The whole body has improved to a small realm. Although there are factors that everyone has accumulated for a long time, the difficulty is extraordinary. This favor is too great.

Chen Luan and Yun Yiqi were also surprised when they learned about it. They were very surprised and found Master Shu personally to express their gratitude. The master only said that this was the blessing brought by the purple gold bowl.

It is far from enough to say thank you verbally, and you can only report it in the future.

Master Shu gave such a big gift, and Chen Luan and Yun Yiqi, as elders of the master, could not be stingy. It just so happened that everyone needed to steadily improve their cultivation. They agreed to set off for Guangji Temple in three days, so they guided their disciples to practice separately during this period.

Chen Luan focused on Hua Lanting, and he called Hua Lanting and Feng Qingjun to give instructions separately.

Yun Yiqi and Feng Huolun, as Hua Lanting's master, were even more afraid of the dangers he faced in the battle with Huang Yi. After discussing, the two decided to make Yun Yiqi produce materials and Feng Huolun's efforts to create a self-defense weapon for Hua Lanting.

Three days passed in a flash. The night before departure, the disciples of the Wanxiang Gate gathered together according to the instructions of Chen Luan, who was practicing Buddhism and Taoism, and continued to listen to Master Shu teaches Buddhism.

If you don’t have any skills, you will be clear when you listen to both sides. There are not many opportunities to ask for advice from the living Buddha.

Master Shu answered some questions about learning Buddhism tonight. He did not talk about his own experience, but used the content of Master Ling, a great monk in the Buddhist world, when he taught sentient beings.

Master Zong Ling was once a general and was well-versed in Buddhism. Later, he became a monk. When he was young, he once said:

Get on the horse and kill the enemy! Get off the horse and learn Buddhism!

Master Zong Ling believes that learning Buddhism is a very logical thing.

The master said that people have various motivations for worshiping Buddha. Some people heard that believing in Buddha can cure diseases. Some people heard that Buddha is very powerful and can bless themselves to get promoted and make money. Some people felt the long-lost peace and joy in the temple. Some people said that they read the word "Chicken Soup in the Heart" and "The Buddha's words are very insightful, and some are just because they want to be quiet.

However, when people's needs are not met in the short term, or when they encounter other spiritual substitutes, many people give up.

The master believes that the correct motivation is based on correct logic and world outlook, values ​​and outlook on life.

If you compare the three views of corrupt officials and Buddhists in the secular world, you will find that both are very rational, and the essence of the logical process is to "get rid of suffering and gain happiness."

The only difference is that they are based on different worldviews. Buddhism believes that there is reincarnation, while secular people believe that there is no.

Everyone may be a "corrupt official" because people have unlimited desires.

If an ordinary person who hates corrupt officials one day he will also take the same high position and face the same temptation, there is a high probability that he will become corrupt officials.

Interestingly, corruption is often attributed to external systems by those who commit crimes, and they think they have no problems.

If you "seek inward", the root cause is not the system, but the worldview of oneself.

On the surface, some people do not believe in Buddhism or have no faith because they are afraid that freedom will be restricted. If they look deeper, they do not believe in cause and effect, and feel that doing willful will not cause "evil rewards", and keeping precepts and doing good will not cause "good rewards".

When the monk was preaching, he joked that everyone was wise after being knocked out and lost their memory, because when they woke up, they would ask three major questions about life: Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here?

If you are a doctor, the answer to three questions: you are the fetus; you are in the uterus; because of failure of contraception.

The monk's answer is: You are an ordinary person; you are in the cycle of reincarnation; because of karma.

If you do not believe in the existence of reincarnation and are determined to leave, copying scriptures is just practicing calligraphy, meditation is just quiet, and eating vegetarian food is just losing weight.

If the cause and effect of reincarnation does not exist, Master Zong Ling said that he would definitely take the lead in withdrawing from Buddhism and resolutely choose to "be a bastard and love life."

The master said that Buddhism is the most complex in religion. The sutras and treatises are vast and theories are unfathomable, and the theories are profound and unpredictable. When you first come into contact, you feel like you are overwhelmed and have nowhere to start. You can’t finish reading the Buddhist scriptures, and you can’t figure it out after reading them. You don’t know how to practice them after understanding them. No one can guide you after practicing them, and you don’t know whether it’s right or wrong.

What is even more exhausting is that Buddhist theory has a very strong thinking ability. Basically, each view will provide more than two perspectives on its own. The statements may be one, two, three, four, and five, and they are not contradictory to each other.

This is actually not difficult to understand. For example, if you have a dream of eating apples, you think that the apple is real in your dream, and when you wake up, you feel that the apple does not exist at all, so it is right for the apple to have it, and it is okay to not have it "empty", it depends on which angle.

For example, what is the fundamental force that drives the movement of the world? Buddhism believes that it is something called "karma". When karma is running, it follows the law of cause and effect.

Simply put, good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil.

If you encounter something strange, you will block your mouth with a word "karma".

Karma is a natural law. Unlike some religions, Buddha is not the creator and does not think he is "omnipotent", so the suffering in the world cannot be dependent on the Buddha.

Buddhism believes that there are countless worlds in the universe, and the world of ordinary people can be roughly divided into the "six paths". Generally, when sentient beings die, they will be reborn in one of them according to karma. As long as they have not yet practiced to a certain extent, they will be liberated back and forth in the "six paths", which is the so-called "reincarnation".

Master Zong Ling found that Buddhism believes that most ordinary people cannot remember their previous lives due to the "confusion of the Yin" but there are still some people who can remember their previous lives due to special karma. It is as if most people cannot remember what happened before the age of three, but there are still some people who can remember them.

He studied a large number of cases and concluded that the probability of reincarnation exists is much greater than that of non-existence. In other words, some of the contents in the Buddhist "reincarnation theory" have a higher chance of being proved true, while the other part cannot be falsified.

One of the most core theories of Buddhism is "dependence and emptiness".

Simply put, it is: there is nothing in the world that can exist independently without dependent on other conditions, and there is no permanent and unchanging thing. Everything is born from the combination of causes and conditions. Therefore, the nature of all things is empty. This is true from matter to spirit, from space to time.

The secular view holds that matter really exists, time and space are real. It exists independently of matter and has nothing to do with human cognition.

Buddhism has completely different positions from these two secular views.

A carriage was parked there, and the Buddha said it was "empty".

Continuing to analyze, I found that the carriage is made of horses, carriages, wheels, shafts, seats, etc. through design and processing. Only when these "causes and conditions" are all aggregated together can something called "carriage" appear in an instant, so it is called "cause and origin".

Usually people insist on thinking that there is "this car" during the use cycle of a carriage. But from the perspective of dependent origination and emptiness, the real scene is:

Before assembly, it was just a component one, two, three, four, and five... There was no "this car".

After assembly, at the first moment, a "new car" is formed due to the aggregation of various dependent originations; at the second moment, some dependent origination changes, resulting in "seal new and not old cars"; at the third moment, it becomes "old car"; and then becomes "scattered waste car".

"This car" does not exist.

After the carriage is abandoned, it will be decomposed into parts... So there is no "this car".

If you continue to split to the level of dust that is invisible to the naked eye, you will find that the car has long disappeared, leaving only "extremely small" particles of birth and death.

Extreme particles are like beating strings, and all things are just music played by strings.

The vibration of strings at different frequencies makes people feel illusion that there are various extremely small particles. These non-existent particles are like bubbles in water. They are constantly generated and annihilated, presenting a colorful world before our eyes, and all of this is just a game of illusion.

Space and matter are "illusory and unreal", and time is the same, and time is just an illusion. In Buddhist terms, time is caused by delusions and has no self-nature.

The essence of time is not real and continuity as many people think. Otherwise, a person would not be able to foresee future events, and there would not be so many supernatural events that cannot be explained.

At present, some natural research views have gradually come to the same end as the Buddhist view of the universe.

The general view is whether we observe or not, whoever observes, there is really an independent "objective world" outside, and it is not changed by anyone's will.

However, Buddhism believes that all dharmas are born from causes and conditions, and the observer's karma is also one of the conditions (dependence), that is, the world in the eyes of each sentient being can be different, and there is no so-called "objective world".

For example, the red color blindness may be gray, the friend in the eyes of a lunatic is just a watermelon on his head, and the dog thinks shit is more fragrant than anything else.

What people "see" is just an image that integrates external fluctuations, eyes, nerves, karma, delusions and other "dependences" and ultimately forms in the mind.

Only when the observer and his observation method are determined will the scene in his eyes be determined.

Buddhism believes that sentient beings will inevitably suffer various pains in the samsara, especially sentient beings in the evil realm. The depth of the pain is unimaginable. Buddhism believes that three levels of liberation can be obtained through practice.

First of all, the ultimate liberation.

Because those pains and problems do not really exist, but a dream that appears under the satisfaction of some conditions (dependence) is essentially "empty nature", and even the so-called "I" is not real. Then, as long as the cause and origin of the dream manifested through deep meditation and other means, the "suffering" will completely disappear and thus be liberated.

In other words, the liberation of Buddhism does not solve any problem, but ultimately discovers that there is no problem at all. It is like waking up from a dream and discovering that the tiger in the dream does not exist at all, and the me in the dream does not exist at all. The so-called "enlightenment" is just like this.

Unlike many religions that have to wait until they die before they can "ascense" to verify, in theory, the highest level of Buddhism can be realized through practice in this life.

The second is intermediate liberation.

Buddhist practitioners all hope to achieve ultimate emptiness in this life, but after all, everyone has different roots and most people have not realized it in their entire lives, so they have to settle for the second best to rebirth in the Pure Land.

The so-called Pure Land refers to a higher-level world in which some higher-level lives live outside the six realms of reincarnation.

Through practice methods such as vows, prayers, chantings, and meditation, and inducing these advanced worlds and advanced lives, you may go to these Pure Lands at the time of death, temporarily leave the "samsara cesspool" and further practice in these high-level worlds with good environments and long lifespans, and move towards the goal of ultimate liberation. When you reach a certain level of cultivation, you can return to the "santhemum pit" to save people.

There are many Pure Lands in the universe, but the most famous one is the Western Paradise. It is said to be the "Happy Camp" hosted by Amitabha Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva.

The third is liberation at the lower level.

If you don’t even want to go to the Pure Land or can’t go, then Buddhism has its last trick: accumulate good deeds and virtues, and live a good life in the cycle of reincarnation. This is the so-called good fruits of human and heaven.

In fact, it is not a real achievement. Dreams are not waking up (enlightenment), but having a good dream is better than a nightmare, right?

So, can these achievements in practice be verified?

Unfortunately, although Buddhist theory itself is not as full of loopholes as some religions and can be said to be relatively harmonious, the theory is ultimately just a theory. If the practitioners in the end have no difference from ordinary people, even though they cannot falsify Buddhism, it is difficult to prove the truth.

The master studied the characteristics of achievements at all levels of Buddhism, and the answer was: it is difficult to fully verify.

The reason is very simple, because the mind is mainly cultivated, and the emptiness state of enlightened monks who "see that mountains are not mountains" cannot be directly verified, and those who are reborn in the Pure Land or in the Heavenly Way will not come back to report after death.

Basically, only some accompanying items of practice can be directly verified, such as the supernatural powers, auspicious signs displayed by practitioners. This is a lot.

"Zi doesn't say that the strange powers are chaotic." In fact, the mage personally has no particular attachment to these supernatural phenomena. Instead, he likes the words of the Zen master: "Cleaning water and chopping wood are all supernatural powers."

After seeing it many times, I found that some of the phenomena not only exist in Buddhism, but also in other religions. At least from the factual level, it is verified that the Buddhist practice achievements may exist.

The theory and practice system of Buddhism are very broad and complex, and there are some differences in views between different sects. The master believes that some of the views of Buddhism can be verified by facts, while other views are difficult to falsify. The theory itself does not have obvious logical loopholes, and even provides many unique perspectives for observing things.

Just as we were talking about the excitement, the temple-protecting array in Qixia Temple suddenly sounded a harsh alarm.

This is, the enemy attack!
Chapter completed!