"Can believing in Buddha fill our bellies?"
"Can believing in Buddha let us live with dignity?"
"Can believing in Buddha keep my children from being untouchables?"
"Can believing in Buddha..."
More and more voices rang out.
They all came from the very bottom of the Myriad Phenomena Human Race.
The oppressed very bottom.
Some people only wanted to eat their fill.
Some people wanted dignity.
Some people wanted to give their children a future, instead of having them be born lowly untouchables—Dalit.
To all these people's many questions...
Buddha said, "Buddha cannot help you gain something without work. Buddha is a way of thought, one that can elevate your spiritual realm. Now, the great mountain pressing down over your heads is gone. You can rely on yourselves to create what you want."
The word "Buddha"...
Very quickly spread among the Myriad Phenomena Human Race.
Buddha said that all beings were equal: people were born equal, with no division of high and low, noble and base. So-called class could be changed and broken through effort after birth, and should not be fixed in place, monopolizing the path upward.
At first, the Myriad Phenomena Human Race resisted "Buddha."
Because what they believed in were the devas.
Not some bullshit "Buddha."
But as time passed, more and more people discovered that things did not seem to be that way.
The devas stood high above, feeding on faith while doing nothing, viewing human lives as blades of grass.
But Buddha crossed the world with himself, compassionate and kind, pitying all beings, saving them from suffering and disaster.
Myriad Phenomena Heaven Realm.
Heavenly Emperor Palace.
Heavenly Emperor Indra said nothing, merely listening in silence to the clamor of the gods beneath the divine dais.
"As far as I know, that bunch of Primordial devas