Chapter 8: Jiuhua Practice
It turned out that the old goddess used spiritism to communicate with her senior sister in the underworld for a long time that night, and asked her senior sister to help find the monk on her behalf, which is actually the current master - "Master Huikong".
The senior sister of the goddess is a yin official with some power in the underworld, and she also has a considerable Taoism. After agreeing to the junior sister's request, the ghost senior sister took a break and went to Jiuhua Mountain to find her friend "Master Huikong". Speaking of which, the senior sister of the goddess is still the predecessor of Master Huikong.
Late at night, Huikong was meditating and meditating, and suddenly felt a gust of yin wind blowing very unusually, so he saw with his own heavenly eyes that it turned out to be a yin ghost visiting.
Huikong took a closer look, yo, the yin ghost who came looked familiar, it turned out to be a senior he met when he was traveling with his master many years ago, and he was a Taoist friend of his master. Unexpectedly, many years later, this senior came to the door with a ghost body, and Huikong hurriedly got up to greet him and patiently listened to the other party's request.
Originally, Huikong planned to go into the mountain to practice and never ask about the world, but since the predecessors and masters came to have something to entrust, and it was such a child with a miserable fate, Buddhism paid attention to compassion, thinking of this, Huikong agreed to accept the idea of being a disciple.
On the second day, Huikong asked the foot monk on Jiuhua Mountain to help him go to the village where the old god was located to pick up Xiao Dingnian. A few days later, when Xiao Dingnian was having dinner at the god's house, the monk finally arrived.
"Child, the meal is over, let's go with the monk's brother. Remember Grandma's words, practice well, and forget the past. In the past two days, Grandma has said everything she should have said, by the way, you must remember Grandma's Taoist number, maybe you will need it one day. In addition, this is a purse, please hand it over to Master Huikong when you finish, which can be regarded as a little bit of my heart. The goddess explained a few more things to the meditation.
When I finally wanted to leave the place where I grew up, I was suddenly reluctant to get up. Including the father and the rest of the villagers who ignored their thoughts, as well as the familiar place and everything.
"Child, don't be reluctant, people live in the world, everything is a mirror, let's practice well. If you can embark on a path of liberation, Grandma will be genuinely happy for you, so that Grandma can also walk with peace of mind. The old goddess finally persuaded Xiao Dingnian away. Seven days later, she herself returned to the underworld.
In this way, Dingnian went to Jiuhua Mountain under the leadership of the walking monks, and officially worshiped Huikong as his teacher, and since then he has stayed in this hidden valley for ten years.
When I think of the story of Dingnian, I feel how happy I am. Lying in bed, my mind is a little messy, reincarnation, reincarnation, is all this true, then, what kind of hands are controlling our destiny?
I was thinking that if people are really in the cycle of reincarnation, then the most terrible thing is the loss of memory, so that you will never know the truth of the world, but if the memories are there, it will be even more painful, because you have loved too many people and hurt too many people.
I thought about it for a while, and I fell asleep unconsciously. When I woke up, it was already daylight, and when I looked at my watch, it was already noon.
I propped myself up and found that I was the only one in the house, perhaps because of the high oxygen content in the mountains, and I woke up in good spirits and sleepy. Putting on my coat, I stepped out of the thatched hut and let in a few bright rays of sunlight from the mouth of the canyon overhead, so bright that I couldn't open my eyes. The valley is full of birds and flowers, flowers, and green trees and moss all around, which is really a fairyland out of the world.
"Sister Lin, you're up, hurry, eat something. Meditation came out of the back of the room and said.
After eating some bread, wild fruits, pickles, and spring water in the mountains, I suddenly felt like a world away, and there was a smell of dust out of the world, if I wasn't wearing modern clothes, I thought that I had returned to ancient times beyond time and space.
When he saw that I had finished eating, he said that the master was meditating in the cave at the back of the house and would take me into the cave in the afternoon. I had nothing to do, so I helped Dingnian to pick mushrooms and wild vegetables in the valley, this valley was still very deep, the more you went in, the lower the temperature, the ferns and fungi in the valley were everywhere, and there were many wild vegetables and fruits that could not be named.
As he was walking, there was a sudden "hissing" sound in front of him. After hearing this voice, Dingnian gently called forward: "Xue'er, Xue'er", and saw a snow-white little monkey coming out of the grass not far away, and saw this little white monkey running to Dingnian's feet and Dingnian became cordial.
I've never seen a snow-white monkey before, and it's very cute with its whole body furry and chubby. It should be very familiar with Dingnian, holding Dingnian's legs and constantly coquettish. Seeing that the monkey was coquettish, Dingnian also took out the flour cake and wild fruit from his waist to feed the monkey, one person and one monkey were very affectionate, and I was very envious when I saw it.
After making love with the little monkey for a while, he introduced the monkey as if he were a human: "Xue'er, this is Sister Lin, go over and say hello to Sister Lin." Sister Lin, this is Xue'er, my best friend in the valley. ”
When the little white monkey saw me, he was obviously a little timid, a little timid and secretly looked at me, and saw that I didn't seem to have any malicious intentions, and crawled to my lap at the behest of his mind. Looking at the cute little monkey's big innocent eyes, I couldn't help but reach out and want to touch it, and the monkey finally accepted my touch after hiding for a while.
After a while, I got acquainted with Cher. This little creature is quite psychic, and seems to understand what I say to him, and he knows how to look at people's eyes, which only amuses me and Dingnian very much. The years in the mountains turned out to be so simple and comfortable, and accompanied by a spirit monkey like Xue'er, it was really a particularly chic freehand life.
There are many monkeys living in Jiuhua Mountain, which are the gray and yellow fur monkeys we see on weekdays, and outsiders call the monkeys in Jiuhua Mountain "Jiuhua Monkeys". Listening to Dingnian, in the first year she came, she found this little white monkey in this deep valley, but this little white monkey is not the same as the ordinary Jiuhua monkey.
I don't know why, after discovering the little white monkey, this monkey has been living alone, and has not coexisted with the other "Jiuhua monkeys" on the mountain. Moreover, the other naughty and bold Jiuhua monkeys seemed to regard this hidden valley as a forbidden place, and never refused to come in and snoop.
Therefore, Dingnian regarded Xue'er as an outlier in the monkey group, just like himself, not accepted by the village, and was alone and hanging from each other. may have aroused some resonance and sympathy for himself, Dingnian loves Xue'er very much, and often gives the little white monkey some food, and after a long time, one person and one monkey become best friends.
Meditation told me that this monkey was quite strange. More than nine years have passed since the first time I saw it, but the monkey has not grown up at all.
Later, according to Master Huikong, since ancient times, the white monkey is one of the most spiritual and immortal roots among the monkeys, and if you can understand the method of cultivation, you can soar to become a demon fairy after practice!
After that, Dingnian found that whenever he recited the scriptures, the little white monkey always liked to sit on the ground and listen to her chanting, and when he was participating in meditation in the hut, the little monkey would also sit on the ground and close his eyes and meditate like a human. Every time I see this, I will cry and laugh and love it.
I'm afraid it's fate, since this little white monkey is familiar with Dingnian, he often follows Huikong's ass to learn this and that, and even the little monkey's eyebrows are slowly getting longer, sometimes when watching the little monkey sit with his eyes closed, he is a little similar to the old monk Huikong, only to see Dingnian dumbfounded.
Later, especially when Huikong chanted the scriptures and proclaimed the Dharma to Dingning every day, the little white monkey came to sit on the side every day and listened attentively, and his demeanor was completely a pious student. Over time, Huikong gradually acquiesced to his identity as a monkey apprentice, probably because of the master's teaching, and the little monkey would also send some strange fruits to Huikong and Dingnian from time to time, all of which were extremely sweet and full of moisture, and even seemed to have some special effects of rejuvenating people.
Listening to Dingnian talking about Xue'er, I looked at the magical little white monkey in my arms with pity, and sighed even more in my heart that this world is magical. The ancients said: Love is related to all things, all things are animistic, all creatures should have the right and freedom to choose their own way of life, sometimes, the spiritual roots of animals are not necessarily worse than people.
Compared with people, the meaning of animal life will not be linked to money, fame and fortune and other materials, they live more pure, more real, and as the spirit of all things on the earth, the value orientation of human beings has entered a dead end of mercenary, people's spiritual pursuit, often not worth mentioning.
This is perhaps the saddest thing in the era of the end of the law. Amitabha!
In the evening, when Dingnian and I were washing and drying the mushrooms and wild vegetables outside the thatched hut, Huikong's vigorous voice suddenly sounded in our ears: "Dingnian, please come in." ”
There is a distance of more than 50 meters from the thatched hut to the entrance of the cave behind, and I heard that the cave is very deep and secluded, and Huikong is in the very deep part of the cave, and the sound should not be heard, but the voice in my ears is like someone speaking on the side, which only makes me surprised and surprised.
After asking the mind, I realized that this is a kind of sound transmission technique, and if you practice deeply, you can do it within a thousand miles. Oh my God, I thought to myself, if people living in the city can do this kind of work, wouldn't they be able to replace mobile phones and avoid radiation? I suggest that everyone learn, and there is no need to sponsor phone bills to China Mobile every month.
After following the fixed thought into the cave, I found that it was a huge underground karst cave, the interior was empty and deep, and there was a dark river formed by the underground water that came up.
After walking all the way down the path by the cave, after walking for about ten minutes, under the light of the torch of concentration, I found a huge stone platform in front of me. There are several futons on the stone platform, one of which is the meditative Venerable Huikong, and beside him, there are several lit candles.
After I sat down, Huikong said slowly: "Master Lin, you were originally a person from the Heavenly Realm, although the immortal arts and memories were erased by the Upper Realm, there are still some things that will be imprinted in your soul, and the Buddhists call this kind of thing Huigen. If you have a Heavenly Eye and a Colorful Immortal Light like this, it means that you still have a little Heavenly Immortal Root in your soul, but you have not yet realized the nature and ability of this Immortal Root. ”
Seeing that I didn't seem to understand, Huikong continued: "My Buddhist disciple's cultivation pays attention to cultivation, that is, to tap into the inner spiritual potential, and finally give up the physical body to transcend the six realms. That sister of yours in the Heavenly Realm came to me specifically in the hope that by using the cultivation method of my Buddhism, I would help you dig out the immortal roots in the depths of your soul as much as possible, so that you can flexibly use this ability to protect yourself.
In the next few days, the old man will teach you how to practice meditation, and I hope that the donor can put aside all selfish thoughts and concentrate on cultivation in these days, so as to face the calamity of the day. ”
I nodded and continued to listen to Huikong.
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