The Buddhist temple of Taimu Mountain flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and now there are 36 temples in Shannan and Shanbei.

Grandma came to Guoxing Temple to make a vow.

Therefore, several temples along the way are only pilgrimage outside the door, and do not enter.

Aunt Fang Yan and the old lady worshiped together.

The old lady recited Nam no Amitabha.

She also had words in her mouth.

Meng Shi listened carefully and was dumbfounded.

My aunt and aunt who believed in Christ were in the same tone, saying, "The Bodhisattva blesses the unproductive one in my family to be prosperous and rich." ”

Yes, the wife of the barbecue "Heavenly Master" Xia Chengcai asked for money to the Buddha.

But as long as it's a clay statue, no matter which religion it is, what the doctrine is, when it comes to the mouth of the old eight, no, it's the same when it comes to the people, anyway, it's all kinds of requests.

Therefore, from this point of view, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism have long been the same.

Xia Qin didn't believe anything, she took a picture with her camera.

Walk all the way to rest, to the front of Guoxing Temple, it is almost twelve o'clock.

It's also because the old lady is strong, otherwise she really wouldn't be able to walk this mile of mountain road.

Guoxing Temple was built in the fourth year of Tang Qianfu, destroyed in the fire in the Song Dynasty, and the temple is built on the site during the Republic of China.

The temple is built on the mountain, and the two heavy wooden doors are covered with copper nails, and when you look inside, there are several stone pillars left over from the Tang Dynasty standing in the courtyard.

Meng Shi watched two monks wearing yellow clothes come out of the temple and stepped forward to make a salute, explaining that his grandmother had made a vow after nearly 20 years, and whether she could have a meal in the temple.

The older monk stretched out his hand to guide him and said, "There is a vegetarian meal in the temple, and the donor can give it according to his fate, so you can take it for yourself, just don't waste your karma." ”

Meng Shi thanked, "That's how it should be." ”

Now there are not many temples in Nongzen, most of the monks are the audience life offerings, and the lay family members eat in the temple and need to give alms, otherwise they will not be able to stand the "karma" of "sentient beings offering" for nothing.

Of course, this money is not compulsory, it is okay to pay one or two yuan, ten yuan and twenty yuan, but since the believers have all gone to the temple to eat, they can't take it out if they have less.

Xia Qin and Fang Yan led the old man and child to the dining hall, Meng Shi followed two steps, turned back, ran back to the two monks, bowed again, and asked the older monks, "Master, do you believe in Buddhism?" ”

The two monks were stunned, looked at each other, and asked the monk in front of the ancient temple in Foshan if he believed in Buddhism? Is this talking about human words?

The big monk clasped his palms together, "The poor monks are all monks, donor, you asked." ”

Meng Shi saluted again and said, "It's presumptuous." ”

When the two were leaving, Meng Shi asked another monk who was about the same age as himself, "Master, do you believe in Buddhism?" ”

"I don't have time to mess around with you!" The young monk felt that he had come to the mountains to find fault.

Meng Shi sincerely apologized, sideways out of the way, and sent them away.

Seeing this scene, Xia Qin, who had already decided that everything was up to Meng Shi to be happy and she supported, finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Well, what are you doing?" ”

Meng Shi didn't hide anything from Xia Qin, she asked, answered, took the somewhat heavy camera, and said, "I want to do a bad thing, I want to find a monk to teach ......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a low, northeastern voice behind him, "Oh? If you want to do any bad things, can you talk to the old monk? ”

Meng Shi turned around, and it was an old monk who should be about sixty years old.

He had a gray beard on his chin, a tall and thin man, a swarthy face, a hundred robes, a tin staff in his hand, and a bowl around his waist.

The old monk was followed by the two yellow-clothed monks who had just gone out.

They were about to go to Jingjiao Parking Plaza to pick up the old monk, but they didn't expect that he had already walked up the mountain as soon as he went out.

The two of them watched the old monk and Meng Shi talking, their expressions were tangled, and they didn't know where to put their hands and feet.

They were afraid that Meng Shi would say something ridiculous to this host friend who came from afar, but they didn't dare to stop the old monk and ask him not to talk to Meng Shi.

As soon as the fish saw this posture, he secretly took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

She felt that with Meng Shi's character, he would definitely be beaten this time, and he could just use it as a bargaining chip to let him do his homework.

Meng Shi turned around, didn't make a salute, and asked directly, "Where did the old monk come from?" ”

The old monk said, "From Haicheng Dabei Temple." ”

"How?"

"Take the train to Songshan, and then beg all the way from Songshan to here."

"The old monk is a Vinaya." Now that they can beg for food with their feet, they are also the monks who adhere to the ancient system of the Buddha.

The old monk smiled, "Religion is divided into sects, Buddha is not divided into sects, Zen is divided into north and south, Buddha is not divided into north and south, as long as there is a heart, anyone can practice the law, and anyone can participate in Zen." ”

Meng Shi asked, "Does the old monk believe in Buddhism?" ”

"What's the matter with you!" The young monk, who had just been asked once, finally spoke angrily.

Meng Shi ignored him.

The old monk ignored him and blurted out, "What does it matter to you whether you believe in Buddhism or not?" Believe it or not. ”

As soon as the old monk spoke, the two monks beside him stood on the spot.

This... This question and answer, from the Great Compassion Temple, by train, do you believe it or not, where does it look like a monk...

Meng Shileng paused, bowed deeply to the old monk, took out the script from his bag that had not been returned to Ye Shangmo, and handed it over with both hands.

No one present realized that the two of them had a "conversation" back and forth.

What is a conversation? The head, that is, before speaking, when a thought is born, a thought is born, and a thought is born, and it is the end of the conversation.

Meng Shi asked the monk, "Do you believe in Buddhism?" It's like putting a fish in a muddy pond and saying, there's a fish down there, you see what kind of fish it is.

The first two monks said, "You are sick, what do you think?"

The "talk" stopped.

And the old monk, as soon as his eyes opened and closed, when the fish did not see its shape, said, fathead fish.

"Fathead fish" is the beginning of the conversation.

It's not the question that needs to be asked, but the answer behind the answer – why fathead? Where did you see it? Is it really fathead?

What happened to the old monk when he thought about his last life, what was the thought that flashed through his mind.

Meng Shi held the script with both hands, and the old monk just looked at him and didn't reach out to take it.

This is to see if Meng Shi really understands.

Meng Shi said, "Whether you and I believe in Buddhism or not, there is no increase in Buddha." ”

The old monk smiled and took the one in his hand, rolled it up and held it in his hand, and asked, "Where did the kid come from?" ”

Since the Tang Dynasty, Zen Buddhism has dispersed into five sects and seven schools - namely Linji, Caodong, Yunmen, Fayan, Weiyang, and the Huanglong School and Yangqi School, which are separated from the Linji sect.

However, the methods of Zen powerhouses to save people are all to grasp the "fundamental characteristics" and talk to people.

The "fundamental characteristic" is called "machine" in Zen parlance.

Meng Shi asked, where did the old monk come from?

The old monk saw his fundamental characteristics and replied that he came from the Great Compassion Temple.

If he had said, "Lao Wei has always come from everywhere and gone to where he goes", Meng Shi would have gone to the dining hall to eat by now.

This is - more than half a sentence without "machine".

Meng Shi participated in it and felt that it was him, so he sent the question that he didn't see.

The old monk in turn asked Meng Shi's question, and Meng Shi answered, and the two monks next to him, Meng Shi's family, and pilgrims watched him, and this scene was called "Yuan".

Due to fate, step by step here.

Together, the two are called "chances".

Where did the kid come from.

Meng Shi can say that he came from Zhilu Island and from the earth, but this is not a "machine", because what the old monk wants to hear is not this.

Meng Shi said, "From the 'unspeakable'. ”

The old monk put his hands behind his back, "How come." ”

Meng Shi said, "Come as you like, come as you like, come as you like, and don't know how." ”

After two sentences, answer.

The old monk recited the phrase "Amitabha".

The first two sentences are "chance", and the last sentence is "edge".

It's like Meng Shi's last question, "Do you believe in Buddhism?" - since we are talking, then I will speak sharply.

This set of Zen Buddhism is called "taking off the bottom of a bucket".

People live in this world, pressure is like the accumulation of water in a bucket, go to a psychiatrist, the doctor uses a spoon to scoop water out little by little, and the Zen master uses a "sharp edge", or hit or say, let people take off the bottom of the bucket by themselves.

Of course, this method requires the person to have the "root nature" and be able to comprehend.

Therefore, Zen Buddhism is different from the Pure Land Buddhism, which recites 1,800 sentences of "Amitabha" every day, and practices it, Zen Buddhism is "walking in the sky", which is not something that ordinary people can practice.

After a few words, the old monk felt that Meng Shi had roots, so he asked angrily, "At this moment, between these thoughts, which is the true face of Xiaoyou!" ”

Is Mom's son what he is?

No, she became my mother when I was born, and my son is not what he is.

Is the UP Lord what he is? What's more, the UP master is a profession.

Are citizens of the country what they are? No, "citizen" is identity.

When you go to school, someone scolds you for not having a father. Is the person without a father who I am?

Am I who I am as I am?

Was my last life a dream, or was it my true self?

Am I standing here here for what I am?

In a flash, Meng Shi's mind came and went, like a fish being lifted out of the water, suspended in the air.

Holding the mobile phone, he kept moving to Meng Shi to write a close-up fish, seeing that his eyes were in a trance, he was stunned, and he forgot that his original purpose was to see him make a fool, and the thirteen-year-old girl asked the old monk very violently, "Why do you scold my uncle!" ”

In an instant, Meng Shi entered the water like a fish, stretched out his hand and snatched the fish's mobile phone into his hand, and smiled, "At this moment, Xiaoyu's eyes are my true face." ”

Qiao broke free from Xia Qin's hand and said, "There is still a bridge, and there is a bridge." ”

Where do these two girls know what their "true faces", don't talk about them, everyone present, it is estimated that only the old monk and Meng Shi know what the two of them said.

"Yes, there is also the bridge, and the grandmother, the old grandmother......" Meng Shi picked up the bridge and lifted it high, "The person I like sees me, that is, I see my true self." ”

I'm good to myself, to the people around me, and to others...... I don't care who you are, and you care who I am.

The old monk laughed at first, and then couldn't laugh - the old man drank with a slap on the head, and he saw his nature, what kind of devil did he come out, right?

"Meng! Get! Time! You vengeful villain! Give me back your phone! ”

"Don't think I don't know, what are you trying to do with the video!"

The bridge that was lifted up, as Meng Shi dodged the fish and jumped up to grab the mobile phone and threw it around, she giggled and coaxed, "The fish is the worst when it says well!" ”

Meng Shi smiled, "The fish likes uncle the most." ”

The fish hung on Meng Shi's arm, "It's not, well, it's the most annoying!" ”

Xia Qin hugged the angry fish, "Well, don't tease the fish." ”

Grandma is not moving like a mountain, just meditating on Amitabha. The old lady couldn't understand Mandarin, so she only felt commotion......

Aunt Fang Yan felt that these children had disturbed the purity of Buddhism, and the Buddha could not hear her prayers.

The two monks were confused, and the pilgrims were discussing.

Meng Shi said to himself, "I'll get a new mobile phone for Yu." ”

The fish immediately stopped making trouble, "Really?!" ”

Meng Shi said, "In front of the Buddha, how to lie." ”

The fish was happy, but he didn't say it, don't go overboard, pull Liu Xia, help the old grandmother, "Hungry, eat." ”

Meng Shi handed the bridge to Comrade Xia Qin's arms, asked her to go to dinner first, and bowed to the old monk with a complicated expression, saying, "Thank you Master for teaching, the boy should be in the future, do not do all evil, pursue all good, and purify himself." ”

The old monk's hand was rolled up high, fell gently, and hit Meng Shi's head, "I hope so." ”

Meng Shi took out a booklet with no words on the cover from his bag, opened one of the pages and handed it over.

The old monk took it.

Fa Ming said: "Xuanzang, you are very intelligent, you will practice by my side in the future, and I will give you what I have learned all my life." ”

Xuanzang said: "Actually, I think I still want to be in the deacon hall before, I can raise flowers when I have time, look at the sky, I can't memorize those Buddhist scriptures." ”

Fa Ming said: "If you don't study hard, how can you get my mantle?" ”

Xuanzang said, "Actually, what I want to learn, you can't teach me." ”

Fa Ming said, "What do you want to learn? ”

Xuanzang looked up at the changing white clouds in the sky and said:

The old monk was like a thunderbolt, snapped the booklet shut, and grabbed Meng Shi's hand, "You go with me, others don't have to follow." ”