Chapter 976 Evening Xuanzang

Anyang didn't want to drink the remaining half pot of wine, got up and settled the bill, and then walked out.

Although the information learned from Duan Xiaoxiao's mouth is detailed, it is not comprehensive enough after all.

Just after walking out of the tavern less than 100 meters, he actually happened to meet Xuanzang who was walking down the street with a lost face.

Xuanzang himself did not pay attention to appearance. He was dressed in rags, and his face was unkempt. At this time, his eyes were dull, and he walked down the street step by step as if he had lost his soul. He became more and more like a beggar.

Suddenly, he also saw Anyang.

The two looked at each other and stopped.

Anyang was only startled for a moment, then quickly came back to his senses and walked forward with a smile: "Master Xuanzang, are you here now?"

Xuanzang was stunned for a long time, but finally there was some light in his eyes. First, he put his hands together and said, "Xuanzang has not been shaved, nor has he achieved any achievements in Buddhism. He is still a student, and he cannot afford the title of Master."

After a pause, he continued to speak softly: "It's the gentleman and the lady who walked too fast. According to normal people's footsteps, it takes an hour and a half to walk from the fishing village to the town."

Anyang smiled and didn't bother much about this issue. He also put his hands together and said: "I still have some things to deal with, Master Xuanzang can go to work if you have something to do. See you for sure!"

Xuanzang nodded silently, and turned sideways to clear the way.

But in fact, the road is very wide, and it doesn't matter if he lets or not, ten more Anyangs can walk side by side.

Anyang also smiled and nodded at him, passing him in front of him and walking into the bustling stream of people.

Xuanzang looked at his back silently, his mood was low, and he didn't know what to think.

Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and stopped Anyang.

"Wait a moment!"

"Huh?" Anyang turned around, ten meters away from Xuanzang, and smiled slightly, "What advice does Master Xuanzang have?"

"Excuse me, sir, what is your last name?"

"My surname is An."

"Mr. An, it's a pleasure to meet you." Xuanzang nodded, hesitant to say anything, then looked back, "My common family name is Chen, and the law name is Xuanzang."

"I know."

"Yeah." Xuanzang nodded slightly again.

Anyang smiled, didn't speak, turned and left.

As he expected, before taking two steps, Xuanzang, who had just stopped talking, stopped him again: "Mr. An!"

Anyang turned his head again and looked at him lightly.

Xuanzang made up his mind, walked towards him, stopped in front of him and looked at him, opened his mouth slightly, but didn't know what to say.

So the two looked at each other and fell silent.

People come and go on the street. Anyang's face is not handsome, but his face is hard and his temperament is calm and outstanding. The facial features of Xuanzang on the opposite side are also delicate and beautiful, and they are quite attractive.

A middle-aged woman walked by, glanced at them, and immediately showed a disgusted expression, and quickened her steps to leave.

Several young women also pointed at this, covering their mouths and whispering something, and suddenly burst into silver-like laughter. As if the east wind had just blown under the eaves of the Wishing Building, a row of hanging wishing boards collided with clanging sounds.

Seeing Xuanzang bowing his head, Anyang didn't look at himself at all, and his inquiries, doubts, and even indifferent eyes were useless, so he had no choice but to say: "Master Xuanzang seems to have something on his mind, and he has been thinking about it all the way, and he has held it back all the way. Now, is there anything you want to say to me or ask me?"

Xuanzang was silent for a moment, and finally said: "Is what the lady said today true? You have been in the fishing village for a long time, but you can't help it?"

Anyang smiled and asked: "What made you ask such a question? We didn't know each other before, Miss Duan has made the facts clear, and I think you still want to defend me... "

"When I was about to leave the fishing village, I met a little girl of four or five years old who was licking candy. She said that you are not a bad person, and that you are her friend." Xuanzang raised his head and stared at him with burning eyes. "Mr. An is very capable. If I guessed correctly, Luo Er was saved by you, right?"

Thinking of that little girl, the smile on Anyang's face gradually faded, and he said lightly, "What do you want to say?"

"Mr. An is not a cold-blooded person, and he is not stubborn about the cycle of heaven that Mr. An said. Why didn't he want to rescue the rest of them?" Xuanzang stared at him and asked.

"Save, save!" Anyang smiled contemptuously, "Buddhism teaches you to save the world and help others, but it doesn't teach you to save people when you see them. If everyone saves, why don't the Master go to the robbery field? There are people in the field every day. I'm going to lose my head! What a pity..."

"The government has its own decision of the government!"

"Since the Master knows that the Dharma cannot be above the secular law, he should also know that there is right and wrong in everything, even if the Master is stubborn in saving people, there are also right and wrong. If he saves people who shouldn't be saved, he will kill more There are too many people!" Anyang said, "Those people beat a kind-hearted person alive and threw his corpse into the river. Because the fishing village was far away and the law did not blame the public, they went free, but what about the people who were killed by them? They died in vain. Is it?"

"Can Buddhism change the theorem of killing for life?"

"But they are also a group of innocent people. They just killed the gentleman by mistake..."

"For them, it was a wrong kill. For the water demon's previous life, he did a good deed but was indiscriminately beaten to death by a group of people, and then thrown his corpse into the river to be eaten by fish and insects. Dead without a corpse! Is he willing?"

"But he is dead, and he can't be resurrected!"

"But he can take revenge, feel at ease, reincarnate, and enter reincarnation. Besides, no matter what, those villagers should be punished, not if the mage said a few words or if the deceased died, they could take it for granted. Escape the past! At most, the punishment for them is just a little bigger!"

Anyang looked into Xuanzang's eyes and said, "The Master has studied Buddhism for many years, but he still doesn't understand, if everything in the world is as the Master said, the murderer will go unpunished, and the wrongdoing will not pay the cost. It's gone!"

Xuanzang was stunned in place. He didn't practice deeply now, and Anyang was speechless after only two sentences.

"You can't do good deeds blindly, you can't just rely on your own heart. If you don't, in the end, you will cultivate a clear mind, but the world will be disturbed and confused by you! You are a disciple of Mahayana Buddhism, especially so. ." Anyang preached to Xuanzang with a calm face, "Those of you who have not yet practiced the Buddhadharma are the ones who love to spread compassion and save people everywhere.

"So..." Xuanzang murmured, raising his eyelids slightly and bowing his head, "Please advise."

"Let's talk somewhere else."

"Yes."

The two found another place and sat down to drink tea.

"To be honest, Mr. An, I was an orphan since I was a child, and I was raised by my master. I usually only listened to my master's teachings for 20 years, but I didn't understand it. This is the first time I have heard such a high opinion."

Anyang took a sip of tea and said: "Not everyone deserves to die, and not everyone should be saved. The world has its own laws, and nature has its own laws. This is definitely not something that Buddhism can interfere! That is, this is the way to follow the way of heaven, rather than just looking at the small things in front of you, but ignoring the overall situation, the overall situation and the impact of this incident on the world!"

Xuanzang was silent for a long time before he said: "Master once asked me before, if I met a wolf on the grasslands killing lambs, the lambs screamed miserably and the ewes wailed, and asked me what to do. I said, I want to save those two sheep. , the master said that I was stupid, and said that I had been practicing Mahayana Buddhism for many years, but I learned the idea of ​​Theravada Buddhism!"

"Do you understand now?"

"After Mr. An's explanation, I know a little bit." Xuanzang said in a soft voice, his hands folded and his head deeply bowed to him, "It is the nature of wolves to eat sheep, just like sheep eat grass. Save the sheep, But it will kill the wolf and destroy the balance of the grassland."

"You are very savvy!"

"Master also said the same, he said I can change the world."

"You are extraordinary."

"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 always said the same thing."

"You'll get there."

"I was thinking before, why can Miss Duan use violence to exorcise the monsters and save so many villagers, but my attempt to awaken the truth, kindness and beauty in the monster's heart with sincerity is counterproductive? Is my method useless at all?"

"What have you come up with?"

"I didn't think of it." Xuanzang shook his head, "After listening to Mr. An's words, I walked all the way and thought again, did the dead villagers really deserve what they deserved? The mistakes they made didn't seem to be big. The demon died without making a mistake, what is it that is fooling the people in this world?"

"They are all right, the world is wrong, and no one is fooling them, they are fools themselves. If someone is fooling, that person is fooling the whole world."

Xuanzang was silent for a long time before he said, "If one day I have the ability, I will definitely change the world!"

"You will do it," Anyang said, "but I hope you can remember one thing at that time. There are all kinds of things in the world, not only the Dharma, but the Dharma is not everything, and it can't be above everything. Where there are omissions, the Dharma can make the world a better place, but you can’t and cannot leave the world with only the Dharma. Perhaps the Dharma you have pursued throughout your life is not as great as you think it is in the eyes of others!”

When Xuanzang heard this, he just stared at him blankly, speechless.

Seeing that he didn't understand much, Anyang said again: "When you think something is big, it must be your own inadequacy. When you see that Buddhism is not omnipotent and even limited, then you truly understand why Buddhism in a broad sense is. thing!"

"I remember."

"Just remember, you'll understand later."

After that, Xuanzang became a little absent-minded, as if he had been thinking about what he meant by what he just said.

For ordinary people, who has cultivated Buddhism since childhood, Buddhism is everything and the greatest place in their hearts. If someone makes false claims about the inadequacy and wrongness of Buddhism, they will definitely go up and have a theory with him.

But the reason why Xuanzang is Xuanzang is not because of his previous life's merit and practice, but because he is very good at thinking.

Besides, Anyang was right. After all, he stood in the lower reaches of the long river of time. He was able to look at the past and sum up the experience of his predecessors. He was naturally much clearer than Xuanzang.

Religion is great, but the greatness lies in human nature. Human beings themselves 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 you really want to talk about the profoundness of the concepts of major religions with a rigorous academic attitude, then the believers will say: This is sullying us!

Human civilization is constantly improving, and religious concepts have been optimized and reformed from generation to generation, but I am sorry, many religious concepts are still gradually lagging behind the times. Not only is it difficult to find advanced points, but there are even internal contradictions!

In comparison, Ma Yuan is more profound and great!

The two chatted a lot, mostly Xuanzang threw out his ideological understanding, Anyang agreed a little, refuted a little, and then denied a little.

For example, Xuanzang’s favorite emphasis on “human nature is good at the beginning”, Anyang pointed to the west and said: “In the west, there is another land where many people live. They are blonde and blue-eyed, and we do business with them. They also had many empires that were not inferior to those of the Celestial Empire, and they had religions with wider spread and more devout followers than Buddhism and Taoism. They also experienced thousands of years of history, glory and decline, and they were no worse than us... "

"And what they believe in is that human beings are inherently evil!"

"Human nature is inherently evil?" Xuanzang was startled, his eyes widened, but unlike ordinary people, he did not focus on "an empire that can compare to the kingdom of heaven, and a religion that can surpass Buddhism and Taoism." On, "Babies don't understand truth, how can they be evil?"

"Then he doesn't understand the truth, how can he be kind?"

"Reasonable, justified." This originally involved extremely complex cultural differences, but Xuanzang just thought about it and got to the point, "Babies are neither good nor evil, but good and evil, we think that life is a process of learning evil, they I think that people are constantly learning in their life, which is the difference of thinking..."

"Yes."

As soon as the two chatted, they chatted late into the night.

In fact, because Anyang clearly knew that the current Tang Dynasty did not respect Buddhism, but instead designated Taoism as the state religion.

But even Buddhism, which is considered mild and harmless to modern people, will shake the regime whenever it is in its peak. Buddha Movement. However, whenever this movement sounds domineering and even with some magical flavor, it is a bloody repression and a brutal and ruthless massacre!

He really couldn't bear it. If he could, he wouldn't mind saying a few more words to let Buddhism enter a moderate state earlier, instead of waiting to be slaughtered by the rulers again and again to wake up.

At midnight, Xuanzang left.

He said that Gao Laozhuang was haunted by big demons and asked Anyang to go with him to subdue the demons, but Anyang refused.

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