Chapter 58: Under the Bodhi Tree?
Chapter 58: Under the Bodhi Tree?
Looking at Wang Yun's depressed and surprised face leaving, I was still a little small in my heart, and I wanted to trap me, so you just waited to be even more depressed in the future! Looking at Wang Yun's distant back, I turned my head to Shi Mingxin and asked:
"Senior Shi, do you know this person"?
Shi Mingxin: "I know, the deputy head of the foreign affairs group of the dragon group"!
Me: "Deputy team leader, what about Long Yunkong?"
Shi Mingxin: "He, he's not ......? Oh, he's the deputy leader of the combat team!"
It seems that Shi Mingxin also knew that Long Yunkong was missing, so he almost said the sentence 'he is not missing', but thinking that this was a public place, he stopped talking.
Me: "Why are there so many groups in the dragon group?"
Shi Mingxin: "It's not much, there are only three groups in total, namely the foreign affairs team, the internal affairs team and the combat team"!
Me: "Oh okay! By the way, I have to bother Lao Shi's seniors to help me lead the way to the enlightenment dojo of the ancestors of the Shi family!"
Shi Mingxin: "Are you sure you want to go to the Enlightenment Dojo now?"
Me: "Yes, I'm sure, I'm going to go sooner or later anyway, so there's no need to delay yourself too long!"
In fact, the main thing is that if I don't go, I will return to the Sage Village and continue my training journey to face Master Cai's fists. So I can't help it! I still have to spend a few more days outside, so if you want me to stay outside, you have to have something, so I choose to go to the enlightenment dojo of the ancestors of the Buddha family right now.
Shi Mingxin: "Okay, you come with me"!
The enlightenment dojo of the ancestors of the Buddha family, which is also near the Bodhi dojo, is actually behind the huge statue of the ancestor of the Shi family. All the people who come to the Bodhi Ashram usually go to enlightenment in front of a huge statue. Of course, at first, most of you have to spend a few days in the meditation room near the Bodhi Dojo before you dare to sit under the cushions, otherwise you will not only find it difficult to hear the sound of the Great Dao, but you may also fall into a deep sleep.
Therefore, although the traffic in Bodhi Town is very high, most of them actually live in nearby hotels. Very few come to hear the sound of the avenue directly, and some even have to live in the neighborhood for several years before they dare to listen to the sound of the avenue on their cushions. There are too few people like me who dare to sit directly on the cushion and open the eyes of the Buddha, let alone sit on the twenty-four cushions.
It is also because I have had the experience of 'enlightening the scriptures' twice, and I have comprehended the exercises in the 'Whispers of the Saints', so I have a strong talent for resistance in this regard. Of course, it wasn't until later that I realized that in fact, no enlightenment dojo could trap me, because I was from Earth. As for why the rules in the Enlightenment Dojo can't trap the earthlings, this matter is more troublesome to say, and I'll talk about it later when I have time.
The reason why the Bodhi Dojo is commensurate with the word 'Bodhi' is because behind the statue of the ancestor of the Buddha family, there is a formation. If you want to pass through the formation, you can only use the token in my hand to pass, but the token in my hand is one-time and will dissipate once I leave the Enlightenment Dojo.
Of course, I didn't know much about this at the time, but when I entered the enlightenment dojo of the Buddha ancestors, my first impression was: "Hey, why is it so small? The Bodhi tree is only the height of my thigh, how can it be such a small Bodhi tree? Are you sure you are not in the wrong place? This is the enlightenment dojo of your ancestors?"
Me: "Here it is"?
Shi Mingxin: "......"!
I'm sorry, but seeing such a scene made me ask. It's so surprising, how can there be such a small Bodhi tree? Isn't the Bodhi tree very huge on earth? Why is the Bodhi tree so small here? I remember there was a bonsai on the balcony of the rented house when I was on Earth, and there was a fortune tree on this potted plant, which was about this size!
You say, can I not be surprised? I think this Bodhi tree is like the fortune tree planted on my earth, so I can't help but ask. Although I know that this must be an enlightenment dojo, how did you become enlightened with such a small Bodhi tree? Or is there simply two Bodhi trees here, and this is the small one?
But at a glance here, I didn't find any other tree species, which means that if this enlightenment field is correct, then there is only this one Bodhi tree.
Shi Mingxin: "This is the enlightenment field of the ancestors of the family, and this wisdom thinking tree has been growing for nearly 10,000 years. It grows from small, and from big to small. There is a reincarnation every thousand years, and it is already the ninth reincarnation"!
Me: "This linden tree can still grow from big to small"?
Shi Mingxin: "Yes, it was brought out by the ancestors of the family from the Ten Thousand Demons, so it is the real Extreme Buddha Tree"?
Me: "Ten Thousand Demon Lands, what is that place?"
Shi Mingxin: "It's a place beyond the four continents, but you don't have to worry about these for the time being, if you are interested in the future, you can choose to go there to hone it, it will be of great help to your strength and vision."
Me: "Then when your ancestors brought this Bodhi tree back, it was also so small?"
Shi Mingxin: "According to family records, when the ancestors brought it back, the wisdom thinking tree was only three feet long. And now the height of the wisdom thinking tree is just three feet three inches, and this height is also the height of this sacred tree when the ancestors comprehended the true meaning of the Dharma and created the sword shadow of ten thousand Buddhas."
Me: "Then why is there no one here?
At this time, I reacted slightly, and the surroundings here were all white, and they should be surrounded by formations. Only the territory of dozens of meters around the Bodhi tree is clear, but there is not a single cushion, and there is not a single person! And looking up at the sky, there is no formation guarding it, are you not afraid that such a small Bodhi tree will be harmed?
Shi Mingxin: "We only come here to comprehend after we have experience, or when we have some cultivation problems that can't be solved. Under normal circumstances, if the strength is too low, you can't come here, because it is easy to fall into an eternal sleep. And most of the people with high strength have their own blessed land to cultivate, except for the time they need, and they don't need to come here."
Me: "Then there are no cushions here?"
Actually, I just wanted to ask, what about your cushions? I deliberately asked you people, just to know how you people sat down and comprehended after they came. Wouldn't everyone have to bring their own cushions? Otherwise, how would you sit down with so many pebbles on the ground?
Shi Mingxin: "The ancestors had an epiphany in such an environment, as a descendant of later generations, how dare they covet comfort under the protection of their ancestors. Therefore, there is no cushion here, and if you want to comprehend the path of the ancestors again, you must first taste the comprehension process of the ancestors"!
Me: "Okay, I understand, thank you for the seniors for solving the doubts, and the juniors will have the courage to experience the path of your ancestors' comprehension here."
It seems that they can only follow the local customs, but fortunately, in fact, cultivators don't really need such a comfortable environment. Moreover, for cultivators, the more they are greedy for pleasure, the easier it is to get lost in the red dust and find it difficult to extricate themselves. The more you get lost in the red dust, the less likely you are to hear or feel: the Great Way!
That's why sometimes we see that the real worldly masters are a little out of place with us mortals. Because they are people who have escaped from the red dust, and we mortals are still transitioning in the red dust. Therefore, they seldom pursue material satisfaction, but pursue the true meaning of the Great Dao.
Today, too, I must slowly comprehend what it means to abandon the three thousand troubles. The body is just a skin, so why bother pursuing desires in the skin, ignoring its own nature. The desire on the skin is sometimes easy to lose one's original intention, and it is easier to let oneself fall into the tomb of a gentle country hero, so that oneself is completely depraved. Therefore, if you want to comprehend the Great Dao, you really need to let go of those red dust and foreign objects that confuse your mind, and let your mind slowly calm down, so that you can understand what the essence of the Great Dao is!
Shi Mingxin watched me sit down in front of the Bodhi tree, and opened my mouth to say something, but in the end I didn't say anything, and just watched me meditate quietly. In fact, he himself had a lot of questions he wanted to ask me, but he was worried about asking questions that he shouldn't have asked. Especially about the matter of the saint group, there is a degree of top secret, once it is known by outsiders, I am afraid that it will inevitably be secretly placed under house arrest.
Of course, what he was most curious about was, how dare I come here to enlighten the Dao? If I made this request myself, he would definitely refuse, even if I might be a hidden descendant of the Ye family, or an inheritor in the saint group. He will directly refuse, it is absolutely impossible for me to enter this space with my strength. Because the more important the heir or inheritor, the more unlikely it is to come here when the strength is insufficient.
But when he saw me and saw this Bodhi tree, he actually had the energy to wonder about the size of the Bodhi tree, and there was no other discomfort, he was actually very curious. You must know that people who are generally not strong enough will feel dizzy directly when they see this Bodhi tree. If you're lucky, you'll faint and faint, and then you'll be taken out by him, and you'll wake up a few days later. If you're unlucky, I'm afraid you'll fall into a deep sleep directly, and you'll still be in a state where you can't wake up.
But since I came in, not only did I not have any adverse reactions to vertigo, but I also had the energy to ask questions. He even felt that this Bodhi tree was so small, what was the situation, nothing like this had ever happened before, so just now he really wanted to ask me, wouldn't I be dizzy? Wouldn't I feel uncomfortable? Can the energy in my body still be under my control?
But before he could ask, I first asked what kind of place it was, and then I wondered why the linden tree was so small, and then I wondered if there was no one here, and I asked if there were any cushions here!
For example, what can I comprehend here, how can I comprehend the way of comprehension here, how can I enter the real state of comprehension faster, how can I comprehend the great avenue here, and how do I get out of the state of comprehension here? I didn't ask any of the questions about normal practice, but I asked a lot of useless topics. Don't you know that these are all wastes of time?
Is it because my newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, or do I really have two brushes, Shi Mingxin's predecessors are actually very curious. That is, as an old-timer, although he looks young, he is already an old-timer like some of the people in the saint group. Although his strength is not as good as that of the saints of the saint group, he is also the secret guardian of the Bodhi Dojo. Therefore, there is still a city in my heart, and in this way, I can hold back a lot of questions in my heart to answer my childish questions.
In the end, he still wanted to ask me some more questions before I was settled, but his mouth opened and he didn't ask anything. And when he shook his head, a little funny that his mind was not very understanding, he suddenly realized that my sitting posture seemed to be very similar to the sitting posture that the ancestor had when he comprehended the sword shadow of the Ten Thousand Buddhas!
Back then, the ancestor once drew a picture by himself, and the picture happened to be the sitting posture when he first comprehended the sword shadow of the Ten Thousand Buddhas. Now it is still hanging in the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave, when the genius children of the Shi family want to learn the "Twelve Putuo Sword", they must first go to the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave to visualize this picture, and then enter the deepest part of the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave to experience the baptism of the Ten Thousand Buddhas, and finally can comprehend the sword spectrum of the "Twelve Putuo Sword".
However, Shi Mingxin's predecessor would not compare me with the ancestor of his family at the beginning, after all, the difference between me and his ancestor is hundreds of millions of times, so he was only a little surprised, but he didn't think much about it, so he withdrew first.
As for asking him to come and take me out after I have come to my senses? Hehe! He really doesn't have that mentality. Because it's still unknown whether I'll wake up or not, so why waste time here. It's better to wait until three days later, if I haven't come out of the Enlightenment Dojo, he will directly contact Mei Jiansheng and ask Mei Jiansheng to take me back!
However, not long after the release of the mind, the Bodhi tree suddenly began to change. I saw that the linden tree began to glow slowly, and the leaves of the whole tree began to sprout, and then various images appeared on the leaves. If anyone sees it at this moment, they will find that these images are actually various Buddhas.
On earth, Buddhism is a super-large sect, which has been passed down for thousands of years, and there are many people who believe in Buddhism. However, few people know that the birth period of the Buddhist Buddha Shakya is actually the same period as the Confucius sage, so the Buddhist lineage is actually very similar to Confucianism. However, Buddhism is not unified, and Buddhism is divided into Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism. Theravada Buddhism believes that there is only one Buddha in one life, and they think that the only person who can really be called a Buddha is the Buddha Shakya. In the same way that Mahayana Buddhism believes that there are many Buddhas in one lifetime, Mahayana Buddhism believes that everyone can become a Buddha. Even in Mahayana Buddhism, there are more than 10,000 Buddhas who have special titles, not counting the Buddhas of all beings.
It is also because of this that Buddhism used to be debated because of this. Theravada Buddhism believes that one country cannot have two kings, and one life cannot have two Buddhas, and it is only right that Buddhas and Buddhas should be in succession, so there is a saying that 'only worship Shakyamuni Buddha'. In Mahayana Buddhism, it is also divided into past Buddhas, modern Buddhas and future Buddhas, as well as the saying of 'all Buddhas of the Ten Directions and Three Worlds'. In the end, Mahayana Buddhism prevailed, so many people accepted more and more that all beings can become Buddhas, or rather, all beings can come as such!
Actually, I don't care about any of this, after all, when I was on earth, I respected all kinds of gods, and there was no disrespect. It is also influenced by the older generation, and the ancestors and gods must be revered. So what I'm concerned about now is, why are there so many Buddhas here? What are they doing?