Chapter 431 Bodhisattva lowers his eyebrows
"When I was still a very simple monkey, I just wanted to live longer so that my soul would not be seduced by the devils under the King of Hell.
So I went to overseas fairy mountains to study Taoism and seek immortality. Senior brother, do you know that life at sea is very difficult and I almost lost my life there.
Fortunately, I finally learned some skills and returned to Huaguo Mountain. "
"Hmm, what does this have to do with you being suppressed?"
"Uh, I was about to say, Senior Brother, can you please stop interrupting? Do you still want to listen?!"
"Listen."
"Ahem, after I returned from my studies, I made some noise and met some sworn brothers. They were very interesting people and they spoke nicely.
Don't look at me now. At that time, I was the Monkey King. I was the most handsome monkey in the entire Huaguo Mountain. "
The monkey patted his chest. He was less than 1.5 meters tall and had a rough face and a thunderous mouth, which made his words difficult to convince.
Amber couldn't resist, so she turned to look at Xuanzang who was listening with interest, "Master, do you think Wukong is handsome?"
"this…"
Xuanzang's face stiffened and he said dryly: "Monks don't lie."
Amber almost laughed, "Wukong continued."
"It's so annoying! Don't tell me!"
Although the monkey didn't know what he was laughing at, he felt the malice keenly.
It has a stubborn temper and will say no...
"Eat a peach?"
Amber took out a juicy peach from her sleeve like a magic trick.
"Since you want to know so much, it's not that you can't tell me. I was so powerful at that time. I was nicknamed the Monkey King, and I had countless little demons under my command. Even the heavenly soldiers and generals couldn't do anything about me."
The monkey took the peach without leaving a trace, took a bite and began to talk endlessly about its heroic deeds back then.
Fighting against the King of Heaven from above and the King of Hell from below, no one can stop him from running rampant in the three realms.
But when Amber asked him if he would do it again if he was given another chance to choose, the monkey was silent.
After five hundred years of wind and rain, the heavens and the earth have not responded, and the earth has become inoperable. The consequences of resisting order are so tragic that even it has begun to reflect on itself.
The Monkey King, who fights against heaven and earth, also learned to think...
The atmosphere became dull, and Amber lost interest in playing monkey, and walked beside Xuanzang carrying a load.
As expected, they encountered bandits again.
Nowadays, the world has not been peaceful for a long time, and many people who have hid in the mountains due to the war have already abandoned their former honest duties and become ferocious.
Only this time, because Xuanzang strictly prohibited killing, the monkey gave them a brief lesson and then let these guys go.
until…
night.
The remaining firelight was still beating, and the smell of blood mixed with the smell of burnt flesh from the corpse, creating a hellish scene.
The monkey looked like he had known it would be like this, and kept silent while playing with the stick. Amber put aside her salutes and sat cross-legged on the road outside the small village, silently reciting the Sutra of the Past.
Xuanzang stared at this scene blankly, especially the corpse lying on top of a woman with its neck half-slit. The ferocious face and the sound of the tongues of fire became thunderous.
This person was one of the bandits who was let go.
Next to him, there was a man's body and a hatchet with blood.
It seems that during the violence, the woman's husband was hacked to death on the spot, and then killed by other bandits.
There are many corpses of children on both sides of the road. They are like broken dolls, full of twisted and broken feelings.
Xuanzang practiced Buddhism intensively and read through the classics of all major Dharma lines in the Central Plains. However, there was only a way to save oneself, but not others. It was at this time that he learned about Mahayana Buddhism and firmly believed that this was the only way to save the world.
But this scene in front of me...
"I told you a long time ago that those evil people will only become more evil. Master, you insisted on letting them go. Now it's okay. So many people have died."
The more the monkey thought about it, the more angry he became. He picked up the stick and flew away.
It’s self-evident what to do.
When Xuanzang came to his senses, he could no longer see it, so he had no choice but to chant sutras with Amber.
After a long time.
"Wujue, are you really wrong to say that you are a teacher?"
Xuanzang's faith was shocked.
If there is no Amber, then he will ask this question the next time he meets Guanyin Bodhisattva, and then get the answer that only Mahayana Buddhism can save those who are lost.
This will strengthen Xuanzang's belief and form an unbreakable ideological seal.
Only Buddhism can save the world, and if you want to get Buddhism, you must travel westward.
This is the meaning given to disasters by all the Buddhas in the sky.
However, now he is asking Amber.
"Actually, I don't know much about this question, but I can tell you my answer."
Amber began to dig the hole very skillfully. There were a lot of corpses this time, so he had to make it bigger. "When I was at Jinshan Temple, my disciple actually read a lot of Buddhist scriptures. I actually didn't understand many things in them, but I also understood them. It makes some sense, and it can be summed up in one sentence.
Killing is to protect life, killing karma is not killing people. "
Killing to protect living beings? Killing people and killing people?
As soon as these words came out, the sky-like figure far away in the Great Leiyin Temple in the West opened his eyes. Above the South China Sea, the Bodhisattva who was dressing up lowered his brows. Thirty-three days away, the alchemy master smiled slightly.
Xuanzang, as a great master with the title of Tripitaka, can certainly understand the meaning, but these things are completely different from the concepts he has formed over the years.
Once the killing ring is started, that person will become an Asura.
"If you only cultivate yourself, our Theravada Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty is actually enough."
Amber kept talking in her hands and mouth, "I don't know what Mahayana Buddhism is, but what is going on right now, doesn't it just fit this sentence?
Killing those bandits can protect the villagers here, which is cutting off their sins. "
This time Xuanzang did not say anything more about monks being compassionate. The concept of many things can be changed, but the fact is the fact.
Wrong is wrong and right is right.
Good people don't deserve to be held at gunpoint, bad people deserve to die.
Any attempt to confuse this concept is sophistry.
"Master, don't take it seriously. That's what I said. You should go west when you should."
Amber laughed, he moved very quickly, and in a short time he dug a pit big enough to accommodate all the corpses.
Xuanzang put aside those thoughts and started working together.
The monkey also came back at this time, clean, but the smell of blood that had not dissipated made its already ferocious face look even more ferocious.
"Master, you..."
"No need to say it, this is my fault, I shouldn't stop you."
Xuanzang didn't immerse himself in it for too long and quickly got out of the complicated emotions.