In the dim side hall, the calm voice of the senior brother of Fanyin Temple floated like flowing water, and occasionally another gentle voice sounded, the two voices asked and answered, and there seemed to be some kind of Zen blooming between the sandalwood and white mist, and time passed little by little unconsciously.

From early morning, to dusk, from the sun sinking in the west, to the bright moon quietly rising, there are many waves in the meantime, the wind passes and the wind stops, just like a turbulent life.

And at this moment, Lin Chen, but where is there still the mind of watching the clouds and looking at the moon, his whole spirit, has long been attracted by the wonderful words and Buddhist words spoken by the mouth of the senior brother of the Fanyin Temple in front of him, he is a disciple of Shu Mountain, the cultivation of Haoran swordsmanship, the cultivation of the righteousness of the heavens, Buddhism is undoubtedly unfamiliar to him, he never thought that he would have the fate to learn Buddhism one day, even if he is now connected with the Buddha, and has learned the entire "Prajna Commentary" of the Fanyin Temple But he is on the way to Buddhism, but he has never practiced the eight books of the canon, it can be said that his understanding of Buddhism, even the foundation of the most ordinary disciples of the Fanyin Temple is not comparable, to say that he wants to truly understand the true law of Buddhism that he has learned, then I really don't know how many years of speculation and precipitation.

Jingkong is the elder brother of Fanyin Temple, whether it is the understanding of Buddhism, or the practice of Buddhism, in Fanyin Temple, only under those few senior monks and masters, and even a group of second-generation disciples such as Jingchen, many times when they encounter something that is not confused, they have to respectfully ask this senior brother for advice, such a profound person in Buddhism specially relieves his doubts, what a great fate it is, how can Lin Chen still be distracted?

The Buddhist doctrine of the clear space is very ordinary and easy to understand, but the meaning of the edification contained in it is extremely deep and ingenious, for a while, with the clear space that seems to be in simple terms, but the words of the pearl, flat and slow echo in this silent and ancient hall, Lin Chen only felt that the hearing was like revealing into his heart, and the common words were like an empowerment, and his many difficult and obscure places about the past of the Buddhist true law suddenly seemed to open up one after another, what a joyful realm, that is, when he re-looked at the four stone statues of the Ming King at this moment, he also had some subtle feelings that seemed to be enlightened, and he could truly feel the deep majesty and terrifying Buddha power。

Sensing that the occasional faint Buddha breath on Lin Chen's body became more and more clear and clear, no one knew, Jingkong, the senior brother of Fanyin Temple, was also shocked in his heart, except for the pure dust back then, he had never seen someone who had just started to study Buddhism, and would have such talent and understanding.

In this quiet and solemn atmosphere, Jingkong stopped preaching at some point, quietly looked at this young man who was immersed in the mysteries of Buddhism, and did not speak, but walked lightly to the open window of the side hall, looked up at the sea of bamboo shadows and clouds outside the hall, listened to the sound of the mountain stream and wind, the light in his eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

I don't know how long it took, the starlight shone slightly, and the bright moon on the sky was obscured by a white cloud drifting in the wind, leaving only a dim circle of light, faintly reflecting the vast earth under the clouds, like a flickering lantern in the main hall.

The clearance straightened, and some of the waist poles that had stood for too long and some stiffened, and walked back.

Lin Chen was still standing in place, his expression was very serious, and the faint light fell on his face, making his eyebrows seem to be coated with a layer of dark golden luster, just like those old Buddhas in the temple hall whose gold paint was peeling off.

The footsteps of the clear space, in this ancient temple on the mountain that was silent after nightfall, seemed very awesome, and Lin Chen, who was thinking deeply, seemed to be awakened by it, with a trace of dazedness in his eyes, looking at the senior brother of Fanyin Temple in a daze, and then his eyes slowly brightened.

Jingkong looked at him meaningfully and said with a smile: "Does the donor have any gains?"

Lin Chen bowed deeply to him and said, "Thank you Master Jingkong for your generous allocation, and I finally have a little bit to gain." ”

Clearance nodded, smiling silently.

Lin Chen was silent for a moment and sighed: "The method of mantra is really broad and profound, and people in the world often only know the six-character mantra of "Om Mani Horn Mi Yin", but who knows, combined with the true power of Buddhism, these six words can actually show a lot of wonderful words like a sea. ”

Jingkong looked at the entrance of the corridor leading to the main hall in the depths of the side hall, and a complicated smile appeared on his face, and said: "What Patriarch Lianxin said that day is right, black and white, Buddha and demon, only in one thought, in a sense, the mantra is also the thought that my Buddhism says, and it has all kinds of mysterious powers. The wisdom of the predecessors, the obsession of the descendants, thousands of mantras have evolved into six characters, but few people can realize that the simpler and purer the human mind, the more powerful, and sometimes the more terrifying. ”

Lin Chen smelled the faint Zen incense permeating the hall, his heart was unprecedentedly calm, he thought about the deep meaning of Jingkong's words, and suddenly thought of the dream, and the young man who didn't know life and death, and suddenly said in a low voice: "Master Jingkong, do you say that people can really become Buddhas?"

Jingkong took a sip of tea, held a slightly warm teapot in his palm, and said with a smile: "Three thousand red dust, infinite avenue, what is a Buddha? When you were cultivating on Shu Mountain, Yan Zhenren once told you that mortals ask immortals, what is that immortal?"

Lin Chen was a little confused, shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "Master, his old man has never respected the sky and doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, how dare I ask him about this topic of fighting." ”

Referring to the generation of sword gods on Shu Mountain, he straightened out the gray old robe that had been blown a little loose by the wind just now, showed respect on his face, and said with a smile: "Yan Zhenren cultivates as a celestial man, a sword through the gods, and a grandmaster like him, he naturally looks lighter than anyone else." ”

Lin Chen thought of the moment when on the 100,000 Great Mountain, when Master's Dust-Forgetting Sword turned into dust and drifted away in the wind in front of everyone's eyes, his mood was suddenly a little complicated, and he was silent for a while.

After a while, Lin Chen sighed lightly, forcibly suppressed the indescribable amazement in his heart, and forced a smile: "The master doesn't seem to have answered the next question yet." ”

"If you have a Buddha in your heart, you will naturally become a Buddha, what is there to say, besides, the Buddha was originally a mortal, didn't he say to the believers before his old man passed away, 'The Buddha is a person who has come over, and a person is a future Buddha'?"

Lin Chen was stunned, he naturally heard this sentence, but he didn't expect it to be said by the Buddha, he used to think that the words of the Buddha and the Buddha were just the Zen machine common talk spread by the monks, in the face of this senior brother of the Fanyin Temple, Lin Chen was ashamed to say: "I was ignorant, I used to think that the Buddha was just a symbol of Buddhism's faith, and it was a god imagined by the world, just like those immortals and Taoists in Taoist legends, but I didn't think that the Buddha really existed." ”

Jingkong casually tied the small teapot back to his waist and said with a smile: " Human beings see the world around them, all kinds of strange things, so they think that above the nine heavens, there are all kinds of gods, plus the sea of earthly suffering, all kinds of calamities, is to worship the various gods created by their own imagination, burn incense to complain, pray for protection, the Buddha was under the Bodhi tree to realize the great supernatural powers, educate the ancestors, open a sect, the breadth of sentient beings, naturally by the people at that time as gods, thousands of years later, many legends have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, in addition to our Buddhist disciples know the roots, how many people in the world can distinguish?

Speaking of this, the senior brother of Fanyin Temple shook his head, and said with a smile: "Of course, our Buddha Sect wishes that everyone in the world believes in my Buddha, so naturally he will not say it, but in this regard, the efforts made by the Daomen side are more and greater, otherwise in today's world, how can there be hundreds of Buddhist temples, ten thousand Taoist temples, immortal cultivators in the world, and people who cultivate the truth account for eight or nine of them. ”

Lin Chen was dumbfounded for a while, but then he was a little relieved, where there are people, there is fighting, this is an eternal truth, how many people in the world can really do not fight? Even if it is the holy place of Buddhism, Fanyin Temple, was not dumbfounded by the sneering of Emperor Wu that day?

The breeze blew from outside the hall, gently swaying the clothes of the two, bringing a hint of coolness and comfort, and suddenly there was a ticking sound outside, and in the dead of night, a spring rain came unexpectedly.

Jingkong raised his head slightly, looked through the gate and looked at the night when the rain kept falling outside, a little complicated, and finally turned into a gentle sigh, and there was a rare tiredness on his face, "This is the first rain since the real spring of Fanyin Temple, and it is also the most beautiful rain I have ever seen in my life." ”

Lin Chen was silent, the storm a few days ago was just the atmosphere generated by the cultivators' fighting, naturally it was not a real spring rain, and I don't know if it was because he was in the Buddha land, Lin Chen felt that there always seemed to be other deep meanings in the words of the Buddhist master brother in front of him, meditating on the disciples of the Buddhist family just like to mix Zen machines in the conversation, but he, a person who studied Buddhism halfway, couldn't learn anything.

"Master Jingkong, it is said that the Buddha passed away with a vision from the sky, so did the Buddha finally become a Buddha in Nirvana, and that realm is the realm of the Heavenly Dao?" The two were silent for a moment, and Lin Chen suddenly thought of something and couldn't help asking.

Jingkong smiled bitterly, looked at the young man's tireless gaze, and said helplessly: "How do I know this, as a disciple of Buddhism, how can I vain the ability of the Buddha, but the Buddha finally lay on his side and closed his eyes, smiling and sitting under the Bodhi tree, it is an indisputable fact in history, and the reincarnation of heaven, the other side is ethereal, who can see through it." ”

As he spoke, he suddenly looked directly into Lin Chen's eyes and said calmly: " I know what you really want to ask, but I can't answer this question, even if the abbot and uncle live in the five rounds, can see the past and the future, in the end can only vaguely understand what, but still can't see through his life and death, Lotus Heart Patriarch said that he has seen the scenery at that end, I don't know what he said to you before he disappeared, but that must have a deep meaning, you may be confused because of this, but you have to remember that the future of people is always in the hands of people, and the road ahead can only be explored by yourself, even if we wait for the Dharma eyes to hide, can see what in advance, but can not give you advice。 ”

"Why?" Lin Chen was stunned for a moment and asked puzzled.

"Because there is a great terror in heaven and earth, any future that is tried to see, even if it is just a faint casual glance, will change in the future, and the future that is seen is not the real future. ”

Lin Chen was silent as if he had realized something.

"Since the future is uncertain, you don't need to worry about it. Jingkong smiled faintly.