I didn't expect that this old monk was actually caring about us.

But there is one thing that is quite strange, this dense forest in the Jialan Mountain Realm, especially the place where this broken temple is located, is already in the center of the dense forest, and few people usually come, why does this old monk stay here?

When I asked the old monk, the old monk replied, "Although there are few people in this mountain, there are always people who pass by by like the two of them. Although the temple is dilapidated, it is always sheltered from the wind and rain. ”

I also find it strange that since the monks are compassionate, since they want to transform the world and help the weak, they should go to the world, go through suffering, go to a place where there are many people, and the more people they can help, the better, why do they want to hide in this kind of place where birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't poop, and you may not be able to see a person for ten years, what is the point of helping people in this way?

The old monk said, everyone was born in this world, has their own karma and merits, helping one person is helping, helping countless people is also helping, don't take evil as a small thing, don't take good as a small thing, in this world, some people like to be lively and lively, enter the world to help the people, there are people who like to be clear and quiet, accumulate merit in this deep mountain, the same is to help others, why compare with each other.

Hearing this, I felt even more strange, if he stayed in this place to help passers-by and study Buddhism, why did he abandon this temple like this, and did not renovate it in his spare time.

The old monk said again, the Buddha is in the heart, not in a stone statue, some people use gold to add gold to the Buddha to add a golden body, and use jasper jade to make the rosary chanting, but do all the bad things in the world, no matter how beautiful the stone statue is, it is just a stone, the temple is gorgeous, but only a few rooms, if there is no devotion to the Buddha's heart, no matter how beautiful the decoration, it is just grandstanding, selling fame and reputation.

I think what the old monk said is very right, there are too many hypocrites in this world, who always stand on their own feet and do good deeds that they think are beautiful on the surface.

For example, those believers who buy birds, beasts, insects and fish outside the temple to release them and accumulate merits always think that they have released a lot of animals and done a lot of good things in front of the Buddha, but they don't know that those birds, beasts, insects and fish were originally caught by merchants for them.

In the middle of the night, it was raining again, the lightning was thundering outside, and I couldn't sleep at all, seeing the old monk meditating on the dilapidated futon, one did not chant, and the other did not settle down, I felt curious, and stepped forward to talk to him, Shen Xingshen sat silently on the side, closed his eyes, and said nothing, I don't know if he was pretending to sleep, or really asleep.

I talked a lot with the old monk, and I felt more and more that this old monk was about what the world called a hidden master.

However, Buddha Li has heard a lot, there is one thing, I still feel curious, many years ago, that way through the Jialan Mountain Realm, who is the young man who came here to ask for a signature, listening to the meaning of the old monk, that person seems to be from the Central Plains, and is richly dressed, not an ordinary person, but the Jialan Mountain Realm This place, usually even their locals will not come in, how could that person come here?

Hearing my question, the old monk was stunned for a moment, and then recalled the events of the year, and said in a hoarse voice: "That son, with a lofty and extraordinary bearing, is surrounded by the aura of dragons and tigers, and looks not like ordinary people, but more like the rich and noble sons of the emperor's generals." ”

He paused, and then said, "That prince has traveled thousands of miles and come from afar, and he is here to ask for a signature. ”

I was quite surprised, after all, this world is big, there are many Taoist temples, where to ask for a sign is not to ask, why do you have to work hard to come to a place like Jialan Mountain?

So he asked the old monk: "Could it be that there is nothing spiritual in this temple?" Is it worth people to come all the way to this kind of place to ask for a signature? Or is it that you are quite accomplished in interpreting the signature and are famous far and wide? ”

The old monk shook his head, stood up, walked to the Buddha statue, and showed me the broken signature placed in the bamboo tube, and said incomprehensibly: "It's just an ordinary signature, and there are some words on it that can't be read clearly, what kind of spirituality can such a sign have?" As for the unsigning, the poor monks often don't even read the scriptures, so how can they ever unsign? ”

"That's amazing."

I was aroused by this incident and asked, "But I don't know what the rich man is asking?" ”

As soon as the words came out, I felt that it was really too much, the world asked about the hexagram and the signing, there were nothing more than several, one asked about the future, the second asked about marriage, and the third asked about health, since that person was very likely to be born in the imperial general's family, it must be to ask about the future of wealth.

The old monk said: "That son is very strange, before the poor monk came here, he had traveled and practiced, lived in thousands of temples, and seen thousands of believers, but he was not as strange as that son, which was impressive. ”

I sighed, more interested: "What is he asking?" ”

The old monk paused: "That son doesn't ask about the future, and he doesn't ask about marriage, he asks about a person's life and death." ”

Strange, indeed strange, people say that life and death are determined by heaven, but if it is really related to the safety of relatives and friends, how can it really be handed over to God to deal with it? For ordinary people, even if there are really relatives and friends in trouble, who can help, they should help, and those who can't help can also say a word of relief, so that people can feel at ease and happy, even if they are really desperate and want to ask the gods and Buddhas, they should not come to such a remote and remote place.

I asked, "Why is this so?" ”

The old monk sighed and said: "The poor monk also asked him this at the time, but the son said that he was asking for the life and death of his wife, and his wife had done a lot of wrong things in her life, and her body was destroyed, and the ghosts and gods were abandoned. It shows that the ghost has forgiven his wife's sin and is willing to let her live. ”

"So, he begged all the way to get here?"

I was a little surprised, for some reason, when I listened to this story, I suddenly remembered Xu Jingrong.

This woman in the middle of the world, only what I know, can anger the ghosts and gods, be punished by heaven, die, and even the ghosts and gods are unwilling to help her, except for Xu Jingrong, who cut off the gate of heaven many years ago and died under ten thousand swords, who else can there be?

I asked again, "Did he finally ask for a signature?" ”

The old monk shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that the son bowed three times and bowed nine times, and he was pious and sincere, but in the end, he asked for a sign." ”

Originally, the old monk said that he asked for a sign and asked for a hexagram and ruled on life and death, I didn't believe it, after all, there are many gods and ghosts in this world, even if there are really heinous people, it will not reach the point where all the gods abandon it, right?

But that prince even found such a remote place in the depths of the Jialan Mountain Realm, it can be seen that the temples in the market town city must have worshiped a lot, and he has always insisted on it, which means that all he asked for before was signed.

One or two, it can be said to be a coincidence, but if it has been like this, maybe it is really his wife who has angered all the gods in the world, and no god is willing to open the net and let her live.

I suddenly felt distressed, and said sullenly: "A person who is not even willing to save the ghosts and gods must have done a lot of bad things in his life and is a wicked person, what qualifications does such a person have to make such a sacrifice for her?" ”

Just like our master's death spell, the only person who will be saved will be a good person like Shen Xingshen who has accumulated a lot of merit in his life, like the kind of bad person who is so heinous that even the ghosts and gods refuse to help her, it will definitely not be able to resurrect her, but I don't know what kind of magic the master found by the son, and whether he will resurrect his wife in the end.

"And the last?"

I asked, "How did that boy react when he saw that branch signed?" ”

The old monk said: "The boy was in the dust, because he was in a hurry for days, his body was not very good, and he was still injured, the poor monk saw that he was really hard, and persuaded him to let go, but the son left without looking back." ”

It's another anticlimactic story, and I don't know what the boy meant by turning away, whether he really listened to the persuasion of the old monk, or whether he planned to continue to insist.

I was listening, but I saw Shen Xingshen slowly open his eyes and look at me.

I said, "Shen Gongzi might as well say it if he has something to say." ”

Shen Gongzi was silent for a moment before he spoke: "Does Miss Ajing have no previous memories?" ”

I nodded, and suddenly realized what he wanted to say, and sure enough, Shen Xingshen paused, and then said: "The people who have been resurrected by the death spell have no previous memories, could it be that Miss Ajing has never thought that she ...... herself?"

"Impossible!"

Before he could finish his words, I flatly denied it, but I couldn't find a reason to prove why I was so sure.

Actually, I also thought about this question, when I was in the master's sect, the master taught me the mantra of rebirth, telling me that the person who was resurrected by the mantra has no memory of the past, and I thought about this question.

But after thinking about it countless times and denying it countless times, after all, no one in this world wants to believe that he was a dead person.

I asked Shen Xingshen, "If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, would you believe that you had died once?" ”

Shen Xingshen shook his head slowly, and I sighed: "Actually, I have always had a question in my heart, no, it is a lot of questions, maybe the people in the Jialan Mountain Realm can give me the answer I want." ”