Hong Kong Zongli Monks

Chapter 139

In the morning, it began to rain heavily. Looking out from the mountain, it was almost eight o'clock, as if it was still dark.

In spring, it hasn't rained for so long, and now half of spring is over, and it's raining heavily again, just like summer, it seems that this year is not a good year either!
"Uncle Feng, do you think this Taoist temple is a bit small!" Neither Zhixing nor Feng Lao Si had practiced, and they were sitting and chatting in the main hall.

"Only the house is a bit smaller, but overall it's not bad!" Feng Laosi was stunned for a moment and said.

"During this time, I was practicing on a deserted island. There were no other people on the island, and I was free. Now I suddenly found that the Taoist temple is too small!" Zhixing said, looking around the Taoist temple.

During this period of time, they practiced separately, and Zhixing seldom came back, so Feng Laosi didn't know where Zhixing had gone.

"Of course, you have been in a big place for a long time, and now you look at this Taoist temple, you will definitely feel small!" Feng Lao Si said with a smile.

Zhixing also smiled, feeling that this is the reason, and said: "The forks of the mountains here are too small. If you want to expand the Taoist temple, it will not look good, and it will also bully the owner, which is not good!"

"Of course, this Taoist temple of yours has been built to the largest size in this place, no matter the height or width, it can't be expanded, even if you build more rooms!" Feng Lao Si nodded and said.

"The small island where I practiced is very good. There are a few hills on one side, valleys and flat land on the other side, but the water source is a little less. I really want to buy it and build a Taoist temple, but it only has decades of use rights, and it's not very good!" Zhixing said. Said slowly.

"This is not a long-term solution. You need to have a name, a company, and a hearing to see if you have the strength to buy. In short, it is very troublesome!" Feng Lao Si thought for a while and said.

"Hey, if I can buy that island, I can build a holy place, located on the sea, which is good for practice!" Zhixing nodded and said.

"You have escapism, you can practice it anywhere!" Feng Laosi looked at Zhixing and said.

"It's good to practice spells over there. The desert island is sparsely populated and free, which is very suitable for seclusion!" Zhixing continued.

"So when we practice, the most important thing is wealth, spouse, law, land, and place of practice!" Feng Laosi said after thinking for a while.

"Yes, living in this Taoist temple is very supportive. After living for a long time, your vision will always be narrow!" Zhixing nodded and said.

"Otherwise, how about looking for those big mountains and famous rivers, but they are desolate and uninhabited, which is not suitable for people of our current era!" Feng Laosi said.

"Yeah, we have been exposed to this bustling world since we were young, and we can't be like those people in ancient times, who have a blank heart or a cruel life, and can accept any environment!" Zhixing also said.

"The times change. People must always follow the trend. Whether it is an ordinary person or a monk, they should follow the times to be successful. No matter how powerful they are, if they go out of the scope, they are just a puppet of cultivation. !” Feng Lao Si nodded and said.

Zhixing also pondered, this is the reason, self-entertainment is always living in one's own world, as time goes by, one will close oneself.

This kind of life, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a puppet. It has nothing but practice, and it can be regarded as a machine.

"By the way, when do you want to find resources?" Seeing that Zhixing didn't speak for a while, Feng Laosi continued to ask.

"The field of medicinal materials is also full, and there is no place to grow them when I go out to find medicinal materials. I am going to collect a batch of medicinal materials to practice alchemy before going out!" Zhixing said unconsciously when he heard him say.

"I have never asked you, what kind of pills are these medicinal materials made from?" Feng Laosi asked when he remembered something.

"Spirit Gathering Pill and Soul Refining Pill, we will be able to harvest a batch of alchemy pills in the second half of the year!" Zhixing said with a satisfied smile when he thought of these medicinal materials.

"Now some of them can be harvested, right? When you get them back, some of them are very old, aren't they good enough for alchemy!" Feng Laosi asked suspiciously.

"Too little. I haven't formally refined the elixir yet. I will definitely fail at the beginning and waste a lot of medicinal materials. I think when I wait a little longer, even if the medicinal materials are wasted, it will be enough!" Zhixing said with a smile.

After hearing this, Feng Laosi nodded and said, "That's the reason. There are too few medicinal materials. If you can't succeed, you will have to wait for a long time. If you have accumulated a little experience, you will forget it!"

"Yes, I'm afraid of this situation!" Zhixing said.

Then he asked Feng Laosi: "Uncle Feng, do you want to practice the fire refining formula? You can barely learn it when you reach the sixth floor. It's not bad to learn alchemy in the future!"

"It's ok, as long as you can practice, you can practice all kinds of arts. If you learn one more thing, you will have one more method!" Feng Laosi said happily.

Next, Zhixing became a teacher again, and Feng Laosi also became a primary school student, studying hard and making progress every day.

Lin Zhiming and the others usually start work except when it rains heavily. After the work is completed, Zhixing will give another [-] yuan, and it will be over.

After it was repaired again, there was an extra momentum, you get what you pay for, and it was worth throwing down 20.

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Every year on Ching Ming Festival, in order to make the deceased relatives not lonely and their resting place safe, everyone visits the graves one after another, burns yellow paper money and hangs paper money to commemorate the ancestors.

It proves that the people who rest here still care about future generations, so others dare not break ground on the graves and affect the ancestors. This is a spring sacrifice.

In terms of time, the fortune of the ancestor worshipers in the spring festival will be in the first half of the year, and the fortune of the ancestor worshipers in the autumn festival will be in the second half of the year.

Every time during the Ching Ming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival, it is necessary to burn paper in front of the ancestor's grave and send money to the deceased relatives.

But there is one thing, not many people know about it now. When you burn paper money to your relatives’ graves and express your grief with filial piety, your luck will also change!

From the point of view of Taoism, each of us is the host of the soul in the cycle of life.

For a person who has passed away, although the body is gone, the soul is still there, which is the immortality of life and soul in Taoism.After death, the soul will go through reincarnation.

But this waiting process may last for a long time, maybe ten years or decades, or even longer.

Before that, they will have been waiting in the state of ghosts.Some of them stay in the homes of strangers and can see every move of their loved ones.

Some wandered around and became lonely ghosts, living a more miserable life.

At this time, if their loved ones perform salvation for them or summon them to listen to scriptures and Dharma, they will be able to get rid of the state of ghosts and move towards a brighter place under the compassionate guidance of the gods and gods.

In the days of waiting for reincarnation, they, like us living people, all hope that their living relatives can give them some food, and even more hope that they can send them money.

Even if re-enters the reincarnation, its soul will still remain unchanged, the incense and sacrifices of the descendants, the soul of the ancestors can still receive it!
As a result, there has been the most intuitive change, that is, the continuation of the incense!The basis for the continuation of the incense is to take the lead in enhancing the luck of the ancestor worshippers.

Regarding the burning of paper at graves, in some places it is customary to burn paper in the morning and not past twelve o'clock in the noon, and in some places it is customary to wait until it gets dark before burning.

In short, according to the customs in various places, as long as it is burned and the words are spoken, they can receive the money sent, they can receive gifts from relatives, and they can understand every word we say.

The ways of worshiping ancestors are not limited to sweeping graves, burning paper, etc.; often, a ritual event that transcends death and loneliness will allow the clan members of the past generations to be summoned, listen to scriptures and Dharma, and be reborn in bliss.

This is what we often hear about Yin superseding Yang Tai and saving death.

As the Ching Ming Festival approaches, it is time for us to commemorate the deceased and remember our ancestors' traditional festivals, and the topic of worshiping and sweeping graves is gradually heating up.


(End of this chapter)