The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 17 The Ascetic

Under the illumination of the moonlight, the long starlight dotted the earth.

On the aisle leading to the main hall in the backyard of Mulian Temple, two shadows of different shapes were quietly passing through the courtyard, and soon came to the gate of the Daxiong Hall.

"Are you sure, this is the first place we're going to search?"

Looking at Hui Ji beside him with some uncertainty, Pei Wende always felt that the other party was as unreliable as his master in some respects.

According to the logic of normal people, when you find that there may be tricks in this temple, shouldn't you search for some places that no one usually pays much attention to?
Why Hui Ji's first reaction was to go straight to the Daxiong Hall instead of any other more hidden inner room of the meditation room.

"Because I first noticed the 'unknownness' of Mulian Temple, it was from this Daxiong Hall."

Hui Ji looked up at the main hall of this temple, and within the vision that Pei Wende couldn't see, an abnormal and distorted trend of incense and luck was slowly forming.

During the day, the incense and luck are not obvious yet.

But at night, this abnormal distortion was very clear in Huiji's eyes.

"The sky sends murderous intent, and the stars move. The earth sends murderous intent, and dragons and snakes rise to land."

"The direction of the mountains with a radius of more than ten miles is all converging towards this Great Hall..."

"It's like a huge 'cornucopia'. The day when it is established here is the day when the evil spirits worship and the spirit treasure is born."

When she said this, Huiji's tone paused for a moment, and then she continued.

"If I'm not mistaken, tonight is 'the day of success'."

Hearing what Hui Ji said, Pei Wende frowned unconsciously, feeling an inexplicable sense of dread in his heart.

"Is it such a coincidence?"

Pei Wende did not believe that such a coincidence existed in this world.

In other words, the so-called "coincidence" in the world is actually a kind of "necessity" that I don't know.

"Of course there is no such coincidence in the world."

In the shadow that Pei Wende couldn't see, Huiji showed a cold smile on his face.

"Our arrival seems to have caused some kind of chain reaction, which is why the monster hidden here chose to take the initiative to 'become powerful'."

Wen Xianyin knew the elegant meaning, and Pei Wende immediately reacted.

"Did the tiger interfere in some way? Specifically against us?"

He opened his mouth in disbelief. Pei Wende didn't think that he, a mere mortal, could make the monster hidden in this temple change his plan.

In other words, it was the young monk next to him who seemed a little out of character that caused all these changes.

"Amitabha!"

Shaking his head lightly, Hui Ji clasped his hands together in front of his chest and murmured.

"All conditioned dharmas in the world are like dreams and bubbles, like dew or electricity, and should be viewed as such."

The sound of Huiji's chanting seemed to be some kind of opportunity. The door of the Great Hero Hall, which was originally closed, was suddenly opened, and a cold wind that penetrated deep into the bone marrow was blown out from the inside out.

call……

Like a giant tiger with its bloody mouth wide open, there is no light from a single candle in the dark hall, only the endless biting chill.

"Amitabha, you are finally here."

Turning around slowly, the old abbot with a calm face stared at Hui Ji and Pei Wende who were standing at the door, his tone still maintained that neither sad nor happy state.

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"Amitabha, you are finally here."

Looking at the old abbot who was facing each other across the door, Pei Wende could only feel a breathtaking aura emanating from the other party, and for a moment he was unable to move.

"This kind of aura... this old monk is definitely not a mortal!"

Clenching his fist fiercely, the tingling pain from his palm instantly made Pei Wende regain control of his body.

"A real ascetic monk?"

Hui Ji, who knew what this meant far better than Pei Wende, was taken aback for a moment, then raised his voice and scolded.

"Old monk, you are really deep enough to hide!"

Accompanied by the astonished gazes of the old abbot and Pei Wende, Hui Ji changed from his gentle manner before, and his diction became extremely hot.

"I thought you were only bewitched by the evil spirits, that's why you refused me to spend the night here."

"But now it seems that this little brother is right, you are the monster itself!"

As soon as these words came out, Pei Wende realized that it turned out that Hui Ji never believed his own words from the very beginning.

Maybe even in his heart, Huiji still has a certain degree of wariness towards himself, but he just doesn't show it.

[This feeling is really a little subtle. 】

He glanced sideways at Hui Ji, although Pei Wende also did not fully trust Hui Ji, but this feeling of not being trusted by others was really uncomfortable.

Especially when I clearly told the truth, this feeling of discomfort is even stronger.

【However, now is not the time to think about these things...】

Forcibly focusing his attention, Pei Wende cast his gaze on the huge Sakyamuni Buddha in the Daxiong Hall.

Due to the experience of this life, Pei Wende felt that he had some basic understanding of Buddhism, at least a little more than ordinary people.

But the Sakyamuni Buddha right now seems to be somewhat different from the third Buddha in his impression.

"The handprint of that Buddha statue...is it the meditation seal?"

The so-called "Zhan Ding Yin" refers to the Buddhist mudra of sitting in lotus position, with both hands flat on the legs and one palm on top of the other.

Generally speaking, this kind of Dharma seal requires both hands to be put down in front of the abdomen, the right hand to be placed on the left hand, and the two thumbs to be connected.

Because this seal is the seal formed by the Buddha when he entered meditation, it has the effect of concentrating on it, so it is called "Chan Ding Seal".

However, once this kind of handprint appears on the Sakyamuni Buddha in the Mahavira Hall, there is another theory.

That is, the monks living in this temple are all ascetics, ascetics and other monks who practice Theravada Buddhism.

Because the seal of the big Buddha in the center of the temple often symbolizes the "main business" and "school" of the temple.

Most of the Buddhas of the third generation enshrined in temples are the Dharma seals with the purpose of "pursuing all living beings", such as the Dharma seal, the demon seal, the fearless seal and the wish seal.

If you count some secret Tantric seals.

The number of these Buddhist Dharma seals is so large that there are even more than a hundred.

Therefore, Sakyamuni, who holds the "Zhan Ding Seal", is simply a minority school that cannot be more minority in this era when Mahayana Buddhism has become the mainstream.

So far, besides his own Tongqing Temple, this Sakyamuni Buddha in Mulian Temple is the second one that Pei Wende has seen.

—Recommendation ticket—/—Monthly ticket—

(End of this chapter)