Ye Chen sat face-to-face with Master Lieye, Master Lieye made a pot of tea, poured two cups, and said, "I can see that the donor should be a cultivator. Why did you come to the Western Regions?"
"Although there are differences in the avenues of the world, they are still inseparable from their ancestry. In the final analysis, they are still a word of Dharma. Therefore, cultivating the Tao does not necessarily have to not touch the Dharma, and the cultivation of the Buddha does not necessarily have to not touch the Tao.
"Although the Tao of the world is in the same word, there is a fundamental difference between Buddhism and Tao. How to use fusion?" Master Liaoye looked at Ye Chen and said.
"Whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, it is the product of Taoism and principle. Of course, they can learn from each other and merge." Ye Chen said, "It's like this cup of tea. Everyone will have a different feeling when they taste it." , Because everyone is an independent individual with his own thinking, why do we need to follow a fixed thinking to do things?"
"There are many ways to do one thing, not necessarily only one, and not necessarily only one is the best." Ye Chen smiled slightly: "There are tens of thousands of roads to the Western Regions. Speak out, which one is the best?"
Master Liaoye was dumbfounded for a while, and Ye Chen continued: "Every path may be good or bad. Only those who have walked will know how to know if it will work if you don’t try it. However, no matter whether this road is good or bad, it can lead to the Western Regions."
"Similarly, whether we are cultivating Buddhism or Taoism, we can make ourselves know more and more powerful! This is our ultimate goal, and Taoism and Buddhism are just the way we go."
"Even if one road is blocked, when the next road is still on, the experience of the previous road can be applied to this road. Therefore, whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, there is a place for integration, whatever is absolute."
Hearing Ye Chen’s words, Master Liaye suddenly enlightened his heart, folded his hands together, and said, "The words of the benefactor are like a god-like enlightenment! Lao Ya has been studying Buddhism for so many years, and he has not been exposed to the true essence of Dao. I am really ashamed. ."
Ye Chen smiled and said: "The master of the industry has been rewarded. In fact, whether you are practicing Buddhism or Taoism, you should not rest on your own feet. It is a good thing to concentrate on practicing, but many roads of truth are outside, not in a room."
"The avenue is outside, not in the same room..." Master Liye suddenly opened in no time.
Later, Ye Chen and Master Liaye discussed many topics. Ye Chen asked: "Master, Buddhism believes in the afterlife, but do people really have an afterlife?"
Master Liye said: "This is the question of where you came from and where you are going."
"If there is an afterlife, then I am the afterlife of the previous life. Who am I in the previous life?" Ye Chen looked at Master Ye and said, "I don't even remember the things of the previous life. The current me is just me, or from the previous life. In the afterlife?"
Master Liaoye was stunned by Ye Chen’s question, and shook his head slightly, “Lao Na’s cultivation level is too shallow to answer the donor’s words. If the donor wants to know, he will have to go all the way west to reach the Daleiyin Temple to ask the Buddha if he can. Can understand."
Ye Chen bid farewell to Master Ye and went west again.
After a long talk between Master Ye and Ye Chen, he resigned from the presidency of Hanshan Temple and embarked on the road of practice alone.
"Da Leiyin Temple, Buddha..." Ye Chen muttered to himself as he looked to the west.
Ye Chen walked all the way to the west for several days and saw several temples, each of which was full of incense.
However, Ye Chen saw an extremely dilapidated temple on this day. The shattered houses in the temple, the stone platforms were covered with moss, and the walls of the courtyard were covered with tree roots, giving a sense of ruin.
"All the temples are full of incense, why is this temple so unbearable?" Ye Chen was puzzled. He walked into the temple. The temple plaque was crooked to one side, and the words on it were covered by the creeper.
Ye Chen swept away the leaves with a big hand. There were three characters on it-Tuolan Temple!
Ye Chen walked up the steps covered with moss and pushed open the concealed broken door. The door creaked and opened slowly. Ye Chen was worried that the door would shatter with a little force.
Ye Chen entered the temple, and there was no one to take care of it for a long time.
The whole temple was in a panic, a dilapidated image. It is hard for Ye Chen to imagine that such a ruined temple would appear in the Western Regions where Buddhism prevails!
Cough!
At this time, two coughs came, and Ye Chen proceeded abruptly, only to see an old monk coming out of a door, squatting towards the main hall.
Ye Chen was surprised, how could this old monk not even look at him? Didn't you find him
Ye Chen walked over and came to the main hall. The main hall was covered with cobweb dust, and no one had taken care of it for many years. The enshrined Buddha statues were smashed, and even the face was invisible.
Seeing this scene, Ye Chen was even more surprised. Someone actually destroyed the Buddha statue. This is definitely a thing against the sky in the Western Regions. How could such a thing happen
"Why destroy this Buddha statue? What kind of Buddha is this? Need to be destroyed?" Ye Chen was full of doubts.
Then, Ye Chen's eyes fell on the old monk sitting on the futon in the main hall, Lao Heshan motionless, sitting cross-legged.
"Old Zen Master..." Ye Chen called out softly.
The old monk did not move. When Ye Chen was about to shout again, Ye Chen saw that the Lao Heshan he saw just now was cleaning the hall.
Ye Chen's scalp was numb, because he saw that no matter how the old monk swept, the dust on the ground remained motionless, which was obviously unreasonable.
"This is not a real person..." Old Soul said immediately.
Ye Chen was startled, and then strode towards the sitting monk. When he saw the front of the monk, Ye Chen's expression changed.
The sitting monk was just a corpse, similar to the monk who was sweeping the floor. Ye Chen set off a stormy sea in his heart, and said to himself: "He is dead..."
"The corpse doesn't rot. This old monk was outstanding before his death. After his death, he was able to issue such a vow to reveal everything he had said and experienced." The old man was horrified.
"This is just his previous footprint..." Ye Chen looked at the sweeping old monk, with a lot of thoughts in his heart. In the Western Regions where the Buddhist monastery was flourishing, this temple was in dilapidated conditions, but he remained silently guarding him until he died of old age.
Even after his old age, he is still guarding...
Ye Chen put his hands together and gave a big gift to the old monk. No matter why the temple was dilapidated and why the Buddha was destroyed, the old monk's persistence alone deserves Ye Chen's admiration.
Ye Chen walked around in the main hall. There were no books such as Buddhist scriptures left in it. However, Ye Chen saw the following four words on the stone platform where the Buddha statue was enshrined: The Buddha in the Heart.
Ye Chen wondered what the four words "Buddha in the Heart" meant. He looked at the destroyed Buddha statue and said to himself: "Could it be that this Buddha statue is just the Buddha in his heart, not the Buddha in this world."
Ye Chen looked at the Buddha statue for a long time, and finally shook his head. Does such a temple still exist in the Western Regions? Is it just this temple
There is such a thing in the Western Regions where Buddhist cultivation is prosperous, and no one will believe it. Who dares to attack the temple? That was definitely going to arouse the anger of the entire Western Regions, even the four major races did not dare to step into the Western Regions, not to mention the human races in the human world.
"In the Western Regions, most temples enshrine either Amitabha Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha. Can it be said that apart from these two Buddhas, other Buddhas are not allowed?" Ye Chen has seen many temples along the way. Only two Buddhas are enshrined.
Either Amitabha or Shakyamuni Buddha, no exceptions. Everyone respects Buddha Amitabha and Buddha Shakyamuni. No one will destroy their Buddha statues. There is only one possibility. This temple respects other Buddhas.
And it is a Buddha not recognized by many believers in the Western Regions! Therefore, to be destroyed.
"When the time comes, you can ask." Ye Chen walked out of Tuolan Temple, took a breath, looked back at the mottled and ruined temple, and felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart.
Ye Chen left Tuolan Temple and continued to the west. When he met a passerby, he asked, "Excuse me, why is the Tuolan Temple in front of it so dilapidated?"
"Hush..." The passerby made a silent gesture very nervously, and said, "Don't talk about this. This is a taboo in the Western Regions."
After the passers-by finished speaking, they hurried away, still talking about them, for fear that they might cause some trouble.
"Talking about it is a taboo?" Ye Chen was even more puzzled when he heard this. What happened to make this a taboo? It cannot be accommodated by the Western Regions.
However, the more mysterious it was, the more Ye Chen wanted to figure it out.
Ye Chen continued to the west. On the way, he saw a walking monk and stepped forward to salute him and asked: "Master, I saw a deserted temple in front of me, and all the Buddhas enshrined in it were destroyed. Why is this?"
The monk Xingjiao stepped back immediately, chanting: "Amitabha! Sins, sins..."
Ye Chen frowned and looked at the walking monk. The walking monk seemed to be making a confession, and then he said, "The donor, isn't he from the Western Regions?"
Ye Chen nodded and said, "I traveled around the world, and when I came here, all I saw were scenes of the prosperity of the temple. Only the Nadoran Temple was dilapidated, so I was a little puzzled, and I hope the Master can solve the puzzle.
The monk Xingjiao said: "Don't mention the three words Tuolan Temple in front of others in the future. This is a taboo."
"Why?" Ye Chen searched for the roots.
The monk Xingjiao hesitated, chanted the Buddha's name, and said: "It is not a Buddha, but a different Buddha!"
Ye Chen became more confused as he listened, what kind of Buddha is another Buddha
Seeing Ye Chen's doubts, the walking monk said: "Anyway, you can't talk about it, Amitabha, goodbye..."