174 times, the four thoughts of the sincere heart, the way back to recall the bridge

Mei Zhenyi's words undoubtedly poured a scoop of cold water on the excited watchman, but the watchman did not look disappointed, but said with a smile: "There is Buddhism in the world, and the enlightenment can cross the other side of the sea of suffering, but the abyss is a place of trial, and crossing the abyss is like crossing the sea of suffering." If you hear the Dharma enlightenment and enlightenment, you can come here to experience the sea of suffering in order to verify the fruition. People do not watch the crossing, but the Dharma crosses. ”

Mei Zhenyi: "Those who can't get over can't get over after all, how many people are buried in the quagmire?"

Watch: "I was in reincarnation, I entered the abyss, and I entered reincarnation." ”

Mei Zhenyi shook his head: "Master Watchman, do you know why there are fewer and fewer people coming here? For example, I, not to test the sea of suffering, but just to collect medicine." If you can't cultivate, the master won't let the disciple come, and if you have already cultivated, you don't have to come here on purpose. ”

Shouwang's expression was like that of a child, both serious and innocent, and he nodded: "I understand the truth you said, now it is no better than when the monks traveled in all directions and looked up to the world and realized the Great Dao in the world, and there are various cultivation inheritances in the world, so there is no need to use this tangible evidence to prove it." ...... My original ambition has now become an obsession, but you are finally here, my ambition is full of obsession and has disappeared, thank you!"

Mei Zhenyi got up and said: "What does the master have to thank me? In any case, I should thank you! It is you who have opened up the abyss, which is indeed the abyss of my past calamities and the abyss of the past dust and refinement." ”

Shouwang blinked his eyes and said, "You said you came to collect medicine, what kind of medicine is there on Longkong Mountain?"

Mei Zhenyi: "A thousand Chinese New Year's Eve bright sand." ”

Shouwang touched his head: "What is this? I haven't heard of it in Longkong Mountain for so many years." ”

Mei Zhenyi: "Don't laugh, the so-called luminous sand is the dung of bats, and the Chinese New Year's Eve sand is the crystallization of white bat's dung accumulated in the cave for thousands of years." ”

Shou Wang's eyes widened: "It turned out to be this kind of thing, it's really unimaginable! You not only have to go through the Nai He Yuan, but you also have to go back." Not only to go back, but also to drill into the bat cave. Of the ten thousand people who have come to me, you are the only one!"

Mei Zhenyi: "I'm not here for the sea of suffering, I'm just here to collect medicine, if the elixir is in the sea of suffering, then go into the sea of suffering to collect." It's not surprising that no one went into the cave, but you said that no one turned back, so wouldn't anyone who walked through the Nai He Yuan go back?"

The watchman asked rhetorically, "If it's not for the purpose of collecting medicine." Would you like to do it again?"

Mei Zhenyi: "Of course I don't want to, it's a matter of experience to come over, and it's unpleasant to turn back and go, but is there any other way here?"

Shouwang pointed to the surroundings and the top of the mountain: "There are roads everywhere, and the Ten Demon Kings have lived in Longkong Mountain for more than three hundred years, and in addition, there is a road on the top of the mountain." As long as you can climb to the peak of the Poisonous Tongue Ridge, standing on the tip of the tongue will attract heavenly punishment and thunder. The Heavenly Punishment can enter the Pure Land of the Spiritual Mountain of the Western Heavenly Buddha Country. ”

Mei Zhenyi shrugged: "Speaking of which, there is still no other way, no matter what, I have to go to collect medicine, and then walk out of Nai He Yuan the same way, my Taoist companion is still waiting for me over there." ...... Thank you for your advice. I took my leave under it. ”

Shouwang stood up and stopped him and said, "Don't hurry to go, you can get by, but Yuan may not be able to enter the bat cave, just break in like this, and there will be 10,000 white bats to coax you out." No matter how strong your mana is, can you fight more than 10,000 strange beasts? You have just robbed the sea of suffering, and you are here to breathe and recuperate, and when you are full of energy at dusk, the white bat has come out of the hole, and you can go in and steal the ...... Hehehe, that thousand Chinese New Year's Eve bright sand. ”

Mei Zhenyi: "The master is right, I'm a little reckless, thank you for reminding!"

The watchman laughed non-stop: "Run over there and dig a pit." The taste is quite uncomfortable, meeting is fate, you sit down first, I will tell you about the Buddhism's 'four thoughts' mental method, maybe it can be useful to you. He didn't even say hello and sent a divine thought to Mei Zhenyi, containing all kinds of mysteries, Mei Zhenyi had to sit and listen to the law.

After the teaching, the watchman smiled and said, "You can rest first." I haven't closed my eyes in 1,638 years. I was thinking about sleeping for ten days and ten nights, and when I woke up, it was time to leave. ”

Mei Zhenyi meditates in front of the Temple of Illusion and pranayama. At dusk, there was an overwhelming buzzing sound in the mountains, and when he opened his eyes, a white bat flew out of the abyss, covering the entire sky in front of him, and the number was only hundreds of thousands. He was secretly speechless, fortunately he didn't break into the bat cave directly, otherwise he would have alarmed so many white bats in the cave, but he was afraid that before he could go in, he would be swept out by tens of thousands of wings.

The watchman monk had already fallen asleep leaning against the door frame, snoring with the golden bottle plum in his arms, and a trace of saliva flowed from the corners of his little blushing mouth. Mei Zhenyi saluted him, stepped back, turned around, and walked into Nai He Yuan again.

The second time I came to Nai He Yuan, Mei Zhenyi suddenly remembered the folklore I had heard before the crossing, it is said that people died to the underworld, there is a Nai He Bridge on Huangquan Road, standing on the bridge can look back on their lives, and after crossing the bridge, they will re-enter the reincarnation. The name of Nai He Yuan is really interesting, if you can walk over, you will achieve the immortal consciousness of the earth immortals, and if you can't go over, this place will really become a Nai He Bridge.

People who can walk over will naturally not be willing to do it again, even if they are not afraid, they will not find guilt for themselves, except for people like Mei Zhenyi who have to turn back. However, there is no need to say more about the feelings in the abyss, he walked to the center of the canyon, found the largest cave and drilled into it, when he first entered the hole, it was more than three zhang high, and the more he went in, the narrower it became, and gradually it was only one zhang square.

From time to time, a white bat flapped its wings and flew by, occasionally being alarmed to attack him, Mei Zhenyi carefully used the method of protection, protected his body with the demon king buckle, and did not fight back so as not to cause a greater interlocking reaction, so he went inside. After walking about a hundred zhang away, my eyes suddenly opened up and I walked into a huge cave in the belly of the mountain.

This cave is so big, there is almost no end in sight in the dark, and there are dense white bats hanging on the top of a hundred zhang high, and there are so many that have flown out just now, and there are still a lot of them in the cave. On the wall of the cave near him, in addition to the entrance where he entered, there were many large and small pores, which seemed to be connected to the outside of the earth.

This should be a completely dark world, but there are dots of faint dark red light on the ground of the cave, through these lights, he can barely see the stalactites hanging from the top of the cave and the stalagmites sticking out of the ground, Mei Zhenyi tries not to use his sense to spy around. So as not to alarm the white bats that inhabit the roof of the cave.

The faint red glow is emitted by the white bats' dung, so many white bats have inhabited here for more than a thousand years, and a large amount of feces have accumulated on the ground of the cave, and I don't know how thick it is. There is not only feces on the ground, but also the bones of white bats, which have died for various reasons over the years, falling from the roof of the cave, leaving countless corpses behind.

The cave is dark and humid, and the breath is disgusting. Although Mei Zhenyi cut off the outside world. He couldn't touch anything with the demon king's buckle, but he felt too disgusting, if it wasn't for the medicine collection, he would definitely not be willing to come.

Quietly sneaked to a relatively open place in the cave, silently pulled out the purple electric sword and began to dig a pit. The white bat's droppings were also mixed with bones from the past, and some of the ground had been completely decomposed. Some turned into a pile of dry white bones that emitted a little phosphorescence, and some turned into dried corpses because they were buried deeply.

Even if she has traveled thousands of miles in the rivers and lakes, Mei Zhenyi has never experienced this kind of scene. At this time, he completely understood why the monk taught Buddhism the "four thoughts" method. The so-called four thoughts refer to the place of body thoughts, the place of receiving thoughts, the place of mind thoughts, and the place of Dharma thoughts, and the specific method is to contemplate the impurity of the body, the contemplation of suffering, the impermanence of the mind, and the contemplation of the Dharma without self, and the key to the mental method lies first in the word "contemplation".

To enter this view. It's hard to imagine out of thin air, and you have to find all kinds of special opportunities, but Mei Zhenyi doesn't need to deliberately look for it, he has already dug a pit among bat droppings and bones. What you see is impure view.

Mei Zhenyi has just walked through Nai He Yuan, and her body and mind have been thoroughly refined, confirming a clear "me" of the spiritual platform and reaching the realm of immortal consciousness. In the blink of an eye, Shouwang passed on a kind of mental method to him, from contemplating the impure body to contemplating the law without self, and wanted him to reach a state of impurity and selflessness, and to be able to dig this pit as usual until he found the Chinese New Year's Eve sand he wanted.

What you do is what you wish - this is the state of mind that Mei Zhenyi's practice pursues. But in the current environment, it is difficult for him to "do what he is willing to do", but he "has to do it", and he will damage his state of mind when he moves.

The cultivation of the watch is unfathomable, and he has expected this situation in a snap of his fingers, and passed on his mental method of resolution, but it is a kind of practice in Buddhism. But when Mei Zhenyi was digging the pit, he thought of another person, who was his enlightenment guru Sun Simiao. Sun Simiao has been in the epidemic place many times in his life. Treat filth and rancid with his own hands, patiently and meticulously without disgust.

But Sun Simiao is not "watching" filth. It's just that he diagnoses and heals his injuries as usual, and his face is as usual and his mood is as usual, which is the practice of the doctor, and it is also the realm of a higher level after the Lingshan Mental Method he passed on - sincerity.

The four thoughts are a kind of mental method, and after entering the "view" realm, they must be "broken", and the watch is not spoken, only to see how Mei Zhenyi himself breaks it. Mei Zhenyi is really broken, and the opportunity to break the view is still to dig a pit.

Layers of bones and feces were dug up, and the pit became deeper and deeper, more and more disgusting and unbearable, but after digging to a depth of seven or eight feet, the bottom gradually became dry and hard, and the white bat feces accumulated in the hot and humid environment for many years, and then isolated from the depths of the ground, gradually becoming a dark red crystal, which is luminous sand.

The further down you dig the night sand layer, the harder it becomes, and the ordinary sword tools may have already worn out, but fortunately, Mei Zhenyi's mana is deep and the purple electric sword is an artifact, and she can continue to dig. The accumulation of luminous sand is also layered, a year is one layer, Mei Zhenyi has been digging to a depth of more than five zhang, a total of 1,100 and 2 layers.

After digging to a depth of three zhang, Mei Zhenyi's state of mind had completely calmed down, because at this time, the big pit had also changed, from dirty and filthy to clear and bright. The luminous sand on the four walls was as clear as a fine ruby, emitting a soft and pleasant light, as if silently telling him that everything he saw would be like this after thousands of years.

Mei Zhenyi is proficient in medicinal properties, and the more he digs down, the better the medicinal properties of the luminous sand he sees, but after reaching the 1,100 and 2nd layer, the medicinal properties no longer change, so there is no need to look down, so he takes the Chinese New Year's Eve bright sand here. After collecting the elixir, he was able to break through the Four Thoughts and Meditation Method, but what he sought to verify was not exactly the immaculate and impure heart of Shouwang and the heart of no other self, but the sincerity of the Lingshan Heart Method transmitted by Sun Simiao.

How long did this pit take to dig? Just like walking through Nai He Yuan, it was also seven days and seven nights, and the elixir was collected and successfully returned.

Zhiyan had been standing at the entrance of Nai He Yuan waiting for Mei Zhenyi to come back, and on this day he finally saw the Taoist monk walking out of the valley mouth where white bats were flying. Mei Zhenyi's expression was a little haggard, and he was already very tired. But his eyes were unprecedentedly clear, and he walked out of Nai Yuanzhou's body spotlessly.

"Zhenyi, has the sand been mined on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve?" Zhiyan asked softly.

Mei Zhenyi nodded: "I picked it." ”

Zhiyan: "You are very tired, there is still the last Shengyuan Pill, take it and rest, don't talk too much, I will protect the Fa for you." As he spoke, he took off the Tibetan God Zhenru and put it on Mei Zhenyi's chest with his own hands.

"Who are you? How dare you come here!" After sitting quietly all night, Mei Zhenyi had just opened his eyes, and he heard someone in front of him shouting and asking, only to see ten strange-shaped men walking out of the mountains, each holding a magic weapon and approaching.

Zhiyan stepped forward and replied: "I am Zhiyan, a monk of Kunlun Wonderland, this is my human Taoist Mei Zhenyi, we are here to collect medicine, may I ask who you are Daoists?"

"Cheng Demon King Jianren", "Sun Demon King Jianzhi", "Peng Demon King Jianye", "Zhang Demon Wang Yongjun", "Yao Demon Wang Shaojie", "Song Demon King Shihong", "Duan Demon Wang Rugang", "Xie Demon Wang Liquan", "Xiao Demon Wang Xiaoming", "Xu Demon Wang Shengzhi" - the ten people opposite replied in turn from beginning to end.

These 10 people are also interesting. When they signed up, they called themselves demon kings, lest others not see their shapes. Mei Zhenyi gasped when she heard this, these ten should be the legendary ten demon kings of Longkong Mountain, and when she opened her divine sense, she saw the demon wind rising in the mountains and wilderness. There are countless divine qi fluctuations, and I don't know how many demon soldiers are lurking.

He hurriedly got up and hugged his fists and said: "It turned out to be the top ten demon kings of Longkong Mountain, and we have been looking up for a long time! We are just passing by to collect medicine, since all the demon kings are parading here." We won't bother, we'll see you later!"

He pulled Zhiyan and just wanted to leave, Zhang Demon King Yongjun stretched out a gray long banner staff to block the way: "Stop, Longkong Mountain, you can come if you want, you can leave if you want?" This Zhang Demon King is a blue wolf spirit, with the highest mana among the ten people, and has already experienced the heavenly punishment and thunder tribulation to become a true immortal, he is the first to reach out and block the way.

Zhiyan's face sank, but he didn't attack immediately. Said slowly: "Even if Longkong Mountain is your underground dojo, we are passing through here, if we are not welcome to retreat the original way, besides, this road into the mountain is not within the scope of your dojo, if you want to go, you can go by yourself, there is no reason to stop us." ”

"It's not that I won't let you go, but the timing of your arrival is unfortunate, and it just so happens that in the past few days, we have gathered the demons of the dragon sky to prepare to attack the Phantom Law Temple. only to find that there were outsiders here. Excuse me. Are you from the Illusion Temple?" said Xu Demon King Shengzhi, shaking a folding fan and squinting his eyes as if smiling. There seems to be a poem inscribed on the fan, and the handwriting is flying and scribbled and illegible.

Mei Zhenyi replied truthfully: "I passed through Nai He Yuan and met the abbot of the Illusion Temple, but I didn't come here to see him, just to take the elixir, and my Taoist companion didn't go over. ”

Zhang Demon Wang Yongjun: "So that's the case, then this girl can leave, you have to stay!"

Zhiyan said angrily: "What is the reason? Why only let one person leave, and my Taoist couple will go together when they come together." ”

Xu Demon King Shengzhi's eyes rolled: "Come and go together?" Your Taoist companion has been to the Illusion Law Temple and seen the watchman, who knows if you are with that monk, will you go outside to ventilate and send reinforcements? We have already blocked the Poisonous Tongue Ridge, and at this moment Longkong Mountain can only enter but not exit!"

Zhiyan was about to get angry, Mei Zhenyi pulled her and signaled her to be silent, and asked with a smile: "Your demon kings have vast magical powers, and they have occupied a large area of Longkong Mountain, why do you still want to capture the Poisonous Tongue Ridge? As far as I know, there is not a single grass on that mountain, only a small temple and this Nahe Yuan in front of the temple gate, and it is not interesting to occupy it." ”

Mei Zhenyi saw that the Ten Demon Kings were blocking the way and wanted to leave Mo Mess quickly, but when she heard that they had gathered a group of demons in the mountains to attack Poison Tongue Ridge, she changed her mind and changed her mind.

There is only one watchman in the Illusion Temple, and he is already planning to leave, so it doesn't matter if the Ten Demon Kings attack the Poisonous Tongue Ridge or not. But the watchman had said that he would sleep for ten days and ten nights before leaving, and now he was asleep, and there were three days left. Generally speaking, this kind of master says that if you sleep for ten days, you will sleep for ten days, which is equivalent to extinction and deep concentration. Mei Zhenyi was afraid that he would be unprepared for a while, and was attacked by the Ten Demon Kings.

Mei Zhenyi didn't understand why Shouwang had to sleep a lot before leaving, but he chose this dangerous time, and he didn't know what grievances there were between the ten demon kings and the Shouwang monk, so he wanted to lead the crowd to capture the Poisonous Tongue Ridge. However, he had been reminded by the watch and the grace of teaching the Dharma, and when he saw this scene, he also wanted to ask the reason, and at the same time he was trying to figure out how to drag on for three days.