I will bury the gods

Chapter 219 Nirvana
Cao Quan is a well-known expert in Cishou Village.

He is a good man and a good man. It is rumored that he prayed to the Buddha in his early years. He is good at both medicine and witchcraft.

There is a strange temple in Cishou Village. The statues enshrined in this temple are grotesque and weird, not between Buddhism and Taoism. Before Cao Quan came, this strange temple was extremely desolate. Foxes did not settle down and swallows did not build nests. It is said that there are fierce ghosts entrenched and attracting people. Yangshou.

After Cao Quan came, he summoned ten brave villagers to help exorcise the evil spirits. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Cao Quan held a spell and recited the scriptures. collapsed and died tragically.

Since then, the strange temple has ceased to be weird. Cao Quan sits in it, and incense burns in an endless stream.

in spring.

The trees are in full bloom, and the fields are green. Cao Quan is sitting in the temple, dressed in a non-Buddhist and non-Daoist attire.He was dozing off when someone came to see him.

"The gold pendant is my daughter-in-law's favorite. She didn't go anywhere. It disappeared for no reason when she woke up. The servants at home searched for it for two days, but they couldn't find it. Please help me." The person was a well-known rich farmer in Cishou Village.

As usual, Cao Quan glanced at the portrait behind him. The rich peasants understood, and immediately bought incense to burn. With this ferocious god statue, it really looks like a master of Taoism.

After the incense was burned, Cao Quan made a divination, telling him that the gold pendant had been taken away by a mouse, and told him the approximate location.

In addition to thanking him, the rich peasant hesitated, as if there was something embarrassing, but Cao Quan asked him to say it was okay.

The rich farmer told him that a relative of his had a strange disease recently, and many doctors couldn't see it well. He hoped that the master would go to see him, and the consultation money would be given as much as a penny.

Cao Quan’s reputation is also good because he never took money from the poor when he was treating diseases and practicing medicine. You paid.

Cao Quan is a kind person. A kind person will not refuse to help others. He is also a good person.

The family name of this family is Kang, and they are relatives who came to join the rich peasants from other places. In the past few years, the dispute between natives and tourists was particularly fierce. Gu, he drank a glass of wine half a month ago and claimed that there was a Gu in the wine, and he couldn't get sick since then.

"Gu insects are afraid of chickens, so rent a black feather chicken, and I can cast a spell on it to peck away the poison." Cao Quan said.

"Black feather chicken? Where can I find such a chicken?" The Kang family was helpless.

"Look for it with your heart, and you will always find it." Cao Quan said lightly.

Sure enough, the servants of the Kang family went out to look for it, and found a black feather chicken. The chicken was sold by a skinny little girl. It was a chicken she rescued from the mountains when she was a child. Her mother was seriously ill, so she had to sell it.

The Kang family spent a lot of money to rent this black feather chicken. Cao Quan took a talisman and a black feather, soaked it in water, and asked Mr. Kang to take it together. The chicken was returned to the original owner, and the little girl who sold the chicken got the money, she was overjoyed and thanked her repeatedly.

After Master Kang recovered from his illness, he brought his family and servants to burn incense, and Cao Quan became more famous.

It's just that Master Kang said a word when he thanked him, which lingered in Cao Quan's heart, and he will never forget it:
"The virtue of a master is comparable to that of a holy bodhisattva."

holy bodhisattva...

There is a mountain next to Cishou Village, named Guangning Mountain. There is a small Buddhist temple on the mountain. It was not well-known in the past, and there were few incense sticks. In February this year, a girl suddenly came to the mountain and said that she wanted to worship Buddhism. , besides her, she brought a young man with her, but it was rumored that the young man was unconscious, as if he was a living dead.Some said it was her brother, while others said it was her husband.

In March, there were vicious tigers in the mountains and they preyed on people. She went into the forests to subdue the vicious tigers and took them as mounts. The people thanked them and said that tigers and leopards are not the only troubles in the mountains. They were uprooted, and several of the culprits paraded in the street, beheading them all.

The folks don't know her name, but they only call her the Holy Bodhisattva.

Afterwards, the Holy Bodhisattva sat in the Sutra Pavilion and read the scriptures in retreat. However, she never refused the poor people's medical consultation. , to this day, although only two months have passed, the reputation of the Holy Bodhisattva has been unparalleled for a while.

The second time Cao Quan heard this sentence was after he cured a man who was infected by Yanliuhua Lane. The man begged Cao Quan not to say anything, especially not to tell his wife.

After Cao Quan agreed, the man said: "Master's kindness is too great to let the holy Bodhisattva go."

Cao Quan nodded slightly, he did not leave in a hurry, but paced around the man's house for a while, looked left and right, and asked: "I think your family is fairly well-off, why is it so deserted, no man and a half Female?"

Hearing this, the man lowered his head, and told the truth under the embarrassment. He and his wife had been married for many years, but for some reason, it was always difficult to have children, and they had quarreled many times because of this.

"Why don't you take a concubine?" Cao Quan asked.

The man was dejected, saying that his wife's natal family was powerful, they built the house and they bought the field, and he gave way to his wife's quarrel everywhere, not daring to go to her natal family.

As he was talking, the man's eyes lit up. He looked at the lame man in front of him who was not a monk or a monk, and asked tentatively, "Is there a way, Master?"

"Isn't there a Buddhist temple on Guangning Mountain? Isn't there a Guanyin who sent a child in the Buddhist temple? Didn't you go to worship?" Cao Quan asked.

"I prayed a long time ago, a lot of incense is burned, but my stomach is not bulging at all." The man wondered.

"Isn't there a holy Bodhisattva on the mountain?" Cao Quan asked again.

The man didn't even dare to speak, he knew how powerful that holy Bodhisattva was, although the holy Bodhisattva was kind, but his eyes were fierce, and he was suffering from the disease of smoked willows, which made him a big taboo, how dare he go face to face, I'm afraid the monastery is still closed Stepping in, he was driven out with sticks by monks.

"You say you are a Bodhisattva, but you can't even save all sentient beings. How can you become a Buddha?" Cao Quan said casually.

The man didn't dare to respond, and after a while he said cautiously: "Master has the virtue of saving all sentient beings."

Cao Quan nodded slightly, took out a piece of talisman paper, and asked him to swallow it with water for his wife and children. After dark, he would let her come to the temple alone to pay respects, and he would give her a son.

A strange look flashed across the man's face, but he didn't dare to ask any further questions. He took the talisman paper with both hands and hurriedly responded.

After returning to the temple and closing the temple door, Cao Quan fell into silence.

A moment later, a black figure walked out from behind the statue and asked, "Have you received the invitation from Ci Lao Ye's family?"

"Got it." Cao Quan nodded.

"Okay, let's leave as soon as we steal the Buddhist treasure from Master Ci's house," Hei Ying said.

"What's the rush?" Cao Quan said.

"Of course you're not in a hurry. I'll do all the bad things like stealing things and making a voodoo, and you'll be the ones who do good and good people. Of course you're living a good life. I don't even dare to show my face." Heiying complained.

"I am your elder brother, my own elder brother. You were raised by me." Cao Quan said calmly.

The shadow was silent for a long time.

"We obviously don't need to do this, brother, with your morality, there is no need to do this kind of thing behind your back." Hei Ying said.

"No, it must be done." Cao Quan looked resolute, "I want to prove to Master that I am right."

Sombra fell silent again.

More than ten years ago, Cao Quanben was practicing in a Buddhist temple. He was puzzled by the Buddhist scriptures and asked what is the meaning of Nirvana. The master told him that the time in the world is divided into countless moments, and the moment is the shortest time. People live in each moment. The moment, and this moment presents an absolute silence, so time is not rushing, but a long-term silence. If you can grasp this moment of silence, you can become a Buddha.

Cao Quan couldn't understand, if the world is still and the flying arrows are still, then what is moving?
"How can we grasp this moment?" Cao Quan asked.

"I don't know, I'm still practicing." Master said.

"Who grasped the instant?" Cao Quan asked again.

"A person who has cultivated a righteous fruit." Master said.

As for how to achieve a positive result, it is back to the original question.

Cao Quan didn't know what a positive result is, but every time he asked his master about the scriptures, the master was vague.

As time went by, Cao Quan couldn't even tell what the appearance was. Finally, one day, he boldly told his master that the Buddha was dead.The master didn't scold him for treason, he stared at it for a long time, and finally said in an old voice, "You've lost your mind."

Cao Quan ignored it and asked: "The world will be in chaos. Master will practice behind closed doors. How long will it last? When wars come in the future, who among the Buddhas will keep our temple safe?"

"The rise and fall of temples has existed since ancient times. If the Buddha's teachings are not destroyed, why should we be afraid of the death of our bodies?"

After the master finished speaking, he continued to meditate, with his long beard hanging down, as if he was sitting down.

Cao Quan knelt quietly for a long time, and left the temple. He wanted to become a Buddha, and he became a Buddha by crooked ways, so as to prove that the sky has no eyes and the Buddha is dead.

In the past ten years, he has practiced martial arts hard, even though his legs are lame, he is only one step away from the indestructibility of the King Kong in the book. Recently, when he came to Cishou Village, he asked for a Buddha treasure to become an immeasurable golden body.

The treasure of Buddha is in the family of Ci, and Master Ci regards it as his life, but now the master is getting older and mentally declining, so he decided to invite eminent monks to appraise the treasure together. He said it was appreciating the treasure, but in fact he wanted to gather eminent monks from far and near to ask about the secret of longevity .

It took Cao Quan a few months to make a name for himself in the village. He has been regarded as a sage and the reincarnated Buddha Nirvana. The always cautious Master Ci also wrote to invite him. After three consecutive rejections, he finally agreed "reluctantly".

"Are you afraid?" Cao Quan asked, looking at the shadow beside him.

Hei Ying remained silent for a while, and finally said: "I have heard rumors about that holy Bodhisattva recently, and I feel restless."

"Holy Bodhisattva?" Cao Quan snorted, and said, "It's almost a foregone conclusion that the world will destroy the saint. She dares to call herself a holy character. She really doesn't know how to live or die... Don't worry, we have been together for more than ten years. Today, the world is full of true energy, and clowns are emerging one after another. It is not uncommon to see people who play tricks on mysteries, so why should we be afraid of this holy Bodhisattva who is just a mere girl?"

Hei Ying originally wanted to say that the head of the Taoist sect who dominates the martial arts is also a woman, but after hesitating, he finally didn't speak.

"Okay." Cao Quan's words faded: "Tonight, there is a woman who wants to ask for a child, and you will receive it."

Soi Ying turned from worry to joy, "Thank you brother."

"You are my younger brother. We came here alone together. Of course I want to treat you well." Cao Quan seemed to be talking to himself.

Late at night, there was movement in the temple.

Hearing the movement, Cao Quan felt restless. He didn't understand why he was bothered by it now that he had discovered all this when he was 20 years old.
The next day.

A young man from Cishou Village came back to his hometown to visit his relatives. He was a disciple of Guangning Temple.

Cao Quan happened to bump into him, and started to tease him, so he chatted with him. During the chat, he asked about the Holy Bodhisattva. The young man told him that the Holy Bodhisattva had given them a lecture. What kind of Dharma did you talk about.

"The Holy Bodhisattva didn't teach Buddhism, she taught us meditation." The boy said.

Cao Quan suddenly lost interest.

In his opinion, meditation is absurd and uninteresting. When people repeat a symbolic language, they will indeed fall into a vague spiritual state, and they will be greedy and love it, but what is the use of it?At best, it's nothing more than Nankeyimeng.

"The Bodhisattva said that the purpose of meditation is to retreat, to withdraw the thinking to a more original realm, and use it as thinking." The young man replied.

"Oh? Then where did you retreat to?" Cao Quan asked.

"Everything in the world is nothing but the cause and effect of the universe, I will give it all up, remove the universe, do not distinguish between others and me, remove the universe, only cause and effect remain, when I become one, and when the one is me, my thinking will be born in chaos , the book said that chaos is the beginning of all things, I thought I had obtained the Tao, but I could ask the holy Bodhisattva, and the Bodhisattva sister said I was wrong." The young man said dejectedly: "I don't know where I am wrong."

The young man looked at Cao Quan questioningly, and asked, "Does uncle know?"

Cao Quan was silent for a long time.

He had never thought about this, and he didn't even understand what he was talking about, but this boy was only a teenager in his teens after all, and he couldn't bear to ask. .”

After this incident, Cao Quan believed even more that the so-called holy bodhisattvas were teaching mystics, teaching some specious lies.

He lives as he always has.

At night, his younger brother was responsible for doing evil, and during the day, he was responsible for rectifying evil and accumulating fame. By the day before the Ci Family appraised treasures, there was no one more famous than him in Ci Shou Village.

Master Ci met him in advance, but when they met, Master Ci could not help but sigh.

When Cao Quan asked, Master Ci said, "It's a pity that we couldn't invite a holy Bodhisattva after inviting so many eminent monks."

Cao Quan's heart moved. This time, he took the initiative to invite Ying to go to Guangning Temple to meet the holy Bodhisattva.

The Holy Bodhisattva is not difficult to see.

She is in the Buddhist scripture pavilion, and on weekdays when disciples are practicing martial arts, they can see her writing near the window from a distance. She is a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, with Buddhist clothes and black hair.

When Cao Quan visited, the holy Bodhisattva was grinding with his head bowed.

He didn't immediately explain the purpose of coming, but said that he came to ask the Dharma and asked the Bodhisattva for advice.The holy Bodhisattva gave him two scriptures and asked him to read them by himself. Cao Quan smiled, put the books aside gently, shook his head and said, "Cao has already seen through the secular obsessions. I want to ask the Bodhisattva for my mountain climbing today. Scripture."

"Oh?" The girl cast her eyes indifferently, but said, "Your desire and love are all there, what did you see through?"

"Cao has been abstinent ten years ago, and he has never married a wife and had children. How can he be in love?" Cao Quan said calmly.

"Desires are desires, and desires must be sought after. If you abstain from desires to seek enlightenment, you are also desires." The girl said calmly, and then asked: "I saw that your steps were extremely slow when you came, which should be to cover up the disease in your right leg, and why not?" Why?"

"The holy Bodhisattva is famous, lame and ugly, Cao is out of etiquette..." Cao Quan suddenly realized, he said that he has no love in his heart, but he can take care of his own appearance. Isn't it a kind of narcissism?
Thinking of this, Cao Quan broke into a cold sweat, but he still felt that this was just a kind of discrimination. When he was practicing Taoism with his master in the past, he had seen too many eloquent monks, which is not surprising.

Thinking in this way, the Holy Bodhisattva finished grinding the mill, picked up the pen and put it down, and suddenly said: "It is impossible to ask for the indestructibility of the Vajra."

Cao Quan was shocked, he looked at the girl in front of him like a demon.

"Why?" Cao Quan asked tremblingly.

The girl didn't answer, but said, "Come and see me again when you are successful in Taoism."

It was only a coincidence that Cao Quan left the invitation card from Master Ci and left silently.

The next day, a treasure appraising banquet was held, and all the monks gathered, but the holy Bodhisattva still did not come. Disappointed, Cao Quan continued to carry out his own plan. He cooperated with his younger brother and stole the Buddha's precious glazed elephant that night. Refining into the body, the body is like a dragon and elephant for a while, and it is difficult for a sword to enter.

Cao Quan was supposed to leave overnight, but he was always thinking about the words of the holy Bodhisattva. The next day, he climbed the mountain in common clothes, met the holy Bodhisattva, and demonstrated his magical power of indestructible Vajra.

The Holy Bodhisattva did not speak, just tapped the tip of the pen on his shoulder. In an instant, his indestructible vajra body, which he was so proud of, seemed to be punctured by a punctured ball, and quickly wilted, worse than a weak scholar.

Now, Cao Quan sincerely feared and no longer doubted, he quickly knelt down and asked about Taoism.

"Gold and jade are lost on the outside, and they are naturally like a dream bubble, which will disappear at the touch of a touch." The girl said.

"But I have been cultivating both internally and externally all these years..." Cao Quan was puzzled.

"You must cultivate the Buddha body." The girl said.

"Buddha body? How to cultivate?"

"Becoming a Buddha."

"How to become a Buddha?"

"Put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha naturally." The girl said calmly.

Cao Quan had heard this sentence countless times in Jianghu, and it made his ears callous. If he had heard it in the past, he would have sneered at it, but today, Cao Quan did not dare to be negligent, and hurriedly asked.

The girl looked at him fixedly, and said: "You have done good deeds and accumulated virtue. In Shifu Township, you have the posture of becoming a Buddha. Unfortunately, your butcher knife has never been put down."

"The butcher's knife? Where do I get the butcher's knife?" Cao Quan was confused.

"Think for yourself," the girl said.

After Cao Quan went back, he thought about it all night. In the morning, his younger brother woke him up.

The younger brother put on brand new clothes, and he stepped on the newly bought boots, still lamenting how delicious the woman was that night, but he didn't notice any change in the way his elder brother looked at him.

"Help me try martial arts." Cao Quan said.

The younger brother agreed casually.

Half an hour later, the younger brother's body was tied with stones and thrown into the river.

Cao Quan broke the butcher's knife, his heart knot was solved, and his miraculous skills were accomplished again.

In the name of thanking him, he confidently went to Guangning Temple. To his surprise, this time, the martial arts he had cultivated so hard, which he thought was not what it used to be, was pointed out again.

Cao Quan knelt on the ground, thinking of the unexpected look in his younger brother's eyes before he died, and couldn't understand it.

"You have the mind of a Buddha, but you are not yet the body of a Buddha." The girl said.

"How to become a Buddha?" Cao Quan asked eagerly.

"Sacrifice." The girl said calmly.

Cao Quan wanted to ask more questions, but he saw the girl suddenly closed the book in her hand, and he clearly saw three words written on the book: "Nirvana Sutra".

If he realizes something, he will leave again.

Self-immolation requires a lot of determination, but Cao Quan didn't. He seemed so eager. In his own words, "I wanted to give up this mortal body a long time ago", and it was not until the flames ignited the body that the pain woke him up.

pain.

Still suffering.

Is the road to becoming a Buddha so painful?

Cao Quan was thinking about the sufferings of the Buddha, and at the same time smelled the smell of burnt meat mixed with the smell of meat. He felt unprecedented hunger. He suddenly remembered the face of his dead brother. The younger brother was at the bottom of the cold lake, looking up at the With a face riddled with holes from being pecked by fish, he grinned: "Brother, you are here."

Cao Quan woke up suddenly, it was too late.

The flames had reduced his hair to ashes.

At the last moment of his life, he just quietly stared ahead, muttering to himself: "I... have a photoshoot."

Cao Quan's death caused a sensation in the entire Cishou Village, and countless people came to mourn him. They turned over his ashes repeatedly, trying to find relics from them.

"It is impossible for him to burn out the relic."

In Guangning Temple, the girl in Tsing Yi said with certainty, then changed the subject and said with a smile: "It was burned in the open air, the temperature is not enough."

The disciples listening to the class laughed along, thinking that the Bodhisattva was joking, saying that Cao Quan's Buddhist teachings were not deep enough.

After lecturing to her disciples, she went back to the pavilion to write a book.

Today she sat quietly for a long time, only wrote eight characters on the book, and never wrote again.

The disciple who swept the floor saw the eight words: All deeds have permanence, and all dharmas are only real.

The disciple murmured puzzled.

Leaving the Buddhist scriptures pavilion, the girl went back to her room. On the way, she met an old monk. The monk asked, "When are you going to travel far away?"

The girl paused slightly, and replied, "Recently."

She was leaving, but the disciples in the temple did not know the news.

Go back to the room, close the door, and the candles in the room are not lit.When there was no one there, she no longer concealed her face, the young girl moved lightly with lotus steps, and her gradually brighter dimples illuminated the simple wing room brightly.

She stared at the sleeping boy for a while, then walked into the depths of the wing.

The green clothes fell to the ground in an uproar, followed by belts and satin skirts. They went along the way like classical paper flowers laid out. When they reached the screen, there was only a single shirt left.

The girl flipped her jade hand and untied the wooden hairpin that bound her hair. She pressed her hair into a bun and shook her head. The long white hair like a waterfall of snow flowed down immediately, covering her elegant Buddhist robes.

(End of this chapter)