A sunny late spring day

Many monks of Jinshan Temple sat around the shade of a large pine tree, preaching Buddhist scriptures, participating in Zen machines, and talking about the mysteries of Zen. There is a wine and meat monk who is usually lazy and lazy to make nonsense there, but Jiang Liu'er, who can't rub sand in his eyes, refuted in public, and a fallacy is refuted by Jiang Liu'er's scriptures.

"Jiang Liu'er, you are a business animal, you still don't have your name, and your parents don't know who it is! I don't know where the wild seed came from, and you dare to spread wild here!"

Hearing that this wine and meat monk was unreasonable, and even brought out his unknown life experience in public to talk about things, Jiang Liu'er suddenly stood on the spot as if he had been struck by lightning, just like Xiucai met a soldier, and let the wine and meat monk sneer proudly on the side.

"I don't allow you to talk about my brother Jiang Liu'er like that!" Li Rong'er, who was full of anger, suddenly broke into an unknown place, only to see her pretty face with a sad face, a pair of red eyes, one hand pinching her waist, and the other hand pointing at the wine and meat monk, posing a posture of coming to fight at any time and this girl will accompany her to the end.

Seeing that Jiang Liu'er came to a spicy little helper, the wine and meat monk muttered a few words in his mouth, and walked away by himself.

By the river, Jiang Liu'er sat on a big stone with his cheeks up, and pondered hard while looking at the river flowing.

Who am I?

Where am I from?

Where am I going?

From sunrise to sunset on the river, Jiang Liu'er sat alone for a whole day, until the evening, when the cloth bag monk led Li Rong'er all the way to find Jiang Liu'er.

Back at Jinshan Temple, Jiang Liuer accompanied Monk Budai to Elder Faming's meditation room.

"Master, the disciple is back. Jiang Liu'er said together.

"Well, it's good to be back. Elder Faming, who was meditating, opened his eyes.

"There are many things that the disciple does not understand, please ask the master to explain. Jiang Liu'er asked.

"Jiang Liu'er, you can say it. Elder Fa Ming asked kindly.

"Master, why can't people know themselves?" Jiang Liu'er asked.

Elder Fa Ming stroked his white beard in his hand, thought for a moment and then replied, "Let me give you an analogy for the teacher." Man is like a room, and this room has six windows, and there are macaques in the room, jumping and jumping, and outside the room, there are orangutans responding, like six windows, calling together, answering together. In this case, it is really difficult for the six macaques and the six orangutans to recognize which one is themselves. ”

"How can we recognize which of our true self is the six senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind) that chase after the six dusts (color, sound, fragrance, taste, touch, and dharma) in the external environment, and are entangled with each other?"

The Budai monk also said beside him: "Jiang Liu'er, this world is true and false, false and true, true and false, false and true. In life, there is nothing more difficult than to recognize yourself. ”

"Master, where did I come from?" Jiang Liu'er asked again.

"You've come from where you're supposed to be. ”

"Master, where am I going?" Jiang Liu'er asked again.

"You're going where you need to be. ”

"Master, uncle, when the world grows old in the smoke and dust of fame and fame, and is full of gray hair, what does man want? When the fire of life is about to be extinguished, and when the heartbeat and breathing are about to stop, what is the last expectation of man? When the body in the grave decays into corpses, dust to dust, and earth to earth, when life becomes a void of no sense, where is man?"

"Jiang Liu'er, you asked well, you have really grown up. Listening to Jiang Liu'er's question, Elder Fa Ming couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Jiang Liu'er, the Buddha said that there is something from nothing, and found the meaning of life in a meaningless empty life, so everything in the world should be bound by afflictions, and all you see are empty flowers. If you want to seek the immortal soul in the future in the meaning of life in this world, it is like fishing for the moon in the water, and only when you really have your own heart can you be free from confusion. ”

"Master, how can the heart know?"

"No matter whether it is good or evil, success or failure, don't think about it, don't care. ”

"Master, if you don't want to, where is your heart?" Jiang Liu'er was very puzzled.

"Everything is compassionate and joyful with the heart, everyone is compassionate with the heart, everything only goes to the place of forgiveness, upward, light, and penetration, and does not go to the place of care, downward, darkness, obsession, then your heart will merge with life. ”

"Master, where is the heart after a person dies?"

"You don't know life, how do you know death?"

"Master, the disciple has another big matter, and I have come to kneel down and beg the master to tell me. As she spoke, Jiang Liu'er lifted the hem of the monk's robe, "poof", and fell to her knees on the ground.

Jiang Liu'er's eyes were full of tears, and crystal tears dripped down her handsome face into the dust, at this time Jiang Liu'er knelt down and said: "Born between heaven and earth, Yin and Yang and the five elements, all born and raised by parents, where is there a person who is alive and has no parents? Jiang Liu'er has been fatherless and motherless since she was a child, and she is lonely and helpless, and she is grateful to the master for raising me since she was a child, and I ask the master to have great mercy and inform the disciple of his life experience and the names of my parents. ”

After that, Jiang Liu'er repeatedly mourned, and kowtowed three more times, and his emotional person was pitiful!

"That's it, that's it, hurry up! Jiang Liu'er, you are an adult now, and it seems that today is also the time to tell the teacher about your life experience. Elder Fa Ming let out a long sigh.

Elder Fa Ming got up and came to the abbot's room, moved a ladder, and carefully took out a small box on the heavy beam of the room, and when he opened it, he saw that there was a blood book, a jade pendant, and a sweatshirt, and Elder Fa Ming took out several things and handed them to Jiang Liu'er together.

Jiang Liu'er opened the blood book and read it carefully, only then did she know the names of her parents and the deeds of revenge detailed in the blood book. Jiang Liu'er read the bloody book with blood and tears, and unconsciously fell to the ground crying.

"It turns out that my father Chen Guangrui has been murdered by thieves Liu Hong and Li Biao, and my poor mother Yin Wenjiao is now struggling to live in the Jiangzhou Mansion. ”

"If my son can't take revenge for my parents' deep hatred, how can I Jiang Liu'er be a human being? What face do I have to see the world? For 18 years, I Jiang Liu'er didn't know who my biological parents were, and I didn't know until today that my mother Yin Wenjiao was still alive. If it weren't for Master's risking to rescue me in the river and raising me with great pains, how would I have been able to grow up? How can I survive to this day?"

"Master, please go to my mother immediately, after finding my mother. The disciple will definitely carry an incense pot on his head, rebuild the temple, and repay the great kindness of the master!"

"Wait, Jiang Liu'er, you have to go to find your mother, and you have no objection to being a teacher, but you have to bring this blood book, jade pendant, and sweatshirt to witness it. And you have to only be a fate, and go all the way to the inner house of Jiangzhou Mansion to be able to meet your mother. Elder Fa Ming said earnestly.

"I'm afraid it's not a smooth road for you to go, it seems that there is danger ahead, and only after doing what your master said, we can rest assured that you will go away." The cloth bag monk also persuaded beside him.