The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 214 Passing Dharma and Yinke
Drinking on the bridge in the recollection of the noon, most of the heroes sitting in the middle.The long ditch flows silently.In the shadows of apricot blossoms, playing the flute till dawn.

It has been like a dream for more than [-] years, although this body is shocking.Take a leisurely visit to the small pavilion to see Xinqing.Many things in ancient and modern times, the fisherman sang three watch.

——"Linjiang Immortal · Ye Deng Xiaoge Reminiscing about the Old Travels in Luozhong" Chen Yuyi (Song)

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It was getting late, Bai Fu didn't go to bed to rest.He put on his night clothes and meditated on the bed to refresh himself.When it was almost three o'clock, Bai Fu went up to the roof to observe the movement of the woodshed.Hearing the sound of "squeak", Hu Changgang came out of the firewood room, walking like a shooting star, and walked towards the backyard.Bai Fu secretly laughed in his heart, it seemed that what he expected was right.

Bai Fu moved like a civet cat, light and soundless, flying over the eaves and walls, jumping over the roof of the house, trailing far behind him.

Hu Changgang was familiar with the road, avoiding the patrolling monks, and quietly walked through the Hall of Heavenly Kings to the Daxiong Hall.When passing the passage on the side of the Daxiong Palace, I heard an extremely slight sound of the door bolt.If it weren't for the dead of night, the voice could not be distinguished at all.Startled, Hu Changgang jumped onto the big locust tree in front of the hall.Hu Changgang took a closer look, and saw the door on the side of the Daxiong Hall opened silently.

A gray-clothed and masked monk poked out the rat's head secretly, looking at the movement around him.Seeing that there was no sound and nothing unusual around him, he opened the door a small gap, tiptoed out from the door opening, and then closed the hall door lightly.

When he turned around, Hu Changgang saw it clearly.This person is carrying a big burden on his back shoulder, holding a monk's stick in his left hand and a tin staff in his right hand.Although he couldn't see the face clearly, but the head of the thief was like a thief.

Hu Changgang was about to go down the tree to capture this person, when he suddenly realized that his status was embarrassing.It was late at night, if the patrolling monks asked me, how should I answer?
Hu Changgang had an idea, and gently broke off a branch as thick as a joss stick from the tree.Look at the timing and throw hard.The thief stepped on his feet and was about to fly onto the house.All he could hear was a black shadow roaring towards him with great vigor behind him.

The thief was in mid-air at this time, there was no room to move and dodge, and there was no way to avoid it, so he could only wave his left hand and block with the monk's stick.

The branch thrown by Hu Changgang was powerful and heavy.As soon as the monk's stick in his hand touched the branch, the thief felt his tiger's mouth go numb, and a strong force surged up, and he could no longer hold the monk's stick.

There was only a "clang" sound, and the monk's stick fell to the ground.

Hu Changgang grabbed it in the air, and the monk's stick seemed to be pulled by an invisible rope, and Hu Changgang snatched it in his hand.

This kung fu is similar to Yujianshu, Bai Fu couldn't help secretly praising it.Nagaoka really is Nagaoka, and his martial arts are much more advanced than before.

Hu Changgang took a closer look at the object in his hand, and it turned out to be a Zen forest elephant tool on display in the Daxiong Hall - Dharma's Tiger Cudgel.You must know that this thing is the treasure of Shaolin.

Hu Changgang was furious, he jumped onto the roof and chased after him without caring about exposing himself.There was still a foot away from the thief, and Hu Changgang hit the thief's vest hard with a slash of his empty palm.This palm was silent, the thief couldn't dodge it, he only felt a sweetness in his throat, and a mouthful of blood spewed out.

The thief was terrified, knowing that the pursuer behind him had martial arts far superior to his own, and his appearance could not be exposed.In desperation, without turning his head, he threw the big burden behind his back diagonally, and shouted: "Be careful, don't break it!"

Hu Changgang instinctively stopped, leaned forward and rushed out to save the burden.

After hearing the thief yell: "Catch the thief!", he fled away and disappeared into the shadows between the buildings and halls.

I saw the flash of flames, and seven or eight figures were running towards the main hall at high speed. They were the patrolling monks.

Hu Changgang had a secret secret, he came here late at night, with the stolen goods in his hands, and he couldn't argue with him.

When the emergency was urgent, only a few "puff puff puffs" were heard, and the patrol monk's lantern was knocked out with a hidden weapon.The surroundings were instantly plunged into darkness.

Hu Changgang thought: "If you don't leave now, when will you wait?" A kite turned over and jumped into the darkness.

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Hu Changgang walked through the Sutra Pavilion, came to the abbot's courtyard, and knelt at the door of a meditation room in the middle.

Not long after, the door opened, revealing a ray of orange light.Hu Changgang hurried into the house.

It was Bai Fu who used a hidden weapon to destroy the lantern and assisted Hu Changgang in escaping.

After following here, Bai Fu did not dare to be careless, and exerted the "Flying Yaksha Technique" to the extreme, falling like a feather on the roof of the Zen house.

He wrapped his feet around the gargoyle on the eaves, turned over like an ape, hung his body in the air, and hung the golden hook upside down. It was exactly the "pearl rolling curtain" that Tang Li taught him when he was exploring Fairy Xuanji's mansion.

Bai Fu dipped some saliva in his right hand, tapped it lightly on the window paper, and slowly melted into a hole the size of a thumb.

Through the window, I saw Hu Changgang kneeling on the futon, and the old monk I saw during the day sitting cross-legged opposite him.

The old monk covered the doors and windows with his cassock so that no one could see the lights in the house.Bai Fu secretly rejoiced that the place where he peeked through the broken window was not covered.

Hu Changgang briefly explained the situation just now, and then untied the big burden, which turned out to be four volumes of the "Langa Sutra", incense boards, wooden fish and other Zen forest utensils.

The old monk closed his eyes slightly, turned the rosary with his fingers, and recited the scriptures silently.After a stick of incense, he just opened his eyes and chanted the Buddha's name: "Amitabha, God's will is so good, so good!"

The old monk didn't explain, and Hu Changgang didn't ask any more questions. He asked Master for Buddhist teachings as before.

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Hu Changgang said: "Master, what does it feel like when you are enlightened?"

The old monk said with a smile: "Enlightenment is to let you realize the 'greed, hatred, and ignorance' in your heart into 'precepts, concentration, and wisdom'. When you are enlightened, there are mixed feelings of joy and sorrow!"

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When Bai Fu heard this, his heart moved.The head meditation of the old monk made him feel something vaguely, as if he had touched the simplest and most profound metaphysics in the universe.

Bai Fuxin said: "After listening to the old monk's Buddhist principles, he started from the root, eliminated afflictions, penetrated life and death, and clarified the original meaning of Buddhism. The reason why Zen can spread its branches and leaves today is because facing all the sufferings in the world, the Zen method Let the world have nothing to fear.

No wonder the Taifu said: "Emperors are just the kings of the world, and the founder of Zen Buddhism is the king of people's hearts." '"

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　References

　　1. "Tan Jing", translated and annotated by Shang Rong, Zhonghua Book Company, April 2013 edition
　　2. "Introduction to Zhizhong Zen", edited by Lowell, CITIC Publishing House, September 2017

　　
　
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