The Poor Monk Cultivates a Way

Juezhen said: "What kind of opportunity is needed to ask the Buddha and the great Bodhisattva to show up to teach the Dharma? After many years of cultivation, if the predestined Dharma is not available, it is useless to ask for it! Since the Great Bodhisattva is willing to speak the Dharma for Qi Ze, there must be a reason. We just need to listen to the Dharma quietly when we meet. That's right!"

God King Yaksha glanced at him, and thought: "This guy has been contaminated by Buddhism, and he has transformed himself into an eminent monk. This ghost, uh, this god king must take precautions, lest he be divided into the bodhisattva's favor. !"

Sitting on the lotus platform, the great Bodhisattva really preached the essence of eliminating absolute concentration. That extinction is the true teaching method of Buddhism, such as the four meditations, the samadhi of boundless space, the samadhi of boundless consciousness, the samadhi of nothing, and the samadhi of neither perception nor non-perception.

Only because the monks confirm the practice stage and cannot go straight into the extinction and samadhi, so these eight kinds of non-traditional fixed methods are used to help the practice. After the monks have completed the first eight fixed methods, they can go straight to the extinction of the samadhi and obtain the Arahantship.

In fact, the Consciousness-Wei School does not advocate that practitioners enter into extinction and complete samadhi, only because the method of Consciousness-only is to seek the fruition of the eighth ground Bodhisattva. "Phi Xun Ji" has a saying: "Question: When entering extinction, there is no distinction. I should enter samadhi. I should come out of samadhi. I am in samadhi, because the mind is still and extinguished; stay away from the practice. I am about to come out of samadhi, because the heart is extinguished first, and there is no intention. How can I enter? How can I come out? Answer: Before the heart, be good at cultivating Therefore, if there are all kinds of behaviors, shapes, and appearances, they can enter into samadhi and come out of samadhi; they have practiced a lot. It is through practice that they can enter and exit freely.

Bodhisattvas of the eighth stage can enter Nirvana but not enter, and the same is true for extinction. It is also like the bodhisattvas in life and death. Practicing emptiness in life is the ultimate solution. And can truthfully know life and death. Don't be deeply disgusted with life and death with impermanence. If you live more in Nirvana, may you be happy. Even if you quickly enter Nirvana. If he quickly enters Parinirvana. It is not yet possible to mature all the Dharma and all sentient beings. The situation can prove the supreme and equal Bodhi. This is a negligence. And Bodhisattvas need to understand all dharmas, so they can go to the Buddha land to gain all kinds of wisdom, and then they can enter Mahāparinirvana, live and die, and live in Nirvana. "

Qi Ze cultivates the Dharma of Consciousness Only, and also desires the attainment of the Great Bodhisattva and even the Buddhahood. He knows that in order to achieve the Great Bodhisattva, he must not enter into the concentration of extinction, but he still wants to do it.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has finished preaching, and the sound of the Dharma reverberated. The King of Yaksha, Juezhen and Juefei also benefited a lot. The King of Yaksha was born with a Taiyi series, so he didn't care much about it. He just regarded it as an ordinary method. .

Juezhen and Juefei, one wants to transfer from Taoist longevity to Buddhist arhat status, and the other has a shallow cultivation base, and both feel that they have benefited a lot.

Qi Ze remained motionless, and there was no Buddha light around him, just like an ordinary person who just learned to sit in meditation.

King Yaocha murmured: "Could it be that after hearing the teachings of the Great Bodhisattva, that guy will enter the concentration of extinction? It's nonsense! Even if others call him a Buddha, how can he reach the sky in one step? It must be confirmed by one realm and one realm. , unless he is the reincarnation of a true Buddha or a bodhisattva!"

Juezhen and Juefei also felt something was wrong, Juefei quickly knelt down on the ground and asked the Bodhisattva, "Dare to ask Bodhisattva, what happened to Master Qi?"

The Bodhisattva said: "Lady Qi has his own enlightenment. Today, he preached the Dharma to save all living beings in hell. You should uphold the righteous Dharma and abide by the religious rules. You must have righteous results. Don't slack off!"

The God King of Yaksha, Jue Zhen Jue Fei and all sentient beings in the endless hells all made ten prostrations, praising the Bodhisattva's boundless merits and virtues, boundless mana power, and escaped endless ghosts from the sea of ​​suffering.

Then the three Buddhist monks paid attention to Qi Ze's situation by coincidence, and decided to eliminate it as the orthodox Dharma of Buddhism. If they can comprehend it, they can directly enter the realm of arhat and end life and death. They couldn't help being nervous.

Zaotian Tudu, the two ghost kings and Shangguan Wudi were secretly relieved to see that the Buddha's light in Abi Hell had receded, and the great Bodhisattva finally stopped preaching.

Shangguan Wudi immediately incarnated from the Nine Nether Ghost Sect with his primordial spirit, and went to the vast void of the Nine Nether World. I don't know how far I have traveled, nor how long I have been walking. Suddenly, there is a long dirty river coiled like a dragon. The long river is endless, originating from the boundless void.

Come and don't know where it comes from, go don't know where it goes, it's the Yellow River! The Yellow Spring is the innate water, which contains endless karma and is extremely filthy, but it flows around the hells, and it breathes life into the water, which makes the world of the Nine Netherworld also have vitality.

The water of the Yellow Spring can be said to have immeasurable merits, and the Taoism practiced by the Nine Nether Ghost Sect is absolutely inseparable from this water, so even if Dingjue Tathagata enters the Nine Nether World in person, Shangguan Wudi will never move to the underworld!

Shangguan Wudi looked around and saw boundless yellow springs, vast soup, carrying the power of endless samsara, he couldn't help laughing out loud!

In Youzhou City, Qi Ze's incarnation and dharmakaya were of the same heart and mind, knowing the difficulty of the Taiyin School, he found the three-headed monster and told him about it.

Boy Baihe said: "The Taiyin sect must be saved!"

Yuan Batian rolled his eyes and said, "What can I do to help? Do you want me to go to the Taiyin Sect to work for others?"

Qi Ze transformed himself and said: "The Taiyin Sect must be saved, but you three cannot be labored. Lord Wan Chenglong persuaded the two Golden Armored Ancestors to join him in a demonstration. The Golden Armored Ancestor and the Chiu are still left in Beimang Mountain. If you move, the two old zombies will take the opportunity to attack, and Youzhou will be lost!"

Boy Baihe said: "Then what should we do? Why don't I go to the rescue and leave Yuangui here to resist?"

Yuan Batian shouted: "There is no door! Those two old zombies are both thousand-year-old Taoists, not weaker than Wancheng Longjun. If you want me to resist the old turtle, don't you want us to die!"

Qi Ze said: "That's right, only if the three of them are all present, then the sage and the Golden Armored Ancestor will not dare to invade, and neither will any of the three!"

Gui Gui said: "It's not that the three old zombies are at odds with each other, how did Lord Wan Chenglong persuade those two to work for him?"

Yuan Batian said: "Why are you still entangled in this matter!"

Boy Baihe said: "Then what should we do!"

Qi Ze said: "Be safe and don't be impatient, there will be masters coming!"

Yuan Batian said: "Don't you want to save it by yourself? Taiyin Sect is full of immortality series inside and outside the sect, and you can only escape the robbery, so don't have any crooked thoughts!"

Gui Gui said: "That's right! You are a closed disciple of Tianjizi, if something goes wrong, we will bear the blame!"

Qi Ze said: "Don't worry, I won't die in vain, but I have two magic weapons in my hand, I have to send them back, maybe they can help the Taiyin Sect avoid this disaster!"

The three big monsters all refused to allow it, so Qi Ze talked about it, so he persuaded them to let them go. The young Taoist immediately raised his sword and flew towards the extreme north.

Boy Baihe wanted to go with him, but was dissuaded by Qi Ze, and the future master gave orders, so he had to stay.

Yuan Batian said: "This kid is a rabbit who doesn't sit in the nest, and sooner or later something big will happen! Anyway, I have persuaded him, and he will die if he dies. It's none of my business! Tianjizi can't blame me!"

Qi Ze turned into an avatar and galloped on the road, using all his strength, he urged the sword energy and thunder sound technique to the extreme, at the speed of four tones, a sword rainbow flew through the void, and roared away. After the sword passed for a long time, there was still the sound of thunder.

In Avici Hell, Qi Ze's dharma body comprehended the Bodhisattva's teaching of the Dharma of Extinction and Absolute Concentration. This Dharma requires eight kinds of concentration, including the four meditations, the concentration of boundless emptiness, the concentration of boundless consciousness, the concentration of nothingness, and the concentration of neither perception nor non-perception. The premise is the accumulation of fixed methods, which are collectively called the four meditations and eight meditations.

When Qi Ze awakened to Alaya Consciousness, he was able to practice neither-perception nor-non-perception concentration. After deep meditation, he observed inside. When the consciousness receded, many thoughts and consciousnesses would arise. Involuntary thinking is not without thinking, so it is called neither thinking nor non-thinking.

Qi Ze's state is full, and he can build a strategic plan from a high place, like water, and once he knows the mystery, he can achieve it overnight, and enter the state of neither thinking nor not thinking.

He was especially dissatisfied, as if he had withdrawn from the samadhi of the Buddha nature and re-entered the samadhi, but this time he started from the first dhyana, just like a young novice practicing meditation.

This thought was inspired by the incarnation through the nine-fold fire calamity. From a high-rise building to the ground, since the basic skills are rebuilt once, there will be many new insights.

Qi Ze's dharma body starts from the first dhyana, to the second dhyana, third jhana, fourth dhyana, and then to the samadhi of boundless emptiness, the samadhi of boundless consciousness, the samadhi of nothingness and the samadhi of neither perception nor non-perception. , has broken through the last hurdle, and entered the extinction!

If the saints have already attained the place of neither perception nor non-perception, they wish to temporarily live in tranquility. From a place where there is no thought or no thought, the heart seeks to make progress. When the mind is motivated, you seek the object you want, but you don't get anything. There is no gain; it perishes without turning. If you have learned, you have already left the place of greed, or you are an arhat, and you seek to live temporarily and think about it first, all minds and dharmas will be extinguished; this is called extinction and concentration. It is convenient to prove this determination.

In an instant, Qi Ze's true Buddha-nature was sublimated to the extreme, and all the thoughts and mental states were only extinguished and quiet, but did not turn, which is called extinguished!

Once you enter into extinction and complete concentration, there will be no existence of self, self-attachment will be eliminated, the impermanence of life and death will be cut off, and a comfortable state will be obtained. Birth, birth and death are over, and the Arhat status will be achieved naturally!

Arhats are all pure in body and mind, and their ignorance and troubles have been cut off. I have escaped life and death, and I have entered Nirvana. Worthy of respect and support from all gods. Before the end of his lifespan, he still lives in the world of the Brahma, with few desires, pure precepts, and enlightens the people according to the conditions.

Arhats have 10% fruit status, all kinds of enlightenment are self-generated, and all kinds of supernatural powers are self-generated. The Buddha's light suddenly radiated all over Qi Ze's body, startling the King of Yacha and Jue Zhenjue, and they couldn't jump as high as three. From their point of view, Qi Ze heard the great Bodhisattva's teaching, and just after he entered meditation, there was a huge movement !

The King of Yaocha was in doubt, and said: "Then the boy must have already achieved annihilation, right?"

Juefei said: "If the process of becoming and extinction is determined, wouldn't it be already accomplished..."

Jue Zhen sighed and said, "I have become an Arhat!"

King Yaksha smiled and said: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! What is the status of Arhat, second only to Buddha and Bodhisattva, that guy was just a person who realized the eight consciousnesses before, how can he achieve it as soon as he enters concentration? If so, the god The king also wants to practice extinction concentration and achieve the honorable position of Bodhisattva!"

Juezhen whispered: "Shen Wang, you are born with the Taiyi series, which means you are a Buddha and Bodhisattva, why do you need to cultivate?"

God King Yaocha was stunned for a moment, and said, "That Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is also a Bodhisattva, how could his mana power be so much higher than mine? I thought he was a Daozhen series!"

Just as he was speaking, the Buddha light emitted by Qi Ze became more and more prosperous, layer by layer, and turned into a nine-story pagoda, hanging high above his head.

Qi Ze's dharma body also heard the sound of Buddhist chant, ethereal and peaceful, as if all beings, human and non-human, were celebrating.

The God King Yaksha didn't know what it was like, and said: "When a saint comes out, there must be a vision! That's the nine-storey pagoda, and that kid has indeed attained Arhatship!"

Jue Feixi said: "Being an arhat, you will be liberated, and you will not suffer from reincarnation since then! It's really wonderful!"

Juezhen said: "This is natural. Qi Ze has obtained the Arhatship. As long as he is willing, he can immediately ascend to the Buddha Land of Concentration and Enlightenment, and enjoy purity forever!" There is still karma added to the body, and one by one must be repaid before being eligible to ascend to the Buddha Kingdom.

The Buddha's light outside Qi Ze's body spread infinitely, covering almost half of Avici Hell. Even the mysterious ghost king who was suppressed in the depths of hell was alarmed. Surprised and angry, he thought to himself, "The Bodhisattva preached the Dharma, and some people prove to be an arhat, so there is no way for me to wait for the ghost king!"

The three of them were sure that Qi Zeding had certified as an arhat, so they had such a vision, and they had different thoughts. But seeing Qi Ze enter into samadhi and prove the right result, I still can't help being envious.

In fact, Qi Ze was forced to do so. He originally wanted to practice the nine consciousnesses step by step, and then become an arhat. Only in this way can he attain the Bodhisattva status step by step. However, the Taiyin sect was attacked and he had to have the combat power of the longevity series to participate. The method of determination makes Arhats successful, and after the disaster of the Taiyin sect is solved, they will turn back and re-cultivate the nine consciousnesses.

Even the merit of the second meditation can enter and exit samadhi freely, not to mention the extinction of samadhi? Qi Ze can always be in the center of extinction, and he can always attain the Arhatship. With a thought, the Buddha's light outside his body gradually converges, and there is only a thin layer, which is close to the outside of the dharma body.

At the beginning of Arahantship, one should be able to realize one's own life, always be in the center of extinction, all thoughts will not arise, one thought will be pure, and will never be contaminated by the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance. All dharmas are empty and empty, no one has no self, and the view of oneself is empty, and the view of emptiness is not empty, and it has infinite mysteries.

As soon as the mind moves, one notices that beyond the immeasurable void, there seems to be a magnificent Buddhist kingdom hidden, which resonates with one's own body. As long as the mind moves, one can borrow immeasurable mana blessings from it.

The way of the nine consciousnesses seeks from oneself, not externally, but once certified as an arhat, one can perceive the wonderful existence of the void and realize the location of the Tathagata's Buddha country, just like the great ghost kings can borrow mana from the source of hell, Qi Ze As long as you are willing, you can also borrow mana from Dingjue Tathagata Buddha Kingdom.

Dingju Tathagata created another Buddhist kingdom in the void with the supreme and profound magic power. Those who make a vow to be reborn in the Buddhaland with one thought can all be reborn in the Buddhaland with the power of the Tathagata's divine power, and enjoy the purity forever.

There are countless living beings in the universe here, and there are also countless people who have been reborn in the Buddha's country. It is like a snowball rolling, and the Buddha's country is opened up wider and wider. It is full of immeasurable pure Buddhist true meaning and true energy, which can be consumed infinitely. Countless Buddhist disciples of Buddhism relied on the power of the Buddha Kingdom to fight against the Beginless Demon Lord and his celestial demon retinues all over the universe.