The spring scenery is beautiful and the flowers are in full bloom. The peach plum blossoms have tender stamens, and the hibiscus is fragrant.
The plains of Shujun, which stretches a million miles across, are in fine spring weather. The Minjiang River surges down, and thousands of rivers and springs nourish this land of abundance and nourish the infinite creatures within this million miles.
On Mount Emei, the clouds and garlands are emerald green, and the black hair is in the distance. It is really like the peak of Mount Emei, thin and long, beautiful and gorgeous.
On the Golden Summit of Emei, the Buddha's light shines everywhere, and the golden light spreads over the clouds, illuminating the mountains with clouds and mist.
On top of the golden clouds of Sheshen Cliff shrouded in rosy clouds, there is a Buddhist temple that is completely shrouded in Buddha's light, hanging high in the clouds, and cannot be seen by those without cultivation.
This is the Sacrifice Temple, the Dharma Temple of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. Mount Emei is also the monastery of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.
At this moment, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, who was sitting cross-legged in the main hall of Sheshen Temple, suddenly opened his eyes, and then shouted downward: "Jingna."
A monk wearing light yellow monk robes, with a slender figure and a handsome face stood up and bowed with his hands together: "Master."
Samantabhadra Bodhisattva said to Jingna: "Go and get a cup of golden lotus seeds."
Jing Na was startled when he heard this and said, "Master, do you want one?"
Samantabhadra Bodhisattva nodded and said: "One cup, 36 golden lotus seeds."
"Follow the law." Jing Na bowed and responded, then turned and left the hall.
When he was young, Jingna returned to the palace with a cup of golden lotus seeds. Samantabhadra said: "Take the golden lotus seeds and go to Feishayan to wait for a heavenly official wearing a green haze jade and unicorn robe to pass by. Then I gave him this golden lotus seed."
"Immortal official?" Jing Na was a little puzzled and said: "Master, these golden lotus seeds are extremely precious. It only takes three thousand years to produce one. When True Monarch Erlang came here, he spent 700,000 merits to exchange for seven. Where is it this time? An immortal official gives away so much for nothing at once?"
"Don't ask any more questions. You will know when you see him. These golden lotus seeds are used by the teacher as a favor. You must not ignore them." Samantabhadra said slowly.
"Yes." Jingna didn't dare to ask any more questions. She bowed and left Mount Emei, turning into a golden light and flying towards Feishayan.
...
A celestial sword flashed across the sky, flying across half of the plains of Shu County in an instant.
When the sword light came to the sky above Feishayan, it was stopped by a Buddha's call, "Amitabha, donor, please stay."
The sword light slowly stopped, and a handsome man wearing a qingxia jade unicorn robe stopped and looked behind him.
I saw a tall and handsome monk wearing light yellow monk robes flying forward on golden clouds. He looked at the young man in front of him with doubts in his eyes. A true immortal? Why would master do favors to a true immortal?
Fang Jian gently folded his sleeves and robe, his eyes fell on the monk in front of him, and then he scanned with the editor, Taiyi Xuanxian!
Just listen to Fang Jian ask: "Master, where are you coming? Why did you call me to stop?"
Jingna joined the eleventh salute and said: "Amitabha, the poor monk is a disciple of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva in Mount Emei. His dharma name is Jingna. He has been ordered by his master to come here to wait for God."
Fang Jian's eyes narrowed and he asked, "Oh? Wait for me? I wonder what the Bodhisattva's instructions are?"
Jingna bowed respectfully and said, "You haven't asked for the name of the god yet?"
Fang Jian bowed his head and said: "I am the fifth-rank heavenly judge of the heavenly court. I hold the 'Ziwei Xuanfu' to supervise the immortal officials of the four major continents. Fang Jian is the one!"
Jing Na was shocked when he heard this, and his expression changed directly: "Hongqing Zhenren Fang Jian?"
"Exactly." Fang Jian nodded and said, "Master, I asked you to stop me. Is there something important?"
Jing Na looked at Fang Jian calmly, with complicated eyes, and even a hint of shock.
If it was this person, then it would make sense for the master to be a favor.
But Jing Na's mood was very complicated. After all, Fang Jian was the one who drove Buddhism out of Dongsheng China, or the one who suppressed Baotanhua Bodhisattva and took away the magic treasure of Mahavairocana.
In theory, such a person should be an enemy of Buddhism, but now Samantabhadra wants to do him favors. This is really puzzling.
However, after practicing for tens of thousands of years, Jing Na knew that his master was one of the "Three Saints of Huayan" in Buddhism. He had vast supernatural powers and his actions were naturally beyond his ability to guess.
So after Fang Jian reported himself to his family, Jing Na immediately took out the cup of golden lotus seeds, brought it to Fang Jian and said: "This is the three wonderful golden lotus seeds. It takes three thousand years to mature one. Master specially ordered me to send one A total of thirty-six coins were given to Master Hongqing in order to
Be a favor. "
Fang Jian was slightly surprised, looked at the golden and round lotus seed in Jing Na's hand and said, "Would Samantabhadra do me a favor?"
"Exactly." Jing Na said respectfully.
Fang Jian stared at Jing Na, but Jing Na only looked at his nose with his eyes, his mouth with his nose, and his heart with his mouth. Nothing could be seen on his face at all.
After a moment, Fang Jian laughed and said, "It turned out to be a favor. I thought you were here to pay a bribe."
After saying that, Fang Jian raised his hand and took the golden lotus seed in Jing Na's hand, and then put it into the cloud pattern Qingfeng sleeve bag.
Jing Na was a little dazed by Fang Jian's words just now, but he quickly came to his senses, clasped his hands and said, "Master Hongqing is joking."
Fang Jian waved his hand and said, "Please report back to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and tell Fang Jian to accept it. After I finish the work in hand, I will go to Mount Emei to pay my respects in person."
"Yes, the young monk will definitely bring it." Jingna bowed and said, "The young monk will leave first."
Fang Jian nodded, then raised his hand and said, "Please."
Then Jingna turned around and rode on the clouds, disappearing into the clear blue sky in less than a moment.
...
After Jing Na left, Fang Jian stood quietly for a moment. He didn't know why Samantabhadra suddenly came to give him a favor, but the word "favor" was a very special thing in the world of cultivation.
In the Heavenly Court, Immortal Officials themselves are also monks and gods. If they have friendly exchanges with other monks or gods and give gifts, it is not considered bribery.
In fact, the concept of bribery in heaven is very vague. To put it bluntly, there is no clear crime of bribery.
Only after a certain immortal official is found to have neglected his duties or violated the laws of heaven will he be held accountable for whether you have accepted things from others or whether you have done anything for the public good to the person who gave the gift privately.
Therefore, the term "renqing" is very useful, and most of the human relationships are personal relationships and have nothing to do with official business, so there is no taboo.
The only thing that is questionable is Samantabhadra's purpose of sending such a precious favor to himself.
Fang Jian would not refuse this kind of benefit that came to his door, and he was not afraid. If Samantabhadra used this favor as an excuse in the future to allow him to personally help him with private matters, as long as he did not violate the laws of heaven and did not go beyond himself. bottom line, that
Help if you can.
But if he uses this favor as an excuse to use his Immortal Official power to do things for him, then I'm sorry, you are bribing the Immortal Official in Heaven. I'll deal with you first!
What? You said I have accepted your gift? Sorry, I have the right to interpret the rules of heaven. That's not called receiving gifts, that's called "early confiscation of stolen goods."
Therefore, Fang Jian did not worry about this for too long, and soon gave up on it and continued to drive towards Guanjiang mouth with his sword light.
