Chapter 1014 Use the Shaolin Temple to host things
Yunxi set out from the capital on May 11th and arrived in Yangzhou in the early morning of the next morning. He went north along the canal without stopping at all, passing through Xuzhou, Zhengxian and even Kaifeng. He only stopped in two cities and other cities were flashed.
And they passed by, including Kaifeng, where King Zhou was. Urgent reports from the northwest came one after another. Although the news that the soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom had captured Urumqi had not yet arrived, Yunxi was also very worried, so he rushed to the northwest.
But there are two cities that you must stop at. One of them is Xuyi County. Xuyi County has the ancestral mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang’s grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, that is, Yunxi’s great-great-grandfather, Tian grandfather and Lie grandfather are buried there.
Here, not only was Shang Bing in danger, even if Zhu Yuanzhang was critically ill, Yunxi had to pay his respects when he passed by. Yunxi also brought someone on board the ship.
The second is Luoyang. Of course there is no ancestral grave of the old Zhu family in Luoyang, but there is the Songshan Shaolin Temple in Luoyang. Although Master Fangzheng, the head of the Shaolin Temple, did not know why the emperor took him to the northwest, the emperor called him unless he was too sick to get up.
Otherwise, we can only obey our orders.
Fang Zheng also brought a dozen young monks with him. According to the rules defined by Yun Xi at the time, Buddhism was spread to the northwest. As the largest Buddhist temple in the Central Plains, Shaolin Temple was reluctant, but it had no choice but to do so.
Contribute money and effort. The Thousand Buddha Temple in Yiwu was built with money from the Shaolin Temple. Fang Sheng, the director of the temple, was also born in the Shaolin Temple and is Fang Zheng's junior brother. Fang Zheng sends monks to the northwest every year to support, and this year he went with the imperial court's free ship.
After that, Yunxi passed through Yuncheng, Weinan, and Xi'an, and came to Baoji. When he arrived in Baoji, he couldn't take the boat, so he changed to a carriage and continued traveling.
Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief. After arriving at Baoji from the capital, it took him more than ten days to sail day and night before reaching the northwest. However, the memorials during this period never reported that the soldiers of the Samarkand Kingdom had arrived at Yiwu City. Yunxi
I feel relieved a little and can think about other things.
"Lijie, go and invite Master Fangzheng, the master of Shaolin Temple." Yunxi sat on the spacious carriage and ordered the bodyguard Chen Lijie.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Lijie agreed and stepped back.
"Slow down." Yunxi suddenly stopped him again and said with a smile: "Lijie, I was very busy during the New Year days and I forgot to ask, did you participate in the selection for the martial arts hall?"
"I participated in the selection of the martial arts hall, but I was not selected." Chen Lijie replied.
"You haven't selected it yet?" Although Chen Lijie standing here at this moment is enough to show that he has not selected it, but Yunxi is still a little surprised.
"I participated in the selection at the Beijing Guards Station. After the selection, I also went to inquire and found out that I was ranked 21st and was not admitted." Chen Lijie said with a look of regret.
After hearing this ranking, Yunxi felt clear: He must have been ranked by someone with connections.
The admission method for students in the Jiangwu Hall formulated by Yunxi is very similar to the admission method of modern Western universities. There are corresponding competitions, but because many items are difficult to quantify, the final decision of who to admit and who not to admit is still made by the responsible military commander.
This gives a certain amount of room for maneuver. Although they dare not send crooked melons and cracked dates to the martial arts hall, under the same conditions, they will admit people with connections. Just like a modern person who wants to go to a famous Western university
In college, you throw a lot of dollars in front of the school directors, or like George W. Bush, two generations of your ancestors are members of Congress. As long as you are not too bad, you can get into it. Chen Lijie was obviously given the upper hand by people with backgrounds.
"When I get back, I have to ask who took Chen Lijie's spot. This is outrageous." Yun He thought to himself.
While thinking about it, Yunxi also said to him: "I think your ability should be enough to teach martial arts. Maybe there are too many outstanding people this year. Next year, if you participate in the selection again next year, you will definitely be selected!"
"Thank you for your kind words, Your Majesty." Chen Lijie bowed and saluted.
Yunxi said a few more words and let him go down.
After a while, the abbot of Shaolin Temple Fang Zheng came to Yunxi's carriage and bowed and saluted: "The poor monk Fang Zheng has seen your Majesty, long live long live long live long live!"
"Master, please get up." Yunxi stretched out his hand to help.
Fang Zheng didn't dare to let him help him, so he kowtowed a few more times and stood up, standing respectfully in front of Yun He.
"Master, sit down." Yunxi sat down again and pointed to the chair in front of him and said to him. Fangzheng put his hands together and bowed, half sitting on the chair.
"Master, since the thirty-first year of Hongwu, I have not seen the master for six years. But when I saw him today, the master's style is as good as in previous years, and he has not aged at all."
"Your Majesty is so complimentary. The poor monk's health in the past two years is not as good as in the past. He used to be able to walk more than ten miles in one breath, but now he is exhausted and out of breath after walking less than seven or eight miles. It's just like the poor monk in this age.
No matter how many years older an old man is, it won't show."
"No, Master is still in good health. When I am in the capital, those veterans who are sixty or seventy years old have aged a lot in the past five or six years. It is very obvious."
Fang Zheng didn't know whether to admit it or not, so he could only sit on his chair and vaguely agree.
"Is this another use of Shaolin Kung Fu? In addition to strengthening the body, it can also maintain appearance?" Yunxi continued.
"Your Majesty, it has been more than eight hundred years since the Shaolin Temple was founded in the late Northern Wei Dynasty. Patriarch Bodhidharma brought Indian martial arts from India and combined it with Central Plains martial arts to create Shaolin Kung Fu. I have never heard of Shaolin Kung Fu.
The effect of rejuvenating the appearance." If the person in front of him was Miao Jin or Yun Zhi, he would probably have started to brag about it, but the person in front of him was the emperor, and he clearly knew that the emperor did not believe in Buddhism, so he still spared it. But he began to think in his heart:'
Do you want to spread the word to the pilgrims who come to Songshan Mountain after you go back?'
"Perhaps it is the result of improvements that have just been made in recent years. Although Shaolin martial arts was founded in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, it has not always been complacent and has made progress. Especially I heard that around the Song Dynasty, a Shaolin monk suddenly realized the secrets of Shaolin.
Internal Kung Fu is just like Taoist Qi cultivation. Perhaps it is the wonderful result of combining internal Kung Fu with a certain external Kung Fu." Yun He said with a smile.
After hearing this, Fang was just submissive on the surface, but he became wary in his heart. The emperor did not believe in Buddhism, but he kept boasting about Shaolin and Buddhism in these few words. What was his intention?
Yunxi continued: "It is said that if the inner Qi Kung Fu of the Taoist school is practiced to the extreme, it can become an immortal. Then if the Kung Fu of the Buddhist school is practiced to the extreme, can it be possible to become a Buddha?"
"Your Majesty, our Buddhist school has always emphasized compassion and doing good deeds. Only those who do good deeds can truly understand the principles of Buddhism and even become a Buddha. It has nothing to do with the level of cultivation."
"What about those people who have never believed in Buddhism, but once they believed in it, they immediately became eminent Buddhist monks? For example, the Sixth Patriarch Huineng."
"Your Majesty, the Buddhists only say that if one has sudden enlightenment, even if a person has never believed in Buddhism before or heard the principles of Buddhism, once he has sudden enlightenment, he can surpass ten of the best monks in the world. Both," Fang Zheng paused.
He suddenly said: "Buddhas or Bodhisattvas sometimes descend to earth to spread Buddhist principles. The person the Emperor just mentioned may be the reincarnation of Buddha."
"I see." Yunxi said this, lowered his head and began to meditate. While he was meditating, Fang Zheng sat motionless on the chair, quietly waiting for Yunxi's next instructions.
Yunxi was thinking and writing and drawing. Fangzheng took a sneak peek and saw a ball drawn on the paper, and there were many unfamiliar symbols, such as 'v', etc. He was puzzled but did not dare to ask.
After nearly half an hour, Yunxi put away his pen, folded the paper, put it on his body, and asked about the principles of Buddhism.
"Your Majesty, our Buddhist school emphasizes truth and Buddha nature. We believe that everything in the world has Buddha nature, but we have not learned the Dharma, so we cannot become a Buddha. "The Mahaparinirvana Sutra" says: 'All living beings have Buddha nature in their bodies.
, when all the countless troubles are eliminated, the Buddha will be obvious, except for one Shanti.' "The Mahaparinirvana Sutra" also says: "Although there is Buddha nature, it has not practiced all the good methods, so it has not been achieved, and it is impossible to see it because of it."
Achieve Sammyaksambodhi.'"
"It can be concluded that as long as all living beings practice Buddhism, have compassion in their hearts, and do one good deed every day, the Buddha nature in their hearts will be revealed. If they have enough merit, they can become Buddhas."
"In addition, the Northern Edition of the Nirvana Sutra says..." Fang Zheng tried his best to introduce Buddhist classics and concepts to Yunxi.
Although Yunxi didn't believe in Buddhism, he was a little confused by his general theory. He thought to himself: "No wonder Buddhism can spread its religion from India to the east in two lines. It is indeed extraordinary."
'The Tianfang Sect was able to follow the footsteps of Buddhism and spread its religion eastward, turning many of the original Buddhist territories into the territory of the Tianfang Sect. Although there were weapons during the period, the missionaries still used their clever words and persuasion to confuse the nobles and people of various countries.
It can be seen that the Tianfang Sect should not be underestimated. The Cross Sect can maintain a stalemate with the Tianfang Sect in the West. Although it loses most of the time, it must be extraordinary. Let's learn more about it someday.'
'This shows that my calculation is very necessary. Buddhism must be made strong again. Otherwise, even if we occupy the Western Region and even eliminate the local aborigines, we will not be able to prevent the Tianfang Sect from infiltrating from the west.'
Yunxi, who had made up his mind, decided to find a way to find a copy of the "Gulan Sutra" to study after going back. He raised his head and said with a smile: "Master Fangzheng has studied the Buddhist scriptures so deeply. There is no one in the world who can compare with the master."
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Speaking of his study of Buddhist scriptures, Fang Zheng twirled his beard proudly: "Your Majesty, the reason why this poor monk can become the abbot of Shaolin Temple is because he has the deepest study of Buddhism among the monks of the Fang generation in the temple.
The masters and uncles handed over the Shaolin Temple to the poor monks."
"Even if you look at the Ming Dynasty, no one can match the poor monk." Fang Zheng had previously competed when he hosted a gathering in major temples across the country in the 31st year of Hongwu, so he dared to brag about this at this time.
"However, if you look at the world, the poor monk has only exchanged Buddhist teachings with monks from Uzang. He has never interacted with monks from other places, so he dare not speak."
"Hey, in my opinion, even in the world, there is no one who can compare with Master Fangzheng." Yunxi paused and suddenly said: "Master Fangzheng's Dharma is so profound that few people in the world can match it. Could it be that the master is the reincarnation of Buddha?
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"How could a poor monk be the reincarnation of Buddha?" Fang Zheng was stunned and immediately denied it.
"Master, what evidence do you have to prove that you are not the reincarnation of Buddha?" Yunxi said with a smile.
"How to prove this? Whether it is the reincarnation of Buddha or not, how can the human world test it?"
"In other words, the master cannot prove that he is not the reincarnation of Buddha?"
"Well, the poor monk really doesn't know how to prove whether a person is the reincarnation of the Buddha or not." Fang Zheng didn't understand what Yunxi meant by insisting that he be the reincarnation of the Buddha, but it was better to deny it when good fortune and misfortune were unpredictable.
"But I have a way to prove that you are the reincarnation of Buddha." Yunxi said, "Come up here."
Fang Zheng put his ear to Yun He's mouth anxiously. After listening to a few words, he loudly said in surprise: "How can a person survive if he does this?"
"It is precisely because ordinary people cannot survive if they do this, so if the master can survive, he must be the reincarnation of the Buddha."
"The poor monk is by no means the reincarnation of the Buddha. Your Majesty, please go around the poor monk. If the poor monk disobeys you in any way, please make it clear that the poor monk will die without regrets," Fang Zheng said.