Chapter 22: The Path to Refuge Part II
Xu Zeyuan sold the car, sealed all the things related to Lin Jinxi, buried her deep in his heart, put her in a small sealed box in his heart, and locked it. Lao Jia's company was taken over by the current legal person, and he treated Xu Zeyuan with great courtesy, because Song leaders signed a new project with them, and recommended Xu Zeyuan's team to a brother company, and Xu Zeyuan became the company's Dinghai Shenpin.
Xu Zeyuan originally planned to complete his ultimate trip to Tibet, Ali, but his grandmother was ill, and Xu Zeyuan often accompanied him and vowed to fast for his grandmother's recovery. Grandma's health was good and bad, and a year later she went to reunite with Xu Zeyuan's grandfather, and when sorting out her grandmother's relics, he found a key and a ring ruler. Xu's father said that the key is like the key of the Sheng family tree box when his grandfather was in charge of the family tree. The ring ruler is the one that hit Xu Zeyuan, and Xu's father did not mention that he and his brothers have had close contact with it without exception.
Grandma's name was hung on the wall on the right side of the Jizo Hall of Seifuji Temple, and Dao Yi said that it was given by the master's master and that it must be done. But now the recitation of the transcendence of the ancestors of the Xu family is completed by Dao Yi, and the body of the unenlightened is getting worse. Xu Zeyuan often walked up the mountain or stayed down, participated in the Dharma held in the temple, and listened to the first lecture in the temple.
Later, he couldn't even hold out for a long time to preach the Fa, and Xu Zeyuan had more time to go up the mountain. Sometimes he and the masters in the temple attend morning and evening classes together, reciting the "Lengyan Mantra", "Great Compassion Mantra", "Ten Little Mantras", "Heart Sutra", "Eighty-eight Buddha Great Confessions", "Mengshan Shi Shi Yi", "Praise Buddha", "Pure Land Text", "Fuxian Police Verse", "Three Refuge", and recite the Buddha around the Buddha a lot.
The morning bell and dusk drum wake up the world's fame and fortune, and the sound of the Buddha wakes up the lost people in the sea of suffering. Xu Zeyuan saw through the red dust, believed in cause and effect, and finally found the direction on the road of life. If he can remember that his competitiveness was for gain, when he was about to enter middle age, he learned to give up for the sake of calmness.
Xu's mother was happy when she heard that her son occasionally went up the mountain to worship the Buddha, but when she heard that her son was going to become a monk, she immediately united with Ah Chuang to give Xu Zeyuan a scheming beauty.
The mother dragged her son on a blind date, so she pretended to be sick, Xu Zeyuan was no longer the good son who only knew how to be foolish and filial, he would come to the ear of his mother who was lying on the bed to raise his "sick", and said, Mom, let you be a grandmother, is the illness cured?
Mother Xu opened her eyes, sat on the edge of the bed and asked, "Whose girl is pregnant?"
Ah Chuang's daughter-in-law is pregnant again, and I said that if I am born a boy, I will send it to you and be a ready-made grandmother. Xu Zeyuan said with a smile.
Xu's mother cried for a while, and said for a while, thinking that he shouldn't have forced him and Meng Chen to get the certificate in the first place, and then blamed her son, you and Xiaolin are obviously getting better, you just bring her home, what can I say?
Ah Chuang used all the means he used, arranging for the enthusiastic and unrestrained female tenant who fell in love with Xu Zeyuan at first sight to go directly to Xu Zeyuan's bed. Xu Zeyuan cleaned the messy room that was vomited by the hangover girl. Also, with the early morning sun, admiring the naked girl's carcass lying beside him, the girl's white skin was white and dazzling, under the sun, the fine hair reflected a light gold, one by one with the ups and downs of the symmetrical breathing, the girl was half-lying on the side of the bed and fell asleep soundly, Xu Zeyuan looked carefully, couldn't help but stretch out his fingers to touch the fine hairs on her thighs, his eyes slowly moved up to see the girl's half face painted with red lipstick, Xu Zeyuan's hand stopped in mid-air, put a thin blanket on her, and hurriedly left the room- He doesn't bother you to find a theory. After going through the test calendar, he was very confident, except for Lin Jinxi, no one asked him to bow his head and tie his neck, but unfortunately there was no longer a chance to test his will. Except for the reincarnation of cause and effect, which is a major event, other things are insignificant.
Uncle Nineteen also came to persuade him, nothing more than parents, Xu's family always has to have old sayings such as the queen, talking and talking, and saying that believing in Buddhism is repaired, speaking of which, the peak of the words has turned again, you build a Buddhist hall at home to get the best of both worlds.
After tossing for a while, Xu Zeyuan and his 'enemies' temporarily died down, and his biggest fate appeared. Buwu did not praise Xu Zeyuan's intention to become a monk, but always sent him away with the excuse of 'the time has not come' and 'the cause is not enough'. First, Dao Yi got the news, Dao Yi told Ah Chuang, and Ah Chuang told Xu's mother. So Xu Zeyuan's incident of 'seeing through the red dust' seems to be solved.
In the winter, Master Wuwu's strange illness became more and more serious, and he coughed badly, coughing all night, and coughing even while meditating. Xu Zeyuan brought some fritillary and white fungus up the mountain to see the unenlightened, and the unenlightened sat on the couch, and the several cases in front of the couch and the couch were full of Buddhist classics, and the middle of the several cases was the manuscript of the "Lengyan Sutra" that he was annotating.
Xu Zeyuan saluted respectfully and sat down. I didn't understand the pen and kept working, and I didn't pay much attention to Xu Zeyuan.
Unenlightened, the master lost another circle, his cheeks collapsed, and he was pale and bloodless. Xu Zeyuan looked at the unrealized expression and was a little more worried, he said,
Master, I can help you organize your manuscripts and record them into your computer.
Very well, transcribe all of these. Buwu pointed to the thick stacks of manuscript paper under a few cases.
Master, it's a good thing to see through the red dust, and I can do more when I enter the empty door. Xu Zeyuan tried to persuade him again, he was worried about his unenlightened body, and he was also worried that he would not be able to become a true disciple of Master Buwu.
You have taken three refuges and five precepts in the monastery, and I am already your master. It's no secret that you can't see through people's hearts.
The wisdom of Buddhism has not yet been preached.
I stopped writing and said earnestly,
Do you remember the precepts, the practice of labor, filial piety, and the bodhi desire of the heart?
Remember, there are times when you have to take the precepts as a teacher.
Liberation does not necessarily mean that you are a monk, but that the world and birth, life and death and nirvana, existence and non-appearance, knowledge and ignorance are all equal, and from this there is no two methods, you can endure without life, stay away from all troubles and delusions, and enter the realm of nirvana.
Why can Master escape into the empty door? Dao Yi's parents can still escape into the empty door? But I can't? Xu Zeyuan once again asked for enlightenment because of this matter.
Life is a life, grass and trees are autumn, and each has its own fixed number. Get back.
Xu Zeyuan still wanted to argue.
Go ahead! I don't realize that the voice is not loud, but the words are majestic.
Xu Zeyuan exited the meditation room and met Dao Yi who was serving decoction, and the two exchanged glances and turned into a secluded path across the courtyard.
What kind of medicine is this? Xu Zeyuan cared.
Wang Jushi specially invited the heirs of the Chinese medicine family to go up the mountain to show the master and prescribe a prescription.
Have you been to the hospital for a check-up?
The film was photographed, the MRI was done, and nothing was wrong.
The complexion is getting worse and worse.
Now one meal a day, only drink one bowl of clear porridge.
I'm afraid...... Not good.
Dao Yi dragged Xu Zeyuan to a secluded place, and said in a lower voice, the old monk of Sekong said that he was afraid that he was going to perish?
So young, so well learned. Xu Zeyuan felt a pity.
Amitabha Buddha has its own wonderful meaning. The master has already explained that after the destruction, the ashes will be scattered into the lake to feed the fish and shrimp. Dao Yi is reluctant but can't get carried away.
Amitabha. Xu Zeyuan's Buddha name was lost, and his wish to take refuge had not yet been fulfilled.
Senior brother doesn't have to be like this. The Buddha said that everything is impermanent, that it is born and dies in an instant, that it goes and does not stay, that it is only one of them, that cause and effect are continuous, that one can give birth to him, that he is reborn one, that the front wave and the back wave, and that the succession continues. Dao Yi was relieved, and even more enlightened.
I am grateful for my teachings.
After a month, those who did not realize the enlightenment and came from all over the world to see them off, help with the prayers, and observe the prayers were the elders, abbots, monks, and lay people of other monasteries. 49 days later, a cremation ceremony was held, the ceremony respected the master's instructions, everything was simple, Dao Yi picked out the master's ashes, and did not find the relics, but the rosary that had been following was intact. The crowd was amazed and incredible. Later, the rosary was enshrined in the side hall. Xu Zeyuanzai carefully checked it, and there were a total of 90 rosaries intact, and the 18 bracelets that Buwu gave him back then added up to exactly 108, and the material and quality were all uncarved olive pits. Dao Yi confirmed that only Master Buwu held an uncarved olive core rosary in the temple, and the master took 18 of the 108 bracelets and gave them to Xu Zeyuan.
With an unsolved public case, Xu Zeyuan embarked on his ultimate journey - Ali. Unenlightened and unwilling to let Xu Zeyuan become a monk, but they have a lot of origins, from the first time they met 24 years ago, when they were dying, they finally taught: 'Practice at home with peace of mind, you and I will be each other's master and apprentice in life and life'. At this point, I don't realize the eternal silence. Xu Ze will be eternal with unsolved mysteries that cannot be understood, the cycle of cause and effect, the vast sea of people, where to find it? What should I do if I can't find it? Why is it life and death? I can get rid of the suffering of the six realms of reincarnation, can't I get out of the suffering of reincarnation after all?
Xu Zeyuan is alone in the snowy Ali Mountain, he knows this mountain road, Lin Jinxi has walked, believers have walked, he walked for Buwu and Daoyi, but also for his own beliefs, this will eventually become his path of refuge, with compassion, sentient beings and love. He held the rosary in his hand, and while turning the mountain, he recited the Heart Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, and the Stunned Mantra. Ali's silence did not make him lonely and afraid, I don't know if it was sincere or there was a vision, at midnight on the seventh day, Xu Zeyuan meditated on the big bunk in the board room, he tried to visualize, adjust his breathing, his eyes were slightly closed, he breathed in and inhaled, the night turned from dark to bright, there seemed to be no blue humanoid silhouette reflected in the range of vision, his eyes were closed, and he sat down, the more he wanted to see the truth, the blue light and shadow blurred and dissipated, the more he was not tempted, just watching the breath, the blue light and shadow appeared again and became clearer and clearer. I don't know how long it took for him to lie down and fall asleep. In the dream, Xu Zeyuan sat down, looking at his body sleeping on his side, a black shadow was struggling from the color body, painfully detached, and the color body was still sleeping peacefully. At dawn, Xu Zeyuan settled down, recalling the situation of the night, and the illusions and dreams during meditation were vivid.
Xu Zeyuan's turn to the mountain lasted 18 days and 10 laps. He was revealed and enlightened. He thinks that he has broken the color body of the four false combinations in ignorance, and the mental appearance of the six dusts.
After leaving Kailash, he spent more time at Qingfeng Monastery placing orders, collecting and sorting out the sutra notes left by Master Buwu, and at the same time studying the scriptures, which benefited him a lot, and the monks in the monastery called him 'Tanyue in the town under the mountain'.
The most secluded monk in the temple lives a 95-year-old monk Min Xian, who is the younger brother of an old monk, except for some back ears, some flowers in his eyes, and a tough body, taking care of his own diet and daily life, and sometimes harvesting rice and planting vegetables together.
The little monk invited the old monk to fast, and the old monk was sitting on the edge of the vegetable field, listening to the words 'not planting', and he replied loudly: "Plant, how can you not plant? What can you eat without planting?"
The old monk meditated for two days and nights without moving, the little monk could not wake up the old monk, I don't know whether he could not hear or enter the meditation, at that time he did not realize that after hearing about it, the old monk meditated and cultivated, and personally brought a bowl of rice to the old monk to the dormitory when he passed the hall, and then it became a rule.
But the old monk listened to the little monk's chanting and listened to it very clearly, as long as there was a slight mistake, he shouted loudly: Wrong, wrong again.
The old monk Minxian recites the Buddha and recites all in his mind, meditating into the fixed object and forgetting it. The little monk who took care of Minxian said that the old monk chanted Buddha from time to time, and he never stopped sleeping and sleeping, and the little monks also followed very diligently.
Xu Zeyuan sorted out the unenlightened scriptures and never sleeped, and when he was tired, he would watch the scenery on the terrace near the mountain, but it happened that today he met the old monk who was sitting on his knees, looking at the mountains. Xu Zeyuan stepped forward and saluted, because he knew that he didn't bother much behind his ears, just looked at the barren mountains in winter, remembered that he didn't realize it anymore, and his psychology became sad in the end.
What are you looking at? Master Minxian asked, full of confidence.
Xu Zeyuan looked around and saw that there was no one, knowing that he was asking himself a question, so he replied: There is nothing.
How can you break through ignorance when you are obsessed with suffering? Min Xian continued to ask, and at this time his ears and eyes were clear.
Xu Zeyuan wanted to defend himself, but he was unreasonable, he really regretted his incomprehension.
Knowing and seeing is ignorance. Min Xian taught.
Xu Zeyuan understood that the old monk asked him not to have knowledge, not to have delusions, and to break his ignorance. This reason comes from "Stunned". Xu Zeyuan clasped his hands together, especially respectful, and said,
Master, please?
Min Xian was silent.
Xu Zeyuan had an idea, knelt at Min Xian's feet, and said sincerely,
Please take me as an apprentice.
After a moment of silence, the old monk said,
Six months later.
Accept me as an apprentice after six months? Do you still have to test yourself for six months, and then talk about it? Xu Zeyuan secretly speculated, and when he got up to ask for verification, he saw the old monk's body flashing back to the side courtyard. In fact, what he wants to say is 'no joke'.