Chapter 751 The True Pure Land

Chen Xuanzang lived in the Pure Land Temple since childhood.

There is a Pure Land where the master likes him, his uncle likes him, and the master of the Sutra Pavilion also likes him.

There is also the Buddha who worships him and the Bodhisattva likes him very much.

This kind of love allowed Xuanzang to spend his carefree childhood.

He has a great wisdom in Buddhism. When he was twelve years old, his fellow disciples in Pure Land Temple could not argue with him.

Xuanzang was also sent to study in White Horse Temple. In just two years, no monks in White Horse Temple could argue with him.

The more you argue about Buddhism, the more you become, the more clear it becomes, but Xuanzang did not feel that way.

Sometimes I even feel that my teachers and elders look at them, and they are not so kind. Those satisfactions do not seem to be satisfaction with people, but satisfaction with a piece of goods.

Moreover, Xuanzang sometimes dreamed that he was crying in the cauldron and begged the Buddha to save him, but the Buddha remained motionless in the hall...

This kind of dream was often done when Xuanzang was a child, but later he stopped doing it.

Because the Buddha really appeared, a golden relics appeared in his mind, and the Buddha entered Xuanzang's mind.

But is this Buddha really a Buddha?

"Amitabha." Chen Xuanzang, who had already left the Pure Land Temple, was silently reciting the scriptures among the refugees.

"Master, have something to eat!" A thin Hu man handed half a black-faced steamed bun to Chen Xuanzang.

This is the disaster relief food distributed by the government.

"Thank you for giving to the donor." Chen Xuanzang took the black-faced steamed bun and chewed it slowly.

The thin Hu man swallowed his saliva and tried hard not to see Chen Xuanzang.

His eyes became blurred: "Master, does the Pure Land world where there is endless food mentioned in Buddhism really exist?"

"If you believe, you will exist; if you don't believe, you will not exist. Amitabha will lead good men and women who believe in Buddhism to the Pure Land."

"At that time, all turbidities will be washed away from the pool of merit, and will be transformed into a god in the lotus, and will not be old or dead, and will not be hungry or thirsty."

The Hu people's eyes were also blurred, as if they had reached such a pure land.

It just rumbling and woke him up.

“Will there be war there?”

"There is no war in the Pure Land, only the Buddha talks about Buddhism. There are gods and men dancing and playing music. As long as people smell the fragrance, they can live carefreely. Everyone can live to 84,000 years old..."

The Hu people sighed: "They said I was a Hu people, and the Hu people could not receive food for disaster relief, because the Hu people killed Han people, but my mother was also Han people. I have never seen my father and would not say what the Hu people said..."

"If you go to the Pure Land, is there any difference between Hu people and Han people?"

The Xiaohu people's worship of Buddhism lies in their firm belief in the existence of the Pure Land.

But at this moment, Chen Xuanzang was also shaken.

Does the Pure Land really exist?

Chen Xuanzang held the half black-dough steamed bun, and seemed to be unable to eat it anymore.

At night, a scent of meat came from the nearby bonfire.

The little Hu's stomach was rumbling.

He got up randomly and walked to Chen Xuanzang: "Master, I'm so hungry, I'll go find something to eat."

Chen Xuanzang thought he was going to a nearby bonfire to ask for some meat.

But the Hu people went in the opposite direction and never came back.

He is dead.

He could not bear hunger, and did not want to eat the meat from the bonfire. He had to bear the karma and the fantasy of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. He chanted "Amitabha" over and over again, hoping that Amitabha would come to pick him up and end his life.

Chen Xuanzang knelt in front of the corpse of the Hu man.

I don't know who stripped his clothes.

My stomach was bulging, and there seemed to be a smile on the corner of my mouth.

What I hold is soil in my hand.

He gave the black-faced steamed bun to Chen Xuanzang, but he wrapped his belly in mud.

...

"Master, how can you be reincarnated in the Pure Land with great merit?"

"The greatest merit is to respect parents."

"But I have no parents anymore."

"Then always smile with a kindness in your eyes, and keep a compassionate heart." Xuanzang replied in this way.

"But I can't laugh, Master."

"Master, why don't you laugh?"

...

"Since the West, after ten trillion Buddha lands, there is a world called Pure Land. There is a Buddha in the land, called Amitabha, and now it is preached. Shariputra, why is that land called Pure Land? The sentient beings in the country have no suffering, but only receive all kinds of happiness, so they are called Pure Land."

Xuanzang recited the scriptures, but he also wanted to see the Buddha's light from Amitabha.

Unfortunately, no.

Xuanzang buried the little Hu people.

Continue walking.

When he came out, Chen Xuanzang wanted to influence the emperor with Buddhism.

But when I really went out, I found that Buddhism seemed to be unable to influence myself.

"Saving all living beings." Xuanzang looked at all living beings Li Yuan silently.

"Alls save me." But they looked at the tomb that had been buried by themselves.

The steps under my feet are still firm, but Buddhism still does not resolve the confusion.

As long as Buddhism influences the emperor, will the suffering of these sentient beings be reduced?

I don’t know how long I walked, but Chen Xuanzang finally arrived outside Chang'an City.

The first thing that happened to him when he came to Chang'an was that Xuanzang did not go to see Li Shimin.

Instead, he plunged into the temple's Sutra Pavilion. He had already had questions all the way, and wanted to ask the Buddha in the scriptures and let the Buddha solve his doubts for him.

When I went to a temple to hold a order, I stumbled into the Sutra Pavilion of a temple.

But the more you read, the more you become confused. Many scriptures have ambiguous interpretations.

Even the answers you are looking for have different explanations in different scriptures, and there are many differences and cannot be justified.

So Chen Xuanzang walked out of the temple.

He wants to see the emperor.

He was going to see the emperor when he came to Chang'an, and he was confident.

When Li Shimin conquered Luoyang, he used the power of Pure Land Temple.

Li Shimin was still thinking a few days ago that Buddhism was too ignorant, so why didn’t he contact him?

As a result, a young monk who was already very famous in Luoyang wanted to see him.

So I took time to see you.

However, Chen Xuanzang came to persuade Li Shimin to believe in Buddhism.

This made Li Shimin very unhappy. I can’t help but let it go, come and talk to me about this.

Chen Xuanzang just talked with a mission.

He soon talked to Li Shimin about what he saw and heard on the road.

He even expressed his own ideas, such as eliminating the conflict between the Hu people and the Han people, such as how the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

"You should take off the monk's robe." Li Shimin said, "I will do it for you. If you can say this, it means you are suitable to be an official."

"I am a monk."

Li Shimin said, "I have a Taoist priest here. He is like you. He also talks about people's sufferings all day long. He becomes an official. He says he is a high-spirited person, so he is not afraid of the dirty breath in the officialdom."

Chen Xuanzang was attracted by what Li Shimin said.

"He is Gao Dao, aren't you a high monk?"

"The answer cannot be found in the scriptures. After becoming an official, you may be able to find the answer."

In history, Chen Xuanzang refused Li Shimin's invitation and proposed to go to India to seek the true scriptures, hoping that Li Shimin would give him the pass certificate.

But Li Shimin didn't give it to him, so Xuanzang smuggled.

But now Chen Xuanzang is shaken.

"What if I still can't find the answer?"

"Then you go and ask the Buddha." Li Shimin waved his hand and gave Chen Xuanzang an official.

Since then, Chen Xuanzang took off his monk's robe and began to enter the world to find the answer in his heart.

Although the result was a little different from the plan of Guanyin in Baiyi who planned everything, he did not stop it.

It happens by chance, just change.
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