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The 259th chapter head Tuo (for the ruthless five)

"Yes!" Jingcheng smiled bitterly, "I can't compare with the master's master, and I was stunned for half a day. The disciple couldn't figure out how tens of thousands of villagers in Changsheng Town could help Master Cihang achieve the fruit. He couldn't even understand that he seemed to care about this Buddha's fruit at all. According to Xingchen, Master Cihang had no reaction to the fruit before he achieved it, and he left immediately. Such a pure heart was beyond the reach of his disciple!"

"Call the dust of the nature!" Cimei waved her hand, "I am also extremely surprised that the vows of tens of thousands of villagers cannot help my Buddhists achieve the fruit. I want to ask in detail..."

"Yes, this is called "Shen Chen coming here~" Jingcheng did not dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly got up, just about to fly out of the pavilion. Suddenly, he seemed to have awakened something, stopped, looked left and right, and went down the steps next to the pavilion, and waited until his figure disappeared into the branches of the green plum tree, a smile appeared on Cimei's face.

However, the smile flashed and Cimei looked up at the sun again and whispered: "Cihang, Cihang, which senior brother is Cihang??"

But for a moment, Xingchen followed Jingcheng to the pavilion. In front of Cimei, Xingchen was like a little novice monk, very respectful and careful. He had told everything that happened in Changsheng Town and answered Cimei's dozens of questions. Until Xingchen was asked, she felt sweat on her forehead. Cimei waved her hand and signaled him to go down.

After watching Xingchen give a gift, he left carefully. Jingcheng looked at Cimei who closed her eyes and thought, but did not dare to speak, so he had to stand quietly. Until a cup of tea, Cimei suddenly asked, "Jingcheng. How do you think about this?"

"Disciple..." Jingcheng was stunned and immediately spoke, "Disciple thinks this is an excellent opportunity for our Buddhist sect to defeat Confucian scholars in Changsheng Town. As long as the lay Buddhists who pour into Changsheng Town are guided, Changsheng Academy will definitely not be able to gain a foothold in Changsheng Town!"

"Jingcheng, you were wrong!" Cimei turned the railway firmly, "It was totally wrong!"

"This?" Jingcheng was even more shocked and hurriedly said: "I'll ask the master to teach me!"

"The Confucian scholars in Changsheng Town don't have to worry about it. They have no place to establish a foothold in Changsheng Town!" Cimei smiled, "And Changsheng Town is the first town in which my Buddhist sect defeated Confucian scholars in the Tibetan Immortal Continent!"

"Disciple doesn't see far enough. Please teach me!" Jingcheng didn't have Cimei's vision? He asked quickly.

"Clean Cheng, let's talk about why Brother Cihang was able to attain the fruit? And once he attained the fruit, he was the Buddhahood of Bodhisattvas? Why did he not successfully attain the fruit?"

"Disciples only know that if they want to attain the fruit, they must practice good deeds and recite the Buddha's scriptures. Different good deeds can attain different Buddha's fruits..."

"Then how many good deeds do you think the Bodhisattva Buddha's fruit requires?" Cimei asked with interest.

"However, I have to say... Is there a million good deeds?" Jingcheng hesitated a little. After all, the Bodhisattva Buddhahood is really far away to him.

"Ah. It's not just that!" Cimei sighed slightly, "Achievement of the fruit is very complicated, and it is not a simple good deed to explain it. However, if we simply use the ninth level of Yuanli to measure the cultivation strength of the three continents, the Buddha's fruit of our Buddha sect can also be simply calculated by good deeds. Not to mention anything else, as far as I know, the most basic Jialan Buddha Fruit requires 300,000 good deeds to be realized, and the Venerable Buddha Fruit is as much as three times that of Jialan Buddha Fruit!"

"Ah? This... so much?" Jingcheng was shocked.

"Even if you have so many good deeds, you may not be able to attain the fruit!" Cimei said, "It also has to do with the practice of the Buddhist son, cause and effect, Buddha's fate, believers' vows, etc...."

"Master, let's not talk about anything else, just good deeds..." Jingcheng said with a brief calculation, "If you want to attain the Bodhisattva Buddhahood, you must have 90 million good deeds! Even the vows and beliefs of tens of thousands of villagers in the Changsheng Town at the same time are probably not enough to allow Master Cihang to attain the Bodhisattva Buddhahood?"

"Indeed~" Ci Mei nodded, "This is the reason why I asked you to come with your sexual dust. I have been thinking about it for a long time. I really don't understand why Senior Brother Ci Hang can achieve such a great Buddhahood."

"The disciples have already checked Buddhist scriptures and Confucianism records, and even the history of Changsheng Town, but have not found the origin of Master Cihang." Jingcheng said again, "Even if the word of mouth of the villagers in Changsheng Town is passed down by people, it is difficult to determine the time when Master Cihang appeared in Changsheng Town. Some say it is a hundred years, some say it is a thousand years, and some say it is a ten thousand years."

"No matter what, Senior Brother Cihang finally went to Changsheng Town before! Otherwise, there would be no statue left in Jiangchao Temple for people to worship!" Cimei nodded and said.

"And Senior Brother Cihang is still in charge of practicing. Could he be a lay disciple of my Buddhism?" Jingcheng tentatively said.

Cimei glanced at Jingcheng and shook her head and said, "If it were a lay disciple, there would never be Cihang's Dharma name! Don't doubt this."

Jingcheng's face turned red and he hurriedly said, "Disciple doesn't dare, this is just a disciple's guess."

"Well, this... involves some secrets of my Buddhist sect. You have never practiced in the Zen temple in the Pure Land world, so I'm afraid I don't know." Cimei didn't blame him, saying, "Even I was only after I took charge of Hanling Temple that I found these records from the Sutra Pavilion."

"If it involves the secrets of my Buddhism, the master does not need to explain them to his disciples!" Jingcheng clasped his hands together and said seriously.

Cimei looked at Jingcheng with a very smile and said, "Yes, that's true! You should know, and if you don't want to know, I will tell you; if you shouldn't know, even if you beg me, I will not tell you! You only need to understand this today, and there is hope of achieving the fruit."

"Yes, I understand!" Jingcheng nodded calmly, and his face, which was white with white hair, had a sense of enlightenment.

"Actually, it's not a secret!" Jingcheng didn't want to know, but Cimei said seriously, "I have many branches of Buddhism, either Mahayana Buddhism, Hinayana Buddhism, or the ten Buddhist sects."

"Yes, this disciple knows that my Hanling Temple belongs to the Tiantai Sect." Jingcheng smiled and said, "It seems that in addition to Tantric Buddhism, other Chengshi Sects, Abhidharma Sects, Xingsects, Xiangsects, Xianshou Sects, Zensects, Pure Land Sects and Vinaya Sects are also scattered in the Tibetan Immortal Continent."

"Well, that's true!" Cimei nodded, "But before the Buddha light in my Pure Land world shines on the Tibetan Immortal Continent, or before the formation of the ten Buddhist sects, there is a Buddhist disciple whose practice is completely different from that of us. It is called Tou Tu. Tou Tu is also called Tou Tuo, Tou Tuo's practice, Tou Tuo's merits, which means removing dust and dirt and afflictions. It means abandoning greed for clothing, food, housing, etc., to cultivate body and mind. All monks who practice Tou Tuo's asceticism must strictly observe the following twelve practice regulations in their daily lives: choose a free place; live a life of tuo; beg for food; eat one day; beg for food; not choose the rich and poor; do not drink juice after the middle; beg for three clothes; wear dung and sweep clothes; always sit under a tree to think; always sit in a meditation; live in a grave; always sit and not lying down. Even hair and nails cannot be trimmed."

"Ah? And... there is such a method of asceticism?" Jingcheng obviously had never heard of Kutou Tuo, and was unconsciously surprised.

"Yes, Kutou Tuo believes that a person's life is miserable. Only by practicing hard can he overcome the sea of ​​suffering. Any enjoyment will make him contaminated with the karma of the sea of ​​suffering, and he will become a livestock when he is reincarnated." Cimei said, "The minds of these monks have always been tenacious, and Buddhism is profound. Even the means of subduing demons are higher than those of my ordinary monks. I suspect... Cihang should be Kutou Tuo."

"Oh, I understand!" Jingcheng smiled bitterly, "If the practice of my Buddhist general Kutou Tuo was announced in the world, how could there be any secular people ordained as monks? People in the world are afraid of difficulties, and they are incredible without meat and marriage. In this way, they would have long regarded my Buddhist sect as a snake or scorpion."

"It's true~" Cimei nodded, "Although Kutou's practice is very effective, there may be very few monks who practice. They have faded out of Buddhist practice in the early years! Of course, I highly admire these Kutou. Only their practice is the real practice, but... this kind of practice is not conducive to the illumination of the Buddha's light in my Buddhist world!"

"If Master Cihang is Kutou, I don't know his name, that's normal!" Jingcheng smiled and said, "Besides, he has accumulated a lot of good results for many years of cultivation. The pure mind power of these tens of thousands of people in Changsheng Town may be the final good results."

"So..." Cimei narrowed her eyes slightly and said word by word, "We want to encourage the villagers of Changsheng Town to build the golden body of Namo Guanyin Bodhisattva in Jiangchao Temple, and help Senior Brother Cihang achieve the fruit!"

"Ah?" Jingcheng was shocked, "Master, this... isn't this in line with my Buddhist teachings? Master Cihang, hasn't he yet achieved the fruit??"

"What is the Buddhist teachings?" Cimei smiled and said, "You know, I know, thousands of Buddhist students know! But do the villagers of Changsheng Town and the good men and women who went to Jiangchao Temple to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva? They want to build the supreme golden body of Guanyin Bodhisattva in Changsheng Town. Do we need to stop it?"

"Silk..." Jingcheng took a deep breath, his eyes widened, and blurted out again, "No...the supreme golden body? Master, the supreme golden body can only be forged by the Buddha who has attained the Buddhahood of my Buddhism. Even if Master Cihang attained the fruit, the Buddhahood of Guanyin Bodhisattva is not enough to prove the supreme golden body of ten feet."
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