very satisfied, and the disciple does not dare to have other extravagant hopes. Andy hurriedly shook his hand, said sincerely, with gratitude on his face.

Andy's humble retreat made Xu Changqing feel very good, and at the same time, he felt that he was not so much a foreigner as a Chinese with a foreigner appearance. After all, only the Chinese who have Confucianism deeply rooted in their bones will regard humility and concession as a virtue, while foreigners pay more attention to flamboyance and wildness. Xu Changqing is pleased that a foreigner can have the character of a Chinese, but it makes him sad that the Chinese's humbleness and concession are a virtue, because he also knows that it is this so-called virtue that makes Huaxia become the fragmented state it is today.

Xu Changqing didn't let his feelings be exposed, he always had a faint smile on his face, and after letting Andy sit back, he said, "Although I can't give you the magic weapon now, I can let your original magic weapon wield." ”

"Is the master talking about the disciple?" Andy looked puzzled and asked, "The disciple also has a magic weapon on him?"

Xu Changqing smiled, pointed to the silver ring on Andy's arm that was blocked by the sleeve, and said, "Where did you get the silver ring on your arm?"

"This silver ring?" Andy lowered his head and rolled up his sleeves, looked at the silver ring, and said, "This is what the disciple bought from a local merchant when he was in Lampung Port four years ago, and it is said that he found it from an ancient site on the island of Java, is this also a magic weapon?"

Xu Changqing said with a smile: "This is naturally a magic weapon, and the Buddha Yuan of the Pure Land Sect in your body was also obtained through this kind of magic weapon." ”

After speaking, Xu Changqing motioned to Andy to take off the silver ring, took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, Andy also watched Xu Changqing's movements with anticipation on the side, as if he wanted to learn something from it.

I saw that this silver ring is extremely exquisitely made, with eight Buddha statues carved on the outside of the silver ring, and very small Sanskrit characters engraved on the inside, although it has been eroded over a long time, all the engravings are still clear.

"I didn't expect that there really is such a Buddhist artifact in the world!" Xu Changqing breathed a sigh of relief after carefully inspecting it, closed his eyes slightly, and sighed: "Heaven Conquering Creation, it is indeed Heaven Conquering Creation!"

Andy couldn't help but ask, "Master, is this thing amazing?"

"Of course, it can be said that among the many magic weapons of Gu Tianzhu, the magic of this thing can be called the first. Xu Changqing stroked the engraving on the silver ring, told its origin, and said: "When Shakyamuni founded Buddhism, the state religion of Tianzhu was still Brahmanism, and it was very difficult for Shakyamuni's disciples to promote Buddhist teachings at that time. In order to win the support of the Dessarya caste, Sariputta, who was known as the first in wisdom among the ten disciples of the Buddha at that time, thought of an opportunistic solution. He extracted the essence of Buddhism from the various sects of Buddhism and created a Dharma instrument that can transform the Buddha nature of ordinary people into a matching Buddha element. In this way, those emperors do not need to be born to practice, they only need to recite the Buddha and take the precepts at home, and they can achieve the Buddha Yuan and practice the Dharma. ”

"It's really opportunistic, isn't there Buddhist practitioners everywhere in doing this?" Andy asked himself in a muttering voice, immersed in Xu Changqing's words.

"Your question is also what the Buddhist preachers at that time were trying to achieve. Xu Changqing smiled and continued: "Because of this kind of Dharma weapon that seizes the heavens and the earth, the number of Buddhist practitioners is increasing day by day, and the number of Buddhist believers is also spreading to an unimaginable degree, and a large number of Dessarya castes have become Buddhists, and soon Buddhism has replaced Brahmanism and become the largest sect in Tianzhu. In the later Mauryan period, Tianzhu Buddhism reached its heyday, and when Ashoka unified the northern part of Tianzhu, Ashoka, who was originally a follower of Shanaism, also turned to Buddhism and promoted Buddhism throughout the territory and surrounding countries. It's just that after he came into contact with this kind of magic weapon, he thought that this kind of magic weapon did not conform to the teachings of Buddhism, and it was an evil weapon that deviated from the teachings of Buddhism. So he ordered the whole country to completely destroy this kind of magic weapon, in just a few years, this kind of magic weapon disappeared from Tianzhu, and finally became a legend, recorded in a small number of ancient Buddhist scriptures. ”

"This Ashoka was a devout Buddhist. Andy seemed to agree with Ashoka's approach and nodded.

Indeed, both Eastern and Western Buddhists would consider Ashoka to be a devout Buddhist, who had indelible contributions to the promotion of Buddhism, and was revered as a bodhisattva in China. Xu Changqing also praised Ashoka, but then changed his voice and said, "But he is very wrong in this matter, he should not destroy this magic weapon." The reason why Buddhism was able to spread so quickly in Tianzhu is that this magic weapon is meritorious, but it is precisely because of the loss of this opportunistic magic weapon that the teachings of Buddhism were completely at a disadvantage in the subsequent sectarian struggles, and were finally replaced by the later Hinduism and disappeared from the place where it arose. Now primitive Buddhism has long ceased to exist, whether it is Theravada Buddhism, Esoteric Buddhism, or the various schools of Buddhism in China, none of them belong to primitive Buddhism. After speaking, he sighed again and said, "This is also the so-called success and defeat of Xiao He! Do you know this Xiao He?"

"Xiao He, I know it's the one who chased Han Xin under the moon, and I've heard about his Peking opera. Andy immediately replied, and sang a drama about Xiao He, which was a little original. Seeing Xu Changqing nodded appreciatively, his face also showed a hint of pride, and then pointed to the silver ring in Xu Changqing's hand, and asked, "Master, is this silver ring what kind of magic weapon?"

Xu Changqing didn't say anything to answer, just nodded slightly, and then looked solemn, folded his hands, put the silver ring in the palm of his hand, and the true yuan in his body slowly operated according to the Pure World White Lotus Method, and at the same time, his hands slowly oozed a burst of white light, gradually forming a lotus shape. At this time, in addition to the envy in Andy's eyes, he also seemed to have some understanding, and his mind was naturally settled, and his body involuntarily showed a lotus seat, his hands were folded, and he sang the Buddha's name, echoing Xu Changqing's white lotus.