Chapter 1221: The Moon (Part 2)

The bells of the temple on the top of the mountain rang, and the monks who were hitting the bells were in great power. The bells echoed throughout the mountain. Birds gathered from the forest and flew past the gorges. The huge Buddha statues as majestic as mountains were reflected in the vast three rivers. The slightly drooping Buddha eyes overlooked the entire border town opposite the river. When people who were sailing on boats and fishing on the river passed by, they all bowed their heads to the Buddha and prayed for blessings when they heard the bells in the mountains.

Li Xingchu took his eyes back from the birds in the mountain road, looked at the young monk next to him with his hands folded in Buddhist beads and covered with monk robes, "Little Master, do people in this city believe in Buddhism?"

After all, there is such a miraculous Buddha statue standing. Why do you think that people in this city who look across the river every day will convert to Buddhism after a long time?

The little monk shook his head gently, pondered for a moment, and replied, "Master Li, please look in your right hand."

Li Xingchu looked to the right and saw the little moon holding an unhappy face in his hand. He seemed to be still feeling indignant and frustrated that the amusement park trip turned into a one-day tour of Buddhism. After realizing that his father's gaze, he even "hummed" and turned his head to look at him, but the big hand he was holding never let go of it.

"A little more right." The little monk smiled and bowed.

On the right side, Li Xingchu's gaze passed through the mountain forest and saw the convergence of the three rivers in a corner outside the mountain. The river water collapsed and the water and sky lined up.

"In this city, faith is like the flowing rivers, each with different sources. Some people piously integrate into the Buddhist path, like the rivers flowing into the sea, seeking peace and wisdom of the soul; some people believe in other gods, like rivers rushing endlessly. No matter what everyone believes, they will eventually come to the same destination in the end, just to find the meaning and power of life. Therefore, Buddhism welcomes all friends who come from afar." The little monk stood in front of his Buddhist beads with his right hand and kowtowed in the direction of the Buddha.

"It's so good to have Zen." Li Xingchu sighed, and also thought that this was a very skillful and sleek answer.

After thinking about it, he decided to go straight to the point, "Little Master, will Master Yuncheng welcome us today?"

"Master Yuncheng has always been open to accepting all those who are destined to be destined to be. Even if you come from a careless request, there is no need to worry. In Buddhism, all sentient beings are fellow Bodhi, and no matter where they come from, they can seek spiritual comfort and guidance." The young monk smiled slightly and looked at the little moon hiding beside Li Xingchu. The other party was probably curious why the little brother had a dot on his head.

"If you knock on a big one, you will be loud, and if you knock on a small one, you will be small." Li Muyue's voice came from the front. The two of them looked up and saw Li Muyue turning from a mountain wall to look at them on the stairs behind and saying, "I believe Master Yuncheng will give us a satisfactory answer today."

After saying that, she turned around and walked up the mountain. Li Xingchu's side called out "Mom to compete for the mountain climbing", then let go of her big hand and ran towards the figure in front of her.

Li Xingchu walked to where Li Muyue had just stood and looked at the mountain wall, with four large red characters engraved on it. Here, the cliff carvings on the mountain can be seen everywhere. Zhao Zengze and Su Shi have left ink treasures here, and the stone carvings that Li Muyue stayed for made Li Xingchu stand there for him, and the stone carvings that Li Muyue stayed for made Li Xingchu stand there for him, dazed for several moments.

Turning back is the shore.

"The female lay Buddhist seems to have a good understanding of Buddhism. Are you planning to convert to Buddhism?" The little monk stood behind Li Xingchu and asked with a smile as Mu Yue who was climbing the mountain with Xiaoyue.

"I can't imagine how she chanted sutras and chanted Buddha's name." Li Xingchu smiled bitterly and shook her head, "What does the sentence she said just now mean?"

"'Great knock' and 'small knock' refer to different ways of knocking the bell. The female layman used the previous bell to imply that she believed that Master Yuncheng would respond to your unkind request with a compassionate attitude, just like the echo of the bell, adapting to different situations and giving different responses." The young monk said, folding his hands together and raising his head, "The donor Mu Yue has wisdom."

"Then do you think I have wisdom?" Li Xingchu pointed at himself and smiled shyly, "Why don't I be ordained and become a monk together?"

"The donor is joking." The little monk shook his head helplessly. He still has fewer people in life. Who who came to meet Master Yuncheng is not respectful? It is the first time he has met someone like Li Xingchu who beats a snake and takes a stick.

Several people went up to the top of the mountain with the sound of bells. When they went up, Li Xingchu saw Xiao Yue standing behind the guardrail and shouting. The huge stone-sculpted head of the Buddha statue stood outside the railing. This was one of the observation decks of the Buddha.

The full name of the Great Buddha is "The Great Maitreya Stone Statue of Jiasan Lingyun Temple". Standing behind the guardrail, you can look at the side face of the Great Buddha. The red stone after the wind and frost baptism fades slightly as red as the skin of a living person. The whole Great Buddha sat there quietly as if he was alive.

"I'm welcome here. During the period when I met Master Yuncheng, the little donor will be taken by the little monk to visit the Meiyuan."

"I'm in trouble." Li Xingchu bowed to the little monk.

Watching the little monk walking towards the little moon, Li Xingchu turned his head and looked at Li Muyue who was standing on the platform not far away, and was the temple gate of Lingyun Temple not far away.

The plaque on Lingyun Temple is a calligraphy treasure of Zhao Xi, a calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty. The Ling characters in Lingyun Temple are deliberately written as the radical of "现", meaning that this is the place where the three rivers converge. Before we get close to it, the incense smell drifted out along the thin smoke inside the wall, accompanied by the neat sound of chanting sutras and chanting Buddha's name. It was monks doing morning classes. The sound of wooden fish knocking makes people calm down like washing the mind.

When entering Lingyun Temple, there was the Heavenly King Hall. On the left is the statue of the four Heavenly Kings carved with golden nanmu wood. After visiting as usual, Li Muyue and Li Xingchu walked through the front hall to the open land in front of the Great Hall. The long bronze incense burner was filled with the fragrance of the incense worshipper. In the cold wind of Your Highness, a large number of monks knelt on the futon and closed their eyes and recited the Buddha. The Buddha's voice was bright and the Zen meaning was clear.

While the two stopped and watched, a young monk in gray robe walked up to them and performed a Buddhist ritual. "The host has been waiting for a long time. Please ask the two donors to follow me."

Li Muyue and Li Xingchu were led through the sound of Buddha and walked to the main hall of the Main Hall. Those who came towards them were three golden statues of Sakyamuni (Dharma body, response body, and reward body). Below the statue of Buddha, there was a wide body and strong monk's tunic on the red futon. It looked very simple, with a face ranging from the middle age to the young. When you look closely at the Maitreya statue, you have to mention your devout respect.

"Master Yuncheng." Li Muyue knelt on the yellow cushion that had been prepared for them, and Li Xingchu sat down beside her.

Master Yuncheng opened his eyes, "For several days, I have been thinking deeply every night. I originally planned to go down the mountain to meet my fellow villagers soon, but I didn't expect you to come first. Maybe this is the wonder of fate. As Buddhism says, there is no need to deliberately look for Zen, Zen opportunities will always meet along the flow."

"Have Master Yuncheng thought of an answer to the matter?" Li Muyue asked softly.

Master Yuncheng sighed slowly, "Before sitting in the transformation, my senior brother left a suicide note, explaining in detail the affairs before and after my life, including the requests of the two donors. My senior brother walked farther than any of us in the Buddhist teachings. He had already calculated that you would come to me after he passed away, so he specifically told me how to deal with this matter. The previous few times the donor Mu Yue came to visit, but I failed to give a definite answer, perhaps because I was not firm in my heart. However, now I feel that I have found the Zen opportunity, and Buddhism provides me with an answer to calm my mind. At this moment when Zen is flowing, I will face this important funeral with a clear heart."

"So, Master, what is your reply?" Li Muyue's eyes drooped slightly.

"Mu Yue." Li Xingchu said appropriately to remind people around him to avoid being anxious and impatient.

"Is this your husband?" Master Yuncheng looked at this man when Li Xingchu spoke, and looked at Li Xingchu completely with a considerate but polite look, then nodded, "It's really a good match, entrusting life to love is a state that others dream of."

"Thank you for your accomplishment." Li Muyue was still stunned and didn't know if she should be modest.

"However, there are certain conditions." Master Yuncheng looked at Li Muyue who was performing a great gift, twisting Buddhist beads in his hand, and his voice was like a breeze blowing. "Once the heart of the evil dragon is cut out from the donor, it will be immediately received and suppressed by my Buddhist sect. This is the only condition, and everything else you need, our temple will provide it. Only the heart of the evil dragon needs to be properly kept by the Buddhist sect in case it harms the world again."

"Do you want the 'holy will'?" Li Xingchu was stunned. He looked at Master Yuncheng, and the other party also faced him with all his eyes, his eyes were clear and clear without any greed.

"How can the heart of the evil dragon be called the 'holy will'? This is just a delusion of the empty wishes of those who pursue false immortality." Master Yuncheng sighed, "In my suicide note, my senior brother mentioned that when the donor Mu Yue came to the door for the first time to explain everything, his mood had already begun to shake. However, he had been worried about the cause and effect caused by the heart of the evil dragon, and was worried that this might cause the Buddhist sect to fall into a place of right and wrong, so he had been difficult to make up his mind. This also became the most painful regret before he sat in the transformation."

"We don't want to see Buddhist blood stains, but finding Lingyun Temple is a helpless move. Master Wuche is a man of great wisdom. Everything he worried about during his lifetime may indeed become a reality. The pursuers behind us will not give up on the evil dragon's heart. Their determination and the power they can leverage are far from being underestimated. If Master Yuncheng really makes up his mind, please keep the dragon's heart well after everything is over." Li Muyue said calmly.

This is also the most direct statement, she is willing to give up the "holy will" in her chest.

"Serious." Master Yuncheng saw Li Muyue's determination in his pupils, and slightly lowered his head and recited the Buddha's name. The sound of his Buddha's name started with the sound of the Buddha's name. The sound of the wooden fish outside the hall suddenly stopped, and then the sound of the Buddha's name was chanted neatly, echoing in front and behind the entire Great Hall.

Li Muyue suddenly reached out to cover her chest gently. Li Xingchu's face changed for a moment and was about to approach care, but was stopped by Li Muyue. She shook her head slightly and signaled that she was good or that she had never been so good. Her long-standing dragon heart, which had been restless, actually quieted down in the neat Buddha's name, like an invisible lasso applied to it, extinguishing all the restlessness and rage into the tranquility of Buddhism.

"The two donors, please move to the plum garden to calm down?" Master Yuncheng stood up from the cushion, holding a rosary in his hand to signal the two to leave the hall.

Li Muyue held Li Xingchu's hand and gently tried hard, stood up with him and followed Master Yuncheng, left from the side door path of the Main Hall, walked all the way through Lingyun Temple, and walked eastward around the viewing platform of the Buddha on the side of the mountain. When passing by the head of the Buddha, the prayer bell on one side was ringed again. The strong monk with his naked upper body held the bell pillar with one hand, lowered his eyes and lowered his palm to chant the Buddha's name, echoing the bell again between the mountains and forests again.

After walking through the blessing clock, it was a small path ahead. When he walked to the road, Master Yuncheng stopped and looked at the red wall of the mountain. Most of the rocks here were red sandstone, which was the same as the rock layer carved by the Buddha. There was a cave on the slightly red mountain with iron cables hanging on the cave, and it could only be used to enter and exit.

"That's it" Li Xingchu took the initiative to ask.

"Master Haitong's former residence is also a burial place."

Li Xingchu naturally knew who Master Haitong was. The towering stone Buddha between the mountain behind him was initiated by Master Haitong. The monk Haitong, whose ancestral home is Guizhou, made a turtle in Lingyun Mountain. When he saw the Minjiang River, Qingyi River and Dadu River converging on the foot of Lingyun Mountain, there was often flooding that "the boat goes with the waves, and no one exists", he decided to dig the statue of Maitreya Buddha on the cliff to reduce the evil water and keep the wind and waves forever.

After more than 20 years of begging alms, coupled with the amazing deeds of "it's your own eyes to get rid of money, but it's rare to get money from Buddha", this Buddha was finally established, which is comparable to other stone carvings in the world, such as Sphinx and the Valley of the Kings of the Nile.

Such a great master should have molded a golden body and cultivated the five-level coffin relics, but in the end he just dug a hole in the red sandstone layer next to the Buddha and buried it inside.

"If possible, I hope to take the surgical site of the Dragon Heart to be determined here," said Master Yuncheng.

"Conditions in the cave" Li Xingchu hesitated a little. He had never had surgery in the cave.

"There will definitely be arrangements in accordance with the conditions required by the donor afterwards."

"Will this not harm Master Haitong's old place during his lifetime?" Li Xingchu was still a little hesitant.

"The Feng Shui here is the most pleasant. The three rivers meet and the luck is also strong. The righteous energy is so strong that the heart of the evil dragon is the most powerful. If you choose to perform the ceremony here, everything will definitely be suitable." Master Yuncheng put his hands together and bowed to the tomb cave. "If the flood is not eliminated, the begging for alms will not stop. Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha. Master Haitong is a person with great perseverance and great Buddha Dharma. If he can help the world again after he dies, it is a good thing."

"Then I'm thankful for the master. I hope I will take out Long Xin's main surgery. Please prepare the surgical equipment and other troublesome materials. I will send the specific list to the temple on a date." Li Xingchu also saluted the two-meter-high red sandstone cave.

"The equipment is already on the way. Earlier, donor Mu Yue provided everything she needed to Senior Brother Wuche. He left it to me with the suicide note. Everything was already ready the night I made the decision."

Li Xingchu was slightly amazed, for the sake of Master Yuncheng's willingness and for the strong financial resources and foundation of Lingyun Temple. If there was no accident, the list submitted by Li Muyue was discussed with him before. The value of the things piled up in it cannot be measured simply by money. Just 1 ton of dragon blood mercury drawing the alchemy matrix is ​​enough to let ordinary mixed-race families lose all their wealth, but Lingyun Temple took it out without even blinking.

"Wannian Temple is also familiar with this matter, and Huizong Hall also agrees with this matter. This is not a decision made by Lingyun Temple. The two donors received support from Mahayana Buddhism." Master Yuncheng said lightly.

They hiked through the path and then walked forward and suddenly realized. A large plum garden poured into their eyes. When the winter wind whistled, the plum blossoms were blooming brightly in the snow. The little moon's crisp laughter was also heard among the plum blossoms, accompanied by the melodious bells in the mountains in the distance. The parents who stopped in front of the garden were a little fascinated by the beautiful scene in front of them.

"The two donors are destined to be a destined person. I believe that my Buddha will definitely protect the Dharma." Master Yuncheng also looked at the little moon playing hide-and-seek with the little monk in the plum garden and said softly.

"Master, I will never thank you for your kindness. Although it is a bit redundant, I still want to know what made you determined to flow into this muddy water?" Li Xingchu looked at Master Yuncheng and asked seriously.

"Buddhism is natural." Master Yuncheng said, "The suicide note left by Senior Brother Wuche is like this for me on your questions."

"Is Buddhism natural?"

"Like the river flows along the river, perhaps the result of the Buddha's fate. There is no reason for the Buddhist fate to be kept out of the Buddhist world." Master Yuncheng looked at the sea of ​​flowers in the plum garden. "My senior and I had different opinions on various big and small matters, so I moved into Wuyu Temple alone to cultivate my mind day and night. The senior brother stayed in Lingyun Temple to save all living beings. On the day of his passing, when I learned that he would pass on the position of presidency to me, I realized that my senior brother's Buddhism was already Mahayana. Buddhism was natural, and the senior brother implemented the way of nature at the last moment. I recalled the dispute with him in the past, and looked back at the present, the nature of right and wrong, the nature of victory and defeat, my nature, the nature of the other, the nature of conformity is nature, and the difference is also nature. Now, it is my turn to continue on this path and achieve my nature. May I take that responsibility in this nature."

Li Xingchu was confused when he heard this, but Li Muyue had a little more enlightenment in her eyes. She saluted Master Yuncheng again and asked, "Master, please pay more attention to those outside the small town. If nothing unexpected happens, the people behind us have already followed the traces. Please pay more attention to the safety work in the temple."

"It's okay." Master Yuncheng shook his head, "The reason why Brother Wuche rejected the two donors many times is that his senior brother does not like to fight and is not good at fighting. The name of "orthodox" is well-known, and the senior brother should indeed be taboo about this. But in the end, this is Lingyun Temple, not orthodox."

"Please don't underestimate 'orthodox', it's related to Gu Long's heart. Their methods and determination may be beyond imagination." Li Muyue reminded him slightly and seriously.

"If I have the opportunity, I hope to teach some Mahayana Buddhism to the 'orthodox' visitors and explain the natural principles of Buddhism." Master Yuncheng put his hands together and raised his head.

"The people they sent may not be willing to listen to your Dharma, Master." Li Xingchu shook his head.

"If I don't understand Buddhism, I actually understand some fists and feet."

Master Yuncheng looked up, and Maitreya Buddha-like face showed a cute smile, but Li Muyue and Li Xingchu saw the majesty of the eyes of the king statues on both sides of the front hall, like a vision.

ps: The next chapter is to get the moon (end), and it is also the last chapter of the moon chapter.

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