"Another saint has fallen. en8."
There are drums in the evening and bells in the morning, and ancient Buddhas have green lanterns.
A touch of incense ashes fell into the dust, the deep bell rang again, and the trembling of the heartbeat was heard in the air.
The young man kneeling in front of the Buddha statue clasped his hands and chanted the Buddha's name, sighing: "Sage, great virtue."
The voice came from nowhere: "You live to perpetuate the Taoist tradition, and you die to steal heaven and life. How do you know whether this is a great virtue or a loss of virtue?"
"I don't know, disciple." The young man put down his hand and gently turned the rosary beads. The slight collision sound was heard very clearly in the silent Zen room.
"Is it… "
The young man had bright eyebrows and a warm expression. He looked up at the Buddha statue and asked, "Does the saint also feel that what he has done is wrong?"
The voice of the saint of Buddhism and Taoism was as compassionate as ever: "For a practitioner, what I have done in my life is the most benevolent and righteous. However, for the way of heaven, it cannot be redeemed even by death. I am free in my heart about what I have gained and lost, but I just want to have no regrets."
"Disciple knows." The young man lowered his eyes again and fiddled with his rosary. "It's a pity that my disciple has a mediocre mind and cannot be as devoid of regrets as a saint."
The Buddhist and Taoist saint suddenly had a smile in his voice, and he said: "If you have a mediocre mind, then there are not many practitioners in the world who can be said to have a good mind. Speaking of which... Although Yun Qing is not a good person, he still looks at people. excellent."
Jian Chen's calm and indifferent expression was a bit unbearable, and he said in a panic: "Disciple is scared."
"I feel panic after just praising you. How can I trust you to take over Buddhism and Taoism from now on?" The Buddhist and Taoist saint looked much more relaxed than before, and his words were not so depressed. Jianchen felt relieved, but when he heard "taking over Buddhism", he raised his voice again. If the saint lives well, it will naturally not be his turn to take over Buddhism, unless...
"Do you want to challenge or not?"
In just a few days, the sun, moon and stars all fell, the continent was broken into islands, and the sea was frozen into land. It could be said that the world was turned upside down, as if it was the end of the world. Every cultivator saw such earth-shaking changes, and almost everyone knew that it was caused by the fall of the saint, and Jianchen was no exception.
After saying this, he felt something was wrong: "The ghost way, the human way, and the one who just died, the world's orthodoxy has been reduced to three out of six. Logically speaking, it is enough for the divine way to come, right?"
In other words, the remaining saints don’t have to sacrifice themselves...
"It's not enough." A familiar voice came from behind Jianchen.
He turned around and saw Yun Qing, whom he hadn't seen for many years. Time seemed to have stopped on her. From appearance to breath, she had not changed at all. en8. White clothes and bare feet, holding a mirror in both hands, eyes lowered and a gentle smile.
Yun Qing walked to him, sat down cross-legged on another futon, and said: "It's just three Taoist traditions, and it's far from completing the Taoist chess."
Jianchen felt as if he was in another world. He couldn't believe that this person he had not seen for a hundred years appeared in front of him, and he was still meditating calmly.
But the Buddhist and Taoist saint seemed to have known that she would come for him. He took over her words and asked: "Three Taoist traditions? More than that..."
"There is also a son of Huang Quan, I just got it." Yun Qing smiled, "Speaking of which... I just took away the Tao seed from Huang Quan, and I came to Guiling Temple without stopping. How did you calculate it?"
"I'm talking about Shinto." The Buddhist and Taoist saint said, and suddenly said to the swordsman, "You should retreat first."
Jianchen felt slightly shocked, saluted the two of them and left the meditation room. There are indeed some things that he shouldn't know. The more he knows, the more he will bear. And he does not yet have the ability to bear the burden, so it is better to know less. But Yun Qing's words kept lingering in his mind, and he couldn't help but guess that if the three Taoist traditions were not enough, then Yun Qing's purpose of coming to Guiling Temple this time seemed to be obvious.
Only Yun Qing and a silent Buddha statue were left in the Zen room.
"Thank you Saint for your teachings to the swordsmen over the years." Yun Qing said politely, "I never thought that with his qualifications, he could become a Taoist in a hundred years."
"No need to thank you. The swordsman happens to be from the devil's path, so I will directly teach him the Heart Sutra of Rebirth, and it will put an end to my worries." The Buddhist and Taoist saint said calmly. The Heart of Rebirth Sutra he created combines the path of Buddha and demons, and there are almost no people who can inherit it in Guiling Temple. Yun Qing had expected this when she sent the swordsman to Guiling Temple. The Buddhist and Taoist saint lacked an heir, and she lacked a suitable inheritance for the swordsman. The two of them just matched each other, so this deal could be done.
There are quick methods in the Heart Sutra of Rebirth. Although it is difficult to reach the level of a Buddhist saint, it is not impossible to achieve enlightenment within a hundred years.
Yun Qing seemed to have been waiting for his words for a long time, and immediately said: "Now that my worries are over, what is the saint's plan?"
The Buddhist and Taoist saint replied with a faint smile: "The four Taoist traditions of ghosts, humans, demons and gods were not enough, so they tried to capture the underworld. Adding the underworld was not enough, so you came to me?"
"It's not enough to enter the Tao and gain the seed of Tao to see the heaven and the earth, so I try to break into the Tao. It's not enough to join the Tao and steal the sky, so I want to go against the heaven and destroy my destiny. The life of all things is between the three words of 'dissatisfaction'." Yun Qing was still as calm as water, she sighed, "Sage... I am the same."
"Will the Dao of Heaven be dissatisfied with its own power?" the Buddhist and Taoist saint asked calmly.
Yun Qing shook his head and smiled helplessly: "I don't know, Tian Dao is not a living being. It probably doesn't have such emotions."
"It's so rare that you sometimes don't know." The Buddhist and Taoist saint said with emotion, "I've been wondering whether you are as omniscient and omnipotent as the way of heaven."
Yun Qing still shook his head: "Sage, the Tao of Heaven is not omniscient and omnipotent. If so, it would not let mortal creatures obtain Tao seeds in the first place, let alone allow the monastic world to develop to such a degree that it would threaten itself."
"Yes, why did it allow the seeds of Taoism to be spread?" The voice of the Buddhist and Taoist saints gradually became calmer, and finally even sounded like a question, "The original Dzogchen... Why was it broken?"
This is a question that no one has answered, but has always been hidden in the hearts of practitioners—where does the revelation come from? Where did the first Tao seed come from
"Sage, I have already said that I am not an omniscient person." Yun Qing closed his eyes and just dropped this sentence lightly, without answering.
"At least we know more than people in the world." The Buddhist and Taoist saint didn't seem to care much. He said, "Speaking of which, when did you live? The ancient era of gods and demons, or the earlier ancient barbaric era? Or even... Before the apocalypse?”
Yun Qing selectively avoided the following question: "Even if I know more, it won't be much. Because the knowledge in the monastic world is inherited and gradually progressive, and I am isolated."
"At least you have experienced the era of gods and demons. I feel that Zhong Guanyuan has been trying to avoid you, but he has to observe you secretly. Have you known him before?" The Buddhist and Taoist saint felt that her answer was very vague, so he emphasized again own problems. That day, Zhong Guanyuan went to several holy places to take away the Qing Emperor's sacrificial vessels. He hurried and slowed down just to get ahead of Yun Qing. This was so obvious that Buddhist and Taoist saints couldn't ignore it even if they wanted to.
Yun Qing was startled: "I don't know him."
This "I don't know" was much simpler than the previous pretentious answers, which surprised the Buddhist and Taoist saints: "... That's it, but it is true that compared to the Five Emperors, Wenqu, a god of history, is not Very important."
Buddhist and Taoist saints say that "it is not very important compared to the Five Emperors", but in fact Wenqu was really important in ancient times. After all, it was an era when even written records were not perfect, and a mural was enough to be called a precious historical material. And the god who knows all the historical materials of that year and is in charge of all texts and books can be said to be the witness and recorder of history. The most important thing is that many ascetics believe that he has recorded what happened before the Qing Emperor's fall, and also knows the secrets of several great tribulations.
"Wenqu..." Yun Qing recited the divine name silently again, shook his head seriously and said, "I really don't know him."
The Buddhist and Taoist saint was silent for a while and said: "That's all, let's do that."
In fact, Yun Qing's answer already admitted that she had experienced that era. As for the Taoist cultivators in the ancient era of gods and demons, Huangquan lived and died, Gongsun Nightmare Flower died after struggling for a long time, and the gods are still far away in the heavenly palace waiting for their return. With so many conflicts of life and death, it can be said that there are very few left today. Even if the Buddhist and Taoist saints continued to ask questions, she would answer whatever she liked, but there was no way to obtain evidence anyway.
After hearing this, Yun Qing stood up with a mirror in his arms, stood in front of the Buddha statue, and saluted: "Is the saint preparing to pass away? Do you need me to prepare the golden urn for you?"
The Jin Ping Che lottery is to prepare the successor of Guiling Temple. What Yun Qing said is that Buddhist and Taoist saints can be reincarnated into soul boys after their previous lives, and then use the method of golden urn to select the reincarnated soul boy and take over the overall situation of Guiling Temple again.
But the Buddhist and Taoist saints just sighed: "There is no need to prepare, let the swordsman take over."
Yun Qing looked up at the Buddha statue. The peaceful and compassionate face without sadness or joy was hidden in the shadow of the Buddhist niche, and only a vague outline could be seen. She frowned and asked, "What does this mean, saint?"
"Nine reincarnations, plus the original ten births, are called the Tenth Buddha. Nine is the ultimate number, and the tenth reincarnation... either achieves great perfection, or can only return to heaven. .”
This was completely different from what the Buddhist and Taoist saints had explained to her at the beginning. When Yun Qing sneaked into Guiling Temple to steal the idea of the Lotus Heart Void Tibet, the Buddhist and Taoist saints were not the Buddhist and Taoist saints, but Jue Luan. At that time, Jue Luan told her in the stupa that the nine past lives, plus this life, were counted as ten lives. This "ten" had already broken through the "nine" as the "extreme number", so it could "break the number". The way of heaven realizes perfection."
Now it seems that the "nine" in the nine reincarnations is the ultimate number, and it takes another reincarnation to achieve Dzogchen.
The birth of the Daostem is the Small Perfection, and the maturity of the Daostem is the Great Perfection. From ancient times to the present, only Biluohuangquan has achieved the Great Perfection. It is now on the eve of a great tribulation, disasters occur frequently, and punishments from heaven may come at any time. Trying to achieve perfection at this juncture will most likely lead to no way of survival.
Even in Yun Qing's view, what Biluo Huangquan has witnessed cannot be regarded as "Great Perfection". Because the way of heaven is incomplete, there is no way to talk about "perfection" under the way of heaven.
Yun Qing was a little puzzled: "The saint's skills are special. Even if you give up your Tao, fruit and power, you can reincarnate with your memories. Why take the risk?"
The Buddhist saint said calmly: "How long have you lived?"
Yun Qing was silent.
The Buddhist and Taoist saint sighed: "I remember telling you a long time ago that from the first generation of Guiling Temple to the end of the last generation, I am every one of them, but I am not any of them. Countless memories are connected together, and countless people's years are overlapped and piled up in the soul. This is not a very pleasant thing. If I achieve Dzogchen, then I can become 'me'. God is just letting those lives that should have ended long ago return to their original places, giving this world one more hope."
Yun Qing was speechless and could only say goodbye with the words that had been said countless times by the ascetics.
"Sage and great virtue."
The bright and extinguishing fire in the Zen room flickered for the last time, and then drowned in the night, never to rise again.