Cigarettes surround the heart, and Zen is like a breeze. The apex is at ease, and the lotus is born step by step; If the heart is restless, the road is snakes and insects.

In the meditation room, the prince and Poshan sit cross-legged opposite each other, you come and go; In the small courtyard, the generals stood quietly and listened to the meditation with apprehension. In the Zen language, there may be a deep meaning; In addition to Zen, there are many insights.

"Liberation from life and death, the great Dharma is also great. There is no Dharma outside of life and death; Outside of Buddhism, there is no birth or death. The beginning of life and death of confusion, the reincarnation of enlightenment. Dependent origin and extinction, similarity and continuity, not constant, selfless, selfless, and masterless. "The Buddha of the broken mountain is dignified, and the words are paused, as if he is exaglishing the world.

"Where and why did the monk become enlightened?" Shizi shook his head lightly and asked rhetorically.

Poshan replied: "The little monk stands on the top of the twin peaks, and the cliff is thousands of feet at his feet. After four o'clock, there is a flat world in front of you, no pits, no hills, no mountains, and no things. Just about to go through, he suddenly fell down the cliff, fortunately did not die, and injured one foot. At night, the foot pain was difficult to sleep, and all kinds of doubts in the past were suddenly eliminated. So I realized that there was no hindrance in my chest......"

"Dizziness due to exhaustion is nothing; Forgetting because of the pain is not thorough. After this difficulty, the monk liberated the method of life and death, at most the palace door was opened, allowing one person to pass through the gap; If the general public wants to enter, they must open the door to Zen! Shizi commented with a flat smile.

Could it be that the son of the world is not learning scriptures from the Zen master of Poshan, but is arguing with him and making difficulties with him? A general who believed in Buddhism heard the doorway and immediately became suspicious.

Sure enough, the mountain broke and asked: The prince said that the little monk was lucky to understand, and he realized himself and couldn't save others, as it was! However, the way of the Bodhisattva, Mahayana altruism. For other monks to practice, they must choose empty mountains and valleys; The little monk practiced, only wishing for the turbidity of the world. The little monk thinks that the most difficult thing to do, the most difficult to break and break, the most difficult to endure and endure, the most difficult to abandon and abandon, and the most difficult to give up (Note 1) is the great enlightenment. Guiding the world is Mahayana!

Shizi smiled: "The Zen of the monk is not to escape Zen. The monk who wants to be enlightened is the Dharma for all things in the world to be born (Note 2)! ”

Break the mountain and ask again: There are many lost people in the world and few awake people. The son of the world is not only an awakener, but also asks the enlightened monk: What is the great opening of the Dharma and the Mahayana of the world?

All things have life and death, and all things cherish life and death, this is common sense! Monk, do you know how the stars in the sky die? The prince did not answer the mountain directly, but told the story of the heavens.

I want to hear about it! The eyes of the generals under the eaves lit up at the same time.

There are roughly three ways to die a star:

A kind of brilliance stripped of its shell, leaving only a cold body;

The second class roared, and the universe was glorious. The soul of life and death is extinguished, turning into a cloud of color;

The three categories turn infinity into infinitesimal, infinite light into infinite darkness, and nothing into nothingness. Gather thousands of stars around you, and all shine in the sky......

Everything in the world is made of stardust. The meaning, monk, is good to think about!

The stars in the sky know how to die, this is not what a god is!

A general who did not believe in God, did not believe in Buddhism, only believed in silver and the sword and gun in his hand, and his heart trembled when he heard this. Whether it was fear or reverence, he himself did not know.

Master Qinglian is poor and unenlightened, which shows how difficult it is to understand life and death! The monk sighed. I don't know if he understands it or not, so he bowed to the prince in front of him again.

The living and the dead, such as yin and yang, are also! If there is no death, there is no life; There is no life, and there is no death! Therefore, life and death are constant, why do you need to be enlightened! Even the stars in the sky are still alive and dead, and you are the first mortal fetus in the mortal world! Could it be that the stars also have to understand life and death?

Shizi said as if he was annoyed, and suddenly straightened his legs, stretched out his fingers and bent his fingers, and neatly burst on the top door of the monk's head.

Kiss!

An incomparably clear crisp sound immediately stunned the group of generals under the eaves who stretched out their heads and pricked up their ears to look at the strangeness.

It turns out that the son of the world is the one who preaches the scriptures and teaches enlightenment today!

??！

The far-reaching and profound echoes of the cymbals reverberated back and forth in the meditation room.

Breaking the mountain's eyes are closed, his hands are sealed, and there are words in his mouth. After a long time, he bowed again from his seat:

Since life and death are constant, it is better to let go of gains and losses and accept them calmly. Blindly seeking enlightenment, but obsessed! Thank you for the enlightenment of the prince, the little monk has realized!

It's good that the monk is enlightened! Shizi nodded in approval, no matter how brilliant he was in front of him, there was only a pile of white bones behind him. Life and death, ordinary things; Reincarnation, the way of heaven and earth. Therefore, the cycle of life and death is similar but different. In the same way, all things have life and death; What is different is nothing but death:

Or lighter than a feather, or heavier than Mount Tai!

Good!

Someone in the courtyard finally couldn't bear it, broke the precept of not speaking out, and shouted loudly.

……

The abundant water vapor of Shu has warmed the sunken basin and created the unique climate of Shu. No matter how thick the morning fog is, it usually doesn't last until noon, and then it's mostly sunny weather.

The fog gradually cleared, and the dazzling sunlight pierced the thin clouds, transmitting heat to the earth naked. Knowing the endless noise, the standing people in the courtyard were even more uneasy.

The sweat of their hair seeped through the veil, and was caught by the wide brim of the helmet-like cloth hat; The sweat oozing from his forehead and face was unrestrained, slowly dripping under the action of gravity, forming several slender water marks on his cheeks. Perhaps in a quarter of an hour, one or two people suffering from heat stroke will be carried out.

The young prince dressed in the dragon robe of the pro-feudal clan stood majestically under the eaves outside the hall and dressed b.

Zhu Pingjin glanced at the group of senior officers in front of him with a serious expression, and there was an empty circle chair behind him. A few attendant eunuchs on the left and right bowed their heads, and they didn't dare to come out. Only the monk under the Jade Buddha regarded everything outside the room as red dust, and still folded his knees on the futon, his lips moved slightly, and he read words.

Jianchangwei is an old man in his fifties and sixties.

He was of short stature and had a dark complexion. In the queue, the burly Shandong Han Liu Zhenfan stood in front, so that he couldn't see the expression of Zhu Pingjian, the prince of Shu, at this time.

However, Ding Gongyun did not tilt his head sideways, exposing his old face to the world's field of vision.

He bowed his head slightly, looking respectful. However, his gaze swept across his forehead at a thirty-degree angle, through the gap between Liu Zhenfan's arm and his shirt, and landed on a pair of thick cowhide soap boots.

There is nothing remarkable about these soap boots, they seem to be random objects resting on the steps, not moving at all, showing no vitality.

Juvenile? What boy is not a hairy virtue? What teenager can have such a calm temperament?

No wonder I heard rumors in Jiading Prefecture that Zhu Pingjin, the son of Shu, is a young man and an ordinary person!

The tycoon of Sichuan Fu Liao is an envoy of the festival and has a high position. As a result, after a few rounds of competition, he was tied up and became an old dog wagging his tail in front of the son;

According to Liu Zhibo, Sichuan has always prided himself on being a loyal and honest minister, and he is higher than anyone else, and he throws filial piety and silver out of the house like a clod of soil. And now? I heard that he had happily received the "treatment" of the Shu Wangfu and became the helper of the prince who fought in Chongqing!

The wind blows the trees and shakes, so let's go with the flow! I only hope that the prince will not be as hot as Liao Daheng and Liu Shidou, and will dig out 20,000 so-called "tiger ben" in Jianchang Wuwei Ba Institute!

Ding Gongyun peeked into people's hearts through a pair of leather shoes, but the people next to him were suffering with a smoldering fire in their stomachs.

The general was in his early thirties (Note 1) and of medium height. The face under the helmet is delicate and elegant, and the arms outside the short sleeves are white and delicate. In terms of his appearance and temperament, this person is neither like a general who fights for his life, nor is he like a commander of a navy who shuttles in the waves, but like a gentleman in the academy and the son of a rich gentleman. Without the detailed marking of the audience list, who would have thought that this person was Zeng Ying, the general of the Eastern Sichuan Naval Division, whom Zhu Pingjin valued very much?

Zeng Ying has been transferred to Sichuan from the Fujian Navy Division for several years and is stationed in Tongluo Gorge in Chongqing. The river is no more dangerous than the sea, and life is much easier. Although there are thieves in eastern Sichuan from time to time, there are very few real battles on the river.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, thieves harassed Sichuan, and the sailor fleet was ordered to rush to the aid of the cities along the Yangtze River.

The thieves took Jintang County in the suburbs of Chengdu by surprise and transferred troops along the Tuojiang River to the south of Sichuan, attacking the fortified city of Luzhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Later, he threw off the officers and troops who had set up an ambush at Lishi Station, returned to the division along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, crossed Jingyan, Tu Renshou, and attacked Chengdu at night, which was the only time that the thieves entered Sichuan and carried out maneuvers along the Yangtze River and its tributaries.

At that time, Zeng Ying led the naval division to garrison the Yangtze River and Jialing River in the north and south of Chongqing, covering this important town in eastern Sichuan, and also covering Yang Sichang, the governor stationed in Chongqing, who was stationed in Chongqing, and it was too late to rush to Luzhou.

In the winter of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the local tyrants marched south out of Bashan, and the prince of Shu and the governor Liao Daheng personally conquered Guang'an and Hezhou, and Zeng Ying was ordered to send the Yizi guerrilla general Yu Dajiang to lead the water division to participate in the battle, and made meritorious contributions in the battle on the Qujiang River outside Luodu Town.

In addition, his other son, the guerrilla general Li Zhanchun, sent troops from Fuzhou, Chongqing, and Feng Ruhu and Ding Xianjue, who went south from Dazhou, to attack the local tyrants in the Dianjiang and Liangshan areas, and also made considerable successes.

During this period, it should be said that Zeng Ying was obedient to Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu. In the face of Zhu Pingjian's olive branch shaken by Yu Dajiang, Zeng Ying was also very moved.

However, two things that happened after that seriously shook Zeng Ying's determination to join the protector.

First, it was Qin Liangyu of Zhongzhou who coldly sent the birthday envoys of the Shu Palace; The second is the brutal suppression of Wang Yingxiong's party and the so-called "local tyrants and inferior gentry" in Chongqing Mansion by the Shu Wangfu!

The natural difference between the sailor and the land master is that the land master steps on the ground, while the sailor walks after the water.

Lu Shi had no rice to eat, so he had to hold the pass and rob the merchants; The sailor's territory was on the river, so he had to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water, and attack the merchant ships and docks.

Zeng Ying is a smart person. He knows very well that in today's days, most of the merchants who dare to go into the water and run boats have deep backgrounds, and robbing merchant ships to feed their children is a loss-making business with high risk and low return. As a result, Zeng Ying, who was trained by the Fujian Navy Division, chose the only magic weapon for the Navy to raise soldiers: warship smuggling.

Sichuan's salt tea horses, Huguang's rice and cotton cloth, and all kinds of special products of toast have continuously brought rich benefits to the sailors of eastern Sichuan through the ships, soldiers and customs guards he mastered.

mastered the waterways of the Yangtze River, and also brought Zeng Ying unexpected rich connections. The gentry of Chongqing, the vassal kings of Huguang, and the Tusi of eastern and western Sichuan, everyone knew this low-key, impatient and righteous sailor general. At the same time, his age-like romantic appearance and poet-like elegant temperament won Zeng Ying the nickname of "Zeng Gongzi" in the gentry circle of eastern Sichuan.

However, Zeng Ying didn't expect that this kind of comfortable days in troubled times would soon end because of the stationing of ** in eastern Sichuan.

The East Sichuan Salt Farm has implemented a monopoly and has taken away the cake that belongs to Zeng Ying;

And the action of the Shu Wangfu in Chongqing forced Zeng Ying into a political desperate situation.

Because if you say which Sichuan army general has the closest cooperation with the Chongqing gentry, I am afraid that no one can surpass Zeng Ying!

This time, Zeng Ying led Li Zhanchun, Yu Dajiang, Zhang Tianxiang, Li Ding and other generals and nearly 6,000 people from the fleet of the Eastern Sichuan Naval Division to go up the river, and was ordered to besiege Meizhou, and accept the "review" and reorganization of Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu. It's not that Zeng Ying's head suddenly opened up, but the situation has no choice.

A big town changed the situation in Chongqing and cut off his livelihood on the river;

Guarding the ** land and water routes, occupying Kuimen, recasting the iron cable blocking the river, and cutting off his last retreat to Huguang in one fell swoop;

And the hard persuasion of Yu Dajiang, Li Zhanchun and other cronies and subordinates made his desire to get away with it prevail.

Just a few days ago, Zeng Ying was still discussing with his subordinates how to respond when the prince summoned him, but he never expected that as soon as they met, this proud son of heaven would not say a word except to talk about the scriptures with the monks, so that he and the generals would stand in a military posture under the scorching sun!

Note 1: Excerpt from "Broken Mountain Quotations".

Note 2: The Dharma of Birth, the Buddha's language, comes from the "Heart and Earth Sutra", which means liberation from life and death.