But now, Chen Ji didn't give Wuzhai the opportunity to ask questions at all. He pulled Wuzhai into the scripture debate, making him the one to question, just by borrowing a small matter.
Wuzhai twiddled the Buddha beads in his hands, stopping at one of them, and calmly said, "To answer the benefactor's question, can an evil person who slaughters a city still become a Buddha? The 'Guanyin Xuan Yi' says, 'An evil person ceases doing good, but doesn't lose the goodness of their nature; a Buddha ceases doing evil, but doesn't lose the evil of their nature. Benefactor, an evil person merely commits evil deeds, but it doesn't mean there is no grain of goodness in their nature. The Buddha disciplines himself to not do evil deeds, but it doesn't mean there is no grain of evil in his heart.'"
Chen Ji quickly responded, "The Buddhist Sect says that good deeds have good results, and evil deeds have evil results. If an evil person can become a Buddha, where is the karma?"
