Hearing Li Yundong's words, Zhike Monk chuckled, made a gesture with one hand, and said with a smile: "Donor Li, you will know if you come with me. ≥ "
Li Yundong put his hands together and returned the greeting: "Please lead the way."
The monk Zhike nodded, turned around and led the way.
Li Yundong saw that this day was neither a weekend nor a holiday, but there were still many guests coming to Xiyuan Temple to visit the scenic spots and historic sites. There was incense in front of the Main Hall, and many guests from Japan and South Korea took photos in front of the temple.
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Li Yundong saw it in his eyes, but secretly sighed in his heart: After all, it is an 800-year-old ancient temple with a deep foundation that cannot be compared with other sects. Zhengyi Sect, Longmen Sect, Ge Zao Sect and other sects, although they are huge in power and have deep foundations,
Most of the ancestral temples are in serious decline. If they are more prosperous than the incense, they are far inferior to this ancient Buddhist temple.
Li Yundong thought to himself: If I return to Tianlong Mountain someday, I will have to run my ancestral family well if I have the opportunity, but I can't lose all the roots.
But when Li Yundong thought of this, he couldn't help but suddenly had a thought: If I didn't become the head of the Fox Zen Sect, I don't know which sect I would join in the future? If I didn't join any sect, wouldn't I be a loser?
A lonely ghost without an organization? Even though I am the head of the Fox Zen Sect, I am so beautiful and blessed, but no matter what, I still feel like I am dependent on someone else. Moreover, Liu Ye is not dead, and I don’t know when he will come back.
If I come back, will I let him be the leader or not?
Li Yundong couldn't help but think a little crazy along the way, until the Zhike monk on the side smiled and said: "Donor Li, we have arrived. The abbot invites you in."
Li Yundong just woke up from a dream. After bowing to the monk Zhike, he stepped into Master Puren's backyard meditation room.
As soon as he entered the door, Li Yundong saw Master Puren sitting cross-legged under the shrine of Tathagata Buddha. He pointed at the futon in front of him, his eyes were lowered and he chuckled: "Master Li's brows are furrowed, as if he is full of worries?
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After Li Yundong bowed respectfully, he sat down on the futon cross-legged and asked: "People live in this world and people are busy with things. Who can have no worries?"
Master Puren chuckled and said, "Donor Li, are you going to have a fight with me?"
Li Yundong also laughed: "I don't dare to do anything in front of the master. However, I just heard the monk Zhike say, Master Puren, you seem to have already known that I am coming?"
Puren nodded slightly: "Yes!"
Li Yundong smiled in awe and said, "Buddhism's destiny-knowing skills are really powerful. Can you predict anything?"
Puren laughed and said without answering: "Zhenren Li, do you know why our practice world has declined?"
Li Yundong was a little surprised that Puren's question was way off topic, but he still answered: "As far as I know, it is because after the Manchus entered the customs, Tibetan Buddhism severely suppressed Central Plains Buddhism, and the same was true for Taoism. After the late Qing Dynasty,
The country was in turmoil, and it coincided with the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, followed by the Great Leap Forward, the destruction of the Four Olds, and the terrible ten years of turmoil. During this period, the spiritual world, regardless of Buddhism, suffered extremely serious trauma. Moreover, Buddhism
The cultural soil of the Tao family has almost disappeared, and the cultivation culture rooted in this soil will naturally find it difficult to survive. Is that so, Master Puren?"
Puren smiled slightly and said: "You are only right about one thing, but you don't know the other thing."
Li Yundong asked respectfully: "Master, please clarify my doubts!"
Puren smiled and said: "Since ancient times, if you want to convey information, you have to use either fast horses or homing pigeons. However, we practitioners can practice to the state of mind wandering out of the body, so that the soul can fly into the sky, thousands of miles in an instant, and convey a message to
Transfer it to another place extremely quickly, or we can use a special magic weapon to transfer information."
"But if you want to cultivate to the state where the Yin God leaves the body, not everyone can do it. You must work hard, have talent, and have the opportunity to do it!" As he said, Pu Ren's skinny hand moved from
He took out a mobile phone from his sleeve, shook it, and then said: "But now any ordinary person can do this through the power of technology!"
Puren put his mobile phone in front of him and sighed slightly: "Today's technological power is extremely advanced, especially the emergence of various weapons, which has made the magic weapon that we practitioners are most proud of much inferior. You say, you Taoists
Practitioners have worked hard for more than ten years to reach the realm of flying swords. They can kill one person in ten steps and leave no trace for thousands of miles. This should be considered very powerful, right? But people nowadays can still kill one person in ten steps with a gun in their hands.
, travel a thousand miles without leaving a trace. Some people even press a remote control, and blood will flow into a river in a distant place, and all life will be devastated! This, this is much more powerful than our magic weapon!"
Puren stared at Li Yundong closely and asked: "Master Li, you said that we can do things that we have worked hard all our lives to do, but other people can do it without practicing. Then why do they still do it?"
Do you want to practice?"
Li Yundong was stunned when he heard that, and secretly felt that Master Puren was absolutely right. He sighed and said: "Master Puren, you are right. This is not only true in the world of spiritual practice, but also in Chinese martial arts and medical skills! Practicing one way is nothing more than martial arts.
, Medicine! Medicine is used to carry out the Way, and martial arts is used to defend the Way. It is a pity that now they are almost lost!"
Puren immediately asked: "Then Zhenren Li, since ordinary people can do what we can do without practicing, what do you think we practitioners should do for practicing? We might as well not practice at all!"
Li Yundong didn't even think about it and immediately retorted: "Otherwise! I don't agree with this sentence!"
There was a smile in Puren's eyes, and he asked: "Why?"
Li Yundong said: "When Buddhism talks about practice, it pays attention to the process of practice, not the final result. The emphasis is on the word 'Xing', which means walking and experience. Buddhist practice is a continuous process of practice.
Achieve self-breakthrough and transcendence, and then become a saint, return to nature, and finally become a Buddha! Similarly, Taoist practice is also called self-cultivation, which focuses on the word "truth". It emphasizes seeking the true self, eliminating falsehood and retaining trueness. So what is the true self?
Well, what is false and what is true? Over the past few days, my feeling during practice is: Yang Shen is the true self, and everything else is false!"
Li Yundong faced the respected Master Puren and said eloquently: "Ordinary people can do what we cultivators can do without practicing, but that refers to the method of killing people. We cultivators choose to practice or cultivate, but we
We don’t cultivate in order to learn how to kill people. We cultivate in order to escape the constraints of this world and break away from the shackles of birth, old age, illness and death! Ordinary people will only be trapped in rise and fall, honor and disgrace, birth, old age, illness and death, but we have long since transcended this. Our Yang
As long as God exists for one day, we will be aligned with heaven and earth, and shine with the sun and moon!"
"Escape from birth, old age, illness and death, and escape from the mundane hardships of the world, this is the goal of us cultivators!" Li Yundong said at the end, his voice was passionate and sonorous, his expression was high-spirited, and he scolded Fang Qiu. He really looked forward to the divine flight, and looked majestic.
Master Puren praised loudly and clapped his hands: "Okay, okay, well said!"
He clapped his hands, and another person came out from the back of the Zen room. He was also an old monk wearing a golden cassock. This old monk had a wrinkled face, extremely long eyebrows, and the gray at the top of his eyebrows almost reached his cheekbones.
Master Puren smiled at the old monk and said, "Are you relieved now? Then you can trust the magic weapon to him, right?"
The old monk smiled, did not answer, put his hands together and saluted Li Yundong, and asked: "Donor Li, if it were you, how would you help our practice community regain its former glory in the future?"
Li Yundong did not dare to be negligent, so he quickly stood up and returned the courtesy. He smiled slightly and said, "Form good karma and sow good causes everywhere. In the future, you will naturally be able to grow a tall tree and a forest of good fruits."
Seeing that Li Yundong's answer was ambiguous, the old monk became cunning. He chuckled and asked: "Master Li, if you encounter evil spirits who want to destroy our practice world in the future, what should you do?"
Li Yundong said without hesitation: "Of course it is to eliminate demons and protect the Tao!"
The old monk narrowed his eyes and asked, "But if this person is an acquaintance of yours, what should you do?"
This sentence immediately made Li Yundong become alert. He turned to look at Master Puren and asked, "Who is this master?"
The old monk smiled slightly and said, "This is Abbot Xincheng of Jinshan Temple."
Li Yundong saluted and said: "Abbot Xincheng, I wonder who this acquaintance you are talking about is?"
Xincheng smiled: "Does it matter who it is?"
Li Yundong became more and more vigilant. He thought to himself: Could this girl be trying to trick me and set a trap for me? If you are trying to deal with other people, forget it. If you are trying to manipulate me and end up dealing with a little girl, then I will slap you in the face.
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Li Yundong frowned and said: "Of course it is important. If it is the person I love most, then I will never do it, and I believe that the person I love most will not do such a thing, even if she wants to
If she does, I will stop her."
Xin Cheng chuckled: "It's not that serious. Donor Li, you are too worried. Who doesn't know that you, Donor Li, are a lover who loves beauty but not the country? I just asked what you should do if this person is someone you know.
?Are you trying to protect him for selfish reasons?"
Li Yundong thought for a while and said: "I will find out the truth of the matter first. If there is such a thing, I will deal with it impartially!"
Xincheng smiled with satisfaction, turned and nodded to Puren.
Puren chuckled, took out a purple-gold colored glass bowl from his sleeve, and said, "Donor Li, Du Fei called me just now and told me your purpose of coming. Although I don't know what you want this glass bowl for,
But I believe that you have a noble character and a kind heart, and will not use this magic weapon to do anything harmful to heaven and earth. Moreover, you are so anxious to use it, maybe there is something important, so I will transfer this magic weapon to you for use first.
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Li Yundong was overjoyed and took the Buddhist magic weapon with respectful hands. After taking it, he thought about it and said, "But, Master Puren, I still have something to ask for."
Puren smiled and said, "Donor Li, you might as well speak out."
Li Yundong said: "I also want to ask Master Puren how to arrange the Eight Directions Demon Subduing Formation!"
Puren was slightly startled: "The Eight Directions Demon Subduing Formation? Donor Li, do you know that this is our Xiyuan Temple's temple-conquering formation, and it has never been spread to other people for eight hundred years! But..."
Li Yundong's heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself: It's broken, but the magic weapon is in hand, but there's something wrong with the magic circle again! What should I do...
But when he heard Pu Ren's last sentence, it seemed that there was a turning point. He quickly asked: "What?"