The heavens start with Buddhist disciples

Chapter 80 The Other Side
When Ji Ran proposed the four eternal fixations, he felt as if he had entered a dream. There was nothingness in front of him, and in a blink of an eye, it transformed into the starry sky. In the starry sky, there seemed to be a giant Buddha sitting in the past, eternal and motionless, with wisdom and kindness. , courage, kindness, compassion and all the light are known here.

Inadvertently, the Buddha appeared in front of Ji Ran in the form of an ordinary person and asked: "What is eternity?"

Ji Ran replied: "The past is self-perpetuating and will not become eternal, the present is self-perpetuating and will not be eternal, and the future will be self-perpetuating and will not be eternal."

Buddha asked: "Why have you come?"

Ji Ran replied: "I came here for the Dharma."

The Buddha asked again: "What is Buddha? What is Dharma."

Ji Ran thought for a while and said: "The origin of everything is Buddha, and the cause and condition of everything is Dharma. There is no Dharma that does not arise from causes and conditions. Therefore, all Dharmas are empty. Dependent origination is the emptiness of nature, and emptiness of nature is dependent origination."

Buddha asked: "Why?"

Ji Ran replied:
“One, self-existence, that is, it has its own immutability and cannot be changed by changes in the outside world.”

"[-]. Uniqueness shows that it is unchangeable and does not wait for causes and conditions. The Dharma is discovered due to conditions. But before discovery, the Dharma already exists. It is not because of the conditions that the Dharma exists. It is because of the conditions that it has never been discovered. The method of discovery is discovered.”

"[-]. Permanence, indicating the eternity in time. The Dharma has permanence, just like the four eternal stipulations. It is self-promising and unchangeable."

"It is said that although conditioned dharma all arises from conditions, it does not lose its self-determination and mutual use, so the Dharma arises from conditions."

The Buddha said: "Shan, you have obtained the Dharma, but you don't know what the name of this Dharma is?"

Ji Ran replied: "My disciples call it Mahayana Buddhism."

The Buddha nodded and said: "Since there is Mahayana Buddhism, there must also be Hinayana Buddhism. What is the difference between them?"

Ji Ran replied: "Mahayana and Hinayana are a metaphor. In layman's terms, they are like crossing a river by boat. Hinayana prefers to cross by oneself and seek self-liberation."

"The Mahayana not only crosses the river by itself, but also crosses others and saves all sentient beings. I hope that through the spirit of the Mahayana, the world can be influenced, and everyone will become a Buddha, and everyone will be a Mahayana. In this way, the Mahayana of the world will reach the other side."

"Therefore, there are precepts, compassion and education. All living beings are struggling in the sea of ​​suffering, so why bother with each other, including different believers, and why insist on unification. When we are struggling to cross the sea of ​​suffering, we should help each other, care for each other, and tolerate each other. To avoid the world's All violence and inequality, the world will be better, and the other side will be right in front of us."

The Buddha said: "Good, you should be the source of Mahayana Buddhism in this world. Fight to cross the sea of ​​suffering. The other shore is at your feet. Go and go."

After that, Ji Ran seemed to wake up from a dream at the end of the night.There is also an additional palm technique in my mind called "Heavenly Buddha Comes to the World".

When Ji Ran opened his eyes, Mahakasyapa and Ananda looked at him and asked, "Friends, have you realized something?"

Ji Ran nodded and said: "I seemed to be traveling in the universe and the stars and met the Buddha. I even discussed Dharma and sutras with the Buddha. In the end, the Buddha said that I can be the source of Mahayana Buddhism in this world."

Mahakassapa was surprised when he heard this and asked: "Is the Mahayana Dharma what the Buddhist friends said during the previous debate on the sutra?"

Ji Ran nodded.

Mahakassapa asked again: "What about the content of the debate between Buddhist friends and the Buddha? Can we learn it?"

Ji Ran said: "I heard the details..."

Yan Dan and Hu Hai also listened carefully to Ji Ran's story. Of course, Ji Ran did not copy his previous conversation with the Buddha. He didn't even know if it was the Buddha or where he had just been.

At this time, Ji Ran borrowed the name of the Buddha to select some of the essence of the many Buddhist principles she had learned in the Shaolin Temple in her previous life, such as the "Sixth Patriarch Altar Sutra", "Mahayana Lotus Sutra", "Prajna Paramita" "Mita Heart Sutra" and other Mahayana classics.

Mahakasyapa and Ananda were also astonished, and were fascinated by what they heard. In the blink of an eye, 18 days had passed.

Ji Ran's conversation with the Buddha under the bodhi tree seemed to be very short, but in fact 18 days had passed.

After a total of 36 days, Maha Kasyapa said to Ji Ran: "People in the world call me the first ancestor of Hinayana Buddhism, and the source of the small Buddha. You should be the first ancestor of Mahayana Buddhism, and the source of Mahayana Buddha."

Mahakasyapa's words also spread through every temple in the Mauryan Dynasty through the monks of Nalanda Temple.

This is because Ji Ran drew on the words of the previous monk Nagarjuna and many Buddhist sages to interpret Mahayana Buddhism, but he did not comprehend and summarize it himself.Therefore, his level of cultivation has not improved. He is still a half-step grand master. He is only one layer of window paper away from the grand master, but this layer of paper cannot be pierced.

After that, Ji Ran stayed in the Calliopeia Double Tree Garden and practiced Zen and attained Taoism for three years.

Although Ji Ran obtained a palm technique in the last conversation with the Buddha, Ji Ran believes that everything is based on equal exchange, even if there is no return, there will be no unwarranted gifts. "All gifts have already been marked with prices in the dark."

So Ji Ran condensed the memory related to this palm technique and the artistic conception he felt into a mini Buddha, and then used the seal of sleep to seal it in the colorful stone, so that the artistic conception brought by the palm technique and the magic soul of the palm could be combined. Intention, kill each other.

In the past three years, Hu Hai and Yan Dan also seemed to have put aside their cruelty and obsession.However, nature is easy to change, especially the pleasure brought by cruelty is like a drug addiction, and it is not so easy to give up.How can it be so easy to let go of the seven hardships in life?

Ji Ran was still sitting quietly under the Bodhi tree that day, and a violent transformation was taking place in his snow mountain aura.The true qi that was originally active in the lower dantian was all condensed in the middle dantian, and with the operation of the whole body's power, the zhenqi in the middle dantian became more and more thick, and the whole middle dantian seemed to be bursting.

There was also a trace of sweat on Ji Ran's forehead.I don't know how long it took, but the originally invisible and qualityless Qi turned into wisps of clouds and mist. The wisps of clouds and mist became more and more intense, and finally formed a drop of transparent liquid like the thickest nectar.

At this time, Ji Ran breathed a sigh of relief, and the energy in his body slowly began to liquefy.

In another three years, the zhenqi in Ji Ran's whole body had been liquefied. Ji Ran gave this liquefied zhenqi a name, Zhenyuan.Ji Ran first condensed all her true energy in the Sea of ​​Qi and Snow Mountain, and kept hitting the outer wall of the Sea of ​​Qi and Snow Mountain. Finally, when the Sea of ​​Qi and Snow Mountain couldn't bear it anymore, she condensed into one with her powerful spirit, just as she saw when talking with the Buddha. All the explosions in the universe converge at one point.

Eventually, this point transformed and formed a water-blue vortex. By controlling the speed of the vortex, the speed of the real energy around the body can be controlled.Ji Ran calls it Qi Yuan.

Just when Ji Ran succeeded in condensing Qi Yuan, the illusion of vast and boundless purple energy seemed to appear in front of his eyes.He seemed to be in a chaotic void, with ink, black and white colors chaotically intertwined in his eyes, without any order.

In a moment, the purple avenue extended from the distance to his feet in this chaotic void.An old man riding a bull came slowly and calmly from the end of the road.

When Ji Ran saw this, he stood up and saluted and said: "The disciples of the later school have met the ancestor."

The old man riding the bull looked at Ji Ran and said with a smile: "It's so scary that he actually restored most of the "Supreme Goodness Like Water" that I left behind. But it seems that it only has the changes of yin and yang and lacks the cycle of the five elements. Why is this? "

Ji Ran said to the old man: "Master, after you left Hangu Pass, Taoism split into the Yin-Yang family due to different ideas. The Yin-Yang family upholds the rotation of Yin and Yang and the five virtues."

"Unfortunately, the Tao is too profound and obscure, and eventually Taoism split into the Heavenly Sect and the Human Sect. The disciples combined Mahayana Buddhism to create Zen, which is also a branch of Taoism."

The old man nodded and said: "The Tao is inherently inactive, and the deliberate pursuit of orthodoxy has led to a lower level. I see that the Buddhist aura in you is originally pure and rich, but why does it tend to dissipate?"

Ji Ran said: "The disciple once met the Buddha, and he once taught him a palm. However, the disciple was not a disciple of Buddhism in this world, so he did not dare to learn it. Therefore, he used his palm to suppress the evil intention he was infected with, and let the two consume each other. .”

The old man said: "Only by having no desire can you get its beauty. If you can do this, you have also gained the essence of the Taoism. Then I don't know what the old Taoist taught you, how dare you learn it?"

Ji Ran saluted and said: "I respectfully invite the ancestor to teach me the Dharma. I am a direct descendant of Taoism. So why should I worry about learning the Dharma from my ancestor?"

The old man stroked his beard and laughed and said: "Let him listen to this, I'm afraid he will come back to the mortal world to teach you a lesson. The difference in treatment is too obvious."

Ji Ran awkwardly smoothed the blue hair on his forehead and said: "This disciple originally wanted to promote Mahayana Buddhism in the nine states of this world, but it was out of his true intention, not because of the deal with the Buddha. He came to find the Buddha also to confirm himself. The Dharma I have learned. Therefore, the two parties have nothing to owe each other."

The old man looked at Ji Ran carefully for a while and said: "Shan, I think you seem to have practiced an incomplete method of soul visualization, and there are hidden dangers in it. If you talk about it, maybe the old Taoist has a solution."

Ji Ran was overjoyed and said to the old man: "I heard the details..."

The old man pondered for a moment and said: "The dynamic starry sky view you envisioned can indeed condense the Tai Chi power of the sun and lunar fusion. However, if you want to swallow the demon soul, you need to crush the starry sky, just like crushing the heaven and earth, and reversely restore it to One. Only in this way will everything in the starry sky and heaven and earth become one with you.”

"Just like what you did in the Sea of ​​Qi and Snow Mountain, if it wasn't condensed into one, you wouldn't be able to integrate multiple techniques into yourself. Now that you have one, you seem to have mastered the techniques of the five elements, and you can also try the five elements and five internal organs. The one that condenses the correspondence.”

Ji Ran thought for a moment and said to the old man: "Thank you, Patriarch, for pointing out the way forward."

The old man smiled heartily and said: "The Tao is inaction. What I came here to do is just because I saw some possibilities in you. We will still meet one day in the future."

After saying that, everything disappeared, the chaos exploded to separate Yin and Yang, and the Tai Chi cycle gave rise to all things.In the end, Ji Ran was like watching the birth of the entire universe and the starry sky. The huge impact of information made Ji Ran faint even though her thoughts were so powerful.

This sleep turned out to be a hundred days.A hundred days later, what Ji Ran saw was Hu Hai who was taking good care of him.Ji Ran nodded happily and said to Hu Hai, "It seems you have really changed."

The deceased died like this, and three years have passed.This is already the ninth year that Ji Ran has come to the Double Tree Garden.That is 197 BC.In the past three years, Ji Ran did not directly practice the Five Elements technique, but at the same time condensed the Five Elements true energy vortex.Because Ji Ran understands that if you want to support the rotation of the five elements, you must first have a good body.

Ji Ran, who is now 68 years old, is obviously not as full of vitality as young people, although he still looks like he is in his 30s.In the past three years, Ji Ran used a large number of medicinal materials to supplement and temper her body, and also used three 500-year-old sun-returning flowers taken from the Shushan Underground Palace.

Finally, in recent days, Hunyuan Taoist cultivation has been completed, and the Qi and Blood Deficiency Pill has been condensed in the lower Dantian. Just like the water-blue vortex of the Qi Sea Snow Mountain, there is also a blood-red vortex in the lower Dantian, which Ji Ran calls it. Jingyuan.

After Qi Yuan and Jing Yuan were successfully condensed, Ji Ran also had the idea of ​​leaving.Ji Ran looked at the twin bodhi trees in her eyes and murmured: "The two trees are withered and flourishing, north, south, west and east, neither false nor empty!"

Then he turned to Yan Dan and Hu Hai and said: "The purpose of our trip to the west has been basically completed. The last thing left is to find the seeds of several crops and bring them back. With these seeds, even if the scene of the war between the Seven Kingdoms is reproduced, The people of the world will also be able to live.”

After saying goodbye to Mahakasyapa, Ji Ran also asked about information about crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and peppers.

After some investigation, Mahakasyapa found that there were large stocks of seeds of these three crops in the farmhouses near the royal city, so Ji Ran also took out a lot of gold from the system space and purchased dozens of cubic meters. Mi's seeds and even Ji Ran took out some weapons and classics in the space and asked Yan Dan and Hu Hai to carry them on their backs.

Half a month later, although he was reluctant to leave, Mahakassapa personally saw Ji Ran away from the royal city, and asked Ananda to see Ji Ran off for a hundred miles before returning to Nalanda Temple.

On the way back, Ji Ran also started his third step of cultivation, which was the cultivation of the soul.Now that Ji Ran has completed the "Superior Goodness Like Water Jue", regardless of her resilience or the degree of condensation of her true energy, she can further advance her spiritual practice.

之前姬冉虽然观想了周天星辰并测量定立了三垣四象28宿共计360五主星。其中可分为三垣主星140颗，28星宿主星225颗。但是他只点亮了其中的太阴星与太阳星，其余主星并没有足够的真气来滋养供给。

The first thing Ji Ran started to light up was the Canglong Qisu in the East. After all, the Canglong Qisu is a huge secret that runs through the entire world. It may have some extraordinary divine will, so Ji Ran took the lead in lighting up the first star in the East, Spica.

It takes Ji Ran about seven to ten days to light one, and the further it goes, the slower it becomes.Finally, three years later, when the three returned to Da Qin, Ji Ran barely managed to light up a total of 48 main stars of Dongfang Canglong.

Among them, the number of main stars are: 11 hornwood dragons, 7 Kangjin dragons, 4 Ditu raccoon dogs, 8 room sun rabbits, 9 Xinyue foxes, 6 tail fire tigers, and 3 Ji water leopards.

After all 48 main stars of Dongfang Qinglong were lit up, Ji Ran also felt that there seemed to be a misty coolness falling from the heavenly palace, and finally fell into the starry sky of her own sea of ​​consciousness.Echoing the Eastern Canglong.

And this cool force is also full of vitality. Even his body seems to be irrigated by rainwater like dry land. The inner deficit is slowly being replenished, and the essence is changing from the dark red at the beginning to bright red.

During the three years of returning home, Ji Ran also understood his current state. If the three vortexes were compared to the three flowers, as long as the three were combined into one, he should be able to reach the legendary golden core state.But after all, his three flowers are different from those recorded in the classics. Ji Ran also tried to separate one strand of each for fusion.

Unfortunately, the result made Ji Ran very unwilling. The three were mutually exclusive, but once the fusion began, the three-dimensional vortex was like three power sources, continuously promoting the fusion of the three. Ji Ran even put herself in order to interrupt the fusion. Seriously injured.

Because he found that with the fusion of the three, his internal strength, energy, blood and even soul were rapidly dissolving. Ji Ran guessed that when the three merged into one, it would also be the moment of his death.

However, Ji Ran thought in her heart: "Can I give it a try when I am about to leave this world? Even if I die, it will be a good process of creating magic."

If Ji Ran hadn't severely injured herself before, there wouldn't be an obvious deficit in her body now.Fortunately, the breakthrough in spiritual cultivation provided a solution to this shortfall.

When Ji Ran walked along the road to Dunhuang, he was surprised to find that there was a majestic pass in Dunhuang, which was the famous Yumen Pass in later generations.The Shadow Secret Guard had already sent a message to Ying Zheng when Ji Ran passed through Yumen Pass.

In 194 BC, after 16 years, Ji Ran completed his westward journey and returned to Luoyang, the capital of Qin. Today, Xianyang is no longer the capital of Qin, but the Western Capital, the capital of Da Qin. It has been moved to Luoyang after Ji Ran proposed Luoyang.

If Luoyang can be said to be the largest city in the world.There is a poem praising:
"Xiyu clears the upper suburbs, Kaiyun shines on the middle county. You Xuanyue Danju, Huizhuji County Hall."

"Soaring high into the flying couplets, chasing Yan and starting a flowing banquet. The elegant garden contains a group of spirits, and the rock garden hides things."

"The city of God is bright and shining, and the beauty is as beautiful as Huadian. The eyes are far away and the love is deep, and the love and kindness are everywhere."

Outside Luoyang City, Ying Zheng's eyes turned red when he saw Ji Ran. It was as if a child left at home finally met his parents who had gone out to work and had not returned for a long time.

Ji Ran also saw Ying Zheng today. Ying Zheng was 65 years old and had white hair. He looked older than Mr. Ji Ran.

Ying Zheng left the civil and military ministers behind, walked towards Ji Ran excitedly, and then gave him a big bear hug, completely ignoring the so-called imperial majesty, because seeing Ji Ran alive was the happiest thing in Ying Zheng's heart.

The moment he hugged Ji Ran, he seemed to remember the time when Ji Ran held him in the mountains and forests and cooked barbecued game for him.Although he is now the lord of the world, the game is still the most delicious food he has ever eaten in his life.

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