[Journey to the West] Tucao Emperor who was delayed by Buddhism

Chapter 114 Past and Present

As a god, I feel that I have endured too much.

This thing just blew me away.

After I collapsed, the Tathagata still accused me: You can accept that the little monk’s child was conceived by drinking water, and it will fall off after drinking water, why can’t you accept that the Ksitigarbha suffered for him and transferred the child obtained by drinking water? child?

???

I obviously can't accept it!

You can’t expect me to digest it by myself just because I’ve forced me to accept something that is more against the law of biology, and take out this thing that’s not so against the law of biology: ah, this one isn’t as scary as the one just now!

No!I just can't stand it!do not accept!

The Tathagata said: "Think about it again, you are a god, okay, you accept that you can fly in the clouds, why can't people use magic to transfer children?"

I firmly feel, can't, just can't.

So I desperately told Tathagata: I can't take it anymore, and I will never care about this matter again.

But the Tathagata didn't understand my feelings at all. He said to me: "You can't ignore it. You also know that among the four Bodhisattvas in the Western Paradise, Samantabhadra is out of his mind, and Manjusri is a bit extreme. If you just let go, everyone will be over."

Seeing that I was unmoved, he took out the previous rules and regulations to teach me: "We have an agreement before. I will take care of the external affairs, and you will take care of the internal affairs. If you don't want to take care of this matter, it's okay. It’s okay to switch between the two.”

……

We did discuss before that Xitian is the head of all Buddhas, and I have the largest number of followers, so the two of us should work together.Originally, most of my believers should be my master, but mastering foreign means to engage in diplomacy. To be honest about diplomacy, it’s better to just kill me. So Tathagata and I decided that he would engage in diplomacy, and I would do it. In terms of internal management, I always felt that there were too many problems left over from the external history. Now that I think about it, we also have a lot of problems left over from our own history!

Speaking of Jin Chanzi, the Buddha thought that he would change if he was rolled away. Although I had no hope for this, I always hoped for some kind of change. But now I am standing by the side, looking at the stubborn little monk. Only then did he realize that not only had he not changed, but he had intensified and become more stubborn.

I have already forgotten what he quarreled with me on the lotus platform that day, but now those stubborn stone-like eyes are reunited with the past, so that the things buried in the memory suddenly come out, Breaking the cocoon generally tears away the whitewashed appearance of peace.

I remember that he always had some weird thoughts at that time, and I was used to it, but that thought was so terrible that even I couldn't accept it.

He stood in front of my lotus pond in the South China Sea with his head held high, his stubborn eyes full of determination, and he said to me word by word: "Since this is the case, it is probably time for us to tell the truth."

My only reaction to this was: "What truth?"

Jin Chanzi stretched out his hand to guide the sea, and pointed to the western sky of bliss, and said: "Our truth. What kind of gods are we, what do we look like behind the golden body, tear up the fig leaf of the disguise, what are we? look."

Me: "You're crazy. You're downright crazy."

Jin Chanzi took two steps forward and said anxiously: "But as you said just now, we have no way to save them. The only way is to let them save themselves. What's the use of us gods? They burn incense and pray every day, and things will change. Okay? They think we're going to give them what they want and everything will be okay, but will it be? Nope, look at us, we all suck, suck! If we They are also a group of rotten people, why should they save others?"

I shrugged: "Then maybe it doesn't matter if we suck or not, as long as they believe we're fine, then we're fine."

Seeing him getting excited again, I quickly said: "Besides, don't be so idealistic every time, it's dangerous for you to call around like this. If any gods hear your bold words now, you will die .”

Jin Chanzi roared: "But I am the only one who is trying to figure out how to save the gods and Buddhas in the sky! Isn't this our job! When did you become like this, and you dare not even say your job?"

Me: "Stop making trouble, you don't even have a believer at all!"

Jin Chanzi gritted his teeth and said word by word: "That's because I never deceive them."

Me: "...Maybe it's because you never deceive them that you have no believers? I'm not arguing with you. I'll tell you the truth. People in the world don't care about the truth at all. They just want to have a belief as a pillar. God In the final analysis, it’s something illusory. Besides, we’re teaching people to be good, we’re not like some gods teaching them to obey or kill, we’re good enough.”

Jin Chanzi lowered his head and thought for a while, then looked up at me and said, "But we are not good enough."

"As long as people are kept in the dark, they will spend their whole lives deceiving themselves that they can be relieved just by believing in some clay and pictures. Have you ever wondered what life is like for those who kneel before your gods and burn incense? huh? You're the reason they won't change themselves because they believe you'll save them one day but you won't and you never will. They should know we're all vulnerable like they are exist……"

My only reaction to this was: "You're crazy."

I can't tell what's wrong with his thinking, I can only say: "Even without us, there will be worse gods. Sooner or later, they will create bloodier and more ignorant beliefs to comfort themselves. Don't make things so bad. And the order of things is: it is not because of us that they are full of weaknesses, it is because they are full of weaknesses that they create us. What terrible things are thinking in your mind every day! "

Jin Chanzi whispered: "I'm thinking of changing. Even if you say so, this is at least the beginning."

I said, "No, the world isn't going to change. If you feel bad now, there will be worse things to make you happy later. What we're doing now is making it neither better nor better." Go bad, that's the only thing we can do."

In order to keep him from going crazy, I can only explain to him on a fundamental level:

"Once you remove this layer of cloth, no one will believe in us anymore. At that time, we will all be reduced to fly ash, and then this world will be dominated by those deceitful gods who are even more deceitful."

I thought he would understand when I said this, but he looked at me for a long time, and suddenly said: "I thought you would be different, but now I understand that you are all the same."

I almost yelled at him: "Unlike you, a guy who is too idle to think about how to save the world every day, I get along with this rotten world every day. And I promise, you will not only Let yourself be targeted, and drag us all into trouble! Jin Chanzi, when will you mature a bit?"

He suddenly asked me: "Didn't we all say that we would sacrifice our lives to help the world?"

He approached me step by step: "Why are you afraid when the truth is mentioned? Why are you all so afraid?"

Stung by the light in his eyes, I could only answer him: "Sacrificing one's life to help the world is not dying in vain. You don't understand anything at all. You are just making our previous efforts go to waste. You will do nothing but mess everything up."

He smiled wryly, and said to me: "Maybe it's because you know too much that you lost your way and didn't dare to do what you should do in the first place."

I asked back: "Then tell me clearly, what should I do from the beginning?"

Jin Chanzi said: "Tell them the truth. Let them understand that there will never be a god to save them. To overthrow the tyrant depends on themselves, to save their lives depends on themselves, to gain freedom depends on themselves, the more you believe, the more you will run away. The deeper you sink, the more cocooned you are, isn't it hard?"

Not only that, but he also plausibly said: "Your hypocrisy of whitewashing peace will repay yourself sooner or later. You will regret it one day—"

……

Well, that's all for now.

At that time, I was really disturbed by his weird thoughts every day, so I just recited a mantra and sealed his mouth.

"I'm doing this to you." I kindly reminded him, "Even if you want to do this, you have to wait until you become the leader of the immortals. And you'd better make it clear that even though this is the South China Sea, I won't put What you say gets out, but once it gets out, you're done."

Jin Chanzi probably didn't expect me to be so shameless. If he couldn't argue with him, he would shut his mouth. He was so angry that he was going to come up and kick me or bite me to vent his anger.

I dodged his kick, and felt that he was wronged, so I let him gnaw a mouthful, leaving a big blood mark. He probably felt that it was embarrassing for me to gnaw Avalokitesvara of the South China Sea, so he didn't talk to me again. There is trouble.

I said: "Although I don't care, anyway, I am like this, living and dying are the same, but other people don't think so. Your thinking is too dangerous. If you are smarter, don't spread it everywhere, good boy."

I patted his head and recited a mantra to send him to the Western Paradise. I thought it was a sealing curse anyway, and he could undo it by just reciting a mantra.

But what I didn't expect was...

How can he chant the mantra with his mouth sealed?

Alas, I really didn't mean to make him be demoted to the lower world and exiled for hundreds of years.

Now that I think about it, I was really good for him.

I looked worriedly at the little monk who was about to sacrifice his life to cross the demon after the fuss. He seemed to have noticed my gaze, and suddenly turned to look at me and smiled brightly at me, although his previous life memories had long been erased. Cleared, but I always feel that he hates me very deeply. After all, he dared to tell me what he said about losing his head. In the end, he probably felt that I was a coward and was extremely disappointed, so he was deeply impressed.

I looked at his stubborn look and fell into deep thought.

Will he change this time?