Wandering

Chapter 33

(Reminder: Now many people are writing a literary work with the theme of "cultivation", which is mostly found on the Internet. However, what is the meaning of the word "cultivation"? What is the truth of cultivation? Ask ten people, and nine I can't answer for half of them. In fact, the word "cultivation" originated from the sentence "Cultivation in the body, its virtue is true" in Chapter 54 of "Lao Tzu".

Someone will ask again: "Why is it 'cultivating the body' instead of 'cultivating the heart'?" To answer this question, you can use a rhetorical question: "Who can see your heart? Words and deeds come from the heart , and manifest it in the body. The words and deeds of this body are your heart. You can’t say that you have good thoughts in your heart, but you go to kill and set fire every day.” Zeng Zi said “I examine myself three times a day” is the same reason.Therefore, "cultivation" can also be said to be "practice".

There is another problem to pay attention to: Buddhist disciples generally do not talk about the word "cultivation", but only "practice".Giving, keeping precepts, and enduring humiliation are all practiced in practice.Cultivation is not just about meditating and reciting mantras, but about starting from the subtleties of every word and deed, so this chapter tells a little story about "picking out the trash". )
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Zhou Song stood in a very open place, there were piles of things everywhere, and flies were flying around.He lowered his head, holding a plastic woven bag in his left hand and a wire hook in his right hand, rummaging through these things for something.On closer inspection, he was actually rummaging through the trash!Am I right?Zhou Song was actually picking up junk in the garbage dump!

Shang Yunfei waved his hand again, and the mirror surface turned into an ordinary white paper again. The white paper seemed to have lost its support in mid-air and fell to the ground.Looking at Shang Yunfei's behavior at this time, four words popped up in my mind inexplicably: "Laoshan Taoist"!The way he looked just now didn't look like a monk at all, he was just a replica of the Laoshan Taoist priest in "Liao Zhai".

"Yunfei, what kind of illusion did you show me? What does this mean?"

He didn't look at the blank paper, but said to me: "This is not an illusion, what you see is the real Zhou Song. He is currently picking out the trash in the garbage dump! ——This is the secret of my Buddhist Yuanguang Mirror technique, you won’t understand.”

Depend on!It turns out that it is really the kung fu of the round light mirror. Shang Yunfei uses it so miraculously, much better than me!He said that I don't understand, and I can't say that I have learned it too-Junzi Feng won't let me say it.I'm just curious, confused and puzzled.I absolutely can't figure out why Zhou Song picks up trash?There are 53 students in our class, whoever picks up the trash may not be Zhou Song's turn?The reason is very special, because Zhou Song is a very clean person!According to the current words, he has a cleanliness.

Zhou Song's family background is not very good, I heard that his parents are ordinary workers.The clothes he wears are often work clothes issued by his father's factory. Although some are very old and washed white, they are always clean and spotless!Not only the clothes, but also his hair and hands are clean, and there is not even a speck of dirt in his nails.Even in the textbooks he used, he never scribbled a word. After one semester, the books in his schoolbag are like new ones!This is not something that ordinary people can do, and it is even a bit abnormal.Just such a person, how could you think that he would rummage through the filthy garbage dump where the flies are flying around?
I asked Shang Yunfei: "Is this true? How could Zhou Song pick up trash!"

Shang Yunfei was slightly moved, and his face immediately returned to calm, and he said lightly: "Of course it is true. As for why, it has nothing to do with you and me. Everyone has their own destiny, and there is karma from previous lives and future lives. You don't have to. To force it to the end."

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"Mr. Feng, I occasionally saw Zhou Song in the round light mirror. I saw him wearing tattered clothes, holding a broken bowl, and eating in a golden house... Just now Yunfei used a piece of white paper to fix the round light in the air Mirror... What I saw was Zhou Song digging through the trash! What's going on?"

I asked Feng Junzi the same question again.It wasn't me looking for him, it was he who came to look for me. As soon as I left Yunfei's dormitory, he blocked me.What does he come to school on Sunday?It turned out that he knew that I was looking for Mr. Zhang today, and came here to ask me about my situation.Before I was in a hurry to say what Mr. Zhang said, I asked him this question first.It's really because the circular light mirror that Shang Yunfei used just now is too miraculous, and what he sees in the mirror is too bizarre.

"Circular light mirror? What do you think of Zhou Song? Didn't I tell you that Taoism cannot be used indiscriminately if there is no chance?"

"I'm just curious. After I learned the circular light mirror, the first person I saw was Zhou Song..."

Feng Junzi waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it, just read it, since you read it, I will also take a look..." As he spoke, he pulled me into my dormitory next door.The time was after lunch on Sunday. Some students in the same dormitory went to the playground to play football, and some went to the classroom for self-study. There was no one else in the room.

Feng Junzi looked around and closed the door furtively.Asked me: "How does Shang Yunfei use the circular light mirror?"

I told Shang Yunfei the whole process of cutting paper into a mirror.Feng Junzi looked at the wall of the dormitory and sneered softly. On the other side of the wall was Shang Yunfei's dormitory, and Yunfei was sitting in the dormitory at this time.Feng Junzi waved at me: "Shi Ye, come here, does he use a circular mirror like this..."

I walked over, and Feng Junzi suddenly grabbed one of my hands, and whispered: "Use my supernatural powers!" He said this again, and I'm used to it.But this time was a little different. After he finished chanting this mantra, he scratched his head with the other hand and didn't speak for a long time, as if he was thinking about something.

He stood there thinking for a long time, finally stretched out a finger, and said in his mouth: "The Saha world is colorful." As he spoke, he drew a circle clockwise from left to right on the wall with his finger, and saw this With one stroke of painting, a circular aperture suddenly appeared on the wall, smooth like a mirror, but nothing could be seen in the mirror!Feng Junzi thought for a while and then said in his mouth: "Using color to change the emptiness, and emptiness to enter the color." He stretched out his finger and drew a circle around the edge of the mirror counterclockwise from right to left.This stroke is completed, and the light and shadow in the mirror appear immediately!
Feng Junzi actually drew a circle with his empty fingers, and drew such a circular mirror on the wall.Just listening to what he said, it was clearly not Taoist formulas, but rather like words in Buddhist scriptures.I have always seen Shang Yunfei as a quasi-monk with no shaved head, and Feng Junzi as a fake Taoist priest without a bun.what is it today?Monks behave like Taoist priests, and Taoist priests behave like monks?It's just that the round light mirror spells used by the two of them are much better than mine!My circular light mirror is just a circle of light and shadow in front of my eyes, only I can see it, and others don't know it.And the circular light mirror sacrificed by these two people can turn the emptiness into reality, and I can see it clearly even standing on the side!

I saw Zhou Song still in the mirror.The scene I saw was the same as what Yunfei showed me just now——Zhou Song held a woven bag in his left hand and a rake wrapped in thick wire in his right, and was rummaging through garbage.Feng Junzi was probably taken aback when he saw the scene in the mirror, he was stunned for a second, and then snapped his fingers.This illusory mirror suddenly and silently shattered, turning into fragments of light and shadow and disappearing, and the wall was still the original wall.

"Why is the mirror broken? I haven't seen it clearly yet!"

Feng Junzi: "This round light mirror is not for you to comb your hair! It's enough for the light and shadow to flash, there is no one who is always there to play with it! Otherwise, no one can stand it!"

Feng Junzi reminded me of a past experience.That was when I just learned the "Three Dreams in the World". I heard that after the Yin God came out of the dream, there was clairvoyance, and I stared at this and that for more than an hour.As a result, I felt dizzy and dizzy the next day, so I almost couldn't get out of bed.Later, Junzi Feng told me that fortunately I was using my supernatural powers in my dream, and my energy consumption was very weak, otherwise I would be in great trouble for doing what I did, and I could have been sent to the hospital directly.

Feng Junzi said to himself there again: "How could Zhou Song go to the garbage? Such a clean person, I borrowed his eraser last time to wipe the dirt, and he used a knife to cut off a piece... Shi Ye, you Do you know what's going on?"

"I don't know, I still want to ask you what's going on."

"I know that place, it's a garbage dump in the east of the city... Let's go and have a look! Let's go and have a look."

If there is a word on a person's forehead, then Shang Yunfei must have written "Don't ask me about nothing" on his forehead, and Feng Junzi must have "Love to join in the fun" written on his forehead.Feng Junzi asked me to go to the garbage dump in the east of the city to see Zhou Song pick the rags.

To be honest, when I first saw Zhou Song rummaging through the trash, I couldn't figure it out.But when I was walking on the road, I gradually figured it out, and after I figured it out, I didn't want to go.Zhou Song definitely has no interest in garbage, his behavior is "picking up waste" or "scavenging".If more than ten years later, it is normal that there will always be an army of scavengers in the garbage dump, and a garbage village may even develop around the garbage dump.But in Wucheng in 1990, although the economy was not as prosperous as it was more than ten years later, there were indeed very few people who specialized in waste picking at that time, and I didn't expect it for a while.

Of course, the purpose of picking up junk is not to collect it, it must be to sell it for money at the waste recycling station.In this way, there may be some troubles in his family, or financial difficulties, Zhou Song had to use this method to find two pocket money.In fact, when I was free at home, I often went to the mountains to dig winter bamboo shoots, crack walnuts, peel chestnuts, and pick hawthorns. During holidays, I even went to the kiln to move bricks, just to earn two dollars to subsidize the family.These are actually more difficult than picking waste, but there is no way, this is how children from poor families grow up.

The children in the city may not be as good as the children in the mountains in this aspect. There are no such jobs to do in the city.The society at that time was not like what it would be more than ten years later. High school students did not have any opportunities for part-time work and part-time study. It was very rare for me to meet Sister Han who asked me to help out at a noodle shop.Zhou Song ran to the garbage dump to pick up waste products. From his point of view, it was probably the best way he could think of at a young age.

As for why Zhou Song loves cleanliness so much (I didn't know the word cleanliness at the time.)?It seems contradictory, but it is also understandable. This is due to an almost distorted self-esteem.Nowadays, many people from poor backgrounds have achieved a little success in big cities, and they will more or less have this kind of mentality, that is, they are afraid that others will look down on them.This kind of psychology has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that this kind of person is more self-motivated, and the disadvantage is that when interacting with others, they are too sensitive and easily feel hurt for no reason.In fact, I used to have this kind of mentality more or less. For example, if I didn’t have new clothes to wear during the Chinese New Year, I felt uncomfortable with other children.But I didn't behave as strongly or even alienated like Zhou Song, and as I grew older, especially after learning Taoism, this mentality completely faded away.

I want to persuade Gentleman Feng not to watch the excitement, but I don't know how to explain it to him.He was dragged all the way to the east of the city, passed through the farmer's market, and then went to the outskirts of the city.The two of us drilled through a bush, and there was a garbage dump in front of us.At that time, Wucheng's economy was not well developed, and there was not as much domestic garbage as later. There was only such a large garbage dump in the whole city.The piles of rubbish were as tall as a person, exuding a pungent smell, and my feet felt soft, and I didn't know what to step on.

I have practiced the kung fu of contemplation of uncleanness, and I don't feel any discomfort in this kind of dirty state.Feng Junzi was different. He covered his nose and took every step carefully. He obviously didn't like this place very much.But just like that, he still wants to watch the excitement.Turning around two piles of rubbish and seeing Zhou Song from a distance, he was still buried in searching for something.

When Junzi Feng saw Zhou Song, he was about to greet him. I quickly grabbed him, dragged him to the back of the garbage dump, and whispered to dissuade him: "Junzi Feng, don't go over, it's best not to let him see us."

"Why? People are here, ask him what's going on." Feng Junzi asked a little puzzled.

"Think about it yourself, if you come to school with clean clothes every day, but on Sunday, you secretly go to the garbage dump to pick up waste, would you be ashamed to let your classmates see it?"

Feng Junzi blinked his eyes, seeing his expression suddenly enlightened.In fact, Feng Junzi is almost the smartest person I have ever met. I heard that he had to pass the No. 1 Wucheng Juvenile Quiz Competition when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school (information obtained by Mr. Zhang).The more I got in touch with Feng Junzi, I felt mysterious and unpredictable at first, but then I gradually realized that he was indeed a child, and he did not exceed the normal behavior of a young man.A tall man is a tall man, and a young man is a young man, which is clearly reflected in him.He is very smart and has superb means, but he is not prudent in his actions. Indeed, it is impossible for him to be prudent and mature at this age.

For example, Zhou Song's mentality at this time, Junzi Feng has never experienced it, and he has never been exposed to such a situation in his life. If he doesn't understand it, he really doesn't understand it.But his cleverness is that he probably understands as soon as I say it.He took my hand and retreated back behind the bushes at the edge of the dump.Asked me in a low voice: "It seems that his family is having a hard time. Is there any way to help him?... Shi Ye, don't you have 2000 yuan left? Lend it to him!"

As soon as this gentleman changed his mind, he actually started thinking about me.In fact, I already have a house and a store in the city. Although I don't have any substantial income, I have already entered a moderately prosperous life.Although I didn't spend the 2000 yuan, psychologically I don't care that much anymore, even if I give it to Zhou Song, it doesn't matter.But things can't be done that way.

A person who rummages through the garbage can sit in the classroom spotlessly after turning around. What a strong sense of self.To this kind of person, if you give him money out of nowhere, you are obviously pitying him, just like hitting him in the face. Not only will he not want it, but he will hate you instead.I patiently followed Mr. Feng and explained my thoughts, and Mr. Feng also thought it made sense. The two of us hid in the bushes and watched Zhou Song dig through the garbage, and we couldn't think of any good solution for a while.

"Shi Ye, you have a good eye. Look at what Zhou Song is doing. What are you pulling out?"

How did this Feng Junzi practice his Taoism?His eyes are not as good as mine!I told him: "He was picking wires, drawing copper wire from the plastic skin, and the copper wire can be sold for money." When I said this, I suddenly had a thought, and tried to ask Feng Junzi: "Feng Junzi, you are not a supernatural power. Da Guang, you might as well use a spell to help him pick things up."

Feng Junzi slapped his thigh: "You boy, why didn't you say it earlier! I've been researching the Leifa of the Zhengyi School these days. Although I haven't figured out what the real thing is, it's still okay to pick up trash... stretch out your hand !" Do you think this gentleman is annoying?Every time he has to use his supernatural powers, he has never seen him cast any spells alone.

Feng Junzi also stooped over to find an old wire from the garbage dump, took out a knife to cut off the outer skin, and pulled out a length of thin core.I saw that it was made of aluminum, so I threw it on the ground, drilled there and found another one, and this time it was a copper wire.He wrapped this thin copper wire around his right index finger, grabbed my hand with his left hand, pointed at the garbage dump with his right index finger and shouted in a low voice: "Use my supernatural powers! Brilliant sky thunder, lead it with copper!"

Feng Junzi recently borrowed supernatural powers, and I almost didn't feel uncomfortable anymore. The reason is that my Taoism cultivation base can be regarded as having a solid foundation.But this time it was still a little uncomfortable, my whole body was numb and crisp like an electric shock.I had the illusion that all the garbage in the dump in front of me was squirming slightly.Then I saw fine grains of rubbish on the ground in front of me, as if there were many small snakes rushing toward us from below.

A string of thin copper wires jumped out of the ground and landed in front of our eyes. It was the copper wires in the electric wire, even the skin was peeled off!Then it became more lively, and things kept popping out of the garbage dump and piled up in front of us.These things include: caps on screws, knobs on batteries, lids on jugs, leather on lampshades.All of them are made of copper—in short, only broken copper, no rotten iron!These things piled up in front of us like a hill, and the most interesting thing is that a few copper plates from the Guangxu period rolled out of them.Feng Junzi is always interested in old things, and he doesn't care whether the copper plate is dirty, so he picks it up and puts it in his pocket.

"Feng Junzi, didn't you help Zhou Song pick things up? How did you put them in your pocket?"

"This pile of broken copper is worth a thousand catties. Can he take it away?... Besides, this is called if you want to give it first, you must take it first.... Flash forward, Zhou Song is here."

All people have spiritual consciousness and inspiration, but ordinary people are much weaker than cultivators in this regard, but it is not completely absent.Feng Junzi was doing something to the garbage dump. Zhou Song, who was standing in the garbage dump, probably felt that something was wrong, and looked up to this side.It just so happened that at this moment the pile of broken bronze wares kept jumping out, making tinkling noises, Zhou Song didn't know what was going on, and walked over here.

Junzi Feng and I quickly dodged, withdrew from the bushes, made a big circle, and ran into the garbage dump.Just like the Communist Army and the National Army fighting guerrillas, we changed places with Zhou Song.From the inside of the garbage dump, you can only see Zhou Song's back. He is standing in front of the pile of broken copper and looking around. I can't see his expression clearly. I guess he is quite surprised.He looked around for three to five minutes, saw no one else, and took out a shovel from the woven bag.Um?What is Zhou Song doing?Instead of putting broken copper in the bag, he found a hidden place in the bushes to dig a hole!
Looking at it, I understood, it turned out that Zhou Song found this pile of bronze utensils from nowhere, but there was no one around, and he couldn't take it away by himself, so he moved his mind.He dug holes in five different places in the bushes before he put the pile of broken copper separately, then covered it with soil, trampled it down, and covered it with a layer of garbage.There was a small pile left on the ground, which he packed in his bag.He carried the bag on his back and walked out. The bag was so heavy that it bent his waist like a big shrimp.

Looking at his leaving back, I felt a very uncomfortable feeling in my heart.On the one hand, I felt sad for Zhou Song, and on the other hand, I vaguely felt that there was something wrong with this person—he was too lonely, and wanted to take away all the things, no matter who got them.

Feng Junzi probably didn't think as much as I thought. Seeing Zhou Song leave and pulling me out of the garbage dump from the other side, his expression seemed to be very satisfied with what he had just done.On the way I asked him, "What spell did you use just now? You got all the bronze utensils out of the trash."

Feng Junzi smiled smugly: "Let me tell you, this is the famous-Shenxiao Tianlei!"

God night thunder? !Hearing these four words, I almost sat down in the garbage dump.I have heard of Shenxiao Tianlei, the Shenxiao Tianlei in Wulei Tianxin's Fa-rectification!Few people who study Taoism do not know.Mr. Zhang told me, and Feng Junzi also mentioned it to me.The Thunder God Sword among the Three Treasures of Zhengyi is said to be the best sharp weapon for unleashing the Divine Xiao Tianlei.It is said that once the Shenxiao Tianlei is cast, it will have the power of nine days of thunder and calamity, and the direction of the thunderbolt will be difficult for gods and ghosts. In the legend, it is miraculous and powerful!But Feng Junzi actually used it to pick up the trash in the garbage dump today. If the patriarch who created Shenxiao Tianlei knew this, even if he can still live to this day, he will be pissed off by this kid.

Gentleman Feng saw my astonished and unbelievable expression, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Actually, I don't know about the gang steps, ascending talismans, secret spells, and tool guides that Shenxiao Tianlei pays attention to, and no one taught them. Over me. I'm just trying to figure out the way to do it, use one thing as a guide, gather the power of my mind to stimulate external things... just imitate, just imitate."

After working on it for a long time, his Shenxiao Tianlei is fake and shoddy. Feng Junzi only practiced alchemy and didn't understand the thunder method, and he was just imitating the effect of the thunder method according to what he had learned.When I went back, Junzi Feng remembered the serious business of looking for me, and asked Mr. Zhang what he had said to me?There is nothing to hide. I told him exactly what Mr. Zhang said, but omitted the part where Mr. Zhang investigated his information.

"Mr. Zhang is really an old Jiang Hu, he thinks more than I do. You can do as he wants, this is also a test for you. Also, I found that today I can take you as my teacher." Feng The gentleman said after listening.

"Take me as your teacher?"

"Yeah, Zhou Song, you handled this matter rightly. If I had to, I might have messed it up. You are three years older than me, and it seems that you have lived for three years in vain.... In order to express my gratitude, I decided to give you another three years." Teach you something."

I laughed secretly in my heart, this has nothing to do with me being three years older than him, but has something to do with the environment and experience of life.What is he going to teach me?I asked: "Teach me what? How about picking up the tattered Shenxiao Tianlei?"

Feng Junzi: "Not this! It's too early for you to learn this, and even if you learn it, it won't be very useful - you still want to pick up junk? What I want to teach you is how to use the rules of the cultivation world..."

(End of this chapter)