When the clouds were flying rapidly, Zhang Ruoyue held Meiko's hand and healed her wounds while telling Wuxu. That night in Cuiyuan, Meiko retold the wedding ceremony of Cuixiangju in the past, and she was outside Wuxu's door. Therefore, she
Only then did he agree that Meiko would go with him. In the carriage, Zhang Ruoyue couldn't help but tell Meiko about Wuxu's true identity.
For a moment, Wuxu didn't know what to say to Zhang Ruoyue, a narrow-minded girl. Looking at Meiko, whose face was pale and her eyes were closed tightly, Wuxu pondered for a moment and asked, "What is the origin of the Yinxu body? Why do you think so?"
By treating her injuries, can she be sure whether she is a cultivator?"
Zhang Ruoyue said displeasedly, "Master is a Buddhist, how can he be so suspicious? I can say that, I will say it myself. My spiritual power has been wandering in her body for several weeks just now. If she has practice, I will
How could you not notice it?"
Wu Xu secretly sighed, and had no choice but to hold back his suspicions about Meiko's identity as a ghost cultivator for the time being. Even the two Confucian monks who were about to leave suddenly became suspicious after seeing Meiko lighting the sandalwood.
He also suppressed it.
When Meiko woke up, Zhang Ruoyue whispered something in her ear, and Meiko blushed with shame and looked at Wuxu anxiously. Wuxu had a calm face and nodded towards her as if nothing had happened, and then
Flying to the front, Meiko's face turned even redder, and she lowered her head in even more shame.
...
Nara, the former capital of Japanese Fuso, Heijō-kyo, was later known as the "spiritual hometown" of Japan. Its layout, momentum and prosperity are naturally unmatched by the port city of Nagasaki, which is located on the sea.
Wuxu and his party of six went to visit Tang Zhaoti Temple first, then Dongdai Temple, Xida Temple, etc.
Most of these temples follow the architectural style of the Tang Dynasty. Although they are not as grand as the White Horse Temple, Xiangguo Temple and other temples in China, they are solemn and solemn, but they are the same. Although the Buddha statues in the temples are quite different from those in the temples in China,
The monks' attires are also different, but the compassionate Buddha's breath in the sky is the same. The many worshipers and pilgrims are also the same in their piety and kindness.
What particularly makes Wuxu sigh is that Miss Meiko has been taciturn since she was rescued, but she always burns incense and worships in the temple, which is very pious. That Zhang Ruoyue is now a member of the Tianwai Tianyue Sect, and seems to be arrogant.
There is often a look of disapproval that can be expressed beyond words.
When it got dark, Wuxu and six other people stayed overnight at Kofukuji Temple, the headquarters of the Hosō Sect, which is known as one of the six sects of Nara. Unfortunately, just like the late Yuan Dynasty in mainland China, Fuso also passed through the late Kamakura shogunate and the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
After the war, Kofukuji Temple is now no longer in its prime. The buildings are dilapidated, there are only a few monks, and weeds are growing everywhere.
After a simple vegetarian meal, Wuxu couldn't help but smile when he saw that there were only a few candles in the room. He simply blew out the candles and went out. There was silence and darkness everywhere, and he walked to the place where the statue of the Lord Buddha was enshrined.
In the lobby of the temple, the incense candles were also extinguished by the monks in the temple.
I walked in the deserted courtyard for a while, lamenting the decline of the six Nara sects in the past, when my spiritual consciousness sensed a middle-aged man in Japanese clothing, pulling a woman with obvious rouge on her body, dressed in Kabuki, from a door
The small door was ajar, and he walked into the temple swaggeringly.
The middle-aged man seemed to be very familiar with Kofukuji Temple. He didn't need to light a lamp for lighting. He held the kabuki's hand and without any stumbling in the darkness, he soon arrived in the courtyard where Wuxu was. The two people walked
When we arrived under a tree, we actually sat snuggled up on a stone bench. They were extremely intimate, and they even let out moderate laughter from time to time. It seemed that they actually regarded this place as their own courtyard.
Wuxu gathered his breath and stood quietly not far away. After a while, seeing that these two people had no other excessive behavior, he turned around and went back to the room to meditate. As soon as he took a step, he saw the man and the woman.
He also got up and walked towards the empty Zen house opposite.
Just as the man pushed open the door of a room and was about to pull the kabuki in, Wuxu walked over and clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, this place of Buddhism is quiet. Can the two donors move elsewhere?"
Wuxu suddenly made a sound, and the kabuki screamed in fright and hid behind the middle-aged man. The man quickly took out a fire bender, lit a fire, and raised it while looking up and down at Wuxu.
Xu, while chattering in Japanese.
Wuxu didn't understand, but from his expression and tone, he could feel the man's accusation. He confidently faced Wuxu, gesticulating and gesticulating, and his voice became louder and louder. After a while, Zhang Cuilu and Cheng
Song, Zhao Qiuhe, Meiko, and several monks from the temple all rushed over one after another.
Under Meiko's translation and explanation, Wuxu, Zhang Cuilu, Cheng Song, and Zhao Qiuhe couldn't help but look at each other in surprise. It turned out that this middle-aged man was actually the former abbot of Xingfu Temple, with the Buddhist name Cherishing Fu, and the kabuki was his
Wife. After he returned to secular life and married his wife, a few years later he returned to Kofukuji Temple and continued to serve as an elder.
After marrying a wife, can you return to the temple and serve as an elder?! Zhang Cuilu and the other three were dumbfounded and looked at Xifu and the Kabuki behind him. But Wuxu suddenly remembered that in later generations, with the changes in history, Buddhism
The localization of Fuso in Japan gradually evolved into another
According to this religion, monks in some temples can also marry and have children, and even temples are like ancestral properties, passed down from generation to generation. But at this time, generally speaking, people in Buddhism are absolutely prohibited from doing so. There is only one possibility, and that is,
Forced by the shogunate and the war, he was forced to return to secular life, marry a wife and have children.
Wuxu put his hands together and bowed to the monks of Xingfu Temple, Xifu and his wife behind him, to express his apology, then turned around and left with Zhang Cuilu and others.
"Sir," Meiko said in a low voice, as if she wanted to explain the matter further. Wuxu waved his hand, "It's not surprising. What's more, these monks, because of various persecutions, married wives and had children after returning to secular life, but what they really wanted to do was
I am Buddha." What he said was not only for Meiko, but also for Zhang Cuilu and others.
"Since you are married and have children, if you truly believe in me as a Buddha, you can become a lay scholar. It seems that there is no reason to enter Buddhism again?" Zhang Cuilu was silent for a moment and said.
"My lords, Meiko doesn't know what's going on in China. But in Japan, due to frequent wars and persecution by the shogunate, many highly respected monks have been forced to return to secular life. Some of them were even forced to marry and have children. For the sake of the prosperity of Buddhism,
, I have no choice but to obey the authority like this." Meiko bowed and answered.
"Miss Meiko, what you said is wrong. When the Buddha entered Nirvana, he once told you to take the precepts as your teacher. All evils include sexual immorality. As a disciple of Buddhism, if you cannot abstain from sexual intercourse, are you still a disciple of the World Honored One?" Cheng Song disagreed.
, shouted in unison.
With the precepts as the teacher, all kinds of evil sexual misconduct as the leader, caution and lust... Wuxu, who had already broken the precepts, listened to the words of Zhang Cuilu and Cheng Song, and felt extremely heavy in his heart.
"Buddha is trying to save all sentient beings, how could he be so pretentious and harshly criticize the suffering disciples in the world?" Nameiko, who didn't know what was going on, was very anxious about this matter, and replied repeatedly, "Besides, if we drive these eminent monks away,
Outside the temple, how can these eminent monks continue to uphold the great compassion of the Buddha, preach the Dharma widely, and help all sentient beings?"
"Such strong words and slander of Buddhism are going to hell!" Zhao Qiuhe said angrily, "According to what you said, don't demons and monsters also become Buddhas?! You can do whatever you want, do all kinds of evil, and suffer all the suffering in the world.
Revealed in a single word? "
"Master Wuxu, gentlemen," Meiko still bowed and said in a very firm tone, "When you say Amitabha, you can be reborn in the bliss of the Western Heaven."
Wuxu sighed. Meiko's last words are the core essence of Pure Land Sect. Wuxu, Cheng Song, Zhao Qiuhe, and Zhang Cuilu at this moment can all be said to be members of Hualien Miaofa Sect at Lushan Lotus Peak. And Hualien Miaofa Sect
, which belongs to the Pure Land Sect; the outer sect of the Hualien Miaofa Sect, the White Lotus Society, and even the White Lotus Sect, use reciting Amitabha as an intensive cultivation method.
Meiko said this, and Wuxu, Zhang Cuilu and others didn't know how to explain it for a moment.
After a while, Wuxu recited, "Amitabha. Miss Miko, if you chant Amitabha, you can be reborn in the bliss of the Western Heaven. Yes, and no. If you chant Amitabha, you need many years of intensive practice and sincerity." After a pause, it was quite interesting.
Looking at Miko deeply, "If you are a practitioner, you will understand the truth."
"Four eminent monks bullying a little girl, what kind of salvation are they doing?" A burst of laughter came from the air, and Wuxu didn't even need to raise his eyes to know that it was Zhang Ruoyue.
I saw Zhang Ruoyue flying down from the air to Meiko, patting her on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Miss Meiko, these bald monks are the best at sophistry and glib tongue. You must not get involved."
"That man entered Kofukuji Temple!"
"Quick! Don't let him get away!"
...
Wuxu smelled the strong smell of alcohol coming from Zhang Ruoyue, heard the shouts coming from the distance, and asked, "Fairy Ruoyue, did you go out tonight? Could it be that you were chased after drinking without paying?"
Come here."
Zhang Ruoyue walked over with great pride, patted Wuxu's shoulder heavily, and said with a smile, "Last time in Cuixiangju, you asked me to pay. This time, it's your turn."
Wuxu smelled the aroma of wine on Zhang Ruoyue's body carefully, frowned and said, "Where have you been and what kind of wine are you drinking?"
Zhang Ruoyue, laughing and joking, sat on the stone beside the corridor and said with a charming smile, "Nong Zui from the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea is good."
Are you drunk? Wu Xu was slightly startled.
At this moment, several figures flew down one after another, standing in front of Wuxu, Zhang Ruoyue and others with eager eyes.
"Surround the temple! Don't let anyone go!" The shouts and shouts of the minions outside continued to be heard.
Wuxu signaled Zhang Cuilu to protect Zhang Ruoyue, and went forward with Cheng Song and Zhao Qiuhe.
"Who are you?! Hand over that woman quickly, you know me!" A demon cultivator, whose cultivation level is around the eighth level of mortal world. After he glanced at Wuxu and others, he suddenly showed a look of contempt and pointed with his hand.
Zhang Ruoyue shouted loudly.
Wuxu remained silent, only releasing a trace of breath.
The ninth level of mortal cultivation! The four or five monks on the opposite side suddenly looked shocked! After the opening of Mount Lu, monks above the level of real people in the world have almost disappeared. The ninth level of mortal cultivation is the top master.
After a moment, another demon cultivator came forward from the darkness, raised his hand to Wuxu, "I'm here, Long Zhen, haven't you asked me your name yet?"
Long Zhen?! Wuxu took a closer look, and it turned out to be this boy! Then he smiled and said, "I wonder what offends my companion? Why did you, Biyun Palace, mobilize so many people like this?"
"He broke into our Biyun Academy and not only drank the wine we prepared to give to the Lord of the Shinto Palace, but also injured many people." A demon cultivator standing behind said angrily.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhang Ruoyue stood up drunkenly, with her face flushed and swaying, "I heard you guys always bragging about how amazing Nong Zui is, so I couldn't help but drink a few drinks. Also,
That's all..." Suddenly he pointed his hand again, "Speaking of which, it's you who seduced me... What crime should you deserve!?"
Wuxu roughly understood. Zhang Ruoyue said that she wanted to go out for a walk. He didn't pay attention at the time. Unexpectedly, she sneaked into Biyun Academy here and did such a thing. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Zhang Ruoyue suddenly pointed her finger at
oneself, round stare
He shouted with eyes closed, "And you! You, what you said is that Nong is as drunk as bayberry wine..." Then he pointed at Long Zhen and others, meaning that Wuxu wanted Wuxu to deal with these people, and then turned around
, flew into the room. Wuxu couldn't laugh or cry.
When Long Zhen heard Zhang Ruoyue's last words pointing at Wuxu, a flash of inspiration seemed to flash in his mind, and he was about to ask again. Meiko, who had been bowing behind, raised her head and walked out. When Long Zhen saw it, his face suddenly changed.
Suddenly, she was about to speak. Meiko lowered her head and whispered, "This matter is probably a misunderstanding. Biyun Academy has a great reputation and is respected by everyone. Why go to war for a mere glass of wine?"
"
Long Zhen stretched out his hand to stop his companion, looked at Meiko, and said, "In this case, it is indeed a misunderstanding. It is late at night, so I will say goodbye and hope that the girl will forgive me."
After witnessing Long Zhen and others slowly retreating, Wuxu ordered Zhang Cuilu, Cheng Song, and Zhao Qiuhe to guard outside Zhang Ruoyue's room, and then raised his hand to signal Meizi to continue without saying anything.
There is no moon tonight, and the quiet courtyard is very dark. The flowers, plants and trees are all the same color, but they are pierced sideways from time to time. Realizing that it is aimless, Meizi bows her head and follows in silence.
Unconsciously, he walked back to the place where Xifu and his wife were hugging each other. Wuxu stopped and said to the lush trees in the dark, "Cuixiangju, farewell. We haven't seen each other for many years. Is Miss Meiko still fine?"
?"
"Thanks to Master, Meiko is still well." Meiko's voice sounded low in the endless night behind Wuxu.
"Just now, thank you Miss Meiko for coming forward." Wuxu stood silently, and after a moment, he said solemnly.
"The Buddha said that there is a cycle of cause and effect. Is Master Wuxu blaming Meiko with this statement, or is it an end to the cause and effect between the master and Meiko. From then on, they will not owe each other anything, and we will all be strangers?" Meiko's voice, in the darkness
in, weeping and complaining
"Although Meng Ze coerced Meizi to burn incense and poison, he secretly assisted Ge and Zhong to attack and kill the master and others. But Meizi learned that the master was the benefactor who rescued Xiao Meizi at the wedding ceremony of Cuixiang Residence that day.
I firmly decided that even if I risk my life, I will secretly help my benefactor."
"I have figured out that matter afterwards." Wuxu said, facing the big tree in the darkness, with his back to Meiko, "If you want to know the cause and effect, it will be over in the valley of the sun. What I just said is true
Many thanks to you."
The two of them continued walking silently. Unable to see their fingers in the darkness, they walked one behind the other and unknowingly arrived at the lobby where the statue of Buddha was enshrined.
Wuxu stopped and asked, "Miss Meiko has a yin-deficient body. I'm afraid she needs to practice Buddhism and wear Buddhist treasures in order to turn bad luck into good luck and live a long life. The young monk remembered that he gave Miss Meiko a string of jade Buddha beads that day.
I don’t know where you are now? Why don’t you wear it with you?”
Meiko was silent.
Wuxu finally couldn't bear to ask. Meiko was now a ghost cultivator above the sixth level of the mortal world. It was impossible for her to wear Buddhist beads with her.
Walking into the lobby where the statue of Buddha is enshrined, Wuxu flicked his fingers and made a small white lotus brilliance, floating in the air, with the statue of the World Honored One looming. But when he saw Meiko, he suddenly knelt down on the futon, clasped his hands and recited silently.
A ghost cultivator, who was above the sixth level of mortal world, put his palms together and recited the Buddha's name in a dark Buddhist hall. Wuxu couldn't help but feel that it was a little eerie, weird, and even blasphemous, so he stood there in a daze, without saying a word.
"When you chant Amitabha Buddha, you can be reborn in the bliss of the Western Heaven. Master Wuxu, do you think so?" Meiko put her hands together and made a wish, and asked leisurely on the futon.
"Amitabha, there are people who can wake up, repent of all their sins, recite a single chant, and then be reborn in the Pure Land of Pure Bliss in the Western Heaven." Wuxu answered with his palms clasped together.
"If a person commits various precepts and commits serious sins, and chants before death, can he be reborn in the Pure Land of Paradise in the West?" Meiko continued to ask on the futon.
Wuxu hesitated. If a person knowingly commits crimes, burns, kills, loots, and commits various precepts all his life, and when he gets old, he wants to cancel his sins and be reborn in the Pure Land of Western Heaven when he is old, what kind of cause and effect cycle can there be?
, are you unhappy with retribution? Let’s all be evildoers. Anyway, before dying, just recite Amitabha.
Looking at Meiko kneeling on the futon, and thinking of the various commandments he had committed, such as sex, killing, and drinking, Wuxu hesitated, unable to bear to answer, and found it difficult to answer.
"Master, do you still remember the Buddhist incense that Meiko lit in the valley?" Meiko whispered.
Colorless, odorless, smokeless and fragranceless....
"Yixinxiang?" Wu Xu asked hesitantly.
"Exactly. This incense is from Honganji Temple in Kyoto. Colorless and odorless, smokeless and incense-free. When Master Luan was speaking the Pure Land Mantra at Honganji Temple, it had this incense." Miko said.
"Dao Lai," he practiced with Master Luan for twenty years but could not reach perfection. Later, he learned to recite the Buddha's name under the disciple of Master Faran.
Only through the Dharma door can we know that Amitabha Buddha has immeasurable and boundless compassionate vows and acceptance. Later, he suffered all kinds of persecutions. After returning to secular life, he violated various precepts, such as marrying and having children. This is to tell the world that Amitabha Buddha's vows are boundless and that people in the world can fall deeply into sins.
Cross them one by one and lead them to the pure land of bliss in the west."
After hearing this, Wuxu couldn't help but burst into tears. He sighed and knelt down next to Meiko, clasping his palms together and saying, "So that's it. Although we have countless sins, the Buddha has great compassion and great vows to guide us one by one."
Disdain without bias
, Amitabha "then thanked Meiko again, "This is exactly what it is." The young monk thanked Miss Meiko and Master Qinluan for their guidance. This trip to Dongying Fusang is well worth it. Amitabha, it is very good, very good."
After that night, Wuxu said goodbye to Meiko, took Zhang Ruoyue, Zhang Cuilu and others, and left Nara happily, returning to the west.
As the saying goes
After marrying a wife and having children, he has returned to the secular world, and the abstention from eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling is gone.
It is difficult to escape from all kinds of bad karma. Just chant and uphold it to cross Jambu.
Note: If you look at "Jodo Shingon" on Baidu, you will see that some scholars in the West who study Buddhism compare Master Chin-Luan with Martin Luther in Western Christianity. Why? I thought they both created the so-called
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What is "Tali Teaching"? That is, there is a god and Buddha who is full of compassion and aspiration. As long as you recite it sincerely, he will come and lead you to the Western Paradise (heaven).
.Although you are inevitably stained with sin (original sin).
"For the righteousness of God is revealed in this gospel. This righteousness is by faith from faith to faith. As it is written, The righteous shall live by faith." Martin Luther derived from this sentence, as long as
When a person believes in Jesus Christ, he can receive this gift. No matter what a person does, he cannot force God to give him this gift. Because this is the mercy and gift of Christ Jesus, the Father.
"When you chant Amitabha Buddha, you can be reborn in the bliss of the Western Heaven." Master Qinluan used this sentence to tell the world that no matter how many sins you have, no matter how miserable you are, when you are deeply unable to save yourself, as long as you have faith in the Buddha,
Then you can receive the Buddha's boundless compassion, vows and merits, and completely entrust yourself to the arms of Amitabha.
The above is an annotation for this chapter, but it is not the purpose of this novel, or it is not the entirety of this novel.
In fact, this chapter is trying to explain, or try to explore, whether those who have violated the precepts and committed sins can only go to the eighteen levels of hell before practicing Buddhism? If you want to practice, what should you understand first? If you see
Sir, after reading this chapter and feeling inspired, this trip is well worth it.