Chapter 438 Twelve Views of Karma
The spirit of the locust tree was silent for a moment, the vegetation changed, and tried to resist, but Shao Siming suppressed it with just a look.
After struggling to no avail, the spirit of the locust tree said slowly: "I can't be sure of my identity. Maybe I am her whose memory has been erased, maybe she is after the reincarnation, or maybe it is this locust tree. "You can't even tell who you are, and you still want to practice Buddhism?"
The spirit of the locust tree said helplessly: "What can you do if you don't practice? Except for a few of my previous incarnation's magical powers, which were obtained by swallowing the lunar moonlight, most of them were obtained by mixing the hot blood of the human heart and the spiritual marrow of the human brain with the power of incense and wishes. The demonic aura was not only mixed, but also carried a lingering blood. Taste.”
"Retaining these magical powers is not good for me or anyone else. By practicing Buddhism, I can still purify my breath, purify the surrounding spiritual energy, educate the surrounding elves, help the villagers in the mountains, and make up for some of the bad karma caused by my predecessor. After all, no matter who I am, , I have inherited the mana and body of my predecessor, so all the things she did back then will naturally be attributed to me."
"After all, there is no such thing as taking advantage of others. "Shao Siming didn't answer. The spirit of the locust tree also felt some changes in the other party's aura, which sometimes made her fearful and sometimes made her feel relieved. She couldn't help but feel a change in her heart. Tight, he continued to explain.
“Furthermore, practicing Buddhism has another benefit for me. It allows me to gradually determine who I am. This world has long been confused, true and false, and cause and effect are all mixed up. People can't distinguish between good and bad. While repaying some of the sins caused by my predecessor, I also found out what I am in the process. Do you understand how I should do it..."
"Self-improvement? ”
Shao Siming didn't say anything more. She had learned something about the things in the mountains and forests in the past seven days.
The mountain people's sacrifice of blood and food is a way for them to survive in the world, just like recognizing their biological relatives. The predecessor of the locust tree spirit may have been violent, but it did not violate the agreement with the mountain people. A transaction between shemales.
Therefore, Shao Siming will not take action against the spirit of the locust tree.
But if Shao Siming had come a while earlier, he would have naturally killed the locust tree spirit.
It just so happens that the spirit of the locust tree is now a new spirit.
In Shao Siming's eyes, or judging from the changes in "fate", the one who committed evil earlier has perished under the six-color treasure wheel. The new elf is not even related to the predecessor, but from the locust tree. A new spirit was born anew.
Moreover, this new born elf is willing to bear the sins of his predecessor and protect the place.
This move was in line with Shao Siming's philosophy, so she suppressed some extreme thoughts in her heart and simply asked about the other party's practice.
As an individual who has accumulated countless years of experience in the Jinhua Sect, and who has observed part of the nature of heaven and earth during his coming to this world, Shao Siming quickly obtained his spiritual practice from the mouth of the locust tree spirit under his careful guidance. Some of the essence of the method and some guidance.
During this period, Shao Siming was also happy to point out some elves in the mountains. After going back and forth, he also accumulated a little reputation.
The surrounding mountain people also gradually spread the story that under the guidance of a goddess, the Sophora tree fairy family in the mountain, who originally enjoyed blood food, abandoned evil and turned to good, killed the evil beasts in the mountain, and rescued the mountain people.
"Absurd!"
A hundred miles east of the mountain forest, inside the Changchun Temple, the scholar who had previously tried to go up the mountain was furious and was about to go out. Next to him was a strong, bearded middle-aged man. The man hurriedly stopped him and said: "Yan Chixia, what do you want to do?"
"A monster has the reputation of being an immortal. I want to go and see it."
"There is no need to go and see it. , I have long watched from a distance, the spiritual light is shining in the mountain, the Buddha's light is faint, and the evil spirits are gone."
The bearded man hurriedly stopped, but Yan Chixia became even more angry: "Since you know, why don't you tell me?"
"Tell you? What's the use of telling you? The new person who entered the mountain is a land cultivator. A monk in the immortal realm, plus a tree demon who is not inferior to the immortal realm on land, what are you going to do? Are you looking for death? "
The bearded man retorted, and when he saw that the other party wanted to leave, he slapped his waist. Open the bamboo tube, and then chant the incantation.
"The sky and the earth are infinite, the universe borrows the law! The magic talisman is sleepy!"
With one finger pointing at Yan Chixia, a yellow talisman immediately flew out of the bamboo slips, one divided into two, two divided into four, In an instant, dozens of spiritual talismans appeared and flew up and down, forming a formation, trying to trap Yan Chixia in it.
"Xie Baliang, you want to stop me?"
Yan Chixia was furious and slapped her sword pouch. The snow-white sword light fell like flying frost, piercing the surrounding yellow symbols one by one, while she moved upwards. Jump and prepare to leave this place.
Those yellow talismans that were penetrated instantly turned black, and then burned to ashes and could no longer be used. The bearded man screamed in distress.
"Xiahou Fenglei, if you don't take action, I won't help you!"
As soon as the bearded man finished speaking, a loud laugh rang out: "This is what I have been waiting for! ”
Then a sword flew out and struck Yan Chixia who wanted to leave.
Yan Chixia felt that something was wrong when Big Beard shouted, and just as she was about to escape, she saw the flying horse-zanting sword. When the sword technique was triggered, the sword light flew up suddenly, and slashed at He knocked it away with the sword, then made a hand and chanted a mantra, intending to leave.
"The sky and the earth are infinite, and the universe borrows the magic! Give it to me!"
The big beard spoke again, breaking Yan Chixia's magic, and let Xiahou Fenglei, who came after him, recall his own The beheading sword came forward to kill him.
Yan Chixia couldn't avoid it and could only fight with it.
The two sides fought back and forth for more than ten rounds. In the end, Yan Chixia was superior and suppressed Xiahou Fenglei and Big Beard, but he himself also consumed 7788 mana and could not leave for the time being.
Seeing this, the bearded man gasped and asked: "I said Yan Chixia, you have such a stubborn temper, why do you have to compete with the tree demon on the Black Mountain? She is also a Taoist elf, if it were not blocked by the royal court. Heaven and Earth, suppressing the earth's veins, will not embark on the path of devouring blood and absorbing incense. Even so, she did not deceive the mortals and protect the mountain people."
"She eats people's hearts and brains. Isn't it reasonable? We are cultivating to protect the righteous path of the world. If we don't try to drive away these evil spirits, why should we cultivate? The principle of duality has been forgotten!"
Yan Chixia glared and sighed: "There is no duality between good and evil. Zen Master Fahai doesn't say much about it, why do you pick up such remarks again? Not to mention whether you can fight the tree demon, even if you win, what are you going to do with the mountain people?" But Yan Chixia, who looked unconvinced, scolded: "At worst, I will sit here and teach the party? , Ten years, twenty years, you can finally teach a suitable elf.”
The bearded man was also a little angry. After thinking about it, he finally said angrily: "Don't say it's you. Even if Zen Master Fahai comes in, he may not be able to suppress the problems in the Black Mountain!"
"What you said is What do you mean?”
When Yan Chixia heard this, she immediately asked. He had long felt that something was wrong with Black Mountain and the tree demon, but neither the senior sect nor Xie Baliang who was sitting here were willing to tell him. The truth is, after finally getting something out of Xie Baliang's mouth, he naturally didn't want to let it go.
"Xie Baliang, don't try to lie to me. If you can't convince me, I still have to go to Montenegro for a trip!"
"You have such a bad temper, okay, okay, I'll tell you You, there is a place that is missing in the past.”
Big Beard's words did not arouse Yan Chixia's retort, but instead shocked Xiahou Fenglei.
"Xie Huzhu, don't be ridiculous, the Skyless Land is a first-class demonic land. It is a desperate place formed by the flow of many demonic thoughts that infect all living beings when the sky was broken in the past. . Now the only definite places of Heaven and Earth are the Yinshi Youquan and Chiyou Blood Spring. Where did the third Heaven's Land come from? "
"I'm not lying to you, it's different. In the Youquan of the Underworld and the Blood Spring of Chiyou, the Black Mountain's Heavenless Land was originally in the underworld. When it opened, seven monks who had obtained the certification of land gods fell into the devil's way, and more than twenty land gods were sacrificed. Only after suppressing them, three of them are my ancestors!"
"Three hundred years ago, there was a big demon who tried to find out his spiritual consciousness from the gap he repaired to observe the human world, and several of them stayed in the human world! Only the seniors who were expected to ascend worked together to force him back, but the great demon was formless and had strange magical powers. He could turn the false into the real, turn the real into the imaginary, and hide the truth. The advent of his will caused the demonic thoughts to circulate throughout the mountain range all year round. , Cultivation is very difficult, and new demons may be born every moment.”
“It was precisely because of the existence of the unknown demon that Master Vipassana was in the mountains three hundred years ago. He left the Buddha treasure behind and tried to guide the Black Mountain God, who was initially showing signs of falling into the devil's path, to enter the Buddha's presence and control the distracting thoughts flowing out of the underworld."
Yan Chixia frowned: "The mountain god you are talking about is the tree demon?"
"Otherwise? Apart from the tree demon, who else in the Black Mountain can be called a mountain god? And she has never understood it. Master Vipassana left behind the true meaning of the Buddha and tried to devour it. Naturally, he was counterattacked by the Buddha and ended up in a state of despair."
"The tree demons in the mountains now are probably new elves. , the only thing worth worrying about is, who is the female cultivator who woke up? Although I basically know the land gods today, I have never heard of this name."
The bearded words made Yan Chixia. His expression calmed down a lot. He looked in the direction of Montenegro and whispered: "Then shouldn't we go and take a look? Should we go, Xiahou Fenglei?"
"Such an interesting thing, why? Can you do without me? ”
Xiahou Fenglei immediately agreed, and the angry bearded man said hurriedly: "Xiahou Fenglei, we have agreed, I will help you stop him, you help me..."
"Don't listen to him, you help This time, I will have three good fights with you! You can decide the time and place!"
Yan Chixia looked at Xiahou Fenglei and said very firmly, completely telling the bearded man what he was saying. cut off.
Looking at the two people walking away, the bearded man took out a paper crane and sent it out, and hurriedly followed.
The spirit of the locust tree in Black Mountain also told Shao Siming about its origin and the past of Black Mountain after the initial temptation and suddenly became alert today.
Moreover, the spirit of the locust tree also took out the Buddha treasure for Shao Siming to take a look at.
The treasure is strange, divided into six colors, and has twelve Sanskrit characters, namely ignorance, formation, consciousness, name and form, six senses, contact, feeling, love, grasping, existence, birth, old age and death.
"Twelve Causes and Conditions?"
Shao Siming instantly understood the origin of this treasure and the rules of its operation.
“Using the twelve causes and conditions to turn the six paths of reincarnation? It’s a good idea. I think your predecessor fell into ignorance and was unable to transcend when observing the twelve causes and conditions.”
Shao Siming's words are not false. The twelve causes and conditions start with ignorance and follow the order of causes and conditions, causing each other. Therefore, birth and death are like endless circles, and illusions continue, creating an illusory life world process.
Therefore, practicing the Twelve Causes and Conditions is mostly about looking back, starting from old age and death, all the way back to ignorance, trying to find the true meaning of Buddhism from ignorance.
It’s just that this method is also prone to problems, and many Mahayana Buddhists disagree.
The Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Twelve Laws of Karma and Destiny in the hands of the locust tree spirit form a good assistant. As long as the practitioner has enough merit, he can make the compass rotate at the moment of falling into ignorance. Back in circulation.
At the same time, in line with the special environment here in Montenegro, once a practitioner changes and is disturbed by distracting thoughts, he can also look back at ignorance, use the characteristics of ignorance to carry all the troubles, and then use the six paths to reincarnate .
Theoretically speaking, the Twelve Causes and Conditions, the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the special practice environment of Black Mountain form a virtuous cycle and are a place of destiny for practice.
But the problem with this method is also very obvious. The rotation of the wheel of samsara requires merit. If a practitioner cannot do good deeds and accumulate merit, he will not be able to obtain blessings in ignorance. And if he has the intention to do good deeds, the merit will inevitably turn into Merit, over time, it is very likely that distracting thoughts will enter the mind and fall into the wrong ways.
The spirit of the locust tree didn't know the problem. Hearing Shao Siming's praise, he couldn't help but feel a little proud, but he also felt that it was a little uncomfortable to hold such things by himself. Thinking of Shao Siming's help after arriving, he Invite her to practice these twelve causes and conditions together.
“Didn’t you reach the level of practice? Practicing these twelve views on causality should allow you to understand something by analogy, and suddenly you have inspiration to go further?”
Hearing this, Shao Siming smiled and said : "My practice is not as simple as you think. To practice one of the orthodox academic texts in the world, you need to learn secret texts. Most of these secret texts are true texts intercepted by the immortal family from between heaven and earth. Some people call them dragon chapters. Some people say that the phoenix seal script is a bird script, while others regard it as a cloud, a thunder pattern, each of which contains the essence of the great road. A word can mean a hundred meanings, or a thousand meanings. When it is completed into a sentence, it becomes even more profound. It is already very difficult for ordinary people to read it, let alone understand it. ”
"But once you are successful in studying literature, you can try Vipassana. This process is somewhat similar to your meditation on the twelve causes and conditions, which is the change of causes and conditions, except that what the monks observe is the secret text, while what you observe inside is the smooth and reverse changes of the twelve causes and conditions. ”
“Once you have achieved some success in Vipassana, you can try to practice the techniques. Most of these techniques are pieced together from secret texts. The superior ones have a system and can be practiced steadily. In order to seek the Tao and the wonderful method, the intermediate ones form chapters. , can steadily seek magic, and the magic methods are related. At the end, they are just sentences or a few secret texts, which are magic methods."
"But when you reach this step, you can be called a magician, and you have achieved success. . "
"The next step is to imprint many secret texts on the soul to form a fairy-clothed body to protect oneself during night and day travel, and even rely on the power of the soul to drive external objects. This is considered to have reached the level of cultivation. The Immortal Sect can be called a mage."
"After that, after passing through the Master Refiner and the Three-Dong Master, you can enter the realm of land gods, which is the realm you and I are at now. It is no longer something that can be helped by spiritual practice. We need to realize it ourselves and make our own choices.”
(End of this chapter)