The seventeenth day of the first lunar month was sunny.
At the end of noon, Li Ye returned to Prajna Temple in the spring scenery.
Climbing up the steps, the main hall of Prajna Temple is still as solemn as before. In the square outside the main hall, there are pedestrians coming and going in a hurry to burn incense in the true spring scenery. The large square is bright and clean.
After bypassing the Buddhist hall, Li Ye pushed open the door of the small courtyard. Unexpectedly, he had been gone for several months.
Listening to the sound of the courtyard door, the voice of young monk Wuyou came from the room: "I told you, my uncle hasn't come back yet, what's the fuss about?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a little bald head popped out of Li Ye's room.
"I'm back, okay?" Li Ye looked at the little monk in front of him and felt very cordial.
"Uncle, you're finally back. I'm almost going crazy sweeping the floor." Seeing that it was Li Ye who came back, Wuyou quickly ran to him, circled around him, and kept complaining.
Li Ye smiled and said, "Didn't your master teach you that sweeping the floor, chopping firewood, and cooking are all practices?"
Wuyou was stunned, then patted his bald head.
Continuing to complain: "Uncle, you don't know, I have to go to morning classes, sweep the square, practice my own method, and come over from time to time to clean your small courtyard. It's really miserable."
Li Ye rolled his eyes at him, took out a bunch of melon seeds and snacks and put them on the table.
He smiled and said, "Is this enough? If you are brave and dare to break the precept, I have some dried meat here, do you want it?"
Wuyou was very excited when he saw the cakes in front of him, and was about to eat a big meal. He didn't expect that Li Ye would try to seduce him to break the habit.
He was so frightened that he clasped his hands, wrapped all the things on the table in monk's robes, screamed and ran away.
After a while, his voice came from the next room: "Little Master Uncle, I have been practicing here for the past few days. When you see Master Minghui, just tell him and there will be no more sound."
"That Wuyou Junior Nephew, you left some for me?" Li Ye yelled deliberately.
Hearing a "bang!" sound from the next door, Wuyou closed the door tightly in order to protect what he had obtained.
Li Ye smiled, thinking that the little monk was also greedy.
...
After fetching water from the well, washing up, and changing into clean monk robes, Li Ye lay on the bed.
Looking up at the ceiling, I thought to myself: "Would it be better for me to go at You hour or at Xu hour?"
After all, he had a lot of questions to ask Minghui, and the time he spent here was short, so how could he ask clearly.
I was thinking about it and fell asleep unconsciously. When I woke up, I saw that it was already dark.
The little monk Wuyou has already lit a lamp under the eaves of the courtyard.
Yawning, Li Ye went out to find a bowl of water.
He looked into the room with the lights on and shouted: "Senior nephew Wuyou, I'm going to senior brother Minghui's Buddhist hall. Do you want to come with me?"
"Bang!" There was another knock on the door, and Wuyou's voice came from the room: "Young uncle, you can go alone, I will guard the yard here."
Li Ye was startled, and then he realized what he was doing and laughed angrily: "What do you need to guard my poor yard?"
Even so, he found a lantern under the eaves, took out the fire sticks, lit it, carried it with his hand, and walked out of the yard.
...
As if she had known that Li Ye was coming, Minghui already had a pot of tea on the table and two tea cups. There was agarwood in the Buddhist hall, and there was a Bodhisattva with low eyebrows on the Buddhist altar.
He took off his shoes and entered the Buddhist hall, put his hands together in greeting, took out two boxes of cakes and placed them on the Buddhist altar.
Li Ye sat opposite Minghui. "Brother, I miss you very much."
Ming Huihui, who was holding flowers and chanting Buddha's name, paused for a moment with the beads in her hand.
He looked at Li Ye and said: "This sentence contains persistence. You have encountered a problem in your practice and you want me to solve it?"
Li Ye was stunned, then stepped forward and asked, "Senior brother, do you know how to calculate and know everything about me?"
Minghui smiled, put down the beads in his hand, and shook his head: "With your wisdom, if you hadn't encountered difficulties, you would never miss my senior brother who chants sutras. What's more, you have Mr. Mo who is as wise as the sea."
Li Ye nodded, shook his head, thought for a while and said, "There are some doubts that Mr. can't solve. He said that his practice of Buddhism is not deep enough."
Minghui was stunned, clasped his hands together and praised: "Mr. Mo is too wise. He understands the Buddhist principles of verbal interpretation, so he cannot answer your questions. In fact, even if it is me and the abbot, who dares to say that he is proficient in Buddhist principles?"
"Amitabha, does the judgment of speech refer to the sentence: it cannot be said?"
Returning to Prajna Temple, Li Ye naturally thought of various principles of Buddhism.
"There is a truth in it. We will discuss this later. Let's talk about your doubts first." Minghui picked up the teapot and poured water into the two cups.
"Senior brother, I got the dragon's soul by chance when I was collecting herbs on the north slope."
From the moment Li Ye saw the majestic dragon skeleton, he never thought of hiding it from Minghui. After all, practicing the "Shadowless Dharmakaya" is a skill of Prajna Temple.
"What's the level? Have you refined it?" Even those who have practiced to the level of Ming Hui can't help but change their expressions.
Li Ye smiled and activated the seventh-level mental technique of the "Phaseless Dharma Body", and suddenly he was surrounded by the pressure of the dragon soul.
"I spent several months refining it, but it's only half refined, and I can't make any further progress. This should be a dragon that failed to survive the Nine Tribulations..."
Li Ye described the situation in the cave to Minghui one by one.
After spending half a stick of incense, Minghui listened to Li Ye’s story.
He couldn't help but sigh: "This is God's will. The restrictions in the cave seem to be specially set up for junior brother."
"That place is indeed inaccessible to those under the Golden Core, and Junior Brother, you are temporarily unable to use the power of true energy, so the restriction will naturally not be able to sense your realm, God's will, God's will."
"Your husband is right. With your current level, it is already good to be able to refine half of the dragon soul. This is also related to your practice of the "Shadowless Dharma Body", otherwise you will not be able to get close to it. From now on, you will be able to refine half of the dragon soul." Just let it go and don’t think about refining it.”
"Senior Brother Abbot and I were both afraid that you would not be able to find the resurrecting grass and animal soul needed for the seventh-level technique. We did not expect that you were so blessed that you could find the animal soul so quickly, and it was also the dragon soul of the Nine Tribulations. This is Fangcun Mountain can be considered a miracle.”
Minghui sighed.
Li Ye saw that Minghui was full of surprises, but he couldn't be happy.
Frowning, he asked: "Senior brother, after I refined the dragon soul, I clearly felt that my divine sea had grown much stronger. Others could also feel the pressure in my body. I even felt that the seventh-level technique was about to Breaking the situation, but there is no way to do it."
"You and Mr. Ouyang are practicing casting techniques, which requires strong physical strength, and you have experienced the tempering of ice and fire in the cave. Normally, you should be able to perfect the seventh-level skills by now."
"If you don't feel anything, it's probably a matter of your state of mind. Don't worry. The key issue has been solved and the rest will be easy.
Minghui said calmly.
Li Ye recalled that what his husband said to him was so similar to what senior brother Minghui said.
Can't help but nod. He stretched out his hand to pick up the teacup on the table, took a breath and looked at the ripples in the teacup.
Suddenly asked: "Senior brother, the key points of the last four levels of the "Formless Dharmakaya" are: no self, no one, no living beings, no lifespan, no self has been discovered, what is the no one? "
After saying these words, Li Ye raised his head and glanced at the Bodhisattva on the Buddhist altar.
"Good, good, junior brother, you have finally found the threshold." Ming Hui held the flower in her left hand, her face full of joy. Looking at him he replied.
"People who practice Buddhism have four characteristics: the mind can be divided into subjects and subjects, and being contemptuous of all living beings is the self-sign. Those who rely on themselves and uphold the precepts, and those who break the precepts lightly are called the human sign. The aversion to the suffering of the three paths, originating in the heavens, is the sign of all living beings. In the heart, Being attached to one's family for many years, diligently cultivating meritorious deeds, and never forgetting the Dharma are the hallmarks of a person with long life."
"The self-less phase is said to be: 'I' is originally a speck of dust in the world, born and destroyed due to the combination of causes and conditions, so there is no 'I', it is called 'I'.
No one can say that "others" are also just a speck of dust in the world. They arise and die due to the combination of causes and conditions, and are no different from "me". Therefore, there is no "others", it is called "others". "
"Junior brother has already figured out the first one, and now we need to figure out the second one. Just like, you have now realized the 'self phase' and the 'no-self phase', that is yourself, and Minghui sitting in front of you is 'Human phase' is also 'nobody phase'. If you understand the truth, you can go to a higher level and understand the following two phases."
When Ming Fenghui arrived here, Li Ye had already closed his eyes.
He seemed to see a light in the dark night and wanted to catch the light in front of him...
Seeing the little junior brother in front of him getting better and better, Minghui couldn't help but smile, and he didn't stop.
Instead, he continued: "Junior brother, when you sit in front of the Buddha, do you see the Buddha or yourself?... If you say that you have forgotten yourself, then do you see the Buddha? Is this Buddha a human or a Buddha? Mutually?"
"...Does the Buddha have a human form? Does the Buddha have a form or does he have no form?...If there is a form in front of you, it is all false..."
...
When Ming Hui said this, the whole body of Li Ye, who was in knots, changed.
There was golden Buddha light spreading and slowly gathering three feet above his head.
Gathered into a golden lotus, the lotus blossomed while turning, and then finally bloomed.
During the rotation of the golden lotus, tiny particles of light fell from the air and entered Li Ye's body.
Gradually, Li Ye's body changed in front of Minghui's eyes, and his thin body slowly became almost transparent.
He saw that the blood pumped from Li Ye's heart was in a golden state and spread throughout his body along the blood vessels.
The bones of the whole body also change with the blood, from pale gold at the beginning to golden color...
What fell in front of him at this time was a golden man. In Minghui's eyes, Li Ye was the Buddha who immediately became a Buddha.
"Indestructible, the golden body is perfect, and all dharma is inviolable! Amitabha, my junior brother has finally perfected the practice of the seventh level of mind, and another lay practitioner will be born in Prajna Temple who has perfected the formless dharma body. How good, how good! "
Minghui clasped her hands together and began to recite the Gongsong sutra in her mouth. For a moment, golden light surged out of the Buddhist hall and gradually spiraled into the air, like a golden dragon that was about to step through the void.
The Bodhisattva with low eyebrows on the Buddhist altar suddenly smiled. Li Yebao, who fell on the ground, was as majestic as the Bodhisattva on the Buddhist altar.
The night is getting darker, and the monks in Prajna Temple have already rested.
In the black night sky, a golden light shot up into the sky, hovering over Prajna Temple, and never dispersed for a long time...
At this moment, in Xuantian Temple, Qingxu on the terrace was watching the sky at night, and suddenly he saw the golden light hovering in the sky.
I couldn't help but praise: "I wonder if it is the eminent monk from Prajna Temple who has attained enlightenment and caused visions in the heaven and earth, and a golden dragon descended..."
At this moment, Li Ye had already forgotten both things and me, and was wandering in the sky, like the golden dragon rising into the sky.
Ming Hui, who was sitting down and holding flowers, heard the great road and chanted in a low voice:
Eliminate doubt and give birth to faith, eliminate all aspects and transcend sect,
It doesn’t depend on the appearance, and it doesn’t move.
...
The seventeenth day of the first lunar month was sunny. Prajna Temple.
Li Ye attained enlightenment in the Buddha Hall and practiced the "Shadowless Pointed Dharma Body" to the seventh level of perfection.
