Chapter 47: Journey to the West
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Leaving the snack street, Sun Yan came to the bustling intersection.
Fairy Xiangxiang, wearing a blue dress and her hair tied up with a hairband behind her head, was already waiting there.
"Let's go!" Sun Yan shrugged.
The two walked in the crowd.
"Brother Sun is a good person."
"Hey, don't send me good guy cards!"
"I don't like that person," Du Xiangxiang said, "Even though Brother Sun is the saddest person, he seems to have a hard cut on Brother Sun's wound. How could such a person be?"
"Because it's a policeman, no matter what, you have to think about others first."
"But Brother Sun still forgave him, right? Otherwise, he wouldn't have come to see him."
"It's neither a question of forgiveness nor a grudge. In fact, after all, it's just an irrelevant person."
"So Brother Sun is a good person." Du Xiangxiang giggled.
"Why do I think you have called me a arrogant man who is disgusted with integrity, and you are not forgiven in your mouth, but you are actually forgiven in your heart?"
"What is a stingy man?"
"Don't talk anymore... I feel a chill!"
When the two returned home, everything at home had been cleaned up. According to the ancient Chinese calendar, today is the fourteenth day. At twenty-three o'clock in the evening, which is what the ancients called "Zhongshi", the South Gate of Heaven will open and they can enter the heaven. Because after entering the heaven, they will probably stay for at least one month, so some things will naturally need to be cleaned up. Although in fact, there are not many things to do, all the rooms are cleaned day after day by Fairy Xiangxiang day after day, and everything that should be cleaned has been cleaned up long ago. All the rest is to fold the bedding, close the windows, and wait for Midshi to arrive.
The two of them sat together on the balcony, looking at the extremely round moon.
Sun Yan asked: "Since there is the Taishang Laojun, Guanyin, and Erlang Shen in the sky, is there Chang'e?"
Du Xiangxiang said: "Yes, now is the 19th generation Chang'e. I heard that she is very, very beautiful, as beautiful as a miracle, but she hasn't come out of the Moon Palace for a long time, so I have never seen her."
"But the American Apollo landed on the moon, and it seemed that he didn't see any Moon Palace..."
"It climbs to the moon in the human world, and the little woman is talking about the moon in the heaven."
"That's it... By the way, who is the master of the Monkey King Sun Wukong? "Journey to the West" says it is Bodhi Patriarch, but some people say that there is no such person as Bodhi Patriarch in Buddhism. I originally thought that the story of "Journey to the West" was compiled, but you said it really exists, but some people made it a book in the memory of mortals..."
"This," Du Xiangxiang sat there with her knees, tilted her head, thought for a while, and asked, "Does Brother Sun know what 'Bodhi' mean?"
Sun Yan shook his head: "I don't know."
Du Xiangxiang said: "Bodhi means 'awakening', a flower and a world, a leaf and a Bodhi. The world we are in now is not the only world, but it is the largest world. Other worlds belong to the lower world of this world. Theoretically, in every world, there will be a 'Bodhi', and there will be only one 'Bodhi', and the person who can attain 'Bodhi' is the Buddha in that world...that is, 'Tathagata'."
"you mean……"
"The world we are in now is called the 'Basa World' in the Buddhist world. The only Tathagata in the Basa World is Shakyamuni Buddha," Du Xiangxiang said with a hint, "So, the Bodhi Patriarch is Shakyamuni Buddha, which is the Tathagata Buddha in "Journey to the West"."
"You mean, Buddha Tathagata taught Sun Wukong himself and then suppressed him at the foot of the Five Fingers Mountain?" Sun Yan said in surprise, "Why is this?"
"Because the Heaven made him very upset."
"It's very unhappy?"
"At that time, Sakyamuni was not a Buddha, or in other words, there was no Buddha in all worlds." Du Xiangxiang said, "At the beginning, the Taoist sect controlled the entire heavenly court and the present world. The entire Posa world and all the lower worlds were all under the control of the Taoist sect. In order to rule the three realms forever, the Taoist sect used the power of the "Three Pure Ones" to formulate a "Heavenly Bar" covering the Posa world and all the lower worlds. The heavenly bar covers the three realms. All cultivators must obey the destiny of heaven. Only those who are governed by the Heavenly Court can achieve the right result."
Sun Yan was excited when he heard this: "What about?"
Du Xiangxiang said: "At that time, all the three realms were under the control of the Heavenly Court. Immortals, gods, people, ghosts and demons could not escape the constraints of the Heavenly Court. If you want to become an immortal, you must accept the assessment set by the Heavenly Court. It can be said that all the supernatural powers are under the control of the Heavenly Court. Unfortunately, the Heavenly Court covered the three realms and controlled the five elements, but there was still omission, leaving behind a cultivation method of "jumping out of the Three Realms and not in the Five Elements", that is, "empty and nothingness."
“Empty?”
"Well," Du Xiangxiang said, "The Taoist sect controls the entire heavenly court. The Heavenly Court uses the heavenly bar to control the three realms. As long as they practice the mysterious energy of the five elements, they cannot escape the suppression of the heavenly bar. However, some practitioners who are unwilling to be bound by the heavenly court still found a cultivation method that is not interfered with by the heavenly court, and then they split into two factions of good and evil. One is the Buddhist sect based on the "four elements are empty", and the other is the "invisible and formless" demonic path. "Empty" and "Nothing" are not among the five elements, so they are not suppressed by the heavenly bar. The Taoist sect did not care at the beginning. When they found something wrong, the Buddhist and the demonic path had begun to grow to a point where they could not control it, especially the demonic path, which was against the heavenly court everywhere, and wanted to take the Taoist sect to replace it and unify the three realms, causing countless bloody storms."
She continued: "Compared with the devil's way, Buddhism has always wanted to integrate into the heavenly court. Although they practiced 'empty', Buddhism and the devil's way have always been incompatible. At that time, Buddhism was still practicing 'Haika Buddhism', that is, only practicing itself. The highest achievement in Buddhism was Bodhisattvas and Arhats. At that time, Buddha Shakyamuni knew that to transform 'Haika Buddhism' into 'Mahayana Buddhism', he could only join the heavenly court and let Buddhism and the heavenly court unite. Because the existence of Buddhism and the demon's way has proved that the heavenly court has loopholes, and Buddhism can perfectly repair this loophole. In addition, by integrating the heavenly court, Buddhism can "save all sentient beings", and Hinayana Buddhism will be upgraded to Mahayana Buddhism, which should be the best of both worlds."
"But, although the Buddha Lord has this intention, the Taoist sect is full of concerns, because it means that the Heavenly Court will officially recognize Buddhism and manage the three realms with Buddhism from then on. This is of course unhappy for the Taoist sect, which originally dominated the three realms. Therefore, the Heavenly Court rejected the merger of the Heavenly Court and Buddhism, and even wanted to further suppress the Buddhism. Therefore, the Great Sage of the Monkey King appeared."
"In other words, the Monkey King is the Buddhist resistance to the Heavenly Court?"
"It is not so much a resistance to the Heavenly Court, but rather a warning to the Heavenly Court," Du Xiangxiang said. "Sakya Muni's name is Bodhi Patriarch, and he personally cultivated a stone monkey that almost overthrew the entire fairy world. This proves that the original rules and precepts of heaven are just a big joke. At the same time, it warns the Heavenly Court that only because of what Buddhism can do, the demonic path can also be achieved. This time it is Sun Wukong who will attack the Heavenly Court, and the next time it will attack the Heavenly Court, I don't know who it is."
Chapter completed!