Ninety-fourth section Guanyin attains the Tao
Let’s talk about the dispute between Xiang Yu (Xing Tian) and Liu Bang (Jade Emperor) in the earth. After meeting Houyi, the great witch Xing Tian finally made up his mind to lead 800 witch warriors to the witch palace of Beijuluzhou.
Liu Bang officially completed the unification of the human race in the territory, changed the country's name to Han, made Lu Zhi (Queen Mother) the queen, and Xiao He (Wenqu Xingjun) the prime minister, and began the inheritance of the Han Dynasty.
The Jade Emperor originally wanted to win the fortune of the earth for thousands of years, but in the end, human calculations were not as good as heaven's calculations. Li Song and Nuwa took action at the last critical moment, which made the Qiankun Seal unable to fully absorb the fortune of the Dongqi. Therefore, the Han Dynasty ended, and it had only been more than 400 years in total. On the contrary, because the Qiankun Seal was split by Houyi with an axe, the Han Dynasty was usurped by Wang Mang and cut into two pieces (Western Han Dynasty, Eastern Han Dynasty).
The Jade Emperor had the orthodox land of the earth, and he regarded Taoism as the national religion and adopted the Taoist idea of "governing without doing anything, resting with the people" to govern the world. Objectively speaking, after the chaotic times of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period to the Chu and Han Dynasty, people's livelihood was withered and the people were suffering. This method of governing the world was in line with the actual situation at that time!
The Jade Emperor and Xuanmu Island have deep hatred. After coming to power, they will naturally not let the Confucian and Legal schools of Xuanmu Island go unleash their success. The Legalists prospered as Qi unified the world. The idea of "magic power" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the Jade Emperor is helpless. For example, "law" emphasizes that there is no order without rules. When the Han Dynasty was first established, many policies were promulgated; "skills" are the monarch who controls the number of ministers, and the Jade Emperor is a good player; "power" is the majesty of the monarch, and no emperor wants to maintain his own power.
Han Fei (Hongyun) was born in accordance with the meaning of Taoist ancestor Hongjun. Han Fei's Fafa family also has its own unique features, which is that the Legalists have essential differences from the previous schools of thought.
In the past, the various schools of thoughts, whether Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism, were more concerned with one thought and a state! For example, the "perfection" of Buddhism, the "harmony of man and nature", the "virtue" of Confucianism, and the "big harmony" of Mohism, etc., described an ultimate goal rather than a practical means. Therefore, those wise monarchs, no matter which sect academic thoughts they advocate, are ultimately inseparable from the Legalists in their actual actions.
Although the Legalists were not famous in the Han Dynasty, the Legalists received tangible local benefits. This is also consistent with the Legalists' idea of "people-oriented pursuit of profit" advocated by the Legalists! It is ironic that the thought of Hongyun, the founder of the Legalists, was completely contrary to the Legalists' thoughts. They were the most abusive person in the world and eventually died for "benevolence, righteousness and morality".
Perhaps Han Fei, who was born after Hongyun’s reincarnation, was denied his previous life from the bottom of his heart!?
The Legalist thought emphasizes "action" but not "word". However, after being digested and absorbed by Confucius and Xuan Confucianism who had experienced the great disaster in the early Han Dynasty, it also had its own strategy of governing the country when Confucianism stepped into the court again. Confucianism also became the only theory in history that had both "thoughts" and "actions". After Emperor Wu of Han "destroyed all schools of thoughts and respected Confucianism alone", it has always occupied the mainstream of history.
One court can accommodate one kind of thought and another style, which is what we say is different from each other; but it is difficult to accommodate two strategies for governing the country at the same time. As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, which is the origin of the dispute between Confucianism and Law.
Dao Zu Hongjun personally gave Xuanmu Island a difficult problem, whether it was dealt with or tested. In short, the headache that caused Li Song and others had just begun!
These are all later things, so I won’t mention them!
Shortly after Xiang Yu (Xing Tian) withdrew from the Chu-Han dispute, Kong Xuan recalled all Confucian disciples to the Sanxian Island next to Xuanmu Island to go to seclusion and practice. However, Confucianism has been passed down for hundreds of years. There are more than ten thousand disciples, and these Confucian disciples have become the lowest-level people in society, and they are unable to survive. Many people have changed their families and joined their family!
This is how the first great disaster in Confucian history came!
At the same time, Mozi and Mohist theory, which was once known as the two major "explicit scholars" of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, was also because Mozi returned to Qilin Mountain and was unable to leave after the defeat in Luoyi, and slowly declined.
On the contrary, the Taoism, which is respected as the national religion, is incredible. The four symbols and four heavenly teachers of the People's Education, Zhang Daoling, Xu Xun, Qiu Hongji, and Ge Hong, also came to the realm at this time, traveling in the realm, preparing to pass on the Taoist tradition in the future.
The Shushan Sect and the Kunlun Sect of the Ancestral Sect of the People's Cult have taken this east wind to recruit disciples. The disciples of the two sects are known as orthodox in the earthly realm, and each has a noble status. Because the powerful people in the three realms are all in seclusion, waiting for the arrival of a disaster, there are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are called kings. Although these people only have the cultivation of earthly immortals, they have already shocked the ordinary people!
Even those mortal warriors who have learned some crops to control their power have a well-known name: "King"! What's even more excessive is that they also elected the so-called "martial arts leader" to lead the world to practice martial arts!
In this way, slowly, the people in the earthly world gradually faded towards the various schools of thought created by powerful people such as Taoism, Confucianism, Law, and Mo, thinking that it was a matter of disputes between the courts; instead, they believed that in the world, the so-called people who were able to gain enlightenment were those sword immortals who walked in and out of the clouds and walked on their swords.
On Mount Putuo Luojia, a female Bodhisattva faced the west, holding a jade bottle in her hand, sitting upright on the lotus platform, with a melancholy and sad expression!
This person was Guanyin Bodhisattva who came to the east to preach the sages by the Buddha of Tathagata to welcome the great rise of Buddhism.
Buddhism is the first time that it has come to Dongtu. For the people in Dongtu, Buddhism is completely unfamiliar. People cannot understand the Buddhist scriptures taught by Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Guanyin said: There is a Pure Land in the West. As long as you take refuge in my Buddha, you will be able to avoid the suffering of reincarnation after death.
After hearing this, the common people sniffed: Now that the Han Dynasty is in great governance, we are very satisfied with our cultivation and rest. We only hope that the current life will last longer. The Western Paradise is too far, and the people in the East are lazy to go so far.
Besides, there are Shushan, Kunlun, Wuliang and other cultivation swords. As long as we join these swords and work hard for a hundred and eighty years, we can enter the realm of earthly immortals and live forever! Why do we want to go to the Western Paradise of Blessings?
Guanyin has been here in Putuo Luojia Mountain for more than ten years, and has been like a day. She goes out early and returns late every day, preaches everywhere, and has received a lot of cold eyes, but she still has few believers.
Alas... If this continues, how will Buddhism prosper!
Guanyin Bodhisattva looked at the setting sun that had already hung on the western hills. The setting sun was like blood, making everything in the world red. A fire cloud changed its appearance in the sky, and it became a monster and an ant. When I looked closely, I still looked like a person...
Guanyin Bodhisattva knew that when the setting sun in the sky sets down the mountain, the night is coming, and this burning cloud is nothing, because no one can see its existence in the darkness!
Things in the world are impermanent! In the six realms of reincarnation, people are ants, and ants are also humans!
Desire is suffering, ignorance is suffering, love is suffering, hatred is suffering, death is suffering, and life is suffering...
I mourn the world for not being liberated, I mourn the world for so much suffering...
Guanyin Bodhisattva suddenly felt an empty heart. He held the acquired spiritual jade bottle in one hand, and the willow branches that were originally inserted in the jade bottle with the willow branches dipped in the samadhi true water in the jade bottle, and fluttered into the void while sprinkling it, "Oh, that's it, yes, yes, um, I have thousands of hands, I have thousands of eyes, I have thousands of bodies, I have thousands of hearts, I have a great vow for Guanyin: If there are sentient beings who can uphold, read, recite the Great Compassion Mantra, if they cannot be reborn in the pure land of all Buddhas, I will vow not to achieve supreme enlightenment."
Guanyin Bodhisattva then recited: "Namo, Hedanna, Doyeye, Namo, Aya, Polujie, Shuoboya... Julujilu, Jiemonduldulu, punished Yadi Maha to punish Yadi Tadathi... Mandabhaya, Savaha
What Guanyin Bodhisattva recites is the Buddhist scripture "The Great Compassion Mantra". Those who praise Guanyin Bodhisattva's Great Compassion Mantra: for being happy, getting rid of illness, getting life span, getting rich, getting rid of evil karma and serious sins, getting rid of obstacles, increasing the merits of the Dharma, achieving all good roots, being distracted from all fears, and being able to satisfy all desires.
This is also the ten great wishes of Guanyin Bodhisattva!
At this time, a colorful merit light from outside the sky flew over Guanyin Bodhisattva. Under the way of heaven, Buddhism should be flourishing. Now Guanyin Bodhisattva is observing the sunset in the west and obtains the Great Compassion Mantra; observing the changes of clouds, he has obtained the incarnation of thousands of gods. For this reason, he is compassionate to the sufferings of the world, and has made ten great wishes.
Guanyin Bodhisattva has received the incarnation of thousands of gods, including thousands of hands, thousands of eyes, thousands of bodies, thousands of hearts, and Guanyin who send children to seek wealth...
The common people bathed in the Samadhi True Water swung from the willow branches of Guanyin Bodhisattva, listened to Guanyin Bodhisattva's great compassion mantra, and felt relaxed and happy. They couldn't help but kneel down to Guanyin Bodhisattva, who was shrouded in great merit, and recited together: "Namo Great Compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva!" Guanyin Bodhisattva was united in body and mind, and looked far away to the west direction and bowed, and saw a Buddha's relics slowly rising from the head of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Guanyin Bodhisattva officially became the sixth quasi-saint after Medicine Buddha, Maitreya Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha, Great Sun Tathagata, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. He was also the first person to achieve quasi-saint among the twelve golden immortals of the Anata Buddhism in the past.
Therefore, Guanyin Bodhisattva was named "The Tathagata of the True Dharma" by Buddhism and became a Buddha, but the people of the East Land still affectionately called him Guanyin Bodhisattva!
Chapter completed!