Chapter 878: Corpses also have Buddha nature
"...... at the time"
The corpse said bluntly that the old abbot had also untied his heart knot before he passed away.
The corpse does not fight for fame and fortune, but also puts down the fame and disputes for selfish interests.
He decided to go down the mountain, leave the temple, and spread the Dharma......
In the Sui Dynasty a thousand years ago, Buddhism had not yet become widespread.
The era when Buddhism was promoted and flourished had to be the Tang Dynasty.
First, it was the Tang monk who learned the scriptures and spread the Buddhist scriptures to the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, during the Sui Dynasty, there was no prosperous picture of the 480 temples in the Southern Dynasty during the Tang and Song dynasties.
When the corpses preach and propagate the Dharma...... Buddhism has not yet emerged.
There are also few believers among the people.
But this did not in any way suppress the determination of the corpses to preach.
On the contrary, because of the ups and downs on the road to promotion, it sharpened the mind of the corpse.
He has a strong nature, and the more desperate he is, the more he strengthens his determination to be indomitable.
In his clear view, he not only crosses people with Zen principles..... but also uses the methods he has learned to exorcise evil spirits and eliminate charms, keep righteousness and ward off evil.
But when the manpower is exhausted.......
When the corpse descended the mountain, it was only in its twenties.
Ten years of going down the mountain to promote Buddhism...... Pass through a place where the quicksand river is.
He lived a good life and guided people to goodness, and was loved by the villagers near the Liusha River.
That's when it was ...... According to legend, in the quicksand river, there are monsters who become spirits, and there are water ghosts who often probe and pull people who pass by as stand-ins.
Xuanmen is no stranger to this...... The so-called water ghosts. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a person who drowned.
But the people are not familiar with it, and the souls of these drowning people will not return to the underworld or to the city god after death.
Instead, it was handed over to Hebo for temporary detention, and Hebo was often a cultivator of the Dao.
They took in the water spirits and drove them into their slaves...... If you want to go down to the underworld to be reincarnated.
You have to exchange one life for another, so the water ghost can only make waves and pull people as stand-ins.
Hear this.....
I wondered, "Could it be that a water ghost can make you feel worried? With your cultivation at that time, couldn't you still deal with the unjust souls and water ghosts under the riverbank?"
"It's easy to deal with a water ghost. But the Buddha's heart dictates," the corpse couldn't help but fold his hands, still devout to Buddhism: "But imagine ..... water ghosts and people are causing trouble, is it because they do it with their hearts? They're just stuck in an endless cycle, they don't have bad intentions, but they just have to harm others for the sake of reincarnation, so they ........"
There was a hint of Buddha nature in the corpse's crimson eyes: "I defy the Fa and voluntarily go to the riverbank as a stand-in!"
"Just you!?" I was simply stunned that there are still such generous people in this world.
Who would have thought that the bloodthirsty and brutal corpses are now ...... In front of him, he was able to sacrifice his life for his beliefs?
This is simply the same as the corpses of more than 50 people slaughtered in the mountain temple at the foot of the Jiang family's mountain.
"And then?"
I also began to wonder, "How did you become a zombie?"
"I still haven't figured this out," the corpse recalled, "After sinking into the river, I also regretted in my heart that my dream of spreading the Dharma was not yet complete...... I also pray to God that I will be able to live and continue to promote the Dharma and cross people."
"Maybe God, I heard my sincere prayers, and when I woke up, I was already like this no one or a ghost!" The corpse doesn't seem to be deliberately concealed, because at the moment he described it, his eyes also revealed hatred for his zombie identity.
That kind of spontaneous emotion can't be pretended......
Seeing me staring at him, he suddenly realized, "Why, you don't believe it!"
"No," I confessed, "I do, and I've solved another doubt!"
"What doubts?" The corpse was stunned.
"It's the story you told on the rooftop," I wondered at first, "if that corpse is."
It was you who ..... then why, you would sit on the top of the tower, now I figured it out...... Judging from the time, after you woke up, you found out that you were a zombie, and you chose to commit suicide for fear that you would be bloodthirsty."
Of course..... I didn't dare to ask questions.
If Sha Seng really took him as the prototype..... how did the matter of nine good people who died on the quicksand river change.
I didn't dare to ask more, but I was sure, "If the story you just told is true, it's not a disaster for the corpses to cause clouds and a drought to come...... It's that you are bent on dying and finding relief. After all, ordinary people's understanding of zombies is limited to corpses that are afraid of the scorching sun, so you chose to be exposed to the sun!"
"That's right," the corpse nodded, not denying: "At that time, a few people from the Xuanmen came ..... I also hoped that they could completely destroy me, so I robbed people of magic weapons...... Naturally, I won't be kind to someone like that."
"No wonder," I couldn't help but sigh my heart, "if I could, I would really like to be friends with you, not on opposing sides!"
"Me too," the corpse revealed, "you're the only one who believes in me..... the story I told on the rooftop, I've told many people about it, I never cut my head and tail before, but no one will believe it, especially when I sit on the top of the tower to ask for a liberation!"
"Heh," I laughed, "I believe you ..... because I'm the only person in the world who can empathize with you! I'll admit that after the zombies arrived in the corpse realm, I began to realize that I had too many ordinary abilities, but I couldn't change the fact that I was an outlier no matter what...... I know very well that I am destined to be intolerated! Sometimes I also think that even if I can't completely destroy you, I can ask for a corpse to be destroyed and a person die, in exchange for a real liberation."
"I believe that," the corpse smiled, "That's why, I'm going to chase you, and I'm on par with you, fighting to the death!"
As he spoke, he raised his slayer again......
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