Chapter 18: Life, Old Age, Sickness, Death, Love and Hatred
The fat Taoist priest turned his head to look at the teacher's door, the door was not closed, through the open door, he could see the blue brick floor in the courtyard outside the door, and a few sparrows looking for dinner on the ground before sunset, Lin Hai also looked at the fat Taoist priest's sight, and then quickly turned his gaze back.
The fat Taoist priest smiled mysteriously before he spoke:
"For the vast majority of Taoist friends and lay people who come here to seek the Tao, the poor Tao will tell them about the goals of self-cultivation, cultivation of the mind, and longevity, for them, the Tao has two meanings, one is to seek the mind to reach and not stay in things, so as to ensure that they will not often get lost in the complicated world, forget their direction and original intention."
Lin Hai nodded, he has personal experience of losing his way and forgetting his original intention, in fact, most people have this experience, and even a considerable number of people have lost their way and regret it.
The fat Taoist priest shook his head and continued;
"The other meaning is more down-to-earth, in order to prolong one's life, to derive the most practical benefits from the activity of monasticism."
Lin Hai frowned slightly:
"I'm afraid these are not true cultivators."
The fat Taoist priest smiled and nodded:
"Haha, that's right, these people are not true cultivators, they can only be regarded as people who wander outside the circle of true cultivators, have doubts and expect benefits."
Lin Hai nodded and didn't make a sound, looking at the fat Taoist waiting for his next words, the fat Taoist looked at Lin Haidao appreciatively:
"A true cultivator... Let's let the poor Dao crook the building for the time being, the layman has always been interested in the way of soul cultivation and strengthening, so does the layman know that the soul is a relatively reliable explanation? ”
"I don't know much about this, but from the information I found on the Internet, I am more inclined to say that it is religious."
The fat Taoist priest had such an expression:
"So that's where the layman is?"
Lin Hai didn't hide it, nodded and said:
"It's relatively close, and in fact I'm considering going to the plateau to visit Tantra."
The fat Taoist priest pursed his lips disdainfully:
"Tantra, hehe. Actually, Taoism is not a religion at all, it's just..."
Lin Hai waved his hand:
"I know, because you have to be down-to-earth, to win more supporters, the Taoist chief said the point."
The fat Taoist priest shook his head with a smile:
"The layman is a little impatient, well, let's talk about the point, the meaning of the existence of religion must be clear to the layman."
"Transferring and eliminating psychological stress?"
"Yes, that's pretty much, but it's a consequence, and the cause of religion is to... Detached! Birth, old age, sickness and death are the fate that everyone can't escape, whether it is the president or a beggar, it is the same to be born with nothing, and it is the same to die with nothing, even if you are trying to get more power, but in the end you still can't escape the prison of birth, old age, sickness and death. ”
Lin Haihu looked at the fat Taoist suspiciously, he didn't have doubts about what the fat Taoist said, but had some associations with the word 'detachment', because now for the earth natives like Lin Hai and the fat Taoist, the existence of the black cat is a kind of detachment, is it...
The fat Taoist priest carefully paid attention to the changes in Lin Hai's expression, and there was a lot of playfulness in his eyes, until Lin Hai focused his attention on the fat Taoist priest's face again, and the fat Taoist priest continued to speak:
"A true cultivator seeks transcendence!"
The fat Taoist priest's expression was very solemn, and even had some sacred meaning, but Lin Hai looked calm, and there was even a feeling that I took off my pants, no, I washed my ears and you told me about this egg pain, which made the fat Taoist very hurt, and he raised his voice a little dissatisfied:
"What the poor Tao is talking about is not some marginal conjecture, but a real search for the way of transcendence."
"For example? Just reading the Bible and practicing the Five Fowl Opera every day? ”
Lin Hai's question is very straightforward, in fact, Lin Hai has learned these two things after paying the money in the past few days, but these two things have not increased Lin Hai's soul strength by even one point.
Regarding Lin Hai's rather obvious sarcasm, the fat Taoist priest smiled, with an expression that you don't understand anything, and pouted:
"That's right, it's just relying on the two things that the layman said."
Lin Hai was stunned for a moment, and then he realized:
"Huh? Could it be that you are hiding your secrets? ”
"Lay man cautiously, just now the poor Dao also said, you can get whatever you ask, since you are not a sincere cultivator, how can you hide your secrets?"
Lin Hai's eyes lit up:
"Could it be that Daoist Master can teach me the True Transmission?"
The fat Taoist priest nodded with a smile.
......
When Lin Hai felt that he had touched the edge of the other side, Ye Xuexin in another city was looking at the baby sucking breast milk in Ah Nuan's arms with a smile, this little princess who was less than eight months old was Ah Nuan's child.
The baby sucked on the breast milk for a while, holding the huge granary in her little hands, closing her eyes happily and calmly, as her rhythm became slower and slower, and finally fell asleep.
Ah Nuan pressed the full granary with her fingers, gently moved the child away, Ye Xuexin carefully reached out to take the child, and then skillfully supported the back of the child's neck, stood upright and leaned the child on her shoulder, and gently patted the child's back, so that she could expel the air from her stomach.
Ah Nuan took out a hot towel from the steam sterilizer on the table next to him, wiped it carefully, and then sorted out the clothes, just as the child also had a long hiccup, the two looked at each other and smiled, Ye Xuexin carefully put the child into the crib, Ah Nuan looked at the child's sleeping face with a smile, and sighed with satisfaction.
"Your one hasn't come back yet?"
Ye Xuexin smiled and shook his head:
"No, it's still in the market."
Ah Nuan glanced at Ye Xuexin curiously:
"What the hell is he going to do? Are there any famous attractions in Linshi that I can spend a week in? You don't doubt it at all? ”
Ye Xuexin smiled calmly:
"No, not at all, he reports to me every day, and there are photos."
Ah Nuan shook his head and said helplessly:
"I really don't understand you, you."
Ye Xuexin raised her good-looking eyebrows:
"What don't you understand, we are all very simple people."
"Is it easy?"
Ah Nuan frowned and thought about it, and finally had to sigh and say:
"It's so easy, but..."
"Do you think we're a little different from others, so you think it's weird?"
An Nuan nodded quickly:
"That's really the case, you guys are really weird, look at you, a goddess-level beauty, you have secretly had a crush on a man for more than ten years, is this kind of thing reasonable?"
"Twelve years."
"Don't you think it's unusual for years?"
Ye Xue smiled proudly:
"That's because we're not ordinary people! Haha..."
"Yes, it's all insane! and Ah Hai, the goddess is chasing after him, and he is still very hypocritical, I really don't know what qualifications he has to be hypocritical? ”
Ye Xuexin frowned:
"I can't say that, I understand and appreciate what he does, in fact, what he does shows that he cares about me very much, no, I think he likes it very much, no, I should say he loves me!"
Ah Nuan's eyes widened:
"Huh?! So, do you feel good about yourself? ”
Ye Xuexin grinned, shook her head proudly, and looked a little moved by her cute appearance.
"I can feel it, absolutely."
An Nuan sighed helplessly:
"Okay, then can you tell me, what is good about that guy Ahai, who is worthy of your goddess?"
"It's been pasted upside down, as for Ah Hai... In fact, he is quite ordinary, he has neither extraordinary qualifications nor tenacious will, and his family background is also very ordinary, and his appearance... It's just above average. ”
"Medium? I just barely passed, you are a typical lover's eyes. ”
"Hee-hee, okay, I just think it's good to look good anyway."
"If he doesn't have anything to show for him, how can you miss him?"
Ye Xuexin's eyes slowly raised, her eyes were a little sloppy, and she seemed to be stuck in a memory, and after a while, she suddenly smiled and turned her gaze to A Nuan:
"Because ah, because it was a promise, that year... I was thirteen years old, and I accidentally fell into the river during the spring outing, and it was Ah Hai who saved my life, and I was very young at that time, so I felt that the grace of saving my life could not be repaid only by making a promise, how romantic it was. ”
Ah Nuan pouted:
"So you're chasing him?"
"No, I was still young at the time, and I was very awkward about this, and every time I saw him, my heart beat faster, and I couldn't speak clearly, and he wanted to say something to me again, but I ran away shyly, and as a result... Later, my classmates spread the word that Ah Hai failed to confess or something, and then Ah Hai avoided me, and I didn't know how to explain it to him. ”
Ah Nuan sighed regretfully:
"You're really... Young. ”
"No, we were only thirteen years old, the next year, my parents took me back to the city, and before leaving, I mustered up the courage to write a letter to Ah Hai, and later I learned that Ah Hai did not receive this letter, but was thrown away by a classmate."
"Huh? You're a rival!? ”
"No, it's the boy who has a crush on me, I didn't know about it until we were admitted to Fuda University together."
Ah Nuan shook her head with mixed feelings:
"Admitted to Fuda together? Hey, you didn't find out that he reported to the University and then you..."
Ye Xuexin smiled and did not comment, and Ah Nuan's expression became a little strange:
"Then why didn't you take the initiative to find him when you got to college?"
Ye Xuexin's expression also became a little complicated:
"Because we've grown up!"
Time has passed, the mood is still the same, or is the autumn wind sad fan, the old people have changed? Ah Nuan was a little panicked for a while, and she didn't know how to continue asking.
Ye Xuexin was stunned for a while, gently shaking the crib, and Ah Nuan exhaled for a while before exhaling:
"Then you haven't had a heart for another man? After all, there are so many people who are better than Ah Hai that I can't count the number of people I know. ”
Speaking of this, Ah Nuan couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth, Gayin Linhai is too ordinary, but there are too many outstanding young people in Fuda.
Ye Xuexin shook her head:
"No, Ah Nuan, don't you think the story between me and Ah Hai is very romantic?"
Ah Nuan pouted:
"Cut, can I say you're hypocritical?"
"Hehe, I don't think that from a realistic point of view, since I have been in love, I have experienced the ups and downs of love, and this relationship has the possibility of continuing, why should I bother to find the feeling of another love? And you may not be able to find the feelings that can be compared with the simple feelings of the thirteen-year-old, what do you think? ”
"You, you're a young man, right?"
"No, and it turns out that my persistence is right, and Ah Hai also loves me, then my persistence in the past twelve years is not only a feeling of nothingness, but an emotional experience that has gone through hardships."
Ah Nuan looked at Ye Xuexin with a happy face with some envy and jealousy, and felt that her smile was a little dazzling, although she was not a single dog, why did she still feel abused?
"Well, you haven't answered my question yet, why didn't you take the initiative until now? You're not afraid that he's been snatched away by another woman? ”
"I'm afraid, that's why I took the initiative to find him!"
"I mean before."
"Before?"
A sly smile appeared on Ye Xuexin's face, and she pursed her lips and was silent for a moment before saying:
"I wasn't worried about it before, but now..."
Ah Nuan looked stunned, then looked at Ye Xuexin in surprise, and then gritted his teeth and said:
"Turns out you're a scheming too!"
"Hehe, don't say it so ugly, it's not that I'm playing tricks, in fact I didn't do anything, it's just that I know Ah Hai, his biggest advantage is that he is responsible, so he won't do it if he doesn't want to get married, and you don't know his situation during school, do you think he really dares to find a girlfriend with his confidence?"
The corners of Ah Nuan's mouth twitched:
"Could it be that you secretly hinted to those excellent boys that you are optimistic about Ah Hai for the good of Ah Hai? It seems that Ah Hai was hit very badly by them. ”
"Don't talk nonsense, those rumors... It's not a rumor, it's not that I spread it, it's that Ah Ling knew about it when I was tracking down the missing letter, you know her big mouth, don't I understand that these news will be bad for Ah Hai? Even Ah Hai's increasing inferiority complex is related to this incident. ”
"No wonder you've been so cold to Ah Ling, hey, no! I was almost fooled by you, don't change the subject, my question is why you didn't start until now, you can take the initiative to pursue Ah Hai when you were in school. ”
Ye Xuexin smiled bitterly:
"Isn't it obvious, if I were to socialize Ah Hai at school, how much pressure would Ah Hai have? Even after graduation, if his self-confidence is not built, the pressure of my relationship with him will not crush him, but the consequences of this pressure will be even more terrible. ”
Ah Nuan thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but change his face:
"Indeed, you and him... It's really not a good fit. ”
"Who said it, that's what you always evaluate from a secular point of view, although marriage is not a matter of two people, but I think it's better to be pure about feelings, we always live for ourselves, not for others, so in order to reduce the external pressure that we may bear when we interact or even get married, I have to wait patiently."
"What are you waiting for? Wait for Ah Hai's career to succeed, but..."
"No, when I get older and become a leftover girl, then the pressure from my family will be less, and the rest will be relatively easy to solve."
Ah Nuan was stunned when she heard this, and looked at Ye Xuexin with a calm expression in surprise, there were only countless divine beasts left in her heart, this Ah Hai is really a blessing that can only be cultivated in several lifetimes, and it can make Ye Xuexin treat him like this.
It's just that Ah Nuan doesn't understand, in Ye Xuexin's opinion, it is not only Lin Hai who is lucky, but also herself, it is the luck of both parties to meet each other in the vast sea of people!