Chapter 51: Take an oath
Wait for the bear's mouth to stare and be blind, and the poor man will cure the rich man.
Fang who escaped death realized the Tao and sincerely wished to welcome the morning glow.
Teacher Cao and I drank tea, Teacher Cao slowly told me about that thrilling experience, I saw Teacher Cao put down the water cup in his hand, he looked up to the sky and breathed a long sigh of relief, on his face full of vicissitudes, showing a trace of excitement.
It turned out that more than 40 years ago, Mr. Cao did not have the current medical skills, since his Taoist master left, he was inspired by the "Shennong Materia Medica", at the same time, he also in order to hone his medical skills, he embarked on the road of traveling and collecting some rare treasures in the world, that year, he came to the northeast of China alone.
More than 20 years ago, some areas in Northeast China were not as full of villages as modern as they are today, and there were many areas of primeval forests, which were inaccessible and full of wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, which could be said to be extremely dangerous.
At that time, according to the records in the medical book, Mr. Cao came to a certain place in the northeast, and wanted to find cherished herbs in that place.
Before entering the mountain, he supplemented some supplies in a local town, in the sixties and seventies at that time, the people were still very simple, Mr. Cao was eating in a small restaurant, chatting with the shopkeeper, the Northeast people were very straightforward and hospitable, they slowly became acquainted, Mr. Cao was told one thing by the enthusiastic shopkeeper at that time, and it was the boss's kind words that finally saved Mr. Cao's life.
That is, in many deep mountains and old forests in the northeast, there are many bears blind that is, bears, this kind of animal, the reason why they are called bear blind, is not that their eyes are really blind, but because they are born short-sighted, 100 meters away can not see clearly, but its ears and nose are sensitive, and the wind can smell the smell half a kilometer away, and can hear the footsteps 300 steps away.
The blind bear has barbs on his tongue, and this is indeed true. Felines, as well as canines, are carnivores or omnivores. In the process of eating meat, the tongue is used to lick the bones of the animal carcass, and the meat crumbs are licked into the mouth. The barbs on their tongues are really powerful, but they don't lick their skins away, and there may be a "gap".
Usually blind bears eat plants, but in autumn they eat some insects and other animal foods, store a lot of fat in their bodies and prepare to hibernate in tree cavities, and their specialty is tree climbing and swimming.
The shopkeeper specially told Mr. Cao that if you go into the mountain by yourself, in addition to preparing some necessary emergency items, you should tie some bamboo tubes on your shoulders and arms, and after you find the bear blind when you enter the mountain, you must not run, because people can't run away from the bear blind, and you can't run, at this time you must not move, the bear blind will come to you and sniff your body with its nose, and its two front paws will be on your shoulders, of course, the claws are very powerful, it will slap your shoulders, with its sharp claws to pierce inside, at this time the bamboo tube on your body plays a good role in protecting you, at this time you must not move, quietly wait for it to do this, it will leave you on its own, only in this way can you get out, if you move their tongues are very powerful, will lick people beyond recognition, and they are only interested in moving things, so be especially careful.
When I heard Mr. Cao say this, I also nodded frequently, sighing at people's ingenuity and ingenuity, and they can still come up with such a solution, and Mr. Cao continued to talk to me.
Mr. Cao listened to the shopkeeper's words, and he prepared some bamboo tubes for himself in the local town to hang on his body, and at the same time, according to the instructions of the shopkeeper, just in case, he also prepared corresponding emergency items, which may be used when entering the mountain.
Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Mr. Cao took these application things, tied the bamboo tube that had been prepared long ago to his shoulders and arms according to the method told by the shopkeeper, and when everything was ready, he walked straight into the mountains.
Mr. Cao entered the mountain this time, and stayed in the mountain for three days, and really let him dig up some precious herbs, these few days of deep mountain trip, so that Mr. Cao has gained a lot, and he has not encountered any danger, which can't help but make Mr. Cao's tense nerves slowly relax, ready to return to the town the next day.
When the next morning, Mr. Cao put away the tent, had breakfast, and was about to return, as soon as he looked up, he saw that seventy or eighty meters away from him, I don't know when a huge black bear blind man came over slowly, Mr. Cao's legs were weak at that time, but he also remembered what the shopkeeper told him, he did not run but stood still, motionless, his eyes were firmly fixed on the blind bear.
I saw the blind bear not far away, sniffing while walking all the way, and after a while, he came to Mr. Cao's side, Mr. Cao looked at the black bear crawling around him, the degree of tension in his heart can be imagined, I saw the black bear turned around twice, the body stood up, and put his heavy and sharp giant palm on Mr. Cao's shoulder, at this time Mr. Cao was already sweating, and his body trembled involuntarily, but he gritted his teeth and didn't dare to move there.
The black bear put its forepaws on Mr. Cao's shoulders at the same time, its huge head sniffed back and forth at Mr. Cao's neck, suddenly, the black bear on Mr. Cao's shoulders on the two forepaws grabbed hard, instantly the bamboo tubes on Mr. Cao's shoulders were all scratched, at this time, its two forepaws also fell to the ground, the black bear may not have found anything abnormal, and then shook its heavy body and continued to walk into the distance.
The danger was finally lifted, Mr. Cao looked at the black bear that was slowly leaving, and after standing still in place for more than ten minutes, he breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the ground, looked at the broken bamboo tube in front of him and on his body, cold sweat flowed on his body, and he was panting heavily.
It can be said that Mr. Cao picked up a life, he immediately went down the mountain, came to the small restaurant again, found the owner of the hotel and told the story of the time, and thanked the owner of the shop, Mr. Cao was going to leave some remuneration for the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper said something to Mr. Cao: "I just have a few more words, brother, you don't have to worry about it, you can come back alive, in fact, I have to thank God for your favor, it was God who arranged for you to come to my shop. Let the two of us get to know each other, won't we? Hahaha..."Mr. Cao heard the words of the shopkeeper, so he made a vow in the restaurant, that is, in the future, he will follow a principle when he sees a doctor: "The poor man treats the disease, and the rich man spends money." ”
When Mr. Cao said this, I immediately understood why I accepted the Feng family's 20,000 yuan today, it turns out that this is the reason.
Teacher Cao took out the 20,000 yuan from his backpack as he spoke, at this time, Teacher Cao took out 10,000 yuan and handed it to me, I looked at Teacher Cao with some surprise, Teacher Cao smiled and said: "Xiaohyun, you have to take this money, just take it as your remuneration during this time, don't say no, this is what you deserve, you are also a doctor here in this clinic, and you should pay you a salary, besides, I also pick up cheap miles!" You take this money and give your family an explanation, obedient! The teacher smiled and gave me the money, and I was a little overwhelmed.
Originally, I wanted to refuse, but Mr. Cao looked at me with an expectant look, and I no longer hesitated to put away the 10,000 yuan.
There are not many patients in the clinic in the afternoon, which makes me and Mr. Cao seem very comfortable, Dr. Wu has returned to his hometown yesterday for the New Year, so the clinic will be closed tomorrow, because the day after tomorrow is the Lunar New Year, today is the last day in the clinic, Mr. Cao and I packed up some books and equipment here in the clinic, sorted them out one by one, in case of the New Year, and then took them out again, and also simply cleaned the hygiene of the clinic.
Mr. Cao's consultation room was almost tidy up, so he stopped me and sat at the table with him, drank tea, and chatted.
When I asked how the master understood this prescription, I heard Mr. Cao say to me: "My Taoist master said that this prescription was produced in the Ming Dynasty, and it is the 'test prescription' passed down from the earth immortals who have been cultivated in Kunlun Mountain for more than 300 years......
In fact, in the long history of the splendid Chinese civilization of 5,000 years, as the orthodox culture of Chinese civilization, it has been inherited in various fields of the land of China for thousands of years. In the field of ancient Chinese medicine, there were many medical scientists with special functions and practitioners of different levels in the past dynasties. They used noble medical ethics and exquisite divine medical skills to help the world, save the dead and help the wounded, and wrote a legendary history of ancient Chinese medicine. In different historical periods, there have been doctors who have passed on some secret miraculous prescriptions to the world to cure diseases and save people.
In this way, Mr. Cao and I sat across from each other, drinking tea and chatting about some of our own experiences and experiences of Chinese medicine, and in this way, the time slowly passed in the harmonious atmosphere of our master and apprentice.
When I got home, it was dinner time, I took out the 10,000 yuan that Mr. Cao gave me from my backpack, and my parents were shocked when they saw the 10,000 yuan, so I recounted what I had experienced in the day during the banquet......
After dinner, I went back to my room and continued to look at the medical books that Mr. Cao gave me, my body and mind were all immersed in the sea of books, and all kinds of knowledge points in the books quickly filled my mind, and slowly these knowledge points became clearer and clearer in my mind, converging into a huge information network, so that I could access any information at any time.
I have sorted out these knowledge points, and they will become the basis for me to treat diseases and save people in the future, and I will continue to draw nourishment from here to continue to hone my medical skills and medical ethics.
When I closed the book, it was already twelve o'clock in the evening, and I sat down on the bed and began to meditate that I hadn't done for a long time, and began today's practice.
A lot of things have happened in the past few days, and relatively speaking, the time for meditation and cultivation has also taken up a lot, so I have to step up my efforts to make up for this lost time.
When I started to practice according to the practice route, I immediately entered a state of meditation, and my heart was unusually calm, in this state, my Yuan Shen once again left my body and came to the door of the Feng family's villa, and I didn't understand why I came here again.
I saw the short messenger I had seen here last night, and I saw him wandering back and forth in front of the door of the villa, and seemed to be a little idle.
When I was bored, I saw the tall errand officer appear in front of the short errand and said, "Brother, the matter here is over, don't worry about the surnamed Feng for the time being, the boss has sent a message, let's withdraw first." ”
The short messenger asked, "Is it because of the young man?" ”
The tall official nodded and said: "I really let you say it right, it is because of his appearance that he has changed the direction of some things, how to deal with the surname Feng, I heard that the boss meant to observe him for a period of time for the time being, because, after all, the ancestor of the person surnamed Feng still has a bit of yin virtue, so he is to observe the after-effects and open the net." ”
I listened to the conversation between these two messengers, and I also knew that Mr. Feng should be out of danger, but it depends on his own future behavior, this is the virtue of a good life in God.
I meditated until dawn the next day. When I recovered from my meditation state, I felt refreshed, the fatigue of the past few days was gone, and I felt that my skills had improved.
I came to the market with my mother, looking at the crowd of people coming and going in the market, this may be the state of the world, looking at people's living conditions, I can't help but have a new understanding in my heart, that is, everyone feels the same for happiness, for example, an ordinary person, buy a brand new bicycle, he will be very happy; A rich man who buys a brand new car will also be happy. In fact, it doesn't matter whether the item is valuable or not, when different classes of people get different things, their happiness is the same, and people live in their own feelings.
In the morning, I bought with my mother, and I figured out a lot of questions, and when we were about to leave the gate of the market, we happened to meet a merchant who wanted to kill a dog. It was an ordinary yellow dog, tied to a tree with a rope, pitiful, about thirty or forty pounds, and the person who was going to kill the dog was a burly man of about forty years old.
Out of curiosity, I saw with my heavenly eyes that this burly man was a wild dog in his previous life, and the yellow dog to be slaughtered was the enemy who killed him in his previous life. This is very clear, he was a sin in his previous life, so in this life, he turned into a yellow dog to repay his debts, and he had to be stabbed so that he could settle his grudges. Usually I don't care about this kind of thing, it's not that I'm not compassionate, because it's the result of an old vendetta, and that's how it should be.
But just because I don't care doesn't mean that others don't care either. When the burly man hung the yellow dog upside down and was about to choke it to death with cold water, an old lady appeared not far from the door, and this old lady expressed her willingness to pay fifty yuan to buy the yellow dog so that it would not suffer from a knife. Who knows, the burly man disagreed, and he had to kill the yellow dog. The old lady did not give up, she increased the price and raised the bid to one hundred. The burly man was still unmoved, and said that it was not a matter of money, he just wanted to kill the dog to eat meat, otherwise he would not be happy.
The old lady's eloquence was not very good, and she had no reason to tell the man, so she kept raising the price of the yellow dog, hoping to impress the burly man. In the end, the old lady increased the price to three hundred yuan, and the burly man finally agreed to let the yellow dog go, but he demanded that the old lady pay in cash.
The old lady didn't say a word, and immediately went home to get the money. I myself wanted to see the outcome of this matter, so I called my mother to wait here with me, so we waited here with other curious people to see how it turned out.
Three hundred yuan is not a small amount, in the whole process of the old lady's rescue of the yellow dog, I saw her kind heart, it really sparkled like gold.
We waited for about 30 minutes, and then we saw the old lady hurrying over from a distance, and after she paid the money to save the yellow dog, the old lady led the yellow dog outside the market to be released, and wanted the yellow dog to fend for itself.
Then I came with my bicycle and stopped the old lady, telling her not to do it, hoping that she would take the yellow dog home and feed it until the end of the dog's life. Why should I persuade the old lady like this, because the yellow dog's life has already expired, and it should die, because its fate is arranged like that. However, due to the old lady's intervention, the yellow dog did not die, so the old lady must be fully responsible for the rest of the yellow dog's life process. Otherwise, any sins that the yellow dog does in the future will be counted on the old lady.
For example, if a yellow dog bites someone, steals something from someone else, or harms the life of another animal, these sins will be recorded on the old lady.
There is an old saying that good people do it to the end, and send Buddha to the west. Ordinary people don't understand the true meaning of this, which actually means that when you do good deeds, you must have a beginning and an end, and you must be responsible to the end, otherwise you will not do half of the good deeds, and it is likely that the final result will become a bad thing, which will increase your sinful karma.
In fact, there are many so-called people who believe in Buddhism nowadays, and it is really difficult to release them every year, saying that they are accumulating merit and receiving good fortune. Why, for example, some people make a big black fish and take it to the pond to release it, and he says that he has also accumulated merit. I said that maybe he could accumulate some merit, but the karma that would result from it might be even greater. Do you think, that big black fish still eats the small fish in the pond, how is this different from letting the tiger return to the mountain? To do good, we must do it rationally and wisely, consider the consequences, and do what we can. We must not do good for the sake of doing good, otherwise we are deceiving ourselves.
Later, the old lady followed my advice and took the yellow dog home to feed it. I found that the old lady's kindness was immeasurable, and through his efforts and dedication, he was able to resolve a grudge and reduce the number of killings. This is the flashing of Buddha-nature, which is the most precious aspect of human beings. If everyone has the heart of an old lady, then the world will be ruled greatly, and there will be a peaceful and prosperous era.
When I finished what I was going to say, I looked at the back of the old lady who was gradually moving away, in fact, my heart was very happy, my mother saw that there was nothing wrong, so she called me to hurry home, I pushed my bicycle, and discussed the behavior of the kind old lady while walking with my mother on the road, and soon we returned home.
As soon as I entered the house, my father greeted me out, and the lunch meal had already been prepared, but during the meal, my father said to me: "I answered a phone call in the morning, I was looking for Xiaoxun you, the other party said that it was the Feng family's name Feng Yating, she asked me to tell you, her eldest brother's illness has improved greatly, and the sores in the back of the brain have begun to heal in just one day, and she still uses that method these days, and she will come to the clinic after the New Year, find Dr. Cao to talk to you, and express her gratitude again." I nodded and recounted the experience of that day, and my parents were dumbfounded, even calling the magic of Chinese medicine, and even pig manure can be used in medicine.
I told them that the magic of Chinese medicine is not limited to this, so I selected a few cases that I had seen in medical books, and told them about them while eating at the dinner table.
In the afternoon, I received a call from Liu Ling at home, I haven't contacted her for a few days, I picked up the phone and heard her complaining on the other end of the phone, I can only smile and explain to her that there are indeed a lot of things in the past few days, I told her about the experience of these days, Liu Ling forgave me with a smile, before putting down the phone, she said that after the New Year, she would come to the house to see her uncle and aunt, I didn't think much about it and agreed, I put down the phone, and after explaining the situation to my mother, my father was a little better, and my mother looked at me, The smile on her face became stronger, but she also told me to pay attention to proportion, or to focus on my studies, and I could only shake my head and smile bitterly.
In the afternoon, I read my medical books in my room, although I have memorized all the contents of them, but through reading the books constantly, I will have a new understanding and understanding of the contents every time.
Just as I was sitting on the chair and looking at the books, suddenly, a familiar attraction appeared, I immediately sat up straight on the chair, slowly closed my eyes, my consciousness was pulled by a huge and familiar suction, and came to the chaotic space that I was extremely familiar with, and the figure of the master appeared in front of me.
When I appeared here and saw the master, I immediately stepped forward to salute the master, the master looked at me and smiled and nodded to me, and then I heard the master say: "Apprentice, now at this time to call your main consciousness here, there is an extremely important thing to inform you, some time ago your trip to Huashan, didn't the evil forces get a part of the sword, a few days ago, the people in the dungeon got in touch with our alliance, and reached a consensus, that is, the two sides joined forces to regain the lost blade, This time the alliance appointed me to go to the dungeon to discuss the next step, so in a few days I will leave the surface and go to the underground city with the people in the dungeon, so you have to be more diligent and hard-working during this time, and at the same time pay attention to safety, now it can be said that the dark tide is turbulent, and some big changes are about to happen, but no matter when, you must keep your mind and not act rashly, understand? I listened carefully to Master's teachings and instructions, and kept nodding my head to reassure Master.
Now Master is still very relieved about my cultivation, so I heard Master say, "Before I leave, I would like to remind you that that evil alliance has been formed with some extraterrestrial forces with ulterior motives in a vain attempt to rule this earth one day, so I am here to tell you some things about extraterrestrial life, so that you can understand what is going on if you encounter them in the future." So, Master explained to me in detail some of the characteristics of extraterrestrial life.
It turns out that the universe is infinite, and the extent is beyond people's imagination, you just sit in the room and imagine it, you can't imagine how big the universe is in a day, so there are countless galaxies in this universe There are different extraterrestrial life, and the complexity of life is unimaginable.
But Master said that the physical composition of extraterrestrial life is very different from that of human beings, extraterrestrial life is made of silicon-based, while we humans are carbon-based life, and our human body has Tianmu, Mud Pill Palace, and Dantian, which are also not possessed by extraterrestrial life, so they have always been very envious of our human body, because the human body is very perfect.
Those alien lifeforms, although their technology is very advanced, but due to their physical defects, no matter how they improve their scientific and technological level, they cannot achieve immortality and immortality, but they have discovered that the human body can reach this step through various cultivation, so they began to systematically invade the earth.
This kind of systematic aggression is not a war, because in ancient times there were extraterrestrial wars of aggression, but they were stopped by the cultivators on our earth, causing them a lot of losses, so they began to change their plans and began a kind of silent infiltration, they inserted some alien things into human civilization, began to gradually mutate human thoughts, arranged some aliens who changed into human form to interfere with human behavior, and made human beings themselves more convinced of science itself. Rather than the true civilization and inheritance of the earth about spiritual practice, it gradually imprisoned human thoughts and actions so that they could begin their next steps.
Master told me solemnly that the ultimate goal of these extraterrestrial beings is to occupy the earth and our human bodies, and to become a carrier for them.
It is precisely because of this that the alien life and that evil alliance have a consensus, and they began to join forces against the cultivators on the earth, and the righteous people among all the cultivators on our earth formed this justice alliance to fight against them, but I didn't expect this confrontation to last for tens of millions of years.
After listening to Master's full story, I had a general understanding of those extraterrestrial lifeforms, but I didn't expect that this human world seemed calm on the surface, but in fact, in secret, I don't know how many fights had occurred.
Master also said, "I have already mentioned them when the Buddha was teaching the Dharma, and they are called the beings of the Shura Path, so if you discover these extraterrestrial beings in the future, you must pay more attention to them. I nodded earnestly.
This time I met Master for a short time, but it told me some important information, and it seemed that I didn't know when a fierce fight would break out again, and my consciousness returned to my body in a state of vertigo.