With the Yangtze River issue resolved, Li Dandao breathed a sigh of relief.
And Xu Tianshi¡¯s trip has been completed successfully. As for the assessment mentioned above, Li Dandao naturally passed it.
I¡¯m afraid that it won¡¯t be long before Li Dandao receives a decree from the Heavenly Court to change from a fifth-grade Tiancao to a fourth-grade one, or directly to a fourth-grade one.
The third level is unlikely. Unless Li Dan's Taoist cultivation reaches Yangshen, that is, the realm of gods, he can ascend directly, although he only ascends to heaven, not Daluotian.
By the way, Xu Tianshi also inserted an immortal talisman into Li Dandao's Tianxing Sword. This is the Dragon-Slaying Immortal Talisman, which can bring greater pressure to dragon creatures.
Because Xu Tianshi was sent to earth by the public, he could not stay for long, so he directly asked Li Dandao and said, "Do you have any doubts about your practice? If you have no doubts, Pindao will go back."
When Li Dandao heard that there was such a good thing, he was naturally the first to ask about the "merger of the three religions".
Xu Tianshi was immediately embarrassed because he didn't know how to answer this question.
So he asked instead: "What do you think?"
Li Dandao said: "There is no obstacle to the merging of Confucianism and Taoism. After all, the two have been running together for thousands of years. It can be said that you have me and I have you."
"However, Buddhism has only entered China for a relatively short period of time. Although it has grown rapidly, it is not of local origin. I finally obtained the true body relics, which can be said to be the source of Buddhism. However, after all, the relics were not cultivated by me, but by Sakyamuni. Nixiu certified.¡±
"Therefore, I plan to practice Taoism and Confucianism. Although I also practice Buddhism, I will practice it outside the Taoist way. Using a weapon to replace my body is just a weapon of my destiny, just like the Tai Chi pattern."
Li Dandao said metaphorically: "Tao is mysterious, Confucianism is white. And Buddhism is the line that divides yin and yang."
"Furthermore, Buddhist concepts of the past, future and present, formation, dwelling, destruction, emptiness, and mustard seeds and sumeru coincide with the ancient "Zi Zi". The vastness and subtlety of it are not inferior to those of our Taoist and Confucian schools."
Li Dandao opened his mouth and said: "Therefore, I want to refine a heretical weapon to achieve Buddhahood. From this vessel comes the cave heaven, which is the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss."
Li Dandao scratched his head: "It corresponds to the crow of the white-bone rooster."
"But that place has now become the underworld, the underworld of Yama."
After Li Dandao finished speaking, Xu Tianshi said: "Maybe you have to go to Taiyi to save Ku Tianzun, and ask Tianzun to take you to find Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva."
"Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva?" Li Dandao was confused.
"Although Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is a member of the Buddhist sect, he is actually not excluded by our Taoist sect." Xu Tianshi said.
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Xu Tianshi said: "Although he is in Buddhism, he has also practiced Confucianism and Taoism."
"Before he attained enlightenment, he gouged out his eyes, cut off his arms, and cured his father. This was considered as a sign of filial piety."
"His great vow is that he will not become a Buddha until hell is empty, which is considered a true promise."
"To live in hell and save evil ghosts is considered meritorious service."
?? 强牺 wanbar.net 读牺。 Li Dandao murmured: "Can it still be calculated like this?"
"This is the connection between the three religions. Isn't it the same as Taiyi to save the suffering Tianzun? Hearing the voice to save the suffering, sitting in hell" Xu Xun said: "Even now I am also in the underworld, and there is an incarnation of the Tianzun, whose function is Save the suffering and rescue the dead."
"According to your thinking, it must be right. Whether it is Confucianism, which means cultivating oneself to govern the country and bringing peace to the world, or Taoism, the road is not far away from people, or Buddhism, which means crossing others first, crossing oneself, transforming oneself into a small boat, and crossing people to the other side."
"It's just that you should abandon those superficial things and grasp the core."
"In this way, the three religions can be harmonious. If you insist on integrating the teachings, then Taoism is not Taoism, Confucianism is not Confucianism, and Buddhism is not Buddhism. What's more, Confucianism is also divided into many sects, and Taoism is not They are also divided, and Buddhism is also divided"
"So we should not catch them all, but we should catch some."
"For Buddhism to take root quickly in China, part of it must have catered to our local ideas. There must be some commonality in this!"
Li Dandao suddenly came up with an idea: Is it the commonality of philosophy?
Or should we say, "Know your mind and see your nature?"
The "compassion" of Buddhism.
The Confucian "??¡±.
Taoist "noble life"
These things kept colliding in Li Dandao's mind, and it seemed that something was about to come out.
It is something that jumps out from the shackles of religion.
It seems to be an essence of truth.
"But there is mystery in what is mysterious, and there is emptiness in what is imaginary."
It seems to make people understand, but it also seems to be a paradox.
"I don't know its name, so I call it Tao."
Li Dandao once again entered the realm of unity between nature and man.
Xu Tianshi looked like a child who could be taught.
But Li Dandao quickly withdrew again.
Because the core is wrong.
There is nothing wrong with Confucianism and Taoism. The core is the word "Tao", although the understanding of Tao is different.
But the core idea of ??Buddhism is not this.
The Buddhist thought is "the emptiness of dependent origination"
The emphasis is on the word "empty".
This emptiness can be equivalent to the Taoist word "wu".
Although Taoism says: "Everything in the world is born from existence, and existence is born from nothingness, but everything is the core idea."
The core idea is "Tao", the Tao that "I don't know its name, but I call it Tao."
The core idea of ??Buddhism is: There is no independent thing in the world, let alone anything that is permanent and unchanging. Everything arises from the combination of causes and conditions.
Combining with the theory of "Twelve Causes and Conditions", the word "cause and effect" can also be derived.
This theory is neither idealistic nor materialistic, but a state of "harmony" in which mind and matter are combined. Through the fact that all things have their effects, they must have their causes. The Buddha can know everything in the world of the ten directions, the past and the future. .
This is somewhat similar to the Taoist "derivation".
But the core is different. Tao is the source, and dependent origination is the process. The two are essentially different.
However, although the essence is different, it also gave Li Dandao an idea.
Working backward from the process is also the source.
Starting from the source, there can be countless processes.
Novelists in previous lives have summarized the three thousand avenues and eight hundred side doors, all of which can be used to prove the truth, but it is not without purpose.
Therefore, although we soon came out of the process of the unity of heaven and man, we can still get some enlightenment.
Xu Tianshi asked: "How?"
Li Dandao smiled and said, "Master Xu is a bystander."
Li Dandao hit the snake with a stick and called Master Xu directly.
Xu Tianshi did not resist: "Is there anything else you want to ask?"
Make big 75zhongwen.com make owls. Li Dandao then asked some more details about the five qi Chaoyuan, and the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit. If you practice the golden elixir, it is impossible for the three flowers to gather at the top, so how to bear the fruit of the Tao?
Master Xu Tianshi answered these doubts one by one in great detail, clearly imparting his experience of ascension to Li Dandao