Super Hero Monk: Hormones Journey to the West

Chapter 334 The Essence of Self

one,

A very small number of immortals and Buddhas can obtain special power from the faith of sentient beings. This power is unrelated to their own magical power, but is directly proportional to the number of believers.

This power may come from what science calls "the original source of consciousness and the universe," the "self-nature essence" in Buddhist scriptures, and "oneness" in Taoist scriptures.

As the Buddhist saying goes, a world is a false appearance created by the collective karma of all sentient beings in that world.

For example, if the world is an ocean, then all living beings are like the countless bubbles stirred up on the ocean.

For example, if the world is a rope, then all living beings are like the countless knots tied on that rope.

Returning to the essence, they are truly one.

The highest level of spiritual cultivation in both Taoism and Buddhism is to completely eliminate illusions and return to one's "true nature" in a state of selflessness.

Ordinary people are also connected to the "self-nature essence," but they are passive, and most of them cannot even distinguish between their own consciousness and divine sense.

However, this does not affect their weight as part of the "entity".

While they live, their subjective influence on the physical world may be insignificant. However, once they die with a certain belief etched deep into their consciousness and return to their original form, they can transfer the weight they occupy in that form to those they believe in, forming a vast collective karma.

If the believer is a highly accomplished immortal or Buddha like Tathagata or the Taoist patriarch, then they can use this shared karma originating from their "true nature" to directly interfere with the physical world.

This is a true, ceiling-level, dimensional reduction attack.

It is both the highest and the lowest dimension; it's probably impossible to find anything more awesome.

Therefore, the very few immortals and Buddhas who discovered the power of faith, just like the few people on Tang Xuanci's home planet who were obsessed with nuclear weapons after World War II, began to study and develop it in a secretive manner.

The reason why Buddhism was able to catch up with the profound Taoism in a short period of time, transforming itself from a minor Western religion into a major threat to Taoism, is mainly due to the emergence of this new track.

And the Great Hero Tathagata is the strongest king on this new track.

In terms of cultivation, he may not be as good as Lao Tzu.

But when it comes to cleansing... well, when it comes to educating the masses, even the Three Pure Ones combined can't compare to him.

two,

Faith is not fear.

Rather, it is the extreme trust and reverence that all beings have for an individual or organization; it is blind obedience, ignorance, and fanaticism.

In short, you definitely can't get it by coercion or bribery.

Just as Americans cannot possibly have the slightest reverence for their president, simply because they all know that the president's poop smells just as bad as their own.

As cultivators and demons who transcend the mortal realm rise in their cultivation, they will inevitably realize that there is no essential difference between themselves and the Tathagata and the Jade Emperor, and the probability of them developing faith in them will approach zero.

Therefore, the best source of faith is the ignorant and foolish mortals.

If you think about it this way, many of the rules that Heaven made for the mortal world can be explained.

Why can't gods manifest themselves at will?
Why can't gods and demons fall in love with mortals?
Why must cultivators be subject to strict control once they reach a certain level?

……

Why is it that Guan Yu, a weakling in combat, was able to ascend to immortality and be promoted simply because mortals spontaneously built temples to worship him after his death, without having to take any provincial examinations?

Why does the underworld have a Book of Life and Death, and send out death catchers to specifically collect the souls of certain mortals?

All of this is economic management, solely for increasing the production capacity of faith power.

For example, elevating Guan Yu, who is already revered by many mortals, to the status of a celestial being would eliminate the need for publicity, directly channeling the mortals' faith in him into the Heavenly Court and guiding it towards high-ranking leaders such as the Jade Emperor.

Because faith naturally has an ascending aspect.

Those who worship Guan Yu may not necessarily worship Buddha, but they will certainly worship the Jade Emperor, differing only in the strength of their belief. Furthermore, if they believe Guan Yu belongs to Taoism, they will inevitably worship the Taoist patriarch. This is a subtle effect of "idea and form."

For example, the underworld collects souls.

Tang Xuanci had long discovered that they didn't just hook anyone who died; they only hooked thugs who disrespected the gods and gods, and fanatical, loyal believers.

For the former, this is most likely to serve as a negative example, or simply to isolate such "uneconomical" spirits, preventing them from ever being reborn, so as to avoid lowering the productivity of the mortal world.

The latter might involve storing them first, much like how mortals raise livestock to be slaughtered when needed for festivals. This would protect the souls of these virtuous believers in the underworld, controlling when they return to their original bodies, and then directly reincarnating them when needed.

So the Book of Life and Death is actually a list of people to be closely watched.

As for what exactly that book the monkey scribbled on back then was, that's just as mysterious as the Golden Cicada being Bodhi and eating empty peaches and elixirs.

three,

The power of faith has characteristics of nuclear weapons in the early information age.

Firstly, the production process is difficult.

Within the Three Realms, it seems that apart from the Heavenly Court and the former Five Elders, only a very few other forces are also proselytizing and gaining faith on a small scale.

Secondly, there is a limit to the existing stock.

Because believers, after returning to their true nature through the complete annihilation of their body and soul, will be reincarnated and return to the Three Realms. At that time, not only will their faith be reduced to zero, but their connection with their true nature will also become blurred.

Therefore, the way to store the power of faith is to accumulate as many and as high a quantity of souls of believers in the mortal world and the underworld as possible.

It also has extremely low concealment—

This mainly applies to opponents of the same level.

If Tathagata were to use the power of faith, the Dao Ancestor and the Jade Emperor would be able to perceive it instantly, regardless of the distance in time and space, and might even know the extent of his power.

This is because the true nature of self is unique.

……

Tang Xuanci didn't understand what the beaker was saying at all, but he remembered one key point: the power of faith was equivalent to the nuclear weapons of Buddhism, Taoism and Heaven.

“Okay, okay, okay.

"If it's limited like nuclear weapons, it'll be easy to handle. Anyway, Buddha is already at war with the Taoist sect."

"Let's just wait and see, oh no, I mean wait for them to run out of faith power, then they'll be nothing but a roadside clam, won't they?"

After speaking to the beaker, Tang Xuanci immediately relayed this conclusion to everyone present with absolute certainty, declaring:
"The advantage is mine!"

Soon, the latest intelligence began to arrive from all sides.

The defeat of the Dao Ancestor in the Western Sea shocked the immortals and demons of the Three Realms.

This signifies that the Buddha, with his supreme supernatural powers, has replaced the Taoist patriarch and become the most renowned immortal throughout history.

Those in the Taoist community were devastated upon hearing the news, much like Buddhist monks suddenly hearing that Mount Ling had collapsed, or the people of the Tang Dynasty suddenly realizing that the Tang army was no match for Goguryeo, or the fans of Badong, the home planet of Emperor Xuanci of Tang, witnessing their team lose 0-3 to the Chinese national football team...

As the Black Continent crashed into the Southern Continent of Sheng Shenzhou, the thirty-three Buddhas under the Buddha's seat, the three thousand Bodhisattvas of the Jiedi, and the nine main gods of the Black Continent led a total of 320,000 troops in nine routes to attack the immortal mountains and blessed lands of the Daoist sect.

With the protective mountain formations along the border between the two continents almost completely destroyed, the Buddhist army swept through the land like dry leaves, quickly conquering most of the blessed lands of Changzhou, Liuzhou, Shengzhou, and Jukuzhou.

The Heavenly Court was shaken!

The immortals held an emergency meeting in the Lingxiao Palace. There was absolutely no room for discussion; they immediately labeled the Buddha as the number one anti-demon in the Three Realms and declared a state of emergency. Imperial Edict:
Li Jing, the Great Marshal who Subdues Demons, along with Nezha, the Great God of the Three Altars and Seas, quickly led 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals to descend to the mortal realm to provide support.

(End of this chapter)