Tongtian Bamboo Repair

Chapter 335 The True Buddhist

A dozen people died at once, but there were still a dozen people left. The monk who selected the person listened for a moment, and then said to the remaining monks: "Now you enter the alchemy room to pay homage to the master."

Everyone was driven into the alchemy room and saw the aloof Patriarch Black Lotus and Heng Shiqi who was silent on the side.

Patriarch Black Lotus glanced at these people and said calmly: "Everyone sit next to them and don't make any sound."

Everyone obeyed the order and quickly found a corner to sit down cross-legged, waiting for the next order from Master Black Lotus. However, Patriarch Black Lotus stopped talking and closed his eyes in deep thought.

No one dared to speak, so they could only wait. The fire in the alchemy furnace next to it was strong, slightly lighting up the area. A quarter of an hour later, Heng Shiqi, who was fanning the fire, threw a few pieces of dark wood-like objects into the fire room, which silenced him again.

In the entire alchemy furnace, there was only the sound of the fire burning quietly, and the world seemed to be quiet.

In this environment, people become lazy and sleepy. The same was true for Magu sitting in the corner. She gradually felt sleepy, and then fell asleep in a daze...
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  There was a soft sound of 'pop', and Magu suddenly woke up. But before she could recover, she heard a burst of laughter. Then, she heard a gentle but serious voice: "Jingwen, you are distracted again. Today you stay and recite the Yanhua Sutra loudly ten times."

Hearing this unfamiliar language, Magu didn't feel anything wrong. Instead, she immediately thought: "Oops, the Yanhua Sutra is very long. It takes a long time to recite it ten times... and you won't be able to make it in time for lunch..."

"No...I just lost my mind...What was I thinking about just now?"

"Um……"

Magu, no, Jingwen should have thought about it for a while. He didn't have any clues, but the lecturer looked over again. He didn't dare to be distracted anymore, so he quickly sat upright and looked at the scriptures in front of him seriously.

The sutra in front of him is "The Tathagata Speaks of the Maha-Hamata Sutra". This is the latest sutra he has learned, and it is the first major sutra he came into contact with after he was promoted from the minor sutra class to the major sutra class. The Great Sutra is different from the Small Sutra. The Small Sutra mainly talks about Buddhist principles, while the Great Sutra contains not only Buddhist principles but also Buddhist teachings. If you don't study the small sutras well, it means that the Buddhist principles are not deep at most. If you don't study the big sutras well, it means that the Dharma is not manifest, and you may become an inferior monk in the future.

‘Damn it, how could you be so distracted during the Sutra class? The practice is still not deep enough...' Jingwen thought this, but quickly shook off such distracting thoughts and wanted to enter a calm mind.

But the more he acted like this, the more confused the thoughts in his heart became. Finally, after a loud sound. The master lecturer stood up and left, and everyone hurriedly stood up to see the master off. The lecturer nodded and said to them: "Let's all go and have a meal, but Jingwen must recite the Yanhua Sutra ten times before he can go."

Jingwen said a dejected 'yes'. The other classmates and monks laughed quietly and then left together. The dining hall is far away. If you arrive late, you may not even be able to drink hot soup.

Only Jingwen continued to sit where he was and began to recite the Yanhua Sutra loudly. He didn't dare to cheat because the first precept of Buddhism is 'Don't lie', which means you can't tell lies. The consequences of breaking the law are much more serious than starving yourself.

After he finished reciting the "Yanhua Sutra" ten times, he hurried to the dining hall. When I arrived at the dining hall, I saw that the lay people were already cleaning. His heart felt cold. Is it true that he still couldn't catch up with the meal?

The laws of the Damani Temple are strict, and the time for serving meals is also extremely strict. It is a basic rule not to wait until after the meal is over. No one would leave food for a little monk like Jingwen. Jingwen was very disappointed. He could only return to the monk's room hungry. At this time, some monks were already taking their lunch break.

The Mahamani Temple has the habit of taking a lunch break, and it is a mandatory lunch break. Every day, the monks are required to either meditate or sleep for half an hour. If you don't take a lunch break without a valid reason, you will break the precept again.

Jingwen had no choice but to take a lunch break while hungry, but he couldn't sleep due to hunger. When he was about to fall asleep, his lunch break was over again!

This state made him very uncomfortable, and in the afternoon he had to do physical exercises, which was very tiring!
  This is how cultivation is, if you make a mistake, you will make a mistake every step of the way. If you don’t eat at noon, you will be powerless in the afternoon. Don't sleep at noon and collapse in the afternoon. Throughout the afternoon, Jingwen was in a weak state, so he was scolded by the body-training master and became the laughing stock of his classmates.

After finally staying up until the evening, Jingwen finally had dinner. After dinner, it’s evening class again. There is no master’s supervision in evening class, it all depends on self-consciousness. Everyone chanted and studied sutras individually. When the time is up, everyone will return to the monk's room, then wash up and go to bed.

At dawn the next day, the morning bell rang, and everyone got up again, followed by morning classes, which ended with breakfast. Then comes the main class, which ends with lunch.

The life of a monk is so monotonous and repetitive. There's nothing we can do about it. Starting from the age of ten, the minor sutra class lasts five years and the major sutra class lasts three years. After reaching the age of eighteen, they will be assigned to various branches based on performance. The best performer enters the Bodhi Temple, the second best enters the Bodhi Temple, the second performer enters the Vajra Institute, and the third one enters the Five Directions Jungle.

It is good to be able to enter the three courtyards, because the three courtyards are places for studying Buddhism. After entering, ignore the clutter and just practice. There will be a temple to support you.

But entering the Five Directions Jungle is not so good. The Five Directions Jungle is a general term, and it is mainly responsible for various chores. The operation of the Great Mani Temple depends on the monks in the Five Directions Jungle. However, this is a place where real work is done. It is not as quiet as the Third Courtyard. Naturally, there is not so much time to practice, and there is no way to get free support from the temple. You need to work hard for the temple.

Jingwen's goal is naturally to go to the Third Academy, but according to his current situation, he may only be able to enter the Five Directions Jungle... He is somewhat discouraged, but he has no choice, because every time he wants to study the scriptures quietly, At times, he was full of distracting thoughts and could not meditate at all.

If you cannot meditate, you will naturally not be able to study the scriptures well. The master who gave the lecture said that this state was very dangerous and that there was a risk of becoming possessed by demons. The truly superior monks are able to calm their minds and not be contaminated by any external things, but pure hearing does not have this talent...

In this way, Jingwen struggled year after year. He couldn't meditate well, so he spent a lot of time on the scriptures. Since his talent was not enough, he worked hard to make up for it. But even so, he still had poor grades.

This kind of result is the worst, because in the previous step, it was the glory of being admitted to the Third Academy, and in the next step, it was sinking in the jungle of the five directions.

Until one day, he got a 'forbidden book'.

It is not entirely correct to say that it is a banned book. This is not a book, it can only be regarded as a personal notebook, but the content in the notebook is a bit shocking. The Damani Temple is a place that pays great attention to the precepts. Many precepts in the temple will not explain to you at all, they just ask you to abide by them. This book questions these precepts. In Jingwen's view, this is a bit deviant. But even in this kind of deviance, Jingwen actually figured out some truths. Whenever he studied the scriptures with this kind of deviance, he found that he could easily concentrate on the scriptures, and his understanding of the scriptures and Dharma was also the same. A sudden enlightenment.

Under this circumstance, coupled with his own hard work, his grades increased rapidly in the second half of the year, and he soon impressed his master and classmates. Those 'top students' who had ignored him in the past gradually came to him, and he gradually integrated into the circle of top students and began to gain a higher level of knowledge.

Half a year later, the Great Sutra Class held an unobstructed conference. Jingwen had the entire stage and debated the Sutra for three days without a single opponent. It made all the senior cultivators in the temple look upon with admiration.

Three days later, the debate ended. He became one of the top three, so it was natural for him to enter the Bodhi Courtyard and study the profound principles of Buddhism. In the Bodhi Courtyard, he came into contact with many scriptures and saw the experiences of many eminent monks. His knowledge of Buddhism greatly increased, but he had more doubts in his heart.

The deeper he practiced, the more different he felt these scriptures were. This feeling is like poison wrapped in sugar. At first glance, it looks like a candy, but after eating it, when the sugar coating melts, you are poisoned unknowingly!

He has read all the Buddhist scriptures, seen all the Dharma, and understood all the Buddhist principles. He finally discovered a truth that made his hair stand on end. This Great Mani Temple - turned out to be an evil heretic!

The Mahamani Temple uses strict laws to regulate the behavior of the monks. This seems to be to purify the hands and feet, strengthen the conscience, and prevent the invasion of external demons. But in fact, this is a prohibition used by external demons to shackle and control a group of monks. The powerful restriction is not the spells and runes, but the silent erosion of the soul that moistens things!

He discovered this! I realized the horror and darkness of the Mahamani Temple. The people who were brainwashed by this set of laws were the monks at all levels in the temple, and those who controlled all of this were the senior officials in the temple pretending to be eminent monks!
  That's right, they want to tame me so that I can unknowingly deviate from the Buddha's way and enter evil heretics like them!

Every time he thought of this, Jingwen's heart felt cold and his hands and feet felt cold. At this time, Jingwen knew that he could not defeat the higher-ups in the temple alone. The only thing he could do was to alert the middle-level monks in the temple and rescue the lower-level monks in the temple.

The monks in the middle level had been poisoned too deeply for too long, and he was not sure they could awaken them. But the lower-level monks are different. They have just entered the temple and have not been poisoned too deeply. They can be saved!
  Buddha once said that even the most magnificent Buddha's light cannot illuminate the shadow under the golden lotus. Jingwen felt it was very reasonable. Now that the external demon's light was too strong, he could only lie dormant in the shadow of the golden lotus, waiting for opportunities to move.

So, he gave himself a new dharma name "Black Lotus". He wants to use this dark name to seek the light that can illuminate him!
  Jing Wen, ah no, it should be called Black Lotus at this time. Black Lotus, who understood everything, did not attack immediately, but hid his heart and instead catered to the group of evil heretics. Then he quietly wrote the "Black Lotus Sutra" and began to spread it among the large and small sutra classes. He even served as the leader of the Bible class to cover up his behavior. The leader of the sutra class is already a high-level position in the temple.

Finally, after enduring for a thousand years, Heilian's cultivation also secretly reached the state of becoming a god. At an unobstructed conference of a certain sutra class, an outstanding student from the sutra class finally used the contents of the "Black Lotus Book of Deliverance" to attack all external demons!

The young seeds are too impatient and cannot bear to germinate. Heilian was happy in her heart, but she did not approve of this behavior. According to his plan, they should continue to be patient and wait until he becomes the abbot of the temple and when he replaces most of the middle-level and high-level monks with the Black Lotus line, then they will bloom the most beautiful lotus flowers from the darkness. !
  At that time, he could choose to give up this disciple and continue to endure it. But he didn't...

At that time, demonic chaos broke out in the Da Mani Temple, and Patriarch Black Lotus led many demonized disciples in an attempt to overthrow the Da Mani Temple. The Mahamani Temple was outmatched and sought help from surrounding temples. Surrounding temples sent a large number of monks to come to the rescue. Patriarch Black Lotus defeated the monks from all directions and finally fled with his disciples.

After this battle, the vitality of Damani Temple was severely damaged. And the bigger impact is that even a temple with strict disciplines and no foreign objects such as the Damani Temple will break out into demonic chaos. So what method can be used to truly get rid of the pain of being possessed by demons? The idea that if the mind is not contaminated by external objects, then external objects will not fall into the heart seems to have reached a dead end.
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  Magu slowly woke up from the chaos. She felt a headache. One moment she was Magu, and the next moment she was Jingwen... It took a long time before she stabilized her breathing.

At this time, a gaze fell on her body. Magu's heart moved. She also faced it, but found that it was Hei Lian's gaze.

At this time, Hei Lian's eyes were looking at her with neither joy nor sorrow. There seemed to be a glimmer of light in his eyes, and it was as if there was no wave in the ancient well... This made Magu a little confused, and at the same time she avoided his gaze.

She looked to the side. It didn't matter, but it scared her. Around her, eight of the people who were supposed to participate in the test with her were already bleeding from the mouth and nose, their bodies were withered, and they could no longer die.

The other few people also felt bad. They sat there cowering, trembling all over, as if they had encountered the most terrifying thing. Only Magu is the most ‘normal’…

It was at this time that the Black Lotus Patriarch said calmly: "It's okay if we can keep eight. This girl will stay, and the others will be taken away to recuperate."

After he finished speaking, the monk who selected the person immediately nodded in response. He hurriedly moved the monks who were alive or dead. Only when he passed Magu, he would glance at her with surprise and fear.

When the man left with all his belongings, the Black Lotus Patriarch said in a rare move: "Seventeen, you should go out too."

Heng Shiqi nodded respectfully and left without looking back, not even looking at Magu.

After everyone left, the Black Lotus Patriarch looked at Magu. After a long while, he said calmly: "You are not affected by my memory. There are only two reasons. First, you have not come into contact with me at all. Memories. But this can be ruled out, there is no way you have not come into contact with my memories."

"After the first point is eliminated, it can only be the second point. You came into contact with my memory and recognized it deep in your heart. It's like all this happened to you. Naturally, you don't reject it at all."

"That is to say, you understand my way, and you also recognize my way."

"You are a person with true wisdom, and you are the Maitreya promised to me by the Buddha. After all, you have taken over the Black Lotus tradition and carried it forward."

"You are a true Buddhist!"

When Magu heard these words, she was completely stunned. There was only one word in her mind: "Me?!"

(End of this chapter)