Chapter 412: Escaping into Buddhism(1/3)
Meng Lang looked at the autobiography on the table, and the figure laughing wildly in the sea of fire appeared in his mind, as if he had seen his own future...
[Flowers bloom with two faces, and life is between Buddhas and demons...
Human nature has two sides.
The Buddha said, if you want to be kind, I will use compassion to save all sentient beings and let them be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss to be with me.
The devil said, "If you want to be evil, I will use evil spirits to destroy all sentient beings and make them fall into the Avici Hell and become my servants."
You are very conflicted and don’t know who to listen to?
What you ask me is your heart, and what I answer you is my heart.
Everywhere is your original mind and your original Buddha. Even if your mind is a Buddha, it is also like this...]
Certain religious concepts in the "Huayan Sutra" express Xue Huaiyi's reflections and insights on the outcome of life.
The "Huayan Sutra" handwritten by the empress in the Buddha's head is not a traditional scripture.
It is an ancient man who got this autobiography and tried to use religious concepts such as "inner demons", "reincarnation", "one flower and one world, one leaf and one bodhi" to try to understand the "heavenly book" in his hand.
And Xue Huaiyi became a monk halfway, of course not because he would be stronger because he was bald, but just to save himself...
After all, thousands of years ago, there was no CT, no MRI, no EEG, and there were no various psychotropic drugs that can make people go from "cracked" to "healed"...
If you want to solve your own mental problem of "premature rupture", you can only use magic to defeat magic and start from the spiritual level.
Choosing to study Buddhism was not due to a sudden illness and seeking medical treatment, but rather because of historical origins.
Today's people study the ancients, and the ancients study the more ancient people.
Meng Lang, a thousand years later, studied his "predecessors" just as Xue Huaiyi, a thousand years ago, studied the "predecessors" of his "predecessors".
The purpose is nothing more than to gain some "experience" in using this book from the "predecessors"...
Before Xue Huaiyi, the "predecessors" who obtained this book happened to be two eminent monks!
To talk about the love and hatred between this book and "Chinese Buddhism", we have to talk about the "historical chronicle" in the second half of this book...
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According to the "historical text" obtained by Comrade Xue's archeology.
Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, because the knowledge system and productivity were relatively backward at that time, human beings still maintained awe of nature.
Including "Hetu", "Luoshu", "Tai Gong Yin Fu", "Taiping Yaoshu" and other legendary heavenly books, most of them are derived from Taoist classics.
For example, the famous "Book of Changes", "Huangdi Neijing", Tai Chi Bagua, Yin Yang and Five Elements, fortune divination...
Regarding this book, what is circulated is more mysterious and mysterious Taoist myths and legends.
After the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, this book was lost for a long time.
Then came the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the Five Husbands disrupted China. The land of China sank for hundreds of years. It was not until the Southern and Northern Dynasties that this book finally reappeared in the world...
That's right...it was Bodhidharma, the "Founder of Zen Buddhism" who got it!
Bodhidharma was not interested in military strategy, economics and politics, but devoted himself to studying the secrets of the human body...
After living in a cave for nine years, his personal force level almost reached the peak of human beings, making him the first master of energy transformation in thousands of years!
From the fact that he can cross the river with a reed, it can be seen that this guy has the ability to control his own body and has understood fluid mechanics without any teacher...
In his later years, Bodhidharma also had a story about "returning to the west with only one footstep"...
This is perhaps the only time that the fragments of this book left the land of China and fell into the hands of aliens!
That's right, it's just a scrap!
What Bodhidharma has in his hands is the "Human Scroll" of "The Art of Taiping" that Hua Tuo obtained!
According to historical records, Hua Tuo offended Cao Cao and finally died in prison. Before his death, he handed the "Qing Sang Jing" to a jailer. Unfortunately, it has been lost since then.
If Comrade Xue Huaiyi had studied archeology other than Shuishuo, then this "Book of Heaven"... might have been divided into two parts in history!
Zhuge Kongming obtained the two volumes of "Heaven and Earth" and knew the general trend of the world and calculated the favorable time and place.
And Hua Tuo and Bodhidharma obtained the "Human Scroll" and were proficient in martial arts and medical skills, as well as the secrets of the human body...
Based on this functional division, Meng Lang has reason to guess that this so-called "human volume" is probably the "technical appendix" included at the end of each autobiography!
After all, "dying in prison" because of offending someone is really inconsistent with the persona of a "prophet."
It can only be shown that Hua Tuo has at least lost most of his ability to predict the future.
According to Xue Huaiyi, this "human scroll" traveled to the Western Regions during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
However, the Chinese treasure has been kidnapped. As the owner of the two volumes of China's orthodox "Heaven and Earth", what can he do?
Of course not!
So in the early Tang Dynasty, there was a vigorous "Journey to the West"...
Yes... Tang Xuanzang went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.
The real target... is actually the "Qing Sang Sutra"!
Everyone knows the result.
As the owner of the new generation of "Heaven and Earth" two volumes, Tang Xuanzang relied on his intelligence ability to overcome obstacles and traveled thousands of miles from Chang'an to Nalanda Temple to finally retrieve the "Human Scroll" of the Heavenly Book!
Two volumes versus one volume, it is obvious that Master Xuanzang’s side is bigger...
However, the "Nine-Nine-Eighty-One Difficulty" is probably just a literary rhetorical technique. Visual inspection of the "Master Xuanzang" who died in this process may not even be able to defeat it in double figures...
"Master Wu Cheng'en...could he really be an insider?"
Meng Lang couldn't help but think about it.
After all, it is difficult for Meng Lang not to associate with the book "Journey to the West", whether it is the title, or many settings and descriptions in it...
In any case, the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Master Xuanzang traveled westward, went through many hardships, and finally reunited the Book of Heaven.
And after he returned to the Tang Dynasty with perfect merit, this complete "Book of Heaven" finally fell into the hands of the "destined man" Xue Huaiyi...
Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty was born and died in AD 602-664, while Xue Huaiyi was born and died in AD 662-695. The dates are quite consistent!
It's just that Comrade Xue Huaiyi obviously had "mediocre qualifications" and was "overwhelmed" after only living to the age of 32!
Relatively speaking, his two "predecessors" lived quite a long time.
Historical records record that Bodhidharma lived to be 150 years old, and Xuanzang of Tang Dynasty was a little younger, at the age of 62, and also lived to retirement age...
Coincidentally, these two are both eminent monks who study Buddhism intensively.
When Xue Huaiyi realizes that he is about to burst, do you think he will follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and try to solve his own problems?
It’s so difficult to study the mysteries of the universe. Who can’t do it by copying homework?
This is why Xue Huaiyi became a monk halfway, just to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and explore the possibility of extending his life...
And it was precisely because of the two eminent monks' understanding and interpretation of this "Book of Heaven" that the predecessors officially started to reshape the world view of the Book of Heaven "from Taoism to Buddhism"...
The so-called Taoism is natural and Buddhism is emptiness.
If "Tao" is the understanding of the external nature, then "Buddha" is more about the exploration of one's own human nature.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Bodhidharma integrated the philosophical thoughts of Buddhism and Taoism and created "Buddhism with Chinese characteristics"..."Zen"!
Zen Buddhism says that one flower and one world, one leaf and one Tathagata, one sentence is too much, and one sentence is wrong.
To sum it up in one sentence, it means "all four elements are empty"!
All the dharma in the world are all illusory. If one can understand it in this way, his mind will not be moved.
It's not that the flags are moving, it's just that the heart is moving.
The mirror has no platform, so where can it cause dust?
During the Tang Dynasty, after Master Xuanzang returned to the Tang Dynasty from the Western Regions, he founded the "Consciousness Only Sect".
The Consciousness-Only Sect believes that "all things are governed by consciousness", and everything in the universe is realized by "consciousness".
Coincidentally, the two major schools that influenced the origin of Buddhism in China both agreed that only when "the four elements are empty" and "the mind has no distracting thoughts" can one become a "Buddha".
This is undoubtedly another way of solving the problem.
That is, in an ideal state, if the brothers' heads are all empty and all four elements are empty, then 0+0+0... is still equal to 0!
Perfect tool man! Like it!
However, the mental state requirements are somewhat outrageous, and it also depends on qualifications.
Comrade Xue has gone into Buddhism, still at the age of 32...
【Ling~Ling~】
Just when his soul was wandering and his thoughts were flying to a thousand years ago, a notification sound suddenly brought him back to reality.
Meng Lang glanced at the cell phone on the table and found that it was Ning Shisan calling.
Let Zero open the voice changing software and then connect the communication.
Soon, Ning Shisan’s image appeared on the mobile phone screen.
To be continued...