Chapter Ninety-Three: Karma
That night, the third watch ......
Patriarch Bodhi sat quietly in the futon at the back door, his eyelids lowered.
He waited quietly.
Patriarch Bodhi believed that with Jiang Chen's talent and intelligence before, it should be impossible not to guess what he meant. But......
After waiting for half a night, the night was still as calm as water.
“......”
This......
Rao is the state of mind of the Bodhi Patriarch and the sage, and he can't help but have a little doubt. Could it be that the little monkey Jiang Chen didn't understand his own meaning?
Probably not.
But if you think about it, it's true that your statement is too ambiguous. Just said that people are clever and use this kind of metaphor, which will inevitably make people take care of their hands and feet...... However, is it only to this extent after all?
Patriarch Bodhi frowned slightly.
Maybe it's not a chance after all...... No, or, it might be better to say that Jiang Chen didn't come here, maybe it was a lucky thing.
After all, worshipping under one's own door is not necessarily a good thing.
I want to become enlightened by myself until now, and I don't know how many yuan hui times I have experienced. However, none of his disciples died well. In the end, he was reduced to a lonely family. So much so that now, although he often teaches others in his incarnation, he will not really move his plans to accept disciples.
Yes, apprenticeship to Confucius, or apprenticeship to Patriarch Bodhi, is actually a completely different concept from apprenticeship to "Lingbao Tianzun".
Because, whether it is Confucius or Patriarch Bodhi, in fact, it is just the identity of one of his incarnations. 就像之前他以孔子的身份传教,但是当使命完结之后,最终还是消了孔子的因果。
Confucius is like an ordinary human being who has reached the end of his life. From then on, it seemed that there was no longer his existence in the world.
One day, Patriarch Bodhi will also end up like this. So these disciples he has accepted now, strictly speaking, there is no distinction between the courts.
And so far, Lingbao Tianzun has really moved the idea of accepting disciples. There are only two people, one is Mo Zhai, the founder of the Mo family. The other is Jiang Chen.
However, the former is the ancestor of the Mo family, although he is an ordinary human and has not cultivated, but he can also be called the honorific title of "saint". Therefore, Lingbao Tianzun finally gave up. As for Jiang Chen......
Patriarch Bodhi couldn't help but fall into the memories.
The flashing scenes in his eyes were the tragedy of the Ten Thousand Immortals Great Array back then, and the vicissitudes of the formation.
With his indefatious state of mind, he was even in a slight trance for a moment. You know, it's shocking.
If it weren't for him, he was the state of mind of a saint, immortal and imperishable, and evil spirits were repelled. I'm afraid that there is a risk of breeding demons at this moment.
"It's ...... anyway"
Patriarch Bodhi sighed slightly.
But even so, he paused, and waved his hand slightly. A faint faint light drifted out.
It doesn't matter if the little monkey didn't guess it, or if he did, but he didn't dare to come or didn't want to come. In short, since I have this heart, let's mention it a little.
What's more, this little monkey is indeed very cute...... Patriarch Bodhi thought so.
In fact, Daode Tianzun asked Lingbao Tianzun to teach Lingming Stone Monkey and this Jiang Chen for the sake of Daomen, and he had the intention of taking advantage of it.
Because the Lingming stone monkey has innate cause and effect and chance luck. And Jiang Chen is considered to be the reincarnation of an innate being. They are a variable for Journey to the West and Buddhism, so Daode Tianzun will ask Lingbao Tianzun.
However, for Lingbao Tianzun, in fact, this kind of thing is just incidental. Although he also has the practice of preaching, he does not really have the mentality of fighting with Buddhism for Taoism.
Otherwise, if it had been according to Zhun Ti's approach, Jiang Chen, Sun Wukong, and even the Dragon Girl would have all been included in the door at this moment.
Although Lingbao Tianzun has the mind of edification, he is also a little hostile to Buddhism. However, in the final analysis, he is a loner now, and even if he has the idea of leaving his own Taoism, he does not really play chess with Buddhism for the sake of Taoism.
After all, it was his two senior brothers, the two sages of the "Daomen", who joined forces with Buddhism to destroy their own Dao system. If you say hate, Lingbao Tianzun is certainly hostile to Buddhism, but his resistance to Taoism is not small.
Confucianism was born for this reason. Of course, the birth of Confucianism was only an unintentional move by Lingbao Tianzun, not a deliberate creation.
In fact, this is the same as Confucius's behavior.
What Confucius did was actually to integrate the "benevolence", "righteousness" and "propriety" of the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou, that is, the evolution of human dynasties. Confucianism was really carried forward by Mencius, Xunzi and others. Including the subsequent Confucianism, in fact, it has little to do with Confucius in terms of carrying it forward.
Lingbao Tianzun, the same is true.
So he won't take advantage of Jiang Chen and Sun Wukong. Because for him, they have nothing to take advantage of.
Of course, this point is undoubtedly good news for Jiang Chen.
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Jiang Chen didn't know at this moment that Lingbao Tianzun really had the intention of accepting apprentices for him, and he didn't know that the true identity of the Bodhi Patriarch was not a Zhun Ti, nor was he a great supernatural person of the Daomen, but the leader of the sect who was called "Ten Thousand Immortals Coming to the Dynasty" - "Lingbao Tianzun".
Although it has to be said that Jiang Chen had also guessed and inferred about the identity of Bodhi Patriarch before. But sure enough, the inference of the Tongtian Sect Master will inevitably be a little niche.
Generally speaking, those who have watched the Romance of the Gods will think that Bodhi Patriarch is the incarnation of a three-corpse god of the Zhun Ti Saint, one of the two saints of Buddhism.
If you only look at it from the perspective of Journey to the West, you may think that the Bodhi Patriarch does not exist, and the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain and the Sanxing Cave of the Oblique Moon are all imagined by Sun Wukong. Like the "six-eared macaque", it belongs to the "heart ape".
But...... Bodhi Patriarch turned out to be Lingbao Tianzun or something...... It's hard to guess.
But even if you know, you won't regret it.
After all, it was Lingbao Tianzun, the "Tongtian Sect Master" in the Romance of the Gods.
Interception ...... How to say it. The doctrine of interception is to "intercept a glimmer of life from the way of heaven"!
In other words, to a certain extent, it is against the way of heaven, and even more seriously, it can be said to be the doctrine of "going against the sky".
Speaking of which, the rest goes without saying. The great cause and effect contained in this is something that even the Pangu God has not succeeded in doing!
At this time, what Jiang Chen was thinking about was actually another thing. Another thing that is also related to the many disciples in the "Three Stars of the Oblique Moon".