Wandering

Chapter 36

(Inscription: It’s just a hypothesis. If the god in Europe went to Mount Emei to show his spirit, what would happen? I’m afraid people will not regard him as a god, but think they have seen the light of Buddha. Vice versa. People are living in various In various circles, sometimes I thought I was out, but ended up in another. In 1937, the Holy See finally lifted a ban that had lasted for more than 200 years - "allowing" Chinese people to worship Confucius and ancestors. Funny huh? You can't laugh at all if you know how this complicated history has gone. God isn't jealous, only the Pope is.)
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Seeing Junzi Feng come out, I let go of Yiyi a little bit embarrassed.Seeing Yiyi's appearance, she seemed to be a little afraid of Feng Junzi. Although her expression was a little aggrieved, she still stood aside and whispered: "I know."

"Why am I so unlucky? Others preach the Dharma, which disciple doesn't serve tea and water respectfully. I am lucky. I taught you one person and one ghost. You hugged each other in front of me and didn't even say goodbye. Don't even ask." Although Feng Junzi was dissatisfied with his words, there was no sense of dissatisfaction in his tone, and he laughed himself while talking.

"Is there a teacup and teapot? I'll pour you some tea right now." Seeing him laughing, I replied to him.

Feng Junzi waved his hand: "Liu Yiyi, you just took shape, you must hurry up and consolidate your foundation. There is a sky-watching stone on the top of Zhaoting Mountain. You can go there now. Follow the method I taught you, and perform exercises against the full moon. ...the days are long, you have plenty of time to see your brother Shi."

Liu Yiyi agreed, looked at me again, and floated up the mountain reluctantly.I finally had a chance to ask Feng Junzi: "Feng Junzi, what the hell are you doing? You made such a big noise! ​​Guess what I saw just now?"

Feng Junzi didn't answer my question, but walked up to me and waved a finger in front of my eyes, asking me: "Shi Ye, what is this?"

"A finger."

"Are you sure it's one or two? Is it a finger or a foot?"

I replied puzzled: "A finger is a finger."

Feng Junzi nodded, and said with some satisfaction: "Well, it's not bad. Your nerves are quite normal, and you haven't been stunned or fooled... I didn't expect that this devil's calamity would pass you so easily. "

"What did you say? Demon Realm Tribulation, didn't you say that I can hide from the Six Heavens? Why did Demon Realm Tribulation appear again?"

Feng Junzi: "The so-called demon realm calamity, from the point of view of alchemy, refers to the time when the medicine is collected to make a pill, and the elixir passes through the throat and falls into the middle palace. The cultivator will see various visions in front of his eyes. This vision comes from the appearance of internal medicine. In the shadow of light. Some people are disturbed by visions at this step, their minds are lost, and their Taoism cannot be improved. What is more serious is that if this person has a defect in his mind, he may become crazy. This is The catastrophe of the demon realm with four gates and twelve floors! Have you encountered it? You haven’t, and I said you escaped it.”

"I dodged it when you said that, but just now you said..."

Feng Junzi interrupted me: "Human robbery, there are always reasons and consequences. It's not something you hid, but you sent it to the door yourself. I didn't ask you to come today, you came here by yourself... Actually, it was as early as I expected In the middle. I just didn’t expect that you could live so easily... Let me ask you, are you really not afraid at all? If it were me, I’m afraid you’d pee your pants in fright.”

When Feng Junzi was talking, he glanced back and forth in the direction of my thighs, as if to see if I had peed my pants.Hearing what he said, I also thought about it carefully.Am I not afraid?I should be afraid!If it was more than a year ago, I suddenly saw the scene just now, and I might be scared to death if I was not scared to death.People in the world are afraid of ghosts, most of them are because of the conceptual fear of death and the fear of the unknown world, and there are still some people who, if they really saw ghosts, would leave a shadow behind that terrifying scene, and the thought of will tremble.

But I am different now.I know ghosts and have seen ghosts, so I don't have any preconceived fears about the concept.Another reason is very important. The first "ghost" I saw as an adult was not some evil ghost with a long tongue and staring eyes, but the lovely Liu Yiyi.It is for this reason that when I saw ghosts floating around, my first feeling was shock, not fear at all.I just endured it in a daze.

"What were those things that were floating around just now? Are they all lonely ghosts?"

Feng Junzi: "This world is a mess, there is everything! What you see may not be all ghosts, and I can't tell what it is!"

"What did you do? How did you recruit these things? Also, I still see the sky..."

I just wanted to tell him that I saw that the clouds in the sky and the trees on the ground became very strange, but Junzi Feng interrupted me: "Don't tell me what you see. The secrets of heaven come out, but there is no heart. Seeing is not seeing." , I don’t know if I’m not bothered. I don’t want to know!”

I listened to his words, looked at his expression, and suddenly four words popped up in my heart-to deceive my ears and steal my ears!Of course I wouldn't say that about him in person. He asked me not to say it, so I didn't say it, but changed the subject: "Is Liu Yiyi no different from a normal person now? I touched her hand just now."

Feng Junzi: "It's not that simple, she just came out of an incarnation. She's not a human being! It's hard to explain, you can just act like a mountain god....She is still in the mountain god statue, and the incarnation is inseparable This is the range of Zhaoting Mountain."

Liu Yiyi left the mountain temple, but still couldn't leave Zhaoting Mountain.I asked Feng Junzi: "Why? Why can't she leave Zhaoting Mountain?"

Feng Junzi: "She is the God of Zhaoting Mountain, so of course she can't leave Zhaoting Mountain. Think about it for yourself, will the God of the West go to Mount Emei to manifest? Of course it is impossible."

"Then will she be like this forever?"

Feng Junzi: "What are you in a hurry, just think of a way. Didn't you think of a way before!...Don't worry about others, but think about yourself, you are going to see the Living Buddha in a few days!"

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Recently, I have developed the habit of looking at the calendar and counting the days with my fingers every day.What is it?I'm counting the summer solstice.It was no coincidence that Shang Yunfei told me that the day the living Buddha wanted to see me was the day after the summer solstice.This day is June 1990, 23, Saturday.Shang Yunfei said that he would come to see me this morning and lead me to Guangjiao Temple.

As soon as I woke up, Yunfei came and asked me to go to the cafeteria for breakfast.After breakfast, the two of us hit the road.Guangjiao Temple is [-] miles away from downtown Wucheng, and you can ride a bicycle for this distance, but neither Yunfei nor I have bicycles.Without a bicycle, I can take a short-distance urban and rural bus, but Yunfei does not take a bus. He must walk, and I have to walk with him.

Shang Yunfei was unhappy to leave at first, and we walked through Wucheng together.After leaving the city and coming to the outskirts of the city, the number of pedestrians gradually decreased, and there were only occasional vehicles.I suddenly felt that Shang Yunfei quickened his pace.His walking posture has not changed, his pace has not changed, and he seems to be normal, but his forward speed is much faster—at least not slower than a bicycle.As he sped forward, he looked back at me a few times, as if to see if I could keep up.

Although I am not a long-distance runner, I grew up traveling over mountains and mountains, and my current Jinlongsuo Yuzhu's body is much stronger than ordinary people.So I ran after him.It's just that the two of us feel different, he is walking, walking buoyantly, while I am running, striding away.

The faster I run, the faster he walks, there is always a distance of tens of meters between me and him.In the end, I was almost sprinting, but he still seemed to be walking unhurriedly, but he always left me a short distance away.We were rushing along the road one after the other, and we accidentally passed a bus that was dangling and smoking from its buttocks.Fortunately, there are no pedestrians on the side of the road in the suburbs. In fact, if someone sees Shang Yunfei, they won't care too much. As for me, they may take it as a long-distance runner.

Leaving the highway and walking on a loess road, he had already arrived at the Zhaoting Lake, saw the red bricks and yellow tiles of Guangjiao Temple and the pilgrims coming and going from a distance, Yunfei then slowed down and returned to normal speed .This little lama is really worthy of being a master's disciple, and he showed me his hand inadvertently.I don't know what kind of kung fu is this?If I have a chance, I will learn too, so that I don't have to buy a ticket to take the bus when I go home to see my parents.

Zhaoting Lake is neither big nor small, located in a green hills and valleys.After passing Zhaoting Lake, there is a ten-mile peach garden. Every spring, there is the famous "ten-mile peach blossom" in Wucheng.Not far after passing the ten-mile peach garden, you will arrive at the foot of Zhaoting Mountain.Guangjiao Temple faces south and faces north, and the mountain gate faces Zhaoting Lake, which is also a place with beautiful scenery.

This day happens to be the weekend, so there are many tourists and pilgrims.The hollow door in the center of Guangjiao Temple is not open, and only the side doors on the left and right sides are left for tourists to enter and exit.When Shang Yunfei walked to the front of the temple gate, I quickly chased after him.He glanced back at me and said, "I didn't expect you to be able to keep up all the way. It seems that you have a good foundation! It's just that you haven't learned the method of inner breath, and you run around with teeth and claws, without any dignity..."

"Stop, let's just talk about you two! What are you two kids doing, where are the tickets?... I don't know how to buy a ticket, go over there and buy a ticket."

Yunfei was making a profound statement about dignity to me, and I happened to hear him talking about the method of inner breath. At the same time, the two of us were walking towards the entrance of the side door on the right side of Guangjiao Temple, but we were stopped by a man in a yellow jacket. The man blocked it with his hand.It turned out that this person was the ticket inspector at the gate of Guangjiao Temple.

Guangjiao Temple is now open to tourists and is a tourist attraction in Wucheng.Except for Buddhist disciples, all other tourists and pilgrims must buy tickets to enter the temple.Probably all the gatekeepers knew Yunfei before, and no one stopped him, so he didn't think of this.Today, however, the gatekeeper didn't know Yunfei. Seeing us two students walking towards the temple, he blocked it with his hand.

"I am a disciple of the Living Buddha, and he is the guest that the Living Buddha is inviting today. What kind of ticket do you want?" Yun Fei didn't get angry with the person blocking the way, but explained to him seriously.

The man was in his 40s, wearing a narrow-brimmed hat, holding a cigarette in his mouth, showing his yellow teeth, and exhaled from his nostrils: "There are all kinds of strange things. Are you a disciple of the Buddha in the temple? You were invited by the Buddha." Guests? It’s just you two bastards...a ticket costs five yuan, so don’t try to get in if you don’t pay, I’ve seen a lot of nonsense, I’ve never seen such nonsense like you.”

The King of Hades is easy to see, but the imp is hard to be.All the way I was thinking about what it would be like to meet the Living Buddha, but I was stopped by a ticket inspector at the gate.According to my temper, in the past, I might drag Yunfei to buy a ticket. What reason can I talk to this kind of person?But today is different. Mr. Zhang told me to come in a fair manner, and it is best to come with drums and gongs.I don't know what beating gongs and drums is, but I just followed Yunfei. I didn't expect that when I arrived at the gate of the temple, I would actually jump out and beat the gongs.The dispute here has attracted the attention of many people around.

Thinking of this, I crossed my arms, didn't move or speak, and stood there watching with cold eyes.Only Yunfei said to the man with a blank face: "Who are you, you want to stop me from entering the temple."

"I'm from the Tourism Bureau. Standing here, it's people like you who stop me."

Judging from the appearance of that person, he doesn't look like a formal national cadre, probably a temporary worker hired by the Tourism Bureau locally, but his tone of voice is not small.Shang Yunfei didn't have a fit either, he reached out for his pocket, thinking he wanted to take out something, but he didn't take it out.He turned to look at me, and said with a bit of embarrassment, "Shi Ye, did you bring any money today?"

Two tickets cost ten yuan, and I still have them in my pocket, but I don't take them out under such circumstances.This Guangjiao Temple is really making a fool of itself. The Living Buddha wanted to invite me, but he didn't send someone to pick me up at the door. He actually had to buy a ticket.I said to Shang Yunfei with a look of embarrassment: "No, I didn't bring any money! How about we just wait at the door for your master to come out?"

Shang Yunfei's face was ugly, just at this moment a middle-aged monk wearing a red monk robe came out from the left door on the other side, and helped him out: "Little Master Uncle, this is Buddha's guest Shi Xiao Benefactor, right? You are really outside the door. The Buddha said just now that you encountered obstacles in entering the door, and asked me to come to the door to guide you. His old man is really good at predicting things!"

The red-robed monk stepped forward to salute and led us in. The gatekeeper didn’t stop us, but when I walked over, I heard him whispering: “You have to buy a ticket too!”

Walking into the mountain gate, the first floor is the Hall of Heavenly Kings, facing the grinning Maitreya Bodhisattva with big belly.Walking through the Hall of Heavenly Kings, I looked back and saw the Bodhisattva Wei Tuo behind Maitreya glaring, with the Demonic Pestle resting on the ground with both hands—it turned out that this temple does not allow travelers to place orders.

In front of you is the Mahavira Hall of the Third Buddha. There are the most tourists in front of the hall. Some people line up to kowtow in the hall, and some people offer incense in the candlestick incense burners on the left and right outside the hall.The monk led me forward, but I stopped in the middle of the courtyard.Facing the direction of the Buddhist hall, he clasped his hands together and raised his head above his head, bowing respectfully.After praying, pray again, after worshiping, pray again, after worshiping, pray again...

In short, I worshiped there for a long time, and the monk and Yunfei didn't want to disturb me when they saw me worshiping Buddha, so they just stood aside and waited quietly.You ask what am I doing?In fact, I'm making an appearance!I just want to stand in the place with the most people, so that everyone can see carefully. Today I came here in a fair manner, and I even worshiped the Buddha when I entered the temple!I knew someone must be paying attention to me in the dark, and I felt it as soon as I entered the temple gate.

Finally, after I finished praying, Shang Yunfei led me to follow the monk back.On the way, he asked me in a low voice: "Who taught you to worship Buddha in the temple? You are not a Buddhist disciple."

"My parents taught me. They taught me to respect elders and elders since I was a child. The Buddha is more than 700 years older than us, so there shouldn't be any problem showing respect. You still have to be polite..."

Talking through the Daxiong Hall, and then through the Eighteen Arhats Hall where the golden statue of the Yellow Sect master Tsongkhapa is enshrined in the middle of the third floor, and came to the lecture hall of the Guangjiao Temple in the backyard.The Lecture Hall is the place where the monks of Guangjiao Temple preach the Dharma and discuss the scriptures every day.At this time the door was open, and there were two red-clothed and yellow-hatted monks waiting in front of the door. When they saw the three of us, they greeted, "Has Donor Shi arrived? Please, the Buddha is waiting inside."

(End of this chapter)