Xuan Sheng and the other monks were surprised to see that Xiao Yuanshan and his son, Murong Bo and his son, and Ling Muyun were all in the pavilion, listening to an old monk with an unfamiliar face. It must be known that with the identity of the five people and the hostile position of each other, that is, the abbot of their Shaolin Temple is not qualified to make them all quiet and listen to each other, who is this old monk, how can he have this ability?

However, these monks are all highly cultivated and brilliant people, although they have doubts in their hearts, they do not come forward to disturb, but just stand aside gently, ready to listen to what the old monk has to say.

When the old monk saw the monks coming up, he ignored them all and continued: "If you practice the superior martial arts of this school, such as the Flower Finger, the Dora Leaf Finger, the Prajna Palm, and the like, if you don't reconcile and dissolve them with the compassionate Dharma every day, you will become angry and penetrate deep into the internal organs, sinking deeper and deeper, a hundred times more powerful than any external poison. However, the old monks of Murong and Xiao only blindly practiced those superior martial arts, and disdained the Buddhist scriptures handed down from the temple, so for a long time, the aura contained in these superior martial arts had quietly and unconsciously penetrated into the bodies of the two laymen, and it was difficult to dissolve. ”

Xuansheng Xuanxuan and other monks are senior monks of Shaolin Xuanzi, and their cultivation of Buddhism and martial arts is not shallow. After only listening to a few words, I felt that what this old monk said was very meaningful, and the Tao had never been said before, and there was an awe-inspiring meaning in my heart, and I couldn't help but admire: "Amitabha, good, good!" ”

Several monks couldn't help but secretly wonder in their hearts: "Looking at the costume of this old monk, he should be a serving monk who is doing miscellaneous work in this temple, how can he have such insight and cultivation?" ”

Although the serving monk is a monk of Shaolin Temple, he only shaves his ordination and does not worship his teacher. In addition to chanting and worshipping the Buddha, they only do some rough work such as burning fire, farming, sprinkling and sweeping, and civil engineering. Xuansheng and the others are all first-class monks in the temple, and they don't know this monk, but they are not surprised, but they can't help but be secretly surprised when they hear him talk and see superbly.

I heard the old monk continue: "My Shaolin Temple has been built for thousands of years, and throughout the ages, only the Bodhidharma Patriarch has all kinds of skills. Since then, no monk has been able to master all kinds of martial arts. However, the books of the seventy-two stunts have always been in this pavilion. It has never been forbidden for disciples to read it, but no one can reach the achievement of the Dharma Patriarch, do you know why? ”

Murong Bo said: "That's Baosha's own business, how do outsiders know?" ”

The old monk said: "It's only because of the seventy-two stunts of this temple." Each of them can hurt people and take people's lives. Fierce and ruthless. Therefore, every skill must be resolved by the corresponding compassionate Buddhism. This truth is not known to everyone in this monastery. It's just that after a person has practiced four or five stunts, his comprehension of Zen theory will naturally be hindered. In my Shaolin sect, it is called 'martial arts barrier', which is the same as the 'knowledge barrier' of other sects.

Buddhism is for the sake of crossing the world, and martial arts is about killing, and the two go in opposite directions and restrain each other. Only the higher the Dharma, the more compassionate thoughts are prevalent, can the anger contained in the martial arts stunts be restrained, and the faster the Kung Fu can be practiced, but the Buddhist cultivation has reached such a state, but he disdains to learn more powerful killing methods. ”

Xuan Xuan nodded and exclaimed: "The master has a wonderful insight, and after hearing the master's words, the poor monk suddenly opened his mouth today. ”

The old monk said: "Don't dare, what the old man said is wrong, I still hope that everyone will advise." ”

The monks all joined together and said, "Please continue to talk about the Mystic Method." ”

The old monk said: "In this temple, there are naturally people who are not enough in Buddhism, but they want to forcibly learn more of the superior martial arts, but if they continue to practice so strongly, they will either go mad or have internal injuries that are difficult to heal." Master Xuancheng of this temple is a martial arts cultivator to be extraordinary, and the ancestors of the monks have allowed him to be the first person in the martial arts of the temple in the past 200 years. But overnight, he suddenly broke his muscles and became a wasted person, because he didn't understand this reason and practiced divine skills......"

Xuan Sheng and the others suddenly knelt down and said, "Master, I don't know if you can save Senior Brother Xuancheng?" ”

It turns out that this Xuancheng is the first person in the martial arts of the Shaolin Xuanzi generation monks, Shaolin seventy-two stunts, he is proficient in as many as thirteen doors, and each one has practiced to the realm of perfection, which is much more profound than the others who specialize in one class, known as the "Thirteen Absolute Monks", the high martial arts, not only in the same generation of brothers and sisters unmatched, is in the previous generation of Lingzi generation of monks are rare. The whole temple believes that his future achievements are bound to be unlimited, even if it is comparable to the ancestors of the predecessors, it is not impossible.

Who would have thought that such a genius was in his forties, when he was in the prime of life, he went crazy overnight and became a wasted person. Wrong is not so, the position of the abbot of Shaolin Temple will be inherited by Xuan Cheng nine times out of ten, rather than falling on Xuan Ci's head.

The sweeping old monk shook his head and said, "It's too late, I can't save it." When Master Xuancheng came to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to pick up martial arts classics, Lao Qu reminded him three times, but he was always obsessed. Now that the tendons and veins are broken, how can they be continued? In fact, the five aggregates are empty, the color body is injured, and he can not practice martial arts from then on, he practices Buddhism diligently, and thus becomes enlightened, which is really a blessing in disguise, several masters have seen, but it is not as good as Master Xuancheng. ”

Xuan Sheng, Xuan Xuan and others said in unison: "Yes, thank you for the teaching." ”

At this time, Ling Muyun's eyes also showed a hint of relief slightly. Among the people present, except for the sweeping old monk, his martial arts cultivation is the highest, so he also has the deepest understanding of the words of the nameless old monk.

It turned out that although Ling Muyun had relied on the memories of later generations, he had long known that Xiao Yuanshan and Murong Bo had both suffered extremely serious hidden injuries because of their strong Shaolin mastery, but why did the two of them end up in such a situation, Ling Muyun has always been quite puzzled. After all, both of them are also great experts in martial arts, how could they unknowingly give themselves to practice injuries and waste?

However, after listening to the sweeping monk's words, Ling Muyun already understood the truth in his heart.

What the sweeping monk said is actually a bit mysterious, what Shaolin 72 stunts are created because they are created to defeat the enemy, which contains anger, and must be refined to study Buddhism to resolve it, otherwise it will be angry into the body and difficult to save. If it is really according to the sweeping monk's statement, then the other martial arts sects and sects do not practice Buddhism at all, and only practice martial arts in order to hurt people and kill the enemy.

If that's the case, before the three elders of Xiaoyao passed away, their skills were cultivated to the realm of innate greatness, and all of them were higher than Xiao Yuanshan and Murong Bo, why didn't they go mad? How did all those martial arts masters in history other than the Shaolin School come from?

But it can't be said that what the sweeping monk said is not right, at least his set of theories makes sense when corresponding to Shaolin martial arts. If you want to practice the martial arts of the Shaolin school to an extremely advanced level, but you don't have enough Dharma cultivation and compassion, you really have to practice it.

According to Ling Muyun's understanding, this is actually a question of whether the martial arts mastery and the cultivator's mental cultivation can be commensurate.

However, all martial arts actually have their own unique artistic conception, and if the practitioner can fit this artistic conception, the progress of practicing martial arts will be greatly improved, or even a thousand miles a day, otherwise, the progress will be slow or even stagnant. And the more advanced the martial arts, the more significant this trait is.

Because most of these martial arts of the Shaolin school are created by the Bodhidharma Patriarch, the purpose of creating these martial arts is to strengthen the body, promote the Dharma and subdue the demons, which contains a lot of Buddhist artistic conception in it, so when practicing these martial arts, it is also necessary to have enough understanding and compassion for the Dharma passed down by the Bodhidharma Patriarch.

Otherwise, it will conflict with the artistic conception contained in the martial arts itself, and after a long period of practice, they will inevitably suffer from the backlash of the exercises themselves, and the more profound the martial arts are practiced, the greater the backlash will be suffered, as is the case with Xiao Yuanshan and Murong Bo.

The martial arts of the Shaolin School, although it is practiced by means of subduing demons, its purpose is to promote the Dharma and save sentient beings. And Xiao Yuanshan and Murong Bo stole Shaolin mastery, but in order to defeat the enemy and kill people, which is contrary to the purpose of martial arts handed down by Bodhidharma ancestor, although relying on their own strong martial arts foundation and ingenuity to forcibly practice these martial arts, they have already been injured by the internal backlash of these martial arts.

But if the two of them practiced not Shaolin martial arts, but the martial arts of other sects that were created to protect themselves and kill people to defeat the enemy, there would be no such problem. (To be continued......)