Back to the beginning of reincarnation?

Boren Zhe said: "A thousand years ago, the first great lama took the first life of his junior disciple into the cultivation cave in the back mountain to contemplate life and death, and never came out again. To end it all, it is necessary to go back there, open the door of the closed cavern, and go inside. ”

Li Yang asked: "If you go inside, you can solve the problem?" ”

"Yes." Boren Zheyang nodded: "I have a very strong feeling that the first lama is still waiting for his junior brother to go back. ”

"He's not dead?" We gasped.

Bo Ren Zheyang's eyes were a little confused, and he shook his head and said, "I don't know the way. But I could feel a strong aura fluctuating underneath. If we want to end the millennium cycle, we have to go back to the beginning of this cycle. He looked at Liu Yan: "Senior brother, are you ready?" ”

Liu Yan nodded.

Boren Zheyang led us out of the house with a butter lamp. This time the trip was longer, and we walked through a slender and narrow wooden ladder that almost crossed the entire mountain temple. There are many places that cross over the cliffs, and the planks are in disrepair and creaking when stepped on. Fortunately, it was night, and we couldn't see our feet clearly, and if we were in the daytime, looking at the abyss, no one would have the courage to step over.

Finally, we came to a wooden bridge.

At first glance, the wooden bridge looked impossible to walk, but two thin iron chains ran through the cracks in the mountain, and the chains were covered with narrow planks, which were blown by the wind and swayed from side to side. The abyss beneath my feet was dark, misty and unfathomable, and I couldn't help but think of the Ghost Gate. After all, the Ghost Gate Pass belongs to another world that is relatively mysterious, and what we are facing now is a dangerous reality. One step into the void will inevitably shatter your bones.

Holding the lamp, Boren Zheyang did not hesitate in the slightest step, and stepped directly on the wooden plank bridge, step by step, until the middle of the bridge did not look back at us. Liu Yan walked over without hesitation, and at this time the wind rose, and the two figures seemed to be above the abyss in the wind. The moonlight was like water, the black mountains in the distance, and a little light illuminated the lama in the darkness, and it really felt like a savior descending.

Bo Ren Zheyang shouted: "A few friends, if you can't come, don't force it." My brother and I will take a look and go back. ”

I looked at Li Yang, Li Yang's face was solemn, and he suddenly said, "Old Liu, this is a test. If I go back like this, I'll have a knot in my heart, and I'll have to die. ”

"I'll do it too." Yang Shanshan said.

Li Yang nodded and reminded her to be careful. The two of them walked on the dangerous bridge one after the other, Li Yang was very smart, and immediately found the pattern after walking for a while, reminding Yang Shanshan to pay attention to the rhythm and angle of the wooden bridge swinging with the wind, and go along with the strength.

I sighed and walked up as well. Li Yang is right, I also think this is a test. It's my own test of myself, and I want to break through this psychological barrier. When I walked up, I realized that it wasn't really that hard. You can't see the abyss under your feet, just stare at the section in front of you.

Facing the wind and stepping on the bridge, walking under the moon in the mountains, this feeling is very subtle, looking at the round moon in the sky, there is really an illusion of soaring.

When we got there, Boren Zheyang looked at us all and smiled with his little white teeth.

We saw that behind the temple, there was still such a place. On the mountain wall, there are many caves the size of one person, densely packed, like a beehive. After asking Boren Zheyang, he learned that this was the place where the cave in the temple was cultivated. Tibetan Buddhism has a tradition of cave cultivation, in the early days, practitioners entered the cave and immediately closed the cave entrance, leaving only a small opening to deliver food. The practitioner meditates in a cave without communicating with the outside world, which is called retreat. Nowadays, it is more humane, and many temples have retreat rooms, so you can choose an empty meditation room and go in to practice.

The Lotus Temple also maintains the thousand-year-old tradition of cave practice. Although some of the caves have collapsed due to erosion and mountain erosion, most of them are still well preserved. It is a very important means of cultivation for the monks of Lotus Temple.

Sticking to the cliff wall, it is a walking plank road that spirals and rises. The cave at the top, at least fifty meters above the ground, looked up and I felt lightheaded and my legs trembled. If you go up the plank road, you have to pee your pants.

Instead of leading us up, Boren Zheyang followed a spiraling wooden ladder into a huge crater in the mountain. The pit is impossible to see how deep it is, it is funnel-shaped, large at the top, and narrower the further down it goes. A house was built against the wall of the pit. Because of the topography, these houses are built completely along the angle and width of the pit wall, and they look like the nests of large birds.

It wasn't the shape of the house that struck me, but the danger and the amount of work. The materials used for construction had to be brought in from outside the mountain piece by piece. And if the builder accidentally falls into the pit, it will be a death. It's hard to figure out how people made it thousands of years ago.

We circled down the stairs to the bottom and entered a room. It was pitch black inside, and Boren Zheyang hung the butter lamp on the low ceiling, and the lights flickered and flickered, and the scene in the room made me completely stupid.

The walls of the house were brushed with black oil, and the workmanship was very rough, thick in some places and thin in others, dripping and falling to the ground. But because of this, the whole room seems to have an incomprehensible oppression and mystery, which makes it difficult to breathe. This is supposed to be an abandoned Buddhist hall, cold and cold, it is estimated that no one has been here for a long time, the floor is covered with worn felt, and the table is covered with thick dust.

Seeing this, I broke out in a cold sweat. This Buddhist hall is the place where the first great lama and Liu Yan talked about life and death in their previous lives. The walls of the painting are also covered with all kinds of distorted black shadows, which is very scary.

This place is very uncomfortable, I always feel hairy, I shrunk my shoulders and hid behind Li Yang.

Boren Zheyang took out a stick of Tibetan incense, wiped the dusty incense burner slightly, and then inserted the incense inside. The rich fragrance of Zang gradually spreads.

"Let's worship the Great Demon Venerable." He said.

Only then did we see that there was another idol of a god on the offering table. He had the face of a roaring animal, a crown of five skeletons, a ritual weapon in his hand, and an old cow kneeling on the ground underneath. There is actually a naked ** person under the cow, which is closely connected to the cow's body. It's like this cow is mating with that man. There is also a statue of a woman next to the statue, she is naked, snuggling tightly, holding a magic weapon in one hand and a human skull bowl in the other.

In the already small Buddhist hall, the shock of seeing such an almost life-like demon-shaped god is indescribable. It makes people unable to look directly, and when they look at it, they feel creepy, and the hairs on their backs stand on end.

"Who is this?" I asked in a trembling voice.

Boren Zheyang said quietly: "This is the Demon Venerable, the protector god who symbolizes wisdom. Legend has it that he was transformed by the Lord of Yama. ”

"I still don't get it." I said.

Boren Zheyang looked at me and smiled slightly: "To put it simply, it is the Lord of Yama who is in charge of hell in our understanding!" ”

I gasped and looked at the statue, feeling a cool breeze all over my body: "Why do you want to worship this here?" ”

Borenzhe said: "The first great lama of the temple is said to be the incarnation of Lord Yama in the world. ”

Li Yang clapped his hands smartly: "Ah, I know the way, this is why he can peek into the secret of the cycle of life and death." He said suddenly: "This great lama chooses monks for reincarnation, is there any test to be done?" ”

I glared at him fiercely: "If you don't say a word, no one will treat you as a dumb person." ”

Boren Zheyang smiled and didn't say anything, he called the two of us men to move the offering table together, and there was a bluestone slab underneath. There was a handle on the bluestone slab, and Li Yang and I each lifted one and pulled the board away with great force. A damp breath suddenly emanated from below.

Boren Zheyang took off the butter lamp, lay on the ground and shone it in, and in the dim light, we saw a large raised stone in the narrow ground. It's clear that the stone is blocking some cavern underneath.

Liu Yan squatted on the ground and said lightly: "My first life was sealed below. ”

Li Yang and I looked at each other and couldn't say anything.

Boren Zheyang patted Liu Yan: "Senior brother, to open this stone, you can only use modern blasting methods. ”

Liu Yan looked at him.

"And if blasting is used," Borenzhe said, "it will cause a chain reaction of cracks in the mountain and cause the entire temple to collapse." Except for this cave, everything in the temple will cease to exist. ”

Yang Shanshan said unconvinced: "How do you know the way? ”

Boren Zheyang held the lamp in front of him, and the firelight reflected his pale face: "Because this stone was sealed by me back then." ”

We didn't speak, and the room was silent. "This is an ancient circular language. The construction of the entire mountain temple is to get a glimpse of the reincarnation of life and death, and at this moment, the only way to break the reincarnation is to blow up the mountain temple. It's fate. It's also a choice. ”

Liu Yan smiled slightly: "Since it is a choice, it must be more than this choice." ”

Boren Zheyang nodded: "Come with me." ”

We walked out of the temple and down the stairs back to the pit. Boren Zheyang took us to the cultivation cave on the cliff wall, pointed to the highest cave, and said, "According to legend, there is a crack hidden in the depths of that cave, which is as deep as a thousand feet, and it leads to the bottom of the cave where your previous life was. But this is just a legend, no one has ever seen it. And there are many dangers in the cracks, poisonous gases and strange insects, and they may collapse at any time, maybe this is a dead end that can only enter but not exit. Senior brother, I know that you are not afraid of death, and it is a big deal to be reborn again if you die in this life. But if you miss this opportunity, you will probably forget everything here, and even if you do, you will not have the opportunity and financial resources to do it again, and you will sink into endless reincarnation without liberation. In other words, you have two choices, one is to blow up the stones at the bottom of the pit; The second is to climb into the most dangerous cracks. The first option is that you will be free from the suffering of reincarnation as you wish, but the Millennium Mountain Temple will be destroyed. The second option, you only have one chance, and if you miss it, you probably will never be able to get out of the sea of suffering. ”

I listened to it and swallowed,, don't be so cruel.

Liu Yan was silent for a long time, and then laughed so hard that tears came out.

"Senior brother, the choice is up to me?"

Boren Zheyang nodded.

Liu Yan said: "Tomorrow morning, you will take the monks in the temple down the mountain." Xiao Liu, Xiao Li, Shanshan, you also go down the mountain, tell Vice President Li, give those foreigners a week to prepare, and then go up the mountain and enter the temple. During this time, I wanted to be alone in the temple. ”

"What do you ask those foreigners to prepare?" Li Yang asked.

"Dynamite." Liu Yan said lightly: "The specific equivalent, how to fry it, senior brother knows it." ”

I exclaimed, "Senior, are you really going to blow up the temple?" ”

Liu Yan looked at the cave at the top and did not speak.