Chapter 68 The ultimate answer?
Life on a prosperous planet is not prosperous at all. The wind outside is isolated. The fruit tree is shaking gently. The sandalwood merit Buddha sighed and walked to the thick fruit tree, lowering his head and cultivating the soil.
Yi Tianxing followed Master and whispered: "The Buddha died and he died. This matter cannot be reversed. Master, don't be sad."
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit returned, and there were no tears on his face. He said in confusion: "The Buddha has realized the way of nirvana, which is a happy event, so why be sad?" He said: "Isn't the boy unable to understand why the Buddha left the world?" His face showed his meaning that he wanted to explain to others.
Yi Tianxing knew these monks very well, including Ye Xiang. All monks have a bit of a habit of being a teacher. When he thought that his master had been a neighbor of a tree who could not speak for five hundred years in this quiet world, he was afraid that this desire would become stronger, so he waved his hand and said, "No, I understand very well why the Buddha wiped his neck."
"Oh?" The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit became interested and said, "I have been thinking hard for more than a hundred years before I figured out this way. Did the boy understand?"
Yi Tianxing scratched his head: "The Buddha must be a man of great wisdom, and among the gods and Buddhas in the sky, it seems that only he can travel through the long river of time, to the beginning of the universe, to the end of the universe, and to see what our world looks like."
"Continue." The Buddha of Sandalwood Merits and Deeds is more interested in it.
Yi Tianxing spread his hands and said, "A man of great wisdom has nothing to do, so he has to think hard every day."
"What do you think?"
"I think of some questions I have thought about before." Yi Tianxing sighed and said, "Who am I, where am I from, where am I going, or not? This is a question."
"I am me, I am not me, I come from wherever I come from. I go." The Buddha of Sandalwood merits responded to the merits.
"Please." Yi Tianxing smiled and said, "Master, don't use these monks to fool the world with the answers of these monks who cheated money to fool me. Those monks couldn't answer, so they just talked nonsense, which was just a tempting idea."
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit smiled slightly and stopped talking.
Yi Tianxing suddenly realized that he liked to talk to his master on this lonely planet, because he was not useless to talk to his master and could understand his meaning for convenience.
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit added: "The Buddha can not only surpass time, but also over time. From the beginning of our birth, our world naturally divides into many spaces. The human world is one, the ghost world is one, and the heaven world is one, and there are many small spaces in the large space. People with great supernatural powers can forcibly break through these space barriers. The Buddha goes further and he can break through the barriers of the entire world and enter another world."
Yi Tianxing frowned: "Master Master said this. Instead, I doubted my initial judgment. How do we confirm that the Buddha was really gone? Instead of going to another world that we can never reach, but just not coming back?"
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit said quietly: "If the Buddha does not come back, what is the difference between it and real nirvana?"
"Yes, there is such a saying in physics."
Yi Tianxing continued, "Okay. Let me try to clarify the Buddha's thoughts. He is above time and above space. He does not know why he comes or why he goes. In his eternal life, he once made great vows to save all sentient beings as Buddhas. What are the benefits of being a Buddha? He escapes the suffering of reincarnation and overcomes thousands of kalpas like an instant."
He paused, and then expressed his thoughts that he had never told others and had been stuck in his heart: "So, the Buddha learned to the end and found that he had done things wrong for many years."
"How to make a mistake?" asked the Sandalwood Merit Buddha quietly.
"Reincarnation is suffering, but its birth is eternal and immortal. Becoming a Buddha is not suffering, and the Buddha is also eternal and immortal. In essence, there is no difference at all."
"Why is there no difference? How painful is it to be a pig or a dog in the samsara? Isn't it happy to be a Buddha and be eternal and immortal?"
Yi Tianxing looked at the master and smiled slightly, knowing that the other party had known the answer long ago. He answered sincerely: "If a wise life really will never die. In the long river of time, what can he do? Time is endless. If he knows everything he knows, sees everything he sees, and realizes everything he realizes, what else he can do?"
Then he said something very famous.
“What else will any self-knowingly life pursue besides wanting an end?
His voice became lower and lower: "The existence of life, or it was originally a touch of bitterness, and life was all bitter, that's what it means. If we talk about cause and effect, then the destination of life can only be nothingness. The Buddha just forced this process to be shortened."
Sandalwood Merit Buddha laughed: "I didn't expect that the question I had to study for a hundred years, the boy answered it easily."
Yi Tianxing replied seriously: "My master will go to the world in the future. If you look at a novel written by a foreigner named Asimov, you will definitely feel it."
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merits and Deeds naturally had never read science fiction novels, but just exclaimed: "I never thought that great wisdom will emerge in the world."
"Samāah Bodhisattva and Manjushri once searched for the traces of Buddha in the three realms. Since they have never found it, wouldn't they notice a trace of the possibility of Buddha's true silence?"
"I'm afraid that if you have this kind of thought in your heart, you will be suppressed by these two great bodhisattvas' supreme supernatural powers into light smoke." Sandalwood merit Buddha paused and said, "What's more, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva is afraid that he has always believed that the Buddha has passed through the next life and is still waiting for his rebirth."
After solving the problem of where the Buddha was going, Yi Tianxing sighed and felt a sense of confusion in his heart. From Manjushri's dream to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva's initiation, these two great Bodhisattvas placed their hope of finding the whereabouts of the Buddha on themselves. Now that he has found the answer, can the other party accept it?
He shook his head vigorously, gritted his teeth and expelled the thoughts in his heart that made him feel empty from his mind.
The answer to the whole thing has finally been revealed. Although Yi Tianxing has known the core of the matter, many things wrapped around it still make him unable to understand and ask: "I understand that in order to cover up the news of Buddha's suicide and to fear that the master will kill the heaven again, the master is trapped here. The disciple just doesn't understand why the Western Pure Land Sect wants to suppress the people of Mount Sumeru?"
This is a question that has been entangled in his heart. How can a person who has cultivated into the Bodhisattva level be as yin rush as the Great Shishizhi? How can a person who has a meditation mind still stay in the realm of a great Bodhisattva? - Unless the Great Shishizhi Bodhisattva always believes that killing Samantabhadra, killing Manjushri, killing Arhats, and luring Meiling blood Buddha into Arhats and Buddha nature... These evil things are all good things.
Amitabha, what a strange logic.
The Sandalwood Merit Buddha did not directly answer his questions. After thinking for a while, he quietly asked, "Boy, what do you think the Buddha means?"
Yi Tianxing sat cross-legged on the ground, supporting his jaw with his hands. He was very distressed, and after a long time he responded, "It should be the teacher of us."
"Those of us?"
"The crowd of Mount Sumeru."
"What about Medicine Buddha?" The Sandalwood Merit Buddha smiled and said, "Actually, you are right. The Buddha is our teacher. This teacher has been leading many people to the path ahead of the practice. And these people are not just people like you and me."
Yi Tianxing nodded when he thought of the Medicine Buddha practicing in the Lightning Tathagata's Dharma practice.
"The Buddha's enlightenment is to pass it into the hearts of all believers in the world through the verbal talk of us disciples. The reason why Amitabha Buddha was able to pass it to the Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta. He crossed the three realms and chased Mount Sumeru for five hundred years was to prevent what the Buddha had realized and to pass it into the world."
"Why?" Yi Tianxing opened his eyes wide and said, "I understand that the fact that the Buddha committed suicide will have a great impact on the believers on earth, but these are layered things after all. Amitabha Buddha can be controlled in a more gentle way. For example, tell the believers in the world that the Buddha has gone to Nirvana, went to sleep, and went to another universe to fight aliens... Or, just say that the Buddha is in seclusion, just like the Three Pure Ones in the Heavenly Court, why do you need to do such a ruthless move?"
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit shook his head and said, "Can you hide it from the worldly people, can you hide it from Samantabhadra and Manjushri the two great Bodhisattvas?"
"If you can hide it, you won't hide it. I've seen Samantabhadra. That guy. Tsk tsk..." Yi Tianxing admired the five bodies, "It's really stubborn. He has been in the Tashilunpo Monastery on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for five hundred years. Just to wait for me, I guess he will definitely talk to the world with great devotion... But Manjushri, this kid, plays with me every day, and he should not be such a fanatic."
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit smiled and said, "Sambasa Bodhisattva is the first in practice, and naturally perseverance and diligence. Manjushri Bodhisattva is the first in wisdom, so he should be able to distinguish the important points. However, it is extremely difficult to predict whether it involves the Buddha's will."
"So what if I say it?" Yi Tianxing scratched his head and never understood. Even if Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and Manjushri Bodhisattva could not find the Buddha, he found the truth about the Buddha's suicide and passed on the truth to the public, what would happen?
Although he is known as a Buddhist guardian of the human world, he has never been a very devout believer.
"When my Buddha passed away and transformed into the world, what was the meaning of the teachings? "
"The suffering of reincarnation."
"How to get rid of the suffering of reincarnation?"
"Do good deeds..." Yi Tianxing was stunned and found that his Buddhist practice was not good enough. He corrected his correction: "I can only be a good fetus in my next life. To truly get rid of the suffering of reincarnation, I must cultivate to the Arhat fruit."
"What after you cultivate the Arhat Fruit?"
"Become a Bodhisattva."
"What after the Bodhisattva?"
"Great Bodhisattva."
"What after the great Bodhisattva?"
"Become a Buddha." Yi Tianxing said dejectedly. This endless push can only end up in a dead end.
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit sighed and said, "I was listening to this when the Buddha said this to him in the orchard. Then I knew that the situation would be like today." Then he said seriously: "The reason why believers in the world practice and are determined toward Buddha is because they know the result of such step by step. If everyone knows that the so-called practice of Buddha, and to the end, they will become the only one in heaven and earth, and they will still only bear the fruit of silence, this... this..."
His voice trembled slightly, and he couldn't speak.
Yi Tianxing sighed, "It's just that no one practices Buddha's mind. If people's hearts are dispersed, what's the big deal?" He said it relaxed, but his heart seemed like a mirror. The truth that the Buddha finally realized completely subverted the foundation of Buddhism.
The Buddha of Sandalwood Merit said in a trembling voice: "No one practices Buddha, what is the need for the Buddha land? If all the Buddhas know that the Buddha will finally realize a method of how to truly extinct the earth, and everyone will emulate it. Will Mount Sumeru, the Pure Land of the West, the Pure Land of the East, and the Heaven in the Heaven, all of them will eventually become dead?"
Yi Tianxing's heart skipped a beat. He thought of the quiet land he saw when he first entered the heavenly realm. He also thought of the Sanqing's claim to be in seclusion, but he had never appeared - did Sanqing also learn Buddhism and jump off the building?
But after thinking about it, Yi Tianxing found that there must be a lot of content hidden behind the whole matter. Although Master was one of the parties involved in that year, he had been trapped for five hundred years and had no idea about the changes over the past five hundred years.
Let’s not talk about the other side, just talk about Erlang Shen’s strange rebellion, Emperor Zhenwu suddenly became rebellious, and the Jade Emperor suddenly joined hands with Pure Land. These are all things that are unclear.
Erlang Shen is born with bravery, but it may be a real rebellion, but the question is, where did he rebelle?
Emperor Zhenwu was able to take charge of the Northern Pole Ziwei Hall and become the number two-person in the heavenly world. Although she must have been extremely helpful behind it, she must have the power of the Jade Emperor. Why did he rebel? His purpose of rebelling was really just as he said, trying to wake up the Jade Emperor from the fantasy of the Pure Land?
The Buddha could really give up these sentient beings and leave quietly without taking away a trace of clouds?
Of course, the most important thing is her.
The compassionate face that often overlooks Yi Tianxing in the clouds, the one who threw Yi Tianxing from heaven to earth.
Chapter completed!