Songshan is picturesque, it is one of the five mountains, since ancient times, there have been many literati and ink writers here to leave their traces, although the vast majority of poems are not very good, but at least the number is not a few.

In later generations, there was a very famous painting called the Ancient Temple of the Deep Mountain, which probably said that there was a monk carrying water in the deep mountains, and there was a remote and crooked path, surrounded by dense forests.

The monk who carried the water also had a crooked path to imply that there was a temple hidden in the forest, otherwise where would this monk live?

And now on the top of Songshan, there is such a temple, which is Shaolin Temple.

Compared with the Shaolin Temple in Lu Xiaofeng's world, although the Shaolin Temple is famous today, it is only first-class at most, and it is more famous in the entire northland, but it is still a long, far away from the world's first, the leader of the righteous path, and even the so-called world's martial arts out of Shaolin.

About 100 years ago, Bodhidharma set out from India, and killed many roadblocks and thieves along the way, barely slaying demons and demons, and finally came to the Central Plains after a lot of hardships.

Since then, Buddhism in India has completely fallen, and the mainstream sect has changed from Buddhism to Brahmin, so it can be said that he is the final and final consummation of primitive Buddhism, and after him the primitive Buddhism can be regarded as declining.

After arriving in the Central Plains, he met Hui Ke, who first learned Confucianism and then Taoism when he was young, and finally met Bodhidharma, became a monk, and became the second ancestor of Zen Buddhism.

Since then, Zen Buddhism has become the most sinicized school of Buddhism, and it can even be said that the reason why Zen Buddhism will flourish in the future is inseparable from this.

As for the great revival of Zen Buddhism, it will be more than a hundred years later. At that time, there were two Zen monks, one named Huineng and the other Shenxiu.

Shenxiu's point of view is: the body is a Bodhi tree, the heart is like a mirror platform, always wipe diligently, do not make dust.

And Huineng's point of view is: Bodhi is not a tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where is the dust?

It seems that the views of the two are like talking nonsense and talking nonsense, but they represent two different points of view.

Shenxiu believes that cultivating Buddhism needs to be very serious, requires certain methods, requires certain conditions, and requires a certain process, emphasizing gradual enlightenment.

Huineng believes that as long as the heart is enlightened, it is a Buddha, one emphasizes gradual enlightenment, and the other emphasizes epiphany. The former emphasizes the process of learning, while the latter emphasizes the change of the mind, the sublimation of the soul.

This little story, Hui Ke and Shang have already seen it in a large library, and he also has a lot of emotion.

In his opinion, both of them have made sense, but they are just different processes of cultivating Buddhism. It can't be said that Shenxiu is wrong, and it can't be said that Huineng is all right.

But it must be admitted that Huineng's statement is more suitable for today's Buddhism, and more suitable for the new Zen Buddhism after the transformation under the Qin Law. And historically, it was after Huineng that Zen Buddhism began to flourish.

However, it is also an undeniable fact that after the great revival of Zen Buddhism, the average quality of Zen monks also declined.

Thinking back to the history of Zen Buddhism in other worlds, Hui Ke has been trying to write the various prescribed precepts of Zen Buddhism for a long time.

The most important thing is not to conflict with the criminal law, and now that there are hundreds of thousands of words of Qin law, he has long been able to recite it backwards.

"Ancestor, I'm back. Monk Tanzong said lightly.

"Well, this is the model of the future Five Masters Arhat Cannon, how about it?"

The model is strictly in accordance with the requirements of the Qin law, neither gold, silver, bronze nor precious jade, or the most ordinary clay Buddha statue, and there may be stone Buddha statues in the future, but metal jade is impossible.

Hearing this, the monk Tanzong looked carefully up and down, left and right, the appearance of this new five great masters and arhat cannon is a cannon, which is completely different from the previous human-faced Buddha statues, and at first glance, Tanzong's brows are slightly furrowed.

But then he seemed to think of the piano method and Yingzheng's words, and nodded seriously: "Okay, very good." ”

"I think so too, when His Majesty's heavenly soldiers descend, the Zen monks get up immediately when they hear the cannon fire every morning. ”

"When the second cannon sounds, they will go to the canteen to eat, and they can eat meat openly in the future, and they no longer have to sneak to the back mountain to steal chickens and dogs, hahahaha. ”

And when the third cannon sounds, the chanting begins. From today onwards, Zen Buddhism is no longer reciting the complicated scriptures, but the latest version of the Qin Dharma. ”

Half an hour later, when breakfast is almost digested, you can continue to practice martial arts with the sound of a cannon, and the rest of the monks need to start reading and transcribing the latest scriptures.

Thinking of such a scene, Hui Ke's face was full of smiles again, and he was very happy when he thought about it: "Our scriptures should also be streamlined, and they can no longer be as mysterious as before, full of a large number of words that ordinary people can't understand. ”

"We have to compile the simplest Buddhist scriptures that ordinary people can recite according to the Qin Law and our actual situation, and the number of words does not need to be many, and the language should be simple. It's a good idea to make up a few short stories and incorporate ideas from the sutras into them. ”

Imagining the scene depicted by Hui Ke in his mind, Tan Zong also laughed.

Although there are many low-quality monks in Buddhism, there are also some who are truly pious, and Tanzong is such a true monk.

"Now His Majesty's demands are actually nothing. Eating meat and drinking alcohol, or even killing people, it's okay to think about it. ”

"Those who don't want to kill can stay in the temple, study the scriptures every day, and grow vegetables to support themselves. Those who are willing to kill serve as warrior monks, practice martial arts, fight on the battlefield, and contribute to the empire. ”

"As for marrying a wife and having children, many monks don't do it nowadays, but they do it quietly, and on the whole it is acceptable. ”

"As for those who are really very pious, they are unwilling to marry and have children, and those who are unwilling to eat meat and drink wine are after all a minority of the minority. ”

"Yes, as long as the core of our Buddhism remains the same, nothing else is a problem, but what is the core of our Buddhism? Different people have different opinions, and in the eyes of the old monk himself, it is goodness and Buddha. ”

"Kindness is to lead people to goodness, and our philosophy is good and positive after all. Buddha is to become a Buddha, everyone has the opportunity to become a Buddha as long as they are enlightened in their hearts, the Buddha is not in the spiritual mountain, in the heart, just around us, everyone has the opportunity to become a Buddha. ”

"In the case of abiding by the Qin law, as long as we grasp these two points, our Buddhism can be passed on forever, and the rest of the rules and precepts are all external. ”

After looking forward to the future, Hui Ke finally asked about the result of Tan Zong's trip: "What did Your Majesty say?"

"Your Majesty's mind is far broader than we think," he said......"

Then Tanzong finished Yingzheng's words word for word, and even imitated the reactions of everyone at that time vividly, and it didn't take long for Hui Ke to nod again and again, constantly chanting Amitabha.

"It is worthy of Your Majesty, Zhengda is bright and upright, but if you are worthy of your heart, only Your Majesty has such a mind. ”

"Tan Zong, your Golden Bell Jar has been cultivated to the eleventh layer, and you are a real great grandmaster, and you are not weak at all compared to the so-called three great grandmasters. ”

"From now on, all the five hundred stick monks of Shaolin will leave with you, join the empire with you, fight for the empire, and the future of the young man will be handed over to you. ”

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