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Its practice philosophy is that the reason why life needs liberation is because life is empty. It emphasizes facing the real world, understanding the real world, and seeking liberation in reality.

The scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism include the Prajna Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, etc.

These scriptures emphasize emptiness, non-self, and the bodhisattva path, and advocate achieving the goal of becoming a Buddha and saving all sentient beings through wisdom and compassion.

The Hinayana Buddhism, on the other hand, focuses on personal practice and liberation, and aims to achieve the state of Arhat by eliminating troubles and eradicating life and death.

Their practice methods tend to be secluded and abstinent from society.

The main scriptures of Theravada Buddhism include the Agama Sutra and the Four Part Vinaya. These scriptures emphasize the original teachings of the Buddha and practical methods of practice, and believe that becoming a Buddha is an extremely difficult path that only a very small number of people can achieve.

After traveling to the world of Journey to the West, Niu Jun also read some Buddhist scriptures, especially the Mahayana Buddhist classics that were widely circulated in Xi Niu Hezhou.

But compared with the Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, he is more inclined to Theravada Buddhism.

After all, when it comes to practicing, you still have to rely on yourself.

If you really want to be converted to Buddha by others, will you still be yourself after becoming a Buddha?

That is not practice, but being a puppet of Buddha.

Even in Niu Jun's opinion, the practice method of Mahayana Buddhism is more like the method of believing in becoming a god than the practice method of Buddhism.

On the contrary, the practice philosophy of Theravada Buddhism is more in line with oneself and focuses on personal practice and transcendence.

Of course, even if Niu Jun agreed with the practice philosophy of Theravada Buddhism, he would not practice Buddhist techniques and supernatural powers, let alone follow the path of Buddhist practice.

Because the Buddhist practice method focuses most on cause and effect.

Once you start practicing, you will establish a deep causal relationship with the great masters of Buddhism, and it will be hard to predict whether good or bad luck will come.

When practicing the Buddhist method, you may be able to use the cause and effect of great Buddhist masters to practice quickly in the early stages. However, once you reach the later stages, it will be extremely difficult to achieve enlightenment and transcendence.

Because the prerequisite for achieving enlightenment and transcendence is to transcend heaven and earth, one needs to sever the causal relationship between oneself and heaven and earth. The deeper the causal relationship, the harder it is to transcend.

This is like practicing with a loan. In the early stages the practice may not be quick, but in the later stages one must repay the karmic interest.

Even, see the essence through the phenomenon.

Whether it is Mahayana Buddhism or Theravada Buddhism, what is practiced is the way of the mind, with the great way of the mind as the foundation, supplemented by the great ways of cause and effect, emptiness, reincarnation, etc., to govern all dharmas and paths.

It is just like Niu Jun uses the great way of strength as his foundation, supplemented by the great ways of yin and yang and the five elements, to govern all laws and ways, in order to condense the Taiyi Dao fruit and achieve transcendence.

So, whether it is the immortal practice method or the Buddhist practice method.

In the end, they all lead to the same destination, there is no difference.

Got this.

Then go back and look at the Buddhist scriptures and methods of practice.

That would be much easier to understand.

Therefore, although Niu Jun did not practice Buddhist methods, his understanding of Buddhist scriptures and techniques was beyond the reach of some mortal monks.

During the debate with the monks in Jinhai Temple, every time he uttered one or two verses, the monks would be enlightened and gain a lot of insights. They took them as their guiding principles and all praised him as a great Zen master of great virtue.

During this period, Niu Jun continued to comprehend the Buddha's light and Buddha nature in the Five Elements Mountain, and used the art of mind infection to quietly influence and control the monks of Jinhai Temple, as well as Venerable Jinhai who was practicing in the back mountain of Jinhai Temple.

Of course, Venerable Jinhai is a Buddhist monk in the realm of Xuanxian after all. It will take time to control him subtly without being discovered by him.

According to Niu Jun's estimation, it would take at least three to five years to control Venerable Jinhai silently through the art of mind infection.

Fortunately, Niu Jun did not need to completely control Venerable Jinhai. He only needed to use the art of mind infection to slightly affect Venerable Jinhai's mental perception and obtain the information about the Five Elements Mountain from him.

In this way, one or two months will be enough.

As for the monks in Jinhai Temple?

If I didn't want Venerable Jinhai to notice that something was wrong.

Niu Jun can turn everyone into mental puppets with just a thought.

……

Time passes day by day.

Soon, a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Just as Niu Jun was about to use his mental skills to corrode the mind of Venerable Jinhai and find out the situation of the Five Elements Mountain.

The Zhutian chat group, which had been silent for more than a month, finally had some movement.

[Mysterious Zhou Mingrui: Is the boss here? ]

Looking at the private message sent by group owner Zhou Mingrui, Niu Jun became curious.

to be frank.

If he had not been able to truly sense the existence of this chat group he joined, he would have thought he had joined a dead group.

Except for the first two days after he joined, the entire chat group seemed dead, and no one talked on weekdays.

The reason.

Another reason is that there are too few members in the chat group, and these members, including Niu Jun, are not talkative people.

Everyone is busy with their own things on weekdays.

There is basically no time for chatting, and the whole chat group is like a dead group.

But this is understandable.

Everyone is busy, so there is no time for chatting.

What's more, the worlds that several of them live in are rather special, and they can't even help each other as usual, so what is there to talk about?

Even though Niu Jun, Lu Sheng and Zhou Mingrui are fellow time travelers, they don't have that much to talk about.

So normally, there isn't much activity in the chat group.

A situation like the group leader Zhou Mingrui chatting with himself privately is even rarer.

[Journey to the West Niu Jun: Yes, what’s up? ]

[Mysterious Zhou Mingrui: Boss, I'm in some trouble and would like to ask for your advice. (Help.jpg)]

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: What's the trouble? Tell me about it.]

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: But let me make it clear in advance, I can only give you some advice, but I may not be able to help you in any way. After all, you know the situation of your world.]

I heard the group leader Zhou Mingrui asking for help.

Although Niu Jun did not refuse, he did not make any promises either.

Because the world Zhou Mingrui lives in has completely different world rules and cultivation systems from the world of Journey to the West, the cultivation experience of the world of Journey to the West may not be useful.

So he didn't dare to say anything definite, he could only say that he could give some suggestions at most.

As for whether this suggestion will work?

He couldn't guarantee it either.

[Mysterious Zhou Mingrui: Don't worry, boss. I understand! ]

[Mysterious Zhou Mingrui: It’s like this, Boss, I have been watched and targeted by the 0-08 Sealed Artifact Alesuhod’s Pen again. Do you have any way to help me get rid of it? ]

Chapter 21: Al-Suhod’s writing, cause and effect and destiny!

When Niu Jun saw the message for help sent by group leader Zhou Mingrui, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The Pen of Alesuhod, the sealed item No. 0-08 in the mysterious world, is condensed from the posthumous characteristics of the Nightmare Dragon and looks like a feather pen.

Al-Suhod's pen has the special effect of "words come true", that is, the stories he writes will become reality.

Of course, this is not the difficult part of Al-Suhod’s writing.

The really tricky thing is that when you know it, it will also know you. The more you know about it, the more likely you are to be written into the story it weaves.

"This makes sense" is the obsessive-compulsive disorder of this pen, which always strives to make the story logical. However, as a third-rate writer, its stories are full of inexplicable twists such as "weird" and "ah".

But never mind how well Al-Suhod’s pen writes the story.

The essence of the Seal of Sequence Zero is there, corresponding to the first level of the True God in the mysterious world.

Therefore, before Klein became the Fool, this story pen was still very dangerous to him.

If it were in the world of Journey to the West, Niu Jun would have a thousand ways to resolve the fate manipulation of the Pen of Alesuhod, and he could even smash this Sequence Zero Seal into pieces with a single slap.

Unfortunately, Al-Suhod’s pen is not in the world of Journey to the West.

Even the cosmic rules of the mysterious world are very different from those of the Journey to the West world. The magic and supernatural powers of the Journey to the West world cannot work in the mysterious world.

Therefore, Niu Jun could only stand in the position of group leader Zhou Mingrui and think about how to resolve the threat of Alsuhod's Pen.

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: Lao Zhou, according to my speculation, the Pen of Alesuhod should be able to control the law of cause and effect. If you want to avoid being noticed and targeted by it, you must cut off, divert, or cover up the cause and effect between you and it.]

[Mysterious Zhou Mingrui: Isn’t the law of cause and effect the law of destiny? ]

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: It is not the law of fate. If the pen of Alesuhod controls the law of fate, there is no need to write a story. You, and even the gods and the old days in your world, can be killed directly! ]

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: As the saying goes: One is fate, two is luck, three is feng shui, four is accumulating good deeds, and five is reading. The good deeds in this sentence refer to cause and effect, so although the power of cause and effect is strong, it is far less terrible than the power of fate.]

Niu Jun explained.

The Way of Destiny, no matter in which world it is placed, is always the supreme way ranked among the top three of the three thousand great ways.

If the Pen of Al-Suhod controlled the rules of the fate of the mysterious world, its ranking would definitely not be so low, and it would not have been made into a magic potion by Adam who had not yet become a god.

It is entirely possible to write Adam to death.

[Mysterious Zhou Mingrui: I see. Thanks for clearing up my confusion. But how can I avoid being targeted by Alesuhod's pen?]

In the mysterious world, Klein was greatly relieved when he saw Niu Jun's explanation.

Just as Niu Jun said, fate and cause and effect are definitely two different things and are not forces of the same level.

Although the power of cause and effect is strong and terrifying, it is far less unsolvable and despairing than fate.

【Journey to the West Niu Jun: Have you ever heard of the saying: The law does not go to nobles? 】

[Mysterious Zhou Mingrui: What does the boss mean? ]

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: That’s right, it’s just as you thought. The easiest way to deal with causal attacks is to improve your status. The more noble your status, the greater the causal relationship will be.]

[Niu Jun, Journey to the West: As the saying goes, a single move affects the entire body. If I want to use the art of cause and effect to deal with you, I must bear the backlash of cause and effect on you. In the original novel, Alesuhod's pen failed to target you several times because the cause and effect on you is so great that Alesuhod's pen cannot bear it at all.]

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: So you don't have to worry about the Alesuhod Pen posing too much of a threat to you. The more it attacks you, the more you will suffer the backlash of cause and effect.]

When Niu Jun said this, he seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but sigh.

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: There is a saying: Those who play with fate will eventually be played with by fate. Cause and effect is an extension of fate, so those who play with cause and effect will eventually be trapped by cause and effect.]

But he thought of the Buddhism in the world of Journey to the West.

In Buddhism, apart from some ancient Buddhas, there are few people with great supernatural powers who have attained enlightenment and transcended the state of mind. This is also affected by the law of cause and effect.

Of course, this is not absolute.

In the Buddhist world of Journey to the West, there is also a Bodhisattva who has attained the Tao of Taiyi based on the law of cause and effect.

This Bodhisattva is Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Many people think that in Journey to the West, Tathagata Buddha is stronger than Guanyin Bodhisattva and attained enlightenment earlier.

actually not.

In the original novel of Journey to the West, in the chapter of Ginseng Fruit, when Guanyin arrived at the place of Zhenyuanzi in Wanshou Mountain, there is such a description: "The jade-haired golden elephant is hard to describe in the world. It is the compassionate and savior of suffering. In the past calamity, he met the Pure Buddha, and now he has achieved a body of action."

According to the Buddhist explanation, the past catastrophe was the catastrophe that caused the destruction of the previous universe, when Tathagata had not yet been born.

Therefore, the Guanyin Bodhisattva in Journey to the West has definitely reached the Taiyi realm, and the time of his attainment of enlightenment was before this cosmic reincarnation, and even before the Tathagata Buddha Shakyamuni.

The reason why Sakyamuni, the Tathagata Buddha, has a high status in Buddhism is not because he attained enlightenment the earliest and is the most powerful, but because he is the Buddha of the present, the Buddha who attained enlightenment in this era.

[Mysterious Zhou Mingrui: Is there any way for me to escape the targeting of Alesuhod's pen? ]

Klein inquired.

It’s not that he didn’t believe Niu Jun’s judgment, but even if Alsuhod’s writing didn’t pose much of a threat to him, it still brought him a lot of trouble.

No one likes trouble.

Klein didn't like it either.

[Niu Jun from Journey to the West: Of course there is. You can find an angel from the thief sequence to create an extraordinary item with the wrong attribute, or find an angel from the fortune teller sequence to create an extraordinary item with a fraudulent attribute.]