Chapter 958 The Truth Is Revealed, Li Qi's Origins!
The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas wept endlessly.
Even though they were powerful, they could not restrain themselves at this moment, and even the other practitioners of the other sects around them could not bear to watch.
They would cry like that only when they were really powerless.
They could not solve the problem by themselves.
They did not even know what they could do.
At such times, tears would flow involuntarily.
It was like the despair that had nowhere to vent turned into tears.
Especially Shariputra.
He could not bear to see the Buddha's Nirvana.
So, there was only one solution left.
As the chief disciple of the Tathagata, he would be Nirvana before the Tathagata.
The Tathagata looked at the disciple in front of him.
He nodded.
At this time, a novice rushed out from the side: "Tathagata! How can you agree?!"
The novice was shocked. In his opinion, even if the Buddha was going to die, Shariputra should not sit idly by and watch him die.
The Buddha asked gently: "Ananda, is your wisdom comparable to Sariputra's?"
Ananda, the youngest and last Buddha's son of the Buddha.
After hearing this, Ananda lowered his head and remained silent.
Sariputra was the wisest among the Buddha's sons, so of course he could not compare with him, so he could not convince Sariputra, but that was why he placed his hope on the Buddha to persuade Sariputra.
But how could he forget it...
The Buddha would not interfere with their decision.
It has always been like this.
The demon looked at this scene with interest, and the smile on the corner of her mouth could not be stopped. Behind her, endless secondary demons were rolling, dancing, blowing the big Dharma conch, beating the huge wheel, and happily dancing the dance of destruction.
"Ananda, you are knowledgeable, honest and simple, so you will record this matter." The Buddha said so.
Ananda held his hands together with tears in his eyes and nodded.
Then, Kasyapa, Aniruddha, Subhuti, Purna, Rahula, and other Buddha's disciples came forward to listen to the Buddha's final instructions and teachings.
Except for Shariputra, who was going to die with the Tathagata, the others had their own arrangements.
Finally, Shariputra died in front of the Buddha, his body died and his way disappeared.
At the last moment, the Buddha chanted softly: "Shariputra, although you are always by my side, you will never get the way. After I die, you will live in the future for countless, boundless, inconceivable, great treasures and solemn kalpas, uphold the Dharma, and have the path that the Bodhisattva walks. You will become a Buddha and be called Huaguang Tathagata."
Shariputra performed the Buddha's salute and then disappeared.
After that, the Tathagata swept around.
All the first-grade people took the initiative to accept the gaze.
Obviously, they wanted to know the reason why the Buddha took the initiative to die.
The Buddha did not seem to have any intention of hiding it.
He chanted the scriptures softly, and then the surrounding light filled the sky. In front of all the beings above the third grade, he revealed a picture.
That was... a conversation between the Tathagata and the demon.
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In the formless realm...
It is impossible to understand what is here, because there is nothing here that exists in the outside world.
If the desire realm is the 'sum of all reality', and everything you can find in the real universe can be found in the desire realm, then the formless realm is completely the opposite.
You can't find anything you can find in the real universe here.
This is 'emptiness', 'nothingness', 'non-existence', all material and spiritual things do not exist here.
It's like a person's eyes. If a person closes his eyes, he sees darkness. Then... if a person takes off his eyes and becomes a blind person, what can he see?
The answer is nothing.
The nothingness where even darkness does not exist is like you looking at something with your elbow.
What can your elbow see? Of course, the answer is still the same, nothing.
Here, body, speech, and mind are all liberated.
No attachment, no attachment, no thoughts of living beings, no thoughts of life, no thoughts of buddhas, no thoughts of no people, no thoughts of children, no thoughts of the living, no thoughts of the doer, no thoughts of the receiver, no thoughts of existence, no thoughts of non-existence, no thoughts of this life and the next life, no thoughts of death, this life and that life, no thoughts of impermanence, no thoughts of impermanence, no thoughts of the three existences, no thoughts of non-three existences, neither thoughts nor non-thoughts.
Not attached to the inside, not attached to the outside, not attached to the subject, not attached to the object, not attached to the cause, not attached to the result; not attached to the dharma, not attached to the non-dharma; not attached to thought, not attached to non-thought; not attached to color, not attached to color birth, not attached to color extinction.
Not attached to feeling, thought, action, and consciousness.
All dharmas are not attached, all dharmas are not bound, and all dharmas are not understood.
There is no self-nature, and the self-nature is separated. It is neither one nor two, neither many nor immeasurable, neither small nor large, neither narrow nor wide, neither deep nor shallow, neither quiet nor idle, neither place nor non-place, neither law nor non-law, neither substance nor non-substance, neither existence nor non-existence.
All wisdom will never regress. All karma is like a dream, sound is like sound, sentient beings are like shadows, and all dharmas are like illusions, but the karma is not destroyed.
This is the formless realm.
And here, the demon is sealed.
The demon here is like a closed sphere, a black smooth sphere, surrounding the Tathagata.
Here, even thinking should have stagnated.
Of course, this is actually the case. Even a single-grade thought will quietly stop here and enter the state of "nothingness", and no thoughts will arise.
Because there is no movement, there is naturally no time and space.
However, it seems that the formless realm is not perfect enough, so... the demon can still maintain the minimum thinking here, that is, he can still think like an ordinary mortal.
So, with this kind of thinking, the demon began to talk to the Tathagata.
"This is the other shore. Coming here is the last step of transcendence. You only need the last gap to achieve true transcendence." The demon said so.
"You always say that fate comes and goes. Do you still have fate with the world now? How long have you not interfered with the outside world? And it seems that you will never interfere again in the future?"
"Tathagata, you have transcended and have no fate with the world. You have been separated from all things. What is the difference between living and dying? You use great supernatural powers to make yourself still think. Is this in line with Buddhism?"
The demon asked softly.
Buddha said fate.
The intersection of all things is "fate".
You stepped on a stone today, which is your fate with the stone.
You said a word to a person, which is also your fate with him.
When fate arises, we meet, and when fate ceases, we separate. Everything in the world is nothing but fate arising and ceasing. Moreover, this fate will continue to entangle and entangle.
Suppose a person is seriously injured and dying, should we save him?
If Li Qi comes out at this time and saves this person, and all the good and bad things this person does in the future are "contributed" to Li Qi, then can Li Qi afford to offend?
Therefore, Buddhism needs to "leave the world".
At the same time, all kinds of thoughts that arise in the mind are also "fate", so "emptiness" is needed.
It is precisely for this reason that the demon laughed at him: "You practice Samadhi, originally out of the dust, but if the Buddha's heart is not removed, the dust cannot be removed. Even if you have much wisdom and meditation, if you do not stop lusting, you will fall into the devil's way."
Yes, you, the Tathagata, say "emptiness" and "fate", but your fate is not extinguished, and your emptiness is not empty. When you still have the "Buddha's heart", you can't really transcend.
The Dharma has been passed down, and this is also fate.
The more Dharma you teach, the deeper your fate.
You hope that sentient beings will be enlightened, but my evil thoughts have proved that sentient beings practice because of your prestige. Are they practicing Buddhism or your reputation?
If this continues, is this Buddhism still Buddhism? Is the result of practice Buddha or something else?
The more you practice Buddhism following the shadow of the Tathagata, the more you will fall into the devil's way.
The heavenly demons and the Buddha have been experimented.
The entire Buddhist sect is the experimental object.
The final product is... Buddhism itself.
In the past, the scriptures said: "The demons are still invisible today, assisting the Dharma Master to destroy the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. The great wisdom of the Tathagata is in the world now, so the evil demons cannot commit their great evil. In the future, the demons will transform into the form of monks and enter the monks, preaching all kinds of evil, causing many sentient beings to have evil views and preaching evil dharma."
The great wisdom of the Tathagata is in the world now, so the evil demons cannot commit their great evil.
But this sentence is wrong.
It is precisely because of the Tathagata that the heavenly demons will become great evil.
They tamper with the scriptures, confuse practitioners, and corrupt the Dharma.
"I won, but you didn't lose either. You can't save the world, and it's impossible to enlighten sentient beings." The demon said softly.
Its tone was even a little 'serious'.
It's not easy to hear such words from the demon who is always playful and frivolous.
All Buddha's sons and great bodhisattvas cannot escape the shadow of the Tathagata. As long as the Buddha exists, he will 'create karma'. As long as he doesn't transcend, the world will not be liberated.
As long as the Buddha's seed is not destroyed, the demon's heart cannot be eliminated.
As long as the Buddha is still there, the demon is still there.
Even you, the Buddha, are the same.
Only when dreams are extinguished can we realize emptiness and tranquility, like a clear sky.
The Tathagata's awakening the world is the final 'great cause', but as long as we still create karma, we will never reach 'emptiness'.
The demon continued, "Those above the third rank will pity the ignorance of ordinary mortals, because mortals think there is only one reality in the world."
"But what is really laughable is the ignorance of eternal beings, because although they know there are countless realities, they think only one can be realized. These so-called powerful people are in a prison surrounded by infinite time and space... In the end, all possibilities are extinct."
The demon stroked his body, opened his eyes wide, and said, "Endless worlds, endless time and space, infinite possibilities, how grand it sounds, but I have traversed all time and space and all possibilities."
"Drawing restricted areas in reality will make people feel unfree, and drawing restricted areas in thoughts will make people feel extremely free. All the "Tao", including your Buddhist teachings, are just drawing restricted areas in the minds of higher wisdom. All sentient beings cannot become Buddhas because of you."
One body is in the law, one body is in the retribution, and one body is in the response, and the "response body" is the Buddha in the hearts of sentient beings.
The more the Dharma is spread, the stronger the Buddha in the hearts of sentient beings, that is, the "respontation body", becomes, and the less likely they are to become Buddhas. They always cling to the Buddha.
Sentient beings are not Buddhas, because Buddhas are in the hearts of sentient beings. Since there is already Buddha in the hearts, how can one become Buddha?
The more one believes in the Dharma, the more one falls into the devil's cave.
Monks have Buddhas in their hearts, so sentient beings cannot become Buddhas.
In the end, the war situation of Buddhism, which was easily broken by human nature, was the end.
Buddhism had long been eroded by the devil, and the so-called Dharma was just empty talk.
The demons surrounded the Buddha and kept talking.
What he said made many three-grade people feel cold on their backs, and some closed their eyes and meditated.
Of course, they were not so persuaded, because these words were not their weaknesses. They could meditate on them or refute them with their own worldview.
But...
The Buddha, who was listening to these, suddenly said: "You are right, Mara."
The demon laughed: "So, if you want to complete your great cause, you must let go first."
"I have already let go." The Buddha replied.
"You can't let go. You want them to let go. The Buddha has three bodies, one of which is not the Buddha, but the monk." The demon said.
The Buddha Tathagata also laughed lightly, then sat down and the lotus withered: "I will enter Nirvana, and sentient beings will no longer see the Buddha."
So, the colorless sky collapsed.
At this point, the surrounding Huaguang dissipated, and the scene of the past also disappeared, returning to the present.
In the silence of many powerful people, the demon took the initiative to jump out.
Its body turned into a little girl who looked like the Death Demon, but with a completely opposite color. Then it walked to the lotus seat of the Tathagata Buddha and said happily: "So, Tathagata, you are going to transcend, and I am free too. Isn't this great? Why bother with me so much and make me lie to them?"
"Is it a lie?" Tathagata said so.
"Of course it is. Look at them, aren't they stupid?" The demon pointed to the first rank outside, and then gently hooked his finger.
Li Qi's Dharma body was caught uncontrollably next to the demon, and Wu Xian did not make a move.
No one made a move, because everyone knew that Li Qi was special.
Every third rank had heard that there was such a genius third rank, whose cultivation speed was the first in history, and who had a close relationship with the demon, so many powerful people's layouts revolved around him.
The demon maintained the posture of a white little girl with a color opposite to the Death Demon, riding on Li Qi's shoulders, just like a father carrying his daughter.
Li Qi's Dharma body could not move, and could not do anything at all.
Wu Xian immediately made a move, and tried to repel the demon with the power of "all".
But the demon rode on Li Qi's shoulder and said with a smile: "Look! Look! This is it!"
"Everyone thought he was special, everyone thought he had some secrets, and they made a lot of articles around him, so they gave me this opportunity, a chance for Tathagata to witness how corrupt his sect was."
Because everyone made articles for Li Qi, humanity was able to break through the Buddha Kingdom and even destroy the formless world.
"Like Shariputra, he looked promising, but in fact he couldn't even accept the Buddha's death. He had Buddha in his heart, so all living beings were not Buddhas. The more they practiced Buddhism, the more they were imprisoned by Buddhism."
"I have to fight for the opportunity to prove this to Tathagata, so there is this guy, Li Qi!"
The demon smiled happily, and seemed to be eager to reveal his secrets to all the living beings around him.
"Wu Xian, Amitabha, you don't really think there are any 'travelers', do you?!? You don't think there is another distant world?!"
The purpose of the game jointly set up by the human and the demon is to involve the energy of the Wu Dao, so that the final human and demon joint action to destroy Buddhism can be implemented.
And in this battle of Taoism, the human has no intention of wanting to travel the sun and the moon from the beginning! The emperor of the human world has no intention of extending his life at all!
Shen Shuibi, Li Qi, Luofu Mountain, Yao Ji, all in the game!
The demon was overjoyed and shouted happily: "You don't really think there is anything special about Li Qi? He is just something I made in Lishui!"
"Fool! You have been fooled!"