The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 1170 Talking and Laughing with Maitreya

"It's really magnificent!"

Chen Zhao was amazed as he walked up.

After he walked up to the top floor, he saw the pot-bellied monk sitting cross-legged with a smile on his face. Seeing him come in, he slowly stood up, stood with one hand on his chest, and held a cloth bag in the other hand, and said with a smile: " Poor monk Chang Tingzi, I pay my respects to Your Majesty. Please sit down, Your Majesty."

This monk has a bald head and looks like a bhikkhu, with ears hanging down his shoulders, and a wide smile on his face.Wearing cassock, with bare chest and belly, one is holding a big bag, the other is holding a string of Buddhist beads, looking at Chen Zhao cheerfully, his eyes are as clear as clear water, deep and unpredictable, naturally carrying a sense of leisure and contentment .

Chen Zhao shook his head and said, "Don't dare to sit, I can't sit!"

Chang Tingzi shook his head and said with a smile: "Your Majesty killed Yingye and destroyed countless countries. Is there anything in the world that His Majesty dare not do?"

Chen Zhao smiled and said, "Yes!"

He glanced at the wall of the copper pagoda on the top floor, and sighed: "Although I have slaughtered cities and countries and killed countless people, my heart is focused on people's livelihood, and I am committed to improving people's lives steadily, and I do not object to them worshiping Buddha and seeking Taoism."

He looked at the shiny copper floor under his feet, and said with regret on his face: "But a gentleman loves money, and he gets it wisely, and uses it wisely. Even if I stay in this place for a moment, I can't stand it! The things here The stench of copper is too strong, and it is the most shameful place, once it is contaminated by this stench, even bathing and burning incense for 100 years will not help."

Chang Tingzi's swollen-eyed smile slowly faded away, but he still had a smile on his face and got to the point, "Your Majesty, as monks and nuns, we have always abided by the law and only wanted to live in peace. In the past ten years, everything has been fine. , why did His Majesty deprive my temple of all the ancestral property when he returned from the Tang Dynasty this time? As a result, the monks in my temple cannot even afford to offer sesame oil in front of the Buddha. If things continue like this, they may starve to death."

Chang Tingzi sighed: "The benefactor originally had a predestined relationship with my Buddhism, why did he suddenly change his temperament? Could it be that the demon king has possessed him. Has enmity with my Buddha?"

Chen Zhao heard the words and took a deep look at the monk, "I have no enmity with the Buddha, and Daming has no enmity with the Buddha, but the thousands of landless people in Zhuzi City have enmity with Jinghuang Temple!"

"A monk should act like a monk!"

He turned around abruptly, pointed at the bronze-cast arhat in the courtyard, and then patted the wall on the bronze temple beside him, "Luxury and extravagance are overwhelming, and desires are hard to satisfy! Spend so much manpower and material resources, just for the golden body of the Buddha statue!"

Chen Zhao looked at the young monk, "Back when the Buddha preached the Dharma, he wore tattered clothes, held a bowl barefoot, ate a variety of meals, wore a patchwork of clothes, slept under a tree, and meditated in the forest. In spring, summer, autumn and winter, he did not spend money on gold or silver, and had absolutely no luxury. Act of."

"I heard that when you, Chang Tingzi, first arrived in Zhuzi City, your eyebrows were frowned and your belly was distended, and you spoke indefinitely. You slept and slept everywhere. You often used a stick to pick up a cloth bag and went to the market. When you saw something, you begged. All the things offered by others were put into the cloth bag. Seeing you pour out the things, the cloth bag is empty again. If someone asks you about the Dharma, you put the cloth bag down. If you still don’t understand what you mean, keep asking, and he will immediately pick up the cloth bag without looking back. Leave. People still ignored him, so he laughed out loud."

Chen Zhao said with a chuckle: "But this Jinghuang Temple is very good. The clothes are bright and decent. They live in gold and silver and eat in the temple. Not only do they not pay taxes, but also no one cares about the people who have no land to cultivate. , show no mercy."

His voice made the entire pagoda buzz, "Return the ancestral property? This temple is after I defeated the Jisai Kingdom, I gave the relics to the Taishang King to enjoy, and the Taishang King built this temple on a whim. In essence, this is a royal temple! Even the stones on the site were donated by the Supreme King, what is your business? Even the plants and trees are also given by the royal family, so where is your property!"

He casually took off a small Buddha from the copper wall, "It's just that this beautifully carved copper Buddha is enough for an ordinary family to eat and drink for more than two months."

"People worship Buddha for the sake of a better life, but this monk from Jinghuang Temple cultivates Buddha, and he is covered with gold and silver, and his brain is full of fat. Instead of helping the world and saving the people, he is greedy!"

Chang Tingzi laughed and said: "I never thought that the benefactor would enter the way of the devil. You need to know the profoundness of Buddhism and only pass it on to those who are destined. I went down to the mountain with all the monks and monks at that time, and I recited this sutra with him once at the home of Elder Zhao in Shewei State, to ensure the safety of the living in his family and the liberation of the dead. I only asked him to return three buckets and three liters of rice grains of gold. The Buddha also said that they were too cheap to teach future generations to have no money to use. Your Majesty, don’t be too extreme, be deceived by Bodian, become the big devil who destroys my Buddhism, and fall into endless hell forever.”

Chen Zhao stretched out his hand, and he took an empty futon next to him in his hand, then put it on the ground, sat cross-legged on it, and asked Chang Tingzi, "Monk, let me ask you, is your Buddhist practice really Buddha?" , or fame? Is it money or status?"

Chang Tingzi whispered the Buddha's name and said: "Buddhist disciples need to eat and drink, and money is indispensable for daily expenses."

Chen Zhaoyan smiled and said, "Could it be that the scriptures of Buddhism want you to amass wealth and annex land?"

He looked at Chang Tingzi who was smiling, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if it's Buddhism, Taoism, or even Western monotheism, as long as it attracts people to do good, I won't restrict it, but if some Under the guise of worshiping Buddha, the monks wantonly collected money and annexed land, causing the people to live in poverty and the foundation of the country to be unstable. As the emperor of Ming Dynasty, I can't ignore it!"

"Besides, since Buddhism was spread in Hezhou, Xiniu, after thousands of years, it has deteriorated and become a national cancer."

Chen Zhao stood up and walked with his hands behind his back on the top of the thirteen-story pagoda, "Do you know the origin of the pawn industry? Hey, 500 years ago, Xiniu Hezhou was in chaos, but Buddhism was extremely prosperous. In the war with the Lion Camel Kingdom, both sides need military salaries, and they even have to borrow money from the Buddhist temple!"

Chen Zhao shook his head with his hands behind his back in the hall, "After that, the pawn industry appeared."

"As far as I know, the reason why the Lion and Camel Kingdom was destroyed in one fell swoop was because it couldn't repay the bonds and had no choice but to have the idea of ​​destroying the Buddha, so it was eaten clean by the big roc. Your Buddhist sect has opened up a new industry. Then destroy a country!"

"A religion whose believers are not engaged in production, but still control the country's money and lifelines, drain the spirit of the people, and even endanger the fate of the country. Which king can tolerate such believers? If you don't destroy the Buddha, you have to destroy the country. Only by destroying the Buddha can the country be saved." , you say that the disciples of the Buddha suffered suffering, who is the one to blame? Is this what Sakyamuni taught you when he preached the Dharma?"

Chang Tingzi was silent, his true identity was no small matter, he was Maitreya Buddha, even though he is now in the mortal world and closed his own supernatural powers, it does not mean that his knowledge does not exist.Given his status, he naturally knew the past of Buddhism very well, and knew that what Chen Zhao said was true, and it was really difficult to answer what Chen Zhao asked.

Chang Tingzi was silent for a long time before he replied: "All dharmas arise from conditions, and all dharmas perish from conditions. There must be reasons for what happened back then. Right and wrong have returned to the dust. Who can comment on who is right and wrong."

Chen Zhaodao: "Five or six hundred years ago, it might have been heard through hearsay, but now I'm afraid you can't explain it."

He looked at Chang Tingzi, "At the beginning, Gong Fenghua's relic, which was built as a pagoda in the Sai State, was just a brick pagoda. Now in our country, it has been replaced by a copper pagoda. The consumption of materials is laborious and greedy. You monks have nothing to do, but why do you treat me like that? Things outside of the body are so important? Fame and wealth are all invincible, so what's the use of practicing?"

Chang Tingzi lowered his head and sighed: "Your Majesty has a deep prejudice against my Buddhism, and it's not something that can be explained clearly in a short while."

He smiled slightly: "However, Your Majesty has a predestined relationship with my Buddha. Why don't you follow me to study my Buddhist scriptures here. It only takes a year or so, and there must be a time when you will be enlightened."

Chang Tingzi laughed and said, "I have the Tripitaka of the Mahayana scriptures. As long as I recite them every day, I will understand my mind and see my nature, and understand the true meaning of my Buddha's compassion."

Chen Zhao laughed and said, "The Buddha is in the heart, why is it in the mouth?"

He sighed: "When the Buddha taught the Dharma in the snow-capped mountains, he held a golden bala flower in his hand and said nothing. All living beings were puzzled, but Mahakasyapa smiled lightly. The Buddha immediately said that Kasyapa had received his true teaching. , it can be seen that Buddhism pays attention to understanding the mind and seeing the nature, and imprinting the mind with the mind. Once enlightened, the mind will become a Buddha. But you are here to recite the Mahayana scriptures and Tripitaka. For sentient beings, let others know your true face?"

Chang Tingzi was shocked again, knowing that Chen Zhao had seen his details.

He is the successor of Sakyamuni Buddha, who will be born in the Saha world and practice Taoism in the future. Buddha".

This time, he came to the mortal world as a mortal of Chang Tingzi, and his purpose was to convert Chen Zhao, introduce him to Buddhism, and obtain the status of Buddhism as soon as possible.

But now he found that the other party not only understands Buddhism, but also hates some disadvantages of Buddhist disciples, which is difficult for him to overcome.

After all, Kassapa and Ananda, the two direct disciples of the Blessed One, still have unquenched desires.

If all the Buddhas on Lingshan practice hard, wear a hundred clothes, drink less and eat less, and do not enjoy the desire of eyes and ears, then who among the three thousand disciples would be willing to enter the Buddhist gate?
Even the Holy Land of Lingshan is like this, not to mention the many Buddhist monks all over the world?

You need to know that the more virtuous you are in Buddhism, the more you will pay attention to letting nature take its course, and never violate the four seasons. Others can't break the Buddha's perfect appearance and refuse to enter the Buddha. Even if he is your Maitreya Buddha, you can't force others to enter. Buddha.

You must know that he is now a mortal and cannot use magic.Even though he is the true body of Maitreya Buddha, the body of a quasi-sage, he knows that the other party is also a quasi-sage.If you really want to use the trick of "the donor is destined to be my Buddha", you may not be able to succeed.

Not being able to cross Chen Zhao to become a Buddha can only mean that the other party has already fallen into the devil.

If he can't beat it with his hands, then his Maitreya Buddha's future Buddha position is probably not good.

At this moment, Chang Tingzi sighed in his heart, there was nothing to do, and he asked casually: "If you want to become a Buddha, what do you need?"

Chen Zhaodao: "There must be no Buddha in your heart, no Buddha in your eyes, no Buddha anywhere."

(End of this chapter)