Journey to the West: I want to be sanctified

Chapter 3 Master Teaching the Dharma
In the early morning, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and everything is revived.

In the Dongyue Temple, an old Taoist priest was wearing an almost pure white Taoist robe and a Taoist hairpin on his head. He stood under the statue of Emperor Dongyue, and in front of him stood a trembling little boy who had just learned to walk.

"Good disciple, a year ago, I met you on the way down the mountain, and I don't know who put you under the peony flowers.

My Taoists talk about the number of days, and you can’t go against the sky, so I will accept you as an apprentice for the time being. Now that you are one year old, I should give you a name. There is a saying that a person must not be nameless, and a tree must not be barkless. What do you think? "

The trembling little boy is Zhou Yin. After the old Taoist priest carried the baby up the mountain a year ago, relying on the plant slurry and the milk of captive goats, Zhou Yin passed the lactation period safely, and now he is almost full teeth.

During this year, Zhou Yin has been thinking about where he has traveled to every day. Due to physical limitations, he cannot speak, nor can he explore the world in person. Now that he has just learned to walk, he was summoned by his master to the main hall of Dongyue Temple.

Zhou Yin looked at the old Taoist priest in front of him, nodded slightly, and even lost his balance because of nodding, and almost fell down.

He stood up again, put his chubby hands together, made a hand salute, and said in a childish voice, "Okay."

The old Taoist nodded and stroked his pure white long beard.

"My Taoist school is different from ordinary people. I pay attention to doing what I want. A person's name is the beginning of life. Although I have raised you for a year, I will not name you at will, so as not to affect your future destiny. There was a senior Taoist who said, 'I My fate is up to me', would you like to name yourself?" The old Taoist said these few words, and Zhou Yin's small body was full of doubts.

Which dynasty is this? Wasn’t it all a feudal society in ancient times? One day was a teacher and a lifelong father, and the words of the matchmaker were ordered by the parents. Why did my master give me a name?This is what I mean by my name?
But just to save trouble, the master gave me another name, and I still have to get used to it for a long time, maybe it took a long time, and I forgot my real name in the previous life.

Zhou Yin thought for a while, then spit out two words in a childish voice, "Zhou, Yin."

After Zhou Yin said his name, the air in the whole temple seemed to lose a bit of popularity and a little more deserted, as if something had changed in the world, and it seemed that nothing had changed.

When the old Taoist heard it, his eyes lit up, and then he smiled happily, "Hahaha, Zhou Yin, Zhou Yin, hidden within the sky and hidden outside the heaven and earth, with a good name, my disciple really has the qualifications to cultivate Taoism!"

When Zhou Yin heard it, the master he had picked up could really speak, and he didn't even know that his name could be interpreted in this way. Let the old Taoist priest to tell the fortune and test the characters to name him, and he probably has strong professional ability.

But practice?

Zhou Yin sensitively grasped the key word in the old Taoist's language: cultivating Taoism.

Could this be a cultivation world?Looking up at the huge statue of Emperor Dongyue above, Zhou Yin's heart exploded.

Going to the sky and entering the earth, moving mountains and seas, calling the wind and calling the rain, and looking forever?

"Master, what is cultivating the Tao?" Zhou Yin held back the throbbing in his heart, the innocent baby's chubby face, and the big eyes flashed just right doubts.

The old Taoist saw that the apprentice he picked up was so smart, so he just pretended to ask, but he didn't expect that his apprentice really gave him a name.Now he is still asking what is cultivating the Tao, and he deserves to be a good seed for cultivating the Tao.

"Cultivating the Tao means that people follow the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature." The old Taoist stroked his long beard leisurely.

Zhou Yin couldn't help but wanted to ask if he could live forever, but felt that it didn't fit his personality, so he continued to ask in doubt: "I don't understand, so please ask Master to clarify."

The old Taoist priest who had never taken any apprentices nodded in satisfaction, "Practice the Tao, practice the Tao, practice the Tao, be at ease and quiet."

Zhou Yin didn't get the answer he wanted.

"Master, can cultivating the Tao lead to longevity?"

The old Taoist was taken aback, "Longevity? There are many stories about cultivating Taoism and becoming immortal, but I have never seen one who can live forever. There may be immortals in this world, but I am already over 80 years old, and I have never seen an immortal god."

"However, apprentice, you have been thinking about life and death since you were one year old. You are really a wizard in cultivating the Tao. Perhaps, you can really cultivate to a level that I have never seen before."

Zhou Yin didn't dare to ask any more, the old Taoist priest had already brought enough surprises today, and he was afraid that if he continued to ask, the old Taoist priest couldn't bear it.

"Zhou Yin, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?" The old Taoist looked straight and asked Zhou Yin sharply.

Zhou Yin was taken aback, looked at the serious old Taoist priest, and asked puzzledly, "Master, aren't you already my master?"

"A year ago, you couldn't speak, and you didn't have a name. I just took you in in the name of master and apprentice. My Taoism governs by doing nothing. It is quiet and natural, and I am not good at causing cause and effect. Now, you can speak and have your own identity." name, you can formally become a teacher, I ask you as a teacher, would you like to worship me as a teacher and become a member of my Taoist sect?"

Zhou Yin looked at the serious old Taoist priest, thinking that if he hadn't been brought back to be raised by the old Taoist priest, he might have died under the peony.The kindness of dripping water can be repaid by springs, and the kindness of upbringing is not too much to ask for a teacher.

"Zhou Yin is willing to worship you as a teacher." After finishing speaking, Zhou Yin bowed three times and kowtowed nine times, completing the simple ceremony of apprenticeship.

The old Taoist was full of emotion, and his stern expression melted into a smile on his face.

"Good student, since you have already apprenticed as a teacher, then master, I will pass on the formula to you today. You must keep in mind that this formula is the mental method of refining qi. It can strengthen your body and keep fit if you practice it every day. Eliminate, worry-free for a hundred years."

Zhou Yin quickly calmed down and listened carefully to Master's teaching.

"&%...￥#!"

There are only a few dozen words in the formula, and Zhou Yin can remember it firmly after listening to it once, but he is still in the fog and doesn't know how to practice.

After reciting the mantra, the old Taoist priest walked out of the main hall, looked at the newborn sun in the east, and summoned Zhou Yin to come out.

Zhou Yin ran to the threshold of the main hall with small steps, tried his best to turn over and cross the threshold, and got some dust on the cotton-made clothes.

"Every day when the sun is born, you can only practice by reciting the mantra silently, and then cooperate with this set of exercises." After finishing speaking, the old Taoist made a gesture and signaled Zhou Yin to follow suit.

How can there be a sense of sight of radio gymnastics?

Zhou Yin thought silently in his heart.

Due to physical limitations, Zhou Yin couldn't do most of the movements completely, and would fall if he took a stride.

With the formula, I didn't feel any changes.

After completing the Qi refining operation, the old Taoist exhaled slowly and called it a day.

"The master leads the door, and the practice depends on the individual. The exercises and formulas that the master has learned all his life have been passed on to you, and then it depends on your own comprehension. From tomorrow, you will start to practice."

The old Taoist officially accepted disciples today, and he taught the Dharma again. In addition to exercising his body just now, he immediately felt refreshed.

Satisfied, he walked out of the main hall, and the old Taoist returned to the wing room, changed into coarse clothes, and took a hoe to tidy up the vegetable field next to him.

While weeding, he muttered, "What should I have for breakfast?"

Zhou Yin stood blankly at the entrance of the main hall, facing the rising sun, as if he was still reminiscing the formulas and exercises.

The rising sun stretched Zhou Yin's shadow long.

Zhou Yin only had a short sentence in his heart:

"This is a fake cultivation world."

(End of this chapter)