"Enlightenment is the dividing line between practitioners and ordinary people. Once enlightened, even if you are a blacksmith, you will have your own magical power."

You can tell your kindness by hearing the strings. Pei Wende reacted immediately.
"Is it the butcher’s" magical power "to say that I am skilled in solving cattle?"
Seeing that Pei Wende has such understanding, the Zen master suddenly nodded with satisfaction.
"What you do before you become a Taoist will be different from ordinary people after you become a Taoist."
"The so-called’ yogi’ is to recreate the path that predecessors have blazed, and to achieve it through continuous learning and understanding, which is even beyond the realm of predecessors."
This is also the reason why it is so difficult to practice Taoism, because true practitioners are those who are determined to surpass their predecessors and benefit the future and are afraid to expand.
At least, it is a lifelong pursuit of aspiring practitioners to innovate and surpass their predecessors in this era.
"Wait, there seems to be something wrong?"
Suddenly frowned Pei Wende remembered those ghosts in Mulian Temple.
They don’t seem to be the "devotees" in the mouth of Zen master Lingyou, but they are also different from ordinary people.
"Isn’t it true that all practitioners can’ enter the Tao’? How can those ghosts in the Mulian Temple make magical powers? "
"Those ghosts don’t have magical powers, and their changes are all manifestations of’ magic’."
Smiling and shaking his head corrected the mistakes in Pei Wende’s statement. Since he decided to let the other person really set foot in the spiritual world, it is naturally impossible for him to have such common-sense mistakes.
"Magic is a way to communicate between heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, and avatar is a proof of perfect practice. The two cannot be confused."
The fact is that Pei Wende himself has awakened to this point.
Even if he didn’t realize this, the Zen master Lingyou would tell each other the difference between "magic" and "magical power" in detail.
"Even ordinary people can use the so-called’ magic’ if they can gather their spirits and draw spells."
"But the magical power is different. It is the evidence that the yogi has practiced to a certain extent and that the form and spirit are one."
Generally speaking, magic is to communicate with the "God" by means of spells, and to serve the "External God" to make ghosts let heaven and earth and ghosts do things for you.
The magical power is that the yogi expands his "god" and practices to a certain extent, which is much more difficult than normal magic.
"but remember, whether it’s magical power or magic, it’s your path of practice’ scenery’ rather than’ purpose’."
Speaking of this, Zen master Lingyou also deliberately paused to emphasize whether Pei Wende himself had just spoken.
Because he has seen too many practitioners in his life, he pursues spells and magical powers to create and kill evil. Naturally, he does not want his disciples to fall into the same field as those people.
"You should always keep in mind your original intention of practicing!"
If it’s pure magic, there’s no need for ordinary people to practice.
Because those abilities that appear as a result of practice can be achieved in other ways.
This is also the consensus of practitioners-if you want to make a fire, you can strike a flint, if you want to treat a disease, you can go to see a doctor, if you want to kill someone, you can bow your sword.
Compared with the simple ability to practice for many years, there is no need for the end.
"If you put the cart before the horse in pursuit of magical powers and spells, no matter what path you practice, it will eventually be a side road."
In the face of Lingyou Zen master repeatedly told Pei Wende not to be careless.
But after listening to each other’s theories, he suddenly developed a strange curiosity.
"Old monk, what did you want to practice at first?"
The fourth chapter is to fight for hundreds of parents and become a humanitarian.
"Why did I want to practice?"
By Pei Wende’s question, Zen master Ling You showed one leng.
"Actually, I originally wanted to lighten my family’s burden before longxing temple was ordained to become a monk."
This reason is very real and in line with the national conditions of this era.
Monks who have official officials can not only eat imperial grain, but also have land with little or no tax.
Many middle-class families usually send their children to be monks or attach their famous land to the name of temples in order to avoid the complicated tax corvee.
Anyway, in this war-torn era, one more identity means one more way out, and those families with more heirs can be said to miss it very much
It’s that Zen master Lingyou is different from those "monks" who simply mix identities.
During his days as a monk, he really studied Buddhist scriptures and learned Buddhist scriptures, and found what he really wanted in the process.
"longxing temple practice that day I have been thinking about a problem …"
"Do I have to be trapped in a small temple for the rest of my life?"
"I don’t want this. I want to see a wider world. I want to live longer than anyone else and see more things I have never seen before."
"This is the opportunity for me to enter the Tao and the driving force for my long-term practice."
Zen master Lingyou kept telling about his once-enlightened opportunity just as his master once told about his once-enlightened opportunity.
"Wait, why do I sound like something is wrong again?"
After listening carefully to the speech of Zen master Lingyou, Pei Wende suddenly realized that the pulse of his master seemed to be different from that of Buddhism in his imagination.
Not to mention that compared with the orthodox mainstream Zen Buddhism, even some tantric branch ideas seem to be less … casual than their own?
"Master, didn’t you say that we are a line of ascetic monks in Tianzhu?"
"But how do I feel that you say these things are a bit like Taoist thought?"
"Especially the pursuit of longevity. Isn’t this a typical Taoist thought?"
Even Pei Wende, who has never been in contact with the orthodox Taoist school, knows that "long life and long sight" is the concept of most Taoist monks
It has nothing in common with the root of Buddhism which advocates "Purdue sentient beings, reincarnation".
"That’s why I said that the’ vast majority’ of my collar came from the ascetic vein rather than the Ministry."
"The facts are really so complicated that I don’t even know which sect I should be."
"But when it comes to the greatest influence on the teacher, it is the Huaihai Zen master in Baizhangshan, Hongzhou."
At this point, Zen master Lingyou hesitated a little before continuing to calm down and said
"What’s more, Taoism, Buddhism and even Confucianism are beneficial to our practice. What’s the difference between them?"
At first, the ascetic monk definitely didn’t have the concept of "long life and long sight"
Because they pursue afterlife and karma, they don’t expect to live long.
But after entering the Central Plains for so long, the group of ascetic monks had already died.
After several generations’ evolution, the Liulai practice has naturally merged into some thoughts of Taoism, Confucianism, Yin and Yang, and Mohism.
This is the evolution of natural laws and the only way for an ambitious laggard.
It is what a true Buddhist should do, can do and must do to learn from parents and become a humanitarian.
"Everything is changing, so is our practice …"
"It is the’ peak’ that our successors will climb when the predecessors reach the’ end point’"
The dull tone of Zen master Ling You is full of arrogance and conceit that Pei Wende has never seen before, and his bony body seems to be tall at this moment.
This deja vu scene reminds Pei Wende of the Hui Ji in Mulian Temple. At that time, the Hui Ji of Bi Yi Group seemed to have some similar arrogance.
"It seems that it is not without reason that you will accept my master elder brother and me as apprentices."
It’s a normal person, but it seems like a common phenomenon in the mouth of Zen master Ling You. It’s no wonder that Pei Wende is so spiteful about his master.
Zen master Pei Wende, whose soul comes from the 21st century, is now acting more like a real "traveler".
Reminiscent of the big brother’s frequent ravings, Pei Wende suddenly realized that his arrogance and conceit seemed to come down in one continuous line?
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Tongqing Temple. That’s not a big sutra depository.