Huangjue Temple has arrived.

The sky is clear, the wind is beautiful, the coopers are sensylent, and the branches are swaying.

The main entrance stands majestically, and pilgrims come and go.

Meng Xing didn't have time to appreciate it, so he was pulled straight by King Yu to the Zen courtyard at the back of the temple.

Red walls and green tiles, quiet and elegant.

A great monk was making tea in the courtyard, and a small novice was busy with his work.

King Yu walked in with a grin, smelled the tea and asked:

"Uncle Huang won't do morning class today?"

The great monk smiled:

"Have you been to Huangjue Temple recently?"

King Yu said: "I came once a few days ago, but I haven't come to see Uncle Huang." ”

The great monk said, "In that case, sit down and eat tea." ”

"Oh......" King Yu sat down.

The great monk looked at Meng Xing brought by King Yu: "Has the donor been to Huangjue Temple recently?" ”

Meng Xing said: "I have never been here, today is the first time to come." ”

The great monk nodded: "In this case, you can also sit down and eat tea." ”

"......" Meng Xing sat down as he said.

The little novice on the side asked, "Master, why is it called tea if you have been here, and tea if you have not been here?" ”

The great monk smiled and said to the little novice, "You also sit down and eat tea." ”

“……”

Meng Xing and King Yu looked at each other.

Xiao Shami sat down, still puzzled: "Master, why did I ask questions and ask me to eat tea?" ”

The great monk didn't answer, but looked at King Yu, who was like a student who was named and asked a question in class, and he already felt a headache:

"Uncle Huang, what does it matter to me that you are a disciple?"

The great monk looked at Meng Xing again.

Meng Xingdao: "It's none of my business. ”

The great monk suddenly laughed: "The donor naturally said this sentence, which shows that there is no distinction and care, and his nature is not confused." ”

"......" King Yu thought to himself, they are all the same answer, what is the reason why you don't praise me but praise him?

But he didn't dare to say these words.

The little novice who was sitting upright suddenly realized: "It turns out that the master 'has been here and has not come', and the words have made me separate and calculated, and I have lost my nature and entered the illusion. ”

Seeing the conversation between the master and apprentice, don't talk about King Yu, even Meng Xing began to have a headache!

Yu Dynasty made a look, and the two of them seemed to be brothers and sisters.

King Yu stubbornly asked: "Uncle Huang, I am here to ask you for advice, why did Meng Xing come back from the dead, is it the Nirvana technique of the Buddhist family?" ”

The great monk raised his head, looked up at the ancient cypress swaying in the wind, and replied meaningfully: "When you ask this, it is like a cypress tree in front of the court." ”

“…… Uncle Huang," King Yu said speechlessly: "You don't use the realm to enlighten me, I can't reach that realm, you still tell me clearly, is it nirvana for Meng Xing to come back from the dead?" ”

"Okay." The great monk sighed: "I don't need to teach the realm, I will tell you clearly. ”

King Yu said happily: "Is that the art of nirvana rebirth?" ”

The great monk was upright, and said loudly: "The cypress tree in front of the court!" ”

“……”

Xiao Shami laughed, King Yu glared at him, Xiao Shami was not afraid of him, and made a grimace at him: "Stupid, I don't understand this!" ”

"......" King Yu's face turned green: "Mingyuan little ghost, tell me, what does this mean?" ”

"Although the cypress tree exists in front of the court, it does not hinder your business, and the master asks you what you are doing with your nosy? Briefly! ”

“…… Yes! King Yu said: "Uncle Huang, why are you shabu me again?" ”

The great monk shook his head: "Cultivation requires a normal heart, Meng Xing's resurrection, what does it matter to you, thank you for caring so much, and find out the roots?" What do you want? ”

"Do you want to spy on the secrets, or do you want to increase your knowledge? If you ask others, how do you know if it's true or not? Why don't you learn the Nirvana method yourself, and naturally everything will be understood. ”

"......" was told by him, and King Yu opened his mouth to speak, but he was speechless.

The great monk said: "You don't respect you when you say and do not respect you, and Meng Xing respects you the same, you don't understand!" Come to me for tea, and you still don't realize! I wasn't teaching Mingyuan just now, but teaching you, don't you understand? All laws are one, one is true and everything is true, just as everything is true! ”

Meng Xing hurriedly sat up straight, this monk lived far away in the backyard of the temple, but he already knew it when he and King Yu went up the mountain, and he also knew the conversation between the two, and the magic power was profound!

King Yu listened to the words of the great monk and said dejectedly: "Uncle Huang, I know. ”

"Know what? I say this every time, and I don't understand it every time. The great monk said, "Next year you will come to the temple to become a monk." ”

“…… What? King Yu never imagined that he would fall into it this time: "Uncle Huang, I'm ......"

"This matter has been decided, you come here to practice, I will tell the emperor about this matter."

‘“……”

As soon as he saw the cowardice of the king of Yu like a funeral examination and approval, but he didn't dare to argue, Meng Xing knew that the big thing was not good.

And King Yu looked at him with a life-saving expression, and Meng Xing hurriedly helped King Yu out of the siege:

"Master, what is a monk?"

The great monk smiled: "This is like asking me where to go." ”

Meng Xing knew that he was going to fight again, so he cheered up and asked, "Where is the master going?" ”

"Wherever the wind blows, I go."

Everything is impermanent, everything can happen, and what happens depends on it, Buddhism believes that it depends on fate.

It's like the wind, where the wind blows, I go.

Meng Xing kept thinking, although the metaphor is good, there is something that can be delved into. Taking the wind as a metaphor, the problem is that the wind is external, and it is all external causes.

Wherever you say the wind blows, you go. It's all determined by external circumstances.

Doesn't that become fatalism?

People say that the Confucianists pinch the throat, the Confucianists pinch the ribs, the Buddhists pull the spine, and the Buddhists pull the spine, which is fatalism! Meng Xing disagrees with this.

He thought for a moment and said, "If there is no wind, where are you going?" ”

People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves, but the wind doesn't blow, can't you walk?

If there is no wind, you will not go anywhere, and people will be ruined.

The mouth said that he couldn't go, but the body was walking, and the words fell.

The great monk heard his meaning and the trap, and laughed: "Wherever my feet go, I will go." ”

The wind can be without, but the feet are on me.

Meng Xing asked again:

"If you don't go, where are you going?"

Feet, although they grow on you, do you have to walk if you have feet? Is it the feet that decide where to go?

It is not the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, but the heart that directs people to do all kinds of behavior.

As long as I wanted to go somewhere and cut off my foot, I could go in a wheelchair. By train, by plane, you can do it.

At the end of the day, where I want to go depends on my desires, my willingness.

Meng Xing asked the point this time,

The great monk also understood, and smiled loudly: "Go to the monkhood." ”

“……”

This goes back to the original point, and Meng Xing asked him, "What is a monk?" ”

The great monk went around and used Meng Xing's answer to solve Meng Xing's own problem.

Obviously, this game is the advantage of the great monk.

Seeing that Meng Xing was defeated, King Yu was a little anxious, and looked at Meng Xing again and again.

Meng Xing couldn't help it for a while, he was in a hurry, at most he temporarily hugged the Buddha's feet last night, and the level of the great monk was very high, so it was normal for him to not be able to get it.

Meng Xing was silent for a while, but the great monk refused to give up.

It was only because Meng Xingfang had only asked him a few times that he had seen the level and aroused his interest.

People with different levels of consciousness have different understandings of the world.

Therefore, the great monk has to compare Meng Xing.

The great monk asked, "How is it before the empty calamity?" ”

The so-called empty tribulation is the beginningless beginning.

Buddhists say that there are four eons in the world, which are to live in the void and to live in the void, and the empty eons before the world were formed.

Meng Xing's change of constancy in the "Book of Thousand Golds" touched on the problem of creating something out of nothing.

It is also the empty tribulation that Buddhism talks about.

Obviously, the great monk is also taking this opportunity to ask Meng Xing about the change of the words in the "Book of Daughters".

Meng Xing didn't expect that when he arrived in Changjing, the first test of his change of words in the "Book of Daughters" appeared here.

And this matter is related to the fundamental reason why he changed the word "Thousand Golden Books", so he cannot escape it.

At the same time, because this great monk is the emperor's uncle, today's answer is likely to enter the emperor's ears.

This incident also affected the temple examination.

Meng Xing immediately cheered up the spirit of twelve, for the matter of changing the word, he was naturally prepared, and when the monk asked, he naturally asked about his profession.

This matter could neither be avoided nor feared, so Meng Xing quickly replied:

"The toad at the bottom of the well swallows the moon, and the three watches don't borrow the night curtain."

When the great monk asked, the literal meaning was: What were you before the beginning?

Buddhists believe that human beings are also synthesized by various causes and conditions, called the five aggregate phantom bodies, so there is no independent and unchanging self.

The great monk asks "what is oneself", which can be understood as a kind of temptation.

Of course, Meng Xing knew, so he couldn't answer "how he is", because there was no so-called "himself" at all.

He knew that what the Great Monk was asking about his understanding of himself as he was.

Since he was facing the Buddhists, Meng Xing decided to use the Buddhists' sayings to deal with it.

Buddhists believe that although the human body is an illusion, the Buddha nature is the same as that of the Buddha, and everyone has the same Buddha nature.

Meng Xing's answer, literally:

The toad at the bottom of the well swallowed the moon, and in the middle of the night, there was no need to borrow a luminous night curtain.

Here's what's behind it:

He compares himself to a toad, and although the body of the toad is ugly, when he swallows the moon, he has Buddha nature in his heart, and here the moon represents the Buddha nature that everyone has.

Because there is a Buddha nature like the moon, even if it is dark in the middle of the night, there is light, and there is no need to borrow the night curtain.

The Buddha nature here, in other practitioners' terms, is wisdom root and spiritual awareness, but it is actually the same thing, different names.

Not borrowing means that cultivating to become a Buddha is all about one's own Buddha nature, and there is no need to seek anything else.

As soon as this sentence came out, even the great monk didn't find the wrong place.

The great monk secretly praised in his heart, this Xie Yuan of Nanyang County really has a few brushes, and his answer is not leaky!

However, since he changed the constant character of the "Book of Daughters" as a norm, I am afraid that he also has a plan in his belly, and it is not unusual for him to be able to answer this question where he is prepared.

But to be able to answer so mellowly, to be able to appreciate one or two.

Of course, it was impossible for the great monk to recognize Meng Xing so easily.

He already knows the level of this person, and the truth of Buddhism is nothing more than an empty word, a Buddha nature, this person comes prepared, and it is not surprising that he can know this.

The great monk thought to himself, and suddenly shouted:

"No, let's talk about it!"