Ye Chen sat down face to face with Master Liye, Master Liye made a pot of tea, poured two cups, and said, "It can be seen that the donor should be a cultivator, why did he come to the Western Regions?"

"Although there are differences in the world's avenues, they are also ever-changing, and in the final analysis, it is still the same word of the Dharma, so cultivating the Tao does not necessarily do not have access to the Dharma, and cultivating the Buddha does not necessarily have to do not touch the Dharma. Ye Chen said.

"Although the Tao of the world is all in the same Dharma word, there is a fundamental difference between the Buddha and the Tao, how to use fusion?" Master Liye looked at Ye Chendao.

"Whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, they are both products of Tao and Reason, and of course they can learn from each other. Ye Chen opened his mouth and said: "This is like this cup of tea, everyone will have a different feeling when they taste it, because everyone is an independent individual and has their own thinking, why follow a fixed thinking to do things?"

"There are many ways to do something, not necessarily just one, and not necessarily only one is the best. Ye Chen smiled slightly: "There are thousands of roads leading to the Western Regions, and the master of the industry can tell it, which one is the best?"

Master Liye was stunned for a while, and Ye Chen continued: "Every path may be good or bad, only those who have walked through it know that if you don't try, how can you know if it will work, but no matter whether this path is good or bad, you can lead to the Western Regions." ”

In the same way, whether we are practicing Buddhism or cultivating the Tao, we will be able to make ourselves understand more and become more powerful! This is our ultimate goal, and cultivating the Tao and cultivating the Buddha is only the way we go. ”

"Even if one road doesn't work, when the next road is still available, you can apply the experience of the previous road to this road. Therefore, whether it is the Tao or the Dharma, there is a place for integration, and everything is not absolute. ”

When Master Liye heard Ye Chen's words, his heart suddenly became enlightened, his hands folded, and he said, "The donor's words are like an initiation! The old man has studied Buddhism for so many years, and he has not yet come into contact with the true essence of the Tao, which is really ashamed." ”

Ye Chen smiled and said: "The master of karma has won the award, in fact, whether it is cultivating Buddha or cultivating the Tao, you should not rest on your laurels, it is a good thing to concentrate on cultivation, but a lot of the avenue of truth is outside, not in a room." ”

"The avenue is outside, not in a room...... "Master Ye suddenly opened.

Subsequently, Ye Chen and Master Liye talked about many topics, and Ye Chen asked, "Master, Buddhism believes in the afterlife, but do people really have an afterlife?"

"That's where you came from and where you're going. ”

"If there is an afterlife, then I am the afterlife of the previous life, and who am I in the previous life?" Ye Chen looked at Master Ye and said, "I don't even remember the things of the previous life, the current me, is it just me, or the afterlife of the previous life?"

Master Liye was stunned by Ye Chen's question, shook his head slightly, and said: "The old man's cultivation is too shallow to answer the donor's words, if the donor wants to know, he has to go all the way to the west and reach the Great Lei Yin Temple to ask the Buddha may be able to understand." ”

Ye Chen said goodbye to Master Ye and traveled west again.

After a long talk between Master Liye and Ye Chen, he resigned as the presiding officer of Hanshan Temple and embarked on the road of cultivation alone.

"Da Lei Yin Temple, the Buddha ......" Ye Chen looked to the west and muttered to himself.

Ye Chen walked all the way to the west, walked for a few days, and saw several temples, each of which was full of incense.

However, on this day, Ye Chen saw a dilapidated temple, the temple was ruined and broken, the stone platforms were covered with moss, and the courtyard walls were crawling with tree roots, a sense of dilapidation.

"All temples are full of incense, why is this temple so unbearable?" Ye Chen was puzzled, he walked into the temple, the temple's plaque had been crooked to the side, and the words on it were covered by creepers.

Ye Chen swept his hand and swept away the leaves, and there were three big characters on them - Tuolan Temple!

Ye Chen walked up the moss-covered steps, pushed open the broken door that was concealed, the door "creaked" and slowly opened, Ye Chen was worried that this door would shatter if he used a little force.

Ye Chen entered the temple, and there was no one to take care of it for a long time, and the grass grew and the warbler flew!

The whole temple was in a state of disarray, a dilapidated image. It was hard for Ye Chen to imagine that in this Western Regions, where Buddhism was prevalent, there would be such a dilapidated temple!

Ahem!

At this time, two coughing sounds came, and Ye Chen proceeded suddenly, only to see an old monk come out of a door and walk towards the main hall with his body bent.

Ye Chen was surprised, how could this old monk not even look at him? Could it be that he hadn't found him?

Ye Chen walked over and came to the main hall, which was covered with cobwebs and dust, and no one had taken care of it for many years, and the Buddha statues enshrined were all broken, and he couldn't even see his face.

Seeing this scene, Ye Chen was even more surprised, someone actually destroyed the Buddha statue, this is definitely a thing against the sky in the Western Regions, how could such a thing happen?

"Why do you want to destroy this Buddha statue, what kind of Buddha is this, and it needs to be destroyed?" Ye Chen's heart was full of doubts.

Then, Ye Chen's eyes fell on the old monk sitting on the futon in the main hall, and the old monk was motionless, sitting cross-legged.

"Old Zen Master......" Ye Chen called softly.

The old monk didn't move, and when Ye Chen was just about to shout again, Ye Chen saw that the old monk he saw just now was cleaning the hall.

Ye Chen's scalp tingled for a while, because he saw that no matter how the old monk swept it, the dust on the ground was motionless, which was obviously unreasonable.

"This is not a real human ......," Soul Elder said immediately.

Ye Chen was startled in his heart, and then strode towards the sitting monk, and when he saw the monk's face, Ye Chen's face changed.

The sitting monk was just a dried corpse, similar to the appearance of the monk sweeping the floor, Ye Chen set off a storm in his heart, and said to himself: "He's dead......

"The corpse is dead but not rotten, this old monk was amazing when he was alive, and after his death, he was able to make such a wish, manifesting everything he had said he had experienced. Soul Elder said in horror.

"This is just his footprints...... Ye Chen looked at the old monk sweeping the floor, with a lot of thoughts in his heart, in the Western Regions, where Buddhism was at its peak, this temple was dilapidated, but he still guarded it silently until he died of old age.

Even after he died of old age, he still guarded ......

Ye Chen made a big salute to the old monk with his hands together, no matter why this temple was dilapidated and didn't look at it, why it destroyed the Buddha enshrined, just the old monk's insistence was worthy of Ye Chen's admiration.

Ye Chen walked around the main hall, and there were no books such as Buddhist scriptures left here, but Ye Chen saw these four words on the stone platform where the Buddha statue was enshrined: the Buddha in the heart.

Ye Chen pondered what the four words "Buddha in the heart" meant, he looked at the destroyed Buddha statue, and said to himself: "Could it be that this Buddha statue is just the Buddha in his heart, not the Buddha that exists in this world." ”

Ye Chen looked at the Buddha statue for a long time, and finally shook his head, does such a temple still exist in the Western Regions? Is it just this temple?

If such a thing happened in the Western Regions, where Buddha cultivation was at its peak, no one would believe it when it was said, who would dare to attack the temple? That would definitely cause the anger of the entire Western Regions, even the four major races did not dare to step into the Western Regions even half a step at the beginning, let alone the human race in the human world.

"In the Western Regions, most temples enshrine either Amitabha Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, is it possible that in addition to these two Buddhas, other Buddhas are not allowed to be enshrined?" Ye Chen had seen many temples along the way, and there were only two Buddhas enshrined in the temples.

Either Amitabha Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, no exceptions. Everyone respects Amitabha Buddha and Shakyamuni Buddha, and no one will destroy their Buddha statues, so there is only one possibility, this temple respects other Buddhas.

Moreover, he is a Buddha who is not recognized by many believers in the Western Regions! Therefore, he will be destroyed.

"When the time comes, you can ask. Ye Chen walked out of the Tuolan Temple, took a breath, and looked back at the mottled and dilapidated temple, with an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

Ye Chen left the Tuolan Temple and continued all the way to the west, when he met a passer-by, he asked, "Excuse me, why is the Tuolan Temple in front so dilapidated?"

"Shhhh......hh ”

After the passer-by finished speaking, he hurriedly left, still babbling in his mouth, for fear that he would cause some trouble.

"It's a big taboo to talk about?" Ye Chen was even more puzzled when he heard this, what happened to make this matter a big taboo?

However, the more mysterious it was, the more Ye Chen wanted to figure it out in his heart.

Ye Chen continued to the west, and on the way, he saw a monk who walked on his feet, stepped forward and asked, "May I ask the Master, I saw a deserted temple in front of me, and the Buddhas enshrined were all destroyed, why is this?"

The monk immediately took a few steps back and chanted, "Amitabha......!

Ye Chen frowned and looked at the walking monk, the walking monk seemed to be making a confession, and then he spoke: "Donor, not from the Western Regions?"

Ye Chen nodded and said: "I have traveled all over the world, and when I came here, all I saw were the scenes of the prosperity of the temple, but the Nadolan Temple, which was dilapidated, was a little puzzled, and I hope that the master can solve the doubts." ”

The walking monk said: "In the future, don't mention the three words of Tuolan Temple in front of others, this is taboo." ”

"Why?" Ye Chen said.

The monk hesitated for a moment, recited the Buddha's name, and said: "The Buddha is not enshrined in the Tuolan Temple, but a different Buddha!"

The more Ye Chen listened, the more confused he became, what kind of Buddha is a different Buddha?

The walking monk looked at Ye Chen's confusion and said, "In short, you can't talk about it, Amitabha, say goodbye......"