Chapter 7 The Old Monk of Qianling 13 Ask the Sword
"Isn't Uncle Shi joking!" The monk seemed to be relieved, and said with a smile: "If I want to have the ability to write poems and lyrics, it is better to take the imperial examination, gain fame, wear purple waist and gold, and can also call forward and back, go in and out of eight seats, and be full of wine and meat, why bother to be a monk?"
"It's really a great ambition!" "The Zen Master laughed, and said with one finger not in the monk: "You are not afraid that the two juniors will laugh at you, both have the heart to win fame, and you can't forget the word wine and meat?"
"Life in the world, eat and drink!" The monk sneered: "Wine is drinking, meat is eating, and monks can't marry wives and have children.
"Then why don't the great monk become a catcher, or be a rich businessman!" Chai Yingruo couldn't help but interject: "There are a lot of rules and precepts for monks, and besides, I don't think monks seem to keep the precepts very much?"
"No way, no way!" The monk waved his hand again and again, "Do you think that head catcher is a good job? You might as well go back and ask your father, see what kind of heart he all day long? Rich businessmen are not so easy to do, although they don't have to worry about food and clothing, they can calculate too much, they lose money here and there, and they have to be leveled, and they have to manage, and they have to watch the market all the time, if they are not careful, they will lose all their money, and the visitors will have to accompany the smiling faces, and they have to get up early and go to bed late, and they will have to work hard, I am lazy by nature, I can't make it, I can't make it!"
Ren Tianbai looked at it blankly, but felt that the monk's words seemed to be a little familiar, when Ren Qiuzhi was alive, he often talked to him, this catch fast and business, is the world's two major labors, catch fast is not an official, and not a people, but can put other people's life and death in the palm of his hands, the most careless!
"Brother Ren, what are you thinking?" Seeing Ren Tianbai lowering his head and not saying a word, the monk was a little strange, Ren Tianbai was stunned, but his stomach screamed very unhappily, and he was suddenly a little embarrassed!
The Zen Master of Fire Burning laughed and said: "It's my fault, you shouldn't have eaten when you come up the mountain, and you have been sitting in this courtyard for so long, and I am not considerate of hospitality!" Turning his face to the monk who was not there, he said: "You go get some food, and eat it, and I'll take a look at Miss Chai's internal injuries!"
Not in the monk to see the cooking, Deng Shi looked displeased, his mouth seemed to mumble, very reluctant to turn around, the fire Zen master just cleaned up the somewhat messy yard, Chai Ying was fast, and hurriedly picked up the table in the courtyard that was kicked to pieces!
"The meal is coming!" After a while, the monk called out, took some food with a bitter face, and placed it in the room where the Zen master lived, so that Chai Yingruo and Ren Tianbai were a little strange, until they entered the room and saw those meals, just a few hot steamed buns, and some vegetarian fried vegetables and the like, and they all understood in their hearts, these meals must be the vegetarian food that the Zen master often eats, no wonder the monk is not very disliked, he is used to wine and meat, how can he eat so light?
Ren Tianbai was already hungry, there were so many there, just fill his stomach first, and then say, the Zen master of the fire was kind, like an elder in the family, seeing Ren Tianbai gobbling up, with a smile on his face, even the steamed buns in his hand were let over, only he didn't sit alone in the monk's corner, heated a pot of wine, poured himself a drink, looked like that, there was no meat in this dish, he didn't even want to taste it!
The girl reached out and ...... "After a short time of eating, it was getting late outside, the Zen master of the fire sat quietly for a while, and when the monk was not there, he cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and then said softly: "I'll take a look at your injury again!"
Chai Yingruo's heart trembled, and he stretched out his hand in some doubts, for fear that once the Zen master encountered his internal strength, he would recall the unbearable past, and even Ren Tianbai was a little uneasy!
"Don't worry!" How did the Burning Zen Master not know what the two juniors were thinking, he smiled indifferently and shook his head: "I am also a temporary demon obstacle today, and I almost ruined my cultivation for decades! Now that I have been awakened by my unsuccessful master and nephew, this layer of demon barrier has already been crossed! What Li Tang Wuzhou is just a passing cloud, how can I care about the past!"
Chai Yingruo's heart was at ease when he listened, and he secretly said that he was surprised, the old monk in front of him, it seems that he has really understood the things of the world, if he is someone else, he encounters such a catastrophe, if he is not disheartened, his heart is like dead wood, or the devil's heart is rising, and he is crazy, but this old monk is full of tranquility at this moment, and he has no quarrel with the world.
"Hurt you, the palm power is indeed good!" The Zen Master of Fire Burning grabbed Chai Yingruo's wrist vein, stared at it for a long time, and said with a slight groan in his mouth: "There are not many people in the world who can have such palm power!"
"Zen ...... Zen master ......" Ren Tianbai's face showed a little surprise, and he wondered on the side: "Miss Chai was not injured by someone with the force of her palm, but by someone with a sword!"
"Brother Ren must have seen Miss Chai injured with a sword!" The Zen Master did not refute, looked at Ren Tianbai and smiled: "But you only know one, I don't know the other, although this person is injured by the internal strength of the sword, but this internal strength is out of his own ability, he makes the swordsmanship, although the moves are good, but there is no internal strength, far inferior to the first bitter bamboo Zen master of Shaolin Dharma Hall, the swordsmanship and internal strength are combined, the sword is the strength, the strength is the sword!" , to some like Wudang Lianhua Taoist people, the internal force of swordsmanship, complement each other, each do its best! This is also a little difference between the unity of all sects of Buddhism and the complementarity of yin and yang of Taoism!"
"But the younger generation heard that the way of Taoism is not also the whole of all things? Isn't it a little the same as the unity of all sects of Buddhism?" Chai Yingruo was a little puzzled and said, "Why is there a difference?"
Ren Tianbai originally felt that what the Zen Master of the Fire Burning said was quite reasonable, but when Chai Yingruo asked, his heart suddenly became confused again, and he looked at the Burning Zen Master with a blank face!
"Why is there no difference?" The monk didn't know when he came in, and he replied: "Buddhism martial arts, just like Buddhism, whether it is Zen Buddhism, the Pure Land Sect, or the Precept Sect, it is the way to seek Buddha! But this Taoist way, the evolution of all things, everywhere, invisible and traceless, can be thought of but not sought, can only be all things according to the Tao and move, is to follow the meaning of the avenue, and this yin and yang, is the most obvious way of the Tao circulation, so the bitter bamboo Zen master swordsmanship is extremely simple, and strive to be clumsy, but the Wudang Flower Dao people do the opposite, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, is according to the avenue of evolution of the principle of all things!"