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Chapter 5: Tang Dynasty Tea Broken Glasses

However, as the saying goes, the truth is that good fortune and misfortune is that although Lu Ming became a disciple in order to avoid misfortune or to live a better life, what surprised him was that the monk he chose to become a disciple was actually Daoxin. It was the famous Four Zen ancestor, Master Daoxin.

Which monks who saved him that day were monks from the ancestral temple of the Zen Buddhism. It is said that... according to these monks, they came specifically to ask Master Daoxin for advice on Buddhism.

However, in the eyes of the young monk Lu Ming, the Shaolin monks were bodyguards at all. They said they were asking for advice on Buddhism, but Lu Ming had been to Dalin Temple in Lushan for three days and had never seen this gang that would destroy you to death. The monks on empty stomachs recited a sutra, but they saw that they exercised their bodies every day, practiced sticks and other things very diligently.

They said that practicing martial arts is to practice Zen, and they also said that this is called Zen and Martial Arts. However, Lu Ming's perception of this is that he saw Wu, but he had never seen Zen at all.

But then again, it seems that Lu Ming has not seen monk Daoxin recite any sutras. This master Daoxin seems to teach others every day that is to sit in meditation, do not need to recite scriptures, and do not spread any gossip news. Just sit in meditation, and if you sit in meditation, your butt will be broken. If you are wrong, you should be enlightened.

After looking at the sky, Lu Ming estimated that the time should be between 3:30 and 4:00 in the afternoon. Now this time is that Monk Daoxin just got up after taking a nap. No, it should be said that the meditation at noon was over and was about to start handling affairs, which means it was time for himself to go to work.

As a personal disciple of Master Daoxin, the little monk Lu Ming or the little monk Lu Ming mainly does every day to clean his room and Master Daoxin, serve tea and water. Of course, the purpose of this is to allow him to get close to the monk Daoxin, so that Master Daoxin can teach him by example and practice, so as to better understand the Dharma.

That’s right, to understand Buddhism, you should know that since Lu Ming recited the song of Wankong in front of Daoxin, Monk Daoxin immediately agreed to his request to become a disciple, and said that Lu Ming was very wise and had a destiny to Buddhism, so he took Lu Ming back to his disciple on the spot. Then the next day he gave Lu Ming a speech, kept the Five Precepts, and gave a very awesome Dharma name - Wukong!

Yes, it’s Wukong! Wukong is the same as Monkey Brother except that he doesn’t have the word Sun!

When Lu Ming, or the little monk Wukong, asked Daoxin why he gave him this Dharma name, Daoxin told him seriously that it was because he realized the truth that life is always empty, Monk Wukong really wanted to hit his face a few times and make you look dirty!

When I heard someone called me Wukong on the first day, the little monk Lu Ming was really not used to it at all. But later I got used to it. I was wrong. I should say that I got used to it. Wukong was Wukong. At least I was better than Wuneng, Bajie, Wujing and other things.

Although the little monk Lu Wukong came to Master Daoxin to become a monk to avoid disaster, after all, work is work. If you do something, you have to love one thing. If you love one thing, you have to learn one thing. Not to mention anything else, at least Lu Wukong is still very interested in learning about things like Zen and martial arts.

Of course, what we are talking about here is mainstream beverages, and health products such as Wushisan are not included.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, that is, Wukong is now in this era, there were only two types of people who liked to drink tea. One was a religious person, such as a monk or a Taoist priest, and the other was a patient. Whether it was a religious person or a patient, their purpose of drinking tea was the same, cleaning the stomach and intestines.

It is said that the origin of the name of tea is because when Shennong tasted the herbs, he found that the effect of tea was to clean his stomach and even remove some of the poisonous weeds left behind in the past, so he gave the tea a name called Cha.

Later, after the search for tea leaves changed, it was gradually called Cheng Tu. Later, when it came to the Tea Saint Lu Yu, he took a stroke from the word "Tu" and officially confirmed the name of "Tu". But now it is still more than a hundred years before the birth of Tea Saint Lu Yu, so the tea now is not called tea, but Tu.

But apart from the patients, why do religious people like Buddhists and Taoists cleanse their stomachs? In order to pursue physical cleansing, physical cleansing can make the mind more easily cleansed.

In fact, there is a saying in Buddhism that eliminates the five meats. Most people may think that this meat is meat, but it is actually wrong. These five meats are not meat, but things like onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, etc., which are all standard vegetarian dishes. But why does Buddhism eliminate this thing? It is because onions, ginger, leeks and leeks have a irritating smell, and the taste in people's mouths is very unpleasant after eating them.

Therefore, religious people generally believe that these vegetarian dishes such as onions, ginger and garlic that make people smell bad after eating are unclean, so they cannot be eaten. But then again, are all the vegetarian dishes that can be eaten clean? Everyone understands this, and it is definitely not. Therefore, tea is needed to make the body and mind clear.

In fact, tea was popular in the great families and families, and had to wait until the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and was recommended to Emperor Xuanzong of Tang by Shenxiu's disciple, Zen Master Shenmo, before it was gradually said that it was a great success in the world.

Nowadays, tea can only be regarded as a relatively marginalized beverage. In fact, beverages have raised the status of tea. In fact, tea is now a medicine, a medicine to cleanse the stomach and intestines.

Although I was uncomfortable when I saw this kind of green tea on the first day, I still said that I was vomiting... or adapting to it. On the third day, the little monk Wukong could easily scoop out the tea from the pot with tea leaves, mint, orange peel and other smells floating in the pot without any disgusting feeling.

Therefore, people are still very adaptable.
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