Chapter 135: The True Buddha's Gate

"Fourth brother, you have been in retreat for a long time, how long have we not seen each other?"

"Yes, the last time the fourth brother and the eldest brother attended your funeral, the last time I saw you, and then you went into retreat, this time it's really long enough." Hi, the two elder brothers are going to make fun of me again, isn't this all because the younger brother is a monk halfway, and he relied on pills to practice in the early days, so the Dao heart is unstable, this is also because the younger brother had poor cultivation qualifications at that time, and he was too greedy for the help of the pill, but the more he cultivated in the later stage, the phenomenon of the Dao heart was more and more obvious, and the younger brother was afraid that he would leave any sequelae, so he completely broke away from the help of the pill and devoted himself to penance in these decades”

"Hey, I really like to listen to the words of the fourth brother, your third brother and I have indeed had a lot of adventures over the years, so this cultivation is well, hehe is naturally faster" "Oh, the younger brother has just come out of retreat, and the outside world is really not well understood, a few brothers don't buy it, tell the younger brother about it." How have you spent all these years, and have there been any new things in the cultivation world lately?"

"Big brother, will you come first?" Huang Mei said.

"Okay, then I'll throw bricks and lead the jade first, the fourth brother in the first few years of your retreat I have also been in retreat, but later went to participate in an Emei Golden Dome Conference met a monk from India, the two of us preached the scriptures and talked for a week, no one can convince anyone, you also know that the relationship between Indian Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism is very delicate, one is the birthplace of Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism is spread from India, one is an important sect of Buddhism that has formed its own system after local absorption, and spread its own Buddhism, the two can be said to have me, I have your shadow, of course, no one can convince anyone。

Finally, my brother I also personally followed him to India their ancient sect of the Belur Temple, although now Buddhism is not the mainstream in India, few people go to practice Buddhism, but after all, it is the birthplace of Buddhism, the ancients left countless days of scriptures, my brother I arrived there is also an eye-opener, there to study the scriptures for 10 years, I have to say, the harvest is really big, what I didn't know in the country before, there have been supplemented, the previous choice of only practicing Hinayana now seems to be incorrect, the exercises can not be completed at all, it should be good to practice both Hinayana and Hinayana at all。 ”

"Eh, big brother, let me interrupt, I don't seem to understand these professional terms you said, junior brother, can you talk about something interesting, for example, is there anything peculiar about this sect?

"Hehe, good for you fourth, don't worry, for my brother to say, just for my brother to study Buddhism in the tenth year, one morning for my brother to sit in the main hall like a mortal ready to recite the scriptures and Dharma, you also know that this is a compulsory course for monks, but at this time for my brother in the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha saw a shadow dressed in a white robe, with his back to the main hall, for his brother was very curious, so he followed, Xu is this person is also deliberate, will take the brother to the temple behind a piece of inaccessible stone forest and stop, for the brother to take a look, do not look do not know, look at the startled, this person has puffy hair and a beard in addition to the monk's robe is clean, The whole person gives people the feeling that he is unkempt and sloppy, but this person's cultivation is really unsure for a while, and the first glimpse of spiritual consciousness is at least the initial cultivation of the baby, so he hurriedly stepped forward to worship and see"

"You are the Buddhist monk that Aya brought from China?" "It's the senior, the younger generation is exactly" "Hehe, have you learned anything in the past ten years?" "A lot, a lot, the mystery of the Dharma is boundless" "It seems that there is some gain, but these are just drafts for later generations to copy the teachings of our ancestors and descendants, even if you study them carefully, it will not be of much use to us cultivators" "Dare to ask the seniors what they mean by this, aren't the children of my Buddhist family cultivators out of the world?"

"Hehe, it seems that your sect has not told you the truth, or you have never heard of it at all" "The seniors please make it clear, the younger generations are getting more and more confused" "Do you know that the world says that Buddhism originated more than 2,000 years ago, but what I want to tell you is that this is only relative to the secular disciples, but the history of Buddhist practice is probably much longer" "Ao, this junior is really the first time I have heard of it, and please ask the seniors to make it clear?"

"All the sects in this world are from the way of heaven, the ancients because of the pursuit of the way of heaven and each has their own understanding, so derived so many sects like stars, branches, and Buddhism is the same, but Buddhism did not pay much attention to the spread of the world, 3000 years ago, including my master is the same, only the disciples who are found to have the root of wisdom can practice will be drawn back to the sect to follow the practice, but later, with the Western believers believe that the mind is more beneficial to the interpretation of the Tao after the saying spread to India, my Buddhism began to embark on the move of gathering people from all over the world to believe in Buddhism, but at the beginning also took a lot of crooked roads and almost burned themselves"Senior, what do you mean?"

"There is still a force in this world that we cannot touch in control, at the beginning we recruited disciples, preached Buddhism to practice Buddhism, the pace was very big, and the entire Asian continent was listed as the backyard of my Buddhism, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, and the Shakyamuni sent to Middle-earth was bizarre in less than 10 years, you must know that at that time he was the cultivation of the great monk in the late Pei Ying period, and there are really not many people in the world who can hurt him, but later a number of Pei Ying monks who preached in India also died one after another, and the sect reacted that something may be wrong, and also sent someone to the West to see how their practices are different from oursThe news that came back was the same as we expected, at first a large number of high-level monks died, until the various sects hurriedly shouted to stop the spread of monasticism for mortals and only opened a secular sect that symbolized the surname of the doctrine to educate the world, so the scriptures that the world saw later were all changed by copying and changing only for mortals, the real mystery of Buddhism is only available in our Buddhist sects that have a long heritage, of course, there are also some of your sects in Middle-earth that have close contacts with us, but they are not complete, for example, Master Xuanzang came to us here 1000 years ago, and there is also the Four-Eyed Temple in NepalAt that time, we gave them some of the ancient Buddhist scriptures as gifts from afar. It can be regarded as a disguised support for the development of Buddhist culture in Middle-earth."

"Oh, it turns out that there is such a history, but the younger generation still doesn't understand, why do the seniors want to say this to the juniors? If you want to spread the Dharma of your own sect in Middle-earth with the cultivation of your predecessors, you can consult with the seniors of the Middle-earth Buddhism, and this junior is really confused?"

"Hehe, you still asked, let's be honest, the Buddhist monks of our level will not easily go to Middle Earth, and the Buddhist monks of this level of Middle Earth will not easily come to South Asia now, this is because 500 years ago we had a big fight because of the matter of the Buddha Holy Land in Tibetan Province, and there was a serious estrangement between the two sides, so there was an unwritten rule at that time that the high-level monks on both sides did not get each other's land to upload the law, of course, with the passage of time, although this rule is still routinely enforced, but after all, the world Buddhism is a family, and the interruption of high-level exchanges does not mean that the low-level monks can no longer contactI think I went to Shaolin Temple to visit the Buddhist monks of Middle Earth when I was not yet a condensed baby, and I also studied there for 20 years, just like what you are doing now, so I hope that what our generation can not accomplish will be realized in your generation, and sooner or later we will break this shackle, after all, Buddhism in the world is a family, and only when everyone works together will the teachings of Buddhism be truly carried forward. ”