Chapter 12: Dry Zen
Duan Zhong gave up the sword of the Duan family emperor, but it did not mean that the efforts of the past four years were in vain. At least, Duan Chong's strength has increased by five or six times, and his body bones are much harder than ordinary people, and he uses a wooden stick to pump Duan Chong's body, if he doesn't hit the vital point, he may not be able to smash Duan Chong.
So Duan Zhong was very satisfied, because he didn't die, and he still had some capital to escape death. After all, in Duan Chong's "Crossing the Treasure Book", living is the most important creed and concept.
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The night in Cangshan is exceptionally deserted, even in summer, there is no noisy cicadas and frogs.
On this night, Duan Zhong did not tell the story in the ancestor's house, but in his own house...... Go to bed. Because the earth-shattering sword in the morning was enough to deprive Duan Zhong of all his energy. Moreover, Duan Zhengzheng was not in the mood to listen to the story at the moment, because he was thinking about something more important.
And when the morning sun rose on the second day, Duan Chong appeared in front of Duan Zhengzheng's couch with a sore back and a sore back...... Sutra.
And Duan Zhong and Zongzi finally knew what they were going to do in the future.
Meditation.
Duan Zhengjing taught the two of them a mental method, which was the mental method of Duan Zhengjing's murderous sword.
Although he doesn't want human life, he is still very domineering. Duan Chongfang practiced his kung fu for a while, and a wave of restlessness surged in his heart. If the snow rabbit caught a month ago was still in Duan Chong's hands, I am afraid that he would be stripped of his fur at this moment and be abused to death again. Duan Zhong never thought that there was such a dark side in his heart, and it was just shameless on weekdays.
It can be said that Duan Zheng's mental method is the most explicit desire to stimulate people's hearts. Because people have desires, they have the motivation to move forward and develop, and they can use the most domineering murderous sword.
And the method used by Duan Zhengjing to combat this desire is zazen.
So Duan Zhengjing moved a lot of Buddhist scriptures to the two of them.
The Buddha said that there are eight sufferings in life. Birth, old age, sickness, death, resentment, love and parting, unbelievable, and five extracts. Because people don't want to suffer, they have desires.
Duan Zhong has a lot of desires, so he crossed over, so he came to this world, so he became the prince of Dali, so he is learning Duan Zheng's mental method on this Cangshan at the moment, a mental method that stimulates people's desires. Therefore, Duan Zhong is the most suitable person in the world to cultivate this kind of mental method, and he is even more suitable for Duan Zhengzheng.
However, if you let your desires continue to spread, it is what the Buddha called the Infernal Hell. And Duan Zhong naturally can't fall down. Therefore, he still has to practice Buddhism.
Duan Zhengjing invited a very good teacher for Duan Chong, his senior brother, the official abbot of Chongsheng Temple, Master Kongming. In the words of the world before Duan was reborn, this Void Ming Mage was an authentic ...... Sea turtle. He is a great master who returned from a study tour in India, is proficient in Buddhism, and is the first person in real Dali Buddhism. This person is naturally the most suitable teacher to be Duan Chong.
Master Kongming gave Duan Zhong and Zongzi the method of cultivating the mind, which is called Mahamudra.
This is one of the simplest and most complex methods. It is simple because everything is done with simple gestures, and it is the most complex, but it is also because what this mudra wants to express is the essence of all physical and mental phenomena in the material world.
And what Duan Chong and the two learned is naturally the simplest one: the real big mudra. To practice the Mahamudra, one must enter from the door of hearing and contemplating, through the teachings of the Enlightenment Sect, clear the nature of the mind, understand the meaning of reality, choose the instructions of the Guru, show the practice mantra, contemplate the mind according to the formula, understand the nature of the mind, and enter the line of samadhi or light concentration.
What is needed is not only the mind, but also the understanding. Fortunately, Duan Zhong is not lacking in both, and Zongzi also seems to have opened his mind, and his understanding is not bad.
Therefore, in the days to come, Duan Zhong and Zongzi stayed in Duan Zhengjing's couch every day, practicing the mind method with Duan Zhengjing in the morning, and practicing the Mahamudra with Master Kongming in the afternoon. At night? Naturally, it is to tell a serious story......
And when Duan Zhengjing was practicing penance for the two, in addition to seeing that in addition to participating in meditation, there was also an additional pleasure: copying books.
What books to copy?
This is a very surprising thing, because when Duan Zhong found "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "The Condor Heroes" in Duan Zhengzheng's bookcase, he was also very surprised......
Of course, our little prince Duan Zhong will naturally not forget our little senior sister. This little sister has nothing to do on weekdays, except for reading Buddhist scriptures, she loves to listen to Duan Chong's stories. In this world, there are always so many people who like to listen to Duan Chong's stories, which makes Duan Chong very helpless......
Therefore, Duan Zhong naturally will not let go of this kind of good opportunity. When he had nothing to do, he picked up ghost stories and told them vigorously, which scared our little sister Kawaii Lori only into Duan Chong's arms. Of course, the ultimate goal of Duan Zhong is to rub oil. Even the six-year-old girl didn't let go, and Duan Zhong himself sighed helplessly.
Therefore, when Zongzi drilled into his arms with a frightened face after listening to the ghost story, Duan Zhong decided to be a righteous gentleman and definitely not take any advantage of him. Of course, he can't be allowed to take advantage of himself.
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Summer is over, it is naturally autumn, and after autumn, it is not far from the second year.
Duan Zhong let out a long sigh, he was eight years old. It's a very uncomfortable age. can neither be coquettish in Su'er's arms, nor can she pretend to be mature in front of Duan Zheng.
It has been a whole year since he came to the Chongsheng Temple on Cangshan, and during this year, Duan Zhong didn't know how many times he dreamed of Su'er in his dreams. Even though Grand Master Kong Ming repeatedly warned himself to abandon all distracting thoughts in his heart, Duan Zhong stubbornly believed that he couldn't throw away Su'er if he threw anything away. Fortunately, this year, there is still a little Lori for herself to "tease".
I was a runaway from home, so naturally I couldn't write letters. So Duan Zhong didn't know how his emperor Lao Tzu was doing, he didn't know how his princess mother was doing, and he didn't know how his dear Su'er was doing...... How is it going? And what I care about most is whether Su'er is married or not...... If anyone dares to marry Su'er, even if it is promised to a palace nobleman, Duan Zhong will tear off his skin and snatch Su'er back. Even the holy decree of his own emperor Lao Tzu is the same......
Duan Zhong would also think of some other people from time to time. For example, how well Duan Zhuang's sword was practiced, such as whether Concubine Zhuang had a much more comfortable life in the year after she left. is how many kittens the Persian cat raised in his Chongyang Palace has given birth to, Duan Zhong also wants to be obscene, and he doesn't realize that it is a male cat at all.
And for a whole year, Duan Zhong has not touched a sword. There are no zongzi either.
The two of them practiced the mind method for a whole year, and practiced the Buddha for a whole year.
Duan Zhong is a person with knowledge of two lifetimes, so when he practices the Dharma, he always thinks about it with a dialectical materialist mind, and even so, he still feels the greatness and profundity of the Dharma. The philosophical attainments of these great wisdom people such as Bodhi and Bodhisattva in Buddhism are in no way inferior to those of great thinkers and philosophers such as Marx and Lenin in previous lives.
At this point, Duan Zhong is very clever to maintain his subjective initiative. Whether it is facing the desires of one's own heart when practicing the righteous mind, or facing the profound philosophy of the teachings when studying the Dharma, they all maintain their own subjective initiative. It is not like zongzi, which is reversed in darkness and light, and seeks some balance in turmoil.
The progress of Zongzi's cultivation was expected by Duan Zhengzheng, because Zongzi was a person from this world, a person who desperately wanted to be swayed by desires and teachings. Duan Chong is different, so Duan Zhengjing was very surprised, because after a short period of polar wandering, Duan Chong was able to find a good constraint between murder and peace, which is something that many people may not be able to do in their lifetime, and such as Duan Zhengjing, a martial arts genius, also spent twenty years.
Duan heavy, it only took a year.
Therefore, Duan Zhengzheng believes that Duan Zhong can get out of the customs. And getting out of the customs means that you can start teaching the heavy sword technique. And zongzi, naturally, they want to continue to sit on their own dry Zen.
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On the day Duan Chong came out, the weather was good, and Master Kongming specially instructed his disciples to prepare two more dishes, and looked at the little prince who was gobbling up in front of him with some embarrassment.
Master Kongming knew that this apprentice, who was extremely satisfied with him, was about to leave the mountain. From now on, I will no longer be able to take him to chant and worship the Buddha every day like this year. In the face of this extremely intelligent disciple, Master Kongming persuaded Duan Chong to take refuge in my Buddha more than once and ordained a monk, but Duan Chong politely refused. Just kidding, if you want to do a big business, how can you become a monk? So Archmage Kongming was very depressed.
And there is another depressed person, which is naturally zongzi. Seeing that his boss has been out of the customs, and the day of his own exit is still far away...... What a resentment.
And except for those who are depressed, the rest are naturally happy people. Needless to say, Duan Chong's joy is not to mention, Duan Zhengzheng's heart is also full of relief and joy, after all, Lao Duan has confiscated apprentices in his life, and this is the first time he has accepted an apprentice, how can he not receive such a good qualification?
The other one who is secretly happy is naturally our little girl Lori Li Chan'er. Duan Zhong is out of the test, and he doesn't have to chant Buddha all day long, so he naturally has more time to tell stories. Moreover, Li Chan'er seems to like listening to Duan Zhong tell ghost stories. Because, the feeling in Duan Chong's arms is not bad.
Duan Zhong naturally didn't know what Li Chan'er was thinking at this moment, otherwise he would have been happy in his heart. So Duan Zhong just picked up a bowl of vegetarian wine on the table, took a sip of it happily, and said happily to Duan Zhengcheng: "Master, the apprentice is happy today." Ming's will be able to learn the real swordsmanship from the master! As he spoke, he ...... again A bowl of wine was poured.
Duan Zhengjing is very painful, there is a lack of materials on this mountain, and it is extremely difficult to make wine. Duan Zhengzheng was happy today, so he took out his private collection for many years, who knew that he was drunk like boiled water by Duan Chong.
But that's it, who made himself happy today.