Chapter 112: No Zen, Many Emotions, and the Way

There is a temple built a thousand years since the temple, it will be the main door closed forever, whether it is the emperor and generals to come, or ordinary people burning incense, have never opened.

This mountain temple out of countless high priests, the most recent one is the most famous, commonly known as Yang Tai Sui, is now two dynasties of the emperor, the future is very likely to be three dynasties. The number of monks who have passed away in the temple in various dynasties is recorded at over 3,000, of which more than 200 have been ordained as state masters. Starting from the Hinayana Zen method to the Zen of stopping the view, then to the Northern Wei Dynasty when thirty-six bodhisattvas in the flesh opened the translation site on the mountain at the same time and the Buddha’s light shone brightly, and then to the Zen ancestor Ichiyo, who realized the fruit of supreme Buddha eight hundred years ago, crossed the sea and taught the Mahayana wall view, and finally became the ancestor court of Buddhism.

In recent centuries, the Buddha and the Taoist struggle, every ten years with the Taoists to argue the high and the low, the Sakyamuni by the monks in this temple to go to sit with the Longhu Mountain and discuss the Tao. But with the Taoist ancestor of the hierarchy of different, here there are not too many rules to speak, anyone can go to the mountain, the mountain everywhere to go. Here, the mountain high temple high monument high tower high Buddhism high, mountain high, but as the temple named two chan general sloppy confused, always without a name.

This is the world’s first two Chan Temple.

Some people this temple said the reason why it is called the two Zen, is to repair from the Zen and other Zen, that is, Zen themselves and Zen people. But more than a thousand long years, as if there is not a unified official statement, two Zen Temple has never spoken to explain.

The back of the mountain at the foot of a pagoda forest, for the two Zen Monastery generations of monks buried, a total of more than 1,000, tomb towers of different sizes, each with engraved inscriptions, a glance at the forest as Maolin. Two Zen Temple intention did not take this as a forbidden place, just believers in piety, do not dare to step on, over time, there are fewer people to come here to observe. Tower on the edge of a thousand Buddha Hall, painted on the wall up to hundreds of meters of painted boxing spectrum, the floor of the temple has one hundred and eight pits, rumored to be the Lohan tread footprints, a thousand people to see a thousand kinds of boxing, so there is a world of boxing out of two Zen’s acclaim.

The east side of the temple has a small cottage, perennial resident of a nameless white monk, if not the bald head clad in robes, how to see is not a monk, this white middle-aged monks not only drink and eat meat, the most outrageous thing is that he has a married a daughter-in-law! He even has a daughter who has grown up in the temple since she was a child!

How to look at all the evil stains of the middle-aged drunken monk fortunately, in addition to the life is not enough discipline, and do not make trouble with others, only a small disciple of the same good-tempered, coupled with the daughter’s lively nature, like to climb up and down the mountain, the temple that is said to be the longest presiding officer of the time will be very fond of this doll, the white-robed monks several times unintentionally break into trouble, the precepts in the courtyard of the old-fashioned monks chased after the chastisement, then let his daughter to the abbot’s room to ask for a few strings of sugar gourds to solve the problems. Ask for a few strings of sugar gourds to quench their thirst, the old host as long as the little girl, will immediately eliminate the anger, a hundred times tried and true. This guard tower forest of the middle-aged monk brought out of the disciple is not simple, a young age has become a temple in the lecture monk, to be clad in the left shoulder of the light red robes, the little monk law name of a Zen, very strange, but compared to his master’s name, it does not seem peculiar.

Windy and sunny good time, the poor little monk sitting in front of the hut scrubbing a large basin of master teacher’s wife’s clothing, sighing, Lantern Festival day to go to the mountain to see the lanterns, the result of accidentally was something pulled to Longhu Mountain, in the master of the house also said a few words with Mr. White Lotus, fortunately not be shut down and beaten up, can be back to the temple on the disaster, the teacher’s wife really is lazy, so many dirty clothes are not clean, piled up in the house is not too stinky, have to wait until they return to the temple. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to wait until I’m back in the temple. And sneak out to play is clearly something of the idea, the master teacher’s wife to see something or so kind, turn to look at me will change the face, eat even the bowl of rice is much less, alas, this time something is and the teacher’s wife went down the mountain to buy rouge and water powder, the master in fact, quite poor, hidden in the bottom of the bed storage of the money of the mantle, the cow years will be able to put a full of copper plate oh.

Thatched cottage out of a drunken white monk, tall, sitting on his butt next to the little monk, the same is a bitter face.

The little monk was not even happy to look at it.

In fact, the master is not easy ah.

The little monk scrubbed his clothes to the waist and back pain, a hundred boredom, had to casually ask: “Master, when I went up the mountain, I heard that the temple came to the south of the famous monks, and Abbot Huineng grabbed the turf it, who do you think can win?”

The white-robed monk yawned, and said without a good mood, “Foreign monks are good at reading scriptures, besides, your Huineng master uncle’s fighting skills are almost the same as yours, most likely he can’t snatch it from someone else.”

The little monk skimmed his mouth, indignantly said, “You refuse to teach me profound martial arts, I can have what method, thousand Buddha Hall on the three walls of the boxing spectrum, read for so many years, I really do not see powerful ah.”

This master is not half responsible perfunctorily said: “so something that you are stupid well.”

Stupid north and south old breath sighs: “Master, do you think I can toss out the sherpa in this life? If I can’t, I think it’s better to go and practice martial arts, stuff always likes to run down the mountain, I’m afraid she’ll be bullied, I can’t fight.”

The white-robed monk thought for a moment and said, “In that case, then you first take those eight or nine year old young sanyas in the temple who are just practicing kung fu as sandbags to beat them up, and after beating them up you’ll become an expert.”

The young monk was full of indignation, “This is something you said a long time ago, last year I listened to you to beat up a little sanyasi, as a result, the other master ran to scold, you are good, directly slipped away, causing the master’s mother to almost pull down my ears!”

The middle-aged monk pretended to be surprised ah, pretended to be confused and said, “There is this thing?”

Resigned to his fate, the young monk lowered his head and rubbed his dirty clothes fiercely.

Half the sound did not move, the little monk turned his head to look at, found the master looking up at the cloudless sky dazed, could not help but ask: “Master, see what?”

The white-robed monk stretched out a finger and nodded.

The young monk instinctively went to look at the master’s finger first, and was soon knocked on the chestnut by the master, lecturing, “Saying you’re stupid and still unconvinced, I’ve already pointed it out for you, what are you looking at? This kind of blunt enlightenment, and still want to die and burn out the Sharizi?”

Stupid north and south of the water-soaked hand first wiped his pants, which rubbed the small bald head, ready to break the pot to ask to the end, otherwise it will be beaten in vain: “Master, you haven’t said exactly what to see.”

Master said in a serious manner: “Look at the moon.”

Little monk white eyes: “Master in broad daylight you can see?”

No wonder the master’s name is “No Zen”.

The white-robed monk lifted his head and said softly, “Alas, when I first met your master’s wife, it was in front of the flowers and under the moon. Stupid North and South, Master misses your master’s mother again.”

The young monk said angrily, “If you miss it, then you miss it, what are you doing telling me!”

The master asked, “Don’t you want to think about things?”

The stupid north and south immediately giggled, washing clothes also a few points more diligent, naive said: “want na, how do not want.”

The master is another chestnut down, and then said in a serious way: “You want something, with the master to say why? Knowing that the thing is my daughter, said but also be beaten by me, you this fool, the teacher white teach you so many difficult Buddhist teachings.”

The little monk said angrily: “You hit again, beware of hitting an epiphany ah, then I become a Buddha on the ground, so I can burn out the relics, to see things still ignore you!”

Master disdained: “epiphany ah, is the master I teach you, as for the relics, for the master is not even look at the eye, in front of me to act what a good man, have the ability to go to the thing and your master’s wife where the big voice.”

The little monk’s heart is sad and angry, silent.

Beside this master, stupid north and south is also down the mountain only after knowing the master than they imagine to be a little deeper than Buddhism, there is a statement under the mountain, also grew up in the mountains of the master in the six years of Ganluo, all over the world of the scriptures, feel that the sects, all the sayings of the complexity of the different, no artisanal decision, the master said that to vow to donate their lives, to go 10,000 miles away to seek a “big book! “So he traveled west to seek the Dharma, and he was gone for fifteen years, and Ruta Mountain in the western region was far enough, wasn’t it? But the master wanted to go farther, seeking the Yogacara to unify the different schools of thought, in the far west of a temple for ten years, proficient in fifty sutras, Ganryu 31 years back, to the city of Tai’an, it is said that even His Majesty the emperor personally came out of the palace to welcome, hundreds of thousands of onlookers on the sidewalks, scrambling to see the white monk’s elegance. That is why there is a snow pavilion in the temple, the late emperor’s royal pen personally inscribed “white snow seal heart pearl” five words.

If only here, the little monk stupid north and south will certainly feel to listen to the story, and then the master in the temple put forward the standing on the ground to become a Buddha, which is contrary to the orthodoxy of Zen, the result of the master’s fifteen-year trip into a farce, almost driven out of the two Zen temples, the master’s so-called “raise their hands and feet, are all in the Taoist temple, it is the heart is the emotion, the same sea of nature,” but also only in recent years Only in recent years to be slightly recognized, no matter how, the capital hundreds of thousands of people kneeling together to worship Buddha’s light is no longer, good in the master has a point very let the little monk admiration, how the mountain people how to see how to refute, are far less than the master or something a sentence top, something some times just a sentence said heavy, the master have to be sad for a long time.

White-robed monk smiled and said, “Stupid north and south, master already do not have that mind to fight with people, the epiphany one, in the future will rely on you to carry forward the light.”

The little monk was nervous and said, “Master, don’t, you have the master’s wife, but don’t I have something? Mostly I won’t be able to take care of your Zen.”

The white-robed monk looked a bit chagrined, touched his big bald head, and laughed, “Really envy you this idiot ah, Master already has no Zen to attend ah.”

The little monk sighed along with him.

Master said softly, “It’s going to rain.”

“It can’t be, in the sun?”

“It will always rain.”

“Master.”

“Huh?”

“You always talk nonsense na?”

“Isn’t that what the scriptures say?”

“Keep your voice down, if the presiding abbots hear you, they’ll have to deduct our coins again.”

“Tacky, just like that you still want to burn out relics?”

“What? I originally have no money to give things to buy rouge before thinking of going to become a Buddha, or else I’d be too full to go and burn myself to seek relics ah?!”

“Oh, not bad, not bad, enlightened and rooted, worthy of being my disciple.”

“Master, in that case, help wash some clothes?”

“Looking for a fight!”

……

Jiangnan Road Huting County is not the most famous fat tribute Lotus peony, but a style of loose widow, surnamed Xu, from the north of the Liang side of the far married, successively killed two husbands, are the local number of scholars son, one had high school high school list, the big DengKe after the small DengKe, this is a great joy, but died, the other is not bad, is the scout, the same in the marriage of the widow of the surname Xu died violently, so the Jiangnan Road are joking and asking the next one should be the scholar suffer, right?

However, this widow recently hooked up with a literati from Jiangxin County next door, that man is the Jiangnan Road is quite elegant and famous official son, his father’s generation is a great man of letters, this person surnamed Liu Li Ting, alias Mr. Cheng Zhai, at the age of fourteen years old can make a gorgeous parallelism, proficient in rhythm, especially the dip qin, and even more famous for the fine cuisine, in the Jiangnan Road scholars in the unique style, the first wife is a big family, virtue and talent, but Liu Li Ting met the widow, and then fell into the trap. The widow then into the devil, heartless to repudiate his wife, would have been just two things, at most in the Jiangnan Road to be made fun of a bit, but Liu Liting wife somehow with the capital of a princess inextricably linked to the Queen, the Queen can be great, the world’s women have to go to read the “Women’s Commandments” from her hand.

Jiangnan Road this scandal into the ear, naturally furious, the lady in the palace is extremely favored, more by Empress Zhao as sisters, so she frowned, compared to the son of heaven is not too far away from the wrath, so Jiangnan Road on the official lords no longer dare to think about watching, and hardened their heads to verbally attack, although Liu Liting wrote a handful of moral essays to let a person clap, it seems that manhood is not too much, a see even the palace! Mothers are angry, immediately enlightened and awake, first wrote a poem sent to the widow’s door, and then went to cry with his wife, more with the usual friendship of a group of elegant high priests complained about how that foxy widow seduced himself, a time poor woman surnamed Xu Chuguo, if not her family’s hard life, has long been drowned in spittle. Liu Liting wife is a special trip to the temple incense, hit her a slap, scolded the slut, the fox charming widow is not annoyed, not angry, just a shallow smile, can not tell whether it is a bitter smile or sneer.

At that time, the scholars who were there to join in the fun were all moved.

The peonies of the Newspaper State Temple were the best in Jiangnan. According to the geography expert, it was proved that the earth of Huting County was the most suitable for peonies, so it was possible to cultivate those beautiful purples and reds that the world was surprised by. At the beginning, the two kinds of peonies that were unique to Huting County, namely, Yao Huang Wei Purple, were sent to the capital as tributes, and when they blossomed and fell for twenty days, the capital city became crazy. In addition to Yao Huang and Wei Zi, which are also known as the queen of peonies, there are also many other precious peonies such as Green Dragon Wolhu, Zhao Powder and Flesh Hibiscus. The biggest customer of the Temple is the widow Xu, who is now being criticized by thousands of people, and she comes to the Temple on the first and fifteenth day of every month to burn incense and pay homage to the temple, regardless of rain or shine. She only loved peony “Zhao powder”, and there was a Zhao powder plant as big as a bucket in the backyard of the temple, with branches and leaves away from Phi, drenched with tufts, staggering out of the eaves of Shuanzhuan, and the sound was absolutely beautiful. Huting County is forced to her exalted family history and eccentric style, this strain of peony almost became her ornamental forbidden domain, today is the fifteenth day of the month, the first day of the month is the day she was slapped by Liu’s wife, she walked into the backyard with a personal maid, left home to get married, with a lot of maidservants and maidservants of her mother’s family servants, but she is not close to the only thing that is only around the cardamom years of the poor origin of the little girl, but there is no reason why I like it very much, she is a very harsh and strict house, and few people in the house, and she has a lot of people who are very happy. Harsh and harsh, there are few slaves in the house who do not fear, only this was named by her called two Qiao’s maid, know the kindness, everywhere to protect the master, today, dismounted into the temple all the way, secretly countless finger pointing, the little maid can not be angry, no one is around at this moment, bitter face to fight the injustice of saying: “Miss, these visitors are really hateful, burning incense will burn incense, good to see the lady! What are you laughing at!”

Widow less than thirty years old pinched the maid’s face, charmingly laughed: “Or you this niece has a conscience.”

The little girl indignantly said, “Miss, that Liu Liting is too much! Those days are he with dog skin plaster general dead pestering miss, in the end also evil first accusation, that group of well read scholar are open-eyed blind it, how all help him speak?!”

The pretty widow couldn’t help herself, bent down and looked at a gorgeous peony, twisted off a small piece of fingernail-sized petals, sniffed, squinted and laughed: “Most of the men in the world aren’t this kind of behavior, what’s so good to be angry, it’s not worth it to be angry with yourself.”

Little girl timidly said: “Miss, say a thing.”

The widow was amused, said: “Yo, thinking of spring? Which scholar have you fallen in love with? You say, if it is really not bad.”

The little girl desperately shook her head, biting her lip, looked up with a resolute face and said: “Miss, Liu Liting’s family that shrew is too hateful, I heard that she often go to the Qing Shan Guan worship, the slave girl wants to go to slap her, begging for the time Miss do not plead on behalf of the two Qiao, the slave girl will be killed if it’s good to be killed, but also for the Miss out of a mouth of bad temper! The slave girl knows that miss is having a bad day, so don’t bother about the slave girl anymore.”

She froze for a moment, her fingers gently twisting the broken petals, dumbfounded, “I didn’t feel sorry for you for nothing. But what are you a little ninny to get involved in, being slapped in the face is being slapped in the face.”

The little girl cried anxiously, full of tears, sobbing: “No, slave girl as long as the thought of Miss bullied for no reason, would like to fight with that shrew. If the slave girl hadn’t been rescued by Miss, she would have been spoiled by the wicked man, the slave girl is not read and don’t know how to read, but when my father and mother were alive, they always said that we should remember other people’s goodness, and the slave girl remembers Miss’s goodness the most!”

The widow wiped away the tears for the little maid and said softly, “Alright, alright, I didn’t want to say it, but seeing as you are like this, I will say it to you so as to reassure you silly girl. I, is intentionally left that slap, you also know that Miss I have a lawless brother, he traveled this trip is very busy, I originally ate this brother is the first to visit his second sister, or come to the Huting County to visit me this big sister, if he heard of this slap, but not properly rushed to me here? His second sister, the heart of the world, do not care about this, I can not, always like to fight. In life, it is rare not to suffer, this is my few pleasures.”

Little Niece nodded vigorously and said, “En! Slave girl knows, Miss’s brother is His Royal Highness, the subordinates in the mansion always love to whisper about His Royal Highness, but every time they see me, they are silenced.”

The widow dotingly rubbed the little nymph’s ears and laughed, “With you as a pair of smooth ears, how would the mansion dare to break their mouths, and once I know about it, would they not be flayed?”

The little girl finally broke into a smile.

It seemed that every time her own young lady spoke of that Highness, she was in an extremely good mood.

The widow’s frown really relaxed a few points, the corner of her mouth smiled and said, “This younger brother of mine, he has always been good looking since he was a child, the peonies at home are not planted much, every time the flowers bloomed, I would drag him to go and enjoy the flowers, and pick them off and put them on his head, he was even prettier than a girl. It’s a pity that it’s going to rain in a few days, I don’t know if he’ll be able to make it in time for this blossoming.”

The little girl wiped her face with her sleeve and innocently said, “The Bodhisattva will surely bless Miss that it won’t rain ah.”

The widow murmured softly, “How could the little girl understand the bitterness of the relentless wind and rain breaking up the sentient wind and flow.”

Nizi who couldn’t really hear asked curiously, “What did Miss say?”

The widow teased, “You wouldn’t understand even if you said it.”

Seemingly afraid that this little maid will still do something stupid, the widow softly said, “When this younger brother of mine arrives in Jiangnan Road, you will know how those high ranking scholars and rich children who usually have their eyes on the top don’t count as a thing.”

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The top of the mountain is the purple and yellow nobleman piled up Tianshifu, the foot of the mountain is only a pair of master and disciple rely on each other’s dilapidated old Taoist temple.

Do master of the old Taoist in order to this closed disciple to be able to advance, can be said to be worn out, at first the old Taoist pressure box stunt big dream spring and autumn, which even the four great heavenly masters are not allowed to the door of the Taoist tradition of the secret art, that the disciple how to not learn, listen to the unwillingness to listen to, until the old Taoist a day of cold enlightenment, holding the letter of the Northern Liang Shizi His Highness intentionally said that it is Xu Fengyin said in the letter, hope that the yellow barbarians to learn a study of the door can be a sleep! Five hundred years of Spring and Autumn Taoism, the result is really a mistake, the idiot disciple then perked up his ears, really attentive to learn the “Dream Spring and Autumn”.

Recite this door is not difficult, difficult in how to run the qi, the big yellow court for thick, dream spring and autumn is the opposite, seeking thin, practiced to the pinnacle of the mystery, the body is almost no qi, only “a gas”, the old Taoist monk the reason why he valued his disciple Xu Longxiang, not far away from thousands of miles of whispering to beg the king of Beiliang, it is precisely because of the Xu Longxiang was born with godly strength, born to the It is the horror of the realm of the diamond, if you learn Dream Spring and Autumn, really is the yin and yang complement each other, such as a tiger to add wings, dragon and tiger old Taoist Zhao Xituan why ever do not hope that the mountain appeared a second qi xuan frame qi immortal? As for whether Xu Longxiang from Tianshifu, Zhao Xituan completely do not mind, this life face or behind the back of the Tianshifu said that he deviated from the way of the less people on the Tianshifu?

In the past, Xu Longxiang refused to learn, when the master of the old Taoist priest is a headache, but now Zhao old Tao or headache, the boy went crazy, twelve hours a day are half asleep, half awake, this spring and autumn dream is simply the ancestor to Xu Longxiang tailor-made. The old Taoist was also able to accompany the disciple squatting to see the ants or look at the stream, even if the words, at least there is a listening to his nagging companion, and now the old Taoist has absolutely nothing to do, too boring, only to pinch his fingers and count the son of His Royal Highness what time of the day can come to the Dragon Tiger Mountain.

The old Taoist, who has a very high rank in Longhu Mountain and a very strange temper, is squatting on the bank of Qinglong Stream, fretting about how he can’t see the beautiful young lady who is riding the raft and enjoying the scenery.

The disciple who never speaks out of the Taoist temple for the first time, squatting on the side.

Incredibly pleased old Taoist monk hehehe laughed: “disciple ah, finally out of breath?”

Expectedly there was no response.

The old Taoist said to himself, “My generation has sought a lifetime of Tao, always see not too true, feel the clouds cover the fog, in the end to see you, only to know that this Tao’s not Tao ah.”

Xu Longxiang just look at the stream with eyes without a look.

The old Taoist priest said with emotion, “Before going down the mountain in the next day, the teacher will take you to see an old-timer, if you can hold out for a hundred strokes, it will be enough.”

Huang Barbarian Child picked a leaf at some point and handed it to his master.

The old Taoist took the leaf, but laughed bitterly, “You disciple, Master doesn’t know how to blow a whistle. Yellow Barbarian Child, is missing your brother, right?”

The foolish Xu Longxiang actually smiled and nodded.

The old Taoist had a heart of gold, “Almost when there is hawthorn on the mountain, your brother will arrive.”

Although this old Taoist listened to the advice of the Northern Liang Shizi, when going down the mountain are to dress up properly, but also deliberately with the disciples and grandchildren to borrow a Zhong Kui mahogany sword and so on, but in the mountains is still a sloppy mess, called on the straw shoes are still their own weaving, on the body of the Taoist robes are even more tattered, stained with countless dust.

At this time, yellow barbarian child lowered his head, stretched out his withered yellow arm, patted the dust on the old Taoist, gently patted away.

This life for a word of Taoism, no wife, no children and even no grandchildren of the old Taoist froze on the spot.

Instantly old tears.