Chapter 681 Attracting Popularity
Tang Monk translated scriptures and held a water and land conference to preach, but the effect was not good. The three disciples of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk all saw that the people of Chang'an were not interested in Master's Yogacara school. They were very energetic at the beginning, but after listening for a few days, they became drowsy, and some of them simply stopped coming. But Master didn't notice it at all. They all knew that what Master said was too profound and mortals couldn't understand at all. Not to mention mortals, they didn't even like to listen, and the princess loved to study, so she read the 5,048 volumes of scriptures with relish.
"If I had known it would have been better to ask the "WuTianshu" to come back. There is nothing, which would save effort." Zhu Bajie likes this concise and clear shortcut. There is not a single word for the "WuTianshu" and it is simply tailor-made for a lazy person like him.
"Idiot, no matter how good the wordless scripture is, it is not something that ordinary people can understand. Don't think that you can be lazy if you don't have words. The so-called "inaction without words" and "nothing can be done without words", and "nothing can be said to the whole world is the same principle. Without words, all words are difficult to explain. This is something that ordinary people cannot learn, and it is even more difficult than Master's consciousness-only Buddhism." Sun Wukong said that Zhu Bajie would not say such nonsense.
"Aren't I worried that Master will be disappointed? Look at the water and land conference that was originally lively, but now the number of people is getting smaller and smaller. In a few days, there will probably be only a few monks left. Master will definitely be sad. Isn't it wrong for me to go through the real scriptures that are difficult to retrieve but have few people who know the goods?" Zhu Bajie was still good at considering people's hearts. He was right. Tang Seng thought that retrieval could save sentient beings, but the situation was that sentient beings were discouraged and did not understand Tang Seng's painstaking efforts at all.
All living beings only know the suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death. They only think that others will come to save them, but they do not know that what Western religion emphasizes is actually to save themselves. Others’ rescue is just a pointer to the moon. If you really want to see the moon, you have to rely on yourself to save yourself.
But all sentient beings think of just telling the moon directly. It is best to save yourself from the sea of suffering in one step. Why do you have to save yourself? This process of saving yourself, if you have this ability, why do you have to choose to become a Buddha? Isn’t it better to do some other serious things by yourself?
Therefore, the problem that Tang Monk faced was very embarrassing. Those who are able to learn the Yogacara school would rather take the imperial examination. Although they cannot escape birth, old age, sickness and death through the imperial examination, they can complete the identity leap. However, how can people who are unable to complete the leap by themselves and those who are waiting for Buddhism to save them?
People with ability do not have to choose Buddhism, and people with incompetence do not have the conditions to learn.
Sun Wukong and the others were anxious for the master, so they went to find Yunyao. The three of them did not expect a serious solution, so they asked the princess to help find more audiences and let the master hold the water and land conference lively.
When Yunyao heard that these three of them were all thinking about Tang Seng, they would not postpone it. They said, "Okay, tomorrow I will say that all the listeners who go to the Water and Land Conference will take care of the meals. There will definitely be many people who have nothing to do to listen to. Then maybe there are still a few people with good qualifications who can devote themselves to Buddhism."
"This is a good method." Zhu Bajie said that this method is simple and direct. He just sat inside and listened to the sutra without doing anything, and was in charge of food. He was willing to listen to it.
Sun Wukong also nodded and said, "This is troublesome. However, the 5,048 volumes of scriptures are a waste, and I don't know how many people can be saved."
"The people have not yet awakened yet, and have not realized that any era, any religion, or any proposition, ultimately rely on themselves, not others, and they have to die one after another to achieve their goal of saving themselves." Yunyao knew very well that it would be impossible to wait for others to come to save them. She said: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, I also thought about saving the suffering, but later I realized that even if I exhausted my mana, I could only protect the human race for one or two generations. But the human race was endless, and it was not a one or two immortals that could save them. What the human race needed was still itself."
"Miss Baihua, I didn't expect you to be so compassionate." Zhu Bajie was indeed surprised, because in his impression, Yun Yao always likes to negotiate terms, everything is a transaction, and never suffers losses.
Yun Yao said with a look at Zhu Bajie and said, "I am a human being after all. Isn't it normal to have this idea?" "Let's stop talking, I will prepare food and vegetables first. Since I'm listening to the scriptures, I have to make some decent vegetarian dishes, so I can cook vegetable buns. Prepare five thousand vegetable buns first, which will take a lot of time."
"Just leave it to us. You can prepare the food. We use spells to make buns and save some manpower." Sun Wukong said: "Five thousand vegetable buns, from bags to steaming, you don't need much mana."
Zhu Bajie stretched out his finger and said, "There are more than 300 more, so let me give you a tooth sacrifice." Three thousand vegetable buns are nothing to him, but seeing that Yunyao looked bad, he changed his words and said 300.
"At most thirty." People can eat meat when feeding pigs, but feeding them by themselves is just a waste. Yun Yao won't prepare 300 more buns for Zhu Bajie.
"Thirty is about thirty." Zhu Bajie didn't mind. Although he was a little less, he ate someone else's, and he would make money by eating it.
"You idiot, just want to eat." Sun Wukong couldn't help but accuse Zhu Bajie and said, "You'll make buns later."
"No, Brother Monkey, my spell is not that delicate, I still have to look at Brother Monkey."
"You just want to be lazy and even have stingy in this little magic power. You just spare no effort when eating."
Yunyao doesn't care who makes buns, she has to find someone to buy enough flour and vegetables, and she pays it out of her own pocket, completely giving face to the Great Sage.
The human race doesn't like to listen, but the demon race is quite happy to listen. Many demon races in the demon market disguised themselves and came to the water and land conference to listen to the sutras. These demon races are all kind demon races who do not eat people. Although Tang Monk discovered them, he did not drive them away. He treated them equally because the demon race could also become a Buddha.
However, several eminent monks did not welcome the demon clan very much. If Tang Monk had not agreed, they would definitely have to subdue demons.
The monks couldn't understand and could not leave. Fortunately, there were still a few monks who knew what they knew. They were all monks and had already practiced magic power. Therefore, they came to see the 5,048 volumes of scriptures and respected Tang Monk. Although Tang Monk's Buddhism was indeed too profound, since they chose this path, they could only face difficulties. Because of the difficulties, they admired Tang Monk very much, as if undergraduates admired the knowledge of doctoral students. The monks still hoped that one day they would be able to become Buddhas like Tang Monk. They had no chance before, but now the scriptures have come from the West to the East, and they have to learn them no matter how difficult it is.
But monks are not Tang Monk's goal. His goal is to save all sentient beings. Several monks and demon clans can only be regarded as the drop in the bucket of sentient beings, which is not enough. Tang Monk also knew that scriptures were indeed difficult, but he continued to explain with an optimistic attitude. The so-called preacher cannot stop just because others don't listen. The more he wants to say it, it is the same as advertising and cannot stop at all.
When advertising, you need to do one advertisement and another. It doesn’t mean that you can do one advertisement, and it will be broadcast within a period of time. You have to keep promoting it all the time. The bigger the brand, the more this is the case. It is necessary to maintain popularity and only when there is popularity can you have a brand.
Chapter completed!