“Brother, do you know who I secretly went out to play with this time?”
Lu Pingan shook his head, “You sneaked out this time, but the old man was furious. Speaking of which, why do you need to be so sneaky when you want to go out to play?”
Lu Jiankian said, “Brother, I went out with the fourth prince this time.”
“What! You… The old man said that he could not have anything to do with a few princes. You will be found out by the old man, and you will have to break your leg.”
“Brother, we’ll talk about this later, this time I can ask the fourth prince to invite the second princess out, and then send someone to release the news to Na Su Mu.”
“Let him come to Wansheng Villa in secret, so that even if His Majesty Zhou Huang finds out, he won’t blame us, and he can keep him coming and going, how about that?”
Lu Pingan thought for a while and thought this method was good, and nodded in agreement.
Just when Su Mu and the Lu brothers were plotting something, Ye Ling returned to the Xuantian Holy Land and prepared to practice the two exercises he had acquired before…
Ye Ling said hello to the crowd, retreated to study the “Sutra of Ten Thousand Buddhas” and “Droid Judgment”.
Earlier, the old man had told him that he hoped that he could find a path of his own.
“Buddha and Dao… I’ve heard people say for a long time that if you can cultivate both Buddhism and Dao, you will be in a supreme state, but the concepts of the two religions are far from each other.”
“Taoism pursues Daoism and naturalness, while Buddhism pursues cause and effect in the world. The two can be said to be . . . opposite in concept.”
“I just don’t know how the old man can take care of the two and walk out of his own path.”
So he sat down with his knees crossed and studied the exercises carefully.
Previously, the old man didn’t say much about the practice, because he didn’t want him to go his own way.
In this way, it will only limit other possibilities, and even if there is success, it will only be the path that leads to darkness. …
Three days later, Ye Ling woke up.
In the past three days, he carefully studied the exercises and tried to run the exercises.
But he found that if only one type of exercise was used, there would be no problem, but if two types of exercises were run at the same time, not only did the two not merge with each other, but instead would hinder each other.
At least [-]% of the meridians that the two need to run through are similar, and if they flow through a certain meridian at the same time, the running speed of both will be reduced by half.
In the past three days, Ye Ling has been trying to adjust their running speed, and even changed the flow direction of some meridians.
But unfortunately the two have too much in common, and even if he can change some subtle points, it’s a drop in the bucket for… overall.
Ye Ling was quite annoyed by this, he felt that he must have entered a certain infinite loop, and got up to go out to relax…
In Journey to the West, Ye Ling walks alone in the mountains and fields. If you want to say which era of Buddhism and Taoism is the most popular, I am afraid that you will think of the scene in Journey to the West.
Tang Xuanzang went west to take Buddhism and introduced Buddhism into the Central Plains, while the mainstream sect in the Central Plains at that time was the local Taoism.
After experiencing [-] hardships, Tang Xuanzang finally brought Buddhist scriptures back to the Tang Dynasty, and under the full promotion of the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism slowly spread in the Central Plains.
During this period, Buddhism gradually merged with Taoism, and some original teachings were gradually localized.
It’s just that all this is a transaction between Heavenly Court and Western Heaven. Western Heaven wants to receive more followers, while Heaven wants the benefits of Western Heaven.
It’s a pity that all of this ended because of Ye Ling’s arrival, the Lord of Heaven changed hands, and all those who opposed Ye Ling were wiped out by him.
The same is true for the Western Heaven. With the Tathagata being turned into nothingness by Ye Ling’s Great Wish, the Western Heaven and the Heavenly Court were unified.
It’s just that the two sides still go their separate ways, and that poor Tang Xuanzang has only now retrieved the Buddhist scriptures…
Ye Ling is also taking advantage of the fact that Buddhism is adapting to the Central Plains, and when Buddhism and Taoism are slowly merging, he plans to visit several famous Buddhist and Taoist mountain gates, maybe he can get some inspiration from it…
He first came to the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, and if he wanted to talk about the study of Buddhist scriptures in the west, he had to talk about the White Horse Temple.
He walked into the temple, grabbed a little novice, and asked the location of the chairperson of the White Horse Temple.
The little novice looked at him in white clothes fluttering, and the whole person stood there like an immortal descending from the earth, and he was immediately shocked.
He led him to a side hall and said, “Please wait here for a moment, Lord.”
Push the door in.
Not long after, I saw an old monk with white eyebrows walking out with the… little novice just now.
The old monk bowed to Ye Ling and said, “The donor is here to discuss the Tao with the poor monk.”
Ye Ling was… curious and asked, “How did the master know?”
The old monk smiled and waved his hand and said, “The Buddha said: You can’t say it, you can’t say it.”
After speaking, he invited Ye Lingdao to talk in the main hall. Ye Ling and him came to the main hall and found that it was already full of monks.
It must have been done by the old monk who ordered the little novice to do it before, and there are two futons under the Buddha statue. I think this is their seat.
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Chapter [-] Buddha and Tao
After the old monk and Ye Ling were seated, Ye Ling asked, “Master, you seem to have known that I would come since you look like this.”
The old monk said, “Isn’t it different if I knew earlier?”
Ye Ling said, “Master, I heard that your Buddhist disciples often talk about cause and effect.”
“I’ve been sitting here now. If you had known it earlier, it would have been the result, but what is the cause?”
The old monk said: “Sitting here now is the effect and the cause. The poor monk knows that the presence of the donor is the effect, so why is it not the cause?”
