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Chapter 36
You have to take off your shoes to enter the temple.

There is the feeling of wiping it frequently so as not to cause dust. It is not only reverent to the Buddha, but also keeps the hall clean.

There was no one in the main hall, only the Buddha sat on Liantai Mountain and looked at Chen Xing.

He bowed respectfully.

Chen Xing doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas, but as a Chinese tradition, when he comes to these monasteries, gymnasiums and so on, he has to worship, not for anything else, just for his own inner peace.

The two of them looked around in this Buddhist hall with light steps. The faint scent of incense and the quietness far away from the crowd made people seem to have accepted the divine enlightenment, and all distracting thoughts disappeared in it.

He suddenly had an idea, that is, to carry out design-related work in such a place, no matter what the work is, it must be "with God's help".

There were a lot of books and periodicals piled up on the steps of the Buddhist temple. Chen Xing reviewed them one by one, including "Putuo Mountain Buddhism", "Hanshan Temple", "Talking Heart", etc. Anyway, he had never seen any monks in the temple, so Chen Xing simply sat down Flip through.

Yang Xiu said: "I have always heard that there is a great monk here, where is he?"

"do not know."

"I'll go outside and have a look."

Chen Xing quickly reminded: "Don't go to the edge of the cliff, be careful."

"Oh, don't worry." Yang Xiu obviously didn't read books, let alone Buddhist scriptures, so she ran to the entrance of the main hall, put on her shoes and left.

Chen Xing continued to read.

He also liked reading after he realized that reading is not useless. However, he has read a lot of literary classics, but he has not read much Buddhist scriptures.But this kind of religious literature has been passed down for thousands of years, and the truth contained in it is also very profound.

In such an environment, Chen Xing saw it right away.

This kind of state is longing and unattainable. Chen Xing had this experience before watching "How Steel Was Tempered". At that time, he didn't know the passage of time at all. More than half of it, time seems to have skipped a few hours.

"Hi, are you reading?"

The visitor asked questions again and again, and Chen Xing finally came to his senses.

Following the sound, he saw a monk in his 40s and [-]s standing in front of him.

This monk is different from the monks Chen Xing saw in other monasteries before. He has a big arm and a round waist, with large swathes of Sanskrit tattoos on his arms. He must be a feared big brother in society after changing his clothes.

But at the moment, he was dressed in a cassock of frock material, with kind eyes and a kind smile.

Chen Xing quickly stood up and clasped his hands together in front of his chest.

"Well, I can't help but see the books."

He was still a little worried that he would be blamed. After all, he entered the hall without warning and messed up other people's neatly stacked books.

However, the monk smiled quietly and asked Chen Xing to sit down first. He also sat down on the seat opposite to Chen Xing, and said: "These books are treasures. It’s a good thing to work with me on the staff.”

Chen Xing was relieved and said, "That's good."

Yang Xiu's small head flashed past the door and was seen by Chen Xing, but she didn't dare to come in and made faces at Chen Xing.

The monk asked: "You are here to travel, right? Someone came to deliver food to me just now, and they said that there was a guest who was very young and handsome. Now I see that it is indeed the case."

"Too exaggerated, I'm just a tourist."

"Visitors are welcome."

The monk got up, got some tea from nowhere, poured a cup for Chen Xing and said, "Drink it, this is good tea, and it is a good tea that has not been polluted in the growing environment."

With half a cup of tea, Chen Xing chatted with him.

This monk is called Da Jing Teng, 36 years old, with his body and style of conversation, it is definitely a pity for a monk to live in this deep mountain and old forest.

"Master, are you from the Dai nationality?"

"Yes, yes, my ancestral home is from XSBN... Before, the composition of the family was a little high, and the whole family fled to Myanmar. I was also born in Myanmar, but my family moved back when I was very young. In Huaping."

"Then when will you take refuge in the lotus seat?"

"I became a monk at the age of seven, almost 30 years."

Chen Xing was a little puzzled, and asked: "According to what you said, master, your family should not be short of money, right? Seven years old is the age to go to school, why didn't you continue to go to school?"

"I enrolled, but there were no textbooks at that time. Before the millennium, southern Yunnan was too poor, and all the textbook fees paid by the students were given to the teachers for salary. I simply dropped out of school and entered a temple."

The whole country was quite poor at that time, but Chen Xing was surprised by collecting students' textbook fees to pay teachers' salaries. He asked again, "Is it voluntary or for some reason? Is there no objection at home?"

This is not a fake monk, acting in scenic spots during the day and wearing a wig at night is no different from modern people.

A real monk, once he enters Buddhism, he will take refuge in his whole life, and such things as passing on the family line are almost unthinkable.

"I voluntarily, and the family understands."

Seeing that Chen Xing didn't quite understand, Da Jingteng explained: "Our family believes in Buddhism. According to the precepts of Theravada Buddhism, every male must become a monk once when he was a teenager, but most of them are short-term behaviors. I just I fell in love with the feeling of reading Buddhist scriptures aloud, and I just want to make this my lifelong career."

Chen Xing was in awe.

But looking at the expression on the monk's face now, it is clear that he has no regrets so far.

Being able to understand one's ambition when he was a teenager is definitely something worth showing off and working hard for. Chen Xing also feels the same way now, but this ambition is not to become a scientist or an astronaut, but to become a monk , this kind of perseverance made Chen Xing admire.

He chatted a lot with monk Da Jingteng, and seeing that it was almost noon, he decided to leave.

He and Yang Xiu are going down to the wedding banquet.

As soon as he told the monk his intention to go, the monk Da Jingteng shouted: "Chen Xing benefactor, since you are inspired to travel around the world, I can't help you, but I can consecrate and pray for you, would you like to?" ?”

"Is there anything I don't want, what should I do?"

He doesn't believe in Buddhism, but it's still the same sentence, come and go.

And he admires this eminent monk more... In his opinion, this is definitely an eminent monk. During the conversation, all kinds of little stories with philosophy came at his fingertips, which made people unclear.

"You come with me."

Chen Xing and he walked out of the hall and came to the side of the wooden house, where there was a small table with two low benches facing each other.

He asked Chen Xing to sit down here, and he went into the room and brought two red ropes.

The name is red rope, but it looks like a colored rope, a two-millimeter-diameter colored rope made of interwoven ropes of various colors.

He asked Chen Xing to stretch out his dominant hand, and then kept chanting sutras. He measured Chen Xing's wrist on the way, cut off part of it, then asked Chen Xing to hold a lighter, burn the two knots of the rope, and finally connected the rope to the on the wrist.

"..., safe and sound, safe journey."

Chen Xing couldn't understand a large section of scriptures, but he spoke Mandarin in the last two sentences.

"Thank you master."

Da Jingteng smiled kindly, then greeted Yang Xiu who had been hiding in the distance, and said, "Child, do you want to try?"

Yang Xiu was a little moved, but quickly shook her head and said, "My grandpa will definitely be upset, I'm sorry..."

Chen Xing looked at Da Jingteng, then held Yang Xiu's hand and said, "It's okay, Master won't be angry with you, then Master Da Jingteng, we're leaving, and I'll come see you again when I have a chance."

Da Shizuo waved his hand.

Chen Xing took Yang Xiu down the mountain.

(End of this chapter)