Chapter 69: The Golden Needle Hall
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Everyone returned to the Quliu Pavilion to wait, and then continued to discuss the matter of Master Shenxiu's entry into the Ming Realm. Zhao Ran took this opportunity to learn about the realm and level of Buddhism.
According to the division of Buddhism, there are six realms that need to be achieved in the cultivation process, from shallow to deep, which are the eye realm, the ear realm, the nose realm, the tongue realm, the body cognition realm, and the consciousness realm. Unlike Taoism, which divides the realm by the rank of reincarnation, Buddhism believes that everyone has Buddha nature, but they are only covered by "dust", so they cannot be manifested or get rid of samsara. The purpose of the practice is to reopen one's Buddha nature, as if "removing dust", to clean the Buddha nature spiritual platform in order to restore its original appearance.
So where is the spiritual platform? The spiritual platform is located at the six roots, which is commonly referred to as the eyes, ears, nose, abandonment, body, and mind, which are the roots of human beings, just like plants and trees have roots, and from the six roots give birth to the six consciousnesses, in order to distinguish the six dusts of color, fragrance, sound, taste, touch, and dharma. The six dusts that we usually see are all tainted with cause and effect, are false, or distort the original meaning, and only when we see nature again can we see the true meaning of the world clearly, and can we truly see the self with a clear mind.
This is the true meaning of opening the six realms.
Each realm of Buddhism represents a major stage of cultivation, and there are different small realms in it. For example, in the realm of vision, it is necessary to pass the wisdom of name and color recognition, the wisdom of fate and the wisdom of thinking, and in the cultivation of supernatural powers, the first two positions are similar to the Taoist realm of the Daomen, and the thinking mind is similar to the realm of Yushi.
And a great Buddhist monk like Shen Xiu has already opened up the realm of body awareness, and what he needs to do is the wisdom of the practice, the wisdom of following the obedience, and the wisdom of the caste. It is similar to the Dao Gate Zhengyi True Human Realm or the Quanzhen Heavenly Master Realm.
Similar to the Daomen, Buddhism also has titles corresponding to each realm, and they enjoy different treatment in terms of cultivation status according to different titles. The eye realm is called a monk, the ear realm is called a novice, the nose realm is called a bhikshu, and the tongue realm is called an arhat. The realm of consciousness is called a bodhisattva, and the realm of consciousness is called a Buddha. Of course, this title is meaningless for believers, so believers usually refer to all Buddhist monks as monks, just as the people of the Ming Dynasty collectively refer to Taoist monks as "Taoist priests", which is the threshold for practice and non-practice.
Pulling the topic back, Shen Xiu claimed to have entered the Bodhisattva realm, such a monk is not something that these people in the Quliu Pavilion can eat. Therefore, Dongfang Jing sent out a flying talisman and asked the Jade Emperor Pavilion for help.
During the interlude of waiting, Dongfang Jing asked again if anyone had withdrawn now.
The cultivation level of several people here is not close to each other, and when it comes to the fighting method, they can definitely only beat the side drum on the periphery, but even if they beat the side drum, the risk is also extremely great, and they are involved in the core scope of the fighting method without paying attention. The ending must have been quite scary. However, the bodhisattva and real-life level fighting methods are also a rare opportunity, just watching from the outside. Maybe it will be of great benefit to your own practice, and if you are not careful, you will definitely be rewarded by the Daomen.
The risks and benefits of this need to be assessed by the individual, and Dongfang Jing does not force it.
As a result of the inquiry, none of these people were willing to quit. Even Zhao Ran was full of expectations and wanted to have a good look.
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Xia Guoxingqingfu Chengnan, Tianlong Temple, Golden Needle Hall.
The deacon monk held a scroll in his hand and hurriedly bypassed the Five Buddha Hall and the Reclining Buddha Hall. Wear the hanging flower door and enter the courtyard within the courtyard.
The courtyard in the courtyard is the place where the elders of the Golden Needle Hall handle affairs, and the west wing room is the office study of Master Long Huai, the elder of the West Hall. Tenryuin has never been a temple with its own lineage, and it is correct to say that it is a joint office of Buddhism to deal with the affairs of various sects. Most of the monks in the temple were drawn from various temples in the Xia Kingdom, so there was no relationship between the teachers and the sects, so Long Huai, the elder of the West Hall of the Golden Needle Hall, and Shen Xiu, the first elder, were not brothers.
Since he was transferred to the Golden Needle Hall of the Tianlong Academy, Master Long Huai has been relatively slack in his affairs, and there is no other reason than this. He has been trapped in the Arhat Realm for fifteen years, and he has never broken through, and objectively there is also a reason for the trivial troubles of the Golden Needle Hall. Today is the day of Long Huai's last day of deacon in the Golden Needle Hall, after tonight, he will return to Longtai Temple, he has sworn to the Buddha that he will not break the Bodhisattva realm, and he will not leave the temple again in this life.
Xitang is in charge of the external espionage affairs of the Xia Kingdom, whether it is the old enemy of the Ming Dynasty, or the Tubo, Northern Yuan, and even the Buddha countries of the Western Regions, as long as they are undercover Buddhist monks in the Xia Kingdom, they are all listed in the West Hall.
There was a pile of documents on Long Huai's desk that were ready to be handed over, and he took the pen to sign them one by one, and after the signature was completed, every time he closed the title page, he would sigh softly, as if he had given up all his past years. Long Huai suddenly realized that in fact, this is also a kind of practice, a kind of washing and grinding of the mind. The instant awakening made him feel that his heart was enlightened, and his fifteen years of cultivation without an inch of progress made waves again today, as if he was going to be rewarded for his merits, pushing his cultivation to the extreme of the tongue realm.
Shami communicated outside the door, saying that there was urgent information delivered from Daming.
Long Huai took the paperwork, opened it and looked at it, only to see a flying talisman pasted on the paperwork. The flying charm is the means of transmission of the Daomen, indicating that this information comes from the Ming Dynasty, if it is the intelligence of the Buddha countries such as Tubo or the Northern Yuan, then the one that is pasted should be the flying mantra.
The content in the flying talisman needs to be decrypted to show the true meaning, that is to say, ordinary people put the flying talisman on their foreheads to "see", and the content may be a scene describing a certain spiritual eye and spiritual spring, or it may be a period of spiritual understanding, if you don't decrypt it, you can't see the original meaning.
Xitang probably hasn't changed the decryption method once a year, and this year's one is the elixir decryption type. Below the flying talisman is the decipherment of the content, which means: Daomen knows that the first seat of the Ming Dynasty is known, and it is setting up an ambush in Changning Valley.
Master Long Huai couldn't help but say, "The first seat to enter the Ming Dynasty, what kind of joke is this?"
Sha Mi said with a bitter face: "Xitang, the little monk doesn't know what's going on, but this is the information sent by Ming Wu, and our deacon's room doesn't dare to press it without permission, so I came to tell Xitang." ā
Ming Wu is the fifth undercover agent sent to the Ming Dynasty, the importance is self-evident, light yƬ does not send back the news to the Golden Needle Hall, but once it is returned, it means that the matter is urgent, and it must not be delayed.
Long Huai asked suspiciously: "The first seat is going to enter the Ming Dynasty in the near future, why don't I know?
Xingzhen shook his head: "We haven't heard about this in the deacon's room, why don't you go and ask?"
Long Huai looked at the decrypted text again, put the document aside, and said to Xingzhen: "You wait a minute." ā
Sex is really waiting on the side, Master Long Huai is not in a hurry to finish all the documents on the table, breathe a long sigh of relief, secretly rejoicing in his heart, fifteen years of hard work will be rewarded today, it seems that soon, he is expected to enter the Bodhisattva realm!
Master Long Huai looked at the Xingzhen who was waiting on the side, and said with a smile: "You have also worked hard all these years, and you will have to work hard in the West Hall in the future. ā
Sex is really ten: "I wish Xitang an early Bodhisattva." ā
Long Huai was in a good mood: "Borrow your auspicious words!"
Xingzhen pointed to the intelligence document on the table, and said cautiously: "Xitang, this ......"
Long Huai was happy: "You wait a while, I'll go and say goodbye to the first seat, and ask by the way." ā
Out of the door, a few steps to the outside of the main room, Long Huai at the door sound: "Is the first seat there?"
"Is it Senior Brother Xitang? ā
The first Shenxiu came from Yinzhou Jingtan Temple, only sixty-eight years old this year, twenty years younger than Xitang Longhuai, but has been in the Bodhisattva realm for five years, looking at the Xia Kingdom, and even the entire Buddhist countries, are rare intelligent people, can be described as a deep Buddha fate! He entered the Golden Needle Hall of Tianlong Academy three years ago, held the first position, and became the top first-class figure in the Xia Kingdom Buddhism, and was deeply loved by the elders of the Tianlong Dean Elder Hall, if nothing else, he will have a place in the new generation of elders in the Hall of Elders in seven years. At that time, he will ascend to the top floor of the Xia Kingdom Buddha Gate and become the youngest elder of the Tianlong Elder Hall.
Shen Xiu's entry into the Golden Needle Hall had a deep stimulus to Long Huai, and it can be said that Long Huai's decision to resign from the hospital and return to the temple has a lot to do with Shen Xiu. If it was a day ago, Long Huai still had a layer of resistance to Shenxiu, then from today onwards, this resistance has been invisibly resolved.
Long Huai, who had a good mind, sat down with a smile, looked at Shenxiu who was making tea for him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: If the first seat of the young Bodhisattva Realm in front of him appeared, maybe he would never have touched the edge of the Bodhisattva Realm! (To be continued......