Bathing, this thing is not a common thing in the eyes of ordinary people.

For Zen Buddhism, there is a lot of emphasis.

Monk Nianci led the three of them to the bathhouse and whispered about the rules of Zen bathing.

Jiang Xiaoman likes to read miscellaneous books, and he still knows a little about the rules of Zen Buddhism.

Today, at the age of thirty, he was given the title of a Zen monk, and Nian Ci, who was dressed in a yellow robe, heard that what was written in the certificate was not all out of thin air.

Zen bathing is not only one of the seven laws of monks.

At the same time, it is also an increase in the Dharma for many devout pilgrims to be sustained.

On weekdays, the first thing pilgrims who go up the mountain to enter the temple is to go to the bathhouse of the Zen temple to wash off the red dust and lead on their bodies, and then go to the Daxiong Hall to burn incense and pray for the Buddha to chant sutras.

Although Monk Nianci said that he was not good at words, his voice was intermittent, but Jiang Xiaoman listened to it with relish.

"According to legend, when the Buddha was born, a dragon flew down from the heavens and bathed the Buddha with fragrant soup and nectar. ”

As he spoke, Monk Nianci pushed open the door of the bathhouse, slowly walked into it, came to the pool, and gently pointed at the bluestone in the pool.

I saw that the clear pond, which was originally dry, suddenly gushed out from the bottom of the bluestone with hot mountain spring water.

After a while, the entire ten-zhang long clear pond was filled.

Jiang Xiaoman smacked his lips, thinking that there must be a spring hidden under the bluestone.

Monk Nianci just touched the spring with one finger, causing the hot spring water to gush out.

Ji Xiaoyue pouted and stood outside the bathhouse, not following up, and the little hall was waiting for Monk Nianci to settle Jiang Xiaoman's stinky guy later, and then go to help her open the door of the Innocent Pool.

The Pure Pond is located directly opposite the bathhouse, and is a place for women to go up and bathe in the mountains on weekdays.

Speaking of which, during this time, Ji Xiaoyue turned into a little girl in Tsing Yi and secretly learned the craft in the drunken incense building.

Although the accommodation in Zuixianglou is good, even the little ones live in a separate bedroom, but the bath used for washing on weekdays is shared.

Therefore, after Ji Xiaoyue came to Jincheng, she hadn't taken a bath for almost half a month, and her body was about to sour and smelly.

This is undoubtedly a kind of torment for the little girl who loves cleanliness on weekdays.

Today, when I learned that I could bathe in Wutong Temple, I was extremely happy.

There is no need to worry about someone peeping in the temple, not to mention that the monks in the temple are pious disciples who make great wishes in front of the Buddha and abide by the precepts and practice penance day and night, in order to be able to attain the Buddhahood one day.

Just outside the Innocent Pool, which can only be unlocked from the inside after opening, the magic circle born from the Buddha's Gate Vajra Demon Suppression Great Array is enough to keep all troubles out.

If there is really a young person, he will trespass with evil intentions.

Although the Buddhist Dharma Circle is about compassion, it can still make those with bad intentions confused in the array, and finally take off a layer of skin.

Nian Ci squatted down to test the temperature of the water, nodded slightly, then clasped his hands together, and whispered to Jiang Xiaoman and Wei Ran: "Master Jiang, General Wei, please go into the pool to bathe first, and the little monk will retire." ”

Jiang Xiaoman returned the salute, but he didn't step into the clear pool, and couldn't help but be a little curious: "Master Nianci, you haven't finished talking just now, what happened to the Buddha?"

Later, when the Buddha became a monk, he first studied ascetic practice for six years, and suddenly realized that ascetic practice is not liberation. So, when the Buddha took the dirt of penance into the Zen River and washed away the dirt of the years on his body with the clear water of the river, a coolness invaded his heart. ”

Nian Ci looked at the young man in front of him, chanted a Buddha name, and slowly continued: "At this time, the Buddha had an epiphany that the most fundamental reason why people have troubles in the world is that the heart is not pure, and blind ascetic cultivation is not able to enter the Zen door, after taking a bath, he came alone to a Bodhi tree, sat cross-legged, meditated, after forty-nine days, when the morning star rose, he saw the star at night, suddenly enlightened, enlightened, and became a Buddha. ”

This is the story of the Buddha's bathing and enlightenment. Nian Ci looked at the two of them, smiled, and then turned and walked out of the bath.

Jiang Xiaoman nodded, glanced at Nian Ci's back, and secretly said in his heart, "It turns out that there is such a reason for the Zen bathing method." ’

Wei Ran had never spoken before, and only after Nian Ci led Ji Xiaoyue to the innocent pool that was usually only open to female dependents did he speak up, and said to the young man who was standing by the pool, quietly reminiscing about the story of the Buddha: "Little boy, you bathe first, and I will stay outside." ”

When he came back to his senses, Jiang Xiaoman smiled softly, waved his hand and said, "When you go out, there are not so many rules, General Wei and I will wash together." ”

After hesitating for a while, Wei Ran nodded and said, "Okay!"

Looking at the young man in front of him, Wei Ran suddenly remembered the scene many years ago, when he was fighting in the wilderness.

At that time, he was just a pawn, and after a battlefield fight, he was unfortunately shot in the right shoulder by a poisoned arrow and fell into a coma.

The poison quenched by the arrows of the wolf court in the barren grassland is famous in the five domains.

Once you are hit by an arrow, if you don't suck the poison out in time, you will definitely die in less than an hour.

When I woke up from my daze, I happened to see my own general.

The eighth-generation soldier who commanded the million-dollar border army, Lord Jiang Ye, actually leaned down and sucked out the poison on his shoulder with his mouth for himself, and pulled him back from the ghost gate.

At that moment, Wei Ran, who had always shed blood without tears, and was called a madman by his comrades-in-arms, burst into tears and couldn't cry.

From then on, whenever he was fighting, he would lead his troops and fight to the death.

The soldier died for his confidant, so even later, because of the decisive battle with the reckless wilderness, he didn't even see his beloved wife for the last time, and he never blamed the general at all.

"General......" Looking at Jiang Xiaoman's back slowly walking into the pool, Wei Ran muttered in a low voice.

Compared with the military waiting, an old soldier like Wei Ran is more willing to call the Jiang family man who is less than forty white-headed as a general.

In the Innocent Pool, Ji Xiaoyue waited for the Nian Ci who had lowered his head and didn't look at him all the way to walk away, and then carefully pressed the bluestone next to the door.

Immediately, bursts of golden Buddha light rose from the ground, accompanied by bursts of Zen sounds, wrapping the entire Pure Pool inside and out.

If you look at it from the outside, the Innocent Pool at this time is located in a hundred feet in a radius, and it is all in a golden mist.

As far as the eye can see, it is blurred, as if it were nothing.

Seeing that everything was completely safe, the little church man happily hummed a little twist in his mouth and untied the belt on his head.

Some of the long yellow but shaggy hair was scattered, Ji Xiaoyue shook her head, and took out a turquoise bracelet from her arms.

The palm of the hand was gently wiped from the bracelet, and a delicate jade bottle appeared out of thin air in the hand.

Ji Xiaoyue opened the cork, poured out a blue pill, put it in her mouth, and then tilted her neck slightly and the pill went into her stomach.

Immediately, the heat rising from the pool.

A graceful figure, like a fluttering butterfly into the water,

In addition to the splashing of water, there was also a string of delicate laughter as beautiful as silver bells.

Lying on her back in the water, the little girl gently lifted Bai Zhe's jade-like smooth calves and frowned slightly.

The two legs slapped back and forth in the water, Ji Xiaoyue pouted, and muttered in a low voice: "Where is it short......?

I made up my mind that if anyone dared to call her a little short-legged or short man in the future, then she would definitely play with others!

Realizing that he frowned again, he quickly stretched out a slender finger to soften his eyebrows.

It's all because of the ginger worm, who infected himself.

Old frown, but it will be ugly!

While gently frowning, the little girl gritted her silver teeth, and said in her mouth: "Dead worms, rotten worms, bed bugs......"

At this moment, the young man who was originally soaking in the pool was comforting, but his nose was inexplicably itchy, and he sneezed several times in succession.

Wei Ran sat on the other side of the pool, looked at the young man with some surprise, and asked softly, "What's wrong, little boy?"

"It's okay, maybe it's raining and catching a cold. Jiang Xiaoman rubbed his nose, then sank his head into the water, and said with a smile: "Soak in hot water, it should be fine." ”

......

On the other side, Xiao Ying, under the guidance of the monk named Nian Bei, came to the back mountain of Tallinn.

Nian Bei walked forward, walked into the middle of Tallinn, stopped in front of an ivory-white pagoda of the dead, turned around and clasped his hands and whispered to Xiao Ying: "Master Xiao, please hand over the bones of your relatives to the little monk." ”

Nodding, Xiao Ying did not refuse, her steps lifted lightly, and she handed the porcelain bottle containing Mo Yu's bones to Nian Bei's hands.

Took the porcelain vase, chanted a Buddha name, and then held the porcelain vase in both hands and climbed the tower.

Finally, he stopped on the fifth floor.

He placed the porcelain vase into a gap, his face was compassionate, his head was bowed and his palms were closed, his eyes were slightly closed, and he chanted the scriptures in his mouth.

Zhongyu already believed in Buddhism and worshiped Buddha, and Xiao Ying knew that only monks who had received full ordination were eligible to climb the Pagoda of Rebirth.

Therefore, she did not follow the monk Nianbei to climb the tower in spite of the rules of Buddhism, but stood alone under the tower.

"Contemplating the Bodhisattva of Freedom, when he walks deep in Prajnaparamita, he sees that the five aggregates are empty, and he endures all ......sufferings," Xiao Ying glanced up at the porcelain vase that had been put into the tower, and then also folded her hands and chanted the scriptures.

Accompanied by the chanting, a trace of vermilion like fire appeared in front of Xiao Ying's forehead, disappearing from time to time, and finally disappeared.

In Tallinn, there are hundreds of pagodas where there are many relics of deceased monks.

The thousands of Buddhist relics were originally dim, but at this moment they gradually lit up, and dazzling Buddha light emerged, and finally emerged from the pagoda and reflected behind Xiao Ying, slowly condensing into a huge 'swastika' character.

Nian Sadness seemed to have a feeling, stopped chanting, turned his expression stunned, and hurriedly folded his hands and chanted softly, 'Nan Wu Amitabha Buddha', slowly knelt down at the ten thousand Buddha lights, and performed the supreme etiquette of Zen Buddhism, three bows and nine bows.

And Xiao Ying, as if she didn't know it, her eyes were slightly closed, her hands were folded, and the chanting in her mouth became louder and louder.

"According to Prajnaparamita, the mind is free of obstacles, there are no obstacles, there is no terror, and it is far away from upside-down dreams, and it is nirvana. ”

It wasn't until she finished reading the last word of the scripture that inexplicably appeared in her mind that Xiao Ying slowly opened her eyes, suddenly like a dream, and whispered: "Fang Cai, what's wrong with me?"

stood up, chanted the Buddha's name, lowered his head to look at the figure of this girl surnamed Xiao, and whispered to himself: "As Master said, Master Xiao is really a person with a great Buddha fate!"

Buddha bless!

The scripture that has not been born for 500 years has finally appeared in the world again!

This girl surnamed Xiao turned around as Zen, and turned around as Zen.

In the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the old Zen master Zhanhai, who was sitting alone in front of the Buddha statue and tapping on the wooden fish, seemed to feel something.

"Master, your words before sitting have been fulfilled!"

The abbot of Wutong Temple, who has practiced in front of the Buddha for 270 years, bowed down to the statue of the Buddha with trembling lips slightly.

The moment I opened my eyes, tears welled up in my eyes,

Gently brushing away the tears on his face, Zhan Hai stood up from the futon, walked out of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and shouted: "Huineng, Huijing!"

As soon as the words fell, two figures surrounded by Buddha's light leaped out of the void and said in unison, "The disciple is here." ”

"Ring the bell!"

"Obey the decree of the ancestors!"

The two novices, who didn't look very old, looked at each other, their faces ecstatic, and once again leapt into the void and disappeared.

But in an instant, it appeared in front of the Buddha cave in the mountain behind the Wutong Temple.

The two of them let out a low sigh, and together they lifted the purple gold bell pestle weighing 18,000 catties leaning in front of the grotto, and walked quickly into the Buddha grotto.

In the Buddha cave, there are no Buddha statues for daily offerings, only a huge red copper bell that has not been rung for 500 years.

"Dang!"

A melodious and far-reaching bell wafted out from the Buddha cave, and then resounded throughout the Qingluan Mountain.

In the temple, many monks were either reading Buddhist scriptures, singing Buddhist verses, or cleaning up.

But at this moment, I forgot what I was doing and was stunned.

When they came back to their senses, they knelt down in the direction of the Buddha cave in the back mountain, and bowed respectfully.

At the foot of Qingluan Mountain, there is a group of people planning to climb the mountain at this moment.

Hearing the bell ringing, the brocade-robed boy who was surrounded by everyone raised his head and said softly, "It was really expected by the gentleman next to the son, on the seventh day of the ninth month, the ancient bell in Wutong Temple rang......

Immediately, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and ordered to his subordinates: "Speed up the pace, I will climb to the mountain gate in half an hour!"