"The Buddha had an epiphany under the Bodhi tree, and since then you have attained the right result -- since you have a relationship with the Buddha and go to the tree to attain enlightenment, you may be able to understand many things. ”

The little monk led me to the Bodhi tree and whispered.

"Uh......"

Hearing his words, I couldn't help but smile bitterly again and again:

"You are too exalted to me, right? How dare I compare with Shakyamuni Buddha, I am just an ordinary man, and I don't know anything about Buddhism -- you always say that I have a relationship with the Buddha, and I have never been in a Buddhist temple for a day; I have not read a single scripture; I have not offered a little incense; it is simply a 'three-no' product, how can you say that I have a relationship with the Buddha?"

Saying this, I ran up to the little monk, stopped, like a scoundrel, stood in his way, and asked with a big grin:

"Tell me, when and where did I become acquainted with the Buddha?"

The little monk was repeatedly challenged by me to his dignity, but he didn't get angry at all, he just stood there and looked at me with his eyes as clear as water - in fact, the more he was like this, the more I didn't have a problem with him, and a monk like this who has been fasting and reciting Buddha for a long time already has a deep Buddha nature. What is Buddha-nature? In my own shallow understanding, it is the emptiness of the four great things! Although this kind of person is not as cold as the ice cube that makes people shiver, but this kind of person is the one who really makes people have a sense of distance that is out of reach.

He just stood there and looked at me in silence - he was dressed in a white robe, like a Buddha statue from beyond the earth. Looking at his dark and clear eyes, the anxiety and uneasiness in my heart gradually dissipated. In its place, there is an indescribable calm, and an indifference that has never been felt before.

Just when my momentum was gradually dissolved by the little monk in this way of overcoming rigidity with softness, the little monk lowered his eyes, lowered his eyebrows, and slowly said:

"The Buddha said: Don't say, don't say ......"

"Hmm. ”

Hearing his words, I responded lightly. Even I couldn't believe it myself, if it had been before. When others answer like this, maybe I'm already angry: What can't be said, it's just fucking playing me! But at this moment, I'm not irritable at all.

After hearing my faint response. The little monk bowed slightly to me. Slowly bypassing me. As he continued his walk towards the Bodhi Grove, he whispered:

"Sitting is also Zen, walking is also Zen. A flower is a world, a leaf is the same, the spring flowers are green, the autumn leaves are scattered, the infinite heart is at ease, the silence is moving, the body is natural......"

Infinite like the heart is at ease, silent and still, natural body.

I silently muttered this sentence in my heart, and shook my head helplessly: How easy is it to let go of oneself? If everyone can let go of oneself and return to nature, how can there be so much confusion in the world? Thinking so in my heart, I did not say anything, nor did I run to the little monk's side and walk side by side with him-somehow, I actually felt a trace of awe in my heart for this little monk.

Therefore, I just silently followed the little monk and walked with him towards the Bodhi Forest.

I walked behind him, looking at his dusty back, and a trace of fascination gradually arose in my heart: If I really have a fate with the Buddha, can I be like this little monk, ethereal and free, let go of everything, and no longer live so frightened, no longer so tired?......

The closer I got to the woods, the stronger I felt the desire to break out of the world in my heart - and even later, when I looked at the back of the little monk, I felt in a trance that he was the messenger sent by the Buddha to save me from the sea of suffering......

This journey does not seem to be far, but it has made me feel more and more tired inside: although everything is caused by my own paranoia, but at this point, it may not be helpful to want to quit...... However, I think I've had enough of these days of being on the edge of a knife and living every day.

Just as the earth-shaking changes began to take place in my heart, the little monk had already led me to a Bodhi tree at the very edge of the woods.

"Donor, please be seated. ”

The little monk walked under the Bodhi tree, bowed slightly, and made a gesture of invitation.

"Thank you. ”

Looking at his eyes, I couldn't give birth to a trace of anxious negative emotions at all, but smiled at him slightly, and sat cross-legged under the tall and thick Bodhi tree.

"Whew-"

After sitting under the linden tree, I breathed a faint sigh of relief, and then, casually leaning my back on the trunk of the tree that I don't know how many years had passed, closing my eyes, feeling the warm sunshine here, breathing in the fresh air here, my body seemed to be getting softer and softer - I was like a "noodle man", lying in the shade of the tree, enjoying this rare tranquility.

As time passed, the strings that I had been tense began to slowly relax, and all the grievances and fatigue in my heart unconsciously hit my heart at this time. Feeling all that pain, I began to feel a little bored - could it be that after entering the Heavenly Dao with this little monk, I could stay in this picturesque fairyland forever?

"Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where is the dust......"

Just as my heart began to gradually let go of the defense, the little monk who had been standing beside me spoke again and recited a passage that I seemed to understand.

There is nothing in the first place, where is the dust......

Yes, everything has nothing to do with me, so why do I want to get involved in these things that make me miserable and tormented? All of this seems to be my own troubles......

"Crossing this Bodhi forest is the end of the sea of suffering...... Donor, have you thought about it?"

Just when I felt tired in my heart, the little monk's empty voice, which seemed to be like Sanskrit, sounded in my ears just right, and with his faint inquiry, the last line of defense in my heart finally collapsed......

"I've figured it out. ”

I hesitated slightly, and then I bit my lip and said softly:

"I think—"

However, just as I was about to say that I decided to accompany the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha with him, in the bottom of my heart, the emaciated figure of Bing Fang Ling suddenly appeared, and the words he said to me before I passed out-

He said, don't forget your original intention.

"Wait!"

Thinking of these four words, I felt like I had been empowered, and I suddenly woke up from the tired mood just now. I opened my eyes suddenly, looked at the calm little monk in front of me, settled down, and began to gradually clear up in my heart - could it be that this is what kind of test Bing Cube Ling said?......

Thinking of this, I looked at everything around me again, and a lot of cold sweat suddenly oozed from my back: if all this was really some so-called test given to me by the altar, then I just now, wouldn't I almost ......

"Damn!" I didn't dare to think any further, and while subconsciously opening my mouth and scolding angrily, I felt like an electric shock, and suddenly bounced off the ground.

At this time, I realized that there was another person standing next to me.

"Uh......"

I looked at the little monk standing in front of me with some embarrassment, I didn't know what to say, and the little monk seemed to see the strangeness in my heart, a pair of clear eyes raised slightly, after looking at me, he didn't ask anything, just lowered his head again, and there was still no emotional fluctuation on his handsome face.

Seeing the little monk's unflustered appearance, I couldn't help but start wondering again: Could it be that I was overthinking myself? If it was really a test, then all this should be fake! Especially when this little monk saw my violent reaction just now, how could he not have any mood swings at all? This doesn't seem right...... (To be continued......)