The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 220 Bodhidharma's Back View
Bodhidharma can't write a word, and Keiko Wuche writes books.

See the tiger through the ninefold pass, and show the fish three inches away from the hook.

——"Fan Poetry" Li Shi (Song Dynasty)
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Although Bai Fu was seriously injured, he did not panic, but hid in a sparsely populated place.

Seeing that there is a dense forest of pines and cypresses on Wuru Peak behind Chuzu's Nunnery, the forest is as deep as the sea, quiet and dense, it is not easy to be found, so Bai Fu plunged into it.

"Wow", Bai Fu felt a nausea in his chest, he couldn't help but knelt down on the ground, leaning on the tree trunk, and vomited until his stomach water and bile were poured out before he stopped.

Bai Fu was dizzy, sitting cross-legged, breathing out and adjusting his breath.

Looking inside himself, three needles as thin as hair, black in color, go up from the waist along the blood.Where the black needle goes, the blood vessel is like a polluted river.Thousands of fish died in the river with their bellies turned upside down. The river was black and rotten fish and shrimp were wrapped in the mud, giving off a disgusting stench.

Bai Fu hurriedly took off his shoes and socks, took out a hollow silver sharp needle, and pierced the toes (fingers) of his toes and fingers.

Bai Fu practiced his profound art silently, and the mountain spring water stored in various acupoints gushed out from the springs of the acupoints.At first, it was like dew among fallen leaves and flowers, as thin as gossamer.In a blink of an eye, it converges into a stream, the forest stream, and the stepping stones slide down.

Kanding Zhenqi and Qilin Golden Blood, like a mountain spring meeting Linxi, two rivers converging, jubilant, rushing into a waterfall.A golden waterfall jumped off the cliff, flying and galloping...

Poisonous blood and black needles shot out from the tips of the toes and fingers and landed on the grass.The tender green grass leaves quickly withered and yellowed.

"What an evil poison!"

Bai Fu used the tree branch as chopsticks, carefully put the three black needles into the small porcelain bottle, and put it in a safe place.When you find someone who plotted against you in the future, use his way to give back to him.

After about half an hour, Bai Fu finished adjusting his breath, and began to think about how to deal with it next.Both sides were hurt just now, even if the enmity between myself and Shaolin is settled, how will it end in the future, I can only take one step at a time.

"Boom", there was a thunder, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and a heavy rain was about to come.Bai Fu got up and searched for shelter from the rain.Not long after, I found a natural stone cave facing southwest, more than ten meters below the peak of the middle peak of Wuru Peak.On the upper left of the cave, there is a rough and dilapidated small stone tower.

Bai Fu unfolded his lightness kung fu and galloped away.

Walking into the cave, the cave is cold and cold.The cave is about seven meters deep and more than three meters high and wide.There are four stone Buddha statues on the stone platform in the cave.There is a futon on the ground.

On the stone wall in the middle of the cave, there is a figure of a monk facing the wall. The weaving patterns and folds of clothes are faintly visible, just like a faint ink painting.There is a line of small characters under the stone wall: "Dharma face wall shadow stone"

The story of Bodhidharma facing the wall for nine years, attaining enlightenment and founding Zen Buddhism, Bai Fu heard the elders tell it many times.To be honest, when he first heard it, Bai Fu didn't believe it, thinking it was just a beautiful legend of Shaolin.There are two reasons: First, what knowledge needs to sit cross-legged to meditate, and it takes nine years to figure it out?Second, what kind of kung fu is so powerful that you can embed your own shadow into the rock wall?

Unexpectedly, today, by chance, I came here.

Bai Fu stroked the image of Bodhidharma on the rock wall in the cave with his hands. After a closer look, he found that the rock wall in this cave was different. The water seepage and moss on the roof of the cave merged with the unique sand and rock soil of the rock wall. , blending in water and milk, has settled down over the years, like a painter's paint painted on the wall, full-bodied and rich.

It was raining heavily outside, and the rain fell in the forest, flowing down the slope from the gaps in the tree roots and turf, and falling from the roof of the cave like a thick water curtain.

With such a heavy rain, it is estimated that Shaolin disciples will not be able to find this place in a while.Bai Fu simply sat down cross-legged, imitating the appearance of Patriarch Bodhidharma facing the wall, breathing out meditation.

The sound of rain, the chirping of insects in the forest stream, and the sound of nature made Bai Fu quickly enter a state of meditation.Kan Ding's true energy flowed through his whole body, diffused and dispersed.If someone was around at this moment, they would find a layer of faint light covering Bai Fu's body, like the light and shadow cast by the sun passing through the shade of a tree when the morning fog rises.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning spread its teeth and claws outside the cave, descended from the sky, and landed on the open space not far in front of the cave.A glare of light flashed past, and shot into the cave through the water curtain at the entrance of the cave.Afterwards, there was a deafening thunder "Boom Kacha".

Bai Fu couldn't help but open his eyes, on the stone wall in front of him, Bodhidharma came to the world!

Bai Fu was terrified, and turned over in a jerk.Taking a closer look, it was a false alarm.A shadow of a person sitting cross-legged appeared on the stone wall, his appearance slowly resembling life.When he got closer and took a closer look, this shadow was seven or eight percent similar to himself.

Bai Fu didn't know how this vision came about, but it must have something to do with the lightning.Could it be that the figure of Patriarch Bodhidharma was also produced in this way?When something went wrong, I actually encountered the same supernatural event as Master Bodhidharma.By chance, the shadow was permanently left on the rock wall.

With a flash of Bai Fu's thoughts, Taifu Xu's fable about shadows came to mind:

"Taoism believes that there is another world outside the world we live in. Our world may be the shadow of another world. In the four-dimensional world, there is another us."

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"Under our world, there is a two-dimensional world, and shadows are the only two-dimensional objects in our world."

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"The shadow follows us, just as we follow us in the four-dimensional world."

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"The four-dimensional world is space and time. One of the six supernatural powers of Buddhist eminent monks, 'Leijintong', can travel through time and space and know the past and future. In fact, it means that eminent monks who are proficient in 'Leaking Tong' can enter the four-dimensional world."

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"Since you can leave your shadow on the rock forever, can you enter another world through the shadow?" Bai Fu boldly speculated.

If this is the case, Bodhidharma must have found a way to practice the supernatural power of "Leaking Out", travel through time and space, and enter another world.Know the past and the future, be enlightened, and become a Buddha!
The more Bai Fu thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was reasonable.But how to cultivate through the shadow?What method must have been left behind by Patriarch Bodhidharma?Where will it be?
Bai Fu began to search every inch of the cave, but after an incense stick of time passed, he did not find any clues.

Bai Fu fell down on the futon, completely clueless.Bai Fu comforted himself, saying: "Only one Bodhidharma master came out of Shaolin in hundreds of years, so it can be seen that this matter requires fate. If there is fate but no fate, don't force yourself to seek it."

As the saying goes, 'Birdsong Mountain is more secluded'.The same is true for the sound of thunder and rain, which filters out the hustle and bustle of the mundane world, making nature more clear and transparent.

Bai Fu continued to breathe meditation, enjoying the moment of tranquility amidst the sound of thunder and rain.Baifu Kanding is full of qi, naturally likes water, regroups in the rain and fog, and hundreds of rivers flow into the sea.

Strange to say, this Bodhidharma Cave seemed to have a natural magnetic field, and it was easier for Bai Fu to enter meditation than usual. 'The beauty of using it is in one mind'.

At the beginning, my eyes were slightly closed and I couldn't see anything. I could only hear the sound of thunder and rain, but I couldn't hear the noise from the side.

Gradually, even the sound of thunder and rain can no longer be heard, only my own breathing and heartbeat can be heard.

Afterwards, even the sound of breathing and heartbeat could not be heard, only the eyelids could feel the light, and the skin could feel the coolness.

"Holding one's soul, can you be inseparable? Focusing on Qi and softness, can you be like a baby?"

After that, even the skin has fallen asleep, only the soul is still there.

In a daze, a bright lotus lantern rose in my heart, pulling me towards the figure on the stone wall.

At the moment of passing through the shadow, not only the "self" in front of me has disappeared, but even the primordial spirit has disappeared without a trace, only a ray of light...

Passing through the shadows, suddenly enlightened...

(End of this chapter)