Is it better to be a monk or a Taoist?
In the past year, Emperor Song Renzong established an early dynasty and gathered civil and military classes to congratulate him. After the ceremony, he ordered Shi Tian to go to the temple and asked, "If I want to convert to Taoism and Buddhism, I don't know which religion is the most important. Please tell me in detail. If the Tao is great, I will convert to the Tao and the Buddha will convert to Buddhism. "
Shi Tian said, "Tao is the consistent principle of the three religions, but each person's body is different, so it is divided into three religions. Since ancient times, emperors and saints have no two paths. Why are they so different? "
Renzong said, "Since there is no difference in size, I will ask the Buddhist again."
He also asked the Buddhist master to go to the temple and asked, "If I want to convert to Taoism and Buddhism, I don't know which religion is the most important."
The Zen master said, "I think it is big and the door is smallest."
Shi Tian listened and replied, "Since you want to talk about its size, let's be the host and make it clear. Let me tell you something about the roots and seedlings of Taoism. Because chaos is not divided, when it is not cut, nothingness and a little halo form a group of yuan light. For the Lord of the Promise, it is the beginning of the Buddha, the spiritual treasure and the Taoist king. These three things are too high for the old gentleman. My old gentleman used to be gasified, three clean-ups, three lives, four lives and three lives. My ancestor, the great old gentleman, was eighty-one years old. He is the master of all laws in the middle period of metaphysics and the teacher of emperors in past dynasties. One yin and one yang are called Tao. I have never seen one yin and one yang called Buddha. Ancient and modern heaven, real humanity, ghost road. Why don't you say that heaven and earth are Buddhas, Buddhists and ghosts are Buddhas, and there is a practice of Buddhism and Taoism? That is to say, Buddhists visit Buddhism and Buddhism. Throughout history, Huang San has ruled the world, with five emperors as kings. Even in books of various countries, there is no monk's explanation. Where did your Buddhism begin? Where? Say it again. " The Buddhist teacher was speechless and left angrily. Shi Tian stepped forward and said, "The Buddhist master has to talk about its size. When he arrived at the master, it just explained the root cause. What's the contribution? Where should we start, but why are we angry? " Let me briefly talk about those who are soaring and enlightened. Listen:
The old gentleman sitting on the throne flew over the green cow.
Emperor Xuanyuan flew over the fire dragon,
Ding Ning soared above cranes,
Ji Ran flies over the golden cicada,
Huainanzi alchemy medicine soared after taking it.
Zhu Xian soars in the dragon,
The sound of golden cicadas resounded through qingluan,
Yang Wuzi turned dragons into flying dragons,
Forty-two oral seeds soared,
Xu Jingyang pulled out room 32 and soared.
The rest is hard to say. Since ancient times, emperors and generals have always worshipped Taoism as teachers, but there is no Buddha as a teacher.
Yao Wang worships Guang as a teacher,
King Shun worshiped Red Pine as his teacher,
Yu Wang took Donnie Yen as his teacher,
King Tang worshiped Yin as his teacher.
King Wen worshipped Jiang Ziya as his teacher.
Zhou Wang worshipped Yuan Tiangang as his teacher.
Emperor Gaozu worshipped Sean as his teacher.
Guangwu worships Deng Zhonghua as his teacher.
Liu Xuande worships Kong Ming as his teacher.
Tang Gaozu took Xu Maogong as his teacher.
I, Song Taizu the Great, used to learn from Mr. Miao.
Emperor Taizong worshipped Chen Tuan as Mr. Yi Xi.
It has brought peace and stability to the country and made great contributions to the world in history. Where is your Buddhist contribution? Who is Deli? When did it come? Why not say something? "
Shi Tian also said: "The Buddha was a 43-year-old gentleman who became a gold man and swam to the Tianzhu Kingdom in Alakazam, a state in the western regions. He fell from the sky and didn't recognize him. It is said that the Buddha enlightened this country to fast and recite Buddha. Before the establishment of Buddhism, both men and women were good. Later, Emperor Han Ming dreamed that a gold man came from the west, with a bow on his back and two arrows obliquely inserted. At dawn, he set up a temple to announce the name of Buddha, and people said that there were buddhas in the west. My master ascended the throne with great blessings. Could it be that the Western Buddha is coming to China, which is auspicious? Therefore, he built temples to promote Buddhism and shape Buddha statues. All the temples in the world were successfully built, and no one kept incense and bowed to Buddha statues. "Long live my Lord Long En," said the Queen. "He pardoned the prisoners in the world, shaved his hair in the temple and changed his name to a monk, so that he could keep the Buddha's incense lamp and escape by leaning on the Buddha. Therefore, he is called a monk. The emperor kindly pardoned these monks and claimed that they were Buddhist disciples. Later, he went to Liang Wudi, followed Buddhism, worshipped Zhigong as a teacher, and abandoned his country. Later, he starved to death in Taicheng. There is a poem that proves that Emperor Liang worshipped Zhigong that day and could not see the country. "
72 founders of Taoism left 72 kinds of crafts to help students.
The old gentleman left Jin Mu with fire, water and soil, and everything was used at all times.
The founder of Shaoyang stayed to build gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and other items.
Xuanyuan Huangdi left cotton for clothes.
Chen left the spinning ball.
Queen Xuan Nv stayed to knit.
Zibo left this land.
Red pine nuts stayed to build bridges and pave the way.
Sun Zhenren stayed to treat the disease.
Master Yang Wuxian left the painter behind.
Zheng left a clay sculpture.
Wu Daozi left Danqing.
Fang Xuan, a real person, left a ship to transport people and goods.
Mr Jiang Rui stayed behind to build a house and a mill.
Master Dong Bin stayed to make yellow rice wine.
Master Cang Xie left his handwriting.
Guanghe bodhi old zu left a plan.
Master Hua Tuo left behind craftsmen who collected water, set bones and peeled skin.
Master Wen Boxian left a pot-making machine for burning bricks.
Xu Shu left behind mines and artillery.
Kongming left fire introduction.
Xu Maogong left a gun, a knife and an arrow.
Luban left two masons to repair and build houses.
Chen Tuan's ancestors left sculptors to carve statues.
Lei Zhenzi stayed to make a hole.
Tian Zhenren stayed to make ink.
Master Cai Lunxian stayed to make paper.
Mr Deng Tong stayed to make money.
The white leather master left the cobbler to make leather goods.
Master Du Kangxian stayed to make wine.
Master Ge Hongxian left indigo seedlings.
Wenzhongzi left noodles.
Infinite ancestors stayed to cheer and light.
Huang Shigong left two schools of Yin and Yang and three strategies for the Art of War.
Jiang Ziya left six art books.
Wang Chan bodhi old zu to stay and break the array.
Sun Bin stayed to burn charcoal to make boots and socks.
Real stators leave craftsmen behind.
Duke Lu left pots and pans to burn.
The real Lei Gong stayed to burn porcelain bowls and lamps.
Su-jin Gyeong stayed to make umbrellas and pots.
Master Liu Chan left a balance.
Luo Zhenren stayed and shaved his head.
Mei Ge's two fairies left the dyehouse to make rouge dyed cloth.
Wu left a scale.
Huainanzi stayed to make tofu and boil sugar.
The father of weaving waves keeps silk as a screen.
Fairy Xiling treats silks and satins. Rao Shi treats Jia Zi now.
Building respects the virtuous and governs the land regularly.
Yuan Tiangang left a fortune teller.
Master Mayi stayed to visit the fortune teller.
Duke Zhou left a compass.
Zheng Tingzi left a sieve and dustpan. The official left an abacus.
Shennong left herbs.
Fairy Liu left the chariot.
The rest is hard to say. I want my Taoism to leave 72 kinds of crafts to support people and help the world make money. Your monk family left something that benefited people and things ... your Buddhist family left the torment of illness and death. I, a Taoist, left Jin Mu to raise a group of students with fire, water and soil. As for Shu Ren, there are all kinds of people who are not born in the Five Elements. There are poems as evidence: the five elements gather at the root of heaven and earth, which are all-encompassing and social, and all of them are the qi of the five elements, from which the yin and yang of heaven and earth are born.
Your Buddhist theory still comes from our school.
After the ten disciples of the Buddha established Buddha in the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, they left 72 changes, and the men and women who got started were not fascinated by the truth.
Xuanyao, a disciple of the emperor's father, became Pirufu.
The second disciple Zi Xu became a burning Buddha,
Three disciples, Tai Chi, became Maitreya Buddha.
Four disciples, Yu Ding, became pharmacists.
Six disciples, Huang Xuan, deified Amitabha,
Seven disciples, Bao Xiang, incarnate Manjusri Bodhisattva,
Eight disciples, Cihang, deified Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Nine disciples, Pu Xian, incarnated as Bodhisattva Samantabhadra,
Ten disciples Baoyu hid the Bodhisattva in the real world.
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, ten disciples of the Buddha established Buddhism, which was named Buddha by the Jade Emperor's decree. It turns out that Buddhism is divided into three religions. The world doesn't know where Amitabha came from, but the Buddha's six disciples in the Western Regions are Huang Xuan, who was born as Prince Mona in the Palace of the Vatican. Born on the eighth day of April in the Sino-Japanese War, he entered the palace to study at the age of ten. In forty-nine years, he became a Buddha from the Western Regions. After returning to China, the real Buddhism was spread.
My ancestor, Grandpa Laojun, was afraid that all beings would be lost in ignorance and truth, so that all beings would be corrupted and the Tao would become a positive result. "
Shi Tian's words made the Buddhist monk feel ashamed and speechless, so he backed out with his hands folded, and the civil and military applauded and praised him as respect!
Emperor Song Renzong's imperial pen praised that the golden mean among the three religions was respected. Ancient times are the roots of heaven and earth, born immortal, born in the world, and metaphysics is established and interpreted.
Shengjia returned to the palace, and the Wenwu class was dissolved.
Excerpt (Donghua Hall, Shangqing Palace, Qingchengshan, guanxian, Sichuan)
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