Thousands of miles away to Xishu, I want to ask Jingzhou that day.

Liu Bei didn't say a word and burst into tears, thinking to himself and turning to Wujian.

In this way, the ancient temple and the painting did not know how many generations were passed on, until the Qing Dynasty, the famous writer Li Tiaoyuan came to visit this temple, and the elders in the temple heard the name of Li Tiaoyuan, and hurriedly came to receive it in person.

The elder monk was hospitable, led Li Tiaoyuan Mountain in front of the mountain and behind the mountain, outside the temple, watched a good time, and then invited him into the abbot's room and held a sumptuous vegetarian banquet to entertain him.

At the banquet, Li Tiaoyuan saw that the elder monk wanted to speak several times and stopped, and he expected that he had something to ask him, so he took the initiative to ask him, and the elder monk told the reason and took out the calligraphy and painting back then.

Li Tiaoyuan listened to what the elder monk said, his interest increased sharply, and as the elder monk pointed out, he really drew wonderful words, authentic Tang Bohu's real handwriting!

He looked at the pair and wondered, and found the mystery in it!

It turns out that this seven-character couplet, no matter whether it is read back in mindfulness, the sound is the same, and the meaning is the same, no wonder Tang Bohu dares to make such a big statement!

Li Tiaoyuan pondered for a moment on the painting, smiled slightly at the words in his heart, and said to the elder monk: "Great monk, please borrow pen and ink!" ”

The elder monk was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately held a large pen in front of Li Tiaoyuan and said, "Please put the icing on the cake!" ”

I saw Li Tiaoyuan holding the pen in his hand, and after a little contemplation, he leaned close to Tang Bohu's upper couplet and wrote a couplet: "The book is in the Hanmo Hanlin Book".

Since then, this painting has been hung in the abbot's room as the treasure of this temple.

What Tang Bohu left behind was a difficult upper couplet, and the artistic conception, rhythm and even the pronunciation of the whole sentence should be neat and tidy, which is beyond the ability of ordinary people.

Li Tiaoyuan is really worthy of the world's genius, the next couplet, the meaning is far-reaching, the balance is relative, the whole sentence is read with the same sound, and it can be listed as the top grade!

But on closer examination, it seems to be slightly flawed! Why? Because, strictly speaking, couplets must be flat (仄 read zè, 平仄 generally refers to the rhythm of poetry), part of speech, and artistic conception are relative.

Li Tiaoyuan's right, the level and artistic conception are perfect, but the "on" of "painting the lotus monk painting" is the direction word, and it is better to take the direction word, and the opposite is more reluctant and slightly less neat.

And the "painting of the lotus monk" can be broken down into "painting the lotus, the flower monk painting"!

Looking back at the "Book of Han and Mo Hanlin", it is decomposed into "Book of Han, Mo Hanlin Book" is incomprehensible!

Later, in the period of the Republic of China, General Zhang Zhizhong, a famous anti-Japanese general, visited here, and after seeing this quatrain, he left a good sentence of "handwriting in the book", but like Li Tiaoyuan, he just barely took over the palindrome of literary circles, but it can be seen that General Zhang Zhizhong's literary brilliance!

After thinking about the origin of this poem, I smiled slightly, looked back at Master Kongwu, and saw that the master was also looking at me with a smile, and immediately understood the master's intentions, it turned out that this Master Kongwu was quite childish, and in fact, Master Kongwu had lost to me in martial arts just now, so now Master Kongwu wants to have another literary fight with me!

I think I'm also a piano, chess, a book, a painting, just a painting! How can you be afraid of this old monk!

With this in mind, I picked up a pen on the table next to me and brushed it down to write a poem:

What is the difference between the former sages and the right ones,

The junior application is not ambiguous

Painted on the lotus monk painting,

The secret tantric book in the book!

"Good!" Master Kongwu clapped his hands when he saw it and shouted!

After reading my poem carefully a few more times, Master Kongwu let me go to the futon, and then sat on the ground and said, "Chang Peng, you are not only strong in martial arts, but also talented and intelligent!" And people are also modest and cautious! All right! Xiaochun, he can have a disciple like you, I'm happy for him! ”

Hearing this, I just wanted to say a few polite words, and Master Kongwu's words changed: "But I still have to test you, Chang Peng, what do you think of life!" ”

Hearing this question, I paused for a moment and said with a smile: "Master! The younger generation thinks that it is a bit too early to answer this question at my age, now I just need to work hard, and when I reach your age, I will have no regrets when I recall the past! ”

"Hah! Ha! Ha! ”

Master Kongwu laughed for a while after listening to me, and said, "Why do people live? What is the meaning, value, and purpose of life? What is the right attitude and ideal of life! Plato said, "An unexamined life is better than nothing!" ”

To be able to say such a thing from the mouth of an old monk like Master Kongwu really makes me awe-inspired, especially since he can actually say Plato's famous words!

"The younger generation has been taught! Please also ask the master for some advice! I stood up and saluted respectfully.

This time, Master Kongwu finally defeated me in the literary battle, his fat face smiled as bright as a chrysanthemum, straightened his body and continued to speak: "Confucius said: "I don't know life, I don't know death!" "It is intended to teach people to pay attention to the present life and not to think about the unattainable death!

The old man thinks that this is just a compromise that is powerless to overcome death! In the face of the threat of death, Confucianism advocates virtue, speech, and deeds, in order to die without dying spiritually, while the humbler people seek to "leave a voice over the goose and leave a name for the person", although it is a positive attitude towards life, but it is still doubtful whether it can really die without dying.

Thoughts, spirits, virtues, and works, even if they remain in the world for a long time, must also exist according to others and human society, and others, human society, and even the planet and even the universe on which human beings depend are all impermanent things.

Buddha Yuyun: In life and death, there is real happiness, Bodhisattva Mahasattva does not give up with bitterness and happiness, so it is said that everything is suffering according to the true meaning of Buddhism, the suffering of life lies in selflessness, people are blessed fields, can give birth to all the good fruits in the world!

If you talk about it in the vernacular, it is really a dream of life since ancient times, dreaming of waking up from the end of the world, stepping on the bumpy road in the world, and going too calmly along the way!

The Buddha said, "Life is death, and death is life!" "No matter how you have been reincarnated in this world for tens of millions of years, how you pursue all kinds of material, fame and fortune, but one day, you will seek the way out of life and death and become enlightened!

In contrast to enlightenment, an unenlightened life is like death, and an enlightened death is eternal life!

We all came from eternal life, and we will eventually return to eternal life!

Enlightenment is the use of 100% of one's own wisdom, so after a person dies, there is no such thing as this stinky skin of cognition, and all spiritual knowledge is restored, so death is life!

The so-called "man" is only a very small part of this all-pervading soul, and if this small part is called "me", then the majority of the whole universe can be regarded as "the greater self".

This small part is like a mirror, used to reflect on and understand this greater self, these two sides have never been separated, only after death, this "lesser self" and "greater self" converge, all consciousness and wisdom are restored, so death is life!

The human soul is immortal, impure, neither good nor evil, neither increasing nor decreasing! But the old man thinks it's all fart!

Ordinary people live in this world in order to live for others to see, in order to prove that they live better than others, so that others envy, envy, and hate!

Hehe! It's better to live like this! People have to live for themselves, not for others, this is life! ”

After Master Kongwu finished speaking, he closed his eyes and began to recite the scriptures, I saw that Master Kongwu seemed to be giving me the Dharma and at the same time realized something, and I didn't dare to disturb the master to participate in meditation and get up to say goodbye, Master Kongwu didn't keep me anymore, sent me to the door of the courtyard, and told me to go to him to sit if I was fine!

Saying goodbye to Master Kongwu, I saw that it was still early and happened to go to the company to have a look, and I was thinking about what Master Kongwu said along the way, it really makes sense!