Chapter 43 Self-created exercises (1)
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The Amitabha Sutra of the Past is a Buddhist and the secret method of the supreme soul cultivation of the Dachen Temple. There must be many monks who practice this method, but there are not many who have achieved success in the past dynasties. Why? That is because they all took the wrong path at the beginning of their practice. They did not understand the essence of this scripture, and they did not even understand what Buddha is!?
What is Buddha? Buddha is enlightened, because everyone can be enlightened. Therefore, it is said that everyone can become Buddhas, but Buddhas are different. Buddhas include Tathagata Buddha, Ksitigarbha Buddha, Jigong Living Buddha, and even the Battle Holy Buddha. All Buddhas are different.
Therefore, the most correct way to practice this scripture is to realize one’s own Buddha nature from this Buddha statue, or to understand one’s own ‘enlightened nature’.
Those who have not found the right way have rushed to the method of practicing the soul in the scriptures. They already have greed, obsession, and anger in their hearts. Their original hearts are not pure. How can they be "aware"? How can they find their own "awareness"? How can they not grasp the essence and realize their own Buddha nature? How can they practice to a profound state?
There are many reasons for the demise of Dachan Temple back then. The most important thing is that Dachan Temple is located in the prosperous city of Yujing City. It is enchanted by the material desires of the world and has lost its Buddhist tranquility and emptiness. Several generations of abbots have not understood the nature of the past to make up for the enlightened nature in the sutras. Therefore, the top leaders have lost their highest combat power. In addition, the fear of the Dachan royal family, they were found to have a little fault and were therefore destroyed.
If a monk had truly cultivated the past Mitu Sutra, the Dachen Temple would not have fallen to its present level. Just like the Buddhists in the modern world, there are several Buddhists who can truly be considered quiet in their hearts? The same is true for Taoism. When Taoists and monks have become a profession, how can they understand what Taoism is pursuing and what Buddhism is pursuing?
Those who slander the Tao and slander the Buddha are generally not believers. Those who believe in it will blindly believe in the Buddha or Tao they believe in, but will not slander the Tao and slander the Buddha. Most of them are Taoists and monks themselves. Things in the world are so ridiculous.
"Ha... Hong Yi was enlightened, it's not surprising. He was originally an enlightened person. He did not practice to become a Buddha in the later stage, but he was an enlightened person. In the end, he still became the Lord of the Yang God who was in the same realm as the Buddha and found his own way."
"The enlightened one is a certain supreme spiritual realm, and all dharmas are united. In the end, both Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are in this realm. Buddha is just one of them, so if I don't learn this sutra, I already have my own way. I should create my own martial arts and learn my way."
"But I didn't expect that Ziyue was also enlightened. Unlike Hong Yi who set up an enlightened person in his heart, he was in harmony with the enlightened person and made up for the lack of his original heart. It must be because of the Yuan Concubine. After the two were reincarnated, they did not come together. The white ape in his heart is his original heart, powerful, dark, and lonely. Loneliness, now he is in harmony with the enlightened person and his state of mind is perfect. Well, in the main world, this is the perfection of the Yuanshen. When there is a fourth-level Yuanshen realm, it is not a problem to overcome the thunder tribulation."
"After reading the Taoist scriptures, I have read the "Past Mitu Sutra" again. The system and path of the spiritual cultivation path in this world. I have really figured it out. You can create your own martial arts. Well, you need to think about it carefully. The first step is to visualize the mind and concentrate the mind. The pagoda is a kind of concrete form. So, isn't other things OK? Then the second step of the shell should be a certain nature that nurtures the soul..."
Wang Daoyi was pondering on the side, and was also thinking about the martial arts he wanted to create. I am the king Daoyi. I should establish my way, do my way, integrate knowledge and action, and do my way.
Time flies again, and two days have passed, and the number of students in Duanshu Primary School has been reduced to fifteen. To be precise, it should be divided into three formal students, Xiaosang, Xiaofei and Xiaoshu, and twelve trainees.
A total of thirty-seven pure foxes were found to have a month of educational observation, and only two pure foxes had the possibility of further enlightenment. Other pure foxes were still ignorant after being soy sauce for a month. If Mr. Tu had not been guarding him every day, he would have run away.
This month has passed, and it is basically confirmed that they have no potential. After discussing with Mr. Tu, they were finally dismissed back to the deep mountains and valleys behind the academy to live. These pure foxes are much more spiritual than ordinary foxes. The next generation may produce pure foxes with good qualifications. Maybe it is the right choice to release them to the wild. On weekdays, Tu is still cared for by Mr. Tu. As the ancestor of this pure fox, Mr. Tu will not give up any opportunity to strengthen the number of real pure foxes.
Now, there are fifteen students in this elementary school, divided into formal students and interns. If the interns do not awaken more spiritual wisdom in one semester (that is, within half a year), and their souls will be dismissed. On the contrary, if more spiritual wisdom in one semester and their souls are awakened, they will be officially promoted to formal students.
Because of the reduction of students by half, Hong Yi and Wang Daoyi also had more time to practice martial arts and Taoism. They also had this consideration to dismiss those pure foxes with no potential. After all, the main purpose of establishing the academy of Wang Daoyi was to practice.
At the same time, Wang Daoyi also really added the third lesson in mathematics in the past two days, painting, or art.
Art uses brushes to draw the world and nature, and gives it a creative form and creative result of your own thoughts in the works. This is art.
Xiao Fei and the three formal students were confused about such a noble statement, and the other twelve students did not understand. They only knew that the two gentlemen were going to bother them again, which was extremely distressing.
Among them, Xiao Fei is the most distressing one. They have finally been able to write with a pair of "fox hands" recently, but now they have to go further to draw!
Why is it called "fox hands"? In order to hold the pen, they shaved the hair on one side of the fox claws, and cut off the sharp claws on the fox claws. It took such a lot of sacrifice and effort to complete the "fox hands" and successfully hold the pen. As a result, painting is now added. Isn't this a force to force people? No, is it a force to force "fox"?
Mr. Tu has some complaints about such things, but after Bai Ziyue and Hong Yi's explanation: art is conducive to students' more effective practice of spiritual visualization, he didn't say much.
And I just added this lesson, and did not force me to learn it well like mathematics. I can only choose an optional course for this art.
It is conceivable how well these fifteen students performed in art class, especially those twelve interns. They obviously wanted to draw a circle in art class, but they couldn't even count as a ball when they were drawn on paper. Only the three formal students including Xiao Fei were slightly similar, but they were just slightly better than the ellipse.
Mr. Wang and Mr. Hong are not anxious about the students' achievements in art classes. This is to add a better possibility to their future. It is nothing if they can succeed in the end.
Besides, it is indeed a bit difficult to let the pure fox draw.
Fortunately, the future college will inevitably increase the number of human students coming in, and then I will add some effort to the painting study.
After reading the "Mitu Sutra of the Past", they all understand that art and painting have an important force for the future spiritual cultivation, so they naturally need to pay attention to it.
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…………………………………………(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!