Chapter 198 Traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books
Feng Na looked at the boy's retreating back, and her heart suddenly moved. She felt that this back looked so much like the boy she missed in her heart, but when she took a closer look, she felt that it was not the same.
Although the height and back were somewhat similar, she always felt that her walk and demeanor were different. She didn't dare to recognize him for a while, so she smiled and said to Jiang Xiuxiu, "I don't know, maybe it's a new student."
Jiang Xiuxiu let out a disappointed look, looking at the boy's retreating figure, she thought to herself: It doesn't matter, I will find it for you sooner or later!
Ever since Li Yundong and his group met Mei Duo in Tibet, he no longer dealt with girls as casually as before, to avoid the "misunderstanding of life at first sight" incident, so he didn't even tell Jiang Xiuxiu his name.
Li Yundong came to his classroom carrying the Qibao psychic fan. At this time, there was almost no one in the classroom, which surprised him. But after thinking about it, he remembered: Today is the day for new students to register.
Classes don't start until tomorrow.
He smiled and went to the school library with the Qibao psychic fan on his back. Fortunately, the school library was open today. Li Yundong applied for a library card and walked in.
When he first entered, Li Yundong used his computer to search for religious books. He was surprised to find that this library had a large collection of books, with hundreds of religious books!
After finding the search results, Li Yundong selected two books, the Diamond Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, and then borrowed them from the librarian.
The librarian was an old man in his seventies. When he saw Li Yundong borrowing these two books, he immediately picked up the reading glasses hanging around his neck, looked at Li Yundong up and down carefully, and sighed.
Said: "There are very few young people nowadays who borrow books like this..."
With that said, he walked to the bookshelf, searched for a while, and then took out these two books. Since almost no one was interested, these two scriptures looked like new ones.
The old man patted the dust on the book cover with his hand and said with a smile: "This is the first time this book has been borrowed from the library. Hey, young man, can you understand?"
Li Yundong laughed: "Not necessarily, let's take a look first and then talk."
The old man smiled and said, "Don't think that I talk too much. If you can't understand, don't damage the book!" After saying that, he seemed to feel that there was something inappropriate in his words, and then said
: "Of course, don't damage the book if you can understand it."
Li Yundong chuckled and said: "No, teacher, I will cherish the books."
The old man smiled and nodded, watching Li Yundong walk out of the library with these two books, he sighed softly: "It's not easy, there are still young people who are willing to read this kind of book with their heart?"
Li Yundong opened the "Diamond Sutra" and after reading only a few pages, he realized that this book was not as profound and terrifying as he imagined. Most of the previous sections were full of Buddhist stories, full of spirituality and wisdom, and easy to understand.
You see, turn to the middle, and there is a dialogue between Subhuti and Buddha. The two people are like in the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, similar to the questions and answers between Xuanyuan Huangdi and Qi Bo.
Although it was written in classical Chinese, Li Yundong could understand it, and with the Buddhist story at the front of the book as a foreshadowing and guide, he actually read it with gusto.
The most important thing is that if Li Yundong read this kind of book in the past, he would be drowsy and bored after reading the first page.
But now that he is a practitioner, he has some understanding of practice, and he has read the "Mahamudra Tantra Sutra", which also contains a lot of knowledge about Buddhist scriptures. He has also practiced Mahamudra himself, and has a little bit of knowledge in his mind.
Enlightenment.
Li Yundong was already talented and intelligent, and he had some enlightenment in his heart. Now when he read this Buddhist classic, a string in his heart suddenly seemed to be touched, and he understood something. But after he understood some, he got better and better.
Feeling that he didn't understand more, he read on more and more greedily.
Along the way, Li Yundong took the car back and read the book without letting go. After entering the house, he sat cross-legged in the living room, facing east, reading the book like a charm. Even Ruan Hongling and Ziyuan entered his house.
He didn't even notice.
When Ziyuan opened the door, she saw Li Yundong sitting cross-legged in the living room, holding a volume of scripture in his hand, reading intently. Next to him was another volume of scripture, with the "Lotus Sutra" written in three golden ancient seal scripts.
Ziyuan turned around and made a silent gesture to Ruan Hongling, and then quietly retreated with her.
Ruan Hongling asked in confusion: "Sister Ziyuan, isn't he practicing Taoist techniques? Why are he looking at Buddhist classics?"
Ziyuan was silent for a while and said, "Maybe he wants to practice both Buddhism and Taoism."
Ruan Hongling smiled and said: "Throughout the ages, how many people have wanted to practice both Buddhism and Taoism, but Liu Huayang and Wu Shouyang can be called the masters. The others are just fools who have picked up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon. Does he also want to follow in the footsteps of these people?"
Ziyuan also secretly felt that Ruan Hongling's words made sense. After all, since Buddhism was introduced to China in the Later Han Dynasty, it has been engaged in various overt and covert struggles with Taoism. This kind of struggle reached its peak in the Later Tang Dynasty under the instigation of Tianji Xuanhu.
At its peak, Buddhism and Taoism were no longer mutually exclusive.
For nearly two thousand years, countless Buddhist practitioners wanted to learn Taoist magic, and countless Taoist practitioners wanted to learn Buddhist magic, but almost all of them failed.
Buddhism and Taoism are surrounded by tight barriers and crisscrossed ravines. How can it be so easy to cultivate dual cultivation? In the past two thousand years, only a handful of people have been able to do it. Can Li Yundong do it?
Ziyuan thought of this and said: "Don't say that, even if you are practicing Taoist techniques, you can also read Buddhist classics. After all, it is beneficial and harmless to learn from hundreds of schools of thought and learn from their strengths.
Things, and Buddhism and Taoism also have something in common, so it doesn’t matter if you look at it. This time he went to Tibet. It can be said that he traveled thousands of miles. Not only did his strength increase a lot, but his knowledge also increased a lot. Now it is
It’s time to read thousands of books.”
The two people were talking quietly outside the door. Li Yundong had unknowingly finished reading the content of Subhuti and Buddha on the emptiness of living beings and the emptiness of Dharma in the Diamond Sutra.
After reading it, Li Yundong sat there blankly, replaying the contents of the "Diamond Sutra" in his mind. He felt that he understood it, but when he was asked to speak it in detail, the words seemed to be somewhat expressive.
Not out.
It's like looking at flowers in the mist, separated by an invisible layer of gauze, hazy.
Li Yundong thought about it for a while, then he stopped thinking about it, put down the scriptures in his hands, and read the second "Lotus Sutra".
Li Yundong didn't know that his behavior coincided with the Taoist's self-satisfied cultivation mentality and the Buddhist practice of letting go without hindrance.
If it were another person, maybe he would have to have this ideal clearly, and he would never give up until he understood it.
But this kind of behavior is just like being obsessed. Li Yundong is not knowledgeable now, and it is impossible to understand the truth behind it. If he thinks about it forcefully, it is like asking a person with only ten kilograms of strength to lift a hundred kilograms weight.
Not only will it be impossible to lift things, but it will also harm your body.
Su Chan said that he has a first-rate cultivation temperament. This is why he never forces himself to do anything forced.
More than an hour passed like this, and Li Yundong finished reading the Lotus Sutra. When he came to his senses, it was already past twelve o'clock. He had some lunch, and then carried the Seven Treasures Psychic Fan on his back.
Books go to school.
After arriving at the school library, the old administrator saw Li Yundong coming back with these two books. He sighed secretly: Sure enough, young people like him couldn't read these two books.
Li Yundong came to him, handed him these two books, and said with a smile: "I'm here to return the books, teacher."
The old man sighed secretly, took the two books, and asked casually: "Can't you understand?"
Li Yundong smiled and said: "It's okay."
The old man glanced at Li Yundong sideways and thought to himself: Still trying to be brave? Huh, young people don't know how to pretend to understand!
Pretending to be intentional or unintentional, he said casually: "What is the law of sex, fragrance, and touch?"
Li Yundong also casually added: "There are also six dusts!"
The old man was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn't believe his ears, and asked again: "Then what are eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind?"
Li Yundong smiled and said: "There are six senses in this!" After he answered, he did not wait for the old man to ask again, and continued to talk to himself: "...the roots and dust are opposite to each other, and the six consciousnesses arise, the so-called eye consciousness, ear consciousness, etc.
They are combined into the Eighteen Realms. Not only are the six dusts not abiding, but all the five aggregates, eighteen realms, twelve causes and conditions, the Four Noble Truths, the thirty-seven aids to the path, and the eighty-one subjects up to Bodhi and Nirvana are not abiding in anything.
also."
The old man looked at Li Yundong with a surprised look on his face: "Okay, have you really read this book? I thought you didn't. How much have you read?"
Li Yundong smiled and said, "I've finished reading it all."
The old man was unhappy again and said with displeasure: "Young people brag and don't even make a draft! Then let me ask you, what is a person who has pure faith with just one thought?"
Although Li Yundong could not fully understand the "Diamond Sutra", he had a good memory and a photographic memory, so he casually replied: "If you believe it deeply, don't doubt it. This one thought is the thought of no thought, and the second thought is the care."
Doubts and doubts have arisen after thinking about this. This is an important point. Later scholars should not be underestimated. In the age of the end of the Dharma, there are still people who have the power of pure faith."
The old man opened his mouth wide and asked again: "What is Le Alan's business?"
Li Yundong immediately said: "If there is no contradiction in words and deeds, you will enjoy silence!"
The old man's eyes widened and he asked again unwillingly: "Then tell me, what does it mean to be neither true nor false?"
Li Yundong said with a smile: "There is no reality, because it is not real, and there is no reality, and there is no emptiness, because the Tathagata has achieved Bodhi. And because it cannot be obtained like words, it is said to be without reality, and it cannot be obtained without words, so it is called wu emptiness.
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The old man kept asking questions like a barrage of questions. Li Yundong not only answered quickly and without thinking, but his answers were almost word for word as in the book!
The old man was finally convinced and looked at Li Yundong with a shocked look on his face: "You actually finished reading it so quickly! That's amazing! I underestimated you! Have you finished reading the Lotus Sutra too?"
Li Yundong smiled and said: "Yes, how about you also take the test?"
The old man laughed and waved his hand: "Forget it, I can't fail you in the test, I believe you. I just think that young people today are unlikely to understand these scriptures, so I took the test
You, I hope you don't mind."
Li Yundong chuckled and said with a wink: "Kaokaokao, the teacher's magic weapon, every point is the lifeblood of the students!"
When the old man heard this, he laughed loudly and said in a loud voice: "Yes, yes, I have regained the feeling of being a teacher again."
Li Yundong smiled and said: "Then what score did I get in the test just now?"
The old man gave him a thumbs up: "Amazing, 100%!" As he said that, he put on his reading glasses and sighed: "There are very few young people today who can be like you. It's amazing.
, it’s really amazing!”
Li Yundong was a little embarrassed by the praise, and he said: "I want to borrow two more books."
The old man nodded quickly: "Okay, which two books do you want to borrow?"
Li Yundong said: "The Shurangama Sutra and the Zongjing Lu."
The old man was startled again, glanced at Li Yundong, and thought to himself: "Hey, darling, two more classics?" He didn't dare to underestimate Li Yundong anymore, so he went to get these two books, and then handed them to him.
He smiled and said, "Next time I come to return the books, I have to take the exam?"
Li Yundong laughed: "Welcome, welcome." After saying hello to the old man, he turned around and walked out.
The old man looked at his leaving figure and couldn't help but dial a phone number: "Hey, Xiaohua, today I met a master who can challenge you. That master who has studied Buddhism well, tsk tsk, is amazing.
, It’s really amazing! What? Old man? Ha, you are mistaken about this. He is about the same age as you, and he goes to the same school as you! Don’t believe it? Ha, you will know when you meet one day, don’t wait another day
Until late, I didn’t know how high the sky was, and I thought it would be great if I got the top prize at the municipal level! There are many people in this world who are more amazing than you!"