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Fourteen: Fa Conference (Part 1)

Since Guiyuan Temple was built, the old monkey has been living in the hut. It has not been rained for hundreds of years. Today the hut collapsed, and the rain fell all over the sky, which wet his long hair and slightly cooled his body. .

He shook his head, the wet brown hair sprayed a splash of water, which was a bit sentimental.

“Let’s talk about that kid when he comes back.” The old ancestor finally thought this way: “At the beginning, he was accepted as an apprentice just to go out, but now I just want everyone to be happy, so I can go out if nothing happens. It’s raining, and it’s not comfortable to be wet, maybe it’s not bad to just live in this temple.”

The old ancestor was surrounded by a large pile of shredded newspapers, under the newspapers there was a small lump, what was inside was rustling, and a fluffy green head came out of it, it was a green lion.

The little green lion lay beside the ancestor, with its front paws folded flat, its head resting weakly on the paws, its eyes were extremely sad, looking at a certain direction in the sky.

The ancestor stretched out his hand, hesitated for a moment, then gently placed it on its head, rubbed it twice, and sighed.

The Bodhisattva war in the human world has indeed brought about terrible consequences. Mount Wutai is already in a mess, and the disciples who were still shrouded in the Buddha’s light can’t help but feel a little jittery, and they don’t know why.

About a hundred kilometers away from Mount Wutai, Lama Tashi sensed the battle of Dharma on the mountain behind him. He kept his face sullen and suppressed his mind without turning back. He just quickened his pace and dragged the little lama beside him to the west. Go, go to Tibet.

No wonder Master Tsongkhapa told his disciples to leave Wutai Mountain as soon as possible.

In the past, there was still a Dharma conference on Mount Wutai, with a clear light, a tranquil mind, and a splendid Dharma conference. Now, it has become a battlefield for great supernatural powers, leaving scars all over the mountain, which is extremely sad.

The human world is like this.

in the sky

When Ye Xiangseng held a Dharma meeting on Mount Wutai, there were also two Dharma conferences being held in the heavenly realm at the same time.

One is in the Pure Land of the Western Heaven, on the bank of the Yellow Lake, in front of the green hills, the sky is full of Bodhisattvas paying homage, the celestial maidens scattered flowers, and in front of the seat of Amitabha Buddha, the atmosphere of the Dharma Assembly is magnificent.

But what shocked all beings in the heavenly realm was the puja held in another place.

That Dharma meeting is on Putuo Lingshan, the dojo of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

Mount Putuo was very lively that day, and the green trees all over the mountain were trembling slightly in the breeze, as if they had a stomach ache from laughing, shaking their stomachs, the green light all over the mountain was more prosperous than in the past, as if they had foreseen their own ashram Finally, a certain kind of big moment has come. Guanyin Bodhisattva is about to hold the first Dharma meeting in five hundred years.

Since Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva threatened to serve Amitabha, and later followed Buddha all the year round, he has never held a dharma meeting alone. According to legend, Tianzun once asked Bodhisattva occasionally why he did not hold a dharma meeting. Father, for things like Fa conferences, I just stand aside and listen more, I don’t have the ability to hold Fa conferences by myself.”

All immortals, gods and Bodhisattvas all know that Guanyin Bodhisattva is humble.

Everyone in the heavens respects and fears the Bodhisattva because of his humility. From the time he emerged in the heavens until later, when he became a great figure straddling Buddhism and Taoism, he still maintained his original humble appearance. But everyone knows that this Bodhisattva is not simple, and found that this Bodhisattva has always been modest, so everyone is deeply confused about what kind of person Guanyin Bodhisattva is. Therefore, Guanyin Bodhisattva is always covered with a layer of A touch of mystery, just because of this mystery, makes everyone very scared.

is really scared.

Although his life experience is known to everyone, and his name of compassion has long spread to all living beings in the three realms, and he must be the one with the widest circle of friends in the heavenly realm, he is still very mysterious because he is a disciple of the Buddha, but within the sect he is very mysterious. There is no ranking, he is the secular son of Amitabha Buddha, the servant beside him, but he has been following the Buddha, but no one knows what he is going to do.

According to today’s sayings in the world, Guanyin Bodhisattva is the personal secretary of the Buddha. There are many smart people in heaven. In the eyes of these smart people, a person who is always calmMercy, a private secretary who never offends anyone, is a terrifying existence.

Especially Buddha’s personal secretary.

The Buddha disappeared, Mount Sumeru collapsed, and Guanyin Bodhisattva returned to the Western Pure Land, and returned to the side of Amitabha Buddha. Amitabha did not deal with him like he did with Manjusri and Samantabhadra on Mount Sumeru. All the gods in the heavens are secretly guessing. On the one hand, it is because of the inheritance relationship between Amitabha and Guanyin Bodhisattva; Grasp to deal with this mysterious Guanyin Bodhisattva.

The immortals of Taoism are all guessing what kind of agreement Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has reached with Amitabha Buddha, so that he will stay quietly by Amitabha Buddha’s side all the time, instead of expressing any tendentious views on the destruction of Mount Sumeru .

If Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva expresses his views, maybe the current Buddhist land has split, because to some extent, people have already recognized that his views represent the views of the Buddha.

But after waiting for five hundred years, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva still held the bottle quietly and stood beside Amitabha Buddha, acting as the background of that humble attendant.

So the people in the heavens began to wonder, is it possible that Guanyin Bodhisattva is planning to continue like this, and after tens of thousands of lives, he will successfully take over Amitabha’s Buddha position?

However, there is a huge gap between this situation and everyone’s understanding of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Waiting steadily until the finale of the story, this is very unhappy, the hero has become a supporting actor, and Tony Leung is also unhappy, let alone those who read novels.

Guanyin Bodhisattva is a bit like a mysterious and unknowable hero in the eyes of everyone in the heaven.

Everyone was waiting for him to turn his hands into clouds, turn his hands into rain, but he kept quiet all the time, retiring to the supporting actor’s position, unable to let everyone down, the spectators were annoyed, and the corners of his lips got sores.

Kong Ming is always reading, so what’s the point of watching the Three Kingdoms

A few days ago, a big news came from the Western Pure Land that shook the Three Realms. The news was very simple. The Heavenly King, who had heard much about it in the north, was the first person to know the news. He lowered his voice and said to the people around him, “You know that Guanyin Bodhisattva has moved.”

Then, everyone in the heaven knew that Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva had moved.

Regardless of the specific movements of Guanyin Bodhisattva, as long as Guanyin Bodhisattva, who has been lying quietly beside Amitabha Buddha, suddenly moves, it is enough to arouse everyone’s interest and shock everyone’s minds.

If you don’t move for five hundred years, you will be fine, and if you move, you will be amazed.

After a few more days, the matter gradually became clear. I heard that Amitabha Buddha was holding a dharma meeting in the Pure Land that day, and yellow cranes were flying around. When the Buddha’s verses were heard, Guanyin Bodhisattva suddenly walked to the lake, filled a bottle of clean water, and then disappeared without a trace. Without politeness, he turned his back and smiled and left, leaving his mocking back to the Bodhisattva Arhat and the Buddha in the Pure Land.

Every aspect of the matter has been transmitted to different listeners through different observers. Some people have great doubts about the smile of the Bodhisattva when he left, and try hard to find out from that smile. The radian is used to judge the emotions deep in the Bodhisattva’s heart. Some people are using n-hand data to calculate the posture of the Bodhisattva squatting when he walked to the lake to determine the direction of his thinking at that time. Some people are asking around. What was the expression on the Bodhisattva’s face at that time?

Fortunately, no one asked someone to copy the expression of Amitabha Buddha at that time. There is still some respect for a big Buddha.

The matter is still not clear, why Guanyin Bodhisattva suddenly left the Dharma meeting at that time, and why Amitabha Buddha sighed.

But everyone knows that Bodhisattva and Buddha use these two gestures to express a break.

Among the heavens in the Taoist world, those with great supernatural powers who really have great wisdom have noticed a suspicious point worth noting from the scene described by others. Before Guanyin Bodhisattva left, he once went to the lake to fill a bottle of clean water. They doubt those great supernatural powers, and even disdain to participate in the heavenly battle between the Lingxiao Palace and the North Pole Hall, but they are very interested in the bottle of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

At this time, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva widely issued Dharma invitations, and scheduled to hold a Dharma meeting for Hongfo on Mount Putuo on April 15th.

The news of the ceremony immediately spread to all parts of the heavens, and at this moment, Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole suddenly announced a temporary truce, and the war in the heavens came to an abrupt end because of this ceremony. Also because of this Fa conference, I got a chance to take a short break.

Everyone is waiting for April 15th.

On April 15th, on Putuo Mountain, some people rode colorful clouds and spirit beasts, and came to the foot of Putuo Mountain from all directions. Under the Pure Jade Square on Mount Putuo, sit down on the futons that have been arranged in advance, waiting for the start of the puja.

In front of Yufang, a lotus platform is in full bloom, and the pink lotus petals beside the platform are swaying in the wind, as if they are in the process of constantly opening.

A black-haired monk was arranging seats for the immortals coming from all directions. Those immortals saw him greet him personally, but they dared not sit down and greeted him first.

black hair andThere was no expression on Shang’s face, and he wore an old gold hoop on his head. He asked everyone to sit down, and then walked back to the lotus platform.

Beside the lotus platform, Mu Zha Xingzhe was clasping his hands together with a calm face. He had seen that the people sitting under these pure jade workshops were all ordinary immortals with real status and supernatural powers, but they didn’t come at all. .

The black-haired monk walked up to him and hummed, “The Bodhisattva is right.”

Just as he was talking, Mu Zha’s eyes lit up, and he saw a red cloud drifting over in the distance. The red cloud slowly fell at the foot of Putuo Mountain, and two people came down, one with a black face and a solemn hand, and the other with a handsome face and a spear. Later, the red silk is the belt.

The two walked through the ranks of immortals, and all the immortals stood up and saluted: “I have seen the Generalissimo, I have seen the Great God of Haihui.”

Mu Zha went forward and smiled, “Father, brother.”

Li Jing looked solemn, and suddenly said: “Since the Bodhisattva is holding a Dharma meeting, our family will naturally come, but” he looked around, frowned and said: “It seems that the Bodhisattva made a bit of a mistake this time.”

The Dharma Assembly in the Western Pure Land is still held. Although no one from outside the Buddhist sect is invited, Guanyin Bodhisattva is also holding the Dharma Assembly at this time. In the eyes of others, it is like singing an opposite opera with Amitabha Buddha.

It is equivalent to saying that these two dharma conferences are like a declaration of strength from two aspects, and it is also like a statement from all the people in the heaven.

Whether to stand on the side of Amitabha or on the side of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Originally, this was a struggle within the Buddha Land, but for the past five hundred years, the Jade Emperor has been on good terms with the Western Pure Land, and Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has always been a noble person with a very high status in the heaven, so the two interfere with each other, and the heavens don’t care about it. Taoism and Buddha, there is a bit of hustle and bustle, everyone is watching, who will come to Mount Putuo to participate in the Dharma Assembly of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

As long as they come, it is no different from expressing their stance to the Western Pure Land.

The Li family is an important person in heaven, but after the Buddha left, Li Jing’s eldest son was killed in the world with the destruction of Mount Sumeru. Therefore, his family has an eternal enmity with the Western Pure Land, and it is only natural for him to join the camp of Guanyin Bodhisattva However, those other powerful people inevitably have to think for a long time, to see how to express this attitude, how to not offend Guanyin Bodhisattva, and not make the Jade Emperor and Amitabha unhappy.

Things like personnel are always the most complicated.

“The Bodhisattva has already expected it.” Mu Zha led his father and younger brother to a quiet place, and said with a smile, “Wait a little longer.”

The great god of the Three Altars Haihui suddenly turned his head, his eyes turned cold, and he stared closely at the lotus platform in front of Qingjing Yufang.

There was silence in Putuo Mountain, and everyone turned their eyes to the lotus platform.

A vase slowly rose from the lotus platform. It was the clean vase that Guanyin Bodhisattva never left.

Nezha suddenly smiled and asked: “Today’s ceremony, I’m afraid it’s just looking at this bottle.”

To be continued: