Today is a good day, the day I officially entered the Dao.

Master and Third Uncle have been calculating for a long time, and today is a suitable day for accepting apprentices.

The transmission ceremony was still very solemn, and the master and brothers were all dressed very formally.

The master and the third uncle were dressed in white robes, and the senior brothers were all blue, very clean, and neatly dressed.

Master reads:

Wu Yiji, a hundred people in the east, has the heart of the Tao, and is specially accepted as a disciple of this sect.

Since then, he has taken refuge in the Three Jewels of the Taoist Masters, which are:

Taking refuge in the path is taking refuge in the infinite path, which is the origin of the accumulation of all things in the universe.

The Sutras of Refuge are the 36 Sutras. The avenue is invisible, but the person who descends the three caves of the Sutra Treasure to teach the chemical path, according to the Sutra Treasure cultivation order, merges with the void nature, and even realizes the Tao.

The refuge master is the great master of Xuanzhong, that is, the Taishang Laojun, the old monarch was born empty, the changes are natural, the wisdom is infinite, the holy virtue is thoughtful, the shape is unpredictable, and the number is boundless. Later, he manifested as Lao Tzu, wrote 5,000 words, and passed on to future generations.

Refuge is the destination of one's body and mind.

Then give me the text of the refuge and read it along:

Disciple Wu Yiji, who is in the world, admires the avenue in his heart, wants to cultivate the true Tao, and transcend everything. Today's heart is sincere, and the heart is sincere:

Take refuge in the Supreme Dao Treasure, and wish all sentient beings to always serve the Heavenly Venerable and forever get rid of reincarnation.

Taking refuge in the Supreme Sutra Jewel, one should wish all sentient beings, life to life, to hear the Dharma.

Take refuge in the Supreme Master's Jewel, and wish all sentient beings to learn from the best and not fall into evil opinions.

I hope that after the heart is converted, the ancestor will protect you, the path will be sufficient, the cultivation will be true, and there will be no demons in the near way.

The master read again: "Add the word Yun, and the Taoist name is Wu Yunji." ”

Master said, "When you enter my Dao Gate, you should obey the Nine Precepts. ”

The "Nine Precepts" are:

One is diligent, patriotic and law-abiding, and is to recite the true precepts;

Respecting the two and honoring one's parents is the first true precept;

The three do not kill, and they are merciful to save sentient beings, which is to hold the true precepts;

The four are not fornicators, they are in things, and they are guarding the precepts;

The five do not steal, and the righteousness is harmful to oneself, which is the precept of fidelity;

The six are not angry, they are fierce and domineering, and they are cultivating the true precepts;

The seven are not deceitful, and the thief harms the good, which is the precept of fulfillment;

The eight are not arrogant, arrogant to the truth, and they have obtained the true precepts;

There are no two of the nine, and the Tao is single-minded, which is the true precept.

I knelt on the ground and finished reading, and the senior brother brought the Taoist robe from the tray, and the Jianzhan and wenge chopsticks that I have used to eat and drink in the past few days, and the senior brothers burst into applause.

Master said, "From today onwards, you are the sixth disciple of Douyinguan, Wu Yiji. ”

After thinking about it, he said, "Bring Caoyunjin here, and let's officially pass it on to him." ”

The brothers called the big yellow dog and began to carry out the transmission ceremony I had just done, and to be honest, to pass the degree to a dog, the scene was solemn and funny.

However, the master was meticulous and completed the ceremony, and then the dog's clothes were gone, so he found a blue cloth strip to tie around the dog's neck.

After the ceremony, we also welcomed the old Qicao Yunjin with applause.

Master said, "Don't look down on the Chinese pastoral dog, all living beings are equal, and human beings are not qualified to look down on other animals." ”

As a righteous priest, he must be conferred. If you don't give the urn, you can't make a dojo, and you can't send the soldiers in the urn to kill demons and evil spirits, uproot living beings, and relieve distress. To put it simply, without the master's teaching, the talismans you write are useless, and the mantras you recite are useless.

After the confession, you must be a disciple recognized by the gods in order to receive the protection of the gods.

I changed into a robe, and I felt that I was very energetic, but my hair was too short, and the fourth senior brother said that it was like this when I first started, and I could tie it up after a few months.

I stayed honestly in the Taoist temple for three months, working and reading, writing, and copying the scriptures every day, although the standard of living was not very high, but my life was very fulfilling.

Master said, "You've been up the mountain for three months, so it's time to go down and practice."

Usually, Master Goji has three requirements for us:

Words, books, tea

The character is writing, mainly practicing brush characters and pen characters

Books are reading, reading all kinds of books, even Buddhist scriptures and Bibles

Tea, everyone should choose their own tea, just like the master led the door to practice in the individual, and so is tea, so we need to go down the mountain to buy it ourselves.

Not long after the transmission, Master gave me these three orders to go down the mountain to buy things.

And give me money, I didn't.

It takes half a month to go down the mountain, visit the city, observe people, and then buy three things: words, books, and tea

Master said let me see more and observe more, and don't go to the local area to buy directly.

For example, when I buy tea, I must be confused at first, but I go to different tea estates every day, look at all kinds of tea, and come back to ask directly Baidu or forum if I don't understand, and try it myself, so that I can choose the tea that suits you.

It's the same with used books, I went to the street stalls, bookstores and even scrap yards, and bought 20 books in half a month.

In contrast, it is best to buy a copybook, any cultural and educational bookstore has it, and the pen and calligraphy are available.

Our Totoro Mountain is not far from Bottle Township, so I went to Bottle Township this time.

Bottle Township is not a township but a city.

Bottled Township is a municipality under the jurisdiction of Rivers Province, located in the west of Rivers Province, located between 113°35'~114°17'E longitude and 27°20'~28°0'N latitude.

The city has about 2 million people, belongs to the hilly area of the south of the Yangtze River, and the religious range is not bad, including Buddhism and Taoism.

I wanted to walk on my own, just to get a workout.

Unexpectedly, Fat Qiao came to the master, heard that I was going down the mountain, and said that it happened that the car of the French logistics came to deliver the goods, and asked me to follow the car.

Fa Liutong is a company that specializes in providing religious materials for major temples, whether it is Buddhism, Taoism or Cuckold Religion, from Buddha statues and crosses to religious costumes and props.

The car in France was a van, and I sat in the passenger seat and went all the way to the place.

This time, I came out wearing a Taoist robe and carrying my army-green canvas bag, which may be more weird, and many people looked at me with great surprise.

Master said, "If you want to be born, you must first enter the world, and cultivating the Tao is not to let your six relatives not recognize you as animals, but to have more contact with mortals, and more contact with mortals will not only not make you vulgar, but will enhance your understanding of the Tao." ”

Qiao Ruiyuan is such an example, as a flower monk who has relied on Daoming Temple for three generations to eat, at first he did treat the believers with a flicker, and then found that he flickered for a while, some Buddhists read more, understand more, sometimes read the scriptures or practice will not be, take a taxi to the temple to find Qiao Ruiyuan to solve his doubts, he is often asked sweaty and weak, in order to better eat this bowl of rice, he is the abbot, but concentrates on reading the scriptures, reading chicken soup for the soul, Reading psychology books, although secretly drinking wine and eating meat and marrying a daughter-in-law, Buddhism has been refined and truly applied what I have learned.

Therefore, closing the door of the Dao, a few people squatting in the place where the birds don't, suffocating the five spines and six beasts is definitely not a real cultivator.

Every once in a while, the senior brother or even the master will go down the mountain, as little as half a month, more than a month, every time I go out to contact people and things, come back to write a diary, write my feelings, and tell the encounter and understanding of going down the mountain in the main hall.

In the practice outside, you can deal with the object, but you still have to abide by the four non-eating.

Dogs, cows, geese, mullets.

Dogs, that's dogs, dogs are so cute, how can you eat dogs?

Dogs are the representatives of loyalty, so they are fasting

Cow, cow cow so cute, how can you eat cow cow?

The main reason is that the cow is the mount of Laojun, so it is fasting. There is also a deep-seated reason that cattle were agricultural and animal husbandry in ancient times, and at that time, killing cattle and eating beef would be punished, so this Taoist priest also obeyed it.

The wild goose, the wild goose is not the little swallow wearing a flower dress, it looks like a goose, but it can fly. Swan goose. Lost and lonely geese, living alone all his life, in a bleak situation, unswerving, no longer married, commendable spirit, should not eat. There are also wild geese that are national second-class protected animals...... It's not interesting to eat it or not, it's the same taste as a goose.

Mullet: Mullet is a ferocious carnivorous fish, which has the effect of tonifying the spleen and invigorating qi, diluting water and reducing swelling. In addition to the plateau area, it is mainly distributed in the Yangtze River basin and the north to the Heilongjiang region, especially in Hubei, Rivers West, Anhui, Henan, Liaoning and other provinces. When the mullet gives birth, the body is extremely weak, the eyes are dizzy, nothing can be seen, just wait for starvation to death and ascend to heaven, the mullet fish cub is the most filial, rather swim into the mother's mouth, to feed the mother, can not let the mother starve to death, it is filial piety.

Master said: "Don't be too superstitious and dogmatic, the most afraid of cultivating the Tao is not to know how to be flexible, Taoism pays attention to the Tao of nature, everything is arbitrary, many people will not be able to find their own direction, plus these dogmas, let you consciously or unconsciously remind yourself, in order to strengthen your beliefs, in order to supervise your own practice, not to eat beef is not to eat beef, but to be able to awaken your heart, whether you can better supervise yourself."

It is enough to supervise yourself in this way, to warn yourself, to always have an opportunity to be vigilant in your daily life, so that you can gradually practice the greatest meaning of the path of perfection is not to eat beef, not to be superstitious about the precepts, not to despise the precepts (from Liang Xingyang). "

So I walked over to the beef noodle restaurant, and the young man grabbed me: "Dao Chief, come and try the noodles, I know you don't eat beef." Then he whispered in my ear, "We don't actually have beef here, it's all pork." ”

So he went in, and the young man went in and said a big bowl of beef noodles, and then he remarked in the back, don't put butter to pretend, just sliced pork.

I was eating noodles at a noodle restaurant, and I thought someone would stop me or something, but I thought wrong, and an eldest brother saw me eating noodles and asked, "The Taoist can also eat meat." ”

I said, "I'm a good eater." ”

He answered with a sigh and was gone.

Now the biggest problem is: the broad masses of the people know about monks and Buddhism, but Taoism is really illusory to them, why do many people on the Internet pretend to be Taoists? Because you are lying to them, they don't know, everyone thinks that Taoists are very mysterious, and they know that there is a Taoist creature, but they just don't know what Taoists do?

I remember there was a street interview on Youku asking passers-by if they knew Taoist priests?

The passer-by's answer was as follows:

Passerby A: I know, a hot-blooded legend, a Taoist priest can recruit dogs.

Passerby B: Yes, Lin Zhengying, he can catch ghosts.

Passerby C: I know, Sister Zhang Chulan Bao'er, under one person.

Again, do you know how the Taoist priest is doing now?

Passerby A: It should be extinct, and there are no Taoist priests anymore

Passerby B: It's extinct, have you read the novel "The Last Taoist Priest"? Cha Wenbin -- the last holder of the Maoshan ancestral seal of the Maoshan sect in China, there are no other Taoist priests.

The third question: Do you know why Taoist priests are extinct?

Passerby A smiled and said: After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he couldn't become a sperm, so the Taoist priest was unemployed without a ghost.

Passerby B: Now is a harmonious society, how can there be so many ghosts and gods, and they will run away from each other.

Passerby C: No one believes it, Taoism is not strong enough, if you don't believe it, go to the Internet to search, the news of Buddhism and cuckold religion is flying all over the sky, where is there any news about Taoism, and the common people don't know what Taoism is? Taoism does not take the initiative to contact people, and such religion will not disappear anywhere.

At this moment, I feel that I have a long way to go, and I don't know what the Taoist Church will do, but it would be a pity if such a religion really became extinct.