The gate of Jiulin Zen Monastery is ordinary, the gate tower is not high, the door plaque is not high, and the four words "Jiulin Zen Temple" on the door plaque are said to be inscribed by the imperial pen of Wu Zetian, the empress of the Tang Dynasty. The largest wooden plaque with black characters on a white background is the "Wucheng Buddhist Association," and other large and small signs, including the "Wucheng Branch of the Buddhist Calligraphy Research Association," the "Zen Literature Research Association," and so on, and even a sign of the "Youth Patriotism Education Base."

I didn't show the paperwork, because Monk Fa Cheng was waiting for me at the door. Seeing me coming, he stepped forward and palmed Shishi: "The old monk Shi Jushi has been waiting for you, you are really trustworthy, come with me quickly, and the time is just right." ”

As he led me through the front yard, he whispered to me about the rules of the layman's listening to the Bible. In addition to the hall and Buddha statues, the layout of Jiulin Zen Temple is very similar to the private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. There is a pond in the front yard, weeping willows, and a winding path in the backyard, and even the surrounding partition walls are inlaid with carved stone windows. A typical garden style can be arranged in a small place with a very unique layer of landscape, and a few steps can make a difference.

The lecture hall is in the side hall of the backyard and the layout of the Guangjiao Temple is much the same. There is a small podium in the middle of the futon around the circle, and there is nothing superfluous on the podium, that is, a futon, a wooden fish. When I arrived, Fa Yuan had just risen and sat down, and when he saw me enter the door, he nodded slightly, and he said hello, so I couldn't see what his expression was.

Speaking of which, I still have a little trouble with this Fa Yuan, on Zhaoting Mountain, he once wanted to smash the idol of Liu Yiyi's body, but was secretly stopped by Lu Xue. This is not a glorious thing for Fayuan, and it can not be mentioned without mentioning it. It is said that Feng Junzi also found Fa Yuan to make a bet, and the bet was that he couldn't catch Xiu Xiu, but Feng Junzi lost. These are all things in the past, I don't have a deep grudge against Fayuan, and I haven't heard of any evil deeds in him, so let's listen to his lectures today.

Personal grievances aside, the Fayuan monk is the most monk-like monk I have ever met. The long one is the facial features are upright, the face is like a crown of jade, sitting there, the waist is straight, the middle is calm, and it is indeed a solemn treasure. It is said that he should not be young, at least he should be in his eighties, but he seems to be just a middle-aged monk in his forties, and he does practice. The Wind Gentleman said that he was a master, and as soon as he sat down, I felt it. When he sat on the podium, I felt that there was a momentum centered around him that permeated the entire lecture hall. This kind of momentum is similar to the fluctuation of the aura around my body after the completion of the Jindan Dacheng, but it is different. It feels soft and full of kindness, as long as you calm down, you will be infected unconsciously, and you will feel that your mind is much more peaceful. I believe that practitioners should be able to feel it, and ordinary people may feel it.

There is not much nonsense in Fayuan, and there is not a single nonsense to say. As soon as I saw the hour, I knocked on the wooden fish and started speaking directly. The Wind Gentleman told me that the scriptures I heard here should be relayed to him word for word at night, so I brought a notebook and a pen. Later, Fa Cheng told me about the rules of listening to the scriptures, and I realized that it was best not to take notes.

Fa Cheng told me that before entering the door, I should concentrate on the first entry, even if there is no condition, burn incense and clean my hands, I must also worship the Buddha with heart incense, so that the body and mind are quiet, although I am not a disciple of Buddhism, but since I came, I must do so. When listening to the scriptures, do not make a sound at will, and do not twist your body at will to disturb others. If you sit on a futon and listen to the Dharma with a mindful mind, it is best to listen to the Dharma and meditate. In other words, you can just listen, and the beauty lies in knowing and comprehending, rather than thinking hard, which is completely different from listening to lectures in class. Looking at the other people in the meditation hall, none of them took a pen and paper to write down, and then looked at the source of the Dharma on the pulpit, although they were preaching, they only held a mallet in their hands, and they didn't even have a scripture book. I just sat there and listened honestly, and I was embarrassed to take out my book and pen.

I felt cordial when I sat on the futon of Jiulin Zen Temple, and it is no wonder that the futon I have been meditating on was stolen from Jiulin Zen Temple by the Wind Gentleman. I don't know what it means to meditate, but I think that when Shang Yunfei taught me the White Bone View to dissolve the thunder in my ears, I told me that there is a sound and hearing consciousness in the thunder in my ears. Later, the wind gentleman said that I had cultivated my ear powers. Now that I have become a Jindan, my ears are more diligent than at the beginning, and I can move freely in one thought. I also calmed down while I was sitting, and unconsciously, my ears were naturally moving to listen to the sound of scriptures around me. Didn't Fa Cheng say it? Just listen to it!

......

The day I went to Jiulin Monastery to listen to the scriptures was October 26, 1990, the ninth Double Ninth Festival in the ninth month of the lunar calendar. Contemporaries seem to have forgotten about this festival, and I wouldn't have remembered it if Sister Ziying hadn't specifically told me. That night, according to the agreement, I came to the Zhuangyuan Bridge again to meet the wind gentleman yin god.

"How long have you been there for a night, and how many words of scripture have you spoken?" asked the Wind Gentleman.

He spoke for about three hours, and only seventy-one words of the text were preached. "The source of the 32 products of the Diamond Sutra today only talks about the first product, "the cause and cause of the puja".

Wind Gentleman: "Oh, do you remember the seventy-one words?"

"That's what I smelled. For a while, the Buddha was defending the country. Gishu to the Garden of Solitude. with the great bhikshu congregation. 1,250 people. When the world is honored, it is time to eat. Dressed and bowled. Settle in the city and beg for food. in its city. The second begging has begged. Return to the Locality. Meals. Collect the mantle. Wash your feet already. Sit on a seat. ”

Wind Gentleman: "This is the chapter of the Prince Zhaoming translated by Kumarosh. How did seventy-one words take so long?"

"I think the source of the Dharma is already very brief, and there are many places that have not been exhausted, and it is the name of Vajra Prajnaparamita, and he has been talking about it for almost an hour, and he still can't finish it. ”

Feng Junzi: "Is the Fayuan monk talking a lot of nonsense?"

"Not much, I haven't seen people with so little nonsense, not a word of nonsense. ”

Feng Junzi nodded: "That's good, you can relay to me what Monk Fayuan said word for word." ”

"Word for word, how can I not have such a good memory!"

Feng Junzi smiled: "How do you know if you don't try? Now you are the source of the law, and I am Ishino. Do you know what to do?"

The Wind Gentleman's words seemed to have something else to say, and he was reminding me of something. When I settled down to listen to the scriptures, I really felt that my body and mind were clear, and there was no body or seat, only the sound of the scriptures. Thinking of this, I said to the Wind Gentleman, "Then you get down from the stone, give me the place of the futon, find a place next to me, and sit down honestly." ”

The gentleman of the wind unusually didn't talk back to me, and obediently let him go aside and find a place to sit. I sat down and adjusted my mind, and everything was the same as when I listened to the scriptures in the lecture hall of Jiulin Zen Temple. After sitting down, the altar was clear, the mind was unmoved, and the scriptures had come to my heart, and I immediately opened my mouth to recite them. I've been talking about this for more than an hour.

"Are you done?" do you dare to promise that every word is correct?" I said after I had finished speaking, and then the Wind Gentleman asked me.

"Word for word, I promise it!"

Wind Gentleman: "How dare you guarantee it?"

"I don't know if this is shravaka meditation, but in this realm, I can pass through my ears and hear and hear as usual, of course, word for word!"

Wind Gentleman: "Congratulations, your ear power has reached a higher level, reaching the realm of sound and hearing." ”

"What does this have to do with the power of the ear?"

Feng Junzi: "Of course, there is more than one realm of Buddhism. For example, there are different realms such as the physical eye, the heavenly eye, the wisdom eye, and the law eye. Ear powers are not just about hearing and hearing far, I ask you, what is the purpose of having ears?"

"Those who listen to the sound can speak, and of course they are obedient. ”

Wind Gentleman: "Hearing is just to receive information, what kind of supernatural power is it if you can't remember it after listening?"

"You say that this well-known kung fu is also a kind of supernatural power?"

Wind Gentleman: "It's a kind of ear magic realm, but I can't say it completely." For example, I have never forgotten since I was a child, and after I was literate, I was able to export chapters. I thought it was some kind of supernatural power. Later, when I read history, I knew that there was a Ji Xiaolan in the Qing Dynasty, who was born with yin eyes like you, and he could never forget it like me. But this person is not a practitioner. ”

Feng Junzi's words were a bit exaggerated, he said that he had never forgotten to speak, and his words were somewhat reluctant. But his memory is really very good, and what he has seen is known at a glance, and it will probably be even more wonderful when it is paraphrased, and as for the chapter, I don't know very well. Maybe Mr. Liu knows, only she knows how the composition of the gentleman of the wind is, I only know that he is drunk, loves poetry, and thinks he has a white legacy at a young age.

"If you don't talk about supernatural powers, what is it?"

Feng Junzi: "Before you learned Dan Dao, you learned the mind of Buddhism's 'view', and saw 'stop' in the view, and then entered 'concentration' from 'stop', and deviated from the 'sitting and forgetting' I wanted to teach you." Since this is the case, I have no choice but to let you listen to the Diamond Sutra and know 'dwelling' from 'concentration'. Buddhism says that wisdom arises from concentration, which is also a kind of small wisdom. It seems that you have better qualifications than I imagined, and you can achieve this wisdom by listening to the scriptures for just one night. ...... I asked you to go to break the delusional realm, and the test is Huigen. ”

"It's true that the ear magic has made such a little progress, but I still don't understand how to break the delusion?"

Wind Gentleman: "Do you want to try again tonight?"

"I don't want to go. ”

Feng Junzi's expression was a little surprised: "Why don't you want to go? Everyone wants to stay from time to time after they fall into delusion, and even after dealing with the events in reality, they will find time to enter the delirium again." If you want to go back tonight, I'll be waiting for you, and you won't have any problem. ”

"The feeling in the delusion is indeed wonderful, but in the past three days, when I return to reality, I will feel even more uncomfortable when I see those people in the delusional realm. I think it might be even more uncomfortable for me to go and come back, unless I'm going to never go back. "I'm telling the truth, I saw Teacher Liu during the day, Teacher Liu is still Teacher Liu, not Fei'er in my arms. This feeling really makes me feel uncomfortable, and if it weren't for the experience in the delusional situation, although I have some regrets, it will not be like losing something precious.

Feng Junzi: "There is always a gap between delusion and reality, and if you don't go, you won't go." Then you go. ”

"Aren't you leaving, what are you doing here alone?"

Wind Gentleman: "I'll ponder the scripture you just talked about. ”

"Fa Cheng told me that the Diamond Sutra can't be listened to like this, as long as you listen to it, there is no need to think hard, mainly in the sound of the sound to understand. ”

Feng Junzi: "No one told me how to listen to Monk Facheng and what did Monk Facheng say to you?"

"Then recite it yourself, and see it in the recitation. ”

Feng Junzi: "Damn, why didn't you say it earlier? Then I'll go back too." ”

......

"Ishino, how many words of scripture did you hear today?"

"Ten words. ”

This was the second night, and I met with the Wind Gentleman Yin God again at the Zhuangyuan Bridge.

Feng Junzi: "The second product of the Diamond Sutra, 'Good Present Enlightenment', is not so short, is it? What ten words did you hear?"

"Why should the clouds live, and how should the clouds subdue their hearts?"

Wind Gentleman: "Then you heard it right. Some people say that the Diamond Sutra is all about 'subduing the delusional mind and settling the true heart' from beginning to end. Ishino: Do you think the Diamond Sutra is really talking about this?"

"I don't know, you know?"

Feng Junzi: "It's about subduing the delusional mind and calming the heart, and it's not about this, that's why there is such a scripture." Of course I don't know, otherwise I wouldn't have become a Buddha too? What did the Buddha say?"

"You should dwell like this, and subdue your heart like this. ”

Feng Junzi: "Damn, I didn't say it! What did Fayuan say?" Feng Junzi inadvertently said a swearing sentence in the Wucheng dialect.

"Fa Yuan didn't say that he wasn't a Buddha either!"

Feng Junzi: "Forget it, I'll listen to you." ”

......

On the third day, the Wind Gentleman asked me, "How many words of the third section of the Ishino Diamond Sutra 'Mahayana Authentic Division' have you heard?"

"Four words - Nirvana. ”

Wind Gentleman: "Infinite Nirvana?"

"There is no self, no human face, all living beings, and a long-lived person. ”

Feng Junzi let out a breath from his nostrils and snorted coldly: "If you come to this ***, it's really ruthless! Speak foul words without dirty words, and others listen respectfully." ”

"Feng Junzi, why are you scolding the Buddha while listening to the scriptures?"

Feng Junzi: "I can't scold him if he scolds the world?" I scold him because I understand...... This can indeed break the delusion, but for you and me, it is better not to break the delusion. Forget it, I'll listen to you. ”