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Chapter 40 Why An Chan Has to Work on the Landscape

The weather in Huangmei is very bad recently?

It was cloudy for seven or eight consecutive days. No matter when you look, you can see the lead-gray clouds in the sky. There were even a few times when the clouds were low and they could hit the top of the Xishan Mountain, but no drop of rain fell.

Monk Zhiyan exhaled a long breath, opened his eyes, ended his meditation today, stood up from the valley, and planned to go back to Zhengjue Temple. Unlike Monk Daoxin, Monk Zhiyan likes to meditate in places such as valleys or waterfalls, because he felt that it was easier for people to enlighten themselves in such natural and empty environments.

Just as Monk Zhiyan walked to the vicinity of the back door of Zhengjue Temple, he could clearly hear the chirping sounds coming from the surrounding meditation rooms, such as concerns about the current monk's status, envy of the Taoist priests nearby, etc.

Even if Monk Zhiyan walked near these monks, his voice of discussion did not decrease a little. Because these monks knew very well that no matter what they said, Monk Zhiyan would definitely have this ear in and that ear came out.

So it is not unreasonable for Wukong to say that he is a ding, a stone.

However, today is obviously an exception. Just as Monk Zhiyan was planning to return to his residence as usual and wait for dinner, he suddenly heard a squeak, and the young monk had already walked out of the house quickly.

Monk Zhiyan glanced at him and recognized the person in front of him, Monk Faxian.

This monk Faxian is not a monk Faxian who obtained the scriptures in the West in history, because that monk from the Eastern Jin Dynasty was many years away from now. This monk Faxian is a disciple of Master Hao. If you want to calculate it according to the seniority, he is the niece of Monk Zhiyan.

That's right, before Master Xuannv, the most famous monk in the world, went to the West to obtain the scriptures, a monk named Faxian had also accomplished the feat of obtaining the scriptures in the West to obtain the scriptures in the East Jin Dynasty.

And he is even more awesome than Xuanqi because there is an extra animal around him, neither monkey nor pig.

"Master Zhiyan!" Monk Faxian came to join in many ways and bowed to Monk Zhiyan.

Monk Zhiyan nodded slightly, "It's considered a return of favors" and then raised an eyebrow at Monk Faxian, meaning, "Do you have something to come to me?"

"I just have one thing to ask the monk." Monk Faxian answered respectfully.

Monk Zhiyan glanced at Monk Faxian, then lazily lowered his eyes, meaning, "If you have something to do, hurry up and say, I'm very busy..."

"Do you know the edict of Your Majesty to investigate Buddhism and Taoism today? "

Monk Zhiyan looked at Faxian and raised his eyebrows again, meaning, "I may not know about such a big thing..."

"I dare to ask the great monk, how should I deal with it in Zhengjue Temple?" Monk Faxian finally said what he wanted to ask, yes, do you know or don't know that it doesn't matter. The key is what you plan to do?

After hearing the words of Monk Faxian, Zhiyan and Ran looked up slightly at the sky, then lowered their heads and took steps without saying a word, as if they were planning to leave like this.

"Master, there are many discussions in the temple now. The temple is not here. Monk Vina Xuanshuang will not say a word. Monk Zu Mingche just asked us to wait with peace of mind. Now, don't you say a word, the lord of the temple?" Monk Faxian said loudly to Monk Zhiyan, "Now the imperial edict has arrived in Huangmei. I am afraid that the county magistrate will come to investigate the monks in private..."

Monk Zhiyan didn't say a word, and his steps were not slower at all.

"Now, there are a few people under my Zhengjue Temple who are public monks. Even the great monk, you are a private monk!" Monk Faxian turned around and looked at the back of Monk Zhiyan and said loudly, "If the imperial court really bans it, you still want to go to the mountains and forests to meditate every day, can you get it..."

Hearing this sentence from Monk Faxian, Monk Zhiyan's figure paused slightly, and then returned to normal. Then, he heard Monk Zhiyan recite it word by word, "In the world, life is like a dream, and you and I are just dreams. If the court wants to check it, come. If you meditate and practice meditation, you don't have to be between mountains and rivers."

Smack sex!

Before Monk Faxian could speak, he heard a sound of applause from the front of the door of the backyard. Then a teenage novice monk appeared in front of the door with two large-scale monks.

"With the three-hour door, there is no pine and bamboo to cover the house, why do you need to do the mountains and rivers? It will be cool to destroy the fire in your heart." The young monk clapped and walked in calmly while chanting the poem. "Master Zhiyan is indeed worthy of being the master of Zen Master Baoyue. It is said that he suddenly realized on the battlefield that he had not yet been slandered before he could have achieved the view of no life. When he saw it today, he was indeed worthy of his reputation."

Monk Zhiyan's eyebrows frowned slightly. Although he was a scattered manager, he could not say that he had no children to Zhengjue Temple, but he had never seen the novice monk in front of him.

This monk Zhiyan,

The family's surname is Hua. It is said that he was very intelligent when he was very young. He liked to think about profound philosophical issues such as people always die, so why should people suffer when they are born?

Of course, this is like a question like who I am, where I come from, and where I go. Not to mention that he is a child, even Nietzsche Schopenhauer and others don’t know how to answer, and they can only talk nonsense according to their own ideas.

You should know that this and the problem can basically be regarded as the core issue of philosophy. What is philosophy? Monte Cristo once said that philosophy is the colorful cloud under his feet when Christ Jesus ascended to heaven. The meaning of this sentence is that philosophy is something that God can only play with. It is better for us ordinary people to know a little about ourselves.

If I had not encountered any other reason, Monk Zhiyan might have given up playing with such profound philosophical things when he grew up and became his big head soldier. You must know that Monk Zhiyan did a good job when he was in the army, and could become the general of the Tiger Ben Zhonglang under the disciple of Zhang Zhenzhou, a famous general of the Great Sui Dynasty.

But how could that be said? The King of Hell told you to die in the third update, who would dare to keep people until the fifth update! Just when Monk Zhiyan was in the army, he met a monk, Zen Master Baoyue! Zen Master Baoyue soon discovered that Monk Zhiyan was a person with wisdom, so he taught him the view of lifelessness!

This view of lifelessness is indeed awesome. Monk Zhiyan was enlightened after practicing. It turns out that I didn’t know that our world is such an unrealistic thing! You say that the world is so unreliable, so what else can we fight for?

So, when Monk Zhiyan was forty years old, that year when Wukong had just traveled, Monk Zhiyan abandoned everything and went to join Zen Master Baoyue. However, Zen Master Baoyue was alone in the mountains, and it would be great if he could support himself. How could such a big eater who had been a soldier afford to support him? So Zen Master Baoyue wrote a letter and recommended Ya to Daoxin.

At that time, the monk Juelang, the master of Zhengjue Temple, passed away. So after thinking about it, Monk Daoxin thought about it, he felt that since Monk Zhiyan had been a general in the past, he had an advantage over other monks in management, so he led him to Zhengjue Temple in Huangmei at one go.

It was only after this that Wukong was rescued by monk Daoxin by chance. So although Wukong knew Zhiyan very well, monk Zhiyan had heard of Wukong's name and never saw him.

Seeing that Monk Zhiyan looked at Zi Si in confusion, Wukong did not speak. Although Wukong did not understand what Zhiyan wanted to say so clearly like Monk Faxian, he could probably think of him asking who he was, so Wukong clasped his hands together and bowed, "My Monk Wukong, have you seen Monk Zhiyan..."

"You're Wukong?" Monk Zhiyan glanced at Wukong again. After all, although the little novice monk in front of him had never been to Zhengjue Temple, he was already famous in Zhengjue Temple. He killed two people at the age of four, and then was taken over by Master Daoxin. He could educate the people at the age of six, and even the gangsters could be influenced and obeyed, and was respected as the number one young man in Jiangzhou.

Of course, the most important thing is that although the other monks of Zhengjue Temple do not know, as the temple master, monk Zhiyan knew very well that the current expenses of Zhengjue Temple are almost all the money spent by the young man. There were some incense and other things that could be subsidized, but after Zhou Shaode's tenure, the incense in Zhengjue Temple became less and less.

"Yue is my little brother!"

However, Monk Zhiyan was interested in Wukong and was just a little curious. Now, after seeing him, he looked at him and it was over. So Monk Zhiyan's eyelids drooped and planned to go back to his meditation room to continue meditation.

"Master, wait..." Wukong stretched out his hand and blocked Monk Zhiyan. "I have something important to come here to discuss with you. If the monk has nothing else important at this time, please move to me to the Zen room and talk to me..."

"Bold!" Before Monk Zhiyan could speak, a loud scolding voice had already come from the side, "Myster Zhiyan is the master of this temple. What qualifications do you have, please ask Master Zhiyan to talk about it?"

As he spoke, a tall and thin monk appeared in front of them, his face blushed and gloomy, "Don't you put down your hands quickly and don't wait for me to use the precepts of this temple."

"This is the Great Monk of Dharma Vow in Zhengjue Temple?" Wukong turned his head and grinned at the thin and tall monk, "You are here just right." I have something to tell you about it, so I'll ask you to follow me, too..."

"You little novice monk are so brave..." The tall and thin monk Fayuan looked at Wukong seriously, "Even if he is called a disciple of Master Daoxin, he is not qualified to show off his power in Zhengjuefeng..." To be continued.
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