Chapter 61: Jokhang Temple – Learn to get along with yourself

After listening to Gao Zhan's words, Cheng Jia then asked:

"Did you go to them later to express your gratitude?"

"Found! We didn't find it, we found the car, and wanted to follow the route at that time to look for them again, maybe we didn't find the direction that night, maybe they went to other places for grazing, anyway, I didn't find it.

Later, when our company was exploring there, some herders said that the car had crushed their turf and prevented us from continuing to explore, and the government helped negotiate to compensate the herders for their losses. In terms of amount, the other shareholders of the company did not agree to more compensation, and tried various ways to coordinate. I can't bear it myself, so I paid for it out of my own pocket! I just think that it is not called trouble, we should understand their cherishing of turf, and can give the best things to people they don't know for free, how can those herdsmen be insatiable? It was we who disturbed their peaceful life!

We live in high-rise buildings, thinking that our life is good, but the fine clothes and jade food are far inferior to their ease and casualness, and there is no food that can compare to the butter tea that the Venerable Master drinks after hunger, and we cannot measure the lives of others by our standards! Tibetans are the most simple and kind people I have ever met! Not only did I have the grace of saving my life, but also the grace of re-creation, and it was after that incident that I re-examined my life, and I began to learn to respect nature and conform to the way of heaven. ”

Cheng Jia poured Gao Zhan a cup of tea, "Were you scared when you didn't arrive at the herdsman's house?" ”

"That's not fear, that's fear! Cheng Jia, the wolf howl is very terrible, who wants to be torn apart by the wolf? That's not the story! You think about the desolation around, except for the stars there is no light, there is no way to call for help, the sky should not be, there is no door to the earth, I even desperately think, if I am really surrounded by wolves, I will be stabbed in the heart, and I don't want to bear the pain of being torn, but I am unwilling, I am not married, I don't even have a descendant, maybe only my sister remembers me in this world! ……”

Cheng Jia looked at Gao Zhan, this majestic man is extremely gentle and caring for himself, but he has encountered too many difficulties and tests that she doesn't know, if it weren't for today's opportunity, maybe she would never know these pasts, and she couldn't help but feel sorry for Gao Zhan.

Cheng Jia said softly with tears in her eyes:

"So God is also affectionate, knowing that there is me and Cheng Cheng waiting for you in the future, I left you a lamp."

"Yes! It's so late, they should have gone to bed a long time ago, and if they had gone to bed early, we wouldn't have known that there were still people there, and God loved me! ”

"Let's go to the Jokhang Temple in the afternoon to pay a good respect!"

Gao Zhan nodded.

They took a short break and went to the Jokhang Temple in the afternoon.

Cheng Jia followed behind Gao Zhan and turned the prayer wheel.

"Gao Zhan, why did they not use horse-drawn soil and stones to build the temple at that time, but sheep? How much can a sheep be so small? ”

"In ancient times, horses were precious!"

"Then you say, does Princess Wencheng know fortune telling? How did she know that Lhasa was a supine Rakshasa woman, and how did she see that the lake where the Jokhang Temple was located was the heart of a witch? There were no helicopters at that time! ”

Cheng Jia seemed to be asking a question, and it seemed to be talking to herself.

Gao Zhan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll help you ask one day!" ”

Cheng Jia felt very strange, she said, "Who to ask?" ”

"Princess Wencheng! Who else knows? ”

Cheng Jia smiled and glanced at Gao Zhan: "Wukong! You're so naughty! I'm old, and I'm still ...... like this."

He patted Gao Zhan on the shoulder.

Gao Zhan smiled, looked at the people around him who were worshipping devoutly, and said to Cheng Jia, "Let's go in!" ”

Gao Zhan took Cheng Jia's hand and followed the crowd inside, and a smell of ghee mixed with Tibetan incense rushed to his face. Cheng Jia said happily:

"I miss this smell so much!"

Gao Zhan also sniffed carefully. Said to Cheng Jia: "The 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni in Jokhang Temple is a symbol of the whole Lhasa, Lhasa was not called Lhasa before, Lhasa was originally called "Jixue Wotang", which means the milk dam in the lower reaches of the Jiqu River; Because of this Buddha statue, it was renamed Lhasa, which means the residence of the gods and Buddhas.

Moreover, this Buddha statue is extremely precious, not only because of its historical value and cultural relics value, but most importantly, it is believed that there is no difference between seeing this Buddha and seeing the Buddha 2,500 years ago. It is said that this deity and Buddha were cast when the Buddha was alive and is very similar to himself. ”

They almost went straight to the temple of Shakyamuni.

"Gao Zhan, every time I think of this statue, it seems as if it is right in front of my eyes, and I can clearly see its appearance, especially the eyes."

Gao Zhan said with interest: "Then you have a fate with it!" ”

The Buddha sat in the shrine, holding a bowl in his left hand and his knee with his right hand, with a charitable face, a serene expression, his eyes lowered, and a silent smile, as if he was contemplating, and like staring, which made people close and yearned.

Cheng Jia watched silently and listened to the tour guide next to him.

The Chronicles of the Kings of Tibet records that during the reign of Dharma Paralo, the King of Qin, the ruler of China in the East, Fu Jian, gave Dharma Polo three priceless treasures, including a seamless brocade robe, and asked the King of India for a special statue of Shakyamuni Buddha to promote Chinese Buddhism. For the traditional friendship between India and China, Daruma Polo resolutely decided to send the 12-year-old life-size Buddha statue of Shakyamuni, a national treasure, to China. When he and the minister walked into the shrine dedicated to the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha, they found that the icon, which had been sitting facing south, was now facing east. The king thought, "Ah! It turns out that the Buddha statue has long been devoted to China. So he was overjoyed, and built a very large ship, the hull of which was covered with flags and ribbons, and the musicians played beautiful music to send the Buddha statues to the Han land in the East. The king of Han also greeted him by the sea with the most solemn ceremony and enshrined it in the center of the king's palace inlaid with gold.

However, there is another theory: during the reign of the Indian king Dalma Bala (perhaps the Dharma Para mentioned above), the king of Han helped him quell the war, and as a token of his gratitude, he presented the 12-year-old statue of the Buddha to the king of Handi! ”

Cheng Jia was fascinated by what she heard, and walked away with the tour guide's team.

Gao Zhan was observing the main hall, and Cheng Jia was gone.

Gao Zhan muttered angrily: "I don't even want my husband anymore, it seems that I really have a relationship with Buddhism!" ”

He came out to call Cheng Jia's mobile phone.

After a while, Cheng Jia ran over to him with a smile.

"Why don't you follow me? It's such an adult, and it's still lost! Cheng Jia said sharply, but his voice was obviously empty.

Gao Zhan patted her head: "You can imagine what you were like when you were a child!" Your parents are probably worried every day that you will be abducted! ”

Cheng Jia smiled, grabbed Gao Zhan's arm, let's go to the front.

The two of them rested for a while under the willow tree that was said to have been planted by Princess Wencheng, and then sat on the side of the road and watched the people come and go.

"Gao Zhan, as long as I smell this, I feel very peaceful!"

"Then what is your usual restlessness?"

"I can't say it, I can't describe it, I feel inexplicable grievances, depression with nowhere to vent, and unspeakable disappointment. I feel that the world is so noisy, I am so confused, I don't do what I want, I can't say what I want! Although I live very hard every day, I also look positively at the truth of life, but I always can't resist the thing in my heart, and I will be defeated by him from time to time, and I am lost for no reason. Especially when I encounter some setbacks, when I am sad, all the new and old overlap, and I can't breathe. ”

Gao Zhan was a little nervous: "Then are you the same now?" ”

"Now once in a while, you won't be by my side! With you, my mind barely gets distracted. ”

Cheng Jia smiled.

Gao Zhan was silent for a while, looked at Cheng Jia, and said:

"The most difficult thing for people is to learn to get along with themselves, we have endless desires in our hearts, there are also endless contradictions, there are delusions one after another, there are emotions entangled, these are not given to us externally, it comes from our hearts.

All sorts of thoughts pull us here and there, and leave us restless for a moment. The more things you think about in your heart, the more you want: what you can't get, what you can't let go, what you can't give up......

Man must learn to live in harmony with himself. The so-called harmony is not to eliminate the advantages of one or the other, but to look at all the positive and negative things inclusively, as I told you before, put some things aside, instead of thinking about how to eliminate them, the good and the bad are all part of you. ”

Gao Zhan straightened his body and continued:

"People have shortcomings, disappointments, confusions, problems, these are normal things, this is the normal state of life, don't think that success is the normal state of life.

We need to accept these shortcomings and disappointments, and accept ourselves who we are facing or creating them. All contradictions and confusions come from not accepting, and when you deny your own practices and opinions, you will be uneasy, and you will be worried about being denied by the outside because of your own uneasiness. But what if you did it another way? I didn't do these things well, but that's who I am, and I accept the result and no longer have expectations for it. ”

Gao Zhan held Cheng Jia's hand in the palm of his hand.

"What do you want? Cheng Jia, there is always a height in this world that we can't reach, there are always things we can't do no matter how hard we try, and there are always people in front of us that we can't surpass! What is Success? What do we want?

What we should most need is to accept and improve ourselves, continue to explore ourselves, continue to improve, and give full play to ourselves. The so-called success has no scale, it is just the upper limit of one's own ability, don't be difficult for yourself!

Cheng Jia, I hope you let go of yourself, live in peace, don't walk on thin ice every day, like facing the abyss, life should be a gift, it is not a burden for us. ”

Gao Zhan's voice was as gentle as water, and Cheng Jia felt a lot clearer in his heart after listening to it.

When people feel sad, there may not be sad things happening, and a traffic light will also make people "live like a year"! Cheng Jia was glad that Gao Zhan was not complaining about herself or preaching, she felt that she had gained understanding.

Gao Zhan continued: "Although I want you to be happy forever, it is actually a good thing for people to have doubts and pain, it will prompt us to make adjustments, and only when we recognize the pain will we accept it, treat it kindly, and then resolve it." ”

Cheng Jia nodded.

The prayer cylinder outside the Jokhang Temple is still rotating, like an endless earth. The people around Gao Zhan and Cheng Jia came and went, with different looks, this was a lively world, and it was rare that Cheng Jia suddenly felt a trace of coolness in the depths of his heart.

She remembered that there was a saying that if sentient beings were able to see the icon, they planted the cause for "discernment." So are you freed from it?

Gao Zhan saw Cheng Jia pondering, and called her softly: "Cheng Jia! ”