Under One Person: My Inner Realm Connects to All Worlds!

Chapter 177 Self-Awakening
The little black pig was still happily munching away, completely ignoring Han Yun's approach. But Han Yun suddenly reached out and gently pressed his hand on its forehead.

The young novice monk was startled and quickly said, "Be careful, benefactor! Although this wild boar is docile, it is still an animal. What if it hurts you..."

Han Yun shook his head and said, "It's nothing!"

Then, Han Yun closed his eyes and connected a wisp of his mind with the little black pig.

At this moment, the little black pig stopped eating and stood frozen in place, motionless.

But in the little black pig's mind, it was a completely different scene.

Han Yun transformed a wisp of his thoughts into a consciousness, constantly searching through the little black pig's memories. These memories were mostly of a hazy, confused state, of eating in the open and suffering from hunger and cold.

In years of great calamity, they are relentlessly pursued and struggle to survive, yet still end up as food for others. However, after their flesh is eaten, a wisp of spiritual light gathers and is reborn into a pig's womb.

If you count carefully, you've been reincarnated countless times, and these memories add up to several hundred years.

Finally, in the deepest part of his memory, Han Yun's consciousness slowly stopped and saw an extremely faint golden spiritual light.

It still looks like a pig, but it is full of peace and harmony.

"Got you!"

"The mad monk, or rather, the manifestation of his practice!"

A smile appeared on Han Yun's lips. He stepped forward and touched the forehead of the golden pig-shaped spiritual light with his finger, using the wonderful method passed down by the Buddha of Emptiness to obtain the remaining thoughts and memories within the spiritual light.

It all started with Xuanmao Mountain.

As the name suggests, the Xuan hat is a hat woven from daylilies. Daylilies have another name, which is "forget-sorrow". So this hat is naturally called the "forget-sorrow hat", which means to be pure and free from worries.

The name Xuanmao Mountain is actually related to the monk Daoji.

Everyone says that Daoji, the monk, is unkempt, with a tattered hat and a tattered robe. He has three thousand strands of hair that are full of worries. But once he puts on this hat of forgetting worries, what worries could he possibly have?

Back then, the monk Daoji left behind a lineage here, which is the method of cultivating the manifest body among the three bodies of the Buddha.

What are the Three Bodies?

It is the three kinds of Buddha bodies: Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Nirmanakaya, also called the Self-nature Body, Enjoyment Body, and Transformation Body.

The principles and laws converge to form the Dharmakaya, which is the true source of one's life. It is the eighth consciousness, which is inherently complete, without beginning or end, neither born nor dying, neither going nor coming, capable of generating all phenomena, and never being extinguished. It is also the word "mind"!

The wisdom and Dharma gather together to form the reward body, which can also be understood as the body obtained through retribution; for example, humans, celestial beings, animals, etc., are all different reward bodies.

As for people, some are born into wealthy and powerful families, while others are born into poverty and hardship. Some are born with dignified and handsome appearances and strong and healthy bodies, while others are born with disabilities or ugliness.

In Buddhist thought, this cannot be blamed on the unfairness of Heaven; it is all due to one's own karma, and one must bear the consequences.

Merit and virtue accumulate to form the manifested body, also known as the transformation body, which refers to a body that changes. The Buddha often uses the manifested body to enter the womb, emerge from the womb, and manifest the eight aspects of enlightenment to liberate sentient beings.

It also often manifests itself in other worlds, or manifests itself to preach to sentient beings in their dreams.

Because one Buddha possesses the merits and qualities of three bodies, the three bodies are one Buddha, and one Buddha manifests three bodies, namely: the pure Dharma body Buddha, the perfect reward body Buddha, and the billions of transformation bodies Buddha.

Therefore, the Buddha has hundreds of forms, sentient beings are countless, and so are the Buddhas; the world is countless, and so are the Buddha lands. This method of cultivating the manifested body is actually very similar to Han Yun's method of differentiating his own thoughts to condense into a manifested body.

However, in the lineage of the monk Daoji, the emphasis is on taking one's various evil desires, such as liking good food, fine clothes, or beautiful women, and using them to condense into one's own incarnation.

The goal of cultivating the mind is achieved by subduing, correcting, and taming the physical body.

It goes without saying what the manifestation of the monk Daoji was; it was undoubtedly a dragon-shaped body!

The name of the Arhat who subdues dragons comes from this.

Although dragons are sacred, they are also wild and untamed. Their nature is greedy, lustful, fond of treasures, and prone to fighting and violence.

After subduing the dragon that manifested in his body, his mind and nature were tempered and his inherent qualities were fully developed and deepened, which is why the monk Daoji was able to ride the dragon in the sky and achieve such accomplishments.

Daoji never slacked off on drinking and eating meat, and even said: "Wine and meat pass through the intestines, but Buddha remains in the heart. If people follow my example, they will be on the path of demons."

This also shows that without a genuine Buddhist lineage, it's simply impossible for you to learn from me!

This statement is similar to: "Without encountering a wise person to impart profound secrets, empty words will only leave one speechless and tongue parched."

After obtaining the method of manifesting a body in the Ten Kings Hall of Xuanmao Mountain, this eccentric monk reincarnated himself as a pig, taking the name "Zixing," which means self-awakening and enlightenment.

Later, to repay the kindness of the monk Daoji in passing on his teachings, the monk Fengdian wanted to repair the Ten Kings Hall, but he was short of money, so he used his own body to "awaken" and carry bricks and tiles.

He carried six bricks on his back every day, with four more carried by pigs, working diligently regardless of wind or rain. Over time, the people were moved by his sincerity and came to help him, eventually completing the renovation of the Ten Kings Temple.

In the decades that followed, he improved the soil, fought droughts and provided disaster relief, and adopted orphans. He gradually earned the title of "Li Fo" and even put forward Zen sayings such as "finding the taste of Dharma in the midst of wine and meat" and "becoming a Buddha is not about wearing a robe and bowl."

Because he was drunk and walked unsteadily, he was known as the "Mad Monk" along with Ji Gong.

During a year of great disaster, the monk Fengdian, in order to help more victims, boiled his own incarnation, "Zixing," to provide relief to the victims.

"Wake up, wake up! Are you willing to face the boiling cauldron, sacrifice your flesh and blood, and let a living person accomplish a good deed?"

In the scene, the eccentric monk touches his head, which is said to be his own body awakening.

Without hesitation, Zixing jumped into the pot.

The physical body cultivated over many years has finally become empty!
There was a legend in the Buddhist community of the supernatural world that if someone could gather all three lineages of Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Nirmanakaya, they could truly attain the Buddhahood and live forever.

It can be said that the mad monk was half a Buddha, but the moment he woke up and jumped into the pot, he had already truly become a Buddha. However, his Buddhahood was not in the hearts of those disaster victims at that time.

After the monk Fengdian passed away, his spirit "awakened" but did not truly dissipate. Instead, due to the incense and prayers people had for him, his spiritual light continued to reincarnate in pig fetuses.

However, the power of incense offerings is inevitably influenced by the distracting thoughts of sentient beings. As time passed, the spiritual light of the eccentric monk was gradually eroded by the turbidity of the world, and his "self-awakening" gradually lost its original spirituality, turning him into an ordinary wild boar, wandering aimlessly through the cycle of reincarnation in the world.

Only today, when Han Yun sensed its existence through the lineage of the Void King Buddha, has it finally been awakened from its long period of ignorance.

Han Yun withdrew his thoughts, opened his eyes, and gently patted the little black pig's head: "Wake up, it's time to wake up."

(End of this chapter)