Chapter 20: Becoming a Monk
Lin Yi settled down, calmed his mind ruthlessly, slowly walked into the abbot, looked up, and saw that this was a very elegant meditation room, which was full of books and antiques on the shelves, and there was a table against the wall, on which were placed the four treasures of the study and a pair of Go, and directly opposite was a bed, an old monk in his seventies had his eyes slightly closed, and was meditating on it, and there was a stove of sandalwood burning on the small table beside him, and the green smoke was wafting into the air. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
No need to ask, this is the ancestor Yuanjue, just looking at the appearance, he is a moral monk, Lin Yi settled down for a while, knelt down respectfully forward, and said: "The disciple Sun Jingxin to meet the ancestor!" As he spoke, he crawled on the ground and kowtowed, and raised his head to look up.
Yuan Jue's eyes widened slightly, his face showed surprise, and then he opened his eyes again, looked at him carefully with his eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "Jingxin, where have you fled to for more than a month?" Why don't you take refuge at Baoling Temple? Our Baolin Temple is a branch of the Southern Sect handed down by the ancestor of Hui Ke, and the Songshan Shaolin Temple is the ancestral court of Zen Buddhism. You tell me honestly, where are these **** hiding? ”
Lin Yi tilted his head in thought, thought for a while, sighed, and said: "Master, the apprentice really can't remember, since he was beaten on the head that day, everything before has been forgotten by me!" ”
Yuan Jue gritted his teeth and said: "This must be Miao Qingqing's demon girl who sent someone to beat you, let's get this account back from them slowly!" However, do you still remember what you took from Miao Qingqing? I heard your master say that you are teasing Miao Qingqing is fake, but in fact, it is because you took something from them that they will be ruthless against Xiaolin Temple? ”
Lin Yi pretended to think for a while, shook his head and said, "The apprentice grandson really can't remember!" ”
Yuan Jue showed a look of disappointment on his face, paused, and asked again, "Then do you remember the scriptures you studied?" ”。
We haven't studied the Buddhist scriptures, how can we know? Lin Yi shook his head and said, "Master, the apprentice is ashamed, and now I can't even remember one!" ”。
Yuan Jue got down from the bed, kicked his shoes and paced around the open space in the room a few times, stopped in front of Lin Yi, sighed and said, "It seems that you really have amnesia!" Since you can't remember anything, I can't easily punish you without asking the reason, so be it! Keep this mistake of yours in mind first, and then make a plan when I figure out what happened. ”
What a Zen master! So reasonable! Lin Yi was overjoyed, and he kowtowed again, and said happily: "Thank you for forgiveness!" ”
Yuan Jue said again: "Get up! ”
Lin Yi got up and stood in front of him. Yuan Jue looked at him carefully for a while, and said solemnly: "From today on, you will practice with your master and uncle!" On April 18 of next year, our branch of Zen Buddhism, the Qing Yin Master of the Northern Sect will come to Baolin Temple to discern the scriptures, originally she was going to discern the scriptures with your master, because your master has passed away, so you have to fight on his behalf! ”
Debate? We haven't read a single scripture, what scripture do we distinguish from others? Isn't it embarrassing and funny? Lin Yi hurriedly said: "Master, the monks pay attention to pure hearts and few desires, and do not compete with others, I really can't remember the scriptures clearly, or ...... Why don't we throw in the towel? ”
Yuan Jue lowered his face and said: "It is very necessary to distinguish the scriptures to strengthen the understanding of the interpretation of the scriptures, besides, the Northern Sect has always competed with our Southern Sect, people compete for a breath, and the Buddha fights for a stick of incense. This debate is no matter what. Between the words, the tone was firm.
Lin Yi lowered his face, it seems that this debate is difficult to shirk! Holding on to a glimmer of hope, he pushed and said: "Master, can you change someone to fight, for example, my master, who is proficient in Buddhist scriptures at a glance, how can he lose to it What is the cause of the master?" ”
Dao Yuan, who was standing next to him, looked at Yuanjue with his eyes, and his eyes showed a look of longing.
Yuan Jue replied with a cold face: "No! When your master's Taoist realm was in Xuzhou ****, and the Qing Master of the Northern Sect had a dispute because of the interpretation of the doctrine, and neither of the two could convince anyone, so he swore an oath, and agreed to debate the scriptures in the Lotus Temple of the Northern Sect and the Baolin Temple of the Southern Sect every ten years, ten years ago in the Lotus Temple of the Northern Sect, your master spoke of the lotus, and the brothers and sisters of the Northern Sect were speechless, which greatly increased the prestige of our Southern Sect. Just take a look at the demeanor of the younger generation of their Northern Sect. As for your master, Buddhism is indeed profound, and it would have been the most suitable for you to fight, but unfortunately your master and Qing Yin Shi made an oath at the beginning, and they would not fake others, if the two of them were gone, they would be replaced by their own apprentices, you said that you are the only disciple in the Dao realm, who will you go if you don't go? I can tell you, this debate is based on the territory of more than 20 counties in Xuzhou area as a bet, whoever loses not only has to be soft in person, but also has to withdraw all the forces of the sect from Xuzhou for ten years, the responsibility is huge, but you can't lose, otherwise the ancestor and I will be punished for two crimes, punish you for cleaning the toilet for life, and take feces and urine with the monks of the whole temple every day! ”
Yes! This punishment is really ruthless enough, if you become a dung digger, who will treat us with a stinky smell every day? And these monks are really a big gamble, why are they so competitive when they become monks? I remember that in the Journey to the West, there is a record of the Buddha's grandfather and Sun Wukong's gambling fight, and finally turned into Wuzhi Mountain and pressed Sun Monkey under the mountain for 500 years. Lin Yi was helpless, so he had to reluctantly accept it, but his face was even more ugly than crying.
Yuan Jue instructed again: "Dao Yuan, you take Jingxin down, arrange a quiet courtyard for him to live in, and then pass on the scriptures to him!" Although he forgot about it, he couldn't grind his gun quickly or lightly, at least he could lose decently! ”
"Yes, Master!" Dao Yuan bowed down to answer the Tao. took Lin Yi out of the abbot and came to a quiet small courtyard.
Lin Yi raised his eyes and saw that there were several tall pines and cypresses planted in the courtyard, and there was a stone table, two stone benches, and a stone-paved path leading to the door of the house built of three bricks and tiles. We like to be quiet, but this place is just right.
Walking along the stone path to the door, Dao Yuan took out the key from himself to open the door lock, and when he pushed the door open, he saw that there were all kinds of beds, bedding, tables and chairs in the house, and he was even happier at the moment.
Dao Yuan handed over the key to Lin Yi and said coldly: "Meditation, this is originally a guest room for receiving pilgrims, in order to facilitate your meditation and chanting, from today onwards, you can practice meditation here with peace of mind!" ”
"Thank you for your care!" Lin Yi hurriedly bowed down and thanked him.
Dao Yuan turned back to Jingkong and said, "Jingkong, you also moved here to live, and participated in meditation with your junior brother, if there is anything inconvenient, you can take care of one or two!" ”
Jingkong bowed down to receive the order, and Dao Yuan briefly instructed him to pay attention to the gossip of the fire candles and so on at night, and then got up and left.
Waiting for Dao Yuan and Jingkong to leave, Lin Yi carefully looked at the room, and saw that the window was made of white paper, without a single hole, the bedding on the bed was also very thick, and the furnishings in the room were also very exquisite. I was very satisfied, put the burden on my shoulders at the head of the bed, lay down in my kimono, and thought secretly with my hands on my head: "It's good to be a monk!" No one cares about this, you can be lazy and sleep until dawn, you can also rest early at night, and during the day you are happy to recite the scriptures, and you are not happy to wander around inside and outside the temple! How comfortable you want to be, how comfortable you want to be! Beautiful! Thinking of the debate again, he laughed and said: "I have been reading the scriptures for four or five months, how can I compare with the apprentices who have been studying for one or two decades, I am bound to lose, since I am losing, why bother to read it seriously, pretend to forget it, and when I stand on my feet, I will not leave this society, and I will quickly return to the vulgar, who wants to be a monk, and I can't even marry a wife, isn't it very boring?" I made up my mind, lay on the bed for a while, got up again, found an empty box for my baggage, and put it in, when the door creaked open, and Jingkong walked into the room with his futon and luggage on his back.
Lin Yi hurriedly stepped forward and beckoned him to put it down, and together with Jingkong, he also packed up his belongings neatly, with a smile on his face, and kindly asked him to take more care of him in the future.
Jingkong patted himself on the chest, and said loudly: "It's easy to say!" Say! If you follow me in the future, as long as you abide by the rules and precepts and practice hard, you will naturally have benefits. ”
Lin Yi thanked him again, and was sitting in the house, when he heard the melodious sound of the bell, very loud. Lin Yi was puzzled: "Senior Brother Jingkong, is this a distinguished guest who has arrived, do you want us to greet him?" ”
Jingkong smiled: "This is not, but it's time for our Baolin Temple to eat!" ”
Oh! It turns out that when the bell is ringed, it's time to eat! Ha ha! It happened that we had walked for a day and were hungry, so we went to the monks' canteen to see what these monks ate and drank on weekdays! Lin Yi stood up happily and walked to the canteen of Baolin Temple with Jingkong to eat.
There are also a lot of monks in this Baolin Temple, except for a few respected old Zen masters who have a full-time little novice to deliver food, other monks are eating in the canteen, Lin Yi and Jingkong rushed to the canteen, there were already fifty or sixty monks inside, everyone was lining up, and went to the front in turn to eat. Lin Yi saw Jingkong take a bowl from the basket on a table, walked over to line up, busily followed his example, also grabbed a bowl, and honestly lined up behind Jingkong, and went forward.
The canteen was full of acquaintances, and the arrival of a stranger naturally attracted everyone's attention, and the monks in the canteen looked at him one after another.
"No! See! Which guy is the closed disciple of Uncle Dao Realm? I heard that when he was a monk in Xiaolin Temple, he did not abide by the rules and precepts and openly molested a demon girl named Miao Qingqing, which led to the Dao Realm Uncle being attacked by the water bandit Miao Dahai, and the Nanzong Xiaolin Temple was turned into ashes, and the Dao Realm Uncle was also angry to death! What an unfilial man! A short and thin monk whispered to a tall monk next to him.
The tall monk said: "I just heard Jingkong say that Jingxin was beaten by someone and lost his memory, and he can't remember anything before, I think he looks loyal and honest, he shouldn't be able to do anything!" ”
This senior brother is really our confidant! Lin Yi heard the two of them talking, and cast a grateful look at the tall monk.
The short and thin monk said with a disdainful expression: "Come on! Knowing people and knowing faces but not knowing their hearts, you see his eyebrows and eyes, quite attractive, maybe it was the demon girl named Miao Qingqing who looked at him, the two hooked up and became adulterous, and slept with Miao Qingqing quietly, ruining the innocent body of the girl, Miao Haihai went crazy with anger, so he burned Xiaolin Temple ruthlessly! ”
No way! This senior brother, your imagination is so rich! actually imagined such a fragrant and violent storyline, which can be the editor of future generations! Lin Yi praised sincerely.