The mountain behind Daming Temple is the place where the abbots of the Daming Temple have gone into retreat, and where they practice their true self-identification:
Dark, extremely dark, as if it were a darkness that swallowed everything;
Quiet, with the sound of falling hair, as quiet as time standing still;
In the center of the secret room, on a worn-out futon, an old monk sat with his feet crossed. This old monk had a ruddy complexion, without a single wrinkle, but his beard was white, his eyebrows were kind, his eyes were kind, and his appearance was solemn. He looked like an eminent monk.
The appearance makes people feel friendly and holy as soon as they see it.
But now the old monk is motionless, without any breath of life in his body, as if he has passed away, but this does not mean that he has truly passed away, but that he has entered an extremely rare realm of cultivation, which is Buddhist practice.
The "realm of silence" that can be encountered but cannot be sought.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly a fragrant and sacred fragrance of sandalwood was emitted from the dark and silent chamber, which made people feel peaceful. The source of the sandalwood fragrance turned out to be the old monk. Gradually, as the sandalwood fragrance became stronger and stronger, it seemed that
Not content with emitting the fragrance of sandalwood, the old monk's body began to emit golden Buddha light. The Buddha light grew from weak to strong, like a lamp in the sea of suffering, cutting through the endless darkness and bringing light.
Upon closer observation, the Buddha's light actually emanates from the inside of the old monk's body, mainly from his head and abdomen. The Buddha's light has miraculous penetrating power and illuminates the inside of the old monk's body clearly:
The three meridians, seven chakras, and eight extraordinary meridians of the old monk's body flow with golden true essence. The golden true essence circulates in the meridians in a mysterious way. Every time the true essence circulates in one circle, it will thicken by one point, and then slowly slow down.
Slowly inject into the light source of the abdomen and head.
The light source on the old monk's belly is actually the shadow of a golden lotus! The lotus absorbs golden essence and keeps rotating and growing. As the amount of essence absorbed increases, the image of the lotus becomes more and more realistic;
Another light source is on the old monk's head, and the image is even more magical; under the golden Buddha light, the old monk's head seems to have turned into a transparent crystal, and the center of the light source is exactly at the Lingtai acupoint of the human body, also known as "
"Lunmen" is where the cultivator's soul resides. At this time, inside the "Lunmen" there is a chicken-sized, white relic. On the outside of the relic, there is a golden, smaller version of the old monk. This is the old monk's hard training.
The Buddhist relics and souls came out.
The Yuan Shen formed a seal with both hands and sat down. Three white light beams, two thin and one thick, were shot out from the palms of his hands and forehead, respectively, and injected into the relics in front of him. As the light pillars were injected, the relics became larger and larger, and became more and more solid.
The spirit became smaller and smaller, and its color became lighter and lighter. Finally, it completely transformed itself into a beam of light and injected it into the relic. At the same time, the golden lotus shadow in the old monk's belly also absorbed all the golden essence in his body.
It turned into a golden lotus that was as solid as gold.
Just as the old monk's true energy and soul disappeared, his heart beat "dong", and then the heartbeats began to become coherent. With the heartbeat of "dong, dong, dong, dong", his heart moved up and down.
Two beams of light were shot out respectively, covering the golden lotus and the spiritual relics in the belly; the golden lotus and the relics also began to move towards the heart. Gradually, the golden lotus and the relics finally arrived at the heart at the same time. The rotation of the golden lotus slowly slowed down.
Finally it stopped and began to bloom slowly; and the relics also fell in the center of the golden lotus platform after the golden lotus bloomed.
At the moment when the relic came into contact with the golden lotus, some strange reaction occurred. The two simultaneously burst out with white-gold light. The white-gold light came out from the old monk's body, illuminating the secret room in the retreat as if it were daylight.
After a while, the platinum light gradually converged, and the brightness in the room gradually dimmed. Earth-shaking changes also occurred in the old monk's body!
In the belly of the old monk, a Buddha statue appeared. The Buddha statue was golden in color, with limbs, mouth, nose, eyes and ears. His hands were in a mudra, and he was sitting down. His face was filled with compassion, and his appearance was solemn. He looked like a shrunken old monk.
The Buddha statue fell down and sat on a nine-level lotus platform. The lotus platform was as white as snow, as fresh as water, and the nine-level flowers bloomed lifelike, which were transformed from the original golden lotus.
With the appearance of the Buddha statue, the scent of sandalwood in the secret room also stopped emitting, and most of the Buddha's light was thrown into the old monk's head, transformed by the spiritual platform and emitted from the back of the head, forming a circle of colorful Buddha's light behind the head.
With a movement of his brows, the old monk had woken up from the "realm of silence". At the same time, a burst of joyful laughter came from outside the door: "Haha, dear brother, you are indeed a rare talent for cultivating Buddhism in a thousand years."
, you have achieved such an achievement in just a few decades. Congratulations on taking your cultivation to a higher level. You have already developed the bodhicitta and are one step closer to becoming a Buddha."
Yes, the old monk is the current abbot of Dayun Temple, Jianzhen, and Yun Canghai is the only one who has such a cordial conversation with him.
Jianzhen opened his eyes. Although he was a little excited, but he had been an abbot for decades, he still said slowly: "Amitabha, Brother Yun, thank you very much. I would also like to thank you for your advice. Otherwise, how could I have done it?"
How about combining the "Void Tibetan Sutra" and the "Great Light Prajna Sutra" to create the "Nirvana and Buddha Transformation" and cultivate the 'nine-level bodhicitta' that others have accumulated for thousands of years and can only be cultivated in nine reincarnations?"
Buddhist practice is completely different from Taoist practice:
Taoists cultivate the golden elixir and Yuanying, while Buddhists cultivate relics and dharma images.
Taoism emphasizes the duality of life and life, so most ascetics inhale spiritual energy, refine the physical body, refine lead and mercury externally, adjust dragons and tigers internally, and finally conceive babies, survive the catastrophe, get rid of karma, and ascend to immortality.
The soul and body are practicing together.
What Buddhism cultivates is Buddhist virtue and mind. Most Buddhist practitioners meditate and practice meditation to realize the Zen state and strengthen the Buddha's mind; or they travel around the world, experience the state of mind in the world of mortals, break away karma, and understand the Buddha's Dharma; or they do good deeds.
Accumulate virtue, save all sentient beings, and experience the path of compassion and merit from the merit gained. As long as the realm and merit reach a certain level, you can take off the physical body and ascend immediately, so the physical body is not important to those who practice Buddhism.
Compared with Taoism, Buddhism pays more attention to sudden enlightenment and merit; sudden enlightenment can enhance the realm and condense the spirit; merit can enhance luck, and even some Buddhist techniques can absorb merit to condense the golden body and Buddhist relics.