There were no stools in the lecture hall, but futons on the floor. There were dozens of people standing in the room, and when they saw me coming in, they all greeted me. I don't know why, when I looked at these dozens of eyes together, I immediately felt an invisible pressure, and I almost didn't take a step back and exited the door—these are indeed all masters in the cultivation world!

At this time, I saw an acquaintance, and I saw Mr. Zhang leading a bald old monk over and introduced to me: "Buddha, this child is Shi Ye, and he is the person you want to see today." ”

"Shi Xiao, donor, hello, the old monk bothered you today, I invited you to Guangjiao Temple from afar, I really have something to ask, I hope you don't mind." The old monk politely raised his hand and saluted me.

"Buddha, you don't have to be so polite to me. You are an elder, I am a junior, if the elder has something to find, the junior, the junior, should naturally come. "I don't know what to call him, Mr. Zhang is called Buddha, and I will be called Buddha. As I spoke, I also raised my eyes to look at the famous Geju Jizan Living Buddha in front of me. I heard that this old man is almost 100 years old this year, and the old monk in front of him looks only in his sixties, with a shaved head and no beard, and I can't see how it is, just a pair of eyebrows, long and thick, and even curled at the ends, but they are black and white.

The masters of the cultivation world, the most powerful masters I have ever seen, are none other than the Guan Zhu He Chen of Qiyun Guan and the abbot Fa Yuan of Jiulin Zen Temple. The Fayuan monk has a tall posture, looks solemn, and even his head is shiny, while the immortal wind bones of the Dust Dao look elegant, and even his eyes are light. But the old living Buddha in front of him is not tall, his skin is slightly dark, his facial features are upright and ordinary, and his eyes are calm and soft. If he wasn't wearing a monk's robe, he would be an ordinary old man in the countryside. This is the Living Buddha? It's a surprise. I originally imagined that it was the kind of golden sparkling sitting on the altar.

Not to mention how I feel that the old living Buddha has led everyone to the lecture hall, he first sat down cross-legged on a futon, and then pointed to the futon opposite and beckoned to me: "Master Shi, please also sit." ”

When he told me to sit, I sat down, and I sat down upright in front of him in the same posture as I usually meditated. As soon as his butt touched the futon, he felt a few cold eyes piercing him, and he faintly heard a few cold snorts in his ears. I didn't know that there were many rules in the cultivation world, especially the seniority. Galeries Lafayette asked me to sit down, so I sat down, and I didn't care that there were so many high-ranking people around me who were still standing.

After I sat down, the Living Buddha waved his hand again and invited the others to sit down. The men sat down, but there were others who stood and didn't sit down. These people who are standing also have regularity, and most of them stand behind a person who is sitting in a regular manner, presumably a disciple or junior of that person. I sat opposite the Living Buddha of Geju Jizan, with Mr. Zhang sitting on the right hand side, and a middle-aged man sitting on the left hand side, seeing that the length he left behind was probably a Taoist priest in casual clothes. As a result, as soon as Mr. Zhang introduced it, it was indeed a Taoist priest, and his background was not small, it was actually the senior brother of the Zhengyi Sect and the head of the dust Dao, and he was a real person!

On today's occasion, although the old living Buddha is nominally singing the leading role with me, Mr. Zhang seems to be a "host", and after sitting down, he introduced to me the situation, sect, and name of everyone around him. These people are monks, some are vulgar, some are strange, and all kinds of things, I can't remember so much for a while, just keep nodding and saying hello. Some people politely return the salute, while others just raise their eyelids.

In addition to Hexi, I also remembered another person. This man is a bald monk, who is not too young, to say the least, he is also eighty or ninety years old, with a messy white short beard. He sat very high in the hall, and his position should not be low, but looking at his expression, he looked like an eight- or nine-year-old child, staring around with a pair of curious eyes, as if everything was fresh and he had never seen it. When I greeted him, he grinned at me, and it was innocent.

Listening to Mr. Zhang's introduction, this monk Fa Cheng is the junior disciple of Fa Yuan, the head of Jiulin Zen Temple. I have heard of Fa Yuan before, there is a senior brother named Fahai, and now there is another junior brother, Fa Cheng. Fahai, Fa Yuan, and Fa Clarification are all water words, and it feels like three parallel goods, this Fa Cheng monk is really interesting. I was thinking about these messy things in my heart, and Mr. Zhang had already finished introducing them, when I heard the old living Buddha cough: "Donor Shi Xiao donor......

The old lama saw that I was a little distracted and greeted me. Since I was a child, I have never heard others call me donor, and when I heard it, I was really a little uncomfortable, and subconsciously replied: "Buddha, don't call me donor, I haven't given anything to your temple, and I didn't even buy a ticket when I entered the door......"

I didn't realize that speaking like this at that time was suspected of picking a ditch, because there were two Buddhist and Taoist families sitting there, and I myself should have been born in Taoism strictly speaking. It is indeed a bit inappropriate for Buddhist disciples to call Taoist disciples benefactors. As soon as I spoke, He Xi on the left hand side had a smile in his eyes, but he couldn't help but didn't show it.

"The way of heaven is like a bow. Those who are higher suppress those who are lower are elevated. If there is a surplus, what is lost, and what is insufficient is made up. ...... The loss is not enough to serve the surplus, who can have more than enough to serve the world, and the only one who is the way. ...... The people in the Taoist sect are more than enough to serve the world, and of course they can also be called donors. Shi Xiaozhen, what do you say?" the old lama saw that I said what I said just now, his face remained unchanged, and instead quoted a passage from "Lao Tzu" to ask me rhetorically, but my name has changed, and I no longer call me a donor, but Shi Xiaozhenren.

I have guessed many times how the living Buddha will speak when he sees me, will he be full of Buddhist scriptures, so I can't understand it, I never expected that he actually said the words in the Tao Te Ching as soon as he opened his mouth. This old lama is indeed not simple, nor is it as obvious as his apprentice Shang Yunfei's view of the door, and he is very peaceful, and there is no arrogance at all. When everyone sitting heard his words, their faces immediately calmed down a lot, and the eyes of Hexi Zhenren also had a sense of awe. Everyone consciously did not interject, only Monk Facheng applauded and smiled: "What the master said is good! All sages are different from each other by doing nothing...... Didn't the Taoist priests also say that they did nothing. ”

Monk Facheng's smile sounds innocent, but it is a bit of a coaxing on this occasion. He Xi coughed slightly. The Living Buddha also heard He Xi's cough and said, "The old monk won't say much, I came to Shi Xiaozhen today mainly because everyone has questions and wants to ask you...... Hexi, you still ask. ”

That Hexi Zhenren asked me with a slight bow to the old living Buddha, "Shiye Poor Road is straight to the point...... What is your explanation for the chaos caused by the Qiyun Temple in my main gate a few days ago?"