Chapter 67: The monkey apprenticed, at the beginning of the ancient times, he realized that the Buddha door was empty
"You let me go! Let me go! ”
The little monkey shouted:
"I don't worship you as a teacher anymore, I'm looking for a more powerful immortal, the most powerful!"
Patriarch Bodhi was carrying the monkey, the corners of his mouth twitched, and there was a feeling of suffocation in his heart.
He had only just seen through the front and back, looked at everything, and finally determined that no Taoist friend had quietly intervened
It's purely because this monkey was blinded by the [Book of Heaven]!
Bodhi Patriarch couldn't laugh or cry, Zixiao Daoyou didn't even get involved in the Journey to the West at all, but it caused such a big impact and deflection that the monkeys didn't apprentice anymore!
He said a little angrily:
"You monkey, what do you think of my Fangcun Mountain? Come when you want, go when you want? ”
The little monkey stalks its neck:
"I didn't want to come here, I want to find the Great Immortal, teach the Book of Heaven, and educate the Great Immortal of the Infinite Human Race!"
Bodhicitta was depressed, and there was no joy or anger on his face, and he said lightly:
"You're talking about Xuanyuan Fusheng of Zixiao Palace, right?"
"Huh? Do you know? ”
The little monkey's eyes widened, and he didn't make a fuss, staring at the Bodhi Patriarch with bright eyes.
The corners of the latter's mouth twitched, and he said slowly:
"Zixiao Daoist and I have a close relationship, but how can you, a mountain monkey, get into the eyes of Zixiao Daoyou? How do I know if you are sincere in your apprenticeship? ”
"Sincere! I'm sincere! The little monkey shouted loudly, was carried by Bodhi, hung in the air, and made a decent gesture:
"Old fairy, when I see you, you are kind and kind, you are a great person, can you introduce me?"
Patriarch Bodhi frowned slightly, lost in thought.
That Zixiao Daoist currently seems to have no problem, and now he is also one of the three masters of Buddhism, and he has turned against Sanqing, although he can't believe it, he can't believe it completely.
That's it, that's it.
Patriarch Bodhi said lightly:
"You said that you are sincere, like this, you have been sweeping the floor with me for three years and carrying water for three years. After meditating for three years and chanting the scriptures for three years, if you do it meticulously, I will recognize your sincerity and take you to meet Zixiao Daoyou, how about it? ”
"Nature can do it, nature can do it!"
The little monkey applauded happily:
"Thirty years of crossing the sea, four years of pathfinding, where is the twelve years missing? I'll do it, I'll do it! ”
Seeing this, Patriarch Bodhi's expression eased a little again, sweeping the floor for three years, carrying water for three years, and meditating for three years, in order to meditate.
After nine years of meditation and three years of reading Buddhist scriptures, you can more or less develop some Buddha nature, and also set the next tone, so as not to deviate from this monkey's head.
Immediately, Bodhi threw the monkey to the ground and scolded with a smile:
"Not going to sweep the floor?"
"This is gone, this is gone!"
After three years of sweeping the floor, the monkey was full of energy, three years of carrying water, it was still alive and jumping, and after three years of meditation, the most unbearable monkey head relied on the desire for cultivation over the years, and the desire for apprenticeship [Zixiao], and persevered.
Moreover, in the past nine years, its heart has been at peace, and the thoughts of apprenticing to Zixiao have become more and more profound, gradually approaching [obsession].
After reciting Buddhist scriptures for another three years, which lasted 12 years, the monkey faded away a little stubbornly, understood some etiquette, and walked the road and started to do the etiquette, which is also decent.
By the end of the twelfth year,
Patriarch Bodhi stared at the little monkey:
"You have been with me for 12 years, although you have no name of master and apprentice, but there is also a little bit of master and apprentice, I see that your character is still good, and I feel pity, so I will ask you again, would you like to worship me as a teacher?"
After a pause, without waiting for the monkey to answer, he immediately added:
"Zixiao Daoyou has no disciples, they may not accept you, I can teach you a lot of things, divination days, detain immortals and send gods, carry mountains to catch the moon, draw rivers into land, longevity and long-term vision, etc., if you want to learn, you can't learn."
The monkey bowed respectfully:
"Patriarch, I have been taken care of by the ancestor for the past twelve years, I have a place to live, I have clothes, I can eat a full stomach, and I have rules, but I still think about Zixiao Immortals in my heart."
Patriarch Bodhi sighed:
"Can you think about it? If Zixiao Daoyou doesn't accept you, I won't want you anymore, so you can only go to the mountains and wilderness to redo that monkey, hundreds of thousands of years later, when your life is over, you will die. ”
"Ancestor, I've thought about it!"
The monkey nodded earnestly, two years in the city, one year in the mountains, and one year in the wilderness.
From the naughty boy with snot bubbles to the old man, he has made a great immortal art, and the Zixiao Immortal who has passed down the Book of Heaven and carried out the education must also be the most amazing immortal.
If you want to worship, you will worship the most powerful!
I can't worship the most powerful, and I can't worship the worst!
This monkey has always been rebellious.
Seeing this, Patriarch Bodhi closed his eyes for a long time, and he no longer persuaded him, but he lost his share if he said too much, but he just bowed his head lightly:
"Okay, I'll take you to meet Zixiao Daoyou, but what kind of person is Zixiao Daoyou, you nameless monkey can't be worshipped, I'll give you one first, how about it?"
The name is also regarded as a big cause and effect, and it will be somewhat beneficial to this monkey to fall to Buddhism in the future.
"Please give the name of the patriarch!"
"Since you are a monkey, you take Sun as your surname, you were born stubborn, you have studied the scriptures for three years, and your temperament is also in line with the [Buddha], so I will give you the name Wukong,
If you once understand it and escape into the empty door, you may be able to do great things, and you will be able to stand side by side with me and Zixiao Daoyou."
Between the three words, the Bodhi Patriarch deliberately planted a seed to the Buddha in the monkey's heart, and then said no more,
He grabbed Sun Wukong, waved his hand, the scene changed, the clouds and mist rolled, the heavenly road opened, and a chaotic ladder fell from the thirty-six heavens, the rhyme flowed, and the Buddha's light flowed!
"Let's go!"
Bodhi Patriarch glanced at the dense Buddha light on the stairs, listened to the sound of chanting around the stairs, bowed slightly, and took Sun Wukong to step on the chaotic stairs, telling him to see more of the Buddha's light and listen to more Buddhist scriptures.
Walking up the stairs, Sun Wukong's little heart was beating thumping, and after a few steps, it saw other creatures also walking on the stairs.
There are majestic emperors, armored generals, and saints holding scrolls, these people are in front of it, but they can't touch it, all from a wide river
"Zixiao Palace, above all the years, what you see is the scene of the creatures in the rest of the time walking towards Zixiao Palace."
Patriarch Bodhi explained lightly, since he decided to let Sun Wukong worship Zixiao Daoyou as a teacher, the image of Zixiao Daoyou in this monkey is naturally as magnificent as possible.
When the time comes, this monkey will unconsciously move closer to the path of Zixiao Daoyou, who is one of the three first ancestors of Buddhism
Big things can be half done.
Sun Wukong carefully stepped on the chaos staircase at this time, his heart shook, and he pressed the palace above all the time and years
Sure enough, it is the most powerful immortal!
It looked at the images from other fragments of time, and suddenly, it saw a dying old man, prostrating his head step by step on the long steps of chaos, as if shouting something, and he couldn't hear it clearly.
Immediately
Sun Wukong also learned the same, one step at a time, respectful, extremely pious, the Bodhi Patriarch who watched was stunned,
This monkey who has always been rebellious, what's the matter?
He calculated a little, and after seeing the before and after, he suddenly realized, and a wry smile came out of his heart.
It's really a coincidence that there is no book, this monkey has been looking for four years on land, and has seen the mystery of the book of heaven, and knows the majesty of Zixiao.
In the twelfth year of Fang Cun Mountain, he combined the mind of the monkey seeking immortals and the idea of worshiping Zixiao together, and turned it into an obsession
It's really fate.
Patriarch Bodhi felt a sense of happiness in his heart, fortunately, Zixiao Daoyou has entered the Buddha's door, if he is still biased towards Sanqing and Lu Xuan, then it will be a big trouble!
Tsk, Sanqing, Sanqing, you can't keep demons like Zixiao, only Haohao Buddhism can tolerate it!
Zixiao Daoyou, you really have a relationship with me in the West.
In the middle of his thoughts, the monkey kowtowed step by step, and he had reached the gate of Zixiao Palace.
Bodhi Patriarch stepped forward, knocked on the palace door, knocked nine times in a row, and bloomed with a loud sound like a morning bell and a dusk drum, washing the mind,
Immediately, the gate of Zixiao Palace opened.
Sun Wukong took a deep breath, straightened out the coarse linen clothes on his body, and walked into it carefully.
Looking at the four views, all kinds of mysterious and strange phenomena that have never been seen in this life emerge in endlessly, there are groundbreaking appearances, and there are also ups and downs of the worlds and worlds, accompanied by countless ancient calendars slowly rotating
It raised its head, looked to the front, and saw a middle-aged man dressed in Buddha clothes, sitting cross-legged on a lotus platform, and a big tree growing behind him.
The middle-aged man's eyes seemed to open and close, and the chaotic air rotation could be seen in the slit of the eye, deep and boundless.
Immortals, the most powerful Zixiao Immortals!!
Sun Wukong's breathing became short.
Patriarch Bodhi smiled and spoke:
"Fellow Daoist Zixiao, I haven't seen you for a long time."
Lu Xuan slowly raised his eyes, his eyes shone through everything, and suddenly he understood the cause and effect, and a strange look flashed in his eyes,
Hmm, Ben was still thinking about how to quietly abduct Sun Wukong, but now it's okay, and he sent it directly to the door.
Bodhi is such a good person.
He stared at Bodhi, and an incomparably bright smile bloomed on his face:
"Bodhi Daoist, I haven't seen you for a long time, what is this?"
Patriarch Bodhi smiled:
"A mountain monkey, want to worship Taoist friends as a teacher, I see that this monkey is also sincere, so I brought it to Taoist friends to see, to see if Taoist friends are intentional"
Lu Xuan looked at the monkey head gently, and asked lightly:
"Little monkey, do you have a name?"
The little monkey's eyes showed a look of expectation, and he made a series of gestures:
"If you go back to the immortals, my name is Sun Wukong, Sun Wukong!"
"Good name."
Lu Xuan bowed his head again, and Bodhi also smiled:
"Cultivating the Tao, naturally you must first realize, if you realize [emptiness], you will become a positive fruit, this is sincere, it may not have the opportunity to achieve positive results, so I gave it this name."
Lu Xuan smiled calmly, his eyes were deep, Wukong Wukong, only Buddhism pays attention to [Wukong], first enlightenment and then emptiness, escape into the empty door, and become a Buddha on the ground.
But Buddhism can talk about Wukong, Taoism, can also talk.
Immediately, he groaned, and only after a while did he speak:
"Well, since it is recommended by Bodhi Daoists, if I don't accept this apprentice, it will be considered that I am not Sun Wukong, are you willing to enter my door?"
"Yes, yes, yes!!"
Sun Wukong kowtowed without hesitation, Bang Bang Bang Bang three times, kowtow heavily!
"Good, then I'll remember your name first."
Lu Xuan smiled, exchanged greetings with Bodhi for a moment, and got up to see off the guests.
Bodhi walked outside Zixiao Palace, thought about it, and said to Sun Wukong from afar:
"Your master, the number [Zixiao Great Mercy Buddha Master], is one of the first ancestors of Buddhism, your name is also suitable, although I have no master-apprentice relationship with you, but in the end I have brought you for twelve years, I just look forward to the coming day, you can be like your name, Wukong!"
After he finished his narrative quietly, he planted another seed of 'Buddhahood', and then he left in a hurry.
The gate of Zixiao Palace slammed shut, and Sun Wukong resisted the urge to scratch his ears and cheeks, and saluted respectfully:
"Teacher, teacher!"
Lu Xuan looked sideways, stared at Sun Monkey, and said softly:
"Even if you enter my door, although you only remember your name, you should also know that before and after, you are ranked fourth in my door, and there are two senior brothers and one senior sister on your head, can you know?"
Sun Wukong was a little confused, didn't he say that this great immortal had no apprentices?
It didn't think much of it, and nodded again and again:
"Teacher, I know, I know, I must practice hard, strive to achieve positive results, and succeed in Wukong!"
Lu Xuan shook his head:
"Bad, bad!"
Sun Wukong was stunned, what is wrong?
What's the difference?
But when he saw Lu Xuan turn around and sit down, the ancient tree behind him glowing with great wisdom and great pure light showed its true appearance, and it suddenly scorched and scorched,
He said calmly:
"Wukong, it is for you to practice the principle of [emptiness] with the enlightenment of emptiness, but it is not for you to escape into the empty door and cultivate the so-called positive fruit."
A look of confusion appeared on Sun Wukong's face, he thought for a long time, scratched his ears and cheeks, and bowed again:
"Please also ask the teacher to solve your doubts!"
"Do you know Buddhism?"
"I know, I know, the Bo ancestors let me read the Buddhist scriptures for three years, and naturally I know that the Buddha talks about compassion and spends all his lives!"
"Then do you know where the Buddha came from?"
"From the three first ancestors of Buddhism!"
"Wrong!"
Lu Xuan categorically rejected it and said with a smile:
"The Buddha starts from the Tao."
Sun Wukong looked around blankly, puzzled and asked:
"Teacher, didn't the Bodhisattva ancestors say that Buddhism and Taoism are not mutually reinforcing? He told me that the Daomen is evil, and he only knows how to seize the heavens and the earth, but does not know how to feed the heavens and the earth, and blindly asks for it;
And Buddhism is good, taking the momentum from heaven and earth, and after cultivating the positive fruit, it is his responsibility to purify all sentient beings, and it is his wish to perfect heaven and earth."
Lu Xuan smiled, this Bodhi is really doing everything for Sun Wukong to enter the Buddha, and has been imperceptibly shaping the concept of evil Buddha and good Buddha and Buddha prosperity in the monkey's heart
Shaking his head slightly, he said lightly:
"Since you know that the Buddha started from the first ancestors, and you also know that I am one of the first ancestors of the Buddha, then do you know where I came from?"
Sun Wukong's own comprehension also belongs to the ranks of transcendental, and he was slightly stunned, then hesitated:
"Could it be you, teacher. From the beginning? ”
"I was originally a Daomen Heavenly Venerable." Lu Xuan's head.
Sun Wukong was silent for a moment, seemed to think, and raised his head for a long time:
"Wukong Wukong, Wukong, Wukong, enter the empty door, and become a positive result, but it is not the ultimate way back, but it is the way to return to the Tao?"
"Half right, but not all."
Lu Xuan knocked on the monkey's head and asked gently:
"Let me ask you first, do you have the method you want to learn, the magic you want to cultivate?"
Sun Wukong is unusually firm this time:
"I want to learn the teacher's method and cultivate the teacher's wonder!"
"Alright, you come with me."
Lu Xuan Shi Ran got up, stretched out his hand, opened a chaotic river of time, and took the stunned Sun Monkey upstream, walking to the most ancient times, and walking to the beginning of the ancient times.
"The Buddha lies in purifying all sentient beings, overcoming the calamities of life, and giving people fish; The Tao is different, the Tao should educate sentient beings, make sentient beings overcome calamities, and teach people to fish! ”
As Lu Xuan spoke, he took off his Buddhist clothes, scattered the Buddha light behind his head, and turned into a simple Taoist.
Sun Wukong was stunned and gave people a fish? Teach a man to fish?
When it pondered carefully, it seemed to realize that one was to eliminate the sorrow of sentient beings, and the other taught sentient beings how to eliminate sorrow.
No, it doesn't seem accurate.
Just when Sun Wukong was thinking about it,
Lu Xuan said again:
"When you enter my door, I should take you to meet your three ancestors, tell you the rules of the door, and let you see what it means to teach people to fish."
He was too lazy to plan slowly, and planned to have a showdown with Sun Wukong directly, steal his house directly, take it to see the real [Dao], and then take a look at the barrenness of the Western Buddha land, and let it know that compared with the [Dao], the Buddha is inferior!
I saw Sanqing, I saw the Taoist ancestors, and I saw the barrenness and hardship of the Western Buddha land, and I became Wukong!
Wukong Wukong, enlightened Buddhism is empty.
(End of chapter)