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Chapter 9
The next day, as soon as I opened the mountain gate, I saw dense crowds of people standing outside the gate.Some offered fruits with fragrant flowers, and some with sesame oil bait cakes.Zhou Shui arranged for someone to open the mountain gate wide.The believers lined up, there were thousands of people, but they were as silent as a silent movie.

The little novice led the believers outside Master Jingxuan's meditation room.At this time, the door of the meditation room was sealed, only a small hole was opened in the window, through which one could see the master's Dharma body.I saw that the master's five hearts turned to the sky, and he was in a state of tranquility.He was wearing a scarlet cassock.The face cannot be seen, and a crown of five Buddhas is directly covered from the top of the head, covering the face.

The believers walked under the window, even breathing much softer.Occasionally a muffled cry could be heard.After a while, offerings from believers were piled up under the window.Some simply put down the new hundred-dollar bills.Believers who have finished admiring the dharma body are led outside the mountain gate.There are monks who return the salute and entertain the believers in the same way.

Seeing that the order was in order, Zhou Shui explained a few words to the little novice, and then left.Zhou Shui organized a few idle monks to cook porridge in the dining room, boiled several large pots full, filled them in buckets, and carried them to the gate of the mountain.Bowls are prepared there, and when believers come out, each of them returns a bowl of vegetarian porridge to eat.

Zhou Shui ordered hundreds of choking noodle steamed buns from the grain store in the city, and delivered them three times a day. Visitors living in the temple took whatever they wanted, and there were pickled vegetables in the dining room, which was enough to supply.

In the afternoon, the believers gradually dispersed, and Zhou Shui breathed a sigh of relief.Because the abbot organized monks to chant scriptures, foreigners also joined in.Zhou Shui took time to sit in the living Buddha's meditation room for a while.For some reason, when Zhou Shui saw the Living Buddha, it was like seeing a close relative whom he had not met for a long time, and he felt close to him from the bottom of his heart.The Living Buddha also passed on several mantras by Zhou Shui in his spare time. These mantras are included in the conversion certificate, but they are all transliterated from Chinese characters, and the readings passed down by the Living Buddha are more accurate.

In the evening, the mountain gate was closed early.Except for the scripture chanters beside the dharma body, the rest can rest early.At midnight, there are also some rituals for fasting.Because the abbot didn't sleep well, maybe because he was in charge of the monastery at the beginning, he went to see the disciples who were chanting scriptures for a while, and visited the guest's residence for a while.

Zhou Shui couldn't sleep well either, he was squeezed into the same bed with the little monk, and he couldn't sleep well.To put it simply, the temple at this time is full of ancient trees and breeze seats, and it is good to see the night view.In the outer courtyard, Zhou Shui met Abbot Yin.After saying hello, the two sat side by side on the stone steps at the entrance of the hall.At this time, the night was as cool as water, and a round of bright moon hung in the sky, illuminating every fiber of the human body.

Zhou Shui looked at Abbot Yin, and saw that he seemed to be full of worries.Zhou Shui asked him: "Master, revered master, go west to the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss. As the saying goes, you will see the Buddha when the flowers bloom. Why are you unhappy instead?"

Liao Yin sighed softly: "Hey, that's not what the monk thinks. The second junior brother has no problem with discernment, and the third junior brother has a deep cultivation. Only I, the senior brother, can achieve nothing. I never thought that one day, the little monk will be the abbot of this thousand-year-old temple. But the master left in the last letter of the Religious Affairs Bureau, but actually passed on the position to the monk. The treasure temple is solemn, and I am afraid that the monk will not be able to succeed."

At this time the moon was in the sky, Monk Liaoyin raised his head, the light spread on his face, and Zhou Shui could see the details of his eyebrows clearly.Zhou Shui couldn't help exclaiming, he found that the appearance of the monk Liaoyin was very different from before - his status was so high that he almost refused to let his predecessor.

Zhou Shui's exclamation was because he understood a dharma principle: practice is very important, but the growth of fruit status also needs the help of chance.Now it is more than enough to abbot the Fasheng Temple with the status of a monk.Zhou Shui chuckled, stood up, and walked away.Monk Yin was left inexplicably.

At midnight, the monks came out of their residence and began to chant scriptures and make offerings. Zhou Shui returned to Fan's room, and after Fan went to the ritual place, Zhou Shui slept well for half the night alone.

At dawn, Zhou Shui got up, washed his face and rinsed his mouth.Around seven o'clock, the person who delivered the pine firewood came, driving a four-wheel tractor.Zhou Shui tested the quality of the pine wood, and it was not bad. They were all high-quality white pine, and the degree of drying was good.Zhou Shui asked people to move the pine wood into the middle courtyard, Zhou Shui paid the money, and sent the firewood seller away.

The dining room started to make breakfast, the porridge was ready, and the ordered steamed buns arrived.There were a lot of people, and they ate in batches. Zhou Shuihe had discussed with the abbot that the dharma body should stay for seven days, but now it is hot, so it has to be changed to three days.It must be refined before noon today.I also consulted some respected monks who watched the ceremony, and they had no objection.

After breakfast, we started to build up the Davi altar.Some senior monks commanded below, and the Dharma platform was set up in the shape of a tower with eight sides and seven levels. At this time, the monks watching the ceremony also surrounded them one after another.

The monks in the temple began to chant scriptures under the auspices of the great monk Liaoyin.At this time, it began to drizzle.The rain was clean and clear, and Zhou Shui was a little anxious, afraid that the rain would wet the pine wood.I discussed with Liaoyin whether to ignite the ignition in advance.Liaoyin also means this.Then I bumped into the two juniors from the Lower Court, and they also agreed.Everyone invited Gongge Tulku to preside over the ceremony, and Tulku did not refuse.

Around nine o'clock, the living Buddha shouted: "Please Dharma body."

With this sound, all the monks in the main temple of Fasheng Temple and the lower court knelt down.Among the monks of other temples, some of the lower seniority and lay believers who were watching the ceremony also knelt down.The four young monks lifted out a futon from one corner each, Master Jingxuan was still in a state of concentration, sitting upright with five hearts facing the sky.The four monks lifted the futon over their heads and placed it gently on the pine tower.At this time, the rain was getting heavier, and Liao Yin and Zhou Shui were very anxious. If they couldn't light the pine firewood, they would be in big trouble.

Zhou Shui turned around and saw Fan, beckoned, and pushed Fan over.Zhou Shui secretly said to him: "Go and get a few barrels of sesame oil for offering to the Buddha. If the fire doesn't ignite, or if it looks like it's about to go out, you can directly pour the sesame oil on the pine wood, and you can find a teacher or two to burn it." Brothers, one bucket per person, here to serve you."

The little novice nodded and squeezed out again from the crowd.It was still raining, and the Living Buddha was standing by the pine tower, chanting scriptures in Sanskrit.Zhou Shui and Liao rubbed their hands together anxiously.In the end, I was not in a hurry at all, because even if I ignited the fire immediately, it would definitely not catch fire.

After the living Buddha finished reading the scriptures, a monk handed him a lighted torch.Zhou Shui said in his heart: "Master, wow, Master, you are going to show your eyes this time, let's see how you light this fire?"

Holding the tinder, the Living Buddha chanted a seven-character incantation loudly. Following the incantation, the Living Buddha threw the tinder into the pile of pine wood.

The rain was not slow, the flames were excited by the rain, and the fire was getting weaker and weaker.Zhou Shui hurriedly looked for Fan.From a distance, I saw Fan and the other two young novice monks running over with wooden barrels in their hands.

The fire of the tinder is getting smaller and smaller, and it will soon be extinguished.Zhou Shui rubbed his hands anxiously.Out of the corner of his eye, he passed the living Buddha.The living Buddha's mouth was still moving, as if he was reciting some secret mantra.After more than ten seconds, the Living Buddha suddenly opened his eyes wide, pointed at Zen Master Jingxuan's dharma body, and shouted loudly: "Pa!"

As soon as the words fell, the Five Buddha Crown worn by Zen Master Jingxuan flew up suddenly, followed by a loud "click" on the top of his head, as if the parietal bone burst.I saw a white rainbow flying away from Master Jingxuan's top door, and went straight into the clouds.At this time, Zen Master Jingxuan's Dharma appearance was revealed.Everyone could clearly see that the master's cheeks were rosy and his face was full of joy.

Then there was a sound of "bang", the flames exploded, and the flame head rose more than one meter high.The pine wood was burning with a "snap" sound.For a while, everyone was dumbfounded.

It took Zhou Shui a long time to come back to his senses, subconsciously stretched out his hand to catch a few raindrops, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, and said to himself: "I never heard of gasoline being poured from the sky."

The rain that fell on the firewood was roasted by the flames, and a thin layer of water vapor was raised, which was full of the woody fragrance of pine wood.Sniff it carefully, but you can't smell the burnt burnt oil at all. Instead, it is accompanied by a stream of sandalwood.

At this time, the rain suddenly stopped, and then, a small rainbow appeared in the sky above Master Jingxuan's dharma body, only two meters high above his head.

Zhou Shui was in a daze, when suddenly there was a "beep", and a small spark splashed towards Zhou Shui.Zhou Shui dodged subconsciously, and the little Martian fell to his feet with a "sizzling" sound and was extinguished by the water stains on the ground.

Zhou Shui looked down and saw that it was a small milky white bead the size of a grain of rice.Zhou Shui bent over to pick it up, looked at it, and handed it to Abbot Yin.

Monk Liao Yin had been watching the flames burning and didn't pay attention to Zhou Shui's actions just now. He took the beads and glanced at them, suddenly startled, grabbed Zhou Shui's arm, and asked anxiously, "Where did it come from, where did it come from? "

Zhou Shui's wrist hurts from scratching.Zhou Shui threw it away and said, "It burst out of the fire and almost splashed on my face."

Liao Yin glanced at Zhuzhu, Zhou Shui, and Zen Master Jingxuan's remains on the pine tower, and suddenly burst into tears.Liao Yin cried and shouted: "Everyone, take a look, look quickly, this is my master's relic, relic, my master's."

Following the shout of the monk Yin, the small sparks exploded and fell on the wet ground like fireworks. There were hundreds of colorful sparks.

(End of this chapter)