Chapter 69: Sweeping Monk
"Old monk, what kind of Zen are you practicing in this temple day after day? What kind of Buddha are you reciting? Seeing the two thieves regard this place as their own back garden but don't stop it, doesn't this take the rules of your Shaolin Temple as a deaf ear?"
"Amitabha. The poor monks do not practice Zen, they cultivate themselves, and they do not recite the Buddha but the flavors of the world. This Tibetan Golden Pavilion is not guarded by poor monks, what does a thief have to do with a poor monk?"
"Okay. You just say that you don't believe in Buddhism, you just believe in yourself? I see, you just look like a monk, but at heart you are a layman. ”
"Isn't it the same with the benefactor? ”
In a scripture building, Xue Wushu stood beside an old monk sweeping the floor with his hands behind his back, talking and laughing.
A month ago, Xue Wushu suddenly went to Shaolin Temple on a whim. didn't bother the group of monks, but sneaked directly into the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. Looking at the tens of thousands of books here, there is not much smile on his face. Things here don't mean much to him anymore. Inclusion and walking away is just regarded as the heritage of the Shennong Gang to benefit the people. Naturally, there is another purpose for coming here.
Searching for people. Looking for an old monk who has been hiding in Shaolin for many years, with no past and no trace.
When I first met, the old monk was cleaning the flower garden at the back of the Scripture Pavilion. He was not surprised at all when he saw Xue Wusuan. The whole person looked extremely calm, like a pool of stagnant water.
This monk is not simple. It's obviously in front of you, but the breath of your whole body seems to be there, and there is an inexplicable sense of harmony with everything around you.
This is a temperament unique to innate realm martial artists. The half-step innate Tianshan Tong also has it, but it is far less strong than this monk.
Xue Wushu didn't leave, and found that the monk was very talkative, and he spoke a lot, and he was curious, and he stayed for a month.
The old monk was very different from everyone he had ever met before. The experience was nothing short of amazing.
The old monk himself said that he was not in the Shaolin Temple before he was thirty years old, he was a robber at that time, a vicious robber, cruel methods, just for money and ignoring right and wrong, it can be said that he did all the bad things.
After the age of thirty, he stepped into the rivers and lakes, but he was also secretly abducted and deceived, and he did not have a good reputation.
When he was forty years old, he got into a hard stubble, and in desperation, he hid in Shaolin and became a sweeping monk. By chance, he was arranged to clean the Scripture Pavilion.
While cleaning, he secretly learned, thinking that the day he completed his studies, he would re-emerge to take revenge. And so it went on for another twenty years. All martial arts in Shaolin are kept in mind. In another ten years, the integration will reach its peak. After 30 years of intoxication with martial arts, this sweeping monk forgot all the troubles in the past, and he couldn't remember whether he was a grudge or a grudge. For another twenty years, all Shaolin martial arts were drilled, kneaded, and crushed by him, and finally fused into one. At this point, he knew that he had stepped into a new realm. It wasn't until he saw Xue Wusuan another twenty years later that he knew that this realm was called "Congenital".
Since ten years ago, every ten days, a man in black will come to the Scripture Pavilion. One is tall and the other is thin. Sometimes the two sneak in, and sometimes they meet. As long as they meet, they will have a good fight, but no one can help anyone. And the old monk just stood in the shadows, watching all this, and it looked like it was more than ten years.
After Xue Wushu came, the people who hid in the dark to watch the play became two.
"Old monk, every time you put a Buddhist scripture on the side of the martial arts secret book, do you think they will read it?
"I don't think so. Poor monks rely on Buddhist scriptures to get rid of their anger. Otherwise, I don't know how many killings we will do now. ”
"Bullshit! Anger comes from the heart, there is evil in the heart, and it is useless to read many Buddhist scriptures. As for you, do you really think that your anger is gone? You are just obsessed with martial arts, and you are hiding in this outer place, and your anger is less stimulated by the outside world, and you are secretly lurking. It has nothing to do with your Dharma!"
The benefactor couldn't have said that. The usefulness of the Dharma is ......"
"Okay! Don't tell Benjun about this again! If you say another word, Benjun will burn this temple!"
The old monk is not afraid of being beaten, nor is he afraid of life and death charms, and he is not even afraid of being abolished in martial arts, he is really not afraid. Only this Shaolin Temple was regarded as his "home", and he was reluctant to be burned down by Xue Wusuan.
The old monk smiled and said nothing.
"Knock knock!"
A bell rang for the day's morning class. Thousands of monks came out of their respective houses, looked pious, folded their hands and lined up to the Mahavira Hall to begin their day's practice.
Xue Wushu also followed the sweeping monk this month and participated in the morning class every day. But he listened on the rooftop, and he listened while drinking.
After listening to it in January, although I couldn't talk about my feelings, I still understood a lot about some of the views of Buddhism. Overall, it's still relatively positive. But Xue Wushu didn't quite agree. Breaking off love and lust is contrary to the laws of nature, not Tao, and unnatural. If he practiced like this, Xue Wushu didn't understand how those legendary "Buddhas" transcended things.
The various states of life are still unknown, how can we purify all sentient beings?
On this day, the temple bells are ringing incessantly, and it is not the time for classes to start. I asked the old monk why he was like this. It is said that there are distinguished guests in the temple to visit, and the bell will be ringed to show grandeur.
Curious, Xue Wushu slipped to the roof of the main hall. Lifting a piece of tiles, I took a look, and then I realized that the so-called distinguished guest would actually be the Tubo national teacher Gu Mozhi, who is known as the king of the big wheel.
Speaking of this, the Fanbang monk Xue Wu has met a few times. The first time was at Tenryuji Temple, and the second time was at Drum Mountain. He is a very scheming monk. And he's a martial idiot. The only drawback is that the greed is heavier.
In addition to Gu Mozhi, Xue Wushu also saw an acquaintance, the little monk Xuzhu. Thinking in his heart, Xuzhu at this time should have ended his chance to change his fate. Look carefully, Xuzhu's thumb has a jade wrench, which is the token of the head of the Xiaoyao faction, when he was in the Drum Mountain that day, Xue Wushu saw Wuyazi to Xuzhu with his own eyes. If you don't take it like this, it shows that this little monk should have accepted his identity. But I don't know why I want to return to Shaolin. Could it be that there is any concern for his Buddha?
In the hall below, Gu Mozhi was pretending to be arrogant. used Xiao Wuxianggong to urge Shaolin 72 stunts, bluffing a Shaolin monk stunned, and really thought that his martial arts had been practiced by others to the essence, but he didn't know the essentials, and he was ashamed.
I don't know what Gu Mozhi thinks, and he insists that the stunt of Shaolin Temple is from outside the territory, and the birthplace is in Tibet. After seeing his pseudo-seventy-two stunts and subduing a Shaolin monk, he actually threatened to ask Shaolin to change the name of these martial arts and remove the word "absolute". This is not just a slap in the face, but to ruin Shaolin's reputation.
Xue Wusuan pouted. If he were replaced, where would there be room for Gu Mozhi to be proud? More than 1,000 monks would have already rushed up to tear Gu Mozhi alive. I don't know where the courage came from.
But that's how strange things are. The abbot of Shaolin Temple, Monk Xuanci, is really ready to admit it.
ps: The third update is sent.