Kong Ming smiled slightly, but did not answer.

Shen Bujiao acquiesced, rubbed his chin, circled around him for half a circle, stopped and asked: "But when you are in danger, your Buddha can't save you, so you also believe it?"

Kong Ming smiled and asked, "Sister Bu Jiao, when you are seriously ill, will your aunt take you to a doctor for treatment?"

Shen Bujiao thought about it and nodded.

"Do you believe that the doctor can cure you?"

Shen Bujiao still nodded.

Kong Ming smiled: "But doctors may not be able to cure all diseases, so do you still believe in it? Are you still willing to let your aunt take you to the doctor when you are sick?"

Shen Bujiao fell into deep thought, Kongming believed in Buddha, when he was in danger, the Buddha could not save him, she trusted the doctor, and when she was seriously ill, the doctor could not save herself.

But even so, when she gets sick next time, she will still go to the doctor, which means that she still believes in doctors, so even if the Buddha can't save him, does he still believe in the Buddha?

Kong Ming said: "The Buddha can't save me, I can only save myself, and the Buddha has never asked people to "believe" him, he just tells the world the truth he demonstrated, so the Buddha is also called the "enlightened one". Legend has it that after the Buddha became enlightened, his son Rahula asked him to save himself from the sea of suffering, but the Buddha said, I can't save you either, you can only argue for yourself. ”

Kong Ming turned his head to look at Shen Bujiao: "Do you know why? Because the teachings of Buddhism are difficult to explain in straightforward language." He showed her the cover of the sutra he was copying.

Shen Bujiao looked at it, and it was written on the cover - Myoho-renge-kyo.

Sora continued: "The word Myoho-renge-kyo means an ingenious metaphor. Human thought is logical, and logic relies on language to exist, but human language is poor, and logic also has a limit, but beyond the limit of logic, there are deeper things that cannot be described in words. ”

Shen Bujiao said: "This is the same as the Tao, the very Tao, the name, the very famous...... The same is the mystery, the mystery, the door of all wonders, there are the same wonders. ”

Kong Ming smiled: "Yes, and the question you just asked me whether I believe in Buddhism is a paradox. ”

"Paradox?" Shen Bujiao frowned, "What's the solution?"

Kong Ming clenched his hands into fists, put them in front of Shen Bujiao, and said with a smile: "I have a small pebble hidden in my hand, do you believe it or not?"

Shen Bujiao wrinkled his brows and looked entangled, but after a while, he still nodded reluctantly, and said uncertainly: "Believe it...... bar. ”

The corners of Kongming's lips hooked slightly, and he smiled: "It is precisely because you don't know whether I have a stone in my hand at all, that the question of "belief" and "unbelief" arises. And what I'm doing right now is preaching through a certain practice method, opening my clenched fist. ”

He stretched out his hands, "Naturally, he will know whether there are stones in it, and he will be "enlightened", and there will be no question of "belief" and "unbelief". ”

Shen Bujiao nodded as if she didn't understand, feeling that Buddhism was really a profound thing, fortunately she didn't become a monk, otherwise she would definitely be an unqualified monk.

Kong Ming smiled, pointed to his clothes and asked, "What color is this?"

Shen Bujiao glanced at the cyan robe that Kong Ming was wearing, "Cyan." ”

"So how do you explain to a blind man what cyan is?"

Shen Bujiao was stunned, the blind man couldn't see, he hadn't seen cyan, even if he said "cyan", he still couldn't understand what kind of state cyan was.

Kongming picked up the Myoho-renge-kyo and said, "The enlightened person has realized something deeper, but to describe it, just as we describe the state of "cyan" with a blind person, so the only way to understand the Buddha's principles is through "precepts, concentration, and wisdom." ”

Shen Bujiao was puzzled, "According to what you say, isn't what is written in the scriptures all lies, so why do you still copy Buddhist scriptures every day?"

"No, the role of the sutras is to teach us the Buddha's mind, not to give us the ability to understand the Buddha's teachings. ”

"All scriptures and righteousness are for the sake of all sentient beings, all appearances are false, and all laws are empty, how can you say the truth in vain......"

Shen Bujiao listened silently at first, and then Kongming's voice became more and more ethereal, as if coming from a long distance, she raised her head suddenly, only to see Kongming seemed to be frozen in place, lowering his eyebrows, solemn, restrained and elegant, and there seemed to be Sanskrit circulating around his body.

Shen Bujiao didn't dare to touch him, she only felt that the empty light in front of her seemed to be very close, close at hand, and she could touch it as soon as she stretched out her hand, and it seemed to be far away, far away in the world, and what was in front of her was just a phantom.

I don't know if it's her illusion, she suddenly felt that the concentration of aura around her had become higher, and there seemed to be something more unknown, her eyes rolled slightly, she simply sat down cross-legged, and used her heart to breathe out the aura, and the aura entered the meridians, and there was a feeling of refreshment, very gentle, neutral, and people's hearts couldn't help but calm down and enter the realm of selflessness.

At this time, the meridian aura in Shen Bujiao's body merged into the dantian, forming a working aura vortex in the dantian, continuously absorbing the aura, and the aura changed from colorless to visible smoke as the concentration deepened, like a thin veil diffused between heaven and earth in the early morning.

Kong Ming was not as calm as he looked, he sat cross-legged on the lotus platform in the sea of consciousness, his eyes were level with his eyes, and a voice came from all directions, asking him, "What is righteous thoughts? What are evil thoughts?"

Kong Ming replied: "If you think of nothing, it is called evil thought, and if you don't read it, it is called righteous thought." Thinking of good and evil is called evil thoughts, and not thinking of good and evil is called righteous thoughts, and even suffering and happiness are born and destroyed, giving up grudges, hating and loving, and being called evil thoughts, not thinking of bitterness and happiness, that is, righteous thoughts. ”

"Why?"

"All thoughts arise from false causes, so there are thoughts of birth, all of them are evil thoughts, and if there is no birth and no extinction in the place, it is righteous thoughts, and there is no place for thoughts and karma. It is a name that dwells in pure thoughts. There is nowhere to give birth to evil thoughts, because people know that all the Dharma is evil, and there is no thought in good and evil, so it is said that those who live in righteous thoughts are also righteous thoughts. ”

"Zenye. ”

The sound faded away, and the sky was as bright as a mountain.

It didn't take long for another voice to appear, "Yun Xiudao, what is Xiu?"

Kong Ming folded his hands together and replied, "Cultivating the mind, the heart is the foundation." ”

"How can the cloud know the heart as the foundation?"

"The mind is born of all kinds of laws, and the heart is extinguished by all kinds of laws, and seeking each other from the outside, although it has gone through several calamities, it cannot be achieved in the end. ”

"Fu Xiu is fundamental, what is the cultivation?"

"Sitting in meditation, understanding the Buddha's principles. To seek the wisdom of the Buddha, you must meditate, if you don't meditate, your thoughts will tremble, and your root will be ruined. ”

"What is Zen in the clouds, and what is the determination of the clouds?"

"Delusion is not moving for Zen, sitting and seeing the nature is fixed, the nature of the person, my original intention, the person who is fixed, the person who has no heart for the environment, and the eight winds cannot move. ”

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Between the questions and answers, the Bodhi tree at the Kongming dantian has emerged with a third small leaf, the fourth one only has a small shoot, and a red lotus at the center of the eyebrows is full of shadows, and finally it is still hidden in the center of Kongming's eyebrows, as if it has never appeared.