When the Saint started his lecture, the atmosphere was extraordinary and all the deities heard about it. There was a day when the Night Wandering Deity leaked the news and the two Celestial Generals, Qianli Yan and Zhenfeng Er, secretly told him that in the guesthouse at Hangu Pass, ordinary people could only see that the door was tightly shut and there was no one around. However, with the Discerning Eyes of the Saint, he could see celestial light everywhere, auspicious clouds gathering and all kinds of wonderful phenomena. It was unbelievable.
About ten immortals hovered in the sky, while the Six Guards and Six Armor Generals stood at the four corners of the guesthouse, guarding the door, while the Four Merit Officers guarded the windows. The Vigorous Ghost King of the Heavenly Palace came late and saw that the four immortals had surrounded the small guesthouse.
He slapped his thigh and shouted, "That God of Night is so ignorant. I gave him ten years of incense just to let me know when the Saint is creating scriptures so that I can take advantage of it. How dare he trick me!" He then scolded, "Old Lord descending to the world and becoming a Saint is such a great job. These Six Generals are greedy for merit and did not get the imperial edict. They used the excuse of protecting the Saint. Who doesn't know that Old Lord Li's Green Bull is brave and would not hesitate to kill a hundred of them? Why would he need them to protect him? "
He also scolded the fourth-duty meritorious official for being lazy when he was performing his duties, using his position as an excuse to get some benefits, but it came quickly. The various immortals in the heavens did not care about their skin, even those without official duties dared to come and listen to the lecture in secret. As he scolded and scolded, he saw the auspicious clouds in the sky were steady, the divine generals did not move in all four directions, pretending not to hear his scolding, nobody left in shame, giving up their position for him.
Before the celestial beings could leave, a thin black dog trotted over and secretly crouched at the bottom of the steps. The Vigorous Ghost King looked familiar. Although the Four Immortal Generals were only here to listen to the lecture, with them here, which wild animal would dare to come and cause trouble? Even the sounds of insects stopped. Such a big thin dog and the Six Generals pretended not to see it!
The Ghost King did not know which celestial it was and was envious. Another sparrow flew over and stopped outside the window.
The Ghost King did not know what was good for him and blurted out, "Is that Erlang Xiansheng?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, he knew something was wrong. Sure enough, the faces of the Six Deities changed. The Four Deities hid themselves. The Chickadee only turned back to look at him, but it made the Vigorous Ghost King sweat profusely. His legs trembled. The Vigorous Ghost King thought that the Four Deities Generals would react, but they pretended not to hear him. The Ghost King secretly cursed, "What a cunning Deity General!"
The Herculean Ghost King knew that he had offended True Lord Xiansheng and was reluctant to leave. He could only turn into the size of a bug and sneak under the door.
In the guesthouse, the Old Turtle held the world of Chen Ang's dream in his hand. It was as small as a mustard seed. The Sage pondered for a moment and pointed his left hand in the void. Jade light turned into a circle and formed a three-foot square pond. The mustard seed world was infinitely small and vast. It fell in the middle of the water mirror square pond, but it took root and sprouted. It even formed a few trembling flower buds. In an instant, it grew into a jade-like cute Lianhua.
This scene did not scare the Monkey King and Yi Xi, but the Four Deities Generals were dumbfounded. The Monkey King had not cultivated for a long time and did not know the immensity of heaven and earth. Even if the Taiqing Zhenren opened up a world in front of him, he might not be scared. Didn't Chen Ang and the Taiqing Zhenren work together to do that just now? However, he was ignorant of common sense, so he was not surprised. The Four Deities Generals were knowledgeable and could see that the wind, earth, water, and fire in the world controlled by the Taiqing Zhenren were all destroyed and planted the Lianhua. The Lianhua was real, so was the world. The Lianhua had two forms. One was the real Lianhua, and the other was a Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss hidden in the flower bud. There were three thousand Buddhas, eight hundred Arhats, and even a Gautama Buddha sitting in the center of the Lianhua.
The Buddha of Spirited Mountain in West Heaven was preaching about the dharma assembly when he paused and stopped. He looked up and saw that the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss was like a Lianhua that had not bloomed. His gaze passed through the Lianhua and looked at the two boundless Taiqing Zhenren and Chen Ang outside the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. He smiled.
The Bodhisattvas were shocked when they saw the Buddha holding the flower and smiling. The Golden Brahma Flower bloomed brilliantly. The Buddhas who were listening were all silent. Only Kasyapa broke into a smile.
In the guesthouse, Chen Ang said, "In the Lianhua, Sakya smiled while holding the flower. The Buddhas didn't understand what he meant, only Kasyapa understood and comprehended our Mahayana Dharma. I wonder what you all have comprehended? "
The Monkey King said, "Just now, the Patriarch gave birth to the world with a thought. Now that the Old Lord turned the world into Lianhua with a thought, he saw that the five skandhas are all empty. The Patriarch created the world through karma. All dharmas are caused by karma, and all phenomena depend on the conditions of 'me'. I have something, so this exists. I am born, so this exists. I have no cause, so this doesn't exist. I am the cause, and all dharmas exist because of me. I don't wait for karma, and I'm an independent existence. All dharmas are empty, and only I am self-nature. Therefore, form is not different from emptiness, and emptiness is not different from form. Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. The same goes for perception, action, and consciousness. "
The Monkey King's words were complicated, but the celestials could understand it. The emptiness he said was the emptiness, or the emptiness of self-nature. He meant that Chen Ang's karma created the world, and everything in the world was created by Chen Ang's consciousness. The existence of idealism couldn't be separated from the relationship and conditions of Chen Ang's idealism. In other words, if Chen Ang couldn't feel it, everything wouldn't exist.
Therefore, all physical attributes (form), all kinds of feelings (perception) from the six senses, all kinds of cognition (thinking), consciousness activity (action), and all kinds of consciousness (consciousness) belonged to the emptiness of self-nature. They couldn't be separated from relationships and conditions to exist independently.
Chen Ang shook his head and said, "This is Hinayana Dharma. There is no self outside the heart, and everything comes from the origin of ignorance. This is not the Mahayana Dharma that I want to talk about. Let me ask you, is the world of Spirited Mountain in the flower real or fake? "
The Monkey King mustered up his courage and said, "I came from the countryside, and even if I don't know much, I know that the world of Spirited Mountain is far away in the Western Land of Ultimate Bliss. How could it be in the flower of Grandmaster? Of course it's fake."
"Is that so?" Chen Ang pushed the Monkey King into the Lianhua. The Monkey King felt his body lightened, and he fell into an extremely vast world. He fell from the sky and saw countless rays of Buddha from afar. There was a big Buddha sitting on the lotus platform. When the Monkey King saw the Buddha, he screamed in shock. He knew without asking himself that this was the Buddha of Spirited Mountain in the West, Rulai.
Rulai opened his palm and took it. The Monkey King made a monkey head and squeaked. Suddenly, one of the Buddhas understood. When Buddha held a flower and smiled at Maha Kasyapa, there was a deep meaning behind it. Now that he was holding a monkey, what was the meaning behind it? Thus, the three thousand Buddhas and eight hundred Arhats lowered their heads and pondered.
A Tiger-subduing Arhat called out, "Subdue the inner monkey, rein in the horse. The Revered One of the World is telling me to hold the inner monkey in my hand."
Thus, he sat upright and comprehended the profound meaning.
Another long-eared Dingguang Buddha thought, "Buddha held a flower and smiled at Maha Kasyapa. Now that he is holding a monkey, why don't I do it?" He imitated the monkey head and squeaked.
The Revered One of the World held the Monkey King in his hand and said to the Buddhas, "The Old Lord is on a journey to the west, and is now discussing Dao with the Sages at Hangu Pass. They are just joking with me." He then tossed the Monkey King back and said, "Tiger-subduing, Dingguang does not understand the Dharma, and is making trouble without understanding. Your cultivation is not fixed, and your cultivation is regressing …"
In front of Rulai, the second disciple, Golden Cicada, was extremely intelligent and knew the cause and effect of the cause and effect. Seeing that the Buddha was trying to hide it, he was sly and covered his mouth and laughed. Rulai's Dharma Eye saw clearly and said, "Golden Cicada? Why are you smiling? "
Golden Cicada was flustered and said, "Just now, the Revered One of the World was picking flowers. I was born slow, and only now did I understand the correct method, that's why I laughed."
"Thou hast not heard of the Dharma, and have made light of my great sect, and laughed contemptuously in the hall. There is also the Long-eared Dingguang Buddha, and your mouth speaks the words of a beast, the Tiger-subduing Arhat, and you do not understand my meaning. Therefore, I demote the three of you to reincarnate into the Eastern Land. Tiger-subduing Buddha reincarnated three times, Tiger-subduing Light reincarnated six times, and the Golden Cicada — thou hast reincarnated ten times, and without great merit, thou shall not return!"
Rulai passed down the decree, and naturally, Dharma Protector Jia Lan dragged three people to carry out the decree.
As for the Monkey King, after he was thrown out from the Lianhua, a look of horror appeared on his face as he exclaimed, "It's true! It was true! So that Patriarch would know that when I fell into the spiritual mountain within the flowers and was pinched in Rulai's hand, I saw everything clearly. That world within the flowers was the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, and the Rulai sitting in the center was also Rulai. In this Lianhua, there is a Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss hidden! "
Hearing what the Monkey King said, shock appeared on the face of the Green Bull Burly Man. Yi Xi didn't understand, and Liu Ding, Liu Jia, and the Four Merit Officers were even more shaken. The Five Directions Dingting, who were pressing down on the roof, all shouted, "Impossible!"
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