On the second day, because Chang Yuchun, as a pioneer, had to start preparing for the attack on Jiqing tomorrow, Wuxu was accompanied by Lan Yu and Jiang Ruhai, who rushed back, and visited everywhere in the barracks. Guo Min also followed.

Wu Xuan didn't know how to fight, but when he saw that the flags were waving in the army, the atmosphere was solemn, and the middle and lower-level officers and sergeants were strictly disciplined and forbidden, he also pretended to nod his head there. However, Guo Min occasionally has remarks. After turning for a long time, he came to Lanyu and saw that Wu Xuan was a little boring, so he said, "The master has been gone for a long time, and now in the middle of the day, it is better to have lunch first, rest for a while, and then make arrangements." ”

Wuxu looked at Guo Min, worried that he would not be used to eating, but Lan Yu seemed to have expected it, and said, "The marshal often says that all levels in the army must eat and live together, and work together. However, the master and Miss Guo are distinguished guests, and there are other arrangements for food, clothing, housing and transportation. ”

Hearing Lan Yu's empathetic words, Wu Xuan was embarrassed, looked back at Guo Min again, turned to Lan Yu and said, "Then how can you do it? When you come to the barracks, you should follow the rules of the army." Besides, what people in my Buddhism talk about is the equality of all sentient beings, walking outside, and talking about turning into fate everywhere, if you are greedy for delicious food, won't it make all the soldiers feel that they are hierarchical and superior? He asked Lan Yu to lead him to find a place everywhere to eat and drink with the sergeants.

Guo Min said with a smile, "These are hypocrisy." If you want to be so equal, why don't you put on a military uniform and stand guard at the camp gate every day? Throughout the ages, when those emperors and generals were in charge of the army, they were occasionally eaten and lived together, and they were recorded in the history books by flatterers, and they were called benevolent. The hypocrisy is extreme, but it is just to make the sergeant die for him when he goes into battle. After a pause, he looked at Lan Yu and Jiang Ruhai, who were slightly embarrassed, "Extremes, such as when Wu Qi was a general during the Warring States Period, he ate and lived alone with the lowest sergeant in the army, and even some soldiers were sick, and they were actually *." But the mother of the soldier wept bitterly!"

This allusion, Wuxu has also read it, and he is about to speak. Suddenly, I heard applause in the distance, and when I looked up, Liu Bowen, who was silent at the table last night, rode a small donkey and came slowly.

That Liu Bowen, on the little donkey, after clapping his hands, his body shook slightly, and he chanted leisurely, "The mother cried when she heard it." The man said, 'The son is also a pawn, and the general sucks himself on his own gangrene, why is he crying?' The mother said, 'Not so.' In previous years, Duke Wu sucked his father, but his father did not fight and died in the enemy. Wu Gong is now sucking his son again, and the concubine does not know what his death is. It's to cry. ”

After groaning, just one meter away, Liu Bowen immediately turned over and went to the ground, bowing to Wuxu, Guo Min and others. Wuxu and the others returned the salute and asked where they were going. Liu Bowen replied that he had just returned from an inspection somewhere, and said, "The so-called Great Dao is wasted, and there is benevolence and righteousness. Miss Guo's opinion is not conventional, and it is the true biography of Haoran Zhenjun. ”

Haoran True Monarch Zhao Haoran was originally a Confucian monk, and when he reached the realm of real people, he cultivated both Confucianism and Taoism before he entered the level of true spirit. Liu Bowen easily brought the words in the Taoist treasure book "Tao Te Ching" and praised Guo Min and Haoran Zhenjun, but it was very appropriate.

Wuxu still has a great impression of Liu Bowen, who was rumored to be a god in later generations, and when he saw that his opinions were refuted by Guo Min and Liu Bowen, he was not angry, and said with his palms together, "Amitabha, but it is a little monk." ”

Liu Bowen led the donkey while saying this to Wuxu Guo Min and others, and then led everyone to his residence, and after they were seated one by one, he ordered the sergeant to bring a sufficient amount of food.

After a while, the table made of green bamboo in the tent was full of delicacies, including spring bamboo shoots, carp, green vegetables, mushrooms, beef and mutton, and so on. After Liu Bowen and the other sergeants who served the dishes retreated, they took out a pot of wine from behind him and poured it for everyone one by one.

During the banquet, Liu Bowen asked, "In the reincarnation array of the Pure World Blue Lotus last night, above the white lotus, the green qi flowed, and it seemed to be the karma of all sentient beings?" Ordinary people, Wuxu only says that it is the mental power of sentient beings. The so-called power of mind is only the power of wishes, while karma contains the fact that it has already been achieved, and the cause has been achieved and the result is yet to be concluded. Not only are they different in power and use, but they also have different effects on those who wielder them.

Take the karma of the youth qi of the Wuxu Dharma Realm as an example, not only the karma of the dead Jiangjia Village and Wuxu, but also the karma of those Weijiacun and Wuxu who died in vain, and even the monks who were killed by Qiangba Mule, because they were used to refine the Buddha's grudge ink hairpin that attacked Wuxu, and the karma of Wuxu. In a way, enlightenment is karma. Fortunately, these are not considered the bad karma done by Wuxu, and they are made by Wuxu with the Dharma and dedicate it as a kind of help.

These are all secret things in the realm of enlightenment, and they are not enough for outsiders.

Wuxu shook his head, smiled without saying a word, and asked rhetorically, "Master Liu is a Confucian monk, I don't know what to think of this so-called karma of sentient beings?"

Liu Bowen also shook his head, smiled without answering, and replied, "Master and Berwen can do it, when there is chaos today, the heroes will rise together." There are Zhang Shicheng in the east, Fang Guozhen in the south, Xu Shouhui in the west, and Liu Futong in the north. The master wants to travel all over the world to practice the Dharma, but he doesn't know where he wants to travel and practice?"

Wuxu clasped his palms together and said, "Brother Berwyn, please give me some advice." ”

Liu Bowen, his eyes slightly closed, his hands twisted his beard, "Bowen has been watching the sky at night recently, and he has seen the seven nights of the Oriental Green Dragon, which is quite strange. Last night, after the master demonstrated the reincarnation array of the Pure World Blue Lotus, the two stars in the corner were even more glorious, and the so-called gate of heaven was opened. ”

The seven nights of the green dragon are magnificent, and the gate of heaven is wide open. Wuxu secretly recalled Liu Bowen's words, and replied at the same time, "Everyone in the world knows that there is no one like Qingtian Liu Ji." Could this be the true dragon descending from the Son of Heaven? But what does this have to do with the little monk?"

Liu Bowen was silent for a long time before he said slowly, "Go to the East, ascend to the sky in one step." If the master travels eastward, he will have a great creation. ”

Lan Yu and the others next to them heard that the gate of heaven was wide open, and Dongfang Qinglong descended to earth, and couldn't help but dance with his eyebrows, but when he heard Liu Bowen say this, he couldn't help but be surprised. Lan Yu immediately clenched his fists and said, "Could it be that Lord Liu wants the master to take refuge in that Zhang Shicheng?"

Liu Bowen opened his eyes, glanced at Lan Yu, and said to Wuxu and Guo Min, and said with a slight smile, "No, no, no, the East should be in the East China Sea." ”

Guo Min smiled and said to Wuxu, "Master Liu, guide the maze, and tell you to go to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea to hunt for treasures." ”

Wuxu thought of the previous Master Yuanfa of the White Horse Temple reminding him that Guo Min's master Haoran Zhenjun was secretly killing him, and couldn't help but look up at the unfathomable Liu Bowen carefully, and thought: Could it be that I was sent out to sea and given to Zhao Haoran to be slaughtered?

Thinking like this in his heart, he said, "Putuo Island in the East China Sea is the dojo of Guanyin Master, and the little monk has loved it for a long time. In the future, I will definitely go. ”

As he was talking, he saw a sergeant from outside reporting that because of the attack on Jiqing tomorrow, there was something in the army, and Lan Yu and others needed to return to the department.

After Lan Yu and the others left, Liu Bowen, Wu Xu, and Guo Min sat together and talked about the affairs of the monk world. It turned out that Liu Bowen was a scholar earlier, well-read, good at cultivating Haoran's spirit, and then by chance he explored the secret of the Covered Boat Mountain, and obtained the Taoist "Liujia Heavenly Book", and then integrated Confucianism and Taoism. A body of cultivation cannot be judged solely by the realm. And the reason why Liu Bowen served Zhu Yuanzhang was also because he had his own cultivation opportunity hidden here.

In the end, Liu Bowen also sighed and said, "Don't say that Confucianism is the Taoist Gate, and now it is also the art of stargazing, Kanyu, Fuqi, Qimen, and Dunjia, and the real Jindan Avenue is also difficult to see and hear." ”

Wuxu couldn't help sighing: "After the cliff mountain, the Confucianism was catastrophic, and its inheritance was almost cut off. In later generations, if you want to pursue the Great Dao, it is really difficult. Like Brother Berwyn, although he also studied Confucianism and Taoism, he always regarded himself as a Confucian cultivator, which is really commendable. ”

Guo Min interjected on the side and said, "According to the family teacher, in fact, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there has been a crisis in the Confucian inheritance, and the great Confucians have disappeared one after another, and only the Cheng Zhu family is dominant. And Cheng Zhu Lixue, in the future, the so-called 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires', seems to have entered a dead end. ”

Liu Bowen nodded and said, "Venerable Master Haoran True Monarch, he is indeed a True Spirit Great Cultivator, and his eyes are like torches. The so-called 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires' is like some of the ascetic methods of Buddhism, which are really difficult to fit in with the root of everyone. ”

Wuxu also nodded and said, "'Preserve heavenly principles and destroy people's desires', in fact, the great truth is not wrong. However, the Confucian inheritance is insufficient, and it is difficult to go up from one level to the next. For example, my Buddhism not only talks about the four noble truths of the path of suffering and extinction, but also has three Dharma seals, and is more like the "Vima Sutra", which "shows that there is a wealth of life, and the constant view of impermanence, and there is no greed; ”

Guo Min said angrily, "It seems that the most amazing person in the world is you?!" I look at the bald heads in the world, and most of them are eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling under the guise of 'wine and meat through the intestines and Buddha sitting in the heart'. You say that the Dharma is the king, and he tells you about monks, you say that the four great ones are empty, and he tells you that the merit box is not empty, you say that compassion is cherished, and he tells you about the angry eyes, you say that the four are empty, and he tells you not to be stubbornly empty, and you say that monks should abstain from greed and desire, and he tells you that if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell. Anyway, you lamas who wear robes and go in and out of the palace are so reasonable!"

Liu Bowen laughed, Wu Xuan was speechless, and couldn't help but think of the chapters and sentences in the "Law Extinction Sutra", and his heart was inexplicably sad.

As the so-called avenue is wasted, benevolence and righteousness come out, and Confucianism is behind the cliff mountain.

The Buddha's Nirvana method is extinguished, and the heavens are unforgettable.

================================== "The Sutra of the Destruction of the Dharma", the Buddha told Ananda: "After my Nirvana, when the Dharma is extinguished, the five adversities of the turbid world, the devil's path is prosperous, the devil is a sand gate, and the devil is corrupted and disturbs my way; he wears vulgar clothes, he is happy to wear a robe and a five-colored robe; he drinks alcohol and eats meat, kills and is greedy; he has no compassion, and he is even more jealous." From time to time, there are bodhisattvas, pilgrims, and arhats, who are diligent in cultivating virtues, treating all respects, and educating equally. Pity the poor and remember the old, bow to the poor, and always use the image of the scriptures to make people serve, make merits, be kind, do not infringe on others, harm oneself, and endure humiliation and benevolence. There are human beings, and all the demon bhikshus are jealous of them, slandering and promoting evil, and deposing and expelling them, so that they cannot be stopped. ”