Chapter 2059: Tou Tuo

"Yes!" Jingcheng smiled bitterly, "Disciple is not as good as Master, who was stunned for half a day. Disciple can't figure out how hundreds of thousands of villagers in Changsheng Town can help Master Cihang achieve Buddhahood. I can't understand why he doesn't care about Buddhahood at all. According to Xingchen, Master Cihang didn't react to his failure to achieve Buddhahood. He just walked away. This kind of pure heart is beyond the reach of disciples!"

"Call Xingchen!" Cimei waved her hand, "I am also very surprised. The wish power of hundreds of thousands of villagers can't help me, the Buddhist disciples, achieve Buddhahood. I want to ask in detail..."

"Yes, disciple will call Xingchen over now~" Jingcheng didn't dare to neglect it. He got up in a hurry. He was about to fly out of the pavilion. Suddenly, he seemed to realize something. He stopped, looked around, and went down the steps beside the pavilion. When his figure disappeared in the branches of the green plum tree, Cimei showed a hint of smile on her face.

But the smile was fleeting, Cimei looked up at the sunlight again, and whispered: "Cihang, Cihang, which brother is this Cihang???"

After a moment, Xingchen followed Jingcheng to the pavilion. In front of Cimei, Xingchen was like a little monk, very respectful and careful. He told Cimei everything that happened in Changsheng Town, and answered Cimei's dozens of questions. Until Xingchen's forehead was sweating, Cimei waved her hand and signaled him to go down.

Watching Xingchen bow and leave carefully, Jingcheng looked at Cimei who closed her eyes and thought and dared not speak, so he had to stand quietly. Until after a cup of tea, Cimei suddenly asked: "Jingcheng. What do you think of this matter?"

"Disciple..." Jingcheng was stunned and spoke immediately. "Disciple thinks this is a great opportunity for our Buddhist sect to defeat the Confucianists in Changsheng Town. As long as the lay Buddhists pouring into Changsheng Town are guided a little, Changsheng Academy will definitely not be able to gain a foothold in Changsheng Town!"

"Jingcheng, you are wrong!" Cimei said firmly, "Completely wrong!"

"This?" Jingcheng was even more shocked and hurriedly said, "Please teach me, Master!"

"Don't worry about the Confucianists in Changsheng Town. They have no place to stand in Changsheng Town!" Cimei smiled, "Moreover, Changsheng Town is the first town where my Buddhist sect defeated the Confucianists in the Tibetan Immortal Continent!"

"Disciple doesn't see far enough, please teach me, Master!" Jingcheng didn't have Cimei's vision? He asked hurriedly.

"Jingcheng, tell me, why can Senior Brother Cihang achieve enlightenment? And once you achieve enlightenment, you can achieve the Buddhahood of Bodhisattva? Why didn't you succeed in achieving enlightenment?"

"Disciple only knows that in order to achieve enlightenment, you must practice good deeds and recite Buddhist scriptures. Different good deeds can achieve different Buddhahoods..."

"Then how many good deeds do you think are needed to achieve the Buddhahood of Bodhisattva?" Cimei asked with interest.

"However... it must be a million good deeds, right?" Jingcheng hesitated a little.

After all, the Buddhahood of Bodhisattva is really far away for him.

"Alas. It's more than that!" Cimei sighed slightly, "Achieving the Buddhahood is very complicated, and it cannot be explained by simple good deeds. However, if we simply use the nine grades of Yuanli to measure the cultivation strength of the three continents like Confucian practitioners, the Buddhahood of our Buddhist sect can also be simply calculated by good deeds. Apart from other things, as far as I know. The most basic Kalāna Buddhahood requires 300,000 good deeds to achieve, and the Venerable Buddhahood is three times more than Kalāna Buddhahood!"

"Ah? This... so many?" Jingcheng was shocked.

"Even with so many good deeds, it may not be possible to achieve the fruition!" Cimei said, "It also depends on the practice of the Buddha, cause and effect, Buddha's affinity, the vows of the believers, etc..."

"Master, apart from other things, just good deeds..." Jingcheng said after a brief calculation. "If you want to achieve the Buddhahood of Bodhisattva, you must have 90 million good deeds! Even if there are tens of thousands of Changsheng Town villagers with their will and faith at the same time. I am afraid that it is not enough for Master Cihang to achieve the Buddhahood of Bodhisattva?"

"Indeed~" Cimei nodded, "This is why I asked you to bring Xingchen here. I have been thinking about it for a long time. I really don't understand why Brother Cihang can achieve such a great Buddhahood."

"I have asked all the disciples to search through Buddhist scriptures and records of Confucianism, and even the town history of Changsheng Town, but they have not found the origin of Master Cihang." Jingcheng said again, "Even according to the word of mouth of the villagers in Changsheng Town, it is not easy to determine the time when Master Cihang appeared in Changsheng Town. Some say it is a hundred years, some say it is a thousand years, and some say it is ten thousand years."

"Anyway, Brother Cihang has been to Changsheng Town before! Otherwise, there would be no statue left in Jiangchao Temple for people to worship!" Cimei nodded.

"And Brother Cihang is still practicing with hair, could he be a lay disciple of my Buddhist sect?" Jingcheng asked tentatively.

Cimei glanced at Jingcheng and shook her head, saying, "If a lay disciple is not a disciple, he will definitely not have the name of Cihang! Don't doubt this."

Jingcheng blushed and said hurriedly, "I dare not, this is just my guess."

"Well, this... involves some secrets of our Buddhist sect. You have never practiced in the Zen temple in the Pure Land World, so you may not know it." Cimei did not blame him and said, "Even I found these records in the Sutra Pavilion after I took charge of Hanling Temple."

"If it involves the secrets of our Buddhist sect, Master does not need to tell you!" Jingcheng put his hands together and said very seriously.

Cimei looked at Jingcheng with a smile and said, "Yes, it is true! If you don't want to know what you should know, I will tell you; if you don't want to know what you shouldn't know, I will not tell you even if you beg me! You only need to understand this point today, and you will have hope of achieving enlightenment."

"Yes, disciple understands!" Jingcheng nodded calmly, with a kind of enlightenment on his white-haired face.

"In fact, it's not a secret!" Jingcheng didn't want to know, but Cimei said seriously, "There are many branches in my Buddhist sect, some are Mahayana Buddhism, some are Hinayana Buddhism, or some are the ten Buddhist sects."

"Yes, this disciple knows that my Hanling Temple belongs to the Tiantai Sect." Jingcheng smiled, "It seems that in addition to the Tantric Sect, other Chengshi Sect, Kusha Sect, Xing Sect, Xiang Sect, Xianshou Sect, Chan Sect, Pure Land Sect and Vinaya Sect are also spreading in the Tibetan Immortal Continent."

"Yes, that's true!" Cimei nodded, "But before the Buddha's light in my Pure Land world shone on the Tibetan Immortal Continent, or before the ten Buddhist sects were formed, there was another Buddhist disciple whose practice method was completely different from mine, called the head Tuotu is also called Tuotu practice, Tuotu work, and Tuotu merit, which means to remove dust and troubles. It means to abandon greed for clothes, food, and shelter, so as to cultivate the body and mind. All monks who practice Tuotu asceticism must strictly abide by the following twelve practice rules in daily life: choose an empty place; live a life of begging; eat in moderation; eat once a day; beg for food regardless of the rich or poor; do not drink juice in the afternoon or after lunch; keep the three robes; wear a rag-sweeping robe; often sit under a tree to think; often sit in the open air; live in a grave; often sit and do not lie down. Even hair and nails cannot be trimmed. "

"Ah? There is also... such a method of ascetic practice?" Jingcheng obviously had never heard of the asceticism, and was surprised.

"Yes, Ku Tou Tuo believes that human life is miserable, and only hard practice can get through the sea of ​​suffering. Any slight enjoyment will make oneself contaminated by the karmic fire of the sea of ​​suffering, and fall into the path of livestock when reincarnated." Cimei said, "Such monks have always been mentally tough, and their Buddhist teachings are profound. Even their methods of subduing demons are higher than those of ordinary monks. I suspect... Cihang must be Ku Tou Tuo."

"Alas, I understand!" Jingcheng smiled bitterly, "If my Buddhist sect announced Ku Tou Tuo's practice to the world, how could secular people shave their heads and become monks? People are afraid of hardship, and they find it incredible not to have meat and marriage. If they continue to live like this, they will regard my Buddhist sect as snakes and scorpions."

"That's true~" Cimei nodded, "Although Ku Tou Tuo's practice is very effective, Well, maybe there are very few monks who practice Buddhism, and they have faded out of Buddhist practice in the early years! Of course, I admire these bitter monks very much, and only their practice is the real practice, but... this kind of practice is not conducive to the illumination of the Buddha's light in my Buddhism! "

"If Master Cihang is a bitter monk, it is normal for us not to know his name!" Jingcheng smiled and said, "Moreover, he has practiced for many years and has accumulated a lot of good results. The pure mind power of tens of thousands of people in Changsheng Town may be the final good result."

"So..." Cimei narrowed her eyes and said word by word, "We will help the villagers of Changsheng Town to build the golden body of Avalokitesvara in Jiangchao Temple to help Brother Cihang achieve enlightenment!"

"Ah?" Jingcheng was shocked, "Master, this... this is not in line with the rules of our Buddhism, right? Master Cihang, he hasn't even attained enlightenment yet???"

"What are the rules of Buddhism?" Cimei said with a smile, "You know, I know, and thousands of Buddhist disciples know! But do the villagers of Changsheng Town, and the good men and women who go to Jiangchao Temple to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva know? They want to build the Supreme Golden Body of Namo Guanyin Bodhisattva in Changsheng Town. Do we need to stop them?"

"Si..." Jingcheng took a deep breath, his eyes widened, and blurted out, "Supreme... Supreme Golden Body? Master, the Supreme Golden Body can only be cast by a Buddha who has attained enlightenment in our Buddhism. Even if Master Cihang has attained enlightenment, the Buddhahood of Guanyin Bodhisattva is not enough to prove the Supreme Golden Body of Ten Zhang."

Cimei did not Ignoring Jingcheng's surprise, he said slowly: "Since Brother Cihang has never attained enlightenment, he naturally cannot cast a golden body. Even if he has attained enlightenment, he can only cast a 80-foot-tall golden body of the Bodhisattva. This is the law of our Buddhist sect. However, this is the Cangxian Continent! There is not a single golden body of our Buddhist sect on the entire Cangxian Continent. How can we let go of this opportunity given by the Buddha? I have already sent a Buddhist certificate to Leiyin Temple to cast a 99-foot-tall golden body of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva for Brother Cihang on the Jiangchao Temple in Changsheng Town. If nothing unexpected happens, the Buddha will agree!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to read.)