Knowledge and Practice

Walking along the secluded path, Xiao Xingyi and Xie An walked slowly one after the other. The road to Lingyin passed a tea garden, and then diverged into two branches like the road going east, one straight Built along the road, you can go directly to the destination, a winding road that hides into the jungle and mountain streams, and sometimes into the sunny green hills.

Although the two roads have different scenery, they lead to the same goal by different routes.

After noon, the traditional time to worship the Buddha is usually in the morning, so the afternoon schedule becomes less urgent.

Without much hesitation, they also hid in the mountain path where they could smell the fragrance of flowers. Along the way, they passed mountain streams and pools. , the pond water ripples all hearts, Gao Lin washes away distracting thoughts.

The stone slabs under their feet meander like a deep forest. Xiao Xingyi and Xie An walked one after the other, and suddenly a bright red came into view. To protect ancient trees, red ribbons are tied to the side pavilions, floating slowly with the autumn wind.

The stone road under his feet became wide open. Xiao Xingyi looked around and saw that it was different from the road he had traveled before. There were huge boulders and weeds overgrown here.He noticed a gigantic rock with a strange and upright appearance, with three red seal characters engraved in the center of the stone-"Sansheng Stone", which was as big as the mouth of a bowl and was very inconspicuous.

On the smoother side of the stone, there is an inscription engraved on it. The vernacular translation is easy to understand, and a story about high mountains and flowing water jumps between the stones

Li Yuan, the son of the Tang Dynasty, experienced the Anshi Rebellion in the last year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. His father died in the war. He vowed to keep his father's filial piety until death.

Living in seclusion in Huilin Temple, I happened to meet the Buddha's garden, just like Boya met Ziqi, and became an irreversible friend, and could sit together and talk quietly, from dawn to dusk.

After 30 years of this, the two sons made an appointment to tour Shuzhou together and arrived at Emei, Qingcheng.Buddha wants to go out of the inclined valley by land; Li Yuan wants to go out of the Three Gorges by water.After arguing, the Buddha had no choice but to rely on Li Yuan, so he traveled to the upper gorge of the Jingjiang River. When he saw several women, the Buddha cried and said, "I don't want to come here because I'm afraid of seeing his wife. Among them, the pregnant woman's surname is King. , is where I was reborn. She hasn’t been pregnant for three years, and that’s why I don’t want to come. Now that I’ve seen her, my fate will return, and the cycle of cause and effect”

The Buddha asked Li Yuan to send him to reincarnate quickly with a spell, and promised to meet him at Wang's home three days later.Taking care of each other and smiling as evidence, it is the fate of the previous life.He also promised that 12 years later, on the moonlit night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he would be reincarnated outside the Tianzhu Temple in Hangzhou to attend the appointment as scheduled.

After Li Yuan heard this, he regretted endlessly. At dusk that day, Buddha's son gave birth to Wang's son.Three days later, when I went to visit Wang's home, the infant son smiled.Li Gong wept and told the king.The Wang family then became a monk and buried the Buddha's son generously.

In the autumn and August of the next 12 years, he went straight to Hangzhou and went to his appointment.At that time, in Tianzhu Temple, the mountain was raining, and the Buddha had turned into a shepherd boy. Li Yuan waited for twelve springs and autumns, and finally left only a poem before hiding in the mountains:

"There is a lot of things in front of and behind, and if you want to talk about the cause and fate, you may be heartbroken.

Wuyue's mountains and rivers have been searched all over, but he returned to Yanzhu and went to Qutang. "

Xiao Xingyi looked at Li Yuan, who had been waiting for three generations in the inscription, and felt a feeling of deja vu in his heart.

If you are lucky enough to keep it for a lifetime, you can sit together and talk at night, from dawn to dusk.

I was fortunate enough to meet the second life, and I will smile at you and break the promise of the previous life.

I was lucky enough to wait for the third life, don't ask about the past and the aftermath, but go back to Yanzhu to go to Qutang.

The Buddhas of the first life followed the teachings, and when they were not yet enlightened in the cycle of life and death, they were as clean as lotus flowers, harmonized, and the three karma were pure, and everything they did was for sentient beings.

Li Yuan is one of the sentient beings. From the son of the Buddha, all sentient beings seek fate from the Buddha, and get close to the Buddha.

In the last life, the Buddha's practice was complete, he attained Nirvana, and went to the 12-year agreement. He was no longer a shepherd boy who sang in the mountains. Love, compassion and rescue, infinite kindness.

There are three refuges in Buddhism, taking refuge in the Buddha, taking refuge in the Dharma, and taking refuge in the Sangha

Now that the monks have gone, I don't know whether the Dharma can make Li Yuan, who has waited for three lifetimes, comprehend the Dao and develop the supreme mind.

Xiao Xingyi stopped for a long time, his eyes had moved away from the stone inscriptions, and he was wandering among the weeds beside the stone, thinking deeply.

Next to him, Xie An noticed Xiao Xingyi's way of lowering his head and frowning, and when he saw the inscription, he couldn't help sighing that this child was still easily influenced by these small things as always.

It is rare for children to be influenced by words. Xie An has noticed since he was a child that most of the time Xingyi would not express directly even if he thought of something. He is good at thinking and internalizing things. He likes words, but he doesn't like talking to people , sometimes give Xing Yi a book, and he can read it quietly in one day, and his mood also rises and falls with the characters in the book.

After chatting occasionally after many days, I found that this child had internalized a lot of storylines, and sometimes the words that burst out occasionally would make Xie An sigh Xiao Xing's seriousness, and from time to time he would come from his own small world. Li was pulled back.

There is no good or bad, but sometimes you still have to take him out, after all, daily life is not just about books.

Xie An walked around from behind Xiao Xingyi in front of him, lowered his head to the front of Xiao Xingyi's tightly furrowed brows, and said softly, "Why are you frowning? Isn't it a good ending?"

Xiao Xing looked up at Xie An as soon as he heard the words. He felt that he was not that fragile, and he was not simply grieving for the stele. He dodged Xie An's soft and peaceful gaze, but he still responded to Xie An's words seriously. Question: "It's nothing bad. The Buddha reincarnated and reunited with Li Yuan after Nirvana and rebirth, just to save his obsession, isn't it..."

It's not for getting to know him, not for keeping an appointment with him, if that's the case, why do you have to promise him twelve years... Xiao Xingyi didn't say what happened next.

Seeing Xiao Xingyi's serious look, Xie An felt a little helpless, but he still calmly advised him, "Xingyi, then if Li Yuan follows Yuanze by land, he won't be reincarnated or become a Buddha."

Then he only crosses Li Yuan alone, but does not cross the world, is it a good ending? "

Seeing that Xiao Xing didn't shake his head, Xie An knew that Xiao Xing had acquiesced, and continued to follow the temptation: "But how can you guarantee that the Buddha will not encounter other calamities in this life except not to travel by water? If you don't travel together The promise made at that moment, how did the promise of future generations come about?"

Xiao Xingyi seemed to understand, but he only felt that Xie An's words were kind and gentle, and could soothe people's hearts.

Seeing that Xiao Xingyi's expression was not so rigid, Xie An still said to him in a gentle voice:

"Xingyi, every road has its own scenery. If different things happened to them at another time, Li Yuan, who didn't have the agreement of the third generation, might not be better than him at that time."

"He may have been thinking about the last side he didn't see all his life. He didn't have that belief to support him for three years, twelve spring and autumn..."

"Alternatively, if the opportunity for the Buddha's child does not come, and he fails to pass Nirvana smoothly, he only listens to one person's wish, saves one person's only need, and only enters the world but not the world. Is it true that he will have no regrets or regrets throughout his life?"

"Everything has a cause and effect, but everything encountered and experienced is their cause and effect, there is no distinction between good and bad"

Xie An slowly said a lot, just like he takes little patients seriously, very small children or some sensitive and forbearing children need patience to understand and communicate.

Listening carefully to the emotions in Xiao Xingyi's words has become a natural law in his conditioned reflex. Even though sometimes he feels that the child is a little too serious, but in order not to let Xingyi frown, he still endures as always. temper

Xiao Xingyi in front of him finally relaxed, and Xie An also breathed a sigh of relief.

The words on the stele are actually not that important anymore. Xiao Xingyi heard all Xie An's words, but in the quagmire of his heart, there was a different kind of mood climbing all the way, crossing layers of darkness, and heading towards the sunny direction keep stretching

It may have grown from the orphanage, looking forward to Xie An coming to make up lessons, and being able to see him every weekend

Or maybe it is attached to the end and beginning of a vacation, looking forward to the class that Xie An will spend like years before Xie An takes him back.

If Xie An's tone hadn't been so gentle, or if he hadn't been persuading him so sincerely, then these uneasy thoughts might have returned to a certain corner of his heart, covered by weeds and dead trees, and slowly sank to the point of nowhere. place.

As soon as Xiao Xing raised his head, his gaze was firm, and he no longer wandered away. He stared at Xie An's smiling eyes. His expression was determined, wishing to throw all his thoughts away:

"how about you?"

"Xie An, if you were a disciple of Buddha, what would you do?"

...What do you think of this? If you were a disciple of the Buddha, what would you do? Would you leave him alone...

...He respects you, loves you, waits for you, can you see that...

The author has something to say: Among them, the 6 words of "be able to break, let go, and be at ease" come from Cangyang Gyatso's original words. There are three realms of Buddha's enlightenment: exploring, letting go, and being at ease.

Life cannot be said, from the Buddhist scripture "Nirvana Theory"

In this chapter, I have been hesitant to move over the entire piece of Yuanzeji. In fact, the original allusions on the Sansheng Stone in Hangzhou are all in vernacular, which is not very beautiful. This passage is from volume 380 of "Taiping Guangji" .Yuanguan), and another point is that the level of creation is limited, and if there is a chance in the future, I will revise the article well

Ancient Chinese characters can better express love,

There is another sentence in the original text, which was ridiculed by people at that time because it was turbid and incoherent.I didn't put it in, because these are not things they will experience in the near future, maybe in the second book (hahaha, I don't know if there is a second book, after all, the first book doesn't have much stock)

The relationship between Xiao Xingyi and Xie An is also difficult to grasp. The attachment of the teenagers is not groundless, nor is it smooth sailing. Xie An's meticulous care of him will not change because of the difference in each other's feelings.

It's just that this sense of balance makes me hesitate for a long time before writing.

Quite a lot of foreshadowing, write slowly

I also want to worship Buddha in the coming year. I wish myself good luck~ Ankang~Successful career~