Chapter 35: Water Moon
When the aunt of the Dong family heard this, she paused, looked at her youngest son and said with a strange smile: "If you don't bother the young master of the Wang family, how can my Dong family prove my innocence!"
After speaking, the aunt of the Dong family kowtowed to the City God Temple again, and said, "Master City God, my child will never steal other people's geese to eat." He is only three years old this year, but he can't say it clearly, so people can grasp the handle! Now the family has been wronged in vain, and the greedy and bribed people have not been clear, so they can only come to the city god to avenge their grievances!"
As she spoke, the aunt of the Dong family kowtowed violently to the statue of the city god again, slammed her forehead on the floor, and the slightest red spread all over the floor, and then raised the knife and was about to cut open her youngest son's belly.
"Dong family, stop it!" A sharp voice sounded, this sound made people feel that their eardrums exploded, but the Dong family's aunt turned a deaf ear and continued to go under the knife.
"Ding!" A crisp sound sounded, and the kitchen knife in the Dong family's aunt cut through the child's clothes, and was hit to the ground by a stone.
"Who?" Seeing this, the prince of the Wang family was furious, and in the next second, a miscellaneous fox rushed out from the side and slammed into the abdomen of the youngest son of the Dong family. The child was already scared stupid, and when he was hit by the fox like this, he opened his mouth and spit it out, and in a mouthful of sour water, there were tiny pieces of minced meat.
The prince of the Wang family took a step forward, a trace of black gas flashed in his hand, melted into the ground, and scolded with a smile: "Aunt Dong, do you still want to quibble? Let's take a look, is this goose meat?"
As soon as everyone stepped forward, the tiny minced meat was the snail meat.
Suddenly, an old man in a Confucian robe said angrily: "What a royal family, it really covers the sky with one hand! In front of the City God Temple, he insisted that the snail meat is goose meat." ”
This old man is an old talent, quite pedantic, he doesn't like the Wang family's rampant and domineering style on weekdays, and at this time, he is even more angry, and he scolded more than ten sentences angrily, and then threw his sleeves and left.
Seeing this, the neighbors of the Dong family's aunt on the side also blamed one after another, and intentionally or unintentionally protected the two Dong families.
When Wang Gongzi heard this, he looked down, shocked and angry, and said loudly: "How can it be snail meat, this is impossible! How can it be snail meat......
Yu Chen, who was standing in the crowd, put away the glaucoma in his hand, stared at the statue of the city god above for a long time, and turned to leave.
"Nan no Amitabha!" Yu Chen had just left, when he heard a Buddha horn sound, and then there was a strange light around him, and then he was far away from the world, and not far from him was already standing a middle-aged female nun.
This bhikshuni was born extremely beautiful, but he was as cold as ice, his face was cold, and he looked indifferent and unforgiving, except for a pair of eyes that contained a faint hint of compassion.
"Zen Master Jinghua?" Yu Chen looked at the nun in front of him, guessed the origin of the other party, and then looked around, and said with a smile: "Spotless frost, all realms are empty, and the heart of the water and moon is empty?"
"Amitabha!" Zen Master Jinghua clasped his hands together, his eyes were full of compassion, and he sighed: "My Taoist friends have a pure breath, and they can be regarded as the authentic sect of Xuanmen, why do you want to use magic to deceive people?"
"Am I using magic to deceive people?" Yu Chen heard this, as if he had heard some joke, and the corners of his mouth hooked: "Didn't the Wang family cast the spell first?
Just now, when he was in the City God Temple, Yu Chen felt that something was wrong.
When the Dong family's aunt was about to disembowel her youngest son first, Chenghuang obviously blessed the Dong family's aunt's mind with magic and protected her from the influence of ecstasy spells.
This kind of shelter can be regarded as a blessing in normal times, but at that time, it was clear that someone wanted to stop the Dong family's aunt.
What's even more interesting is that when the son of the Wang family used a trick to turn the snail meat spit out by the youngest son of the Dong family into goose meat, Chenghuang didn't react at all.
This is already very illustrative.
Coupled with the fact that Zen Master Jinghua has appeared to stop him, the smile on the corner of Yu Chen's mouth has become more and more kind, but his eyes are cold.
"Amitabha!" was another Buddha horn, his face was cold, but the Mirror Flower Zen Master with compassion in his eyes looked at the smiling Yuchen, but his eyes were cold, and he was about to speak, but he heard Yuchen say: "All the methods, the victory is to observe, like a fantasy like a sunflame, like a dream like a water moon, like a sound like an empty flower, like a light and shadow......"
"The moon of water is the union of the moon in heaven and the water on the earth. The mirror flower is the phase in the mirror, and it is void. The so-called Water Moon Mirror Flower is a false and empty thing. It is only because Darkness and Buddhism believe that everything in the world is made up of four false combinations, so it is respected by some disciples as the superior Dharma of Buddhism, and believes that the water and moon mirror flower is an ethereal, ethereal and deep realm. ”
"But the moon in the water, the water moves and the moon moves, which is difficult to make and easy to break. The flower in the mirror is out of reach. When you enter the path in this way, you don't know if the bodhichitta is in the water, in the moon, in the mirror, in the flower, and whether it is the Buddha nature or the demon mind?"
Facing Yu Chen's series of rebukes, Zen Master Jinghua's face became bitter, and the space where the two of them were shook for a while.
"Amitabha, good, good!"
As the last Buddha horn sounded, the body of the Mirror Flower Zen Master was illusory for a while, and the environment around Yuchen also gave birth to cracks, and the next second it was back to the original place.
Looking around, Yu Chen's face was a little weird.
In the Buddhist theory of Zen Buddhism, if you observe it with a special insight, you will find that everything is not static, but is constantly in the process of changing the cause and effect, and when you analyze it carefully, things are not still for a moment, and people often create the illusion that they have not changed, just like a temporary illusion.
Therefore, in Buddhism, the image in the mirror is often used as a metaphor for the principle of dependent emptiness, and the moon in the water is a metaphor for the change of Buddhism, the moon is the body of the Buddha, the water is the sentient beings, and a Buddha can respond to the hearts of all sentient beings and transform into various shapes.
Eventually, a series of Water Moon Techniques were gradually derived.
Most of these Water Moon Methods are based on the illusion of nothingness and emptiness, and some of the best hope can use this to realize the source of the Dharma and understand the reality of all the Dharmas, without all obstacles.
The inferior ones hope to use the unreal to create the real, which is quite a bit of a feeling of cultivating the truth through the fake.
However, either way, it requires a very advanced level of Dharma cultivation to be able to practice.
Otherwise, it is easy to fall into the illusion, to stand above all living beings, to be self-righteous, to be complacent.
If you can't understand that Buddha nature is the nature of all beings, if there are sentient beings, then there is a Buddha nature, if you are confused, you use the nature of all beings, and if you are enlightened, you use Buddha nature, and if you are a Buddha, you are all beings, just in a thought. As Zen Master Yuanjue said: "One nature is round through all natures, one law pervades all laws, one law pervades all water, all water and all moons." ”
Therefore, Yuchen specially opened his mouth to stimulate the Mirror Flower Zen Master, trying to break her state of mind, but the reaction of the Mirror Flower Zen Master was also a little unexpected by Yu Chen.