At this time, the Daxiangguo Temple is also brightly lit, and when you walk into the temple gate, a piece of antique, golden and brilliant ancient buildings will come into view. Entering the temple, I saw the bell tower and the drum tower standing on the east and west sides. There is also a night market inside, according to Song Wangyi's "Yan Yi Conspiracy Record": "The monks' rooms of Xiangguo Temple in Tokyo are scattered, and the two atriums can accommodate 10,000 people, and all business and travel transactions are extracted from it." Those who seek to sell goods and resell other things in the Quartet will be because of this. ”

Yelu Yanni seemed to be quite familiar with this place, and she led Meng Ming to a Buddha hall. There is a large three-legged round bronze incense burner on both sides in front of the temple door, about one meter high, about two meters in diameter, there are two layers of steps in the front week of the incense burner, no matter which temple you go, as long as you see two incense burners, burn the incense burner on the right, it is the incense burner. The incense burner on the left is the old incense or the incense. Except for the incense burner on the left, which is for the deceased ancestors to ask the Bodhisattva to transcend the deceased. The rest of the incense keep, wishing incense, and wishing incense are burned on the right incense burner. I saw Yelu Yanni ask for three incense, walked to the incense burner on the right and lit it, inserted the incense burner with her left hand, inserted one incense stick in the middle, two incense sticks on the left, and three incense sticks on the right, and then rewarded the incense monk with one hundred taels of incense money, only to see that the monk's face was slightly happy.

After Yelu Yanni finished the incense, she came to the Buddha hall, and before entering the hall, she first purified her body and mind and washed her hands. The Buddha hall has a front, there is a small door on the side, and the general worshippers can not go through the door, but can only go through the small door. I saw that there was a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva standing in the center of the hall, the left rib of the Bodhisattva is a good wealth boy, and the right rib is a treasure dragon girl; After entering the main hall, the central separate prayer mat is used by the abbot and monk to worship the Buddha, and it is not allowed to worship on it. The Buddha should be worshiped on both sides. Let no one worship pass before him.

At this time, Yelu Yanni began to worship the Bodhisattva, and saw that there was a strict process for her kneeling and worshipping the Bodhisattva:

First, stand and gently fold your palms, look at the fingertips of the gassho, stand in front of the futon, and make a figure-eight pose with both feet.

Second, first press the center of the futon with your right palm down, and kneel on the futon with your left palm still, spread your knees. Then press the left palm on the left side before the futon;

Third, the right palm is moved from the center to the right side in front of the futon, and the two palms are about six inches apart; Press your head on the futon between your palms. Fourth, flip outwards with the palms of both hands (palms upwards are holding lotus flowers in your hands.) It is intended to bear the Buddha's feet with both hands, and the head and face to receive the foot salute);

Fifth, the two hands are reversed, still pressed on the original position of the futon; The head rises from the futon; Move your right palm to the center of the futon.

Sixth, first leave the futon with the left palm and place it in front of the chest like a palm; The right palm is firmly propped up (both knees are off the futon at the same time), and the left palm is used as the chest, which is a prostration. Yelu Yanni's movements were solemn and reverent.

Her father, Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu, advocates Buddhism, and the small character of the Holy Sect "Manjushri" comes from Buddhism, which has a deep meaning. The Holy Sect has held many activities to eat and monk. In the first year of Tonghe (983) in March, the Holy Emperor Xingganlu Temple, in May of the same year, Xingxingwang Temple, in April of the sixth year of Tonghe (988), in April of the sixth year of Tonghe, in Nanjing, the famous temple of Yanshou and Yanhong, in the eighth year of Tonghe (990) in March, Xingpanshan (in today's Jixian County, Hebei) temple, in April of the fifteenth year of Tonghe (997), in April of the first year of Kaitai (1012), Xingxingwang Temple, and in December of the eighth year of Kaitai (1019), you Xingxing Temple was built in Nanjing. One can imagine how frequent the activities of the Holy Sect to hold Buddhist offerings and visit the Buddhist temple are very frequent. Yelu Yanni was also deeply influenced by her father, so she mastered many of the rituals of the Buddha.

In order to pray for the Bodhisattva to bless him, he will write his name, address, birth, and prayer for something, and then write it with a red paper and ink pen, and stamp the temple's Three Treasure Seal, and paste it under the Bodhisattva's seat, and it will manifest.

Then there is the vow, which means to ask the Bodhisattva to bless him after his wish is fulfilled and to fulfill the promise he made to the Bodhisattva. It is common to repay the wish to reshape the golden body, give alms to the Everlasting Lamp, and donate merit to thank the Bodhisattva. Afterwards, it must be honored, otherwise it will be unsuccessful or will be punished by the gods and Buddhas, only to see Yelu Yanni chanting words.

Then she began to play the hexagram, the hexagram is in the shape of a crescent moon, divided into two sides, the outer protrusion and the inner flat, the outside is yin and the inner side is yang, she turned the hexagram a few times, and then threw it high, and played three rounds of hexagrams. One yin and one yang are holy hexagrams, two yang sides are yang hexagrams, two yin sides are yin hexagrams, and it is better to play three holy hexagrams in a row. But when she saw that she had played the holy hexagram three times, she immediately smiled.

In the end, it was a lottery, only to see a reception monk to bring a pot of bamboo sticks, signed as a long strip of bamboo, like a sword-shaped, with a paper signature: divided into five kinds of signs: upper, middle, middle, lower, and lower. At this time, Yelu Yanni begged for marriage, only to see her holding the stick holder in both hands, kept shaking the stick, and then shook out a stick, she picked up the bamboo stick, and took out a small note from it, which was the note of the signature, which read: "There is no way to recover from the mountains and rivers, and the willows and flowers are bright and see a village." She handed the signature to an old monk next to her with white hair and kind eyes, and asked him to unsign it. I saw the old monk look at her and asked, "The female donor looks focused, her face is peachy, what she is asking for should be a marriage sign?" Yelu Yanni twisted and said yes, and the old monk smiled and said: "Then the old man will explain it, the relationship between your favorite Langjun and you is like a thousand mountains and rivers, which seems to block the way forward; But behind the dark green trees and brightly colored flowers, I saw a small village. Can the benefactor understand? Yelu Yanni said: "Master, the little woman is plausible, I don't think it's like signing it, and I ask the master to solve my doubts." The old monk said: "The female benefactor is noble at first glance, and may be entangled in mundane things, and she can't help herself, but only the female donor, no matter how difficult the road ahead is, as long as she has firm beliefs and sticks to her heart, she will be able to "survive in a desperate place", and a new realm full of light and hope will appear, and she will be able to get what she wants. This lottery should be on the winning lottery. As soon as Yelu Yanni heard this, she understood, and was immediately overjoyed.

Meng Ming couldn't wait outside, and wanted to enter the hall, he had mud on his body at this time, and he was holding a leg of mutton in his hand, and the little novice in front of the door suddenly couldn't let him in, and said straightly: "Donor, you are not dressed in good clothes, covered with mud and dust, that is, you have not purified your body and mind, nor your hands, and you are still holding meat things, you will not be allowed to go in and desecrate the Bodhisattva." As soon as Meng Ming heard the fire, the past few days have not been smooth, and his mood was also unhappy, so he retorted at the time: "The wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Buddha has left it in his heart; Buddhism is like the sea, there is tolerance is big, why stick to the skin, appearance? The old monk in the hall also heard Meng Ming's words, so he said: "Jiqing is unreasonable, this donor said well, the monk can't just look at the appearance, you have a look, let this donor come in." Meng Ming didn't care, and entered the hall with a leg of mutton. I saw an old monk bowing to him, and Meng Ming was also busy saluting him. The old monk looked at Meng Ming and said, "The donor understands Zen theory" Meng Ming said: "This is just a fallacy of Xiaosheng, not a hall of elegance." Xiaosheng thinks that everyone has Buddha nature, there is a Buddha in the heart, and seeing the nature to become a Buddha refers to the human heart, and he does not restrict his practice. At this time, Zen Buddhism did not record that the sixth Zuhui wrote "Bodhi", so Meng Ming copied "Bodhi":

"Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform. Buddha nature is always pure, where there is dust!

The heart is a Bodhi tree, and it is a mirror platform. The mirror is clean, where is the dust!

Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform. There is nothing in the first place, where is the dust!

Bodhi only seeks from the heart, why bother to seek the mystery from the outside? I heard that according to this practice, the West is only for now! ”

As soon as the old monk heard this poem "Bodhi Verse", he said eagerly: "The donor's wisdom is profound, and he must be the reincarnation of my Buddhist family, but I am willing to take refuge in my Buddha, and then I can reach the state of Great Perfection." When Meng Ming heard this, he intuitively felt that this old monk was really nonsense, how could he understand any Buddhism. Even in the era of the development of network information and the explosion of information in his previous life, he also read some books on Buddhism, and now he is just learning and selling now, but it is just pure foolishness. Besides, Meng Ming has two wives like jade and a newborn son, how could he become a monk.

Meng Ming hurriedly refused: "The master is not quiet in the lower six roots, the red dust is not over, there are parents and wives and children below, so he will not become a monk." Besides, the master is in appearance, seeing sex and becoming a Buddha refers to the human heart, and you can also become a Buddha in the red dust. After Meng Ming finished speaking, he looked at the old monk, and the old monk also fell into deep thought. In the end, he seemed to have an epiphany, so he said to Meng Ming: "The donor's words woke up the person in the dream, and the old man had an epiphany, the donor is a person in the red dust, and I should have no chance with my Buddha." The donor also has a marriage with this female donor, how can the old man beat the mandarin duck. Yelu Yanni looked at Meng Ming shyly at this time, with a happy expression. Meng Ming secretly blamed this old monk for being troublesome, adding fuel to the fire. The old monk also saw Meng Ming's displeasure at this time, so he said: "This donor, you and this female donor have a thousand years of cause and effect, and this life is reincarnated; A hundred years of cultivation can be crossed in the same boat, and a thousand years of cultivation can be slept together, you and this female donor are destined to be husband and wife, and I hope the donor will cherish it. Otherwise, it will be against the will of God. ”

Meng Ming also bowed his head and said nothing, waiting for the time to go home first, and finally Yelu Yanni finally let him go home, and he looked reluctant. It was already midnight when Meng Ming returned home, he went to the jade cicada to take a look, she was still waiting for him, she didn't sleep, but her son was already asleep. The two talked and fell asleep in each other's arms.