The strongest passerby

Chapter 360 Playing Chess (Two Chapters in One)

3 Chapter Sixty
Ye Fang rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Does the Buddha mean that I gossip with someone?"

Tathagata said: "That is the theory of punishing one's heart."

Ye Fang smiled like a gangster in the market, he knew that the other party knew everything, but he still had to say the words: "Buddha doesn't kill people, this so-called killing mind, I think The strength is really limited."

Tathagata stared at him for a while, and then laughed. When he smiled, he was very cheerful and kind: "I see you, you are so interesting... The truth that is so long and hard to explain, isn't it the benefactor and I?" Do you understand? Today, the monkey grandson broke the seal and wanted to kill me on this Lingshan in the West. If I suppressed it with all my strength, the world will not know what happened for decades or hundreds of years. It has become a 'fact', in this Shenzhou, my disciple has not come to the west to learn scriptures, I am afraid that the whole Tang Dynasty will regard me as Sakyamuni, and I am a killer of terrible diseases."

Tathagata's plans and ideas are actually very simple and easy to understand. According to the modern way of understanding, this is equivalent to a business empire planning to open up a brand new market, and the location of the heavenly court and the rule of the heavenly court are the new market that the Tathagata intends to open up. market.

But it is not easy to open up this market, and the reason is very simple. Before the Tathagata, the group of people in Zhongtu already had a master on their heads-it was another "commercial giant" Tianting. Therefore, for foreign Buddhism, although Buy it, but the degree is far from enough.

So a Journey to the West project came into being, just as Jin Chanzi was planning to go to the mortal world to "clean up" at the moment, why not go to Dongtu Datang to be an undercover agent for ten lifetimes, clean up his identity, and understand the customs of Dongtu Favors, and then set out in the name of China to learn from the West, and it is best to have "state support" from the human world to make this action more influential.

As for the Great Sage, this guy's existence mainly has two purposes.

First, he is a very good accessory. Back then, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven made trouble in the Heavenly Palace. After 500 years, it has become a good story in the world. Everyone knows that this person is rebellious and powerful. If so, he can surrender to the Buddha Sit down, it is undoubtedly a change of direction to promote the boundless power of Buddhism, and of course people yearn for it.

This is actually easy to understand. For example, many people watch public figures on TV, even if they don’t think so subjectively, but deep down in their hearts, they still have an instinctive “sense of conformity”.

Especially in China, where the consciousness of conformity is strong, this method is even more useful than thousands of volumes of Buddhist scriptures. Words need to be taught by example.

Second, 500 years ago, the demons who made trouble in the Heavenly Palace were defeated, and all the demons were divided into land boundaries. They signed an "unequal defeat treaty" in a disguised form and were confined in a certain area, but it was easy to deal with it—just the golden cicada If you want to learn scriptures from the west, and the monster Monkey King is still around, you also need to arrange ninety-nine and 81 difficulties... Isn't these monsters a good game?

Letting demons kill demons may not be as efficient and quick as Tianting Lingshan, but it makes their image taller—after all, you see, it is demons killing each other.

And all the famous big monsters in the world can be wiped out by this method. The remaining small mountain monsters, which ordinary people have never heard of, will be wiped out one by one by Heavenly Court and Lingshan. One day, this In the world, apart from gods and Buddhas, there are no other existences with mana and Taoism.

It sounds outrageous, but a normal person would undoubtedly choose this method because it is effective enough.

There is nothing wrong with the starting point of the Buddha. He wants the world to eradicate demons and demons, and wants Buddhism to save all living beings and promote his own Dharma. Since he is a person of great wisdom, it is impossible for him not to know what is right.

In the real world, speaking to a group of people who live a short life and live a short life is not as useful as reciting a Buddhist scripture that no one can understand. At least people in this era are full of awe of the unknown.

Sometimes what people hear, see... the perfect solution to a problem never actually solves the problem.

But the Buddha is really a Buddha, and what he does is beneficial to the common people in the world.

But some people are not happy - if the Buddha is a foreign company that wants to open up the market in China, then Tianting is a local industry.

There is already a heaven here, why do you have nothing to do to join in the fun?
However, the relationship between Heaven and Lingshan is obviously far more difficult to deal with than the relationship in shopping malls, because the latter's opposition and competition can sometimes be brought to the stage, but gods and Buddhas cannot.

The reason is also very simple, because they are gods and Buddhas, so some things and some words cannot be done.

Heavenly Court is very sincere and does not want Buddhism to come to its own territory to "grab business", but they can't do anything—not to mention anything else, let's just say that the Tathagata helped them suppress a monkey 500 years ago, right?

But now the situation is changing, and Ye Fang's rumors have played a role that even Ye Fang himself only realized later.

He did something that heaven could not do. They saw the hope of driving Buddhism out, so after Ye Fang started spreading rumors, a fairy came to him.

Since then, the Heavenly Court has not made any interference, only sent a Erlang God when the Monkey King leaped into the sky, stood on the ground to watch the battle silently, and expressed his position innocently - if you don't fight the Heavenly Court, the Heavenly Court will die If you don’t see anything; if you are a master and can knock down Lingshan, Western Paradise is yours.

As a large-scale "terrorist armed" group, Tianting's statement is heavy, and Tianting's idea is undoubtedly more ruthless-he wants Monkey King and all the demons to fight Lingshan, and if he wins, or Monkey King is killed. The beheading confirmed the previous rumors, and also proved the failure of Buddhism-they couldn't even tame a demon. Therefore, Buddhism can't even think about opening up a market in the East.

It would be even better if the Heavenly Court took the last step to suppress or subdue this group of monsters... thus demonstrating the powerful existence of the Heavenly Court.

And why didn't Tianting take action before? ——This kind of question is the same as "Why did Tathagata act last when Monkey King made a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace?" Even in the 21st century, people will instinctively ignore this kind of question.

Mortals seem to have no role in this earth-shattering war, but in fact it makes everyone feel headache-of course, except for the demons here.

Therefore, at this moment, the Buddha cannot suppress and kill Monkey King, or even allow him to attack, let alone let Heavenly Court do the finishing touches, or even suppress him for hundreds of years... Now it seems that there is only one way to go.

But this kind of thing is not what the Buddha should say.

So Ye Fang smiled and said: "The words of the Buddha are really true."

Tathagata was still smiling, as if he didn't hear the slight sarcasm in Ye Fang's words at all, and said: "The benefactor is not from my generation, and he is also afraid of tricks and mysterious words. If this is the case, why should I not speak for the benefactor?" Hi, Sora let the next conversation cast a subtle color?"

Ye Fangdao: "Nowadays the monsters are in trouble, the stone monkeys have broken the town, and the eight tribes have just been wiped out by the monkey head with a stick. The Buddha is neither angry nor angry, and instead of looking for trouble with the monkey head, he came to see me instead. Ordinary people...and so...sincere, I really don't know what the Buddha means now."

The Buddha lowered his eyes and said: "The benefactor is not in the cycle of the five elements in this world. He does not have the ability to reach the sky, but he is different from ordinary people. He is cold-blooded like a demon, but smarter than a demon. He is not a god or Buddha, but he has no face of a god or Buddha. You only did one very simple thing, but it is the most important thing - you made the sky full of clouds move, and everyone's plans were unimaginably shifted because of this, you said at this moment , should the poor monk see that monkey head, or should he see you?"

"Did you know that a famous person said 'give me a crowbar and I can move the whole earth'?" Ye Fang was still smiling in the first half of the sentence, but his expression suddenly changed in the second half. Leng: "Can I understand this as some kind of threat?"

Tathagata looked at him for a while and said: "You don't seem to be afraid that I will ruin your life and brains here."

Ye Fang said: "Buddha is not a demon, he can't do the things of demons, Buddha is not a fairy, he can naturally do the things of fairy."

Tathagata smiled again: "I am facing the benefactor calmly, but the benefactor treats me 'every word'."

Ye Fang smiled and said: "Because Buddha knows what kind of person I am, I speak in my own way - every word is only within your control."

The Buddha said with a smile: "He is really a wonderful person. Do you know that when I see you today, I just want to say a word to you: You have to tie the bell to untie it."

Ye Fang was also laughing: "I only have one sentence - Buddha thinks I want to help Monkey King or kill him?"

The Buddha was silent, and after a while, he didn't answer Ye Fang's question, but instead asked: "The benefactor thinks that if the monkey head goes up to Lingshan and comes before me, there are some chances of winning."

Ye Fang replied without even thinking: "He was no match for you 500 years ago. During these 500 years, he was trapped under the Five Elements Mountain and did not make any progress in his cultivation. How could he defeat you? Did he rely on explosive seeds? What's the point? Not the anime world.”

Tathagata obviously didn't understand the second half of Ye Fang's sentence, but he knew that Ye Fang's entire meaning was in the first half of the sentence, and he said quietly: "The idea of ​​giving is not with that stubborn monkey, but with me.

"The benefactor is waiting for me to see you."

Ye Fang just laughed.

Tathagata said slowly: "But the benefactor can know that there are some things in this world that are predetermined, like dewdrops and grass, the former will return to dust, and the latter will live and die, but they condense out or fall to the ground. All of this is preordained, but what the benefactor did was to confuse black and white. How is it different from the book of life and death that the monkey head destroyed the underworld 500 years ago?
"What the benefactor does in the world, the disaster is not obvious today, but it may cause a catastrophe in the future."

Ye Fangdao: "Buddha has the power to revive withered grass - since people can change the so-called established rules, why can't people change the rules of people? And why does Buddha think that today's changes will mean future disasters?" ?
"If the Buddha wants to talk to me about the determinism - the world, all the seemingly changes, and the things that happen are already established, then if I appear in front of the Buddha at this moment, is it also a definite number?"

Tathagata looked at the person in front of him, remained silent for a moment, and said: "In the eyes of the benefactor, there seems to be no so-called gods, Buddhas, or demons. In the eyes of the benefactor, we are no different from the benefactor."

Ye Fang said: "Why does the Buddha insist on distinguishing between humans, demons, Buddhas, and gods?"

He paused here and said, "Have you ever seen a real space creature?"

The Buddha didn't know what and what Ye Fang meant by the "space creature", but he knew what Ye Fang meant, and he said slowly: "My disciple—Jin Chanzi, also met with I said the same thing.

"Many things in this world have their rules—

"Gods and Buddhas save all living beings, all living beings are born, and some people will always die."

This can be said to be the most ruthless sentence that Ye Fang has uttered from the mouth of the Tathagata since he met him.

But Ye Fang was also silent for a while, and said: "Very well, who the hell is going to die, it's none of my business?"

Tathagata laughed.

Ye Fangdao: "The Buddha said that my karma is overwhelming at the moment, but I also said that I don't think about gods, Buddhas, people and devils. Karma is useless to me. I wantonly tied a golden bell between the tiger's necks, but why should I go? untie?"

Tathagata's laughter stopped suddenly, he looked at Ye Fang and said, "Then why did the benefactor ask Jin Chanzi?"

Ye Fang looked left and right: "Who? Did I ask Jin Chanzi that sentence?"

"The benefactor advises the poor monk to separate humans from demons from gods and Buddhas."

Ye Fang said: "I was taking the words of your boss, what's wrong?"

Tathagata looked at him for a while and said, "The benefactor is really a wonderful person."

Ye Fang smiled and said, "Then I agree as a Buddha?"

Tathagata asked: "What do you agree to?"

"Unlock the bell for a fee."

Tathagata smiled: "Although Lingshan is small, there are thousands of gods and Buddhas. Although the monster is strong, there is a way out. Why should I choose you?"

Tathagata seemed to have forgotten that he had just said, "To untie a bell, one must tie it."

Ye Fang also seemed to have forgotten, he said: "Because there are some things that demons can do, humans can do, and gods can do, but only Buddha can't do it. And since Buddha knows that I care about you, of course he knows even more that I have left The last step to stop."

Tathagata said: "The benefactor is helping me, or is he helping that monkey head?"

Ye Fang said: "Buddha knows all over the three worlds, the answer is in my heart."

Tathagata smiled and said, "Can the benefactor guess why I still ask you to help?"

Ye Fang smiled and said: "Because I am a guy who should not exist outside of cause and effect to anyone in this world, so you plan to see how capable I am?"

"The benefactor is joking. I dare to use the benefactor because although the benefactor set a big picture, he still left a glimmer of life for the monkey head. This is compassion." Tathagata smiled and said slowly: "Benefactor Ye, the poor monk has the last one." question."

Ye Fang showed a rather exaggerated and proud expression to the other party's "compliment", and then replied: "I know everything."

Tathagata took a slight breath, paused every word, and there was a bit of chilling coldness in his tone, and said: "The benefactor left the monkey head with a chance to survive, showing kindness and open-mindedness, hiding cold-blooded intelligence, but Just to make me dare to choose a benefactor to help me at this moment?"

There is no absolute good or evil in the world of Journey to the West, Buddha or murder, but he is also a Buddha.

There is always compassion and kindness in his heart.

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　Note that today the two chapters are merged into one...

　　
　
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