Chapter 25 Blooming like a lotus
As a qualified monk of the sixth level, there is a complete set of changes. This kind of change, the most preliminary, involves a change in appearance. .
This is also what others can see at first glance.
No scars will be burned if you take the precepts in the Tantric Dharma realm.
But the clothes you wear, the magic weapon you hold, the followers around you, the manors, servants, slaves, etc. you can get.
privileges available.
There are obvious differences.
Monks who are at the sixth level and have mastered the immobility of mind, can recite mantras, and can initiate initiations for others, can be called great monks. Starting from this level, they can accept offerings.
This can save them from the embarrassing situation of dying of poverty because of being too poor.
There are also poor monks, but under normal circumstances, it is relatively rare to die due to poverty.
The clothes of a sutra-study monk are a waistcoat and a light yellow monk's robe, and they only have one for many years. They are not allowed to wear red monk's clothes outside. You can add another coat, but the coat cannot be confused with the colors of other great monks. , so choose yellow more often.
However, all clothing except waistcoats and yellow monk robes cost extra.
Many poor Buddhist monks cannot afford this money.
You can only wash it while sleeping and hope it will be dry in the morning. You will not get "sweating sickness" when wearing it.
There is nothing we can do about it.
Free clothes are the greatest gift. Even if you make groceries in a temple or go out to work for nobles, you will get some money as alms, but these money will feel like a drop in the bucket when compared to some big expenses. .
There are many places where sutra-study monks need “donations” and “offerings”. Especially when studying, sutra-study monks and teachers only talk about the most basic things, mostly following the text, in order to get a better education. , it is necessary to "support" and spend a lot of money to hire "teachers" to teach.
Not to mention other basic necessities, food, housing and transportation, many places cost money.
A monk who was born in a small temple like Lu Feng.
Not even the most pitiable.
After all, there is still a small temple, which can still provide some help at all times - although halfway through the help, this help is gone. After the temple was occupied by Li Gui, Lu Feng and the Buddhist monks who were born as slaves It’s the same, I have no one to rely on and I can only rely on my own hands to work.
So many Buddhist monks walked past people in clothes that were rough, patched, tattered, or even without boots.
The rest of the people will know that this person must have been born badly, have no backing, and may not have any great potential. They will naturally look down on him and alienate him. What's worse, some old monks will deliberately bully these people. people.
These people have not recited the words of compassion and have not passed the sutra debate for more than ten or twenty years. They have long given up the idea of obtaining "sixth-level good teachers" and have made plans long ago. .
For them, Lu Feng did not like them, nor did he dislike them extremely, because he had seen them too much, and many of his emotions were suppressed in his heart, waiting to be resolved with great wisdom.
Even when Lu Feng was studying, he saw a Buddhist monk whose toes were so cold that he had no choice but to chop them off because he couldn't afford boots.
As a result, he got sick and died from the disease.
Because he was sick, the other "same-stayers" didn't even allow him to enter the monk's room. They huddled together outside. In the end, he didn't know whether he was cold, hungry, or the wound was indeed inflamed. Dead anyway. At that time, Lu Feng had just arrived and recited the scriptures of the past life for him.
Dodo Monk Bing disliked Lu Feng being in the way and pushed him away.
Later, when he met more people, Lu Feng would also recite past lives for them, praying for them to have a better afterlife, but he would not care about being sad, because if he didn't work hard, he would be the one who might die on the road. Own.
So, now, Lu Feng can walk on the road without being pushed away by the Duoduo monk soldiers.
He can wear red monk robes, hold magical instruments, have attendant monks to accompany him, and can be a monk official - if he wants to be a monk official, he must be a monk of the sixth level, and he can go to Learn the Dharma of the Self and transform from a little ant at the bottom to a flying little ant that can fly.
It’s just that this time, I was in too much of a hurry to receive ordination, registration, and enlightenment. Lu Feng was so anxious that he didn’t even get new monk robes, magical instruments, boots, etc. from the management warehouse. Rosary beads and other objects have been driven here.
More importantly, he also had to go through a "big donation", that is, giving a bowl of porridge and some money to every master in the sutra hall and every monk outside. Only by giving alms can you understand the degree of not being tempted.
In other words, the normal rules should be the order of ending the sutra debate - making a "big donation" - going to receive ordination, arranging registration - mastering the non-attachment, and choosing an initiation guru, but Lu Feng's order was obviously different.
It’s all about completing all the processes in the shortest possible time.
Thinking of this, Lu Feng looked around the hall and walked into the hall.
This hall is not big, but it has been there for a long time. There are traces of time everywhere, but judging from the dust here, it is cleaned all the time.
Everywhere is clean.
As for the murals here, they are the murals around them. There are murals on three walls and three sides. Lu Feng looked around for a long time and only after making sure that no one was around, he looked at the murals here.
It's getting a little dark now.
The big sun was gradually setting, and it fell on the snow-capped mountains, but it showed a golden afterglow. Lu Feng took out the fire folding bag from his arms, blew it, and put the fire stick next to him nearby. A candlestick was lit. This candlestick was more or less a treasure and an antique.
It was a strange beast with the body of a bird and the face of a human. Lu Feng didn’t know what it was. He placed the object beside him, carefully covered it, and began to look at the murals around him.
The Great Sun Tathagata is sitting in the void, but it is not a mandala, a wisdom dharma body, or a rational dharma body. Under the void, there is a vast sea.
Is it possible to see "not being moved" from this mural?
Where is the mystery?
Lu Feng didn’t know, but it wasn’t until this moment that he had time to take out the ancient scroll he kept close to him and open it.
Inside the picture.
There seems to be a hand in front of you, eager to reach out from the ancient scroll and catch the creatures outside to you!
Lu Feng saw the picture on this ancient scroll.
I really never expected that this thing would suddenly appear on the screen. He had never been to Back Mountain before, but he knew this place - the Endless White Pagoda Temple was called the Endless White Pagoda Temple because The burial place of this tower was painted white, so it is called the Endless White Tower.
But now.
The pagoda and burial platform of the Endless White Pagoda Temple is actually full of strange things?
Are you alive?
(End of this chapter)