"What is restraint?"

Fahai looked at the disciples around him and asked, "What should you restrain yourself from?"

"In other words, it means controlling one's emotions, or suppressing evil thoughts, desires, and some dangerous thoughts and behaviors."

These are commonplaces and they understand them without Master repeating them.

After all, they have followed Master and recited the sutras all the way. It is impossible that they do not understand these simple principles. But now that Master is repeating the same old tune, it is natural that Master has his principles. Moreover, Master has always been a little lethargic... At this moment,

Even Bajie looked attentive, fearing that he might have missed something.

"In fact, it is not these negative emotions that need to be restrained. In many cases, even positive emotions also need to be restrained." Fahai asked his disciples, "Do you know what this means?"

The Great Sage was the first to answer, "Too much is not enough."

Wukong's understanding is, as always, many things can be revealed in just one click... But in the past, there was only one less person to guide him.

"That's right." Fahai was obviously very satisfied with Wukong's answer. He first affirmed Wukong's answer, and then continued: "The counterpart to restraint is indulgence, and indulgence... often leads to loss of control."

Fahai understands this very well.

"So when you become my disciple, the first thing I teach you is to learn restraint."

In fact, this is not only a requirement for Wukong and others, but also Fahai's own code of conduct today.

Restraint is undoubtedly a very important lesson for practitioners, and even most practitioners need to spend their entire lives in it... This is why heaven requires gods to restrain their seven emotions and six desires through heavenly rules, and Buddhism also has precepts as a guide for monks to conduct themselves in the world.

regulations.

"And you must learn to control restraint and indulgence."

"You must learn to control your seven emotions and six desires, including good and evil thoughts." Fahai said here, smiling slightly, "This is like Wukong controlling his own strength and aggressive nature, and Bajie controlling his greed... You have to control

It becomes one and you can control it as you wish without being influenced by it."

"As a teacher, I believe that this is what cultivation is all about."

This may not be the same as the mainstream practice in the three realms today, but this is Fahai’s understanding of his own practice in these two lives.

As for whether it is right or wrong... Fahai does not dare to make judgments. All he can do is to encourage and act with integrity, to prevent going astray.

In fact, in Fa Hai's view, the Taoist pursuit of a pure heart and few desires is restraint...and the next level of "extermination of emotion and nature" can be seen as an indulgence of restraint.

Relatively speaking, the same is true for some of the extreme means used by Buddhism to transform people in the world.

After listening to Master's words, several disciples felt as if they were enlightened, but they realized that their previous thoughts were too superficial.

Master is worthy of being an eminent monk in this world, to be able to have such a state of mind.

The Great Sage couldn't help but think of his original intention when he first started practicing Buddhism - wanting to live forever.

The master's evaluation of himself only has two words.

--fear death.

In this regard, the Great Sage really has no room to refute.

But who hasn’t had a time when they were young and ignorant?

The Great Sage looked at the villagers in this village. It is difficult for the dead to come back to life. The living still have to bear the burden and move forward. Even in today's world, the Tuoluo Village at the foot of Qijue Mountain... is actually not very wealthy.

place.

It's just that the land is vast and the people are sparse, so they can be self-sufficient and have enough food and clothing.

In the past, this Qijue Mountain was dangerous, but now that a cave snake demon has been conquered, the villagers can naturally rely on the mountain to feed themselves... It's a pity that the transportation is not convenient, otherwise they can rely on the persimmon trees all over the mountain to call their little ones.

Make a fortune.

The eminent monk had the skills to subjugate demons and got rid of the snake demon in Qijue Mountain. Naturally, the villagers couldn't help but be grateful.

All the families were grateful, and invited them here and there, each with a reward... They insisted on asking their master and apprentice to stay at Zhuangzi for a few more days, and asked each family to take turns being a host to express their gratitude.

The masters and disciples could not refuse. Secondly, they were the surviving people who had been rescued. They were weak and needed to be nursed back to health. Otherwise, even if they had saved a life now, if they left it alone, they would inevitably have to stay.

Some consequences.

While Fahai was recuperating these surviving villagers, he also learned why they were able to survive.

It turns out that this goblin got a fragment of a scroll from nowhere, but he practiced it to the point of becoming possessed. Even if he could barely transform into a human form, he was in trouble after all. Every three to five days, he had to suck blood to stay alive.

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On this day, the master and apprentice were about to say goodbye and head west.

Because their master and disciples didn't want money, they all prepared some dry food and fruits for the farewell party... It was just some fruits, so Fahai asked Bajie to accept them, which was considered as the cause and effect of subduing the demons for them.

And because before Fahai left, he said that he would clean up the filth in Qijue Mountain for them, so the whole village went with them to see Master Tripitaka's magical powers.

Along the way, the five masters and disciples were sent to Xishi Tongkou in Qijue Mountain.

A smell of foul smell made everyone cover their mouths and noses. This smell... is really not something ordinary people can bear.

"Holy Monk." Old Man Li said to Master Sanzang: "There is only one way to cross Qijue Mountain. Now the road has been blocked for a long time... How can we get through?"

Everyone knew that their masters and disciples came and went, and they all had the ability to fly to the sky, but they also knew that this master made a vow to walk to the west.

Old Man Li suggested to Master Sanzang: "Why don't the holy monk stay in Zhuangzi for a while longer? Let us all practice piety and find another good road to send the holy monk there."

As for what Master Sanzang said before about cleaning up the filth in the mountain for them, Old Man Li just thought it was Master Sanzang being polite... He may not have been to Qijue Mountain for a long time, but looking at it now... he is still an outstanding person.

look like?

"Old man." The Great Sage stopped in front of Old Man Li and said with a smile: "If you want to open another mountain road with just the ax and chisel in your hand, how long and what month will you have to wait? Since my master and disciple have said that I will clear the way for you.

The filthiness of Qijue Mountain, you just keep your heart in your stomach... Let's see me, Old Sun, arrest the mountain god's land... Ahem, call them here and ask them to open the way."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Great Sage recited the magic formula several times, trying to summon the land of the mountain god here, but after reciting it several times, no sound was heard, and he screamed strangely: "

There is not even a mountain god’s land here!”

Bajie thought for a while, squeezed his senior brother away, and suggested to the master, "Master, it seems that senior brother's method of praying to God doesn't work... In my opinion, it's better to ask the disciple to perform a change to change this original

Just open the road."

"Inappropriate." Fahai shook his head: "Although we can open a way, the filth is difficult to remove."

Bajie looked at the endless rotten persimmons on the mountain and said to himself: "This is really difficult."

The villagers saw that the great sage was missing when he summoned the mountain gods, and Bajie's advice was rejected again... When they were worried, they heard Master Sanzang say: "Wu Jing, get that human seed bag."

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In fact, not only the people in the village didn't know what this human seed bag was, but even the Great Sage Brothers didn't know what the magic of this human seed bag was.

Fa Hai also gave it a try. After all, this was Maitreya Buddha's bag, so it wouldn't be impossible to hold these things.

Wu Jing took out a cloth bag and handed it to the master, but saw that the master did not use magic power to move it, but poured the golden light of Buddhism into it. Hugh——

Suddenly, I saw the bag inflating without any wind and flying up into the air. When the bag was opened, it looked like it was bulging.

The Great Sage turned sideways and took a few glances, and saw that the bag was filled with darkness and chaos. There was no clear distinction at all, just like a bottomless pit. He suddenly thought of Zhenyuan Immortal's "The Universe in His Sleeves" and thought to himself: It must be hidden.

The treasure bag of the way of space.

The bag swelled, and a gust of wind came out of thin air, sucking up a mountain of rotten persimmons from Qijue Mountain from the surface of the mountain, and putting them all into the bag.

This scene made the villagers marvel. Many people even knelt on the ground and said, "Meet the living Buddha."

Living Buddha...

Life is like this, always somewhere, some memories of the past will be awakened inadvertently.

Fahai asked himself that he could never live up to the title of "living Buddha", so naturally he did not dare to be worshiped by the villagers.

This acquired human seed bag is worthy of being a treasure of Maitreya Buddha, and it can indeed contain the filth of this mountain.

Shaking——

With a casual move, Fa Hai caught the human race bag filled with Deng Deng, felt it for a while, and then sent some magic power into it, and then a spiritual power was generated inside to refine the filth.

Wukong immediately cast a wind spell to blow away the stench in the mountains and rivers.

Even if the difficulty of Qijue Mountain was solved, it did not cost much effort.

It can be said that "the persimmons that have been rare for thousands of years are now clean, and the Qijue alley is opened on this day." It is said that the masters and disciples of Tripitaka washed away the dirty alleys and embarked on the road of freedom. Time flies quickly and it is a hot day.

Not long after, I saw a city in front of me.

It was also a hot summer day, and everyone saw the city in front of them and was about to take a rest.

A little white dragon came back from exploring the road long ago and said: "Master, ahead is the Zhuzi Kingdom."

Fahai nodded and said: "Since it is the throne of the Western Kingdom, Guan Wen is about to be replaced. Disciples, please go to the city first."

As everyone moved forward, they saw an apricot-yellow flag fluttering at the top of the city, with three big characters on it reading "The Kingdom of Zhuzi". Not long after, they got off their horses at the city gate, crossed the bridge, and entered the third-story gate.

I looked around for a while, but it turned out to be a really good imperial state.

The Sixth Street and Three Markets have a lot of goods and supplies, and thousands of households are prospering in business.

It is this kind of imperial capital, the great capital of Tianfu.

The master and his disciples were walking through the main streets of the city, and they saw dignified figures, neat clothes, and clear speech. They were not much different from those in the prosperous cities of the Tang Dynasty.
To be continued...