"Donor, why did you cut off this newly grown tree?" Outside Luoyang City, a monk was folding his hands together and asked a farmer who was chopping firewood in the woods.

"Oh, it's a great monk. My house wants to burn fire. There are big trees nearby that are hard to cut down, so this one is easy to cut down." The farmer said, while burying his head and cutting down hard with an axe. With a few crisp sounds, a young green tree fell down.

The farmer went up and chopped off the branches and forks, cut the young tree into pieces, and piled it aside, thinking that it would be hung for a few days.

After cutting down one, the farmer kept searching and searching again, looking for other trees of varying sizes and continuing to cut down.

"Donor, those who have been used for a few days in your family, why do you need to cut down more?" the monk said to the farmer.

"The rich families in the city will buy copper coins. If you cut more, you can't use it yourself. You can carry it to the city for money." The farmer didn't look up and continued to cut down. Amid the sound of logging, trees fell to the ground.

"The donor knows that these trees can maintain the soil and water. If the weather is good next year, it will depend mostly on them."

"You monk is really good at talking nonsense. It depends on whether God is in a good mood or not. What does it have to do with these wood seeds?" The farmer was already a little impatient. If the monk hadn't sometimes went to their village to help, he would have been more familiar with him. If he changed someone and nagged like this, he would have ignored the other party.

"It's natural that it's God's fault, but this wind and water blocking depends on these trees and grass."

"What a mess? After all, you monk, don't want me to cut down trees?" The farmer understood something. He held the axe and looked unhappy.

"Cutting trees can naturally cut down, but you must also be restrained. You must know that people have endless desires, and excessive indulgence will eventually harm people." The monk was not afraid, but continued to persuade.

"What kind of restraint? Others can cut it. Why can't I cut it? We dare not move the forests of emperors and ministers. You monks will also take care of me in this wild forest in the wilderness. If I don't cut it, it's okay if I don't cut it," the farmer also had his own intelligence. He threw the axe, turned his eyes, and said with his arms.

"How can the donor not cut off?" The monk said with a little joy.

"You send me the firewood I use every day and the money I need every day. If I do what I say, I will not move the wild forest every grass or tree."

"This?" the monk was speechless for a moment.

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"Master Zhikong, these farmers are too greedy. They not only need to use fire to make themselves, but also to sell them. It is not enough to sell a bundle, but also to sell more. One person is like this, everyone is like this. You have said that too many trees are cut down, so that you cannot raise a place of water and soil. Sooner or later, you will consume the blessings of a place and turn into a desert. The monks who walked around and saw that after the disappearance of the mountains and forests, the local area was deserted and even grass could not grow. But it is very difficult to persuade these farmers. Only a few people who have received our kindness are willing to restrain themselves, and only take advantage of their daily needs. They will no longer cut down more trees. After cutting, they will plant one or several trees," several monks stood in front of Ling Chen, saying distress.

This is Ling Chen inspected a temple outside Luoyang, and local monks confide in his troubles. It is his previous story about the relationship between man and heaven and earth. This is also a matter of proof of the cause and effect between heaven and earth.

Ling Chen is looking for an opportunity to promote coal, and the troubles of these people now provide him with an opportunity.

"Farmers cut down trees to make fires. They cannot be blamed or prohibited. They want to sell them to others because they also need firewood to cook. This is the root cause of their greed for cutting down trees. If they no longer rely on firewood and have new fire materials, then naturally they will not have the greed to cut down trees. Greed will turn to new materials for life. Those who are willing to obey your teachings are also based on the heart of favor and the heart of reward. This is the two ways to solve their cutting down trees. One is to transfer their greed, and the other is to suppress their greed. Greed cannot be destroyed, nor can they be destroyed. Only amplify, suppress and transfer."

"The master is very knowledgeable, and we really can't wait to find this new fire material."

"Look at the place where you can find it, search for everyone, and search for your own heart, but don't look for Buddha. The Buddha only purifies your mind, strengthens your will, breaks your confusion, but will not satisfy your greed, curiosity, and will not give you blessings. Anyone who claims to be able to ascend to heaven, saves people's suffering, and makes people get promoted and make money. Everything goes well is false, and is not true Buddha. In order to expand believers, he pretends to do Buddha's will, saying that worshiping Buddha can satisfy all kinds of selfish desires in the heart, such as immortality, wealth, glory, and great blessings in the next life, are all false preaching."

"Then, how should I find this immortality, wealth, glory, and great blessings in the next life?" The monk Wuchen, who accompanied Ling Chen to patrol, who once told him that the prince had the intention of destroying the Buddha, was bold enough to ask at this time.

"Master Wuchen, how could you have such greed? Isn't it a vain to be a practitioner?" A local monk rebuked.

"No, Wuchen's words are not wrong. People who practice only have pure thoughts, but cannot sweep away their thoughts. In the end, they can only leave behind their own obsessions, settle their minds, and not interfere with the world, but practice them in their own way. If they are obsessed with their own obsessions and do not harm the laws of heaven and human nature, then that is the right way to practice. Wuchen, do you want to live forever, wealth, glory, and blessings in the next life, know who to ask for?"

"According to the master's wishes, we naturally ask for it from our hearts."

"You have a high understanding, so you naturally know what to do."

"But Master, please forgive the little monk for being greedy, wealth, and glory. The little monk has already obtained it, but he has long lived and blessed, but he doesn't know how to ask for it. He worships the Buddha. The Buddha does not respond and asks himself, but he can't figure out what to do. He can only ask the master to clear the way." Monk Wuchen said, kneeling down and kowtowing.

"You get up, the blessings of immortality are probably what all practitioners want. Those who enter the Buddhist practice can endure the mortals' precepts, but there are those that ordinary people dare not expect. This is human nature, but if you want to succeed, you can only work together and practice diligently, move forward for life, and accumulate in the next life, see through the Buddha nature of all things and see through the origin of everything, and naturally you can seek immortality from your body and blessings."

"So that's it. The blessings of immortality are hundreds of millions of times more difficult than wealth and glory. It is also hundreds of millions of times better. If you want to make it difficult for a lifetime, you will be able to achieve it in one lifetime. You must do your best to achieve it in hundreds of millions of Buddhist children and accumulate it in life to achieve something." Wuchen's understanding was indeed extremely high, and he quickly understood the true meaning of Ling Chen.

This is not because Ling Chen is fooling him, but the only feasible path and the only feasible path for human beings in the real world. In addition, all religions that worship God cannot do. The only key point is that practitioners must firmly believe that death is not the end, but that their own wishes in the world will come back to their roots and will grow again in the next life. In this way, with hope, they can accumulate in life, not fail for a lifetime, fear of disappointment, depravity, and no longer strive to move forward.

The ancients would not imagine the civilization foundation they laid, so that their descendants would no longer worry about food and clothes, or fear about headaches, fever and fear. Although their practice in that lifetime was full of suffering and despair, they created endless blessings for future generations. The descendants should also do this, accumulate blessings for future generations, and pass on them for generations to truly live and enjoy blessings.

Many degenerate people are just enjoying the present, not considering future generations, not thinking about tomorrow, but many people who move forward also make the future generations' thoughts for generations for generations. They are all invisible. People in later generations are born from their thoughts, and both are one.
Chapter completed!