Wei Wencheng was ordered to sit in meditation, he stared at the humanoid shadow on the wall stone of Bodhidharma, and couldn't help but stretch out his finger to poke it, who would have thought that the tentacles were empty, and he actually stumbled, and he was planted directly into the shadows, and then fell to the ground. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When I looked up, it was pitch black in front of me, as if it was some secret room with no light source, and I struggled to turn around, and found that there was still light behind me - but this light was only reflected on one side, and could not be scattered, which was really strange. In a trance, it was as if I had fallen through the shadows into the stone, and the source of the light seemed to be outside the stone, where there was still a person sitting upright......

Wei Wencheng looked at the person opposite, it was indeed not himself, but a strong man, with a dark face, a high nose and deep eyes, a beard, copper rings in his ears, and a despicable monk's robe...... Although he had never seen this person before, Wei Wencheng immediately guessed the identity of this person--Isn't this the ancestor of Bodhidharma? Could it be that I have traveled back to decades ago!

He lunged forward again, trying to break out of the stone wall, but was blocked by a barrier, and the touch of his hands was cold and smooth, as if through a glass wall. Just thinking about this, I saw Bodhidharma, who had been with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes, looked at himself, and then the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, revealing an extremely strange smile with a hint of mockery, as if to say:

"Die, you can't get out. ”

Wei Wencheng was frightened, and suddenly felt a heavy blow on the back of his back, and at the same time a voice shouted: "Wake up!" He felt his head dizzy, and the strange scene in front of him disappeared immediately, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes, only to see a stone wall in front of him, and a dim figure on the stone wall...... What's going on? Am I asleep dreaming? But the dream is so clear......

He found himself still sitting on his knees in front of the stone wall, and suddenly he looked back and saw two monks standing behind him: one was the little novice who had brought him in, with a look of concern, and the other monk was rough and haughty, and seemed to be a little familiar, holding a flat pole carrying water--I guess it was this monk who beat himself hard and shouted that he was "awake".

When the monk saw Wei Wencheng turn his head to look at him, he couldn't help grinning: "It's okay." He turned around and walked away. Wei Wencheng's face was confused, and then he looked at the little novice, and the little novice was full of joy: "Senior brother has finally woken up." ”

According to Xiao Shami, Wei Wencheng has not been silent since he sat down in front of the wall stone, his eyes are open, but he has no reaction to external things. He didn't take it seriously at first, but for three days and three nights in a row, Wei Wencheng not only didn't look at the drinking water he brought, but he didn't even go to the toilet once, thinking about it was really wrong, but he didn't dare to disturb, so he had to run to report to the abbot Seng Can. Monk Can's meaning: Let him go, you don't have to care. Xiao Shami had no choice but to run back to guard Wei Wencheng.

Today, a foreign monk entered the temple to ask to see the monk, happened to hit the side, saw Wei Wencheng's situation, stopped to observe for a while, and suddenly spoke, "Do you have to enter the devil?" The little novice was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly pleaded: "Can you be saved?" The monk didn't say a word, picked up a flat pole leaning on the corner of the wall next to him, and struck down the back of Wei Wencheng quickly, and shouted: "Wake up!"

After waking Wei Wencheng up, the monk also left, leaving a small novice to explain the reasons to Wei Wencheng. Wei Wencheng furrowed his brows and asked him, "I don't say anything, it's been three days?" But it only feels like a matter of a few minutes. How could it be that not long after sitting down on the wall, I could be so distracted? Moreover, the most common thing mentioned in the scriptures is to see the scorching sun and fire, and feel extremely hot and bored in the soul, or when I see infinite demons and monsters coming to harass my cultivation, I have never mentioned that I can meet Patriarch Dharma in an illusion...... Isn't Bodhidharma a demon or a monster?

The little novice said that it would be good for you to wake up, I will put the water here, you will not eat or drink for three days, you should hurry up and use some, I will go to report to the abbot, and I will run away as soon as I spoke. But Wei Wencheng didn't have the slightest hint of hunger and thirst, and when he looked at the food around him, he felt bored and confused, and he had no appetite at all. He tried to touch the shadow on the stone wall again, but this time the object his fingers touched was real, and he didn't go into the stone again......

While he was meditating hard and couldn't grasp the essentials, he heard the sound of footsteps, and the little novice ran back and beckoned him: "Please!"

Wei Wencheng hurriedly stood up—but it was said that he had sat upright for three days and three nights, and his legs were not numb, as if he had only sat down for less than ten minutes—and followed the little novice to the abbot's door. Inside the monk chanted, Wei Wencheng immediately bowed in, and saw that the monk who had woken him up earlier was also in the room, sitting opposite the monk.

Hui Ke pointed out: "Daoxin, do you still know it?"

Wei Wencheng sat down beside the monk and faced Seng Can, while turning his face sideways to look at it, faintly, the figure of this monk coincided with a shadow in the depths of his memory - "Is there no Bear's Ear Mountain Tanlin Master?"

The other party nodded, "hehe" smiled and said: "Reunion, this is also karma." ”

This monk who woke up Wei Wencheng with a flat pole was Tan Lin, a senior monk of Dinglin Temple in Bears Ears Mountain, who had fought with Dai Meng for Wei Wencheng at the beginning, but because of many years and he shaved his beard clean, Wei Wencheng didn't recognize it at first sight.

Tan Lin was originally a disciple of Bodhidharma, the same generation as Hui Ke, he was proficient in Sanskrit, and once helped Qu Tan Prajna Liuzhi, Vimu Zhixian, Bodhi Liuzhi, Buddha Fan Duo and other Indian monks to translate Buddhist scriptures, and his reputation in the north was even louder than Hui Ke. When he came back to Shaolin, he had something important to discuss with Seng Can, but after Seng Can called Wei Wencheng, he asked him first: "Is this a fruit into the devil?"

Tan Lin smiled slightly: "I don't know." ”

He said that I looked at the child as if he had gone mad, but that the average person who had gone mad would have a look of horror, fear, or hideousness, but there was no expression on his face. If it's true that zazen has reached a certain level, so with his age and the length of time I've heard he has been practicing, it seems that he shouldn't be...... For the sake of insurance, I used the same method as dealing with my disciples who fell into the devil unexpectedly, and beat me up......

Seng Can asked Wei Wencheng again: "What did you see?"

Wei Wencheng said that I was in a trance, touching the figure left by the Bodhidharma Patriarch on the stone wall with my hand, and I didn't want to plant it in the stone without a stumbling...... He also gave a general description of the appearance of Bodhidharma. Seng Can has never seen Bodhidharma himself, but Tan Lin has an impression, and he can't help but smile and say: "It is indeed the ancestor!"

The two monks studied this matter there, and finally came to the conclusion that this son had a great Buddha fate, so he was guided by the image left by the Bodhidharma patriarch on the stone wall...... Wei Wencheng said in his heart, if you saw the last smile of the "Dharma" like me, I don't think so...... His smile was not evil, if not evil!

But Wei Wencheng still didn't say what he thought about that smile after all—anyway, he had enough secrets on his body, and he didn't care about hiding a little more or two.

I heard Seng Can ask again, you have been facing the wall for three days, do you have any new feelings? Wei Wencheng said in his heart that I fell into the devil as soon as I was on the wall, and then I was woken up by Tan Lin Yibiandan, where do I have time to feel something? But if I say that I have gained nothing, looking at Seng Can's expectant eyes, as if he is a primary school student who reports his homework to the teacher, if you want to directly say that I didn't understand your lesson, and I don't have time to review it when I go home, how embarrassing is that? So I thought about it, and simply-

"The day before yesterday was not perfect, but it was another one. ”

"But I'll listen to it. ”

"Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where is the dust?"

Wei Wencheng was a little childish and mischievous, and he really wanted to see what kind of expressions and judgment Seng Can and Tan Lin would have when Huineng's song was sung? In his imagination, the second monk either frowned and scolded angrily, saying that you have gone astray -- in fact, for the Dharma legend, Shenxiu's northern gradual is the right root, and Huineng's Nanton is one step further, but the time is not right, and the further step is the heresy of Tietie; or the two monks suddenly realized, joyed and admired, and even immediately bowed to Wei Wencheng......

But to Wei Wencheng's surprise, the two monks just glanced at each other, smiled and said nothing, as if this Huineng song was nothing remarkable. Immediately Seng Can asked: "Is this son okay?" Tan Lin smiled: "Yes." In this way, I am at ease. ”

Wei Wencheng was confused when he heard it, and it wasn't until Tan Lin said goodbye that Seng Can finally revealed the mystery: "I want to make you go to Chang'an......"

It turned out that the Northern Zhou Dynasty court issued an edict not long ago, summoning the world's Shamen to gather in Chang'an to debate with Confucian scholars and Taoist priests to determine the order of the three religions. After Tan Lin got the letter, he came to discuss with Seng Can, saying that we, a Zen sect, should also send someone to participate in this matter, but who should we send?

The problem is that you only have a belly full of knowledge, but you may not be able to come out on top in the debate conference, university scholars may not be able to teach, and big professors may not be good at debate. In the view of Tan Lin and other monks, the so-called debate on the superiority of the three religions is simply a nonsense matter, they do not believe that "the truth becomes clearer the more they debate", and they believe that if they want to fully understand the avenue, they have to rely on personal cultivation and the influence of virtue, and pure debate is meaningless.

Moreover, Confucianism and Taoism are very different from the teachings of Buddhism in terms of their foundations, and how can we come up with any result from the debate if we have completely different views on the three views?

But if you don't participate, if you are really compared to Confucianism and Taoism, the imperial court will worship Taoism and suppress Buddhism from now on, but it is really not conducive to the spread of Buddhism......

So the two monks discussed, we must find a person with a certain amount of knowledge and good at verbal argumentation to go to Chang'an to preach the teachings of my Zen Buddhism. If you want to say that there are lotus flowers in the monks, there are not a few who can speak the Tao -- if you can't say it, how can you fool the believers into giving alms? The real eminent monks, such as Seng Chan and Tan Lin, have always despised the group of liars who flaunt the banner of the Liberation Sect, and they do not associate with them, but among their own disciples, they cannot find suitable candidates.

Just as Tan Lin told Seng Can that he had just come in and met a monk who was sitting in meditation like this, I slapped him and woke him up, and Seng Can finally remembered Wei Wencheng. Wei Wencheng's previous work, if it is said that it is really Zen mysteries, it is not necessarily, but it does go into simple terms, explains the problem very clearly and clearly, and at the same time the compulsion is also very high, enough to bluff people. The two discussed, Seng Can said that this Taoist letter may be permissible, Tan Lin asked Wei Wencheng's origin, and remembered in a trance, I also wanted to introduce him to the Liberation Gate, this son is known as a Buddha, it is estimated that he will not go down the crooked path of a liar, if he can really speak well - at least he will pretend to be forced - but he can send him to Chang'an to run.

So he summoned Wei Wencheng and asked him if he had any new insights in the past few days. Unexpectedly, Wei Wencheng blurted out a side, pretending to be more forceful than before, which seemed to be very reasonable and profound. The second monk then decided - it's up to you, go to Chang'an to help the sect break into fame!