Tai Xuan Jing

He sat there for two days and two nights. In the early morning of the third day, the sun jumped out of the ground and sprinkled pieces of golden light. The fog in the mountain forest was dispelled by the sunlight, and every green leaf seemed to be breathing.

Li Qianmo slowly collected his energy and stood up, confused and said to himself: "Why didn't my cultivation level decrease after suffering a serious injury, but instead increased to the third level of Dharma Aspect?"

He frowned and pondered for a moment, then suddenly said to himself: "Could it be because of the relationship with the bell? I heard that the first dual cultivation of male and female monks can greatly improve the cultivation base, especially the primordial yin of the virgin can greatly improve the cultivation base. .”

He thought about it for a while, and felt that there was only such a possibility. When he thought of the bell, he couldn't help feeling sad, and sighed: "It's all right now, I don't have the face to see the peacock or the bell." Take a walk along the forest path.

With steady feet, he walked out of the forest in half an hour and set foot on the official road.

He was confused and didn't know where to go, so he simply chose a direction and walked forward, found a place where he could rest and practice meditation, and then continued on his way.

Three months later, it was late autumn and the weather turned cold. Li Qianmo walked from the south of the Song Dynasty to the west of the Song Dynasty.

The western frontier of the Song Kingdom is very desolate, and it is not always possible to find a family or a town every few hundred miles. The temperature difference between day and night here is extremely large. It is hot and scorching at noon, but cold and windy at night.

Li Qianmo has been walking in the mortal world, so that he can hide his identity. He was bored and wandering. After walking for three days, he finally saw a small town in front of him.

In this desolate place, the town was also very dilapidated. When he entered the town and inquired about it, he realized that it was the westernmost town in the Song Kingdom, and further west was a desolate desert with no human habitation.

It was noon, and Li Qianmo was drinking in a small wine shop in the town. It was dry and hot here, and drinking here was ten times more enjoyable than drinking anywhere else.

The drunkenness was high, and suddenly there was a commotion in the street. Li Qianmo turned his head and saw a group of people watching the fun. Inside, four tall middle-aged people were punching and kicking a person.

"Old thing, how dare you steal something, court death..."

"Hit hard, this old thing is very durable..."

The four were beating and cursing with arrogance.

Seeing this, Li Qianmo frowned, walked to the crowd in two or three steps, stretched out his hand and pulled the four middle-aged men out, and threw them aside, only to see an old monk crouching at the foot of the wall with his head in his hands. The robe was in tatters and extremely dirty, the color could no longer be distinguished, and the pair of monk shoes under his feet were even more tattered, four of the five toes were exposed, and there was a big hole in the sole of the shoe.

The old monk felt that those people stopped their hands suddenly, and slowly lowered his hands to look.

Li Qianmo saw the appearance of this old monk now, he was extremely old, with a haggard complexion, wrinkled face, and his sparse white beard seemed to be gone at any time, looking at him like that, it seemed that he would not live for a few months.

"Where did you come from, you are looking for death!" The four middle-aged men saw that Li Qianmo suddenly came to make trouble, and they were very angry. They roared and punched Li Qianmo.

Li Qianmo took a step back, and released a burst of true energy from his body, which acted on the fist of the big man. The fist of the big man immediately drew an arc, and hit him back, right in the face.

With a scream of "ah", the big man was punched by himself and fell to the ground, bleeding from his nose and mouth.

The other three were also going to come up to clean up Li Qianmo, but when they saw that the big man was injured so strangely, they were startled and stared at Li Qianmo in horror, not daring to go forward.

Li Qianmo glanced at them coldly, with a cold light in his eyes, the four trembled as if they were being shocked by electricity, and without saying a word, they turned away from the crowd and slipped away.

The spectators around thought that there would be a good show, but they didn't expect it to end like this. They all shook their heads in disappointment and dispersed in twos and threes.

Li Qianmo turned around and came to the old monk. The old monk hurriedly got up, smiled and said, "Thank you, Xiao Tanyue, for your help." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and handed over half a steamed bun, and said with a smile, "A certain family has nothing, so they can only steal it." For a steamed bun, I will give you half as a thank you."

Li Qianmo glanced at the steamed bun in his hand, and found that the snow-white steamed bun was covered with a lot of dirt and black fingerprints, how could such a steamed bun be eaten.

He could only shake his head with a smile: "Master, you are welcome, let me treat you to something, don't eat steamed buns."

The old monk's eyes lit up when he heard the words, he looked at Li Qianmo, and said, "Okay, thank you, little Tanyue."

Li Qianmo brought the old monk to a hotel and ordered some vegetarian dishes and a pot of green tea. After eating three bowls of rice, the old monk wiped his mouth with his dirty sleeve and said, "Thank you, little Tanyue, for your generosity. A certain family will go first." There will be a period later." He said and was about to get up and leave.

"Master, stop!" Li Qianmo hurriedly called him to stop.

"What else is there for little Tanyue?" The old monk turned around and asked suspiciously.

Li Qianmo cupped his hands and said, "I had a meal with the master, and I still don't know the name of the master."

The old monk smiled and said, "What about the dharma name? A certain family has not used it for many years, and I forgot it long ago. You can call a certain family a foolish monk."

"Stupid monk?" Li Qianmo asked puzzled, "Stupid stupid?"

"Exactly." Monk Yu smiled and nodded, "Everyone in the world is wise, but I am the only one who is stupid."

Li Qianmo was startled when he heard the words, then smiled and said: "Master is too modest. Although I met Master by chance, since I have this fate, I would like to ask Master some questions, and I hope Master will give me some advice."

"I don't dare to teach you." Monk Yu said sternly, "Tanyue just ask, a certain family knows everything."

"Does the master have anything to do with Jialan Temple?" Li Qianmo stared at the monk Yu to prevent him from lying, and observed the subtle changes in his expression with the Tianzi Wangqi technique.

Monk Yu smiled, and said calmly: "A certain family used to be a disciple of Jialan Temple, but later left Jialan Temple and became an ascetic monk."

"As expected." Li Qianmo murmured, "No wonder you were beaten by so many people without any injuries. Although I can't see your cultivation level, but judging by the way you hold your breath, you should be a real master."

Monk Yu smiled lightly and shook his head: "A real person is a Taoist statement."

"Oh? Then what is the name of the four-level master of Hedao in Buddhism?" Li Qianmo suddenly became interested. He knew little about Buddhism, so he was very curious.

The foolish monk picked up the teapot and drank it clean, sighed and wiped his mouth, and said: "Buddhas call the master of the first level of the way of harmony the master, the second level of the way of harmony is called the guru, the third level of the way of harmony is the Zen master, and the fourth level of the way of harmony is called the master." A bhikkhu, if he has attained the four great perfections of the path, he is a great bhikkhu."

"Oh..." Li Qianmo nodded and smiled, thinking it was very interesting. After thinking about it, he asked again, "Then Zhenjun and Daozun also have other names in Buddhism."

"That's right." Monk Yu nodded with a smile, "The true king is called King Ming or Vajra in Buddhist schools. As for Dao Zun, we call him Buddha in Buddhist schools."

"So that's how it is." Li Qianmo said happily after hearing this for the first time, "I didn't expect that the Buddhist name for cultivation is like this. I have gained a lot of experience. By the way, the master just said that he became an ascetic monk. What? Call it an ascetic?"

The foolish monk said: "Ascetic monks are not accepted by the big temples, and the monks who are not kept in the small temples. They have been walking outside, sitting on the ground under the roof, eating the wind and drinking the dew, tasting the suffering of the world, and enlightening Buddhism from it."

Li Qianmo was startled when he heard the words, and said puzzledly: "With such a profound cultivation level of the master, these are not really hardships."

The foolish monk shook his head: "Since a certain family wants to be an ascetic monk, it is natural to seal the whole body. You must sleep when you are tired, eat when you are hungry, and drink when you are thirsty. It is exactly the same as ordinary people."

"Ah!" Li Qianmo exclaimed in surprise when he heard the words, and shook his head after a while and sighed, "Master, why bother?"

"Why bother?" The foolish monk smiled and shook his head when he heard the words, and said slowly, "You can only realize it through painstaking efforts. If you don't experience all kinds of things in the world, how can you experience the supreme truth?" He paused, and then said, "Actually, practicing the Tao It is the same principle as practicing Buddhism. In the end, they are all pursuing the supreme truth, the existence of nothingness. However, before reaching that state, all living beings will gain powerful power through practice, and this power may guide them to find what they want. The Tao and the Dharma are true, but it is also possible for sentient beings to indulge in it and lose their direction, you understand what a certain family means."

Li Qianmo was stunned when he heard the words, carefully tasted what the monk said, and suddenly found that his words were eloquent, and suddenly felt enlightened. The proverbs made the younger generation suddenly enlightened, and the younger generation admired it!"

"Zhi Zhe is fart!" Hearing this, Monk Yu suddenly cursed angrily, turned around and left.

Li Qianmo froze on the spot when he heard the words, he didn't expect this eminent monk to have such a strange temperament, turning his face was like turning over a book, it really made him feel baffled.