??【Abbot of Jingyue Temple, died】
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??Jingyue Temple is located in the famous mountains and attracts countless pilgrims.
??Looking down from a high altitude, you can see long queues of people queuing to enter the temple from afar.
??Monk Du Shi searched for a long time and finally found the Taoist in green in the busy market at the foot of the mountain. At this moment, he was sitting in a roadside stall, eating wontons and watching the roadside acrobatics.
??He landed silently in the crowd and approached the Taoist in green. His attitude was no longer as cold and hostile as before. He bowed respectfully.
"I pay my respects to you, Senior. I would like to thank you on behalf of the people on both sides of the Tao River for your great kindness."
The Taoist in green glanced at him and said, "The people on both sides of the Tao River? How can you thank me on their behalf? Just because of your bald head?"
Monk Du Shi was not annoyed and replied, "No, I just think that someone should thank you for what you have done. I was born on both sides of the Tao River, so I should be considered a part of it."
"You little monk, you are quite interesting."
??The Taoist in green looked at Du Shi straight in the eye for the first time. For some reason, he felt as if he was seen through from head to toe.
"He has reached the level of Arhat. It seems that he is a genius in Buddhism. He has good talent."
??Can he see that?
Du Shi was shocked. He had a Buddhist treasure bestowed by his elders on him. People below the level of Spiritualization could not see through his cultivation. This person either had some special means or had reached the level of Spiritualization.
??He quickly suppressed the doubt in his heart. The other party had a high level of cultivation, and he was mentally prepared. Otherwise, he would not have been able to suppress Tao Jiang.
"Senior, you have a keen eye."
"What a pity, he entered Buddhism." The Taoist in green turned around and continued eating wontons without looking at the monk again.
??Chatting with him for a while because of his good character.
"Senior has a big prejudice against my Buddha. I am afraid there are some misunderstandings. I am not talented enough, but I hope to clear up your confusion."
??Monk Du Shi closed his eyes slightly, revealing an extraordinary aura, as if the real Buddha was in the world.
The Taoist priest, who originally did not intend to continue to pay attention to him, raised his head again, and then could not help but chuckled, saying: "Buddha's heart, little monk, aren't you afraid that I will dig out your heart? This is a rare treasure."
"Senior, you have great merits, so you would never do this. I wonder if this Buddha's heart can help you solve your doubts?"
The Taoist in green looked at him for a long time, then asked again, "Is there reincarnation in this world?"
??“Never seen it.” Du Shi did not answer as firmly as before, because the person in front of him had verified it.
??A powerful god with a golden body of merit has the ability to do so, so there is no need to deceive himself.
??If there is really no reincarnation, how do you explain that all the sufferings in this life are caused by the cause and effect of the previous life?
??This question troubled him for several months, and was also the reason that drove him to look for this Taoist for several months. Assuming there is no reincarnation, what about those suffering people?
??Does the Buddha want to save them? And why do they offer him offerings?
??If there is no afterlife, wouldn't we become bandits?
??This is undoubtedly a collapse of faith for a monk who has just entered the secular world. He urgently needs an answer and hopes that reincarnation is real.
??So we need to prove that what this Taoist said is false.
The Taoist in green seemed to see through his thoughts and said, "Little monk, if you still want your Buddha's heart, stay away from me. I remind you because you have a good heart that it is better not to know some things, otherwise your path to the Tao will be cut off."
??“I have no regrets.” Monk Du Shi was not scared away.
"Come with me."
??There are hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land at the foot of Jingyue Temple, with a population of millions and countless villages.
Du Shi followed the Taoist priest in without attracting anyone's attention, and happened to see the monks from the temple coming down to collect the grain. There was no fighting, no crying, and both sides were in harmony.
??But their body shapes were extremely eye-catching. The monks were all fat and had big ears, while the common people had yellow complexions and were skinny.
"How is it?" the Taoist in green asked, "Since the sword immortal, Buddhism has flourished. In just a few hundred years, no less than 100,000 temples have been built in this world. The Buddha statues alone can surround the Tao River. Where do you think the manpower and material resources consumed came from? Did you Buddhist monks build them yourself?"
??“…”
??Du Shi remained silent.
??The Taoist in green continued to take him to another place, somewhere inside the Jingyue Temple, where a faint groaning sound was heard from a monk's room.
??With their cultivation level, they naturally knew what happened inside.
"This is what the temple does when praying for a child. You guys are really sending the Buddha to the west."
"Ordinary people have worldly desires, they are not people who practice cultivation."
??Du Shi kept chanting scriptures in a low voice, but his Buddha heart was still bright, and his Buddha nature even increased instead of decreasing.
"If I ever become an Arhat Buddha, I will definitely clean up all the filth."
The Taoist in green clothes said, "That's true. No one is a saint, and there are always some bad people. Even in the Taoist sect, there are no shortage of such people. But now the Buddhist sect is digging for gold in the shit, and even you can't hide it. Do you think this mortal can hide it from your elders?"
"They know better than anyone else. But there must be someone to take care of so many temples. People who practice Buddhism don't have that much time. They often stay awake for decades."
Li Changsheng didn’t know what Buddhism was like in the past, but after his investigation, he found that nine out of ten temples were dark.
"I will definitely clean up the filth in the future."
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