Chapter 9: The Ten Lives of the Lotus Sutra
"Cultivate hard! I was originally just a miscellaneous disciple, but after a lifetime of cultivation, I finally met the conditions of the outer gate, became an outer disciple, and was the deacon of this miscellaneous service pavilion, if the old man is willing, you can go to fight for the throne once every forty years, you are also half an immortal root, if you practice diligently, now I am your future role model."
Yuan Yi saw it, although this old man's groveling appearance is not very good-looking, but he is still a good person, and he still takes great care of Yuan Yi, a person who has the same disease, otherwise, he would not have chattered so much, it was completely for Yuan Yi's good, so Yuan Yi was completely grateful from the bottom of his heart.
"Disciple remember, thank you for your advice", Yuan Yi made a big bow respectfully, but the old man was very useful, and immediately the corners of his mouth rose, and said, "Come with me! I will settle you properly."
In this way, the old man took Yuan Yi into the miscellaneous service pavilion, and from a dusty cabinet, he took out two sets of gray clothes, which looked very simple, and they were exactly the same, and there was a lotus flower embroidered on the neckline, and handed them to Yuan Yi,
This is the clothes that Yuan Yi will wear in the Thousand Lotus Temple in the future, a total of two sets, can be changed in turn, if there is damage, you can come to the miscellaneous pavilion to receive.
And after the clothes, it is the identity jade card, the old man took out a jade card, the front is the word "Qianlian", the back is blank, and at this time, Ling Yuanyi felt that a magical scene happened, only to see that the old man suddenly read a word, and then pointed to the blank side of the jade card, and immediately a silk-like golden light shot out from his fingertips and fell into the jade card, making the jade card immediately have more words "Yuan Yi".
"See, this is the Buddha Yuan cultivated by Buddhist monks, only with Buddha Yuan, can you be regarded as a real monk, it took me a full twenty years to give birth to Buddha Yuan in the body", the old man began to show off his Buddha Yuan, and suddenly Ling Yuanyi was speechless, and it took twenty years to give birth to Buddha Yuan, which doesn't seem to be a glorious thing.
"This is the Buddha Yuan, I finally opened my eyes today, but I don't know when I will be able to give birth to the Buddha Yuan, and the disciple has a question, I enter the Thousand Lotus Temple, don't I need to shave, and this jade plate is still my original name, don't I have to give a Dharma name."
This Qianlian Temple should be the same as the temple in the previous life, the old monks he saw before have shaved degrees, and there are nine ring scars on their heads, in addition, that Ying Hai and Ying Xing don't seem to be brothers, but the first word at the beginning is the same, this should be their legal name, and they all have a "Ying", which means that they are of the same generation, and the disciples of this generation are all "Ying" generations.
"Whether it's shaving or Dharma name, it's only for inner disciples, and outer disciples are all leading the way to practice, and there is no Dharma name, let alone our miscellaneous disciples."
"So that's the case", Yuan Yi was the abbot of a monk temple in his previous life, and naturally knew that in a temple, only those who shaved their heads could be regarded as real disciples, and those who led the cultivation could not enter the core at all, even if it was the income from tickets or warrior monk performances, they would not be given half a point, and the state would not give them degrees, they belonged to "illegal" practice.
Just as Yuan Yi was thinking about this, the old monk took out a book from his pocket, which looked crumpled and must have been flipped over and over again.
At this time, the old man said, "The elder instructed, pass on to you a superficial exercise, as for which exercise it is, I did not specify, the exercise I have on hand, called the "Ten Lives Lotus Sutra", is the practice that can only be obtained after becoming an outer disciple in the temple, and it is a simplified version of the Thousand Lives Lotus Sutra in the town temple of the Thousand Lotus Temple, you can take it to the good life to practice."
Looking at this crumpled book, Yuan Yi was dumbfounded for a moment, and hurriedly said, "How can this be done, according to what you say, the "Ten Lives Lotus Sutra" can only be learned by outer disciples, and I am a miscellaneous disciple, how can I learn this exercise, if the people in the temple find out, you will definitely be implicated at that time."
"Then you can rest assured, no one will care about what kind of exercises you are practicing as a miscellaneous disciple, as long as you are not stupid enough to preach it yourself, no one will ever know, because even the elders and abbots in the temple can't see at a glance what kind of exercises you are practicing, unless when you are cultivating, they open their eyes to monitor the operation of the Buddha Yuan in your body throughout the whole process, and such a thing cannot happen.
My father, just an ordinary outer disciple, what he can give me, in addition to the half of the immortal root, there is only this "Ten Lives Lotus Sutra", only by my half of the immortal root, if there is no this exercise, I am afraid that a lifetime of time, will not be able to give birth to the Buddha Yuanlai, now I will give you this scripture, one is also to give you a chance to become a monk, and second, it is also to give myself a chance, if you can have the opportunity to go further in cultivation in the future, remember to come to me to help."
"Xie Lao's kindness, I remember, I also know my own situation, maybe the future achievements are not as good as Xie Lao, but if one day the disciple is developed, I will definitely not forget Xie Lao's kindness."
Although Yuan Yi came through for a very short time, there were two people who won his gratitude, one was the "Buddha", if he hadn't spoken, he would have been swept out of the house a long time ago, and there would be no way to embark on the road of cultivation, and the second one was this Xie Lao.
"Very good, but if you want to be developed, you have to develop quickly, I only have fifty years left in my life, you are not developed for fifty years, old man, I can only wait for your reward in the underworld", the old man couldn't help but quip, to be honest, he really didn't think about getting Yuanyi's reward, but at the beginning, his father gave him a chance, and now he sees this Yuanyi who is suffering from the same disease as himself, so he also wants to give him a chance, anyway, he can't suffer.
"Although the elder said that he asked you to cultivate on your own, if you encounter someone who doesn't understand, you can come and ask the old man me, I have cultivated this "Ten Lives Lotus Sutra" for decades, although my cultivation is not high, but it is still okay to give you a little guidance."
"Thank you so much, Elder", and then, Yuan Yi asked again, "Elder Xie, the outer disciples are cultivating the Ten Lives Lotus Sutra, so what are the inner disciples cultivating?"
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