Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 207: Learning Buddhism from the Master
Wednesday is the training day for Gu Ran, Su Qing and He Qingyan.

When the time came, the three of them went to the dean's office together, and Zhuang Jing was already waiting for them.

After entering {Blooming Paradise}, Gu Ran tried to call the black bird, but there was no response. He then entered into routine training, summoning the [Curved Shepherd's Crook] intermittently.

Holding the [Cranked Crooked Staff] in his hand, he thought about {Zeus Academy}, {Rafting Classroom}, and {Heavy Snow Camping Ground}, but the staff did not respond.

Or maybe, all pointing toward the sky.

"Aunt Jing," Gu Ran was curious, "are there any psychologists who have flying monsters to explore the sky of the [psychic world]?"

"Yes." Zhuang Jing nodded. "But in dreams, especially lucid dreams, there are also certain rules of reality. For example, the air is thinner at high altitudes. No psychologist with clear cognitive abilities can abandon this rule."

As for those psychologists with poor cognitive abilities, whatever they discover or say is unreliable.

The dreams of these people are absurd and bizarre. Even if they have a [spiritual world], it is out of the "norm" and not universal.

“Once you have your own [spiritual world], and can turn into a black dragon in the [spiritual world], perhaps you can explore dreams on behalf of mankind, just like astronauts explore outer space,” Zhuang Jing said.

"I don't have any [heart walls] now, but I don't know when that day will come."

"When I was 20 years old, I didn't have my own [spiritual world] either. Don't worry." Zhuang Jing comforted.

boom!
A huge explosion came from the other side of the hillside.

"Are they training or settling personal grudges?" Gu Ran couldn't help but ask.

"What personal grudges do Su Qing and Xiao Yan have?" Zhuang Jing asked him with a smile.

"They. He Qingyan often makes Su Qing angry."

Zhuang Jing stopped teasing him and said, "You are still young. Feelings, [heart walls], and [spiritual world] are not something that can be achieved overnight."

"Ah."

"Keep training."

After the training, the three of them rested for ten minutes and then continued to go to the convalescent building.

It was soon noon and the three of them went to the cafeteria to eat.

“Playing games with people may become the next job window for psychology,” Gu Ran said with emotion. “Whether you have a nice voice, tell jokes, or even have great gaming skills, the essence is to provide emotional value to customers, and there is no better professional than psychology in providing emotional value.”

"According to what you said, doctors are just technical assistants." He Qingyan said.

“If the older generation of parents hear this, will they suddenly look down on doctors?” Gu Ran pondered.

"No." Su Qing said, "Whether someone is worthy of respect has nothing to do with the industry. It should be determined by the individual. As time goes by, people who get along with him will naturally know the answer in their hearts. There are playmates, doctors, and teachers who are despised and respected."

"So what do you think of me?" Gu Ran asked.

Su Qing looked at him, and Gu Ran straightened his back.

She smiled: "It's not even respect."

"I can only say that I like it." He Qingyan added.

"It's the kind of love that patients and their families have for doctors." Su Qing said.

"I, the patient." He Qingyan pointed at herself.

Then he pointed at Su Qing: "She, the patient's family member."

Then he pointed at Gu Ran: "You, doctor."

Finally: "It's the kind of liking that patients and their families have for doctors."

"I like you too!" Gu Ran was deeply moved.

"What did you say?" Su Qing was puzzled. "Say it again?"

"Haha~" He Qingyan was very happy, "Very good, very good, Gu Ran, I like you too, and I like your honesty the most!"

"You two, listen to my explanation!"

"I don't want to listen. You treat me to lunch." Su Qing walked straight into the restaurant.

"Being honest doesn't require an apology." He Qingyan stood beside Gu Ran and comforted him.

"My least insignificant quality is honesty, my most praiseworthy quality is loyalty!"

"In order to live, people have to feel good about themselves."

"So my least insignificant strength is already my greatest strength?"

"Ah."

So that's how it is. He Qingyan wasn't trying to comfort him.

Gu Ran used his credit card to treat the two of them to a meal.

"Thank you, Dr. Gu." Su Qing smiled.

This smile is all beauty, without any hint of laughter.

"It is the doctor's responsibility to invite patients and their families," said Gu Ran.

If a doctor colleague hears this, he will probably say "Huh?" while cleaning his ears, and then flick the earwax at him.

But precisely because he was so shameless, the matter was considered over.

"Go to school after dinner?" He Qingyan asked.

"Are you going to cause trouble again?" Gu Ran looked at her suspiciously.

"You are so busy, brother. After having dinner with us, you stayed alone in a room with Ke Ke. Teacher Yang Yun didn't go today."

Before Gu Ran could say anything, He Qingyan turned to Su Qing and said, "But as long as Chen Ke is with us, this worry is unnecessary. Chen Ke will keep an eye on him like we do to prevent him from hooking up with female teachers and female high school students."

Su Qing ignored her.

She didn't say anything during the meal, but when Gu Ran got in the car and was ready to leave, he received a message from her.

[Su Qing: Work hard]

[Gu Ran: #Dear]

[Su Qing: (twisting her finger at Su Xiaoqing's head)]

Gu Ran never hated being alone. This was his first time driving alone, but it was very interesting.

I always feel that I am very handsome from time to time, and no one in the world drives more stylishly than me.

At this moment, He Qingyan's voice echoed in his ears: "In order to live, people will feel good about themselves."

When we arrived at {Haicheng International High School}, we still took the inner passage. This time the machine recognized the license plate and the railing was directly lifted up.

Gu Ran was not surprised. After all, every day when he went to and from get off work, the security guards would salute him - even though he was just a driver.

The car was parked as close to the infirmary as possible.

At this time, other schools were silent, but Haicheng International was bustling with people.

{Haicheng International High School} has a two-hour lunch break from 12 noon to 2 o'clock. There is no nap, but club activities instead.

On the football field, young boys in jerseys and sneakers charge into the battle line;

Inside the basketball court, it looked like a group fight was going on;
In the distant horse farm, some people were bathing horses, some were trying to get on horses, and some were riding horses to chase the wind - much cooler than Gu Ran driving:

Inside a glass-walled building, boys and girls in swimsuits stood in a neat row, being taught a lesson by a man and a woman - the woman was a foreigner;
On the way to the infirmary, Gu Ran was accompanied by three fully armed teenagers who had just been beaten black and blue at the ice rink.

Like ice hockey clothes?

Ice hockey. Gu Ran has rarely played it, and he has even rarely seen it on the Internet.

He probably won't be able to play in his life, but his children can play, and the reason his children can play is all because his (her) father is now Su Qing's bootlicker.

In the psychological clinic, Chen Ke was chatting with Xie Xiya and Gege.

"You two are here." Gu Ran walked in.

"Why did you come just now? We were planning to treat you guys to a meal, but ended up having to treat Sister Keke instead." Gege spoke in the tone of a friend chatting.

"Then doesn't that mean Chen Ke has saved another day's food expenses?" Gu Ran said.

"Yeah!" Chen Ke said with a smile.

"Damn it!" Gu Ran was so jealous.

"Are you okay this morning?"

“Does getting sick count as a problem?”

"Who's sick?" Gege was curious. Xie Xiya also stared at Gu Ran.

Gu Ran then told him what happened in the morning.

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After the morning training, because Gu Ran could only stay in Jinghai for half a day and the schedule was very tight, he wanted to seize the time and play with each patient for a while, but after listening to Zhuang Jing's words, he calmed down and spent the whole morning learning how to abstain from sex with Master Aqiu.

(“Abstain from sex?” Gege asked.)
("Shut up and listen to me first." Gu Ran also spoke in a completely friendly tone.)
He studied very hard.

Try to control lust through Buddhism when necessary.

The two of them were meditating face to face in the hall, with a sign on the wall that read “Mental hospital is not a place outside the law” written on it.

"Let's start from the beginning," said Master Achuk.

"Master, the Sumoon Wisdom Sutra said, 'To realize the mind is to be a Buddha.' I am a psychologist. Have I reached a certain level in Buddhism? I just don't know it myself." This was Gu Ran's own homework.

“Yes,” Master Achuk replied.

"So do I still need to start from the first method?"

“You don’t learn, you practice.”

Gu Ran nodded.

“You know that ‘to realize the mind is to be a Buddha’ and you understand its principle, but you have not truly realized it.

“As a bodhisattva of the first stage, I can tell you with certainty: You are truly compassion and the Buddha. As long as you can be fully aware, you are fully capable of achieving the highest good for yourself, all people, things, and objects.

"Specifically for you, it means curing illnesses and saving lives, and marrying four or five wives at the same time, which are all things you are capable of doing."

"Master, aren't we abstaining from sex?" Gu Ran asked.

"The Sumooth Wisdom Sutra is right. The core of Buddhist practice is indeed the mind. So we start with the mind. When you have a gentle and compassionate heart as the foundation, you can naturally develop other virtues, such as abstinence from sex."

Gu Ran nodded again.

"You look so full of energy that it's almost leaking out. You must have started to quit masturbation."

"Hahahahahaha!" The eavesdropping writer laughed wildly. He lived up to his name 'Li Xiaoye', his laughter could shake the mountains and fields.

"My fellow countrymen, great news! Gu Ran has given up sex and is going to become a monk!"

"Li Xiaoye, get off the table!" Nurse Li Hui shouted.

But it was too late. The nurses gathered around curiously, and Su Qing and He Qingyan also stood behind Gu Ran.

Master Achuk remained unmoved.

Gu Ran felt like sitting on pins and needles.

"Doctor Gu, after giving up sex to this extent, do you feel that your mind is more scattered than before you gave up sex?"

Everyone looked at Gu Ran curiously.

Gu Ran really hopes that they can each take care of their own things.

".Yes." he replied.

"It's not that you did something wrong, nor is abstaining from sex useless. When I first started learning Buddhism, I also felt that Buddhism was boring and useless, and I was irritated. It was only after many years that I gradually realized that it was not that I didn't learn it at that time, but that I made progress and became more aware.

“That night in Tianshan, after the lecture, when the Buddha left and the gods went back to their own places, I saw you on the auspicious clouds transforming into a black dragon, breaking through the clouds and falling into the human world. This does not mean that you have entered the devil’s way, but that you have become more aware.

“Although the path is different, it is also similar to Professor Zhuang Jing’s [Spiritual World], except that your heart is still unstable—you are afraid, so you escape; you are angry, so you destroy; you are sympathetic, so you save.”

"It's so mysterious, it's just feudal superstition." Li Xiaoye, who plans to write a science fiction novel next book, expressed disdain.

"Li Xiaoye, if you are willing to learn from me for three days, then you will no longer regard Buddhism as a religion, but as a discipline, a method of exploring your own experience through techniques," said Master Aqiu.

"Three days? I can't quit masturbating in just one day!"

"But I see that you are weak on your feet. You may not have enough energy in ten days."

"You, you, you slander!"

"Alas." Master Aqiu sighed, "People in this world are ignorant and don't believe the true words of the Bodhisattva. Well, you pee in my mouth now, and I will prove to you that I am a Bodhisattva of the first level. Watch how I drink urine like drinking tea."

The phantom stinky writer immediately took off his pants.

"They're sick! They're sick!" the old tug-of-war man shouted.

"Let me go! I want to pee!" Two male nurses hugged Li Xiaoye.

Amid the feminine screams of the old man playing tug-of-war, Li Xiaoye actually urinated, but he did not take off his pants.

Master Aqiu dipped his fingers in the urine on the ground and calmly extended his thick tongue. Gu Ran quickly held him down.

After being comforted and injected with sedatives, Master Aqiu, the stinky hallucination writer, and the tug-of-war old man finally calmed down.

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"Don't take everything a mentally ill person says seriously." Gu Ran ended with this.

Having said that, Gu Ran still pondered over Master Aqiu's words. What exactly does the black dragon represent?
"Then, Doctor Gu, have you started to quit masturbating?" Gege was curious about this.

"Dr. Gu just doesn't have a sex life." Xie Xiya spoke for Gu Ran.

"That's even worse!" Gege shouted loudly.

If this were a classroom, everyone in the class would probably have heard it.

You talk as if you have a sex life—Gu Ran retorted in his heart.

"I don't have a girlfriend, so it's normal not to have sex." In fact, he couldn't mock her, so he could only defend himself, "Don't you have any club activities at noon? What are you doing in the infirmary?"

"Japanese people will quit clubs in their senior year of high school, let alone us Chinese," said Gege.

"Then why don't you go study? What are you doing in the infirmary?"

"There are beds for lunch breaks and it's quiet for study."

"Go ahead." Gu Ran indicated the end of the conversation.

"Doctor Gu, let me ask you a question," Gege laughed excitedly, "Are you a boy or a man?"

Before Gu Ran answered, Gege lowered her eyes, changing from a bold sitting posture where her safety pants could be seen to a posture with her legs together.

".I'm going to study." she said.

"Yeah." Gu Ran's tone softened.

"I'm going to study too." Xie Xiya said.

The two studied face to face at Yang Yun's desk.

Their long exercise book had just been opened like an imperial edict, and Chen Ke was about to whisper to Gu Ran about Concubine Li when there was a knock on the door.

"Please come in." Chen Ke said.

"Hello, teacher." Lady Li walked in.

Then she looked at Gege and Xie Xiya, and to her surprise, both of them ignored her.

Especially Gege, who was curled up and reading the questions seriously.

The rumors are not entirely false. Once she starts studying, Gege will immediately become serious, and when she plays, she has more fun than anyone else.

Although Gege has just arrived, her attitude towards life and study, as well as her relationship with Xie Xiya, has made her envied and admired by many students.

"Is there anything wrong?" Gu Ran asked Lady Li.

"Teacher Gu, I'm looking for you." said Lady Li.

"Find me?"

Xie Xiya stopped writing, and after a second, she started to replace the pen refill.

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Personal Diary: Wednesday, September 11, Hard as Corundum

I chatted with Master Aqiu today, and he said a lot of philosophical words. Among them, the one about the [Black Dragon Dream] left a deep impression on me, so I wrote it down now.

“You are afraid, so you flee; you are angry, so you destroy; you are compassionate, so you save.”

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"Doctor's Diary":
Li Xiaoye was said to have fallen ill due to a loss of libido – had his writing ability also declined, forcing him to resort to psychotic hallucinations?
Master Aqiu tried to drink urine today - in order to prove the existence of Bodhisattva, he was desperate, and perhaps that was why he took the black dragon's matter seriously.

(Zhuang Jing’s comment: Are these the essence of their illness?)
(End of this chapter)