Tai Xuan Jing

After another day of flying, I could finally see the undulating Mount Jialan in front of me. From a distance, it looked like a dormant dragon, with an astonishing momentum. Right in the middle of the mountain range, there seemed to be a golden light shooting out from a mountain peak, reaching the sky. It is Lanruo Peak, where Jialan Temple is located.

"Ah, it really is a sacred place of Buddhism. The auspicious light shines everywhere, and it is extremely holy." Li Qianmo couldn't help but secretly praised the scenery, and his flying speed was a little faster.

Thousands of miles ahead, near Mount Jialan, I saw many ordinary people on the road below walking towards the direction of Jialan Temple in groups, some riding horses and camels, some walking.

Curious in his heart, he quietly landed on the ground, approached these ordinary people, and only learned after asking: It turns out that every five years in Jialan Temple, there will be eminent monks who open an altar on Qingdeng Peak. , anyone can come to listen to the Dharma, this year is quite special, it is actually the Great Bhikkhu Guankong who opened the altar to preach, so there are a lot of people who come to listen to the Dharma.

Li Qianmo became interested as soon as he heard about this. He has always been curious about Buddhism and knows little about it. Although Buddhism and Taoism have different paths, he believes that they must have the same origin, so he decided to go to the Dharma meeting with these ordinary people. See if the Taoism of Buddhism is the same as that of Taoism.

So he hid his breath, borrowed some clothes from these ordinary people and changed into them, and went to Mount Jialan with them.

As the sun was about to set, Li Qianmo and the mortal team arrived at Qingdeng Peak. The monks of Jialan Temple arranged accommodation and fast food for them, and told them: At noon tomorrow, Master Guankong will open the altar on time.

There was nothing to say all night, and at noon the next day, monks from Jialan Temple came to welcome them to the Dharma forum. Thousands of ordinary people were so excited that they lined up a long queue to the Dharma forum.

The Dharma Discussion Altar is set up on Shiliping of Qingdeng Peak. It is very vast. There are tens of thousands of ordinary people plus thousands of Jialan disciples, but it cannot be filled.

Thousands of Jialan disciples were already sitting upright in front of them, all with their eyes closed, reciting scriptures in a solemn and solemn manner. Looking around, a large area of ​​bald heads were shining brightly in the sun, which was very spectacular.

Li Qianmo followed the ordinary people to the rear and sat down on the cattail mat. Looking ahead, there was a high platform about a hundred feet away, which was probably the place where Guankong preached.

After a long time, a drum sounded, and someone shouted: "If you have, please see the big monk!"

Everyone sitting below stood up together, Li Qianmo didn't know there was such a rule, so he hurriedly stood up too.

Guan Kong walked up to the high platform from the side, and saw that he was wearing a yellow monk robe and a fiery red cassock obliquely, with white eyebrows hanging down and a smile on his face.

Guan Kong stood still on the stage, turned around and faced the crowd, saluted with palms together and slowly raised his hands: "Everyone, please sit down."

"Thank you, Great Bhikkhu Guankong!" Everyone joined hands to express their thanks and sat down one after another.

Guankong sat cross-legged on the futon, glanced down with a smile, and said slowly: "I have the Dharma Collection of the Righteous Way, with three thousand wonderful ideas, which can suppress all demons, purify ten thousand hearts, and stop fighting. I will give it to you. Spread the word to the heart, and the Dharma spreads widely, so good, so good.”

All the people below put their palms together reverently and recited in unison: "It's good, it's good."

Guankong smiled indifferently, and began to say: "Thus, I have heard that all living beings are infinitely vowed to save, endless troubles are vowed to be cut off, and Dharma doors are infinitely vowed to learn..."

Although Li Qianmo had never studied Buddhism, Guan Kong explained every sentence he said, which was easy to understand. Most of the speeches were about cultivating one's mind and exhorting people to be good, which was so boring that he felt a little sleepy.

I don't know how long it took, but Li Qianmo actually fell asleep. When he woke up from a doze, he found that Guan Kong was still eloquently saying: "Precepts are the foundation of the supreme Bodhi, and one should be able to uphold the pure precepts, so that one can be born from the precepts." Concentration, from concentration to hair wisdom, if you can keep the precepts clean, then concentration and wisdom can be perfected. The Buddhist precepts, in essence, can be divided into three types: [-]. Precepts at home, which are called five precepts and eight precepts. Second, monastic precepts, called There are ten precepts for novice monks and novice monks, and full precepts for bhikkhus and nuns. The third is the common practice precepts of Taoism and common practice, which is called the three precepts of bodhisattvas..."

The section on Contemplation of Space talks about the importance of keeping precepts in Buddhism, and its main meaning is that keeping precepts is the foundation of Buddhism.

"Bullshit doesn't make sense, shit doesn't make sense." Guan Kong was speaking vigorously, when such a sentence suddenly appeared in the crowd, everyone was shocked at once, Guan Kong was also stunned, stopped, and looked down.

"Who! Who dares to talk nonsense!" A middle-aged monk at the front suddenly stood up, turned around and shouted angrily, and glanced at the crowd behind him.

Li Qianmo frowned, and said in his heart: "This voice seems very familiar, where did I hear it...ah, it's Baimu!"

He was about to scream, but he covered his mouth at the critical moment. Seeing the angry look of that middle-aged monk, he didn't dare to touch him now, but he was sure that the person who scolded "shit doesn't make sense" just now was no doubt .

"Listen to the Dharma." Guan Kong called the middle-aged monk.

The middle-aged monk quickly turned around and saluted with palms together: "Uncle Master, the disciple is here."

Guan Kong smiled and waved his hands: "Sit down."

"But..." Unwilling to hear the Dharma, he suddenly froze, sniffed his nose vigorously, changed color and shouted, "Uncle, someone is drinking and eating meat!"

"Oh?" Guan Kong frowned when he heard the words, and immediately enveloped the audience with a huge spiritual consciousness, then squinted his eyes and grinned, and murmured in a low voice, "There is a visitor."

"Who dares to eat meat here!" Wenfa turned and shouted at the crowd, his face was flushed with anger, and the veins on his bald head were bulging, which was very scary. It was found that there was a common man in the crowd who was holding a leg of lamb in his left hand and a jug in his right hand, bowing left and right, eating and drinking.

"Bastard!" Wenfa yelled, stomped his feet suddenly, jumped forward suddenly, and grabbed a mortal.

The "ordinary man" was eating and drinking, when he suddenly saw the Dharma flying towards him, he raised his head and grinned at him, showing his big furry face and mouth full of fangs.

"Ah! Demon cultivator!" Wenfa yelled in shock, and flew backwards quickly, faster than when he came. After landing, he took three steps back, turned his head and shouted in panic, "Master, there is a demon cultivator!"

Guankong laughed, stood up and said, "It's not a demon cultivator, it's a friend."

Baimu stood up with a hippie smile, biting the leg of lamb, walked from the crowd, and said with a smile, "Grand Monk, we meet again."

Guankong laughed, stood up and said, "I'll leave in a hurry in the mountain of no return, little friend Baimu is still handsome."

"It's okay, it's okay, haha." Baimu smiled triumphantly, and flushed all the meat in his mouth into his stomach with a sip of wine.

Guan Kong also smiled, pointed to his clothes, and said: "It's just... your outfit is a bit strange."

Bai Mu was wearing a small black jacket, with a white cloth cap wrapped around his head, but the greasy trousers had not been changed. The jacket was stolen from no one knew where, and it was strangled tightly around his body. Very strange.

Bai Mu looked down at his clothes, grinned, and continued walking towards Guan Kong with wine and meat in his hand.

Suddenly, a figure flashed in front of him, Wenfa jumped in front of him, stretched out his hand to stop him, and shouted angrily: "Even if you know my uncle, you can't eat, drink, and meat in Buddhist holy places, and blaspheme the Buddha!"

Bai Mu stretched out his hand and slapped his nose, rolled his eyes and said, "Little bald head, your farts really stink."

"What did you say!" Hearing the Dharma, he was furious, and was about to hit his eyes with a punch.

"Listen to the Dharma, don't be rude." Guan Kong stopped in a deep voice.

Hearing the Dharma, he closed his fists angrily, glared at the white eyes, and said angrily: "Hurry up and get off the Qingdeng Peak, people who blaspheme the Buddha are not welcome here."

"Buddha?" Bai Mu looked around and asked with a grin, "Where is Buddha, why can't I see him?"

"You..." Wen Fa was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and really wanted to go up and give him a slap in the face to relieve his anger.

Bai Mu threw away the leg of lamb and the flagon with his hands, put his hands on his waist, looked at the Dharma with a smile, and asked: "Little bald head, let me ask you, you keep talking about Buddha, when have you seen him?"

"Huh!" Wenfa snorted heavily, and said loudly, "Why do you need to see the Buddha, the Buddha is the Buddha's principle, which exists in the heart of Prajna and lies in the Lingtai, you vulgar person will never want to know such mysteries in your life Xuanzang."

"Heh!" Bai Mu became excited when he heard this, rolled his eyes, and asked with a smile, "Then you said that I blasphemed the Buddha, why did I blaspheme him, I never scolded him."

"You drink and eat meat in a Buddhist holy place, which is the greatest blasphemy to the Buddha!"

"It's strange, I drink and eat meat myself, and do the Buddha's shit?" Bai Mu pretended to be puzzled, scratched his head again and again, and continued, "I'm not a Buddhist disciple, I drink when I want to drink, and eat meat when I want to eat meat. The Buddha wouldn't be so lenient."

Hearing the Dharma, he was dumbfounded and opened his mouth, only to find that he was speechless.

Bai Mu smiled triumphantly, turned his head to face Guan Kong, and said happily: "Also, the old monk Guan Kong said just now that you should precept this precept and that, and that this is the root of the Buddha. Is this what the Buddha said?"

Guan Kong was taken aback when he heard the words, then smiled, and said: "That's what the scriptures say."

"Bullshit doesn't make sense, shit doesn't make sense!" Bai Mu shook his head repeatedly.

Guan Kong was stunned again when he heard the words, and said with a wry smile: "What's Tan Yue's opinion?"

Baimu smiled and said with high spirits: "That's what the Buddha said. He said that drinking alcohol is not good. It will easily make one's mind unclear and unclear. It will not be able to understand the true meaning of Buddhism and hinder practice. It is best not to drink; eating meat is not good. , if you want to kill directly, it is best not to eat..."

He said a lot of things, all of which were best not to do anything. After hearing the Dharma, he stomped his feet and shouted: "Nonsense, nonsense, when did the Buddha say that!"

Bai Mu grinned: "Then how do you prove that the Buddha said as you did?"

Wenfa was speechless again, staring at Baimu with wide eyes angrily.

Baimu completely ignored the Dharma, put his hands on his hips, laughed and said: "So, what the Buddha said is not important, what is important is that the mind is a free mind, the body is a free body, the mind is too vain, and the truth is at ease. If you want to comprehend the truth It makes perfect sense, but how can you lock yourself up in a cage, it’s really like being outside the cage.”

Guan Kong was shocked when he heard the words, the doubts in his heart that had been perplexing him for thousands of years were shattered by Bai Mu's words, like a blow to the head, he suddenly became enlightened.

"Amitabha!" Guan Kong folded his eyes and bowed, and sighed in a long voice, "After hearing Tanyue's words, a certain family knew that a certain family's practice of Buddhism for thousands of years was not worth mentioning in front of Tanyue."

"What?" Bai Mu was dazed when he heard the words, and blinked at Guan Kong blankly.

Li Qianmo was also stunned when he heard the words, and murmured: "Baimu understands Buddhism? Is Master Guankong joking?"

Guankong looked at Baimu with a smile on his face, and said: "A certain family just found out today that the little friend Baimu is also a Buddhist. When the truth is too late, since you have come to Jialan Mountain, why not sit in Jialan Temple and discuss Buddhism. Isn't it wonderful."

"Go to Jialan Temple?" The white eyes and ears trembled, and he looked at Guankong with fluttering eyes, and asked, "Is there any wine to drink? Is there any meat to eat?"

Wenfa on the side turned purple with anger, turned to Guankong, and shouted anxiously: "Master, how can you let him go to Jialan Temple, how can he be a Buddhist!"

Hearing the words, Bai Mu grinned at him with sharp teeth, and proudly said: "Hey, you won't let me go, so I will go."

Guankong smiled faintly, turned his head to hear the Dharma, and said: "The worlds of Yama and Buddha in the ten directions open the door of convenience. The Dharma should not stick to one thing. Listening to the Dharma, your Dharma practice is still low, you need to know, see the nature. To become a Buddha is not limited to inside or outside the Buddhist gate."

The monk who heard the law was shocked when he heard the words, as if he had an epiphany, after a moment of stunned, he suddenly folded his hands together in a solemn face, bowed to Guankong, and said reverently: "Thank you for the teaching, uncle, seeing one's nature and becoming a Buddha, regardless of whether it is inside or outside the Buddhist gate!"