"Xiao Er, two catties of beef, and a pot of good wine. "On an official road, a monk walked into a tavern on the side of the road.

The tavern is run by a middle-aged couple, now the May Mai Huang people are busy, there are no guests in the tavern, suddenly saw a monk come in to ask for wine and meat, the couple are a little surprised to look at the monk.

The monk found a place to sit down, and the monk smiled and said, "The monk also wants to eat, why can't he eat wine and meat if he eats rice and noodles? The poor monk is hungry, and he asks the donor to have mercy and serve me wine and food quickly." ”

Before the male shopkeeper could speak, the female shopkeeper stepped forward and said loudly: "You monk is so unreasonable, my family runs a serious tavern, where did the forbidden beef come from." Besides, if you really want to be a true monk, you can go to the front of my store, you don't need to open your mouth, although we are poor, we are still willing to have a vegetarian meal. But if you look at the pot-bellied poop that looks like a monk, it is not a serious thing at first glance, and you want me to say..."

The male shopkeeper stepped forward and pulled his wife, otherwise the woman was afraid that she would continue to scold.

He was almost scolded by someone pointing his nose, but the monk still looked grinning, and the monk smiled and said: "The female benefactor is reasonable, but everything is born and must have its use." For example, the ploughing ox ploughed tens of millions of fields before his death, and he could still fill people's stomachs after death, isn't it immeasurably meritorious? ”

"If you don't eat it, I don't eat it, it will eventually turn into a pile of rotten meat, and besides, monks are also people, chanting sutras in the temple is a Buddha, saving the world is a Buddha, and eating meat and drinking wine is still a Buddha. ”

The monk patted his belly and smiled: "The wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Buddha has left it in his heart!"

The shopkeeper wanted to say something more, but her husband hurriedly stopped the customer with his gaze and opened the door to welcome the customer.

"By the way, I can smell the beef, you can't prevaricate me anymore, it's still yellow beef, I still ate this delicious taste more than ten years ago," the monk's eyes lit up, and he was reincarnated as a starving ghost.

Now Buddhism is booming, even if you don't believe in Buddhism, seeing this monk and that couple feel angry, the female shopkeeper said: "Recently, there is a farming cow in our nearby town that is tired to death, and it has to be allowed to sell after reporting to the government, we bought more than a dozen catties of beef in this store, but these beef are not cheap, you, are you rich?"

"Donor, you're underestimating me," the monk smiled and stood up, pulling out hundreds of copper plates from his coat.

"How's that, that's enough?" said the monk with a smug face.

"That's enough, please wait a moment. The man was a little surprised, but he was not slow to collect the money.

But at this moment, another person walked into the store, this person was wearing a common Taoist robe, but he was dressed in an elegant and handsome manner.

As soon as he came to this small hotel, it seemed to be a lot brighter, he smiled and took out a gold ingot and said, "Take me, it's not easy for him as a monk to earn some money for food." ”

"Good master, what do you want? After the male shopkeeper took the ingots, he was much more attentive.

"Just be like him. ”

The man sat down next to the monk and asked, "Don't you mind if I sit here?"

"It is my Maitreya blessing to be able to sit with Master Xuandu, where do I dare to mind. ”

The shopkeeper's wife was still muttering, but what would she feel if she knew the identities of the two men.

"Master, are you here to kill me?" Maitreya said with a smile, "If so, please ask me to finish this meal of beef, you don't know that I have been hungry for a long time." ”

Xuandu and Maitreya were chatting in the couple's shop, but neither of them could hear a single thing.

Xuandu stared at Maitreya for a long time, and Xuandu finally sighed: "You don't have the appearance of a Buddha in the future, but don't worry, I'm not here to kill you, I'm just watching you." ”

At this time, the beef came up, Maitreya took a piece of beef and swallowed it deliciously, Maitreya smiled: "It's still the taste of the past, this world is too free, and I don't want to change it if I give me a Buddha." ”

"But you will return to Lingshan one day," Xuandu said softly, "You can't escape." ”

Maitreya, who had been smiling, finally put away his smile, and Maitreya sighed: "I thought it would be the sect leader who came to see me." ”

"Senior brother has been a little busy lately, and when you really become a Buddha, you may be able to meet him, but junior brother asked me to ask you,"

Xuandu paused and said, "It's also what I want to ask, what should the future Buddha be?"

Maitreya put down his chopsticks and thought for a long time and said, "This is also a question I have been thinking about all these years, if I can figure it out, maybe I will be able to become a Buddha." ”

"You, the Buddha, are also confused?" asked Xuandu.

"It is precisely because it is the Buddha that I am confused," Maitreya said with a smile: "The foundation of the Buddha is in the western heaven, but the Buddha in the western heaven is like a pool of stagnant water." After all, if you only seek the next life, the Buddha is just a pitiful worm attached to the underworld to some extent, and the Pure Land Sect of the Eastern Land is even more unlikely. ”

"Where the Buddha is, I don't know, if one day I am the Buddha," Maitreya thought for a long time before saying: "I am the Buddha, the Buddha is only in the stomach and intestines of wine, meat, and intestines." ”

"Interesting answer, then will you respond to the call of the burning lamp?" asked Xuandu.

Maitreya smiled and said: "I am not a Buddha now, I am just a monk of wine and meat who wanders in the world, and the Buddha has nothing to do with me." ”

Xuandu stood up and said with a smile: "If one day you feel that the Buddha can't do it anymore, why don't you come to my Taoism." ”

Xuandu walked towards the door of the store, and when he was about to reach the door, Xuandu turned around and smiled: "The door of my people's teaching, as well as the sect of interception, will always be open for you." ”

Maitreya replied, "Master, you can close the door that was left for me, I am destined to be a Buddha." ”

Xuandu smiled and said: "That's not necessarily, if one day, Buddhism doesn't exist, where will you, Maitreya, go to be the Buddha?"

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Lingshan, afraid that his grandson will come back to see the burning lamp.

"Buddha, the Trapping Immortal Sword is still in the hands of the saint. ”

Afraid of Liusun's face was not very good, he was relieved: "I know, you go down and prepare." ”

At this time, he lit the lamp and asked Guanyin, "Have I already taught my disciples?"

"Outside the first Maitreya Buddha, there is no Vajra Buddha in the south, there is no Baoguang Buddha in the south, and there is no Dragon King Buddha in the south... There is no Datong Light Buddha in the south. Dozens of Buddhas such as Nan Wucai Guang Buddha have arrived. ”

"Another 500 Bodhisattvas and 3,000 Arhats have already come to the outside of the Great Lei Yin Temple, and as for the Bhikshus of the Eight Directions, the Four Directions Jiedi are also waiting outside the temple. ”

Randen nodded, and then Guanyin asked suspiciously: "Buddha, I went to the Eight Treasures Meritorious Pool to see, the Pure Land Sect still has luck flowing into the West, in fact, it seems that this time there is no need to be so fanfare, now that my Buddhism is favored by heaven, I teach my disciples to cultivate enlightenment much faster, and the time is on my Buddhism side." ”

Burning the lamp said: "If there is no Buddhism and only seeks a corner of peace, now I can secretly accumulate strength in this spiritual mountain, but my Buddhism has been preparing for too long. ”

"What I teach is the world!"

"And if the doctrinal controversy chooses to be forbearing, then no one in the world can distort the scriptures I teach, so that the teachings will not be concluded. ”

"In addition, although the heart of heaven is in my Buddhism in this era, what about the next era, the time is really in my Buddhism?"

Ran Deng made up his mind and said: "This battle can be lost, or it can be bloodied, but it is inevitable. ”

Guanyin understood, after all, there is no bloodshed on the road to the overlord.

Buddhism's strength on paper is not weak, but only after fighting can we know whether Buddhism is really ready to become a hegemon.