A bright moon hangs safely in the sky, the moonlight is bright, and the night is as cool as water.

There are large clumps of reeds that are half a person deep, and they make a rustling sound under the wind in the middle of the night.

The faint moonlight shrouded the gentle river in front of him, and the reflected river was faintly glowing with a shallow white glow.

On the two big rocks by the river, two figures under white Taoist robes sat looking at each other.

"Wu Xuan" Bodhi Patriarch, who was sitting opposite Yang Xuan, pursed his lips and said, "How long have you been in this three-star cave of the slanting moon?" ”

"Back to Master," Yang Xuan said respectfully to Patriarch Bodhi, "It has been two years since the disciple entered the Master's door. ”

"It's been two years," seeing Yang Xuan's truthful answer, Bodhi Patriarch bowed slightly, his old and deep eyes looked at the young man in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "How have you been doing all these years?" ”

"Back to Master, the disciple is doing very well," Yang Xuan said in a soft tone, "Master's dojo cultivation environment is excellent, I breathe some spiritual energy every day, and I don't feel hungry after eating some spiritual fruits." The senior brothers also treated me very well, never bullied me because I was young, but often explained to me the scriptures and the strange stories of the flood and famine, as well as the precautions for cultivating immortals. ”

"Then," Patriarch Bodhi looked up at the full moon in the night sky and said with a smile, "I haven't taught you any magic powers since you came under my door, do you have any complaints?" ”

"Of course there is," Yang Xuan said without thinking, "Don't hide it from you, the disciple was indeed a little resentful at the beginning. However, in the past two years, the disciple has read more books and understood more truths, so he naturally has figured it out. ”

"Oh, let's hear it." Patriarch Bodhi looked at Yang Xuan with interest and smiled.

"If you want to cultivate the way of heaven, you must first cultivate humanity, and if you don't cultivate humanity, the way of heaven is far away" Yang Xuan said with a straight face, "The disciple once heard that the former Xuantian God was dedicated to the Tao, and at the age of fifteen, he said goodbye to his parents and went to the mountains to practice. In the disciple's view, people should first cultivate humanity in order to be qualified to match heaven and earth, and to be called one of the three talents. ”

After a pause, Yang Xuan continued, "The disciple thinks that he can be righteous in his heart, surrender his own heart, and accumulate merits, so that it is possible to embark on the road to becoming an immortal and ascending to the truth. ”

"That's right," Patriarch Bodhi nodded with satisfaction and said with relief, "You have read the scriptures for two years, and you have not read them in vain. ”

"The patriarch has won the prize."

"Cause and effect, retribution is unpleasant," Patriarch Bodhi stroked his beard and said with emotion, "No matter where you come from, you come here, you naturally have a reason to come here, this is the will of God." ”

"Hmm......"

"Don't talk yet," Patriarch Bodhi shook his hand at the stunned Yang Xuan, and said, "Wu Xuan, before I formally teach you, you will answer me three questions. ”

"Which three questions?" Hearing this, Yang Xuan hurriedly asked.

Patriarch Bodhi said to Yang Xuan with a kind face, "These three questions are very simple, that is, where is Lingtai Fangcun Mountain?" Where is the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon? Who is the Bodhi Ancestor? ”

Hearing the three questions raised by Patriarch Bodhi, Yang Xuan was also stunned.

These three questions seem to have been said by Patriarch Bodhi when he was taking the school monkey exam. I didn't expect it to be used to test me at this time.

"Aren't you the shameless corpse?"

Yang Xuan complained in his heart, but he didn't have the courage to say it, otherwise Patriarch Bodhi would definitely drive him away as soon as possible!

Lao Wu did not give a specific explanation of the final answers to the three questions mentioned by Bodhi Patriarch, and many people discussed these three questions on the Internet before Yang Xuan's crossing. So at that moment, Yang Xuan began to search for relevant memories in his mind.

"Lingtai is another name for the heart, the square inch is the size of the heart, and the oblique moon is the heart at the bottom of the word plus three points into the heart," recalling the memories of his previous life, Yang Xuan thought in his heart. In Journey to the West, in addition to the Lingtai, there is also a 'Lingshan'. The process of Sun Wukong's learning of the Tao can be seen as the process of Sun Wukong finding his own soul, which can be seen from Sun Wukong, also known as the heart ape. And the process of traveling west to learn scriptures is actually basically similar to Sun Wukong's experience, which is also looking for their own hearts.

Let's talk about square inches. The word square inch originally meant "one inch square", and later extended to refer to the heart. It's just that the square inch has another meaning, that is, the size of the area. Fangcun Fangcun must refer to a small area, that is to say, Fangcun Mountain, where Su Bodhi Patriarch is located, is actually not big. Why? Everyone knows the word "big tree", right? Bodhi Patriarch is a good corpse of a quasi-Taoist person, and he is a Taoist person, of course, he can't be too ostentatious, he wants to be a low-key person, and there is no need to make a big show.

Therefore, the phrase "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain" refers to the heart.

Let's take a look at the "Three Stars Cave of the Oblique Moon", this sentence also refers to the heart, but it is described from the stroke characteristics of the word "heart". "Oblique Moon" refers to a painting of the oblique hook of the heart character, and "Samsung" is the three dot paintings of the heart character.

As for the words of Patriarch Bodhi...... In the Buddhist "Diamond Sutra", the ten disciples of the Buddha, the first to solve the emptiness is the Venerable Nasu Bodhi.

"Vientiane is empty, all laws cannot be obtained after all, everything is created by idealism." Thinking of this, Yang Xuan had a bottom in his heart.

"Wu Xuan, it's been an hour, haven't you thought about it yet?" Seeing that Yang Xuan had been keeping his head down, pondering for a long time, the Bodhi Patriarch said, "Why don't you go back first." I'll give you a month to think about it, and if you understand, tell me. ”

"Patriarch, the disciple has already thought about it." Yang Xuan raised his head at the moment, straightened his clothes, and said solemnly.

"Oh, I've thought about it," Patriarch Bodhi said when he saw this, "Let's hear it." ”

Yang Xuan didn't say anything, but stretched out the thumb of his right hand, put it on his chest, and smiled, "This is it." ”

"Hahaha!!" Patriarch Bodhi laughed three times, not angry, but laughed, swept the dust in his hand, and said, "Wuxuan, you have understood, it seems that you already know why the teacher asked you these three questions." ”

"The Dao heart is one, where the Dao heart is, that is, where the Heavenly Dao is, whether it is the first question, the second question or the third question, the disciple has only one answer," looking at the satisfied look in the eyes of the Bodhi Patriarch, Yang Xuan said slowly, "That is in the heart!" ”

"That's true," Patriarch Bodhi nodded, and said, "Since you have returned to the three questions of being a teacher, then the teacher will naturally ask you, what do you want to learn?" ”

In the original book, when Sun Wukong was asked here, what did he say, "I hope that Master will be merciful and pass on the way of immortality to me."

In Yang Xuan's opinion, the monkey is really uninformed! The cultivator asked, which one is not pursuing immortality?

Even if you really want to live forever, you have to be subtle. To say it so bluntly, it naturally seems too utilitarian in the eyes of Patriarch Bodhi, and the Taoist heart is not pure.

It is no wonder that Patriarch Bodhi swept him out after teaching him for three years.

At that moment, Yang Xuan bowed down to the Bodhi Patriarch and said respectfully: "Master, the disciple wants to learn great wisdom!" ”