After the dinner, I helped Ling Bo and Madoka clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and were about to go to find Shanbi. The half-edged Zen master said, "No, don't leave now, sit down and I have something to say to you." ”

I thought to myself that it must be another marriage with Limbo, but after all, it was a senior who couldn't refuse, so I returned to my seat.

"It's okay for you guys, let's go back to sleep first" Zen Master Banyuan waved his hand to him, and everyone went back to their respective homes.

Zen Master Banyuan said, "Is it okay for your master to come in?"

I said, "It's all right, eat when it's time to eat, sleep when it's time to sleep." I still do gymnastics every morning, meditate in the afternoon, and doze off. ”

"Did your master tell you about the origin of our faction?"

I shook my head: "No, when Master says he knows, he will naturally know"

"You pour me a cup of tea first, and I'll tell you slowly," he said. So I made you a bowl of hot tea.

"It started a long time ago. In that year, Bodhidharma Patriarch founded Shaolin Temple. The most important practice is the Mahayana Prajna Heart Sutra. It is the beginning of all exercises in Shaolin Temple, and it is also the end of all exercises. Practicing the ** Vehicle's Prajna Sutra talks about letting go, but it is not easy to let go, and there are a few people who can empty all the aggregates. For hundreds of years, there has been an accomplished person, and there is only one Patriarch Bodhidharma. Life in this world, suffering for the flesh, love and hatred, greed, hatred, ignorance, suspicion, slowness, and suffering, all kinds of suffering are as insurmountable as a chasm. Therefore, more than 100 years after the death of the patriarch, no one has really learned the Mahayana Prajna Sutra, and the Shaolin Temple is not as good as a year. Fortunately, when he arrived at the Sixth Patriarch Huineng Zen Master, he was an immortal genius, so that the Mahayana Prajna Sutra could be passed down from generation to generation. Many precepts were made. Relying on the precepts to keep disciples away from greed, ignorance, suspicion, and slowness, and away from physical suffering. But this is not really let go after all, so the first generation of the Sixth Patriarch, the Shaolin Temple only cultivated a Hinayana Prajna Sutra, and finally passed away. Zen Master Huineng sat down, and there were two disciples, one with a dry heart and one with a dry mind. This dry heart and dry thoughts of the Zen master follows the master day by day. Seeing that the master had worked hard and exhausted, he still couldn't peek into the Mahayana Prajna Path. I was depressed, so I studied Buddhism in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion day and night. One day, the dry heart Zen master looked through the deeds of the Bodhidharma Patriarch before he founded the Shaolin Temple in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. Seeing the patriarch practicing in the world, going through hardships, and suffering from wind, frost, rain and dew, he got the way. Then I wanted Shaolin disciples to practice in this temple, without wind and waves. Not suffering from greed, ignorance, suspicion, and slowness, let alone let go. Then I thought that only by going to the world, suffering all kinds of suffering, and being free from all kinds of sorrows, can I attain the Mahayana path. He handed over the position of abbot to his younger brother Zen Master Ku Nian. He wore a tattered robe, took a beggar bowl, and went down the mountain, calling himself an ascetic. ”

Zen Master Banyuan took a sip of tea and continued: "Cultivating the Hinayana Buddhist path is only to transform oneself. And the Mahayana Buddha path is not only to cross oneself but also to cross others. However, it is ruthless and simple, but it is difficult to be affectionate. After going down the mountain, the dry heart Zen master went incognito, became a shoemaker, worked as a groom, and also entered the court as an official. After all the sufferings in the world, I finally realized the Mahayana Prajna Sutra. It is the second Mahayana Prajna Sutra to be practiced in 500 years in addition to the Bodhidharma Patriarch. It's a pity that although the dry heart Zen master cultivates the supreme method, but his disciple sits down, but his understanding is not as good as one-ten-thousandth of his, and I am afraid that there will be no successor. ”

When Zen Master Banyuan said this, he had an extremely pained expression on his face. It seems that it took a lot of effort to spit out new words.

"Zen Master Kuxin sat down, and the two disciples are me and your master, Zen Master Banshan. Originally, the Dharma names given to us by Master were Empty Rim and Empty Mountain, which means that all Dharma is empty. But our cultivation is too shallow, so we only talk about half-edge and half-mountain to the outside world. I don't dare to call him a disciple of a dry heart Zen master. ”

I asked, "Since the Zen master and my master are from the same school, why are they now separated from each other, one in the bustling capital and the other in the deep mountains and old forests?" ”

"Speaking of the reason, now that I think about it, it's also because our cultivation is too shallow. Your master thinks that the reason why the Shaolin Temple practices the Hinayana path is because they use too many precepts to restrain themselves. It's not that I really let it go. Only when you really let go and do without precepts and self-discipline can you attain the Mahayana Prajna Sutra. And I think that I am bound to enter the world and suffer all the sufferings of the world. to get out of the sea of suffering. So I came to the capital. He closed his eyes and his chest slowly heaved.

"Zen Master, I understand all this. When I want to let go of an emotion, I have to go through it first. When I want to look at the void, I first have to know what the void is."

"Well, yes, that's it. He was very happy to hear it.

"But, Zen Master, did you leave me here just to talk about this?" I asked, always thinking he had something else to say.

"It's a part," he looked me in the eye and said, "don't you know why the Mahayana Prajna Sutra is the sect of all exercises?"

"Because he let go," I said, this is what Master told me before.

"It is natural to let go, and the most important thing is that he can open up all the meridians of the human body, and he doesn't even need to go through the dantian. In the practice of ordinary exercises, the internal force must pass through the dantian before it can be used. But if the Mahayana Prajna has been practiced to the highest level, even the dantian is gone. All the gas is said to be receiving, and it is endless. He said.

"Master has said so before. I said.

He suddenly opened his eyes and sighed: "The Ling Bo family has not been able to practice martial arts for generations, because its dantian cannot gather qi. If the dantian can't gather qi, the vitality of life will be much lower than that of ordinary people. Ling Bo's grandfather died in his sixties because his body's resistance was not as good as that of ordinary people. One of the reasons why he opened a pharmaceutical company is also for himself. But unfortunately he still couldn't save himself in the end. ”

"No, I have something to ask of you," he said earnestly, "and he told me that I was with her grandfather that day. He said that he would not live more than seventy, and that his son would not live more than sixty, and that his grandson would not live more than fifty. In other words, Limbo may die in his forties. I ask you, would you like to see Limbo die so soon?"

"Naturally not," I said.

"Now the only thing that can save Ling Bo is to let her practice the ** Rides Prajna Sutra. I hope you can teach her. ”

"I'm still a shallow practitioner, so why doesn't the Zen master teach it himself?" I asked.

"It's too much to be surrounded by mundane things," he said.

I thought about it, the primary practice of the Prajna Sutra is meditation, unlike other martial arts that require several years to lay a foundation, a few years of practice, and actual combat. It's a lot simpler. So I agreed. Besides, being with Ling Bo is always a pleasure.

Zen Master Banyuan said: "No, do you think that I, as a monk, should make do with your relationship with Ling Bo all day long. ”

I hurriedly replied, "No, the Zen master has his own ideas." What's more, I'm not worthy of Limbo. ”

Zen Master Banyuan straightened his body and said, "Ling Bo's grandfather and I are friends of life and death. I once had a wrong thought and almost strayed into the devil's path. It was her grandfather who used all the treasures to save my life. If you don't repay this kindness, your heart will be uneasy. You are my junior disciple's disciple, and I will help you treat you as a disciple. And you practice the Prajna Sutra. I think you and Limbo are a match made in heaven. If you can get rid of my remnants with her, otherwise it will be difficult for me to cultivate the Mahayana Prajna Sutra in this body. ”

"Let it be," I said.

"Amitabha" Zen Master Banyuan folded his hands and bowed slightly to me.