Chapter 198: True Enlightenment Monk (1st Update)
All the way east. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Shepherd doesn't know how many days I've been flying.
When he estimated that he had reached the eastern border of Dong'an, Mu Yu stopped driving the Qingfeng boat.
Kneeling on a rock, Mu Yu drank a few sips of high-grade wood attribute spiritual liquid to replenish the spiritual power in the dantian.
"Well, I leave this time, and I don't know what year and month it will be when I return to Dong'an next time. Mu Yu sighed lightly, and a trace of sentimentality and nostalgia appeared in his heart.
The wanderer left home and traveled abroad, and his feelings for his hometown and homeland, whether he was a mortal or an immortal cultivator, felt the same way.
"Men are determined in all directions, and so should my generation of immortal cultivators!" Mu Yu said secretly, after a short rest, he got up, and with one step, he disappeared into the Qingfeng boat.
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This year, Mu Yu sailed east at the age of twenty-two.
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Xiling Kingdom, located in the easternmost part of the Lingnan region, is also rumored to be the country closest to Lingbei.
In the entire Lingnan region, except for the three largest countries...... No, now the two largest countries......
There are also a number of small countries, with populations ranging from millions to tens of thousands, most of which are in the wilderness, and there are even some tribal states with backward civilizations that still live primitive lives.
Nowadays, the most powerful country is the Wuzhao Kingdom, the secular son of heaven is young and promising, working hard, and joining hands with the five major sects to annex part of the territory of the Dong'an Kingdom......;
Moreover, it is Xiling Kingdom.
This country is a country of faith, and the people of the whole country all believe in Buddhism, worship the Buddha of the Great World, and have countless large and small Buddha sects. Among these Buddhist sects, Huayan Sect, Zhenjue Sect and Sha Sect are the most powerful, all of them are three-grade sects, and there are countless vassal Buddhist sects, which are the real rulers of Xiling Kingdom.
There is no army in Xiling Kingdom, and every family does not close their doors at night, you can see that there are often a large number of people, with a smile, humbly asking each other about Buddhism, or because of a verse, and the face of the argument is red, but how to do not do it, or the crowd of people, into the Buddhist hall to worship the Buddha of the world.
Thanks to the unique climate, Xiling country belongs to the tropics, crops are ripe four times a year, do not worry about food and clothing, there is a lot of leisure time every day, and people use this leisure time, will go to various Buddhist hall construction sites to do free help, or bored in the Buddhist hall, singing scriptures.
This is a country full of faith and vitality, and the crime is extremely low, basically every three or five years, it only happens, and this one is done by people from other countries......
The people of Xiling believe that the good will fly to the Pure Land of Western Bliss after death, and stay by the side of the Great World King Buddha for a long time, so as to obtain eternal life, while those who are sinful will go to the hell after death and suffer eternal painful torment.
Stepping into this pure land, looking at the groups of believers who folded their hands and recited the scriptures as they passed in front of the pastor, he paused for a moment to feel the difference.
Although the people of Xiling believe in Buddhism, not everyone can become a monk.
According to the assessment standards of the secular world, one must reach a certain level of Buddhism before he can be selected for the monastery and study orthodox Buddhism for five years. After the expiration of the period, after a round of assessment, you will become a monk and enter the Buddha hall to do miscellaneous work. And this is almost a waste of nearly thirty years of an ordinary person's time.
Lay people who are not qualified to become monks must follow the decree of the king Buddha, marry a wife and have children, so as to accumulate merit in the world, otherwise, it will anger the king Buddha and the soul will not be sublimated after death.
Walking through the streets of Moro City, the sun hung high in the sky, and the scorching sunlight sprinkled with scorching sunlight, which made the void slightly distorted, and even the wind carried a hint of heat.
Mu Yu paused, tilted his head, and saw that in an alley, in front of a ruined temple, there were no less than 300 believers around, with their hands folded, their eyes wide open, and they listened carefully to the words of an old monk in front of the broken door.
This old monk is wearing a yellow Buddhist robe, slightly shabby, with seven or eight patches on it, with a peaceful and upright atmosphere, and a virtuous monk's fan.
"Monk of the foundation building period......" The pastor whispered, he hesitated slightly, then walked to the old monk of the broken temple and the three hundred believers, and listened with his ears.
ā...... When the Buddha was in the Acropolis, a poor farmer lived near the Gida Garden on the outskirts of the city. Every day, the farmer prepares the tools for planting and gets up to work in the field. Every noon, because the field was some distance from home, his wife brought lunch to the field and the two of them ate together.
They often saw the Buddha and his monks dressed in clothes and bowls, going back and forth in the city. Every time the farmer saw it, he always felt indescribable joy in his heart and exclaimed: "Incredible! The Buddha is so solemn, and there are so many monks, all of them are full of majesty!"
Once, the farmer and his wife said to each other, "We are so poor in this life, we must not have done any good karma in our previous life, if we don't make alms, we will be even more pitiful in the next life, what should we do?"
The wife said, "There are no offerings at home, but the offerings are not about how much, as long as you make a small offering to the World-Honored One with a pure heart, the merit is great." Therefore, in order not to be so poor in this life and in the next, we should provide for the World-Honored One well. The farmer happily agreed. So the wife went back to prepare the most exquisite food in the house, and prepared to make offerings to the Lord tomorrow morning.
The next morning the couple took the offerings they had prepared to the field, where they waited for the Buddha to come and make offerings.
At this time, the Lord observed that the opportunity to educate the farmer was ripe, so he came to the priest with a bowl in his clothes.
When the farmer and his wife saw the Lord approaching from afar, they immediately ran to greet him and prayed, "Will the Lord accept our offerings?" After the offering was completed, the Lord observed their root mechanism and taught them the Dharma, and then returned to the Gida Garden.
The couple then made a vow in the field: "To provide for the good roots of the World-Honored One, that we will no longer suffer from poverty from now on, and that all the crops of our fields will be golden." ā
As soon as he made his vow, the merit of his pure heart offering and the incredible blessings of the Buddha turned the farmer's fields and crops into gold. When the husband and wife saw it, they were so happy that they didn't know what to do.
At this time, Hyunhui's wife said to the farmer, "The wish of turning the fields into gold has really come true." However, we had better ask for the permission of the Sakya King, otherwise, we may not be able to enjoy the gold. It is better for you to go to the palace and give the king a piece of gold. So the farmer went to the king's palace and told the king about the turning of the fields into gold.
At first, the king did not believe it, and at the suggestion of the farmer, he reluctantly sent a man to investigate, but the man sent by the king, seeing only ordinary fields and no gold, went back to tell the king.
"Your Majesty, please see for yourself that our fields have really turned into gold. And the peasant prayed.
The king thought for a moment and asked the farmer, "Have you made great good fortune, or have you come across a very special blessed field?"
The farmer replied, "I have come across a very special fortune field." Then the king was convinced, and went with the farmer into the field.
The king himself went to the fields and observed that it was true that the land had turned into gold. The farmer immediately offered a piece to the king, and the king looked at it carefully, and thought it was very strange, so he asked the farmer, "What is the cause of this kind of good fortune?"
"It was obtained at noon after we made offerings to the Buddha and made a sincere vow. The farmer replied truthfully.
When the Sakya king heard this, he told the farmer, "Don't worry, this is the merit of your own vows, and you can enjoy the blessings you have received." However, I want you to make generous offerings and generosity, which is very important!"
The farmer thought to himself, "What the king says makes sense." The current wealth is all due to the blessings of the World-Honored One, and I should repay the Buddha's kindness and make offerings to the Buddha. ā
So, for three months, the farmer made offerings to the Buddha and the monks with food and many other things, and the Lord spoke the Dharma for him. After hearing the Dharma, the farmer destroyed the Sakya with his wisdom and attained the pre-flowing fruit position. Later, he became a monk before the World-Honored One, kept the pure bhikshu vows, worked bravely, and finally, destroyed the afflictions of the Three Realms and became an arhat. ā
The old monk of the broken temple closed his speech, and everyone was already fascinated by it.
In the crowd, one person raised his arm, broke through the temple, and the old monk gave a salute and asked, "May I ask the Grand Master, is the peasant you spoke of just now the Great World King Buddha who was worshiped for wealth?
"This Buddhist scripture story, in fact, has a meaning to tell us, people, in fact, are born to be stubborn, children still have to form a temper and character the day after tomorrow, my Buddha is broad-minded, has the feelings of accepting all rivers and rivers, purifying all sentient beings, tempering stubborn people, guiding them in the right direction, is the merit of my Buddha, but also the creation of mortals. The Buddha said: Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground, that's exactly what happened. The old monk of the broken temple smiled kindly, put his palms together, and recited a sentence of Amitabha.
Everyone realized that they bowed their heads and recited the Buddha's name.
On the side, Mu Yu shook his head and smiled, this old monk can really talk nonsense, how can the land be turned into gold? Even a monk can't do it.
When everyone dispersed, Mu Yu was about to leave, but a calm voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "This donor, please stay." ā
Mu Yu frowned, glanced over, looked at the old monk of the broken temple, and didn't see how fast he was, just took a few steps, and stood in front of him.
The pupils of the pastoral language shrank, and although the old monk cast it was not an ancient magic power of "shrinking the ground into inches", it was also a very profound speed spell.
"The old man is not guilty, he is a disciple of the True Awakening Sect, may I ask why the donor laughed just now?" the innocent old monk asked kindly. (To be continued.) )