Li Xiuyuan saw someone asking him for advice, and he was happy to answer it.

It is a good thing that someone can ask for advice, which means that someone agrees with his point of view and understands himself, so how can he be stingy?

First of all, there is no fault in this sentence, and worshipping the gods and Buddhas will indeed be protected by the gods and Buddhas, but this does not mean that those who do not worship the gods and Buddhas will definitely suffer evil retribution. ”

"In fact, whether you ask God to worship the Buddha, or not to worship the Buddha, the person who should be disturbed by evil will not change because of this, just like a criminal who kills people, it is impossible because he has entered the temple and burned incense to protect him from being arrested by the government and not being beheaded and killed. ”

Li Xiuyuan glanced at the surrounding pilgrims and said: "All people who have ghosts in their hearts hope to make heavy incense offerings to eliminate their own calamities, such an idea is wrong in the first place, the real Bodhisattva and Buddha will not accept the worship of such people, and those who dare to accept their worship must not be the real Bodhisattva, nor the real Buddha, in my opinion, it should be the first class of evil spirits."

, pretending to be a Bodhisattva and a Buddha master, deceiving the people, and deceiving incense offerings. ”

"Then according to what this son said, burning incense and worshiping the Buddha is useless?" said the scholar who asked solemnly.

Although Li Xiuyuan's words are reasonable, his reasoning makes people feel like they are stuck in their throats, and it is easy to hurt the hearts of their believers, which is unacceptable to very devout believers.

Because to agree with his words is to deny one's own beliefs.

Li Xiuyuan saw the disgust of the pilgrims around him, he said with a smile: "No, burning incense and worshiping the Buddha is not useless, the reason why you burn incense and worship the Buddha is because you believe in the compassion of the Buddha and the goodness of the Bodhisattva, and then subconsciously learn that the Buddha and the Bodhisattva do some good things, such as releasing living beings, being kind and giving, not worrying with others, not having grievances and impulses with others, etc.

And so on, if you start to learn from the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and do that, then congratulations, you have been protected by the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. ”

"Somebody once asked a master, 'What is a Buddha?' The one who pointed to that person's heart and said, "This is a Buddha." ”

"It can be seen that having a good heart, this is the Buddha, you are good to the Buddha, and a person has a good heart, then there is a good thought to protect it, the ghosts and gods have to take a detour when they see it, and they dare not murder the evil spirits when they encounter it, so they will be protected by themselves. ”

All the pilgrims were silent when they heard this, and they could accept this truth, but they also disagreed for a while.

Because they still can't understand what Li Xiuyuan really means, and they still think that a Buddha is a Buddha, and they want to respectfully pay homage, how dare they regard themselves as Buddhas?

"Ridiculous, really ridiculous, then there is no Buddha in this world with such fallacies as you are? What is enshrined here is wood and stone? You are simply slandering my Buddha. ”

Fang Shengyu couldn't help but scold.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "No, there are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in this world, but they will not protect you because of your offerings, they protect goodness, and the reason why they leave a golden body in the temple is because they need the golden body to warn the world and wake up the world, lest some people do not believe in the Buddha and do not believe in the good retribution of goodness, so that they fall into evil and wanton delusion."

for, moral degradation. ”

This kind of truth is the same as the monk sitting down and leaving the golden body for the world to worship, the monk left the golden body is actually to prove the existence of the Buddha, the existence of practice, otherwise they can completely turn into a rainbow away, why leave a piece of skin and flesh to stay in the world. ”

"So why is there a saying in Buddhism called Buddha to cross the fate of the people, what is the fate of the people? The heart is good, can learn a little bit of the Buddha's compassion, this is the fate of the people, this kind of people can not fall into hell after death, do not suffer in the underworld, but the evil people have to suffer in the underworld because of the evil deeds in front of them, only after the sins are redeemed, they can be reincarnated again, and even some sins are great

Evil people don't even have the qualifications to be reincarnated as human beings, and the treatment of good people and bad people is so great, isn't it difficult enough?"

"It's just that the world is stupid, and they whitewash the true meaning of the Buddha without authorization, and they feel that they like gold and silver, and they think that the Buddha also likes gold and silver, so they build a golden body, and waste extravagance, and some people have good money, so they think that the Buddha is also rich, so they ask for money from pilgrims under the pretense of Buddha's will, and some people are greedy themselves, and they feel that the Buddha is also greedy, so every time they worship the Buddha, they need valuable incense......"

Li Xiuyuan shook his head when he said this: "It is obviously the greed of the world, but it is imposed on the Buddha, so that some temples are now smoky, these temples cannot attract the Bodhisattva to stop, and the Buddha Lord patronizes, but it has attracted demons and monsters to occupy the golden body, occupy the incense, and pretend to be the Buddha and the Bodhisattva." ”

After saying this, he saw that Fang Shengyu was blushing, and he wanted to refute but couldn't find anything that should be refuted.

His knowledge is not low, and the reason why he can't refute it is because Li Xiuyuan's words are indeed reasonable.

Moreover, among the pilgrims around him, those who have some understanding of the Dharma also feel that his words are in line with the original meaning of the Dharma, and there is no such thing as a heresy.

The Buddha stands in the temple, and he is compassionate and kind, in fact, he is making a gesture, so that the world can learn the Buddha's compassionate gesture and achieve the purpose of persuading people to be good.

"Husband, look, how could this be, the Buddha incense on the concubine's body can't be lit. At this time, Fang, who was worshipping the Buddha, prayed in his heart and prepared to offer incense to the Bodhisattva in front of him.

But I saw the best Buddha incense lit on the oil lamp, but it couldn't be lit anyway.

It was as if it was not Buddha incense burning on the oil lamp, but an iron rod.

"There is such a thing?" Fang Shengyu was taken aback and hurriedly took a closer look.

If this is the case, the Buddha incense really can't be lit.

He checked it, and there was no problem with the Buddha incense, it was neither fake nor damp, but when he put it on the oil lamp, it still couldn't light it.

"What's going on? Is it so hard that the words have already reached the ears of the Bodhisattva? Now that the Bodhisattva has appeared and is unwilling to accept the offerings of this female pilgrim?"

Wouldn't this son's words come true? They must have a ghost in their hearts, and even the Bodhisattva didn't respond to them. ”

"The Bodhisattva of Great Compassion has appeared. ”

Seeing such a scene, although it is only a trivial matter, but in this place of Buddhism, and it happened in this special period, how can it not arouse the reverie of the pilgrims, thinking that this is the result of the Bodhisattva's manifestation.

And they also felt that the female pilgrim in front of them must have done something bad, and now she was discovered by the Bodhisattva.

Immediately, many people looked at Fang Shi with wrong eyes, not thinking that Li Xiuyuan was blaspheming the Bodhisattva, but that this pilgrim himself was not clean, and even the Bodhisattva didn't want to accept your incense.

"Brother Li, how could this be, did you use the spell?" Zhang Bangchang saw such a scene, but he suspected that Li Xiuyuan had cast a spell, and asked in a low voice.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "The Xiangguo Temple in the capital is a pure land in my opinion, there are high monks here, and the Bodhisattva manifests, how can I cast spells indiscriminately in this kind of place, and my spells are rarely used on people, unless they are spells that can help people, rather than using spells to act recklessly, this is the character and ethics of a person who learns spells." ”

"It's not a spell you cast, so ......" Zhang Bangchang's face became a little solemn.

However, Fang Shengyu on the side seemed to hear a few words, and suddenly said sharply to Li Xiuyuan: "The Buddha incense can't be lit, it must not be because of my wife, maybe you secretly moved to slander my wife's reputation and innocence." ”

"In front of a full house of Bodhisattvas, Lord Fang, you wantonly slander others, this is not what a scholar should do, maybe the person who will be punished is not me, but you, my lord, because you are doing an evil thing. Li Xiu said from afar.

He felt that the incense couldn't be lit just now because the Bodhisattva here had appeared, you must know that this Xiangguo Temple is an unusual temple, he saw it when he came before.

It is not impossible for a bodhisattva to manifest.