Chapter 977 (2/2)
”So naturally...” Xuanzang murmured, raised his eyelids slightly, and bowed his head. ”Please advise me.”
”Another place.”
”Yes.”
They found another place to sit down for tea.
”To tell you the truth, Mr. an, I was raised as an orphan by my master. I used to only listen to his instructions for 20 years, but if I didn't understand them, it was the first time I heard such a high opinion.”
Anyang took a sip of tea and said: ”not everyone should die, not everyone should be saved. There are laws in the world, and there are laws in nature. This is not the intervention of Buddhism! Sometimes when we meet with nature, we make it develop naturally. This is the way of conforming to heaven, not only looking at the small things in front of us, but neglecting the overall situation and the impact of this event on the whole world! ”
Xuanzang was silent for a long time, and then said: ”Shifu asked me before how to do it if I met a wolf killing a lamb on the grassland, and the lamb's voice was bleak and the ewe's voice was plaintive. I said, I want to save those two sheep. The master said that I am stupid. He said that I have been practicing Mahayana Buddhism for many years, but I have learned the thought of Mahayana Buddhism! ”
”Do you understand now?”
”As Mr. an explained, I know a little.” Xuanzang whispered, his hands folded and bowed his head to him deeply. ”It's the nature of wolves to eat sheep, just like sheep eat grass. If they save sheep, they will kill them and destroy the balance of grassland.”
”You are very savvy!”
”Master also said that, he said that I can change the world.”
”You have a great status.”
”I don't think I'm extraordinary, I don't think I can change the world, I'm just an ordinary person.”
”You're just a little short.”
”Master often says the same.”
”You'll get there.”
”I was thinking before, why can Miss Duan use violence to drive out demons and save so many villagers, but my attempt to awaken the truth, goodness and beauty in the heart of demons is counterproductive? Is my method useless? ”
”What have you come up with?”
”I didn't think of it.” Xuanzang shook his head. ”After listening to Mr. an's words, I came all the way and thought, do the dead villagers really deserve what they deserve? They don't seem to make a lot of mistakes. The water demon died without making any mistakes. What's fooling people in this world? ”
”They are all right. What is wrong is the world. No one is fooling them. They are fooling themselves. If it is not to be said that someone has fooled, that person has fooled the whole world. ”
Xuanzang said in silence for a long time: ”if one day I have the ability, I must change the world!”
”You will do it.” Anyang said, ”but I hope you can remember a little. All forms of the world, not only Buddhism, Buddhism is not everything, can not be above everything. There are two sides to everything. There are meticulous points and omissions. Buddhism can make the world better, but you can't and can't leave the world with only Buddhism. Perhaps, the Dharma you pursue in your whole life is not as great as you think in other people's eyes! ”
Xuanzang listened and looked at him in a daze, unable to speak.
Seeing that he didn't understand much, Anyang said again: ”when you think something is big, it must be your own deficiency. When you see that Buddhism is not omnipotent, or even limited, you really understand what broad Buddhism is!”
”I Remember. ”
”Just remember, you'll understand later.”
Since then, Xuanzang has been somewhat absent-minded, as if wondering what he just said.
For ordinary people, from the minor practice of Buddhism, Buddhism is everything to him, and it is the greatest place in their hearts.But the reason why Xuanzang is Xuanzang is not because of his previous merits and virtues, but because he is very good at thinking.
Anyang is also right. After all, standing in the lower reaches of the long river, he can not only look at the history, but also summarize the experience of his predecessors, which is naturally clearer than Xuanzang.
Religion is great, but the greatness lies in human nature. Human beings need such a thing. In addition, most religions have a long history. When people talk about it, they add a lot of awe. But if we really want to talk about the idea of the major religions with a rigorous academic attitude, then the believers will say: you are insulting us!
Human civilization is in constant progress, and religious ideas have been optimized and reformed from generation to generation. However, I'm sorry that many religious ideas are still lagging behind the times. It's not only difficult to find the advanced places, but also there are contradictions inside!
In comparison, Ma Yuan is much higher and greater!
The two talked a lot more, most of which were Xuanzang's ideas and understandings. Anyang agreed, refuted and denied a little.
For example, Xuanzang's favorite emphasis on ”the original goodness of human nature”, Anyang simply pointed to the West and said: ”in the west, there is another land, where there are many people living. They have blonde hair and blue eyes. We have business relations with them. They have also had many empires that are no inferior to those of the upper kingdom of China. They have a religion that is more widely spread and more devout than Buddhism and Taoism. They have also experienced a thousand years of history and brilliant decline, which is no worse than us... ”
”And they believe in the evil nature of human beings at the beginning!”
”Is human nature originally evil?” Xuanzang was shocked and opened his eyes, but different from ordinary people, he did not focus on the ”comparable empire of the upper kingdom of China and the religion that can surpass Buddhism and Taoism.” how evil is a baby who does not understand the truth
”Then how good is he when he does not understand the truth?”
”Right, right.” This originally involved extremely complex cultural differences, but Xuanzang just thought about it and got the main point: ”babies have no good, no evil, no good, no evil, we think life is a process of learning evil, they think people's life is constantly learning, this is the difference of thinking...”
”Yes.”
As soon as they chatted, they talked till midnight.
Anyang knows that the Empire of the Tang Dynasty did not advocate Buddhism, instead, it regarded Taoism as the national religion. A large part of the reason why Buddhism really flourished was Xuanzang.
In ancient times, Buddhism, which seems to be gentle and harmless to modern people, would shake the regime whenever it was prosperous. It had disturbed the world many times and caused the dissatisfaction of the rulers, so there was another movement to destroy Buddhism. However, it sounds very domineering, even with some magical taste. Whenever a campaign is launched, it is bloody repression and merciless massacre!
He really can't bear it. If he can, he doesn't mind saying a few more words to let Buddhism enter a gentle state earlier, rather than waiting for the rulers to massacre again and again before waking up.
At midnight, Xuanzang left.
He said that Gao Laozhuang was haunted by big demons. He asked Anyang to join him to subdue the demons, but Anyang refused.
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