Chapter One Hundred and Fifty Second: Nine Serenity Refinement
The two of them teleported from the foot of Lingyin Mountain to the Arhat Hall of Lingyin Temple.
This hall has no six ears, and is extremely secluded, with only five hundred arhats standing solemnly in the hall.
"Master, please accept a prayer from my disciple."
Xu Xiaoxian fell to the ground again, and Li Xiuyuan hurriedly helped him up and said, "You are already an immortal emperor, why should you do this?"
"No, I will be a teacher for one day and a father for life. Has the master forgotten that he promised me many years ago that you were a teacher and a disciple?"
"Okay, okay, please get up quickly, disciple!"
Living Buddha Jigong, who had always been a bit unruly, was now tearful. After wiping his tears, he fanned the palm palm in front of him, and a pot of fine wine and roasted chicken immediately appeared in front of them.
Then he turned out two bows and filled the wine with them.
"Come on, you and my master and apprentice have not seen each other for many years, so I will welcome you."
As he said that, one master and one disciple started eating and drinking in front of the five hundred arhats.
Just now, it was still good wine and roasted chicken, but when it came to his mouth, Xu Xiaoxian suddenly felt something strange. The wine turned into water and the roasted chicken turned into radish, but it made him understand some Buddhist principles.
Xu Xiaoxian said: "This fine wine and roasted chicken are water and radish when it comes to your mouth. The compassionate heart can overcome the turbidity in the wine, wash away the dirt in the heart, and save all things. Master's Buddhism is indeed exquisite!"
Li Xiuyuan replied: "What? Have you learned to flatter others for many years?"
Xu Xiaoxian bowed and replied, "A disciple, I am stupid, I hope my master will teach you how to practice Buddhism."
"Your cultivation is far above me and the Immortal Emperor is above the heavenly realm. How could you be stupid? I actually teach you that I can't tell you, and I'm afraid I will become a laughing stock in the three realms. Okay, I'm going to sleep."
As he said that, Li Xiuyuan began to become a little unreasonable again. He raised his legs and lay down on the incense table. He fell asleep. Within half of the incense stick, the hall was already snoring like thunder.
Seeing his current master, Xu Xiaoxian couldn't help laughing.
However, after thinking about it carefully, all this was caused by him. He failed to survive the tribulation for his master, and was reborn in the Li Mansion, and then entered Buddhism again, and became today. He felt guilty. He had to close his eyes and sit on a cushion in front of the incense table, start meditating, and recite the wonderful words of the scriptures.
But when I think of my master, I cannot enter into meditation.
Xu Xiaoxian said in his heart: "I didn't expect that the master who was polite and fairy-like in the past became like this now. Is this teaching me how to practice Buddhism? What the master means is that you should do whatever you want to practice Buddhism?"
Suddenly, Li Xiuyuan asked, "When humans are born with good nature, is this truth?"
"Master, you haven't slept?" Xu Xiaoxian said.
Li Xiuyuan said: "I was sleepy just now, so you should answer my question."
Xu Xiaoxian replied: "Return to Master, I think there is no distinction between good and evil in the beginning of a person. It depends on how to guide him. If you guide the newborn person to be good, then the first person will do good. If you guide him to one of the evil ends, it is the first person and evil, just like the children I taught him just now, not good people."
Li Xiuyuan said, "Your statement is right, not right, not right, not right, right."
Xu Xiaoxian believed that he had realized the truth, but since his master said so, he had to ask the reason.
"Master, how can you explain this? I hope you can give me advice!"
Li Xiuyuan stood up, sat cross-legged, and said seriously: "The good nature of a man is the instinct given by the Yuanshi God. Therefore, the first person is good nature, and evil comes from the dark side of the universe. But good and evil are the opposite sides of the yin and yang, and there must be evil. At the beginning, your spiritual root was suppressed by the demon of the void. The reason why you can resist the demon of the void and have no worries about life is that you were originally a monk and your kind heart is strong enough. This is why I asked you to be a monk first as soon as you were born. Once you were crazy, it was caused by the suppression of good nature. So once a person is occupied by evil nature, good nature will be hidden and evil nature will be reflected. The way of Buddha is to highlight good nature, suppress evil nature, and even eliminate evil nature, to correct the way!"
After hearing what his master said, Xu Xiaoxian felt like he was enlightened and suddenly became enlightened.
"The disciple understands, thank you for your advice."
Li Xiuyuan nodded with relief.
"Your senior brother, Buddha, has taught me the wisdom voice. You want to achieve the realm of the Great Buddha. Although you have achieved the realm of the Great Immortal Lord, you have to start from scratch if you want to achieve the Great Buddha Lord. Just like you have just entered the path of practicing Taoism, do you know why I am also a Buddhist and Taoist path?"
"I would like to ask my master for advice!"
Xu Xiaoxian shook her head and said she didn't know.
Li Xiuyuan continued, "The reason why I practice Buddhism and Taoism is entirely because of your guidance."
"What? Because of me?"
"Yes, now that you are already at the highest level of the Great Immortal Lord, I will tell you some past events."
So, Li Xiuyuan stood up, shook his palm-leaf fan, and began to make a long statement...
Li Xiuyuan said: "When you were in Kunlun, you were the supreme leader of all immortals and gods, and you were called the great immortals and gods, and your realm was even more at the level of cultivation to the great masters.
"Your strength is far greater than your senior brother, the Great Buddha God. Now the Middle Tathagata Buddha Lord in the Three Realms is a clone of the Great Buddha God. The strength of the real Great Buddha God is far beyond the comparison of the Tathagata Buddha Lord in the Three Realms."
"This is like Yuanshi Tianzun in the Three Realms. He is just one of the tens of thousands of clones of the great god Pangu."
"Whether Pangu or Panling God, they are just your disciples and grandchildren."
"There are only two people who are truly on par with you. One is the ancestor of Hongjun. It is said that his clone is also in the three realms, and the other is the Buddha Buddha of the West today."
"At the beginning, you came to the upper realm to inspect the divine realm and took my talent, so you accepted me as a disciple of the closed door and took care of me in every way, and then taught me the method of practicing Buddhism and Taoism.
"The reason why you can look down on the gods is that your soul is transformed by the soul of Yuanshi God, also known as Yuanshi God. You have always practiced both immortals and Buddhas, so this time if you want to return to the position of the Great Master, you must pass this level and reach the realm of the Great Buddha."
After listening to the long narrative of Master Li Xiuyuan, he connected the previous words of the Great God of Pan Ling, Tathagata Buddha, Yuanshi Tianzun, Qingni and others, and finally formed a complete past about himself.
Although it is complete, it is also extremely empty because he has not yet found his memory.
Xu Xiaoxian said, "So that's it. Thank you Master. It's just that the Buddha's Master's "The True Sutra of the Infinite Great Buddha God" records that the first step in practicing Buddhism is to refine the Buddha's heart. So what should I do specifically?"
"It's extremely simple for you. You must be accustomed to doing good deeds and accumulating virtues to save the dead, so you have already activated the Buddha's heart, but it has not been refined yet. You can use your spiritual consciousness to see the color and size of your Buddha's heart now."
As he said that, Xu Xiaoxian continued to meditate and entered into meditation. In the image of the spiritual consciousness, he saw a red heart beating, and the center of the heart was the Buddha's heart. It looked just a small red dot floating in the space inside the heart.
After a moment he opened his eyes and replied, "Master, it's red, just the size of a small dot of sesame seeds."
Li Xiuyuan said: "The small red dot? Then you are only at the zero level of Zen mind state. Practicing Buddha is about cultivating the mind. There are six realms behind the Zen mind state. The Buddha's heart is gold in the dry Dharma realm, the Buddha's heart is red and gold in the body state, the Buddha's heart is blue and gold in the spirit gathering Buddha's heart is blue and gold in the Bodhi realm, the Buddha's heart is silver-white in the Bodhi realm, and the Buddha's heart is silver-white in the return realm, and the Buddha's heart is colorless and empty in the Nirvana realm, which is heartless. Each realm corresponds to the seventh level, and can be determined by the size of the Buddha's heart. When it is refined to one-seventh of the heart, it is the first level, and when it grows to two-seventh of the heart, it is the second level, until it is the same size as the heart, and immediately ascends to the realm. After each realm, the Buddha's heart will turn back into that small dot, and of course the color of that point will also change with the realm."
After Master’s teachings, Xu Xiaoxian finally understood what it was like to practice Buddhism. Of course, the Buddha had introduced it before, but it was not as detailed as his Master.
"How to refine the Buddha's heart?" Xu Xiaoxian continued to ask.
Li Xiuyuan continued, "The Buddha said: It is better to be like hell than hell. If you refine the Buddha's heart, you should use the fire of the Nine Nether Hell. Before refining each time, you must first nourish the heart. The method of nourishing the heart is to do good and accumulate virtue and save all spirits. In this way, the Buddha's heart can resist the endless pain of refining, and will not be damaged and destroyed before the level of the rise and rise. The fire of the Nine Nether Hell is within the Nine Nethers, and there are 7749 levels, corresponding to the seventh level of the Buddhist realm and the forty-nine Zen paths."
Xu Xiaoxian said: "So that's the case. At present, we should be able to quickly refine the Buddha's heart and rise to the first level of Zen heart. I heard that the Nine Nether Fire was transformed by countless evil spirits. Every time we go to the next level, the deeper the sin, the eighteenth level is already a great evil person. The forty-nine level is simply unimaginable. It is said that there are four elements of wind, fire, thunder and lightning to refine these evil spirits. It seems that I have to go there in the future."
"Go, your heart is well-established, but you should not make any progress in cultivation. You should stop at the right time. Once you get involved in the fire of hell, with your strength, you may destroy the entire Nine Nether World. I am afraid it will be too late to regret it!"
"Well, don't worry, Master, I'll go back."
Xu Xiaoxian bowed and said goodbye.
Since Xu Xiaoxian has done good deeds and accumulated virtues countless times before, he is naturally good at cultivating his mind, and he should be able to quickly reach the first level of Zen or even higher state of mind.
So he decided to say goodbye to his master and go to the hell within the Nine Netherworlds.
When we arrived at the first level of Jiuyou, the catastrophe power composed of the four elements of wind, fire, thunder and lightning was no problem for Xu Xiaoxian, as if he was scratching it.
However, in this huge soul pool, the light green flame burning of the soul. This kind of fire is called soul fire, which makes his soul tremble a little.
The reason why he trembled was not because of how powerful the flame was, but because his Buddha heart felt irritable, because this kind of refining would not harm the spirit and soul at all, and attacking the Buddha heart was more terrifying than refining the spirit body.
According to the method of refining the Buddha's heart as stated in the "Infinite Great Buddha God True Sutra", you need to recite the mantra and sit in the burning light green flame in the soul pool.
Xu Xiaoxian didn't think much about it, after all, he was also a god who had seen the world.
He jumped and immediately sat in the soul fire. The fire had no sound, like a ghost like a ghost. As soon as he jumped in, a cold thorn began to attack his Buddha's heart, and his heart felt as if it was penetrated by tens of thousands of needles.
Chapter completed!