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The intelligent abbot smiled broadly and pronounced the Buddha's name again.
"Donor Meng is still so kind and generous!"
"Master, thank you for the award. This Grand Palace seems to be more magnificent than the last time I came here."
Meng Lang looked at the bright yellow new futon in front of him and the increasingly shining Third World Buddha.
"Haha! Thanks to your blessing, our temple has been slightly repaired. Donor Meng does not want others to know about his good deeds, and he gives without asking for anything in return. His merits are immeasurable and there is no greater kindness!"
The smart master was naturally referring to the previous "Human Trafficking Gang Case". Meng Lang didn't take any of the reward from the police at that time, and donated it all to Nanshan Temple.
Lin Haitang on the side was a little confused.
Don’t want others to know you do good deeds? Donate without expecting anything in return?
What did he do in Nanshan Temple?
Judging from the abbot’s warm hospitality throughout the entire journey, he is as good as a senior VIP among pilgrims…
"I wonder if the donor came here today to ask for a fortune? Or to return a wish?"
As he said that, he glanced at Lin Haitang with a smile.
I beg for a single dog in front of me, and a loving dog after me...could it be that the marriage fortune-telling from before has come true?
But...it seemed that last time, what I asked for was a bet and a lottery?
"Ahem! Although your temple's fortune-telling is indeed very effective, I am not here to ask for fortune-telling today. I am here specifically to see the wisdom master."
"Looking for me?" The smart master was stunned for a moment.
"Yes!" Meng Lang nodded and looked at the wise master in front of him seriously, "I heard that the master's Dharma is profound, I have some doubts in my heart, and I hope to get some guidance from the master."
"Huh?" The smart master suddenly looked surprised.
"Have you heard? Where did Master Meng hear this? The poor monk is just a small abbot of Nanshan Temple, and he doesn't dare to say that Buddhism is profound."
"Haha!" Meng Lang showed a smile that saw everything through.
"Master is too modest. How come the eminent monk of Longquan Temple and the master lecturer of the Water and Land Dharma Association in Beijing dare not say that the Dharma is profound?"
Zhi Zhi looked stunned.
Just as stunned as him was Lin Haitang beside him.
This Nanshan Temple is located in a remote place and looks inconspicuous. I haven't even seen a single pilgrim for a long time. I didn't expect that the old abbot monk would have such a big background?
Although it was incredible, she had no doubts about Meng Lang's intelligence ability.
"How did Master Meng know this?" Zhi Zhi did not deny it, but just asked out of curiosity.
"Of course I found out by fate." Meng Lang replied with a smile.
"Destined?"
Zhi Zhi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded, "Yes! The donor and I are indeed destined!"
"Since the master is an eminent monk in the capital, how come he is here?" Lin Haitang asked curiously.
"Haha! Being too deeply involved in the world will hinder your spiritual practice. It is better to be as pure as this small Nanshan Temple."
These days, there is an endless stream of pilgrims to some famous temples, and there are almost no monks there who are not smelly of copper.
The monks in this kind of environment are not going to practice, they are just going to provoke the world of mortals.
Faith has slowly turned into business. There are fewer and fewer monks practicing, but more and more monks doing business...
"Master doesn't care about fame and fortune, which is admirable!" Meng Lang said with a smile.
"Fame and wealth are just fleeting clouds that cover people's eyes. It's better to have a pure mind and be at ease in everything!"
Smart put his hands together and smiled like the breeze and the bright moon, without the philistine expression just now.
Meng Lang's eyes lit up.
"To be honest, Master, I came here to find the pure Dharma of freedom!"
"Oh?" Zhi Zhi looked surprised.
"What kind of Dharma does Master Meng want to learn?"
"Nature is the great freedom of becoming a Buddha!"
Zhi Zhi smiled. "Then what is 'Buddha' in the mind of Benefactor Meng?"
"The Buddha before and after the Buddha only talks about his heart. The heart is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the heart. There is no Buddha outside the heart, and there is no heart outside the Buddha."
Xue Huaiyi's scriptures believe that only by knowing one's mind and seeing nature, and having no external objects in one's mind, can we be consistent and minimize the impact of the countless "selves" in the book on the "original self".
So whatever color your original self is, the rest of you will also be the same color.
Then naturally "I" will always be "I"!
"Huh? I didn't expect that Benefactor Meng would actually be involved in the mind philosophy of the Consciousness Only Sect of Buddhism?
Does the donor know what ‘no mind outside the Buddha’ means?”
The surprise on Zhi Zhi's face has turned into surprise.
"Well...the Buddha has found his true self. The Buddha has no mind outside of him. He just keeps his true mind. Apart from me, there is no other Buddha.
I was about to ask the master how to ‘have no mind outside the Buddha’?” Meng Lang asked.
"Except for this mind, there is no other Buddha to be found, and there is no point in looking for Bodhi and Nirvana apart from this mind.
If you want to find the Buddha, you must directly see your nature.
Nature is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the free man who does nothing and does nothing.
If you see your nature, you are the Buddha, if you don't see your nature, you are all living beings..." Zhizhi replied.
"I am still a sentient being, how can I see my nature?"
“The reason why we are sentient beings is only because our delusional thoughts and attachments cover up our Buddha nature. If we can extinguish our delusional thoughts and attachments, our Buddha nature will naturally appear.
All the evil deeds I have done in the past were all caused by beginningless greed, hatred, and ignorance, from body, speech, and mind. I regret all of them now..."
“Repentance can lead to ‘Buddha-free mind’?”
"Of course not. People have eight consciousnesses: eye consciousness, ear consciousness, nose consciousness, tongue consciousness, body consciousness, six body consciousnesses, and even 'manas consciousness' and 'alaya consciousness'.
The Buddha's outer mind is the seventh consciousness, 'mana consciousness', which is always associated with the four troubles of delusion, self-conception, self-arrogance, and self-love.
Its nature is "there is nothing to remember", which means it does not produce strange fruits, but it can overturn the holy path and obscure the nature of the mind!
This consciousness is the root of self-grasping. If you cling to delusion, it will create all kinds of bad karma. On the contrary, it will eliminate the evil karma of troubles, so it is called stained and pure consciousness.
Only by eradicating the four afflictions, thoroughly understanding the truth of the two emptiness of human dharma, and clearly understanding the eighth fundamental consciousness ‘alaya consciousness’ can we achieve ‘no mind outside the Buddha’.”
"However, all dharmas have no self. Since beginningless time, Manas consciousness has always held Alaya consciousness as me, reincarnating at the same time as Alaya consciousness, flowing through life and death.
Since mana consciousness is also in reincarnation, how can it not overturn the holy path and obscure the nature of the mind?"
"The six consciousnesses are pure and pure, and the six consciousnesses are stained and stained. The 'mana consciousness' is divided into good and bad, but the 'alaya consciousness' is the most delusional.
Since 'alaya consciousness' is the fundamental consciousness, the first seven consciousnesses all rely on the eighth consciousness, alaya consciousness, to circulate.
This is the ‘Alaya origin’…”
Above the Mahavira Hall, under the Third Buddha, there is an old man and a young man.
An in-depth and friendly discussion was held on questions such as "Who am I? How did I come to be? Am I really who I am?" etc...
Lin Haitang on the side was dumbfounded.
At first I could understand a few words, but later I became a Muggle.
Meng Lang... is actually studying Buddhism?
What level of "can't figure it out" requires this level of "clarification"?
And...it's only been a few days? You can fight with the preaching master from the capital for 300 rounds?
Is this scientific?
Even if the end of science is theology, this is too amazing...
To be continued...