"On that day, a bloody breath rushed straight to the sky, and I was terrified on the tile mountain, and the bell in the seventeenth hall of the Rotten Ke Temple gave birth to an alarm, and rang at the same time, and the bell echoed for three days and three nights. ”

Master Qishan turned around, looked at Ning Que and said, "And just a few days ago, the seventeen Buddha bells in the Rotten Ke Temple rang on their own again, and the bells reached Washan, and I realized that the original bloody qi appeared again. ”

Hearing this, the expression on Ning Que's face did not change in the slightest, but the body in the black hospital uniform involuntarily slowly tensed, his heart was slightly confused, and then he became vigilant.

The Buddha bell in the Rotten Ke Temple once rang because of the gluttony of the lotus life, so when the bell rang again a few days ago, he naturally sensed what he did to Longqing in the autumn rain of the Red Lotus Temple.

Master Qishan had obviously guessed the truth of the matter, but he did not expose the truth, and said kindly: "I am now old and decrepit and dying, although the so-called difference between good and evil does not dare to say that I can see through, but at least I can see it lightly, but there are still many people in this world who cannot look down on it, such as the Hanging Temple and the Daomen." ”

"In the eyes of Haotian Daomen, the Buddha Sect is all foreign Dao, not to mention the Demon Sect? Ning Que, you have to understand that people can't win the sky, no matter how strong Mr. Ke is, he can't be stronger than this sky in the end, no matter how high the master is, it can't be higher than this sky, so some things can not be touched without contact, if they have been contacted, forget about it. ”

Ning Que knew that the master was kind, and persuaded himself not to go deeper and deeper on the road of entering the demon, and not to use evil and bloody gluttony no matter what situation he faced.

After that autumn rain. He often felt that there was still an extremely strong, slightly sweet taste of blood in his mouth. It was as if Longqing's flesh and blood were still hanging between his teeth, disgusting to the extreme.

Because of the psychological shadow since childhood, he believes that he can control himself and not use gluttony**, but it is impossible to stop practicing the heroic qi of the little uncle, so will he eventually follow the old path of the little uncle?

Master Qishan said, "Tell me about Lotus Birth." ”

Ning Que bowed his head and was silent, even if the master had already guessed the truth of the matter, he was still not ready to admit those things, because he didn't want to take any risks.

Master Qishan sighed and said, "Decades ago, it was I who brought my junior brother Liansheng into the Buddhist Gate, how could I not feel it. His mantle passed to you, and I just want to know what happened to him later. ”

Maybe it was the regret in the master's voice that moved Ning Que, or maybe he had great respect for the relationship between the senior brother and the brother, he hesitated for a moment. Begin to tell the bizarre story of that deep wasteland.

"That side hall is full of white bones and dried corpses, and Master Lotus Sheng is sitting in the middle of the pile of bones and corpses......

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The Rotten Ke Temple in the autumn rain is quiet, I don't know which hall is burning incense, stubbornly penetrating the heavy rain, drifting to the front of the apse corridor, turning the oppressive cold atmosphere into solemnity.

After listening to Ning Que's narration, Master Qishan was silent for a long time.

Smelling the faint scent, he lifted his thin arm, his fingers trembling slightly through the air, as if trying to grasp something. However, Zen incense is flavorful and intangible, like a memory, and it is impossible to grasp it at all.

"It's in that desperate situation, it's still unhindered, and I want to get out of trouble through you, it's really the temperament of Liansheng's junior brother, although he died in the end, it can actually be regarded as a cage out of his body, and he should be happy.

A complicated smile appeared on the master's old face.

Ning Que thought about what happened in the Demon Sect Mountain Gate back then, and thought about those lotus consciousness fragments in the depths of his sea. The mood is also mixed.

He looked at Sangsang on the futon in the depths of the Buddha hall and said: "Before Liansheng died, he once said that if the Tao and the demon are connected, you can enter the gods, and now Sangsang has already cultivated both Taoism and Buddhism. And her body seems to be born with some kind of divinity, so she continues to practice. Is it possible to repeat the mistakes of Lotus Sheng and become a madman?"

Master Qishan looked at the hall and said calmly: "If you want to make the black chess white, you can become white, the thought is what my Buddhism says, and it has power in itself, she doesn't want to become a lotus student, she won't become a lotus student." ”

Then the master turned to him and asked, "It's you...... What would you think?"

Ning Que thought for a while and said, "I don't know either, but it's definitely relatively simple." ”

"The simpler and purer it is, the more powerful it is, and sometimes the more terrifying it is. ”

Master Qishan looked at him and said with a gentle expression: "Why didn't you enter the temple to listen to my lecture with Sangsang before? If you don't think I'm good at speaking, there are many Buddhist scriptures hidden in the Rotten Ke Temple, you can read them by yourself." The Dharma can break the demons in the mind and remove all the obstacles, which is good for you now. ”

"Guru Rinpoche once said that the Buddhist scriptures are as vast as the sea, but if you look closely under the paper, you will realize that all the Dharma is actually just one word: forbearance. And the second senior brother once said that the three thousand Buddhadharmas are just to teach people to learn a method of self-deception. ”

Ning Que said: "Forbearance and self-deception, each other is the surface, what they say is the same thing, I am very good at forbearance, I don't need to learn, as for ...... The method of self-deception, I am worried that if I deceive myself for a long time, I will forget my original intention, thinking that it is all real and I will not be able to wake up. ”

"Mr. Er's courtesy, naturally he can't see the Buddhism's fatherless and kingless style. ”

Master Qishan asked, "But if life is a big dream, why wake up?"

Ning Que said: "Even if you dream and do it really, this is happy, so even if life is really a big dream, we have to pretend that it is not a dream." ”

Master Qishan asked again, "Then how do you know that the world in the Buddhist scriptures is a false dream, not a reality?"

After saying that sentence earlier, Ning Que remembered that he used to boast to Chen Pipi in the mountains behind the academy that he, a person who didn't read, would occasionally have shocking words, and he was a little proud.

However, the master then asked again, and he found that he did not know how to answer, and only then did he confirm that the shocking words of people who did not read were indeed only occasional, and that he was not qualified to participate in any Zen machine at all.

He said helplessly: "Why does the master have to learn Buddhism and Zen meditation too? Sangsang is sick, and if she doesn't study Buddhism, she can't get well, and this is her fate with Buddhism." I don't think I've got any Buddha affiliation. ”

Master Qishan laughed. He said: "Where can you understand the fate of Buddhism so simply? It seems that you really haven't read any Buddhist scriptures, and I have to make up for this lesson for the master." ”

Ning Que felt more and more that something was wrong.

"The Master seems to think highly of me, but I really don't think there's anything special about me. ”

He turned to look at Sangsang in the hall and said, "Compared to her, I sometimes really feel like a stupid pig, no matter how much I cultivate Buddhism, it is impossible for the Buddha Sect to have one more master." ”

"She's the most special one, and you, too, are the special one. ”

Master Qishan followed his gaze. Looking at Sangsang, who had already settled, he exclaimed and said: "The daughter of light is pure in body and mind, and she can understand magic when she thinks about it, and she understands Buddhism when she thinks about it." And three years to know the fate ......"

Without waiting for the master to finish speaking, Ning Que shook his head again and again.

"I know someone is faster than me, so I don't feel special. ”

Master Qishan said, "But that kind of person is extremely rare. ”

Ning Que said: "No matter how little there is, there is still one, so I am not special." ”

Master Qishan looked into his eyes and said puzzledly, "It seems that you are worried about becoming the special one. ”

Ning Que said: "Show Yulin, I really hate it, I don't want to be a fat pig." ”

Master Qishan laughed and said, "It's just because you're in the academy. ”

Ning Que said with a smile: "Yes, for example, my senior brother is in the morning to understand the cave and know his fate. Such a person is qualified to be special, and I can't catch up even if I slap the dark horse's ass. ”

"Mr. Big, a peerless person who hears the Tao and enters the Tao at night, naturally can't be compared.

Master Qishan said: "But there is a big difference between you and ordinary cultivators in the world, except for Master Yan Se who saw your talent in the rune path, the rest of your cultivation talent is just ordinary ......."

Ning Que added: "It's not just ordinary, it's just terrible. ”

Master Qishan said, "However, with the extremely bad talent, you can become a master after three years of cultivation, which proves that your ability has gone beyond the scope of ordinary talent......

"I don't know how you practice, but I've heard about the three most critical moments in your spiritual path. When you entered the Fu Dao, you relied on a summer rain, and when you entered the cave Xuan, you relied on a fish fried by a bookworm. And a few days ago, you knew your fate in battle, and there was no warning. ”

The master continued: "Cultivators pay attention to gradual and gradual learning to master the laws of heaven and earth, while my Buddhist disciples rely on years of penance and accumulation of one-day enlightenment, which is the so-called enlightenment. ”

Ning Que remembered the teachings of Master Huangyang in the Ten Thousand Wild Goose Pagoda Temple.

Master Qishan looked him in the eye. said seriously: "The appearance of your breakthrough has nothing to do with those opportunities. It's more like the epiphany that my Buddhism says, so your understanding is excellent, and it's a pity not to study Buddhism. ”

Ning Que had to feel that the words of the second senior brother were really reasonable at this time, no matter how Dao Buddha looked, when he wanted to absorb new blood, he really looked like those spitting guys in the rat club......

"I'm really afraid that I'll fall asleep reading Buddhist scriptures. ”

He begged for mercy.

Master Qishan took out an extremely thin sutra book from his sleeve and handed it over, saying, "I specially picked an interesting sutra, and it is very short, you should not fall asleep." ”

After saying this, the master walked towards the hall to see how much Sangsang had realized today.

Ning Que opened the scriptures in his hand, and saw that they were all very simple Buddhist scripture story illustrations, so he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and shouted at the master's back: "This is for children, can you change it?"

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After lunch and a period of rest, Sangsang continued his Buddhist studies. Ning Que stood under the front porch of the hall, holding a snow lotus flower to tease the big black horse, teasing himself until he felt bored, and finally remembered the scripture.

The illustrations in the scriptures are simple and smooth, and the stories are extremely interesting, and the meaning of edification is hidden very deep and cleverly, and the more he reads, the more interested he becomes, he simply asked the monks in the temple to find a bamboo chair.

He lay on the chair, flipped through the book at will, occasionally took two sips of hot tea, and when he didn't want to read, he looked up at the fine autumn rain in front of the Buddha hall, soothed his eyes, and felt so comfortable.

Master Qishan walked out of the hall.

Ning Que stood up from the chair, handed over the hot tea, and asked puzzledly, "Why did the master come out?"

Master Qishan was not polite to him, took the hot tea, lay down comfortably on the bamboo chair, and said, "Miss Sangsang is settled again, and I don't have much to do inside, so I came out to talk to you." ”

Ning Que was surprised and said, "So soon to settle down again? Don't this dead girl be sleeping, right?"

Meditation is a special word used in Buddhism, which refers to the precipitation of thoughts before enlightenment, and the state of self-forgetfulness. If you use the metaphor of Taoist practice, it is probably the realm of emptiness before finding the opportunity.

Sangsang settled before noon, and then settled in the afternoon, which is equivalent to saying that Master Qishan taught her the Buddhist method, and she didn't need to spend any effort to understand the truth, which no one could believe.

Even if Ning Que knew that when she followed Wei Guangming to learn the Xiling Divine Technique, she could give birth to Haotian Divine Radiance in the blink of an eye, she still couldn't believe it, so he wondered if the girl was asleep.

Master Qishan said, "I can still see the difference between falling asleep and being in meditation. ”

Ning Que looked at him with a calm expression and asked curiously, "Master, you don't seem to be very surprised. ”

Master Qishan took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "No matter how strange things happen to her, I won't be surprised." ”

Ning Que said: "I now believe what you said last night. ”

"Which word?"

"You said that Sangsang can become a Buddha. ”

"Everyone can become a Buddha. ”

"Master, I'm really not good at saying this, although Zen does sound very charming. ”

"Then I'll be clearer. ”

Master Qishan lay in the chair, tightened the cotton clothes on his body, and said, "The Buddha is originally a human being, why can't that person become a Buddha?"

Ning Que said: "I used to think that the Buddha was like Haotian, just some kind of symbol, until the teacher said it once, and then I saw that chessboard yesterday, I didn't know that the Buddha really existed." ”

Master Qishan looked up at the sky and said, "The Buddha also lived under the sky. ”

Ning Que looked at the gray sky that kept raining, and asked, "Since it is the world of Haotian, why is there a Buddha, and where did the Buddha go in the end?"

Master Qishan said: "Since there is a beginning and an end, there is life and death, since the Buddha is a human being, he will naturally pass away in the end, which is a historical fact." ”

Ning Que thought about his bizarre experience, meditating that life does not necessarily mean death.

As soon as he thought of this, and then saw that the autumn rain lingered and there was a feeling of spring rain, he couldn't help but feel a little tired, thinking that it was just small talk, and he should also talk about something meaningful, leaning on the railing and asking:

"If the Buddha was also a practitioner...... So where did he end up?"

"As a disciple of Buddhism, where can you speculate about the power of the Buddha?"

"The Buddha is compassionate, and it is not a sin to talk about it. ”

Ning Que looked at the master and asked tentatively, "The Buddha must have surpassed the Five Realms, right?"

The master smiled and said, "My Buddhism does not have the saying of the Five Realms. ”

"I mean the approximate level. ”

"Naturally. ”

Ning Que understood.

He suddenly thought of a rumor, looked at Master Qishan and asked seriously, "It is said that before the master fell ill, he was recognized by the cultivation world as the person with the most hope of breaking through the Five Realms?"

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