Chapter 272 Seven Days and Seven Nights, Nirvana and Buddhahood
Behind the Shaolin Temple, outside the "Reincarnation Pool" where the stinking grains and filth piled up, Xu Xin sat cross-legged on the branch of a big tree, occasionally looking down at the pile of feces and urine.
"Murong Fu, you are so patient, it really makes me... want to kill you. You have endured seven days and seven nights in feces and urine, you are also a character!"
Xu Xin looked down at the "Reincarnation Pool" and could "see" through the induction of true qi that a "corpse" sank to the bottom of the filth, motionless, and maintained this state for seven days.
Murong Fu was also patient. Although the Black-level Buddha Yijin Sutra could rest for a long time in harsh environments such as underwater, he could actually endure for seven days and seven nights, which was beyond Xu Xin's expectation.
If he had not already tested Murong Fu's limit, and there was something more important that needed attention, he would have rushed in and crushed Murong Fu to ashes and completely destroyed him.
Murong Fu thought that Xu would be afraid of a mere piece of shit and urine. He underestimated people.
Back then on Wangpanshan Island, he was weak in martial arts, and he rolled in shit and urine and acted crazy and stupid in order to survive. If he really wanted to kill someone, a mere pit of shit was nothing, it would just stink for a while.
"Seven days and seven nights, Jintai, you finally can't stand it!"
Suddenly, a white light surged in the sky. It was the direction of the Shaolin Temple Sutra Pavilion. Xu Xin suddenly stood up from the treetops, looked at the filthy and smelly "Reincarnation Pool" again, slapped it with one palm, and a stream of true energy penetrated the "corpse", and then he disappeared from here.
"Ugh!"
The moment Xu Xin disappeared, Murong Fu in the pit couldn't help but groan. Xu Xin's true energy almost penetrated his body, making him wake up instantly from the "turtle breath" state, but he didn't dare to make too much noise, and even now he didn't dare to go out.
"Xu, I must make you pay the price..."
Murong Fu swore in his heart that today's forbearance was for revenge in the future.
He still did not leave the place, because he was afraid that Xu Xin was just "fishing" and would come back. It was not until there was a shocking noise from the Shaolin Temple that Murong Fu rushed out of the manure pit and left Songshan as quickly as possible.
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The Shaolin Temple Sutra Library was filled with white light and solemn Sanskrit sounds were heard.
The sweeping monk sat cross-legged on a large bluestone outside the Sutra Library, surrounded by countless Buddhist disciples. White light was overflowing from his body, and Sanskrit sounds were spreading, and the momentum was getting louder and louder.
This was the eighth day that the sweeping monk passed on his skills to Murong Fu. After seven days and seven nights of chanting scriptures and reciting Buddha's name, the sweeping monk seemed to be unable to hold on and was about to enter Nirvana.
The extreme number is nine, but for Buddhism, the number seven is very special.
It is said that the Buddha Shakyamuni once realized the truth under the Bodhi tree for seven days and seven nights, and entered deep meditation. From the first jhana to the infinite space, the infinite consciousness, the nothingness, the neither-perception-nor-non-perception concentration, and then from the non-perception concentration back to the first jhana, repeatedly entering and exiting the four jhanas and eight concentrations.
Finally, he achieved enlightenment, and attained nirvana...
Now the sweeping monk, after giving up his black-level pagoda true qi with great perseverance to convert the "demon head", also experienced seven days and seven nights of transformation and enlightenment, and is about to enter nirvana...
Nirvana is a Buddhist term, and it also refers to death. For Buddhists who have realized something, death is not something to be afraid of, because if they can achieve nirvana, then death does not represent the end, but a new life.
The Tao seeks this life, and the Buddha pursues the next life!
Countless Buddhists eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha, just to pursue a good next life. But they don't know that most of those who eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha will only be worse in the next life, because the empty fantasy chanting of Buddha without any contribution is useless to the world, just a borer, without merit.
If there is reincarnation, how can such people deserve a better new life?
Xu Xin didn't know what he believed in, maybe he believed in himself! He lived three lives, which was luckier than others, but he had never seen gods and Buddhas with his own eyes, and he couldn't say that he had much faith. He just had awe for the unknown power.
The Buddha's light shone on Shaolin Temple, and the sweeping monk was glowing, in nirvana...
Nirvana is not born, and nirvana is not destroyed. Since it is said that it is not born, it has always existed. Since it is said that it is not destroyed, it has existed from ancient times to the present. In Mahayana, it is described as the original nature of pure nirvana. This existence has countless names, and it is generally called Tathagata.
It is said that Tathagata once burned his body with karma fire and was reborn in nirvana.
At this moment, the sweeping monk was like the afterglow of the sunset, with dead silence and rebirth.
Xu Xin watched all this from afar, and felt something in his heart. The sweeping monk in his eyes was particularly different.
In his sight, there seemed to be a holy Buddha behind the sweeping monk, and that face was exactly the appearance of the sweeping monk himself.
At this moment, the sweeping monk was burning out of thin air. It was the infinite fire of karma in the dark. He was burning everything he had, sublimating from the realm of the white-level pagoda again, and becoming a Buddha in Nirvana.
The stinking skin of the sweeping monk was burning, and it seemed that something else was also burning in the dark. The body, soul, cause and effect, blessing, fortune, longevity... all the power was transformed into the most powerful and vast power to help him achieve Nirvana... become a Buddha.
Rebirth in Nirvana, abandon everything, live towards death, and prove the Buddha!
The sweeping monk in Xu Xin's eyes was extremely bright at this moment, and immeasurable power burst out from him. He was like a sun that suddenly exploded at this moment, or a world that was extinguished at this moment.
Rebirth in Nirvana, fighting to cross the sea of suffering, and becoming a Buddha on the other side, that is the ideal of Zen, the ultimate of Zen, reaching the other side through Nirvana, in this moment of extinction, the realm of the sweeping monk was sublimated at this moment.
His realm had risen by an unknown amount at this moment. Both his mind and his vision had experienced unimaginable sublimation.
A pair of eyes appeared in Xu Xin's spiritual world. These were the eyes of the sweeping monk. He had discovered Xu Xin long ago, but at this moment he took the initiative to "look".
At first, he wanted to "cultivate" Xu Xin, but later he found that he could not do it, and Murong Fu brought him a new "fate", so he finally made his choice.
"Is this...becoming a Buddha..."
Outside the Sutra Pavilion of Shaolin Temple, Xu Xin's eyes stared at the sweeping monk's eyes, feeling the boundless Buddha's sound and vast Buddha's light. The light was endless, boundless, Nirvana and transcendence, enlightenment and Buddhahood...
"What a terrifying power!"
When the Buddha's light disappeared, Xu Xin seemed to have experienced a pagoda hell. It was a force that was simply irresistible. I felt as if my thoughts of existence were disintegrating, as if my whole person was fundamentally changing...
But in the end he came to his senses. Three lifetimes of experience told him that only the power that he could control was his own, and blindly praying to gods and Buddhas had no effect at all.
Compared to the illusory Buddha, he still renewed his fists and strength.