Chapter 61: The Monkey King Learns the Arts
The moon is clear and cold, and the eight poles are dust-free. The deep trees and birds stay together, and the source water flows for a long time.
Flying fluorescent light scatters, passing over the goose word and arranging clouds. Integrity three waiting, should visit the truth.
The heart ape tossed and turned for a long time, sleeping with the crowd at night, pretending to sleep and closing the eyes, and there was no hourglass water dragon in the mountain, I didn't know the time, I had to adjust the air in and out of my nose, about midnight, tiptoeed up, put on clothes, sneaked out, visited the mountain alone, with the stars and the moon, arrived at the patriarch's residence, went around to the back door, and sure enough, I saw the door half open and half hidden, and my heart was happy: "Lao Sun really didn't guess wrong, but the master preached with me in private, so the door was open." ”
The monkey head looked around, and after finding that there was no one, the heart ape tiptoed sideways into the door, and through the faint light, he saw the patriarch lying on the bed, sleeping on the inside.
The heart ape's eyes rolled, but he didn't alarm the patriarch, walked to the couch softly, knelt down, and collected his breath, not daring to disturb.
After a while, the patriarch seemed to wake up, stretched his feet, and groaned: "Difficult! difficult! If you don't meet someone to pass on the trick, empty words and dry tongue!"
When the heart ape heard this, he responded: "Master, the disciple has been kneeling here for a long time. ”
When the patriarch heard this, he immediately got up and put on his clothes, sat cross-legged and shouted, "You cunning, why don't you go to rest, why do you come to me in the middle of the night?"
The heart ape said: "The master promised everyone in front of the altar yesterday, and when he taught the disciples the third watch, he passed on my avenue from the back door, so he boldly bowed to the master in front of the bed." ”
Patriarch Bodhi listened, he didn't know what to think in his heart, he just stroked his beard and looked at the heart ape.
The heart ape said again: "There are no six ears here, only one disciple, I hope that the master will be merciful and pass on the way of immortality to the disciple, and the disciple will never forget the great grace!"
Hearing the heart ape's words, the corner of the patriarch's mouth showed an unpredictable smile, and then said: "If you can solve the mystery in my plate, it is fate." If you come tonight, I will be glad to teach it, and if you come near, listen to it carefully, and I will preach your way of eternal life. ”
The ape was overjoyed, and hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, washed his ears and heart, knelt in front of the couch, and listened to the patriarch's wonderful method.
After a lot of flowers, the earth swelled with golden lotus, the patriarch taught the trick, the heart ape listened carefully, only felt that a Daigo empowerment, all kinds of confusion before, are all spiritual blessings, swept away the confusion in the heart, whispered the mantra again and again, and finally thanked the patriarch, joyfully said goodbye and left.
At this time, the sky is about to be white, the east sky is slightly white, and the golden light on the west road is revealed. The patriarch watched the heart ape leave, and did not re-enter the bed to rest, but raised his eyebrows and looked out of the door, then retracted his gaze, closed his eyes and recuperated, and only said leisurely: "Outside is exposed, come in!"
After a while, a tall figure appeared in front of the door, gently pushed the door open, walked into the room with a night of dew, dew still dripping from his long hair, looked at the ancestor who closed his eyes and recuperated, and finally stepped forward and knelt down, without saying a word.
After a long time, when the morning dawn first appeared and the sky was about to be white, the patriarch slowly opened his eyes, looked at the disciple kneeling down, and said leisurely: "Among the disciples I have received over the years, you are the most intelligent and the most superior. I also know that I can't hide the mystery from you, so I've been waiting, tonight it's either Wukong or your Wuxin. ”
"I implore the master to teach the disciple the way of immortality!" Wu Xin's handsome face appeared resolute, and he kowtowed heavily and said solemnly.
"You have been in the middle of the night tonight, and I have never shied away from you when I preached, haven't you listened to it all?" said the old god of Bodhi Patriarch.
"Fu begging master to listen to the saint, although the disciple has heard it, but although the great road of the master is wonderful, it is not the way of the disciple!" After bowing his head heavily, he straightened his chest, stared at the patriarch, and said solemnly.
"Oh, how is it not your avenue?" asked Patriarch Bodhi with a smirk.
"Returning to the master, what the disciple asks for is not the way of one person's eternal life, but the way of the Dao vein to bless the eternal world!"
As soon as Wuxin's words came out, there seemed to be a burst of essence in the eyes of the Bodhi Patriarch, and then he disappeared and regained his peace, and Manyun said: "The Dao vein has been inherited for a long time, and it should be endless, so why do you need to worry about this heart?"
"Returning to the master, a leaf falls and knows the autumn, and the general and knows the whole picture. Although the disciple is dull, he can see the vast with his small size, and he can also get a glimpse of one or two!"
"Oh, tell me about it!" said the patriarch.
"Yes, Master!" Wuxin straightened his body, his eyes were bright, and he spoke with a golden and jade voice, and said sonorously: "Heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for death." However, the sky has also changed, once overturned, and there are lessons from previous history. ”
"Although the disciple lives in the mountains, he is not unconcerned about the world. Over the years, the disciples have found that the aura between heaven and earth is slowly decreasing, although it is faint, but it can be detected by the heart. The way of heaven and earth is a weighing word, but now the sentient beings of the cultivation have already crossed the boundary, and if they seek the spiritual charm of heaven and earth, they will be counterattacked. Master, the disciple is arrogant, and my cultivation is in danger of overturning. Wuxin's eyes were blazing, staring straight at the Bodhi Patriarch.
"It's nonsense! How can you understand the mystery of this, okay, you are tired of the teacher, you can go down and rest!" said Patriarch Bodhi waved his hand.
"Yes!" the disciple retired. When Wuxin heard this, he didn't argue, and his angular face returned to the calmness of Gujing Wubo, and he got up and made waves, all of which were flowing with an indescribable rhyme.
Just as Wuxin was about to leave, Patriarch Bodhi suddenly asked, "Wuxin, what do you think of Wushui?"
When he heard this, Wuxin was about to go out, his hand had already climbed the door, his body paused slightly, and then he turned around and looked at the patriarch, his face was full of peace and integrity, "Master, don't you know the disciple yet?"
After finishing speaking, Wuxin saluted slightly, gently closed the door and left, leaving only the ancestor sitting cross-legged on the collapse, looking at the back of Wuxin's departure, and sighed after a long time.
"This son is the heart of the Dao, not moved by external objects, if it is a stormy meeting, in the future, he will not be the mainstay of my Daomen, or the demon of the Dao heart, the demon of the mixed world who is held by the demon of the heart!"
"Wushui's love for the first time, and Wuxin get along day and night, secretly in love, but it is a true feeling! It's a pity that this son is obsessed with the Tao, but it is not a good match! Otherwise, it can fulfill the two. ”
"Hehe, but I'm also obsessed! But a scene has also moved its temperament. Patriarch Bodhi said, shook his head and smiled, then fell asleep again, and said no more.
After the heart ape was taught, he practiced diligently every day, and before he knew it, three years had passed.
On this day, the patriarch went to the altar to preach again, and said the Dharma to the public, and the voice was curling, and as he was talking, he suddenly asked the heart ape under the altar, "Where is Wukong?"
The heart ape knelt down and said, "The disciple is here." ”
The patriarch leaned over and asked the heart ape about the cultivation of the path, and the heart ape replied that the Dharma was clear, and the root was solid.
The patriarch bowed his head and said, "Since you have the law, you will get the root cause, and you must guard against the three disasters. ”
The heart ape argued with it, what are the three calamities?
The patriarch answered questions, bluntly said the mystery of the three disasters, the heart was afraid, begged to avoid the three disasters again and again, and the ancestor passed it down from generation to generation, calling it as the thirty-six changes of Tiangang or the seventy-six changes of the earth, and chose the latter to practice, and the ancestor attached his ear to teach, and the rest of the disciples did not know the mystery.
Another day, the patriarch and his disciples watched the evening scene in front of the Sanxing Cave, and the patriarch was interested, called the heart ape, and asked, "What is the matter?"
The heart ape said: "Thanks to the teacher's grace, the disciple's achievements are complete, and he has been able to lift the sun and soar." ”
The patriarch then made the heart ape try to fly, the heart ape had the intention to play, shrugged his body, turned his head, jumped five or six feet away from the ground, stepped on the clouds to hook a meal, returned not more than three miles away, fell to the ground, crossed his hands and said: "Master, this is flying and soaring clouds." ”
The patriarch smiled: "No, this is not Tengyun, the skill is to climb the clouds, since the ancient road, the immortals travel to the North Sea in the twilight." You can't go more than three miles like this, even if you climb the clouds. ”
The heart ape said: "What is 'Traveling in the North Sea at Dusk'?"
The patriarch said: "All the people who Tengyun have long since come from the North Sea, crossed the East China Sea, the West Sea, and the South China Sea, and turned Cangwu, but the Cangwu is the words of Lingling in the Beihai." Travel all over the world in one day, and then you can count the clouds. ”
The heart ape said: "But it's difficult!
The patriarch said: "There is nothing difficult in the world. ”
The heart ape prostrates and prays, begging for the way to beg for the clouds.
The patriarch said that the heart of the ape is not an ordinary stumbling up, but a somersault rising, and then a somersault cloud.
The heart ape got it, the great joy, after the worship returned to the house to practice, only one night, the heart ape is the luck of the god to practice the law, will somersault clouds, unrestrained, since then free.
And in these years, the rest of the disciples who entered the room are also practicing the exercises, but they are far less than the heart ape into the realm, for the heart ape encounter, the heart is envious, and the desire to ask the ancestor is rejected, the heart is unwilling, so close to the heart ape, want to get the method.
One day, in the spring of spring, a group of disciples gathered around the heart ape, complimenting and joking, and saying more tentatively, "Wukong, in which world did you cultivate the fate of the law? The day before yesterday, the master passed the Dharma by ear, and the method of avoiding the changes of the three calamities is all available?"
The heart ape has the heart to show off, saying that one day will change, and is instigated by everyone, so he shakes his spirit, exerts means, and under the question of everyone, he turns into a pine tree, and soars, and the disciples around him are full of envy, and they are about to ask questions, not wanting to make a noise to alarm the patriarch, and come out to shout and ask: "Who is making noise here?"
All the disciples hurriedly checked and stepped forward in their clothes, and the heart ape also showed its true appearance and went towards the patriarch.
The heart ape said: "Venerable Master, I will talk here, and there is no external noise." ”
The patriarch reprimanded and said: "Shouting and shouting, not being unorthodox, gathering people to cause trouble." ”
All the disciples said: "Don't dare to deceive the master, the right Monkey King will change his skills, teach the pine tree, and the fruit will change, and the disciples will cheer, and they don't want to offend the master loudly and beg for forgiveness." ”
The patriarch then dispersed the disciples, summoned the heart ape to the front, and said a lot of blame, the husband was not guilty, and he was guilty, which meant it.
The heart ape kowtowed and begged for forgiveness, and the patriarch said: "I don't sin against you either, but you go!"
The heart ape burst into tears when he heard this, "Where does the master teach me to go?"
The patriarch said: "Where you come from, you are going." ”
The heart ape suddenly woke up and said his hometown.
The patriarch said, "Go back quickly, your life! ”
The heart ape was reluctant, but was chased away by the patriarch, saying: "Just don't cause trouble and don't lead me!"
The heart ape then said goodbye to the teacher, sent it to the public, and said to the patriarch: "You are here, you are not allowed to say that it is my apprentice, if you say half a word, if I know, I will definitely skin you and file your bones, and you will never recover." ”
The heart ape thanked him again and again, left the mountain gate, and wanted to leave, but suddenly saw a person in the distance who was independent, as if he was waiting for a long time, and looked around, but it was the senior brother, so he stepped forward.