Chapter 1481 The Buddhist Ship Goes North, the Tiantai Sect Comes!

"When the Bodhisattva saw a hungry tiger, he felt sorry for its suffering and felt great compassion. He said: 'I will use my body to help this tiger to save its life.' Then he climbed to a high place, jumped down, and gave his life to help all living beings... "

The low-pitched scriptures sounded on the big boat with five-color prayer flags, carrying compassion to save all sentient beings. Then, dozens of believers repeated it and chanted it loudly and devoutly.

"I will use my body to attack this tiger and save its life!..."

"I, this is my body, I am a tiger, I am a tiger, I am a life, my life is all my life!..."

The sound of chanting in the cabin echoed in the sea under the clouds of Ezo. Most of them have the accents of Gyeonggi and Omi, and there are vague hints of choking and crying. And when the chanting sound floated out of the cabin and circled around the cold tip of the naginata, it was like the fate destined by the Buddha, frozen in the cold October wind...

"Namo Myoho Lotus Banner, Namo Sakyamuni Bodhisattva!..."

After Master Juehui finished teaching the sutra, he recited two sentences of the Buddha's name from the Tiantai Tantra. Then, he lowered his eyes and climbed from the cabin to the boat. Two monk soldiers came forward, one took his Zen staff, and the other lowered his head and picked up his Buddhist beads and cassock. But Master Juehui was so clean, wearing only a plain monk's robe, standing on the 500-stone flagship "Fahua Pill". He stood quietly, turning his hands silently, staring at the North Sea of ​​Ezo for a long time, and then uttered a leisurely sigh-like chant.

"Namokan Shiyin Bodhisattva! The Great Compassion of One Body!..."

Morino Qing stood by respectfully. It wasn't until this chant that he took a step forward, looked at Master Juehui's expression, and said softly.

"Brother Juehui, are you so compassionate that you can't bear it? These craftsmen will not suffer much if they go to the Shantao Golden Tribe. Maybe they will have a better life than in Omi, Gyeonggi Province..."

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Master Juehui's expression was calm, and he just stared quietly at Morino Qing, this "junior brother" who had the identity of Miao Court and was walking among merchants. After a moment, he replied calmly.

"Benevolence is due to birth, kindness is due to Dharma, great compassion is due to no preconditions, great compassion is due to the same body..."

"Sen, you are wrong. It is not me who shows compassion to these believers. It is the believers who sacrificed their lives to feed tigers to show compassion to me..."

"Their trip to leave their homeland and go to the Mongolian tribes in Shantao is really for Buddhism, and they use their bodies to donate tigers. And when we see them off, it is just like seeing off Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, chanting sutras to them, and asking for wealth!..."

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After hearing these candid answers, Morino Kiyoshi choked for a moment, with embarrassment on his face. The Tiantai Sect fleet took these craftsmen northward, indeed "feeding them to the tigers" in exchange for "golden property". To put it bluntly, these craftsmen are just "goods", just using the guise of Buddhism for the sake of appearance.

But Brother Juehui's behavior and sincere chanting of sutras and thanksgiving have elevated the craftsmen and common people too high and put themselves too low, right? …

"Ahem! Brother Juehui, these craftsmen's journey is indeed in line with the teachings of our Buddha. But our Tiantai sect, eminent monks like you, are even more profound in Buddhism! Come to think of it, we Tiantai monks will never lack this kind of sacrifice. Tiger’s great compassion, right?…”

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Master Juehui looked into Mori Yeqing's eyes, looked at them quietly for a while, and shook his head.

"Morino Qing, although you are practicing in the secular world, you are still a disciple of our Tiantai Sect. Since you are in our sect, your heart must be clear and you must not deceive yourself. 'Sincerity' and 'clear heart' are the foundation of our sect's Buddhism..."

"You and I. I am one of the monks of Nan Rui Mountain, presiding over the temples in Omi, and leading the monk soldiers to go north with the fleet. You are walking under Nan Rui Mountain, presiding over the Omi business group, and responsible for this Shantao 'trade' . Neither of us would sacrifice ourselves for the sake of Buddhism!"

"For our Tiantai Sect, the foundation of our sect is the 'Buddha', the 'Dharma', and even more so the 'Sangha'! The 'Sangha' is the one who protects and preaches the Word and should not be abandoned easily. If we monks sacrifice themselves to feed tigers , then who will come to protect my Tiantai Sect?”

"So, the sect is above the Buddha's Dharma, and the monks are above the believers. This is the 'Buddhism' that you and I follow. Neither you nor I have great compassion, and we cannot sacrifice ourselves to feed tigers, let alone leave the 'no destiny' The path of great compassion. Our practice. The road is incomparable to that of these compassionate people who are dedicated to the Buddha. They are actually closer to the Buddha than us, and the road is easier to walk... Therefore, Sen, you have to break through your own knowledge and vision barriers and see. Just know yourself!"

"My Buddha is compassionate! On my path of practice, if I can give more to believers, keep my mind clear, and cultivate a small compassionate heart that is kind to the Dharma, I will have achieved the right result. And your path of practice must be for the Buddha. Building a golden body, providing money and food for the monks in the temple, and cultivating a small compassionate heart... are more difficult than those of good believers, more difficult than me, and more likely to go astray and go astray! "

"...? These craftsmen have great compassion, you, Juehui, have little compassion, and I, Morino Kiyo, have no compassion? The more I do for the sect, the farther away from the Dharma I become, and the harder it is to achieve enlightenment?!..."

After hearing Master Juehui's words, Mori Yeqing looked startled, and the "anger" in his heart rose and fell, which further revealed the complete failure of his "Buddha Dharma". But Jue Hui's "great truth" that went straight into his heart, and his clear sentence "The sect is above the Dharma, the monks are above the believers, and neither of them can sacrifice their lives to feed the tiger" really made it difficult for him to refute and left him speechless.

What’s more, the other party is a real “Sangha” who came down from Mount Nanrui. Even if we don’t talk about Buddhism, he is superior to him in terms of power and status. There is no way to argue with this sutra! He really invited a ancestor down from the mountain, and brought down 500 monks, and directly intervened in the gold trade of Shantaar…

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Mori No Kiyoshi lowered his head for a while, then kept his face calm and said with a smile.

“Brother Juehui, you mean, profit comes before righteousness? If the samurai families of the Kakizaki clan on the shore hear this, it will be detrimental to our sect’s foothold in Ezo!…”

“Mori, what is profit? What is righteousness?…”

Master Juehui raised his eyebrows and stared at Mori No Kiyoshi for a while, and before the other party spoke, he asked and answered himself.

"If gold is for profit and Buddhism is for righteousness, then naturally 'righteousness is above profit', and Buddhism is more valuable than gold. And if gold can support the sect and maintain the survival of the sect, the sect is for profit and Buddhism is for righteousness? Then our small path of compassion can only answer, 'profit is above righteousness', gold is more valuable than Buddhism!"

"You must know that the continuation of my Tiantai sect must come first before the Buddhism of my sect! Mori, does the continuation of my sect's Buddhism require gold?"

Hearing this straightforward question, Morino Kiyoshi's expression became serious and nodded.

"Yes! Gold is needed for the monks, the temples, and the golden bodies!"

"Mori, do the Shantars have a lot of gold?"

"Yes! Last year's Shantar trade totaled 223 kilograms of gold. Excluding the share given to the Kakizaki family and the cost of the goods, the rice house made a net profit of 140 kilograms of gold. Converted to 12,000 kan, it is the annual income of a fief of 100,000 koku, which doubled the income of my sect last year!..."

Hearing this, Master Juehui nodded solemnly. The entire Tiantai sect Nanrui Mountain, including the hundreds of temples and shrines under it, can only control about 100,000 shi of land. And the part that can be surplus every year is very small, probably only one-fifth or one-sixth. That is to say, the profit from the Shantari gold trade last year was almost the surplus of the rent of Nanrui Mountain for five or six years!

It was such a huge profit that suddenly shook Nanrui Mountain and pried up this huge temple entrenched in Kyoto, and invested real attention and strength...

"Namo Amitabha! My sect needs gold, and the Shantari have gold... Then do it!!"

Master Juehui put his palms together and chanted the Buddha's name again. But this time, he did not chant in a low voice, but his voice was like a bell!

"Namo Myoho Renge, Namo Shakyamuni!..."

Hearing the master's chant, the fifty monks on the "Fahua Maru" also stopped their naginatas at the same time and followed loudly.

"Namo Myoho Renge, Namo Sakyamuni!..."

The resonant chanting drifted towards the cold Ezo Sea! The ten large Tiantai sect ships around also heard the same turbulent prayers one after another. At this moment, it was like a tide ready to go, finally gathering together and hitting the reefs of the North Sea!

"Namo Myoho Renge, Namo Sakyamuni!!"

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Hearing the murderous intent in this prayer, Morino Kiyoshi was shocked, and a layer of goose bumps instantly appeared on his neck. He looked back and saw a row of ten large ships, a full 500 elite Tiantai monks, and rows of knife tips were shining on the warships!

At this moment, every Tiantai monk, holding a naginata and a Japanese bow, wearing a tiemoku domaru, revealing a fanatical, pious and thin face, shouting loudly to the Buddha!

"Praise my Buddha! Namo Myoho Renge, Namo Sakyamuni!"

"Namo Amitabha!!..."