Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 655 On Buddha.

When Li Xiuyuan saw someone asking him a question, he was very happy to answer it.

If someone can ask for advice, it means that someone agrees with his point of view and understands himself. This is a good thing, so why would he be stingy?

"Just now, the young master asked, those who prayed to gods and Buddhas were protected, and those who did not prayed to gods and worshiped Buddhas were harassed by evil spirits. First of all, strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with this sentence. Worshiping gods and Buddhas will indeed be protected by gods and Buddhas." , but this does not mean that those who do not worship gods and Buddhas will definitely suffer evil retribution."

"Actually, whether you pray to the gods or worship the Buddha, it doesn't matter if you don't pray to the gods, the person who should be harassed by evil spirits will not change because of this, just like a criminal who killed a person, it is impossible for him to enter a temple or burn incense. It can protect him from being arrested by the government, and from being beheaded and killed. Evil deeds are evil deeds, and they cannot be resolved by burning incense and worshiping Buddha."

Li Xiuyuan glanced at the few pilgrims around and said: "All those who have ghosts in their hearts place their hopes on heavy incense offerings to eliminate their disasters. This kind of thinking is wrong in the first place. True Bodhisattvas and Buddhas will not accept such Those who dare to accept their offerings must not be real Bodhisattvas, nor real Buddhas. In my opinion, they should be first-class evil spirits and ghosts.

, Pretending to be a Bodhisattva and Buddha Lord, deceiving the people, defrauding incense and offering it. "

"Then according to what this young master said, burning incense and worshiping Buddha is useless?" the scholar who asked the question said solemnly.

Although Li Xiuyuan's words were reasonable, his reasoning made people feel stuck in their throats, and it was easy to hurt the hearts of believers like them. This was unacceptable to very devout believers.

Because agreeing with his words is tantamount to denying one's own beliefs.

Li Xiuyuan saw the resentment of the pilgrims around him, and he said with a smile: "No, burning incense and worshiping Buddha is not useless. The reason why you burn incense and worship Buddha is because you believe in the compassion of Buddha and the goodness of Bodhisattva, and then subconsciously learn from it." Buddhas and Bodhisattvas do some good things, such as releasing living beings, being kind and charitable, not haggling with others, not having grievances and grievances with others, etc.
Things like this, if you start to learn from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, then congratulations, you have received the protection of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. "

"Someone once asked a master, what is a Buddha? The man pointed to the man's heart and said, this is the Buddha."

"It can be seen that having a kind heart is the Buddha, and you are kind to the Buddha. If you have a kind heart, you will have kind thoughts to protect you. Ghosts and gods will detour when they see it, and evil spirits will not dare to murder them when they encounter it. , so naturally you will get asylum.”

All the pilgrims were silent when they heard this. They could accept such a truth, but at the same time they could not agree with it.

Because they still can't understand Li Xiuyuan's true meaning, and they still think that the Buddha is a Buddha, and they have to respectfully pay homage, how dare they regard themselves as a Buddha?
"Absurd, really absurd, so heresy as you say, there is no Buddha in this world? What is worshiped here is wood, stone? You are simply slandering my Buddha."

Fang Shengyu couldn't help scolding.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "No, there are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in this world, but they will not protect you just because of your offerings. They protect goodness. The reason why they leave golden bodies in temples is because they need gold." Body method to warn the world, wake up the world, lest some people do not believe in Buddha, do not believe in good rewards in return for good, so that they fall into evil, wanton
For, moral decay. "

"This reason is the same as the eminent monk leaving the golden body for the world to pay homage to. The eminent monk leaving the golden body is actually to prove the existence of the Buddha and the existence of practice. Otherwise, they can completely melt into the rainbow. Why stay A piece of skin and flesh stays in the world."

"So why there is a saying in Buddhism called Buddha crossing a predestined person, what is a predestined person? If you have a good heart, you can learn a little bit of the Buddha's compassion. This is a predestined person. After death, this kind of person will not fall into hell or suffer in the underworld. However, those who do evil will suffer in the underworld because of the evil deeds before them. Only when their sins are redeemed can they be reincarnated again, and some even have serious crimes.

Extremely evil people don't even have the qualifications to be reborn as human beings, and the treatment of good and bad people is so great, is it difficult enough? "

"It's just that people in the world are stupid and whitewash the true meaning of the Buddha without authorization. If they think that they like gold and silver, they think that the Buddha also likes gold and silver, so they build gold bodies and waste extravagance. Some people think that the Buddha also likes money when they are rich. , asking for money from pilgrims, some people are greedy themselves, and think that the Buddha is also greedy, so every time they worship the Lord Buddha, they need expensive incense."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head when he said this: "Obviously it is the greed of the world, but it has to be imposed on the Buddha, so that some temples are full of smoke and smog. These temples cannot attract Bodhisattvas to stop, and the Buddha Lord patronizes them, but they have attracted demons and ghosts to occupy them." Golden body, occupying incense, pretending to be Buddha and Bodhisattva."

After saying this, Fang Shengyu's face was flushed from holding back, and he wanted to refute but couldn't find anything to refute.

His knowledge is not low, the reason why he can't refute it is because Li Xiuyuan's words are indeed reasonable.

Moreover, among the pilgrims around, those who have some understanding of Buddhism also feel that his words are in line with the original intention of Buddhism, and there is no heresy.

The Buddha stands in the temple with compassion and good eyes. In fact, he is making a gesture to let the world learn from the Buddha's compassionate gesture to achieve the purpose of persuading people to be kind.

"Husband, look, how could this be, this concubine's Buddha incense can't be touched." At this time, Fang, who was paying respects to the Buddha, prayed in his heart, and prepared to offer incense to the Bodhisattva in front of him.

But I saw the best Buddhist incense burning on the oil lamp, but it couldn't light no matter what.

It seems that what is burning on the oil lamp is not Buddhist incense, but an iron rod.

"There is such a thing?" Fang Shengyu was startled, and hurriedly took a closer look.

If this is the case, the incense of Buddha really won't light up.

He checked it, and it was clear that there was nothing wrong with the Buddha incense, neither fake nor damp, but when he put it on the oil lamp, it still couldn't light up.

"What's going on here? Did the words just now reach the ears of the Bodhisattva? Now that the Bodhisattva has manifested, he is unwilling to accept the offering from this female pilgrim?"

"In this way, wouldn't the son's words come true? They must have ghosts in their hearts, and even the Bodhisattva didn't respond to them first."

"The merciful Bodhisattva has appeared."

Seeing such a scene, although it is only a trivial matter, but in this place of Buddhism, and it happened at this special time, how could it not arouse the imagination of the pilgrims, thinking that it is the result of the manifestation of the Bodhisattva.

And they also felt that the female pilgrim in front of her must have done something bad, and now she was discovered by the Bodhisattva.

Immediately, many people looked at Fang with strange eyes. They didn't think that Li Xiuyuan was blaspheming the Bodhisattva, but that this pilgrim was not clean, and even the Bodhisattva didn't want to accept your incense.

"Brother Li, how did this happen? Did you cast a spell?" Seeing such a scene, Zhang Bangchang suspected that Li Xiuyuan had cast a spell, and asked in a low voice.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "Xiangguo Temple in the capital is considered a pure land in my opinion. There are eminent monks here and Bodhisattvas appear. How could I cast spells indiscriminately in such a place, and my spells are rarely cast on people. Unless it is a spell that can help people, instead of using spells to act recklessly, this is the character and conduct that a spell learner should have."

"It wasn't the spell you cast, so to speak of it" Zhang Bangchang's face turned serious.

However, Fang Shengyu who was at the side seemed to have heard a few words, and suddenly said sharply to Li Xiuyuan: "It must not be my wife's fault that the Buddha incense is not lit, maybe you have secretly tampered with it and slandered my wife's reputation and reputation." clean."

"My lord, you wantonly slander others in front of a full seat of Bodhisattvas. This is not something a scholar should do. Maybe the person who will suffer retribution is not me, but you, my lord, because you are doing what you are doing. An evil thing." Li Xiuyuan said.

He felt that the incense was not lit just now because the Bodhisattva here had appeared. You must know that this Xiangguo Temple is an unusual temple, and he had seen it when he came here before.

It is not impossible for a real Bodhisattva to appear.

(End of this chapter)