I was a group pet in Journey to the West

Chapter 250 Avalokitesvara Asks Zen
After bidding farewell to Monkey King the next morning, Tutu decided to visit the Land and Water Conference.

The site of the water and land meeting was bustling with many people watching. Today, except for all the merchants along the street and the guards guarding the city gate, almost the people of the entire Chang'an City gathered here.

Today is the last day of the Waterway Conference. As long as you can stand out from the crowd of monks today, you will definitely host the Waterway Conference!

Tutu held the candied haws he had just bought in his hand, bit off the first hawthorn in one bite, and watched with relish the Xuanzang who looked like a treasure sitting cross-legged on the stage with the White Horse Temple presiding over the meditation session.

"The old monk has a question. When the Buddha was in Lingshan, all the Buddhas asked about the Dharma. The Buddha just picked up a flower and showed it. What's the answer?" Daoxuan, the presiding officer of Baima Temple, as the most prestigious master in the entire Chang'an City, threw out his own The problem.

Xuanzang clasped his hands together and worshiped Dao, expressing his respect for Daoxuan, and said: "Amitabha, one flower is one world, one tree is one floating life, one grass is one heaven, one leaf is one Tathagata, one sand is one bliss, one side is one A pure land, a smile, a world, a thought, a tranquility. All these are a kind of state of mind. If there is nothing in the heart, you can have a flower and a world, and a grass and a heaven.”

"Amitabha, Master Xuanzang is so enlightened that the old monk is ashamed to be inferior." Master Daoxuan suddenly realized that he actually asked this question to make things difficult for Xuanzang, but unexpectedly, it helped Xuanzang and even himself.

"Master, I want to ask, what do you think about kneeling Buddha?"

A voice came out from the crowd, and everyone on the field turned to look at the source of the voice, and finally all their eyes fell on the last beggar.

This is a dirty old beggar, and even his left leg and right hand are mutilated.Holding a cane and wearing a tattered coat, he walked forward with difficulty from behind the crowd.

"The philosophy of the Buddhist world is to teach people to be kind and to understand reason. Not to mention, people who believe in Buddhism will more or less abide by the ten precepts of the Buddhist world. In this way, if people in the world can do good So what if you kneel? So what if you don’t kneel?” Xuanzang answered the old beggar calmly, and made a Buddhist salute to him.

The old beggar walked up to Xuanzang and asked, "Will I be full if I believe in Buddhism?"

"No."

"Will that make me healthy?"

"No."

"Then what is the use of my belief in this Buddha?"

Xuanzang explained to the old beggar: "Belief in Buddhism can make people do good, increase wisdom, increase blessings, and get happiness from suffering. Dharma'. Dharma is harmonious and unobstructed, and does not conflict with your life, but can promote each other, which is also the value of Dharma."

"What you said is Hinayana Buddhism. But you have not realized the true Mahayana Buddhism. What you said is self-salvation, and Mahayana Buddhism not only saves oneself, but also saves others." The old beggar shook his head. A smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.

"May the Master teach the disciples." Xuanzang's eyes lit up, he was always looking for a way to save the world!Because relying on their own efforts alone, many believers give up because of insufficient concentration.

The old beggar took off his crutches and coat, "If you are willing to pay 7000 taels of silver for my cassock and staff, I will tell you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the people onlookers started whispering and pointing at the old beggar.

"Wow! This is money grabbing!?"

"A wooden stick and a tattered coat can be said to be a cassock and a staff? Does it mean that I can say that I am a Buddha if I shave myself?"

"Master Xuanzang, don't be fooled by him!"

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All kinds of comments from the common people turned the originally quiet place of the ceremony into a vegetable market!
(End of this chapter)