Then everything is still going according to plan. I saw Zhong Kunlun wave his hand, and four people below hurriedly brought up a large golden basin. Mingzi looked over and saw that the large basin contained half a basin of water. They hadn't participated in the "golden basin handwashing" ceremony before, so they didn't know that the water for "washing their hands" was not ordinary water. The two of them are not familiar with each other, so naturally no one will introduce them.

The men placed the golden basin in front of Zhong Kunlun - here there was a temporary wooden pier on the table so that everyone could see the golden basin, and Zhong Kunlun was tall and did not feel awkward - the group looked at Zhong Kunlun quietly. His subordinates hurriedly helped roll up Zhong Kunlun's sleeves.

Zhong Kunlun stood in front of the golden basin and lowered his head, and the person in the basin was looking at him. I remember one day many years ago, I stood on the shore of the Black Dragon Pond for the first time, and I looked down like this, the figure in the water of the pool was still black hair, full and firm skin. Now, the man in the basin has frost-white hair, and the muscles on his face are loose. Forty years have passed, and time has passed so quickly and irretrievably. I really want to ask the reflection in the water, what is still unfinished for me. I always feel like there are a lot, but I can't think of one for a while, after all, even if I really think about it, I don't seem to have the time and energy to complete it.

He wondered if he really couldn't remember a specific regret, would it mean that he didn't regret it. My loneliness probably stems from the loss I feel when I think I can control everything, but I find that I can't control time. The world is unfair, but time is the fairest, and I probably made good use of what he gave me. That's why now there is prestige, status and money, and there are so many characters in the rivers and lakes to cheer for themselves. By the way, there is also the monk, who is related to his own dreams. I don't know how many times I have repeated a strange dream these days, and every time the scene is real, I wake up in the middle of the night. This has never happened before, probably a sign that God asked the twilight self to say goodbye to the rivers and lakes quickly.

Falling asleep always unknowingly. All of a sudden, I was taken to a strange scene. It seems to have passed through the fog, but the trees and grass are real and clear. The story of the dream is always cut off from the head and the tail, without explaining the antecedents, let alone the result. Standing on the edge of the cliff like this, I don't know whether I was forced or forced, I only know that my body is now overturned and I am about to fall from the edge of the cliff. I seem to have suddenly become an ordinary person who doesn't know martial arts, but even if I have a lot of strength, I can't seem to use it. Looking at the thousands of cliffs below, the clouds and smoke are around, probably this time it will be nine deaths and no life. Helpless, he opened his hands, hoping to grasp some rope that could help him get out of danger, but he was empty-handed. It's not that there is no one around, on the contrary, I can see the figures around me, but I can't see their faces clearly, I just feel that those people are looking at me coldly, anxiously waiting for the moment when I fall off the cliff. At this time, a person approached him, looking like a monk, but he couldn't see his face clearly, but he saw the man stretching out his arm to him. Zhong Kunlun felt that his hope was only this outstretched hand, and he struggled to meet the other party and stretched out his hands. These dreams have no ending, because Zhong Kunlun suddenly woke up, and the dream came to an abrupt end, whether to catch or lose, this layer of suspense puzzled him. Zhong Kunlun put his hand into the basin, the liquid in it was warm and smooth, and everything in the past flashed back in front of him. He thought, once he washed his hands, it was all over.

The cheers of the crowd interrupted Zhong Kunlun's thoughts, and it turned out that when he was full of thoughts, he had involuntarily completed the ritual of washing his hands. At this time, someone had already handed a dry and soft towel. Zhong Kunlun smiled, wiped his hands, looked at everyone, and waved his hand. And his wooden movements ushered in bursts of cheers. Xiao Junnan waved his hand, and the people below began to rush in, serving wine and food, and the hall became more lively.

The characters sitting at the main table got up one after another to toast Zhong Kunlun, and Mingzi also wanted to get up to congratulate, but there was wine in front of him, and he couldn't break the precepts, so he sat quietly with Hu Niu. Mingzi sat in an important position on Zhong Kunlun's left hand, and his "incomprehensible style" immediately attracted the eyes of these Jianghu people. Sometimes, people often don't wait for each other to really get to know each other, but at the beginning they will be classified as "like" or "different" with themselves. Mingzi must be the most alternative person in this hall, you must know that there have never been Buddhist disciples in Heilongzhai going back and forth, so a huge cottage has not even prepared the most basic "vegetarian wine".

After the people at the main table toasted the first wave of wine, Tian Zhige, the lord of Dazhai over there, brought the people from his own table to toast. After saluting Zhong Kunlun, these people started with the other people at the main table, three or five, and drank together. And Shi Zhiyong, the owner of the second village, Wu Weiqi, the owner of the third village, and Xiao Junnan, the owner of the fourth village, also brought the people at the table to toast, and the main table fell into a "scuffle". Zhong Kunlun has long been accustomed to entering the lively state so quickly. In his previous opinion, the heroes who occupied the mountain should eat meat and drink wine. So this is the wine style of Black Dragon Village, and the friends who came today are also keen on it. The main table set a precedent, and the people below were even more careless and drank wildly. He was only busy with the servants' carrying the wine jars, and he was not idle.

Hu Niu quietly asked Mingzi: "What should we do?" Mingzi said: "I must give a glass of wine to the master of Zhongzhai." You toast, I toast tea. Tiger Niu nodded. The two stood up, one serving a tea bowl and the other a wine glass. Zhong Kunlun was making a bowl of wine with a few friends, and when he turned around, he saw Mingzi and Hu Niu about to toast, and he was very happy - the next person was busy filling his sea bowl with wine - Zhong Kunlun said: "I came to toast the Shaolin monk and this girl with a bowl of wine. Mingzi hurriedly said: "The little monk replaced the wine with tea, and congratulated the master of Zhongzhai on washing his hands in the golden basin." The tiger girl was even more refreshing, and she tilted her neck and dried her glass of wine. Zhong Kunlun smiled "haha", and together with Mingzi, he also drank the wine and tea in front of them.

That's when someone interjected. The man snorted coldly twice and said, "This Shaolin monk is really extraordinary, and he is accompanied by a girl when he travels." ”

Mingzi is at a loss and has no words.

As soon as the man spoke, everyone's attention returned from drinking to the two people who suddenly joined today. At this time, someone spoke again and asked, "Monk, what do you call it?" Hu Niu has lived at the foot of Shaomu Mountain for a long time, and the people there treat even ordinary disciples in the temple, even if they don't call them "high monks", they also call them "master" and "master", how can they call "monk" in such a contemptuous tone. She was about to have a seizure when Akiko pulled her hand underneath. The tiger girl held back. Mingzi replied in a gentle and powerful tone: "The little monk's name is 'Shi Ming'. ”

The man then asked, "Monk, your Dharma name is 'Shi Ming', and there is a word 'Shi', so I would like to ask, why is Buddhism also called 'Shi' family?" He came up with a question to test whether this monk was a real monk or a fake monk.

This question is not difficult. Mingzi replied: "Because the surname of the Buddha Shakyamuni is Shakyamuni, so the Buddha is also called Shakya. ”

There were a lot of people at this table who were ready to make things difficult for Mingzi and the others, and someone immediately answered: "Monk Shiming, who is your teacher?"

Mingzi said: "The little monk is a disciple of Master Xuanjing of Shaolin. ”

At this time, many people said "ah", after all, Master Xuanjing, the abbot of Shaolin, has a noble status, and his name is known to everyone in the rivers and lakes.

This man was ready for a difficult question, how could he be frightened by Mingzi's report of the name of the abbot of Shaolin, he confidently continued to ask: "Since the word 'interpretation' refers to the Buddha, how can the character 'interpretation' be under the generation of the word 'Xuan'?"

Mingzi saw that he was disrespectful, and he didn't want to pay attention to him, but Buddhism pays attention to the equality of all beings, and talks about "casual fate" and "enlightenment". That man may have been ignorant, so he spoke rudely, but he could not see as well as him. All beings are equal, and they should not look down on each other. To be able to sit together today is "fate", and if you can enlighten him, this is another merit. Besides, this person is a guest invited by Zhong Kunlun, although he doesn't recognize it, he thinks he should be a famous person in the rivers and lakes. Although he is not afraid of him, he represents the dignity of Shaolin when he is outside. If this person feels that he has neglected him, if he slanders Shaolin on the rivers and lakes, he will discredit Shaolin. Although the pure person is self-purifying, he can't be slack off on the reputation of the temple.

So, Akiko said, "This starts with 'being' and 'nothing'. When we say 'nothing' and 'being', these two are one and the same, and if we want to trace the same body of 'existence and non-existence', whether it is the same and the different or the same in the difference, I am afraid we will never be able to finish. What's more, the 'being' and 'nothing' are just a term and cannot represent the ontology. Just as 'fire' refers to 'fire', if Cangjie had named 'fire' as 'water' when he coined the word, then today we might be chopping wood to make 'water' and drinking 'fire'. ”

Mingzi paused, looked at everyone, and saw that everyone including the person was listening carefully, so he continued: "But we still have to give a definition of the ontology represented by the commonly used term 'existence', and this definition is 'Xuan'. 'Xuan' means endless, and there is a mystery in the Xuan, that is, there is emptiness in the void, and there is also a wonderful existence within the wonderful being. The Buddha Shakya realized the 'Xuan', not the Buddha Shakya who invented the 'Xuan', this 'Xuan' existed first and then comprehended after the 'Interpretation', so the 'Xuan' is on the 'Interpretation'. ”

Zhong Kunlun looked at the man, and saw that the man had no room to fight back, so he nodded and said two words "wonderful".

At this time, someone asked Mingzi again: "Master, why does this Buddha say 'there is me' at one time, and then say 'without self', everything in this universe comes into being out of nothing, so how can there be out of nothing?" This is the question caused by the "being" and "nothing" mentioned by Mingzi just now, but the questioner has changed his mouth to call Mingzi "master", which shows that Mingzi's words just now have made some people present admire.

Mingzi replied: "There is a cloud in Buddhism, 'there is an effect in the cause, and the effect is the cause', it is the mutual change of cause and effect, and all things are formed." The donor asked how 'nothing' gave birth to 'being', but in fact, 'nothing' is originally 'being', and all things in the universe are born from nothing, and they are also born from being. 'Out of nothing' is actually 'out of nothing' or 'out of nothing'. Since there is, then of course it can come into being, and since it is nothing, then of course it can exist without it. He looked at Zhong Kunlun, who was twisting his beard as if thoughtful, and Mingzi continued: "The Taoist book says that 'separation from existence and non-existence is the Tao', which is equivalent to the Buddhist scriptures that 'existence is emptiness, and emptiness is existence'. ”

Zhong Kunlun raised his head when he heard this, looked at Mingzi, and said in his heart that this monk had even read Taoist classics, and he could find similarities and differences from them, which showed that he had a deep understanding, and he was indeed a disciple of the abbot of Shaolin. He clapped his hands and said, "What the master said is subtle and subtle, and the Shaolin monks are really profound in Buddhism." Then he beckoned to them and said, "Everyone, don't talk about it, come on, let's make this bowl of wine again." ”

Everyone saw that a few people who had studied Buddhism had not said anything about Mingzi, so they didn't dare to talk to him anymore, and they all raised their wine glasses. It's just that one person, in a small voice, said: "No matter how subtle what you say and how profound the Dharma is, you are just a flower monk looking for a woman." ”