$430, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (1/2)
The changes in the aura of the row of blood words on the white paper reminded Su Wu that the paper might just be a question left by Jianzhen to those who came after him.
Regardless of whether ‘Jianzhen’ has ever been troubled by this topic,
At least he solved the problem in the end,
Only then can I have the opportunity to leave the questions for future generations to examine.
These are two completely different concepts from facing the inner demons of Jianzhen. Solving the questions is much easier than solving the 'demon of Jianzhen'.
Su Wu looked at the words 'Buddha is originally a demon',
After pondering for a long time,
He opened his mouth and said, "Don't you see?
A Taoist who has learned nothing but is idle does not get rid of delusions and does not seek truth.
The true nature of ignorance is the Buddha nature, and the empty body of illusion is the Dharma body.
The Dharmakaya realizes that there is nothing, and its origin is the innocent Buddha.
The five aggregates come and go in vain, and the three poisonous water bubbles appear and disappear.
No one can prove the truth. The abi karma is destroyed in an instant.
If you deceive sentient beings with lies, you will invite disasters such as your tongue and dust.
Suddenly awakened, the Tathagata meditated, and the body of the Six Perfections and Ten Thousand Elements became perfect.
There are clearly six interests in the dream, but when I wake up, there is nothing. "
The Buddhist verse that Su Wu was reciting silently was an excerpt from the Enlightenment Song of Zen Master Yongjia Xuanjue during the Tang Dynasty. It discussed the relationship between "empty" and "real", "fundamental" and "delusion" ,
Contains arguments from Buddha and Demon.
Master Yongjia Xuanjue was also a Zen master who preceded Jianzhen. It is impossible that Jianzhen had not heard his song of enlightenment.
I have recited this sermon,
All the malice on the white paper disappeared.
The human stones and internal organs stones that squirmed from all directions and squeezed the arm that Su Wu extended into the 'Buddhist niche' scattered around and recovered as before.
Su Wu stretched out his hand and lifted it gently,
Take off the white paper.
There is a scroll behind the white paper.
He took out the scroll from the 'Buddhist niche' and lit the oil lamp above the Buddhist niche, which was held in the mouth of a human-shaped stone.
There was still a small amount of lamp oil in the oil lamp.
Lighting for more than ten hours is not a problem.
As the oil lamp was lit, the stone chamber with 'human stones' in all directions appeared in An Gang's field of vision. He suddenly saw the scene in front of him, his mouth was wide open, but he didn't say anything for a long time.
When Su Wu opened his mouth to call him, he took a deep breath and said, "There are so many people and rocks here? Zhu-Zhu Zhaojun, it's too scary!
There are so many human stones here!
Ten years of Nine Meridians under Heaven, no! The number of human stones produced in fifty years cannot compare with the number of human stones stored in this stone chamber! "
An Gang shouted for a while,
Suddenly he turned to look at Su Wu, his eyes frightened: "Jun Zhuzhao, you won't kill me to silence me?!"
At this time, only An Gang and Su Wu know about this mineral vein.
If Su Wu wants to monopolize this mine and is worried that An Gang will leak the news, he only needs to kill him - everything will be solved!
In the face of great wealth,
Many people have difficulty retaining their sanity;
What was once a kind and honest gentleman can turn into a ferocious villain in an instant!
Therefore, An Gang will ask again.
"With so many human stones, the sword-making institute is no longer restricted by others. It can cast as many killing stone swords as it wants, using massive resources to build them.
It may not be impossible to create a famous sword that surpasses the supreme level and can be ranked as "the best in the world". "
Su Wu looked at An Gang, shook his head with a smile, and said slowly: "As long as Mr. An Gang is willing to merge the sword forging factory under the 'Inoue family', I am willing to give Mr. An Gang the title of 'middle-aged man' of the Inoue family." Bit.
Of course, I am not a bully.
If Mr. An Gang is not willing,
I will also let Mr. An Gang leave.
Therefore, Mr. An Gang does not need to worry about his life.
A craftsman like An Gang-kun who can forge a 'supreme sword' is far more valuable than a 'supreme sword'. The world does not know An Gang-kun's talent. It is because the world is ignorant, and it is not An Gang-kun's fault.
Even though Mr. An Gang doesn't want to join forces with me,
I will also let you go - even if Mr. An Gang can add more glory to history in the future and leave behind some famous swords passed down from ancient times to the present. "
After finishing speaking, Su Wu looked at An Gang quietly.
After getting along with him in recent days, he already knew An Gangjun's character very well.
He is convinced,
After he said these words, the other party was absolutely willing to join forces with him.
An Gang sensed the calmness and sincerity in Su Wu's eyes. His thin face was slightly red, and his eyes were red. He pursed his lips for a long time, and his beard trembled under his chin. Suddenly - An Gang's eyes darkened, and he met Su Wu's eyes. He shook his head: "A scholar will die for his confidant!
With a strong man like Zhu Zhaojun protecting the Inoue family,
The Inoue family will surely rise to great heights in the future!
Being able to hold the position of 'middle-aged man' in the Inoue family is enough for me to leave my mark in history.
Zhuzhaojun has such great trust in me, so I should die in repayment!
It's a pity - now I am a craftsman under Genji's special care. I'm afraid that after I go to Kyoto, I will never have freedom again in this life!
It will even become a test beheading object for the supreme sword that I forged with my own hands!
Under such circumstances, if I seek refuge with Zhuzhao-kun, I can only bring disaster to Zhuzhao-kun and the Inoue family, and bring the source of the family's unending anger - you treat me like a countryman, and I cannot repay you as a countryman. What a pity!
The only way to prove his true feelings is to commit seppuku! "
The more An Gang talked, the more excited he became. He actually began to take off his upper body clothes, knelt down, and took out the wakizhi from his waist!
"No, An Gang-kun!"
Su Wu thought he had predicted all An Gang's reactions.
But he still didn't expect the other party's reaction to be so intense!
He stepped across the stone chamber in a few steps, and seeing that An Gang's blade was about to pierce his left abdomen, he directly pulled out the Heavenly Demon Pill and knocked away the wakizashi in An Gang's hand with one knife!
"How can the body and hair be easily damaged by parents?!
Even ants try to survive, why don't people cherish their lives?!" Su Wu looked serious, looking at An Gang kneeling on the ground with his belly exposed. After his expression calmed down a little, he continued in a slow voice, "An Gang, everything is man-made, and the Genji is not an invincible enemy. It's just a temporary difficulty.
Could this temporary difficulty make a master craftsman who forged a supreme sword retreat?"
"The Genji and Heike families are really the overlords of the world.
How can such an enemy be defeated?" An Gang muttered to himself with a dejected face.
"You don't need to worry about these things.
I will take care of all your affairs.
I will never let you be imprisoned forever, or become a sacrifice for the sword you forged!
Mr. An Gang,
Instead of thinking about these problems, why not think about it carefully? If you and I join forces, with so many human stones in this vein, can we still forge a supreme sword?"
Su Wu left a question.
"Right here,
Forge another supreme sword?" An Gang shook his head subconsciously, thinking that this was really difficult.
It's not like we are in the sword forge now, where we need people and tools...
However, An Gang looked around the stone room,
and suddenly found that the stone room was full of various tools,
and even various furnishings proved that this was once a blacksmith's foundry!
Su Wu gave him time to calm down, and then he spread out the scroll and looked at the scene depicted in it. It was a winding and flying ink stain, in which one could vaguely see the evil Yaksha, the Asura demon soul, all kinds of inhuman fantasies, countless scales and feathers clustered, and countless claws and hooves overlapping.
Looking at the flying ink stain, Su Wu suddenly sensed the charm of the "interaction between heaven and man" contained in it.
At that moment just now, he seemed to see the evil Yaksha and the Asura demon soul entangled and overlapped in the ink stain,
and it seemed that countless creatures had scales and feathers flying, claws and hooves trampling, and merged into a weird existence in the ink stain.
On the left side of this ink stain, there was a row of extremely tiny words: Great Vow Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!
This thing that blends countless inhuman and countless fierce things,
what does it have to do with 'Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva'?
Su Wu frowned slightly.
He noticed that at the end of the tiny calligraphy, there was a seal that was less than a quarter of the size of his thumb.
He carefully identified it and found that the seal was written as "Jianzhen's Seal".
Everything was consistent with his guess.
Only this ink mark with countless fierce things entangled was related to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, which Su Wu had not thought of.
At this time,
An Gang, who had figured it out, walked into the stone room.
He picked up the hammer head in the corner, took a look and sighed: "Even iron hammers and iron felts are forged with killing stones. I can still use such high-quality tools in my life."
He picked up some iron hammers, axes and chisels and other tools and placed them on the felt table.
An Gang approached Su Wu and saw that he was frowning at the scroll in his hand. He looked at the scroll curiously: "Isn't this - this looks like a black dragon!
Huh?
The more I look at it, the more I feel that this black dragon seems to have many changes.
Sometimes it transforms into a buffalo that can run with four hooves,
and sometimes it turns into a flying eagle with wings flapping...
A simple ink mark seems to contain thousands of fantasy images..."
"Black dragon?"
An Gang's words made Su Wu thoughtful.
He carefully observed the winding ink mark, and did not see how it looked like an "ink dragon".
But An Gang's words reminded him that the Inoue family had a "Hundred Thoughts of Dragon Entering Ink Ritual". Was the "Hundred Thoughts of Dragon Entering Ink Picture" evolved from this ink mark?
How many years ago,
Axiong, Inoue Toshio and Jianzhen actually had an intersection in this killing stone mine?
Why has he never heard Axiong mention this matter?
Su Wu's thoughts drifted away, but he forced them back.
When he returned to the Inoue family,
he could borrow the "Hundred Thoughts of Dragons in Ink Painting" from Haruko to see if it was related to the current ink painting.
And what exactly did the current ink painting express?
What was the connection with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva?
What was the purpose of Jianzhen leaving it in the Buddhist shrine?
Chaotic thoughts filled Su Wu's mind.
At this time,
he looked at the ink painting again,
thinking about the question left by Jianzhen in his mind - 'True, True? Buddha is originally a demon? ', the questioning kept echoing in his mind, and he responded to these two questions with his previous answers.
At a certain moment,
all the voices and thoughts in Su Wu's mind were extinguished.
Only one voice,
emerged in the boundless white light: "I vow to save all sentient beings, to eliminate all afflictions, to learn all Dharmas, to achieve the supreme Buddhahood - to develop the Bodhi mind and to practice the Bodhisattva path.
Bodhisattva Bodhisattva Bodhisattva Bodhisattva -
Empty empty empty empty empty -
Neither existent nor empty, empty empty not empty, not empty empty empty -
Great Vow Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!
Bodhisattva!"
That voice, along with many noisy sounds, rang out in the white light.
In the white light, countless evil Yakshas and many inhuman evil creatures suddenly appeared!
At this time,
an illusory black shadow appeared in the sky above the endless white light.
The black shadow was wearing a black cassock.
‘He’ put his hands together and said, “Bodhisattva!”
The dark chains suddenly surged out from behind him, tying up all the demons that appeared in the white light. The dark chains meandered away, just like a winding ink mark!
“I vow to save all sentient beings,
I vow to eliminate all troubles,
I vow to learn the infinite Dharma,
I vow to achieve the supreme Buddhahood…”
The dark figure recited the scriptures, and his figure dissolved in the white light again.