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Is this ancient temple in front of me really the legendary temple?

If the speculation is true, this is undoubtedly extremely shocking.In a valley full of reddish-brown soil and gravel, an ancient temple is covered by dust, and it has a shocking history.

The more Liu Juan looked at it, the more he felt that this ancient temple was extraordinary.

The mountain behind was so majestic, vast and magnificent in the past, but it was eventually destroyed, leaving only a huge boulder on the ground.

And this ancient temple looks dilapidated, but it still stands tall, forming a strange contrast.

Accompanied by the Bodhi tree, the ancient Buddha with green lights, a little light like beans.

Plain and quiet, it can stand the tempering and test of time, and what is left is the "truth", and the extravagant is just a passing cloud.

Copper lamps, jade Buddhas, strange temples, and ancient trees seem to exist in this world forever.

All of this is peaceful and peaceful, making people feel like a spring breeze, as if there is a misty Zen singing.

"If this is really the legendary Shaolin Temple, the ancient tree growing in front of the temple should be the ancient Bodhi tree that Sakyamuni preached!"

At this time Liu Juan suddenly walked forward.

The ancient temple is very small, just a Buddhist temple, empty, almost nothing.

Liu Juan went straight to the Jade Buddha, and grabbed the ancient bronze lamp that accompanied him.

The copper lamp is ordinary and unremarkable, with a simple style, but it is warm and moist, without the cold and hard feeling of metal, it is like holding a piece of warm jade.What is amazing is that the ancient temple is full of dust, but the ancient bronze lamp is spotless, as if it can isolate the dust.

This temple has definitely not been cleaned for many years, and the dust has accumulated a thick layer, but the ancient lamp can avoid the dust, and it is still bright. Liu Juan has to be surprised. Could it be that it has been bright since the distant ancient times? Not now?

"It's really clean. There's nothing left except the Jade Buddha and the copper lamp." Liu Juan glanced around, but unfortunately, he didn't see any other artifacts.

At this moment, Liu Juan stepped on the thick dust, made a "clang" sound, and stepped out a cassock.

There are artifacts left by the gods!

"Kapok cassock!"

Picking up the kapok cassock, Liu Juan suddenly heard a kind of faint Zen singing, as if it came from outside the sky.

At first, he thought it was an illusion, but gradually the sound of the Buddha became louder, lingering in the whole ancient temple, like Huang Zhong Dalu shaking, solemn, vast, sublime, and mysterious.

Then the dust in the entire ancient temple receded, it was clean and clean, and there was a six-character mantra: "Om, ma, ne, ba, me, hum..."

Liu Juan was confused for a while, he looked at the Jade Buddha, could it be that he sang the Buddhist music just now.

The foot seems to have kicked something.

Liu Juan kicked again, "buzzing buzzing" made a metallic trill, and pushed away the dust in the corner, revealing a broken copper bell the size of a palm.There are flowing cloud patterns engraved on the copper bell, which is simple and simple with Zen and Buddha rhyme

"When..." He shook the copper bell, and suddenly there was a melodious sound, like the sound of the Buddha, which made people feel peaceful.

Liu Juan stepped out of the ancient temple and walked towards the Bodhi tree in front of the temple.At this time, he had gotten rid of his original mindset and temporarily convinced himself that the gods really existed.

Since the ancient temple is a small Shaolin Temple, how can you miss the bodhi tree beside it? If there is a Buddha in the world, that dry ancient tree must be extraordinary!

The bodhi tree is a sacred tree in Buddhism. According to the records in "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", the Buddha once said to Ananda that there are three kinds of utensils in the world that should be worshiped--Buddha bone relics, Buddha statues and bodhi trees.

Because the Buddha became enlightened under the Bodhi tree, seeing the Bodhi tree is like seeing the Buddha.

The dry ancient tree in front of me was as vigorous as a horned dragon, and six or seven people could not hug it. The trunk was hollow, and only a dead branch that hung two or three meters above the ground had six green leaves hanging on it, glittering like green agate. clear.

Regardless of whether this ancient tree is related to Buddha or not, the six green jade-like leaves alone are enough to show its extraordinary.

Liu Juan came under the tree and carefully looked at the ancient Bodhi tree. The huge branches almost completely pressed on the top of the ancient temple. If the branches were covered with leaves, one could imagine the scene of covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

At this moment, Liu Juan's heart skipped a beat, and he found that the six crystal green leaves were slightly invisible with colorful rays of light, a few of them drifted away, and most of them sank into the roots of the trees.

The glow is dotted, shaped like silk, constantly overflowing from the six green leaves, making people feel a breath of life, with endless vitality circulating.

Liu Juan squatted down to scrape away the soil at the root of the tree, wanting to see what was underneath that could condense the colorful rays of light overflowing from the bodhi leaves.

Under the soil, he didn't see any miraculous things, but only found a bodhi seed, which had no light to flicker, no flowers to gather, no clouds to surround, and the color was gray and ordinary. If you didn't pay attention, it would be mistaken for a clod of soil.

The only thing special is its size, the ordinary bodhi seed is only the size of a fingernail, but this gray bodhi seed is as big as a walnut.

Liu Juan was surprised for a while, could it be that the colorful glow overflowing from the bodhi leaf was absorbed by it?After observing for a while, I saw that the silky colorful rays of light flowed down and disappeared three inches away from the bodhi seed.

Although it has not been seen to absorb the essence of the bodhi leaf, it is almost confirmed that it caused it.

Liu Juan knew that in the early Tang Dynasty, Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen, wrote such a poem about the bodhi tree, which was widely circulated, so many people in later generations believed that there was no bodhi tree in the world. In fact, people misunderstood his original intention, the bodhi tree Not only does it exist, but it is also known as the thinking tree, which is a large evergreen tree of the genus Moraceae.

Hui Neng wrote "Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand; there is nothing, where can the dust be gathered." This poem is probably an extension from the Buddhist theory of "all four things are empty"!

The word "Bodhi" is a transliteration of the ancient Indian language (ie Sanskrit) bodhi, which means enlightenment and wisdom.

In English, the word "Bodhi tree" is peepul, bo-tree or large-tree, etc., all of which have the meaning of being magnanimous, merciful, discerning good and evil, and realizing the truth.

In plant taxonomy, the Latin scientific name of the Bodhi tree is ficus religosa, which means sacred religion.

The Bodhi tree seems to have a deep connection with Buddhism. According to legend, more than 2500 years ago, the Buddha Sakyamuni was Gautama Siddhartha, the prince of the Kapilavatthu Kingdom in northern India (in present-day Nepal), When he was young, in order to get rid of the samsara of birth, old age, sickness and death, and save the suffering beings, he resolutely gave up inheriting the throne and the comfortable life of the royal family, and became a monk to practice and seek the true meaning of life.

After many years of practice, I finally sat under the Bodhi tree for 7 days and 7 nights, overcame all kinds of evil temptations, and at the dawn of the sky, when the morning star rose, I achieved great enlightenment and finally became a Buddha.

Therefore, Buddhism has always regarded the Bodhi tree as a sacred tree, and India has designated it as a national tree.

Time is like water, and more than 2000 years have passed. The bodhi tree that Buddha "enlightened" has withstood countless ups and downs and has a mythical experience. It is recognized as a symbol of "great enlightenment" in the Buddhist circle.

Liu Juan also knew that there are four bodhi leaves on display in the Putuoshan Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall in Zhejiang Province. It is said that they were picked from this tree, so they have always been regarded as treasures and cherished by people.

"Two Sala trees, one flourishing and the other withered." Liu Juan looked at the dead tree in front of him, wondering where the other flourishing tree went.

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a river named Hiraniyadi in India, and there was a very tall and luxuriant sala tree (also called sala tree) on the bank.

One day when Sakyamuni was 80 years old (in India at that time, 80 years old was already a very old age), he walked into the Hiraniyadi River to take a bath, and then went ashore to the Sala Shuang forest.

He spread grass and leaves between two larger Sala trees, spread the sangha on top, and then turned his head to the north and west, resting his head on his right hand, lying on the sangha on the right side, and finally ascended to heaven in Nirvana.

Liu Juan looked at the ancient temple and thought that this is not the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, so naturally there are no Sala trees.

Liu Juan remembered that the Sala tree, also known as the horse chestnut, got its name because its leaves resemble palms and have seven leaves.

This tree blooms in early summer, the flowers are like a tower, and like a candlestick. When the flowers bloom, the palm-like leaves hold up the pagoda, and like a candlestick.Four small pale white petals are in full bloom, and the seven orange-red stamens in the flower core exude fragrance. Purple, like a thin veil. "

Liu Juan finally determined that this was a small Shaolin Temple, not the Temple of the Reclining Buddha where Sakyamuni ascended to heaven.