The Easily Enraged Future Buddha Patriarch, Maitreya: Tathagata, Have You Thought of a Solution?

"Future Buddha Patriarch, don't you think that Universal Manifestation Tathagata has gone too far!!!!"

"He actually wants to surpass the Three Ages Buddhas, represent them as the mainstream of the Buddhist Sect, and even claims he wants to spread some Present Principle throughout the Primordial Wilderness and promote the Buddhist Sect's true ideals. Isn't that simply showing you no respect?"

"You are the esteemed Future Buddha Patriarch. Once the Present Buddha has brought the Buddhist Sect to glory, the Buddhist Sect across the Western Land will all be inherited by you!"

"Then you will be the master of the Buddhist Sect, leader of the Western Teachings, the foremost authority of Buddhism, ancestor of ten thousand Buddhas, controlling every kind of resource and the faith of countless gods and Buddhas, governing all living beings. But who could have expected that before you even took charge of the Buddhist Sect, someone would suddenly emerge during this time of Western Flourishing to compete with you for your position? Tell me, can you really tolerate this?"

"Hiss... That bastard really has gone too far. He talks about using the present to teach all Saints to break free from their obsession with fantasies of the future and pursue the reality of the present!"

"Isn't such crooked nonsense simply a distortion of your very existence?"

"In my opinion, he even wants to erase your influence as the Future Buddha Patriarch within the Buddhist Sect, make you disappear before everyone's eyes right now, and ensure that you never again have the chance to become the foremost authority of the Buddhist Sect in the future!!!!"

"That man harbors sinister intentions and is ruthless..."

Within the Maitreya Pure Land.

The pot-bellied Maitreya sat upon a lotus platform.

He held a Buddhist scripture in his hand, seemingly completely immersed in