high-dimensional seeker

Chapter 398 Stone Bridge Zen

Such as the month of fasting, rain.

Countless people come and go, the incense, the smell of alcohol and countless faint warm scents diffused between the bamboo curtains, merged into a luxurious and soft smell.He was drinking wine silently at the other end of the small stone table, expressionless, as dull as clear water.

Xie Fanjing looked at the silent face on the opposite side, which seemed almost transparent under the lamp, and his facial features were also dyed hazy, only the thick eyelashes like crow feathers, making those gentle eyes as black as ink at the moment, like a vine frame The deep ancient well below.

"You today..." Xie Fanjing lowered his head, and his voice came to the opposite side: "Didn't you go to see her?"

"You owe my life, and I will repay your debt. Because of the cause and condition, after hundreds of thousands of eons, you will always be born and die. You love my heart. I pity your face. Because of the cause and condition, you will always be bound through hundreds of thousands of eons."

"what?"

"Did Tan Yue hear a story?" Wuming didn't answer, but just supported his forehead with both hands, and pressed his head that was in pain as if it was going to explode.

Everything in front of his eyes was shaking, and the sky and the earth were shaking wantonly in the vortex. At this moment, he just wanted to find someone to talk to. No matter who it was, as long as he sat down and listened to him...

"A story about a bridge." Wuming propped his forehead, silently twitched the corner of his mouth: "A story about a stone bridge."

Xie Fanjing helped up the crooked small wine bottle beside her, she nodded silently and did not speak.

"There was a young and beautiful woman, who came from a wealthy family, had a rich family property, was versatile, and lived a good life.

The matchmaker was about to crush the threshold of her house, but she never wanted to get married because she felt that she hadn't met the man she really wanted to marry.

Until one day, when she went to a temple fair to relax, she saw a young man in the crowd of tens of thousands of people. She just took one look and fell in love with him ever since.She prayed to the Buddha in the morning and evening, and finally moved the World Honored One with her devotion, so one day, the World Honored One appeared and fulfilled her wish. "

Wuming said: "The World Honored One said——"

[You have to practice for 500 years before you can see him again, will you regret it? 】

【I do not regret! ] It was the woman's decisive tone that replied to the World Honored One.

So the woman turned into a stone. She lay in the wilderness for 490 years, and suffered enough wind, sun, cold and heat. Finally, in the last year, she was chiseled into a stone by the quarry team. Installed on the guardrail of the stone bridge.On the day when the stone bridge was built, a man finally walked across the bridge. He took his wife and children and walked in a hurry without noticing that a stone was staring at him intently.

After this glance, the man disappeared again.

【Are you satisfied? ] asked the World Honored One.

[If I am not the guardrail of the bridge, if I am spread in the middle of the bridge, I can touch him and touch him. 】

[Don't you regret it? 】

【I do not regret! 】The tone is still firm.

【Then you have to practice again. 】 Said the World Honored One.

This time, the woman turned into a tree, she stood on the bustling official road, and countless people came and went, she waited for a long time, day after day passed, unexpectedly, during the long wait, Her heart actually calmed down, and she was no longer irritable or dazed.

On the last day, the man finally came to rest under her canopy. He took a nap with his clothes on, and after waking up, he stroked the tree trunk lightly, and then left without looking back.

【Next, do you wish to be his wife? 】After the man left, the World Honored One appeared and spoke.

[It's enough, all of this has made me very satisfied. 】The woman said.

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"I told this story to my teacher once, and the teacher told me..."

On Wuming's face, a dullness like Guanghui slowly appeared:

"He said that men are attachments, and women are ego attachments. This is a story about not being able to get what you want. You can't get what you want, you can't get what you want. From the first time a woman sees a man, she is fascinated by desires in her heart and falls into After entering the affliction of seeing, hearing, and knowing, all subsequent love and attachment is nothing more than falling into deep desires in the affliction, and the more you can’t get what you want, the more you will be deeply burdened by the five aggregates, and you will not be able to purify.”

"The teacher told me."

Wuming clasped his hands together and smiled silently: "This is a story about liberation..."

Letting go is liberation!

If the heart is not pure, the body is not pure, how to prove the supreme Bodhi, how to go to the other shore of bliss!

Always sing the sound of thunder in my heart, break all obstacles with the sword of killing demons, my heart is invincible!

……

The teacher's teachings before going down the mountain are still in my ears, they are rushing left and right in my mind like a galloping horse, overturning everything, smashing everything to pieces!

Wuming staggered back a few steps on the table, knocking the barnacles behind him and rolling them around a few times, he gently supported the corner of the table with his hands, and let out a hoarse wry laugh

"You didn't go to see her today?" Xie Fanjing was inexplicably sad: "You didn't go."

"No."

"why?"

"Monks... cannot break the precepts."

"then you……"

Xie Fanjing suddenly raised his head suddenly, his always dull eyes suddenly lit up, looking forward sweetly, his eyes were full of stars, as bright and clear as the stars in the Milky Way after the rain.

"then you……"

Her voice suddenly became urgent, containing an indescribable urgency and hesitation, like the violent river tide that was about to break the embankment.

But before she could finish her words, the person on the opposite side collapsed on the small stone table like a pillar of jade being pushed down from a mountain of gold, and passed out drunk to death.

He didn't use his true qi to detoxify his drinking power, on the contrary, he deliberately indulged a little bit. For a person who never drank, he drank too much, and he drank too quickly...

Xie Fanjing was stunned, then laughed silently.

"Then you, do you like her?"

She looked at Wuming and said softly in her heart.

A small clear light shines on the stone table, a layer of light, bright yellow halo.Half of his face was exposed in the light, his eyebrows were lowered, and his eyelashes looked distant and indifferent under such light, the other half of his face was covered by a wide monk robe, and only the corners of his lips were pursed.

There was a pleasant smell of wine on him, a warm and numbing breath, and at the near end, it was like some kind of rich floral fragrance.

The sound of her heart beating was inexplicably like a drum, and she leaned forward gently.

The rich fragrance of flowers enveloped her, and a warm and soft touch came from the corners of her lips. Her face suddenly became red and hot, as if she had been bitten by a swarm of buzzing bees, with a numb itching and a delicate breath.

--Hey.

--do you still remember me? "

— Between us, we have obviously met each other...

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The next day.

In the large hall, the faces of hundreds of people below were flushed with excitement or excitement. They all looked up at the white-clothed monk above, with undisguised hotness in their eyes.

What lies ahead is a big deal!A deal was completed, big enough to make their children and grandchildren three generations rich and worry-free!

No one can refuse money, and no one can refuse the opportunity to become a master. The Dao of Reaching Heaven is in front of you. Whether you succeed or not, it depends on this moment!

"The Stone Monk slanders the Buddha and the Dharma, which is a crime that cannot be punished!"

Facing the head, Wuming looked around at the people below, and said slowly, "He has lived in the Lotus Market for a long time, and his whereabouts are strange. Today, the poor monk also asks you laymen to give us your advice, and join us in this grand event of exterminating demons!"

The voice was deep, but it was like a lion's roar, which shocked everyone's heart. Amidst the frantic response from the surroundings, Zhang Yan pulled Xie Fanjing, who was watching the fun, over and rubbed her head hard.

"Aren't you going to take a boat on the canal, and go to Chang'an to watch the fireworks?" Zhang Yan rubbed her head with a strange expression on her face: "Why do you come here again to watch the excitement?"

(End of this chapter)