Looking at these ordinary people living at the bottom of society, Li Xuan couldn't help but think of his past......

This world is sophisticated and fickle, which really makes him feel a little uncertain. Therefore, he wants to pursue eternity now, although it is also the same ethereal, but it gives him a goal, a hope, at least in his future path, he will not feel lost.

People often have the heart of comparison and injustice, or jealousy, or envy, or complaining, but rarely look downward.

While the people hawking along the streets were snickering at the fact that no one was chasing them away in the cold weather, some were complaining that the gloomy weather had affected their mood.

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After the spring rains, the sun came out and it was clear. The whole capital is as if it has just been washed, it is very refreshing, the air is very fresh, and it is sweet and silky as if you have drunk honey. The spring breeze is warm, the bright spring light shines on the earth, and everything presents a piece of vitality, forming a beautiful landscape map.

At the end of the long street, a tall, lonely figure slowly disappeared.

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Walking on the edge of this capital, standing in the mountains and forests, Li Xuan looked back, those towering buildings were only like a drop in the ocean at this time, and they seemed insignificant in the sky and the earth, and the towering mountains in the distance, under the sunlight, were dressed in golden yellow coats, and looked particularly beautiful. The sunlight was filtered by the layers of leaves, leaking onto Li Xuan's body, turning into a faint round and gently swaying halo. I took a long breath, and a kind of unobstructed feeling of letting the world swim arose.

Li Xuan walked away, and after a short time walked into a forest, he suddenly saw a corner of the yellow wall faintly exposed in the green shade, and the heavy bell ringing was mixed with the sound of chanting the scriptures and chanting the Buddha, long and long, and the light sandalwood came with the wind, calming the mind and refreshing the spleen, making people feel a trace of peace and attraction, looking, he unconsciously moved towards the temple in the shade.

This is an old temple, and the dilapidated and tall courtyard walls show its vicissitudes to passers-by. Passing through the lush forest shade, you can see the ancient pine in the temple and a rusty door inlaid with copper red lacquer, "Lin Yin Temple" three simple and solemn Dou Da ancient seals are impressive, can not help but remind people of her once incense flourishing.

"Lin Yin Temple! The name still has a bit of connotation, but now that Taoism is flourishing, it is rare for monks to live here......" Li Xuan looked up and walked inside.

In the temple, the ancient pines are arranged regularly on both sides, sprinkling huge shadows, and occasionally three or two novices walk by. As far as the eye can see, there are blue bricks and yellow tiles everywhere, and the walls of the Zen room are mostly slab walls. The specifications are magnificent, but the buildings have been damaged, some have damaged the doors and windows, some have broken walls, some have locked and the locks have been mottled, some simply open the lintels, and the dark halls and rooms are exposed without fear, and the steps in front of the door are flooded with lush weeds, and everything is confessing to people - this has been ignored for a long time.

The ruins of the walls, the slackened lintels, the rusted locks, and the broken windows carved with scriptures cannot hide the glory of the past; in the bluestone-paved courtyard, you can still see the mouth of the manhole with a round hole in the middle of the huge ashlar stone and the drainage channel hidden under the stone, it is not difficult to imagine that this place was once extraordinary, but all this is hinted at through the dilapidation of this hope, which still makes people sigh with desolation and compassion.

Walking through the courtyard, Li Xuan turned a few corridors in the direction of chanting, and suddenly opened up again, a majestic hall stood in front of Li Xuan's eyes, in the empty hall, there was a tall statue of Sakyamuni, but seeing the smoke of incense, there was also a solemn treasure in this morning and dusk.

Under the Buddha statue, an old monk sat on the futon, holding a wooden fish in his hand and knocking on it, and bursts of sandalwood rose from the incense table in front of him.

Looking at the old monk sitting upright, Li Xuan's eyes couldn't help flashing a glimmer of brilliance, he faintly felt a faint and broad energy fluctuation emanating from the monk's body, although he couldn't enter his eyes, but to meet such a cultivator in this decadent temple, he couldn't help but feel some novelty.

After standing for half a salary, Li Xuan felt bored, and was about to turn around and leave, when he heard the old monk suddenly speak: "The layman is worried, why don't you weigh it in this pure gate and let the old monk solve it for you?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but turn his head, looked at the slightly chubby monk in front of him with great interest, and said half-paid: "How does the master know that I have worries in my heart? Not to mention that the Buddha has a Buddha fate, and the Tao has Taoism, but if there is any involvement, the poor Dao is confident that it can still be handled, so I don't bother the master!"

After hearing this, the monk's face did not change: "Good! I want to come to the layman is also a person who has achieved cultivation, and the poor monk is too talkative, but this disturbance of the red dust, there are many demonic obstacles, and the layman will inevitably not be contaminated, is it a pity to waste some efforts, I want my Buddhism to be pure, the door of convenience is wide open, why don't the laymen enter this pure land, and participate in Zen and enlightenment with the poor monks, wouldn't it be happy!"

"Hahaha......" Li Xuan couldn't help laughing out loud after hearing this, he didn't expect to meet a monk who did a good thing casually, and he wanted to pull himself in, thinking about his own strength and creation, although he himself achieved immortality, but this will clone is still some distance away from the real avenue, but it is also a matter of time, it is ridiculous that this monk still uses this kind of words to trick himself.

Thinking about it, he said: "I look at the majestic statue of the master, the wisdom is looming, I think it must be a great wisdom, there are a few questions here and I want to ask the master to help solve the doubts." ”

The old monk said, "Layman, please speak." ”

Li Xuan listened and asked: "The Buddha said that there is no image of self, no image of people, and no statue of sentient beings, so there is no self." But the poor road thinks that with me, with my heart, with fate, naturally, I am free. Besides, the Buddha and the Tao are of the same origin, all things are one original, and all the laws are one, so how can we cross the word that I belong to you? The master is talking about purity, but the poor Tao has to ask, what is purity?

The old monk said: "Purity is to be free from worries, cut off the red dust, transcend all sentient beings, see the surname with a clear heart, and get great freedom and great joy." ”

Hearing this, Li Xuan smiled and said: "According to the view of the poor road, it is not necessarily, purity is the door of natural enlightenment, and the foundation is based on purity, even if you are in the red dust, you can also be naturally transported without staining a single bit, besides, you are originally from the red dust, just like your mother, why are you so afraid? ”

When the old monk heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said: "The monk demon barrier has been born, if you can have your heart to the Buddha, you can also hope to have a escape, otherwise I am afraid that it will be too late to regret it!"

Li Xuan felt that the old monk in front of him was getting more and more interesting, although there seemed to be something wrong in his words, but listening to what he said, there was still a bit of persuasion, so he was not annoyed, but woke up a little, so he said with a straight face: "Doesn't your Buddhism pay attention to the four major emptiness, no phase and no self? I think you really have some demons in your heart now! The so-called Buddha is naturally pure without Buddha in your heart, why does the Buddha have to be in your heart?" The act of reciting sutras is nothing more than an external force that persistently diverts one's own hearing and hearing, and true freedom is everywhere, in your words, there is no Buddha that is a Buddha, and a Buddha cannot be without a appearance, so what you believe in and recite now is not a Buddha, but a demonic obstacle!"

After Li Xuan finished speaking, the old monk's face changed slightly, and he said calmly: "The Buddha purifies all sentient beings and seeks the true self with dedication, and the Taoist is good to himself, and seeks the true self with self-perception and detachment; After saying that, he closed his eyes and knocked on the wooden fish again, but looking at his face that was beating from time to time, his heart was probably not as calm as his words at this time.

Looking at a serious old monk, Li Xuan said to himself with a little regret: "The ancient temple is hidden in the deep mountains, the temple is accompanied by the real Buddha, the blue sky reflects the red wall, and the white clouds cover the eaves." You said that the morning bell and dusk drum laughed at the red dust, and I said that the green light and yellow roll look at life. The so-called Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things. Although my generation belongs to the Dao lineage, they all belong to the True Dao, and there are very few people who have not yet been born. Most of them exist in this word 'Dao', the root of the existence of the heavens. Although your Buddhism is all about "truthfulness", and denounces my Dao vein as the inconclusive method, there is a leaky method, but, in my opinion, the Buddha Gate may not really return to the absolute nothingness, otherwise, how can you come to the Pure Land of the West Heaven, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas?...... Buddhism, is he really pure?" After speaking, he didn't look back, turned away, and left an old monk with a deep brow on his brow alone.

After a long time, I heard the old monk sigh and say to himself: "Yes, Buddhism, is it really pure......" After half a salary, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, with a little helplessness in his eyes, and called a little novice and instructed: "Go and inform Chen Lianshan's people, and say that the person he is looking for has appeared." ”

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Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the way, the Tao is the way of nature, and the way of nature should be to return to the basics. "Tao" is the essence of all things in heaven and earth and the law of their natural cycles. Everything in the world is in its own motion, and the Tao is its basic law.

In the end, he never took a bite of a grain of rice, he never wore clothes, and he never hung a trace of his head, so what did he do? It was better to abandon it or throw it away! Only by grasping the fleeting supreme truth in the gap between the mysteries and the darkness can we turn the earth into gold and the river into cheese. The Taoist's heart and surname are the same, which is actually the creation of the rotation of heaven and earth.

It is said that since Li Xuan left the temple, he didn't feel a little bored in his heart, so he gave himself an invisibility charm in the shade of the forest, and he didn't run away or soar into the clouds, but he just used the method of shrinking the ground, one hundred and ten zhang in one step, crossing the mountains and forests and ravines like flat land, and he had gone far in a short time.

It was only at noon that he slowed down. Standing in the wilderness, looking at the distant sky, the tide of thought spread, and after a long time, he shook his head self-deprecatingly and continued to move forward. Because of what is said in the Taoist theory, those who cultivate the Tao should travel more in the mountains and rivers to purify their minds, make more meritorious deeds, and achieve good results. So, while traveling along the way, he also did some good deeds for the benefit of the people, so he didn't realize that three days had passed. At dusk that day, he walked to a hill, but when he saw that the scenery was beautiful and the natural breath was abundant, he did not feel that he stayed for a while in order to enjoy this unique scenery.

At this time, the sky was already twilight, and when I looked around, I saw a green forest under the mountain, and the birds were endless, and it was natural and peaceful. Li Xuanzheng was happy to see himself, and suddenly a white horse crossed the mountain stream in the distance, and gradually spread out, not long after, but saw the clouds and mist rolling, like the sea waves, beautiful, which couldn't help but remind him of the clouds and seas that he often went to the top of the mountain to watch when he was a child. After a while, I saw that the clouds were full of air, and the opening and closing were scattered into brocade, and the mountains showed a corner tip in this white cloud cluster, like a plate of white jade gelatin, and dozens of jade shoots were pierced out of it, which was very beautiful. Looking back at the sky in the distance, the red clouds are still clear, and a round of sunset seems to be carried by one of the highest peaks, which seems to be held by the highest peak, which is really a wonder in the world.

It wasn't until the wonders of the sea of clouds disappeared that Li Xuan was still ready to move forward, and he didn't take a few steps before he heard the wind above him, and a clear and long voice came.

"May I ask if it's Li Xuan Daoyou in front?"

Li Xuan was startled for no reason when he heard this, and looked back, only to see that in the air not far from him, two sword lights, one green and one yellow, were supporting the two of them, more than ten feet from the ground, and slowly descended not far from him, looking at him.

The sword light receded, and Li Xuan was able to take a closer look at the two, but he saw that the person on the right was dressed a little retro, wearing a Taoist robe, wearing a star crown, only about twenty years old, with a face like white jade, lips like painted Zhu, a pair of tiger eyes deep and tranquil, and two sharp sword eyebrows on it were obliquely inserted into the sideburns, with three points of arrogance in the elegant.

The other person is a very orthodox dignitary dressed in a brocade robe, he is of medium stature, with a high nose and a square face, about forty years old, he was originally an extremely elegant person, but at this time, his face was full of anger, looking at Li Xuan and sneering.

"Poor Dao is Li Xuan, I don't know what the two Dao brothers called me?" After Li Xuan finished speaking, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, since he came down the mountain, he didn't seem to have befriended any monks, and the two people in front of him actually knew his name, which made him a little puzzled.

Judging from the results of the examination just now, these two people have good cultivation, the person on the left has a restrained momentum, but he can feel his hidden sharp edge, and his cultivation is in the late stage of the third; For this alone, Li Xuan would not associate him with mortals, then his cultivation was much higher than Li Xuan, and even reached the realm of the Seven Star Monarch and even the Eight Dharma Kings, or higher, this should be the strongest person Li Xuan has encountered since entering this world.

After Li Xuan finished speaking, the middle-aged man on the other side wanted to speak and stopped, but just turned his face away, I don't know what he was thinking in his heart!

The handsome young man glanced at the middle-aged man next to him, and turned his head to Ji: "This Taoist friend is polite, the poor Dao is Yu Qinghan under the Taiyi Sect of Qianyuan Mountain, the Taoist name is Jian Xuanzi, this is my nephew Chen Lianshan, we came abruptly, please forgive me." After a pause, he said: "Actually, it's nothing, I just want to ask Daoyou what does it have to do with the 'Demon Yuan Palace'?" The handsome young man's face was indifferent, and he spoke without hurry, faintly giving people the feeling of a moral person.

When Li Xuan heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, his mind was racing, and he began to be a little vigilant, and he immediately replied: "There is a poor road in the barren mountains and wild roads, and I only know how to wander around, but I have never heard of anything about the 'Demon Yuan Palace'. As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that the atmosphere was a little strange.

"Oh!hehe! That's easy!" Jian Xuanzi sneered twice, his face gradually cooled, and he looked at Li Xuan with a smile.

Li Xuan seemed a little strange when he heard the meaning of this, and was about to ask a question, when he heard Chen Lianshan on the side say coldly: "Li Xuan, you are really free! The world still leaves a way out of things, but you don't even let go of a wisp of soul, hum ......" After Chen Lianshan finished speaking, a pair of bloodshot eyes looked at Li Xuan opposite, flashing with terrifying murderous intentions.

At this point, Li Xuan had already vaguely guessed a reason, he knew that what should come must come eventually, and the flow of cause and effect is not something that human beings can disobey and avoid, not to mention, evasion is not his surname. He didn't panic at the moment, he waited for the other party to see what method they used to deal with him. I thought so, but there was a burst of helplessness in my heart: "Murderers, people still kill them, they want to take revenge, others also want to revenge, it is justified, you come and go, it is just a matter of increasing cause and effect!"

While he sighed, his face was still unfazed, and the calm mentality cultivated by these years of experience was revealed at this moment. Judging from the cultivation of the two people opposite, one is the strength of the realm of the Seven Star Monarch, and the other is the strength of the three-point realm, and the people of the three-point realm are just gone, but the people of the seven-star realm are not something that his own will can compete with - after all, once his will power or rules are too strong, it is impossible for the law of the kingdom of God itself to exist in it.

He is well aware of this, so he must delay as much as possible in order to come up with a way to preserve, as the so-called heroes do not suffer immediate losses, and Li Xuan is no exception. He had a plan in his heart, so he didn't panic on his face, but just smiled and asked Chen Lianshan, who was ready to go: "This fellow Daoist, please forgive me for being ignorant of the poor Dao, I really don't know what you are talking about, please explain it!"

"Hmph......" Chen Lianshan sneered again and again when he heard it, and sneered: "The acting skills are not bad, but it is ridiculous that you are a cultivator, not to mention the vicious methods, but you are also a rat who dares not to act." Speaking of this, he took a deep breath, a look of grief appeared on his face, and said sharply: "Li Xuan, should you forget the young master with a red mole on his face who was directly killed by you in the bazaar for snatching a cheap woman!

Li Xuan heard it and said with a smile: "It turned out that it was for this, you don't have to shout so much, I won't hide it from you, your son was indeed killed by me, but that is also his own fault, he bullied men and women and did not do any evil, and he was innocent, so I can't complain that I am so cruel to him!"

Looking at the tall man in front of him, Chen Lianshan said hatefully: "Okay, good, good, good one, I want you to taste the taste of the destruction of the god today......" After Chen Lianshan finished speaking, his expression was almost crazy, and he saw that he raised his hand and shot out a yellow light, in which a three-foot long sword appeared, but seeing Yingying Huangmang's tired eyes, the sharp sword qi whistled out in all directions, rolled up the sand and stones on the ground, whistling and whistling, as if there were thousands of sharp swords, straight towards Li Xuan.

(To be continued)