Chang'an India

Tan Shan knew that he was indeed not as good as his master, not because of his cultivation, but because of his state of mind.

"Sign of all living beings" is a skill, but there are also different ways of practice: masters have been passed down from generation to generation, and there are many people who practice eye consciousness like Tanshan, but his master cultivates mind consciousness.

After cultivating the mind, one can connect with the minds of the Buddha statues all over the world. Even Tan Shan doesn't know what the Buddha is thinking when he sits high on the altar and is worshiped by thousands of people.

"Master, if you don't enter the world, how can you understand sentient beings?"

When he was more than ten years old, Tan Shan discussed the Dharma with his master, and he also asked his doubts frankly.

"........."

"Since you cultivate mind, can you tell disciple?" Miao Chang didn't answer, but Tan Shan still wanted to ask, "How does the Buddha think about this world?"

"...a teacher is a human being, not a Buddha," the master finally said, touched his apprentice's bald head with a smile, and praised, "It's really round, with good bones."

"........."

"Because I'm not a Buddha, so I don't know the Buddha's mind," the old monk said seriously after teasing the disciple, "I can only tell you about the mind of a human being."

"There is good and evil in this world, but good always outnumbers evil," Miao Chang explained in plain language, "You major in eye consciousness, and when you connect the eyes of Buddha statues all over the world, you will be able to see them yourself. People kneeling in front of Buddha , Some seek for themselves, some seek for others, and seek for the world. Not all of them are selfish desires. Even if they are selfish desires, they are just to live a better life. Even the Buddha will not criticize them harshly. "

"People with sneaky and evil thoughts in their hearts dare not kneel before the Buddha to pray." However, the young monk in his early ten years can already see that he has a cold face, and even his temper is very cold, talking to his master , There is ice in the cold.

"Exactly." Miao Chang did not refute him, but nodded and said, "Although it is said that good is more than evil, but you know, in the eyes of ordinary people, this kind of evil is more important than good."

"Why? It doesn't make sense."

"Because we're human, people don't always make sense," Miao Chang smiled and nodded his disciple's slightly frowning brows, "One day you will know that ordinary people see a hundred good deeds, one evil deed, and one evil deed. One hundred good deeds are worth a hundred good deeds, which makes people feel uneasy. If this evil deed falls on one’s own head, it will inevitably make people forget other benefits of life, and become obsessed with one bad thing, and torture will result from this. "

"........."

"Master is also a human being. Although he is walking on the road of cultivation, he dare not say that his heart is as solid as a rock and remains indifferent." Miao Chang clasped his palms together and bowed his eyes. "As a teacher, I naturally know that there is good and evil in the world. Human beings sometimes do good and sometimes do evil. Since they are still human beings and not Buddhas, even teachers are afraid...fearing that they will be evil and let down goodness.”

The old monk didn't speak clearly, but Tan Shan understood what he meant.

Although he doesn't cultivate the mind, he also knows how hard it is to cultivate the mind. People in the world don't know that after you kowtow and pray to the Buddha, you feel that you have hope and a little bit of relief at that moment, but it's because of that. The pain of desire and desire, the karma of love, hatred, anger and ignorance, someone willingly bears it for you.

There are people who knelt in front of the Buddha in the ancient temple of Qingdeng, praying for all living beings day and night, suffering for the world all the time, like a foolish old man moving a mountain, a fine guard filling a sea, living endless karma without knowing the end, hell is not empty, Vow not to become a Buddha.

"...Master, if your deduction is correct, you will have a good life this time." No matter how cold the little monk is, he is just a child. Tan Shan couldn't help persuading, "Twelve years is not short, but it is long. It won't be long, the disciple will work hard to practice, it doesn't matter if you slack off in practice."

"It's fun to grow vegetables every day as a teacher, and I'm already slack in my practice." The old monk touched the young monk's bald head again, thinking it felt good, and asked with a smile, "How about we plant another grape in the coming year?"

"..." Tan Shan bowed his head and didn't answer, feeling a bit ashamed on his face when he felt that his state of mind couldn't keep up with his master's compassion of adhering to "the only way to save all living beings is to realize Bodhi".

"There is no distinction between superior and inferior in the way of practice," Miao Chang seemed to be able to hear the thoughts in his disciple's mind, and explained him gently, "It's just because the last is nothing more than four words, do your best."

It's an old saying, but in just one thought, Tan Shan was afraid that there were other arrangements in the stone room, so he simply stretched out his hand and brought Bian Yonglan to his side.

The two of them were already standing close to each other, and as soon as the Tanshan Mountain was pulled together, Marquis Wanjiang moved his body, and felt that his whole body had almost bumped into the monk's arms.

He was blind, he couldn't see the monk's expression clearly, but he didn't have any romantic thoughts, just seemed tired, he lowered his head and rested on the monk's shoulder, sighed, and said with joy: "This old man understands, there is no need to kill people." Excessively punishing."

"Leave this place before we talk." Tan Shan stroked his back, led him out of the dark room, and didn't let go until outside the cave.

"I didn't know why he was wandering here with his seal," Tan Shan looked at the villages and towns buried by rocks many years ago under the clear sunlight, "Look at this cave, it has been dug for some years. Been here more than once.”

"The natural disaster 26 years ago, but what is the connection with that Fangyin?" Marquis Wan Jiang was not a fool, and he had already thought of the key point.

"Yonglan, do you believe that there is a sky beyond the sky, and a land beyond the earth?"

"Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I can't say I don't believe it," Wan Jianghou nodded, "Don't your Buddhists also say that there are three thousand worlds?"

"My master's family has been passed down from generation to generation. That seal suppresses the other world. The two worlds cannot tolerate it. If the other world breaks out of the seal, disasters will happen frequently in the world."

This kind of extremely mysterious thing, the monk just casually said in a flat tone: "Don't say it is you, even I don't know if this is true or not. After all, I have never seen that side of the world."

"But if someone has seen it..." Marquis Wan Jiang and Tan Shan glanced at each other, thinking of the lunatic who claimed to have gone to a fairyland and escaped a catastrophe, "It seems that there are some words that some people think are nonsense saying, but someone really believed it——Xia Chunqiu must have met that person."

"Xia Chunqiu shouldn't have known that there was such a seal, where it was, and what the seal was related to." Tan Shan lowered his eyes lightly, "My master won't tell him about such important matters. .”

"This master," Marquis Wan Jiang suddenly smiled, pointing at himself, "Look at me, I shouldn't know about such an important matter."

"........."

"You're willing to tell me, of course it's because you believe in me," Marquis Wan Jiang laughed heartily, and he didn't know if it was because the monk was speechless because he choked, or because he was so happy that this person was defenseless against him in the end, "Yes Because you know, I don’t have any intention of seeking immortality, who would have nothing to do to toss a seal, and risk the lives of the people in the world to gamble with a mysterious and mysterious legend that is not true or false?"

"...Chang'an seal is stored in the palace. You are very close to today's son. I wonder if you have heard him say it." Tan Shan glanced at him indifferently, and asked, "There is a mysterious and mysterious seal behind this seal. , A legend that is not known to be true or false?"

"No, if there is..."

"Xu Hui, the emperor of all ages, has passed on word of mouth. This seal is extremely auspicious, and keeping it in the palace can protect the country forever. This is also what my teacher said when the seal was stored in the palace," Tan Shan interrupted him. Said, "I'm willing to tell you, because I won't store it in the palace until I find this seal."

"...You haven't seen Wen Qing before, he is definitely not as stupid as you think." Marquis Wan Jiang heard the implication of the monk's words, and his voice suddenly became cold-if it is said that in this world, who would dare to use mountains and rivers as an example? If the game or human life is a bet, then I am afraid that only the emperor of the world, the lord of the country-not only dares to gamble, but can gamble, is the supreme imperial power.

"I've met him once, and he's a refined gentleman." Tan Shan didn't care that the Marquis of Jiangjiang sometimes spoke sarcastically to him, so he just nodded indifferently, "I went to see him just to see if Yin It is true that he is no longer in the palace, and the poor monk also knows that he ordered you to follow me to find the seal, and he probably has a sense of surveillance, but it doesn't matter," the monk shook his head slightly again, without a hint of coldness in his tone, just like gossip. "Yonglan, it's just that the poor monk is worrying too much. If there is a day...you just need to know that I want to take the seal and leave, no one can stop me."

"........."

"Although I don't know if there is really a so-called fairyland in that seal, I can sense that every time there is a change in that seal, there are indeed disasters in the world," Marquis Wan Jiang didn't know whether he was angry or not, with a cold face Without speaking, he listened to the monk continue calmly, "I'm a Buddhist, so I won't take the precept of killing easily, but if one day...you..."

Tan Shan thought to himself, don't blame me for not missing the old friendship, but he stopped talking.

"...Wen Qing is not that kind of person, you don't understand him."

Bian Yonglan was still talking about this sentence, he dropped the sentence with a stern face, and went down the mountain.

Tan Shan followed him without a word, neither hurried nor slow, followed half a step behind him, walked silently to the foot of the mountain, then said: "Speaking of it...my master planted a bunch of grapes in the temple in his later years."

"..." Marquis Wan Jiang didn't turn his head back, didn't make a sound, but listened to the words in his ears, wondering what the monk suddenly wanted to do by talking about it.

"My master said that he and his younger brother... and Xia Chunqiu both like to eat grapes," Tan Shan said after him indifferently, "Even a monk will remember an old love. In his later years, Master would occasionally say that maybe when the grapes are ripe one year, the old man will come back and have a look, so that we can talk about the old relationship again."

"..." Marquis Wan Jiang seemed to have guessed the meaning of the monk, but felt that he couldn't guess clearly, so he couldn't help but slander the monk as a magic stick, and he had to go around and play around with a word.

"Surge..."

"That's enough, that's enough," Wan Jianghou didn't bother to regain his idleness, and waved his hands, "If you rarely want to gossip with me, just choose something auspicious. Listen to yourself, your words are auspicious ?"

"........."

"You said your master likes to eat grapes, what about you? Do you have anything you like?"

"........."

"Forget it, when I didn't ask."

So there was nothing to say between the two sides, and they walked side by side to the foot of the mountain to pick up the horse.

The reason why Wan Jianghou didn't speak was because he was still pondering over the seal, and by the way, he remembered his somewhat reliable life experience - 26 years ago, during the summer and autumn, there were indeed frequent disasters in various places, and among all kinds of visions, The only auspicious one is standing here panting alive - Tan Shan once said that his soul seems to be different from ordinary people, if the vision of heaven and earth back then was related to the seal, could it be possible that he has something to do with that seal?

But look at this monk's expression... Marquis Wan Jiang secretly glanced at the person beside him, thinking that although this monk usually has no expression, but after watching it for a long time, he can more or less tell that this is not a serious expression.

Tan Shan wasn't thinking about any other business, but felt that the Sea of ​​Consciousness was a little restless.

Cultivating eye consciousness may not be much easier than cultivating mind consciousness. This is a human thing, and if all living beings wish to see it, they will see it. The karma in the heart is a sea of ​​desire, and if you relax a little, there will be an undercurrent.

In the illusion, the monk had no time to think deeply, but now that he thinks about it carefully, he realizes that the sea is restless because he has a little selfish desire. In the illusion of the battlefield, the monk who sees the lord of the river is as brave as a Shura, but is cut with a sword, the monk is not ignorant , but at a glance, I feel a pain in my heart.

That trace of selfish desire is flowing into the sea of ​​desire in this pain, and I want to get it back from the boundless sea of ​​desire, but I can't get it back.

So in the bottomless sea of ​​desires, there was another desire belonging to the Buddha: he had a desire for a moment, a desire for someone who could live a lifetime without worries, be happy for the rest of his life, and never know why he was miserable.

1. Don't worry, there will be no proposition in this article that "the master and the emperor's brother fell into the water together, who do you save first?" Ask them too much 2. Whenever the word desire is mentioned in this article, please don’t understand it in the narrow sense of eroticism. This word itself is very neutral, and (personal understanding) is also very Zen. It’s not the same meaning if it’s replaced by hope and wish. 3. In the background, you can still see some netizens giving rewards unrelentingly. Thank you very much (but you really don’t need it, save yourself and buy some delicious food for yourself), so I won’t make a thank you list Yes, in short, the electronic pets you raise will work hard to grow up and be slaughtered