"Golden Cicada."

Chen Sha looked at the golden cicada lying on the bodhi tree branch, trying its best to eat the tree and the whirling world at the same time:

"He has not yet been born with spiritual intelligence?"

Seeing that this golden cicada, who was just a child back then, has now been reincarnated into an insect, it seems that only the instinct of insect eating is left.

But seeing him feeding on the Bodhi tree throughout the world seems to prove that this is no ordinary golden cicada.

"I'm going to take him away."

Chen Sha looked away from the golden cicada on the tree, turned to look at Venerable Longhua, and said:

"He is my apprentice. He is originally a very innocent and simple child. He should not be so ignorant."

Unexpectedly, Venerable Longhua smiled and said: "Do you think he is ignorant? In fact, it is not the case. There is no one like him in the whole world and the fairy world who can use the whirling world food evolved by the enlightened Gautama.

You are so blessed by nature and have great fortune."

Chen Sha did not deny that this was indeed a great blessing, saying: "But he is my disciple, and it was because of me that he was reincarnated as Jin Chan. I have to be responsible for him."

"How do you think he will have a better future if he follows you?"

Venerable Longhua said:

"In fact, it is his fate to stay in this bodhi tree that leads to the cycle of cause and effect. Similarly, this is also the ending that Lord Gotama has long seen, or in another sense, when Lord Gotama was there

Before he died, he had left this whirling world as a legacy to Jin Chan."

"What?"

Chen Sha was surprised:

"How could that enlightened Buddhist back then be able to see what is happening today?"

Venerable Long Hua clasped his hands together and said: "Taoism seeks life and death, Demonism seeks truth and falsehood, Confucianism seeks good and evil, Demonic Kingdom seeks change. You must have heard of the fundamentals of my Buddhist saint's teaching."

"Cause and effect." Chen Sha spit out these two words, thoughtfully: "Is it cause and effect?"

Venerable Longhua said leisurely: "The cycle of cause and effect, where there is a cause, there must be an effect. The foundation of our Buddhist teachings lies in the word cause and effect. Sow cause and get effect, and the recipient is like this. I, a Buddhist who has attained the Tao, when he reaches the state of Bodhisattva through practice,

Then you can already see the future consequences of your own karma. This is the origin of the saying, 'Bodhisattvas fear causes, and sentient beings fear consequences.'"

"Therefore, some people in Buddhism try their best to avoid falling into karma and retribution. Therefore, the four elements are empty, they do not enter the world, and they do not want to be involved in karma. But this is only Hinayana Buddhism."

"Until Gautama Enlightenment proposed that 'all the four elements are empty, cause and effect are not empty', he believed that even if you sit on a futon and don't walk in the world of mortals, you can't escape cause and effect, because all phenomena in this world, the four seas and the eight wastes, are the birth of all heavens and worlds.

, is a 'result', and since there is an effect, there must be a 'cause' that creates everything, which I call the 'cause of all effects' in Buddhism."

"During the ancient Heavenly Dao period, the eight creation gods all had some characteristics of being the 'causes of all effects.' However, after the collapse of the ancient times, the gods disappeared, the Emperor of Heaven disappeared, and the causes of all effects became obscure and difficult to find."

Chen Sha heard this and asked, "What does all this have to do with me taking Jin Chan away?"

Venerable Longhua looked at Chen Sha and said, "Don't you understand? What happened today was already doomed from the beginning. You said that this golden cicada was your disciple, but in fact, when Venerable Gautama left this

When the bodhi tree transformed into the whirling world, it had long since accepted the golden cicada as its disciple. This is cause and effect."

"If you choose to let him stay here, after he eats up all the Whirlpool World in the future, he will naturally transform. And because he swallowed a big Whirlpool World, he is born with strong roots and Buddha nature. In the future,

Your achievements...will not be lower than mine."

"And if you insist on taking it away, you will only make him lose this good fortune in vain."

Chen Sha was not convinced by Venerable Longhua's "theory of cause and effect", but fell silent because of his last words.

Look up again.

After gnawing on a continent-like leaf, the golden cicada ate a round belly and lay comfortably on the branch, trembling its wings slightly...

I sighed in my heart.

Chen Sha has been convinced, and he can see clearly that this is a great blessing.

The whirling world left by the Enlightened One Gautama, who was hailed as the most promising to take over the mantle of the saint of the Buddha, is actually a treasure left by the One.

This treasure was too big, but it was left to Jin Chan.

"Okay, Jin Chan can continue to stay in your Mount Sumeru."

Chen Sha made a compromise.

Venerable Longhua smiled and said: "Your decision is not as expected by the Enlightened Master Gautama. After all, you are also the same cause and effect."

Chen Sha raised his eyebrows and said, "So in your opinion, he is the cause and I am the effect?"

Venerable Longhua said with a smile: "If you really want to explore this issue, why not meet the Enlightenment Gautama in person? You will know."

Chen Sha was shocked.

Meet Gautama.

If Gautama is really the same person as Chen Yingning and others, then Chen Sha has actually wanted to meet them for a long time. Unfortunately, throughout his journey, this idea has never been realized.

"Is he still alive?" Chen Sha asked in shock.

Venerable Longhua pointed at this whirlpool world and said: "The Enlightenment Gautama sat under this bodhi tree in the past years, and his whole person transformed into this world. This world is actually the Enlightenment Gautama.

The 'traces' left in the world."

"The reason why I know so clearly about the arrival of Jin Chan and Your Excellency is that I can see it all from the whirling world here. You only need to sit here quietly and you will naturally be able to see the enlightened Gautama staying here.

of wisdom.”

When the Tao reaches "oneness", the trace body can cultivate the traces left by itself in the heaven, earth and universe into the trace body to survive in the world.

In a sense, the trace body is actually the shadow projected by the original body in the heaven, earth and universe.

Nowadays, among the major religious sects, except for Taoist leader Li, all the "ones" have left traces in the world.

"Okay, then I'll try to see if I can meet that enlightened being."

Chen Sha glanced at Venerable Longhua, then went to the foot of the bodhi tree, sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

And at the moment when Chen Sha was sitting under the bodhi tree.

He seemed to have traveled through time and space.

In my mind, I saw a world of bodhi trees, with blue sky and white clouds, birds singing and fragrance of flowers. Under the bodhi tree, there was a monk in white clothes, pointing one finger to the sky and the other to the earth.

Suddenly, a domineering and domineering will to dominate the present was transmitted from the body of the monk in white.

Buzz~~

The strength and domineering power of this will caused Chen Sha's soul to receive a strong shock, which was no less powerful than the shock he received when he comprehended the Taoist Tai Chi Diagram at the Taoist Patriarch's lecture platform in Yujing not long ago.

"What? This Gautama Enlightenment has definitely not reached the level of a saint of the Five Religions. Why does he actually make me feel like he is compared to the Taoist ancestors..."

Chen Sha was shocked and shocked.

Then a thought.

The white-clothed monk in the spiritual world changed from his back to him to slowly turning around and looking directly at Chen Sha.

It was different from the time when I understood Taozu's teachings in that lecture platform. At that time, the image of Taozu was surrounded by an unknowable aura, making it impossible for people to see clearly the image of Taozu.

But this moment is different.

Chen Sha saw very clearly the face of this enlightened Buddhist who was known as the most promising person to take over the mantle of Buddha.

A monk dressed in white as snow.

That face... looks almost exactly like Chen Sha.

Then, the monk spoke in Chen Sha's mind and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, you are you, I am me, we are all independent existences, you don't have to worry that we are the same person..."

Chen Sha was shocked. At that moment, some thoughts of doubting himself flashed through his mind.

But I didn't expect it.

Unexpectedly, in the eyes of this enlightened Buddhist, everything was clearly seen.

"Are you really no longer alive?"

Chen Sha really wanted to know the answer to this question.

The monk in white said: "You can think of these words as I said them a long time ago, and then they turned into traces and stayed between heaven and earth. When I saw you, you heard them again.

"

When Chen Sha heard this statement, he was even more incredible: "Doesn't this mean that you knew what I was going to say today a long time ago, so you were able to prepare the next sentence of each of my words so easily, and said it a long time ago?

come out."

The monk in white said with a smile: "This is not difficult, after all, along the way, there is someone beside you who can know the future. That should be a woman."

Chen Sha's pupils shrank slightly: "You can also predict the future."

The monk in white said: "Cause and effect themselves represent the truth and essence. It is not difficult to see the past and future clearly from the cause and effect. At my level, it is not difficult to do it."

Chen Sha accepted this statement. After all, he was a "one".

Immediately, he asked what he wanted to know most:
To be continued...