"Brother Jiang, I really didn't expect that we would meet here again."
Jiang Liu'er looked at Xu Lan and was also very surprised, "I'm also very surprised! Ah, by the way, Brother Xu, aren't you from a martial arts sect? Why are you so powerful in the imperial examination? This makes us mortals feel so inferior."
Seeing Jiang Liuer's sly smile, Xu Lan thought to himself: How could you have such shameless feelings of inferiority?
Jiang Liuer added: "It's a pity that I can't see your junior sister on this occasion. Hey, how is she lately?"
Xu Lan looked at Jiang Liu'er with squinted eyes, this kid still had some evil thoughts.
"Well, I encountered some things recently, but I got through it luckily. The palace examination is about to take place. Are you ready to win the first prize, brother Jiang?"
Jiang Liu'er opened his eyes wide and said, "Are you kidding me? I'm just here to eat at the deer-minging banquet. Anyway, the palace examination doesn't eliminate people. I just write two poems that suit the occasion and please the court officials."
"ah?"
Seeing Jiang Liuer's sincerity, Xu Lan never thought that his thoughts were so simple. You must know that the higher the rank in the imperial examination, the more favored the emperor and senior officials will be.
When there is a real gap in filling the vacancies later, students will also be queued up according to their rankings. Therefore, although students will not be dismissed in the palace examination, if they do not perform well and get the last place, they will probably become a laughing stock, and it will be difficult to get ahead in the officialdom in this life.
"After all, this matter involves the future. Brother Jiang, you should be more serious."
Jiang Liu'er said with a carefree smile: "I got a Jinshi just to go back and honor my ancestors, and also to reduce some taxes for my family's land and my brother and sister-in-law. Everything else doesn't matter. I have never thought about becoming an official. After I finish, I will shoot
Just slap your ass and go home.”
Xu Lan suddenly admired Jiang Liu'er. Thinking that after the imperial examination, the emperor would announce his journey to the west, it would be better to tell him here first.
With that said, he took Jiang Liu'er to the side and said, "After the imperial examination, His Majesty will announce a news and hopes to organize the imperial examination scholars to go west to Leiyin Temple to obtain the true scriptures."
Jiang Liu'er was stunned and said in surprise: "Are you kidding? There are not many scholars here who have special skills like Brother Xu. There are many scholars like me who have no strength and want to go to the west to learn scriptures? I'm afraid that everyone will
You have to be eaten by the dragon of the sea of karma."
Xu Lan smiled bitterly and patted Jiang Liu'er on the shoulder, "Anyway, you can decide by yourself whether to go or not. Your Majesty will not force anyone to go."
Even though Jiang Liu'er had already said that he was offered this job, he could only believe it with suspicion.
At the beginning of the palace examination, the emperor looked at the hundreds of scholars under the imperial steps. After some polite words, he thought for a while and wrote down two words from the scripture to answer the question.
Jiang Liu'er was shocked. It was just as Xu Lan said. He couldn't help but look at Xu Lan, and their eyes collided in the air.
The response time is one hour. After all, the important officials and the emperor cannot wait here long.
All candidates attach great importance to the palace examination. After all, it determines the direction of their future career, and they all ponder hard.
Jiang Liu'er was studying ink and thinking, and what he wanted to write soon came to his mind.
It was the Buddhist theory of consciousness that he had been thinking about so hard in the past!
At present, Zen is the most widely spread in the Buddhist world, but Zen is too idealistic and self-centered. People who understand Buddhism are often prone to misunderstandings and go astray. They mistakenly regard desires as the true nature of the self. Only by fully satisfying one's own desires as the true nature can one realize Buddhahood.
, turning the Buddha into a demon.
For example, the Bodhisattva of Great Joy and the Maitreya of Great Desire in the Demon Sect are both manifestations of enlightenment in Zen and going astray.
Secondly, there is the Pure Land Sect, which emphasizes the practice of reciting the Buddha's name as the internal cause and the power of Amitabha's vows as the external condition. The inner and outer correspond to each other, guiding practitioners to be reborn in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
However, the Pure Land sect sits and recites the Buddha's name, visualizes the Buddha's image, and then expects the Buddha to send down the power of vows to guide Buddhahood. This is really superficial, does not practice cause and effect, and only relies on reciting the Buddha's name. How can one see one's own Buddha nature, but not one's own Buddha nature?
, and how to ascend to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss? This sect is not as good as the so-called sudden enlightenment to understand one's mind and one's nature and become a Buddha.
In addition, there are Buddhist sects such as the Vinaya sect and the Three Treatises sect, each of which upholds practice methods and has many good methods.
However, Jiang Liuer's self-realized theory of consciousness is still a major theory that transcends all major Buddhist sects. He recently thought about it in Ci'en Temple and gained a lot.
When I came across this topic today, I couldn't help but feel itchy and unbearable, so I started writing it. I didn't even type a draft, but wrote it down very smoothly. I wrote three pages and thousands of words!
After I finished writing, I felt that I could express my feelings freely and felt very relaxed, so I handed it directly to the eunuch who was passing by to invigilate the exam.
When the eunuch took the paper, he was stunned for a moment. It had only been half an hour, and most of the candidates hadn't even finished writing their drafts. Some of them were actually handing in the paper directly?!
He glanced meaningfully at Jiang Liu'er, who was stretching his waist carelessly, and handed the paper in front of the throne.
The candidates around him obviously noticed Jiang Liuer's behavior and glanced at him subconsciously. Some were surprised, some were disdainful, some were skeptical, and the emotions varied.
Xu Lan also noticed that Jiang Liuer was the first to hand in the paper, lowered his head and smiled bitterly, secretly thinking: This Brother Jiang is really brave. If he wants to keep a low profile, he should just follow the crowd and hand in the paper. In this way, being the first to hand in the paper will be a success.
He has achieved success. If he doesn't want to wait for an official position and return to his hometown, he will inevitably be noticed by others, and the influence will always be bad. Besides, he is the first to submit the paper, and he gets good answers. If his poems are nonsense, the emperor will read them in front of everyone.
If he comes out, won't he make a big fool of himself?
After Jiang Liuer stretched his waist and looked around, he was shocked to realize that he was the first to hand in the paper.
He quickly stretched out his hand to grab the hem of the eunuch's clothes, wanting to regret it, but the eunuch walked very quickly and had already arrived in front of the throne.
The corners of Jiang Liuer's eyes and mouth kept twitching, and finally he could only sit upright and accept his fate, studying the texture on the table with his eyebrows lowered.
The emperor and many ministers obviously noticed the first person to hand in the paper, and they all glanced at Jiang Liu'er.
The current Prime Minister Gu Tongguang, the head of the group of ministers who has become an immortal, also looked at Jiang Liu'er with a smile on his face. He saw all the changes in his expression, his face was full of smiles, and he felt that this man was interesting.
The emperor put away the paper, glanced at Jiang Liu'er, who was sitting upright, and laughed twice, but the meaning was unclear.
Then I saw that the three papers were all written in small regular script, and I was quite surprised.
Of the three papers originally issued, two were drafts and only one was finalized.
Unexpectedly, this boy didn't even type a draft, but actually handed it in. The emperor thought to himself: If this young man dares to make a typo or graffiti, he will be ranked as the last one!
While thinking about it, I read the Theory of Consciousness-Only written by Jiang Liuer. In fact, the title is indeed called Theory of Consciousness-Only!
He was so surprised that he read it one by one.
The theory of consciousness-only theory expounded by Jiang Liu'er specifically guides ordinary people on how to seek the Dharma to obtain the appearance of their own Buddha, so as to practice and become a Buddha.
The principles and ideas are very unique, and it is a new approach, but it makes people feel that it is very feasible.
Especially when it comes to consciousness only, it is important to cultivate the eight consciousnesses of human beings. Until the alaya consciousness is cultivated, one can see the location of one's own Buddha nature. Cultivating Buddha in this way is a smooth road.
Seeing all this, the emperor became more and more surprised. After reading the whole thing, he turned back and started to look at the essays in detail. Even the papers submitted by other scholars were only given to the prime minister and others to look at first.
This move even surprised the civil and military officials and other scholars present. What did Jiang Liuer write? Why did the emperor read it so repeatedly?