Shen Gongbao understood that Taoist Bodhisattva saved Ma Yuan not because of personal grudges, but purely to eliminate the cause and effect, and to use the number of three thousand Buddhas to join the great prosperity of the West.
It has nothing to do with Ma Yuan, it's just to complete the main mission.
After completing the mission, it all depends on Ma Yuan's own choice whether Ma Yuan will be born from a great demon and become a great Buddha, become enlightened, fall into evil ways, or be killed.
Taoist Bodhi takes action once for the sake of heaven.
How shameful Ma Yuande would be if he allowed Taoist Bodhi to save lives for the second time.
According to the Buddhist world view of cause and effect, Ma Yuan was killed and repaid the cause and effect, which is the reincarnation of one life, and the accumulation in this life is for the fruition status in the next life.
Ma Yuan should be killed, but Shen Gongbao should not be killed.
Good causes lead to good consequences, and evil causes bad consequences. Ma Yuan should be allowed to create the bad consequences himself to backfire on him and carry out karmic retribution.
If Shen Gongbao takes action, it will add new cause and effect out of thin air, involve him in the world of mortals, and cause a series of troubles. Because of the desire to kill, he will be obsessed with the mind and the tribulation energy will enter the body.
"Ordinary people fear consequences, Bodhisattvas fear causes."
"It turns out that I have already reached this point in my practice."
Shen Gongbao sighed in his heart, no longer obsessed with the starting point, but set his sights on the end, defying time and fate, no longer obsessed with the present, but locked in the future.
Golden immortals should kill people with great force, without being affected by cause and effect, and will not suffer disaster.
"Thanks for the advice."
Shen Gongbao bowed deeply, Taoist Bodhi nodded, and then answered a few key questions about the cultivation of the Golden Immortal Realm, and then left with the trembling Ma Yuan.
After Ma Yuan heard that Taoist Bodhi would not save him anymore, he buried his head deeply like an ostrich, suppressed the viciousness in his eyes, and did not dare to speak out, for fear that the two people who could decide his life and death would regret it.
It wasn't until Taoist Bodhi took advantage of the clouds and mist to fly to the west for a long time that Ma Yuan plucked up the courage and asked tentatively: "Teacher, I have no connection with Shen Gongbao from the west, so why should I preach Dafa to him?"
Taoist Bodhi teaches earnestly, gives guidance, and reveals the key to the path of cultivation. Not to mention named disciples, this kind of treatment may not be available to direct disciples.
Taoist Bodhi glanced at Ma Yuan, smiled calmly and said, "A saint is someone who teaches."
"The purpose of establishing a religion is to educate all sentient beings and spread the great truth, crossing everything and teaching everything."
"The more sentient beings we teach and the more disciples we have in the sect, it proves the correctness of the teachings and the correctness of our path."
"The road is high and far away, but it is everywhere. The more sentient beings learn, the more happy the saint becomes, seeing that his road shines brightly and vastly."
“The path of spiritual practice, asking questions, searching for the Tao, seeking the Tao, joining the Tao, attaining the Tao, and proving the Tao are all pursuits of the Tao.”
"But, when you have successfully attained enlightenment and already have the Great Way, how should you practice?"
Ma Yuan was stunned. He was just an immortal who had not even crossed the threshold of Hedao. How could he think about such far-reaching and vast things.
Taoist Bodhisattva looked at the ten directions and three times, and gained insight into the six realms of the three realms. He said meaningfully: "After you have attained enlightenment, you should preach the truth."
"Having proven your own path, you naturally start to test your path, preach it to all living beings, spread your ideas, establish your own blueprint for the path, and pursue your dreams."
"Use your own way to transform the entire universe!"
"Essential enlightenment by oneself is only internal evidence, while preaching to others, educating sentient beings, and transforming the universe are external evidence."
"In our Western religion, this behavior is called great ambition."
The void shook, all the heavens resonated, the laws of order fell, and the immeasurable auspicious energy emerged, turning into golden lotuses, accompanying the Bodhi Taoist as he walked. The treasures were solemn, the merits were towering, and the sound was like a bell: "I vow to save all sentient beings, boundless. I vow to put an end to my worries, I vow to learn the boundless Dharma, and I vow to achieve supreme Bodhi.”
"I hope that with this merit, I will adorn the Buddha's Pure Land. I will repay the fourfold kindness and relieve the suffering on the three paths. If anyone sees and hears it, I will all arouse bodhicitta. After completing this sambhogakaya, we will be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss."
Ma Yuan was greatly shocked, and his clear eyes showed great confusion. Although I couldn't understand, I was greatly shocked.
"That's good, that's good."
Seeing this, Taoist Bodhi couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "After all, it was just a little bit off."
As a saint, in his eyes, all living beings are equal. He gave both of them the opportunity, but the results were very different.
Ma Yuan has a deep foundation and is outstanding among the immortals. In the future, he has great hope of reaching the realm of golden immortals, and even becoming the Taoist Taiyi is not impossible.
However, in the end, there is no bodhicitta. After cultivating the Hinayana, he became a Pratyekabuddha. He can be one of the three thousand Buddhas, but it is difficult to enter the Mahayana Buddhism. There is no chance for the state of supreme enlightenment and it is difficult to become a Tathagata.
It is never as good as the wisdom of Shen Gongbao who has lived for many kalpas. His roots are deep and profound, and it can be revealed with just one touch. He is destined to achieve the path and fruition of Anuttar Samyak Samyak Bodhi.
"We must make good connections and save all sentient beings."
Taoist Bodhisattva smiled slightly and said meaningfully: "Today's effect will be another day's cause. Today's cause will be another day's effect."
As a saint who has already stood at the pinnacle of all heavens and worlds, why would he still be afraid of sentient beings stealing lessons? No, the saint leader wishes that all living beings would worship him, preach to all the heavens, and only respect one religion.
The leader of the cult, Tianzun, did not hide anything. He wrote his own Tao scriptures clearly and clearly, and spread them to all the heavens and all the worlds.
Yin Fu Jing, Tao Te Ching, Nan Hua Zhen Jing, Wen Shi Zhen Jing, Huang Ting Jing... Thirty cents a book.
The Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Shurangama Sutra... are inscribed on stone tablets, walls, pagodas, and all over the streets, for fear that all living beings will not see them.
There is skill, there is law, and there is ultimately a way.
However, all living beings are obsessed with magical powers, fighting for strength, and have no regard for the great road. Saints are just indoctrinators, and they cannot follow the lead of all sentient beings in the world. They can only sigh, "Good, good, good."
Not only was Taoist Bodhi not bored by Shen Gongbao's inquiry, but he was very happy because the realm of Golden Immortal was the realm created by the Second Holy Temple in the West.
If you study the earthly immortals in depth, you will naturally embark on the path of Zhen Yuanzi, the Great Immortal. If you understand the mysteries of the heavenly immortals, you will gradually become a disciple of the Three Pure Ones.
Bodhi Taoist is not afraid that Shen Gongbao will study the Golden Immortal Realm, but he is afraid that his research is not deep enough and not clear enough.
As the saying goes, the truth becomes clearer as it becomes more debated. Once you study a field in depth, you are bound to be attracted to it.
If one day Shen Gongbao completes his study of the Golden Immortal Realm and achieves great enlightenment, then Shen Gongbao will no longer be a trumpet with the name of Ksitigarbha, but will become the real four great Bodhisattvas, wishing Ksitigarbha to return to his throne.
"That's good, that's good."
Taoist Bodhisattva smiled knowingly, carried the horse yuan leisurely and stepped onto Mount Sumeru, walking and singing:
"At the time of the great awakening of the Golden Immortal, Bodhi, the Patriarch of the Western Wonderful Dharma, has no birth and no death in the three or three elements, and is full of energy, full of God, and infinite kindness."
"The emptiness and silence will naturally change with it, just like the original nature allows you to do it. With the same life span and solemn body as the sky, the great master of the clear mind has experienced all kinds of calamities."
"When you emerge from the pure lotus platform, the magical door of the Two Vehicles is opened. The exquisite relics are extraordinary and the pearls are peerless."
"Purple flames grow in the Bade Pond, and golden moss grows on the seven precious trees. It is only because of the handsome man from the east that he came to meet him and have a holy pregnancy."
Rumble,
Suddenly, there was a thunderous sound in the sky, and someone sang loudly: "Hongmeng is famous in the first judgment, and he has mastered the innate gathering of the five elements.
The three flowers on the top face the north gate, and the five qi in the chest penetrate into the southern sky. The team of immortals is called Yuanshi, but the mysterious family has not yet begun. The fragrant flowers along the road follow the chariot hub, and the vicissitudes of life last for thousands of eons. "
The supreme treasure is dazzling, and the innate spiritual light shines through the past, future and present, locking the long river of destiny. I only saw a wishful jade of Three Treasures and Five Virtues flying from the sky.
"Master Bodhi, please."
The majestic voice resounded throughout Mount Sumeru and was deeply imprinted in the hearts of countless sentient beings. It is eternal and unbreakable.
"Tianzun is so angry."
The Bodhi Taoist smiled, turned Mount Sumeru upside down with one hand, threw the horse yuan into the pool of merit, pushed the nine heavens horizontally with the other hand, and the Seven Wonderful Treasure Trees brushed down, and the innate immortal spiritual light also shrank, rebelling against the innate, Before heading to Kaitian.
"The top of the immortals, proud of the world, there will be heaven if I am the beginning."
Yuanshi Tianzun said calmly: "Master Bodhi, you have calculated Ma Yuan's cause and effect, but have you calculated your own cause and effect?"
"Cause and effect? Saints like me are not affected by cause and effect."
Taoist Bodhisattva smiled slightly and said with great pride: "Even if I have to hold Mount Sumeru with one hand, I, Bodhi, am still invincible to all heavens and worlds!"
"You just followed the trend and suppressed me, Mount Sumeru. It's not a big cause and effect. If you go further, I'm afraid the world will be turned upside down."
"I'm afraid I won't succeed."
Yuanshi Tianzun sneered: "You said it yourself, saints like us are not affected by cause and effect."
"What a great Yuanshi Tianzun!" Taoist Bodhisattva laughed loudly: "In that case, let's discuss the Tao with Da Luo Tian!"
The void shook, the universe roared, and the Great Luotian opened directly, leading the two saints to the outer heaven to discuss the Tao.
An ancestral Qi evolved into all things, and a Bodhi tree transformed into all kinds of wonderful ways, attracting the attention of countless great beings from all over the world.
"What are these two old guys doing?"
"I don't know."
"The beating was unclear and unclear. It was suspected of being an act."
"What kind of py deal are the Buddhist and Taoist families doing?"
"How do I know?"
"Forget it, eat melon, eat melon."
The two saints were fighting fiercely in Daluotian. In Mount Xumi, by the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, Ma Yuan was trembling, as if he had seen the most terrifying scene in the world.
Beside the pool of merit, there is a figure six feet tall, with towering merits, like a golden body, with his head pulled up and his temples grasped, leading the Taoist to sit cross-legged, as if sleeping but not sleeping, as if the universe is just a dream.
If so, it is nothing. After all, it is common knowledge that there are saints on Mount Sumeru.
The scary thing is that there are not only two saints on Mount Sumeru, but also a third saint.
I saw a Taoist sitting cross-legged opposite the Taoist with sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes. He was wearing a Bagua Taoist robe and a pure hibiscus crown on his head.
There are very few people who dare to sit across from Jieyin Saint, and even fewer if they set their sights on Jiejiao.
The identity of the person in front of me is clear at a glance, a saint from the Supreme Purity!
"Disciple...meet the teacher!"
Ma Yuan knelt on the ground, kowtowed to apologize, his eyes filled with tears and fear, and kept muttering: "Disciple is guilty, disciple is guilty..."
The Sage of Shangqing glanced at Ma Yuan, waved his hand impatiently and said, "Come on, come on, crying is not like one of my disciples."
"Since you know you are guilty, you should atone for your sins."
"It has been well managed in the Western Teaching. After a while, your senior brother will organize a group and bring people over."
"ha?!"
Ma Yuan was stunned for a moment, his forehead full of question marks. It took him a while to recover, and he carefully raised his head to observe the expressions of the two cult leaders.
The Sage of the Shangqing Dynasty sat on the edge of the Merit Pool, bored out of his mind and picked out the golden lotuses of merit. Then he destroyed the flowers with his hands, threw away the merit petals that the gods regarded as life, and then ate the merit lotus seeds one by one like eating beans. Throw it towards your mouth.
It's not about tasting delicious food, but about spraying out the merit lotus seeds like bullets. It's a pure game.
The expression of Taoist Jieyin was simple, as if he was dreaming. He turned a blind eye to the squandering behavior of the Shangqing Saint and did not take it to heart at all.
Ma Yuan suddenly trembled and used his whole life's wisdom to capture something.
These two sect leaders definitely did not come for him, Ma Yuan. His life, Ma Yuan, was not so valuable, nor did they come for anyone in the world.
There is no living being worthy of the appearance of the four cult leaders, so that they can gather together. There must be a deep meaning behind this. He, Ma Yuan, just happened to be part of it and accidentally saw the tip of the iceberg.
"Lao Deng, when will you abdicate and hand over the position of Buddhist leader to my disciple?"
Sage Shangqing breathed a sigh of relief and asked casually
"When Hinayana is perfect, Mahayana will be born." The simple Taoist Jie Yin finally uttered a sentence, and it was as if he had not said it.
"Are you leaving it alone?" Sage Shangqing complained: "It's really like listening to your words."
The Taoist who received the guide clasped his hands and said, "I can only say that the leader has great opinions."
"Gan, Jieyin, you are so shameless, right?" Sage Shangqing's expression changed, and he said fiercely: "I remember that the last time the Zhuxian Sword Formation was born, it was to besiege Mount Sumeru."
The Taoist leader pinched the flower and said with a smile: "The master of the Immortal Killing Formation already entered Guixu last time."
"You are forcing me!" Sage Shangqing suddenly stood up and said loudly: "I tell you, I am young and energetic, with a hot temper. I can't stand being frightened, so be careful of getting angry."
The Holy Saint raised his eyelids and said leisurely: "Fellow Daoist Shangqing, you are not young anymore. The Three Pure Ones are as old as the Three Pure Ones. Stop pretending to be young."
"As the saying goes, appearance comes from the heart." Sage Shangqing mocked: "You don't even understand this truth."
"Oh, maybe fellow Taoist can't help it." Taoist Jieyin smiled slightly, clasped his hands together, and touched his heart.
"Old bald donkey, don't pretend to be confused." Sage Shangqing looked gloomy and said coldly: "When exactly was the Buddha born?"
"Oh, after the Conferring of Gods is over, Duobao..." the saint said slowly.
"Who asked about Duobao?" Sage Shangqing's expression immediately calmed down. He walked in front of the saint and sat cross-legged. His eyes were deep and quiet, and he whispered: "I'm asking about Sakyamuni."
Gululu... Several bubbles appeared in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool. Ma Yuan buried his body under the water, covering his ears like an ostrich, and his heart was filled with sadness.
Who am I, where am I, what am I going to do, why do I have to hear so much that I shouldn’t hear.
The humanity of some saints may be a bit too full.
sacrifice
(End of chapter)
