The summer solstice has not yet arrived, and the gentleman has already left the Royal Academy in a black carriage, leaving Li Hongxiu and Mu Mu behind.
Although two days have passed since the two masters and disciples broke through as they wished, they still have a feeling of being in a fog.
Needless to say, the relationship between Xu Jingyun and Li Hongxiu is getting better and better.
When we were together, we either exchanged our thoughts after breaking through, or wanted to ask Li Hongxiu to invite Xu Jingyun to go shopping in the Imperial City after breaking through.
Mu Mu, who was originally a little repelled by the young lady, gradually accepted the young lady's existence under the careful arrangement of her husband, and the relationship between the two girls also deepened day by day.
"Sister Wushuang, when your husband takes me back to the imperial city next time, you go back with me to have some fun. I'll treat you to delicious food and take you to Sister Hua's place to play. Her peach blossom cakes are Mu Mu's. Favorite food.”
Mu Mu has nothing to do these days, so she follows the young lady to attend classes.
The students in the Dizi class suddenly saw Mu Mu who looked like a porcelain doll and was at the fifth level of the Golden elixir, and they were all amazed.
And with the instructions of the dean, the teachers of the college did not interfere with the young lady and Mu Mu, leaving Mu Mu, a student who was an editor, to take classes in the school.
The young lady also learned about Li Ye's life and practice over the years from Mu Mu's mouth, but Mu Mu was still tight-lipped about Li Ye's realm.
He has the same tone as Li Hongxiu. He doesn't know his realm, he just practices the physical body.
"Sister Wushuang, I heard that Dongfang Yu'er is also in the Royal Academy. Why didn't I see her?" Mu Mu pouted, feeling a little depressed.
The young lady was stunned, then looked back at her and said, "It seems that her mother came here a few days ago to pick her up and take her to the imperial city for something. She should be back soon."
Mu Mu snorted, looked at the young lady and said, "I heard from my wife that Dongfang Yu'er's mother had canceled my brother's marriage. This woman has a bad heart. The next time I see her, Mu Mu will definitely have a fight with her. Take it out on your brother’s behalf!”
After hearing this, the young lady couldn't help laughing: "Mumu, we are still girls, not women."
"No matter what, we will always have to fight with her!" Mu Mu curled her lips unwillingly.
"Okay, okay! Sister will help you out then." The young lady couldn't help but giggle.
The two of them walked together, jumping on the grassy slope from the college square back to the dormitory, like two cheerful elves.
...
Li Ye on Fangcun Mountain has now returned to Prajna Temple.
After his husband left, he practiced hard in the cave, and the long sword embryo gradually took shape under his thousands of hammers.
Later, when he had nothing to do, he melted the wrist guards and knee pads he had worn before into the grooves beside the earth fire pool, and tried adding some silver coins into them to make arrow branches.
I found that it was still too heavy. I guess the wrist guards and knee pads left by Po Xu Monk were not ordinary iron.
After several unsuccessful attempts, I gave up temporarily and planned to add this method and cast a guidance bow when I had time to give it to Mu Mu.
After taking off his wrist and knee pads, he lost about 200 kilograms of weight.
Running on the road back to Prajna Temple, he felt for the first time that he was light and could step on grass without leaving a trace.
The two-and-a-half-hour mountain road trip took only one hour while running wildly.
"Junior brother, you are distracted again." Minghui, sitting opposite him, interrupted his thoughts softly.
Li Ye was startled, then came back to his senses, looked at Minghui in front of him, scratched his head and smiled and said: "Well... Senior brother, didn't I just comprehend the eighth level of mental skills? I can't help but feel a little excited. "
Minghui shook his head and said, "It seems that you still have a long way to go before you can be undisturbed by external events and not be tempted by anything."
Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "For practitioners, it is indeed difficult to break through without being tempted."
"Then should I hit you hard with a wooden stick?" Ming Hui replied calmly.
"How did senior brother feel when he broke through the realm before? Was he neither happy nor sad?" Li Ye was a little curious. The senior brother in front of him had an extremely high realm. He didn't know what his state of mind was like when he was practicing.
"It's been so long that I've forgotten it." Minghui looked at the little boy in front of her with some emotion. Naturally, he would not tell anyone about the scandal he had carried.
Do I have to tell you that your senior brother is not as good as you at this time?
After taking a sip of tea, he continued: "The past is past. Since you are my junior brother, I will naturally have stricter requirements for you."
Li Ye looked at him seriously and said, "I have understood the eighth-level cultivation method. I will be able to break through it in less than two years. Isn't this achievement worthy of happiness?"
"Breaking the realm is a very important thing in the eyes of some practitioners, but it is a very boring thing in the eyes of Buddhist disciples."
"Senior brother, your demands on me are too high. I will feel a lot of pressure." Li Ye looked at him and smiled.
Minghui glared at him and continued.
"Also, don't think that you have understood the inner layer of mind method early now. Maybe in your life, this layer will be the one that has stuck in your practice for the longest time."
Minghui said calmly, as if she was telling someone else's business.
Li Ye was stunned and said with a smile: "I don't believe it! Is it that difficult?"
Minghui replied: "Time will tell you!" She looked neither sad nor happy.
What Li Ye didn't expect was that his conversation with Minghui would turn out to be a prophecy. This seemingly easy eighth-level mental technique would indeed block his practice for many years.
Until when he met Ming Hui again many years later, the two of them were still sighing when they talked about it.
Li Ye thought for a while, and then asked with some uncertainty: "Senior brother... Are there any metals or ores lighter than silver in the mountains?"
Ming Hui looked at him and shook his head with a smile, and said: "The monks in the temple practice martial arts on fists and feet, as well as sticks and other light metal materials, which are rare. What do you want to do with this?"
"I have been trying to make arrows these days. Bamboo branches are too light and metal is too heavy. I want to find a material that is both strong and light enough to shoot farther."
Li Ye thought for a while and replied.
"Let me think about it..." Minghui seemed to remember something and fell into deep thought.
After a long while, he said leisurely: "If I remember correctly, there is such a metal stone at the old man Xuantian Guanqingxu. Go look for him when you have time."
Li Ye was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "My husband also asked me to visit Taoist Master Qingxu when I have free time. It seems that I really want to go to him and have a look. Maybe I can find what I want." ore."
Minghui was silent for a moment and said calmly: "Let everything happen, don't force it."
Li Ye was stunned for a moment, then nodded after thinking about it.
Minghui looked at him and continued: "You have been scanning the mountain gate and the square in the temple for a long time. Have you carefully observed the pilgrims and lay people who come to the temple? Judging from the method you practice, the monks in the temple are like everyone. How about the pilgrims who come up the mountain to worship?"
"The source of the four characteristics of me, people, sentient beings, and longevity are all my characteristics. Because there is me, I have my ideas, this is mine, I think this is right, that is wrong, I like it, I I hate it, I have always been with you."
"So this is the truth. Could it be that my previous understanding was wrong?" Li Ye said to himself.
Minghui looked at him and shook her head, then continued.
"With me, there is you, there is him, there is the public, there is space, there is time, there is the world, there is life and death, that is to say, there are human beings, living beings, and longevity. So the root of these four phases is the self. Only by removing the self-image can one reach the state of being without the image of sentient beings.”
When Minghui said this, Li Ye remained silent and lowered his head to think, but held the tea cup in his heart.
Looking at Li Ye's appearance, Minghui continued: "Because there is only me in the hearts of all sentient beings. With me, there is discrimination. With discrimination, it is difficult to have compassion. Only with compassion in the heart can one Be considerate of all sentient beings.”
"Compassion is the origin of all hearts. Without compassion, would there be no Bodhicitta?" Li Ye looked at him and said in a daze.
"Only when the heart has compassion and compassion can it give rise to bodhicitta. Bodhicitta is the heart to become a Buddha. To have bodhicitta is to seek the Buddha's way and transform all sentient beings."
Ming Hui looked at Li Ye with a smile, feeling a sense of inexplicable joy in her heart. As her junior brother, she didn't need to say anything, she just needed a gentle hint.
"The prerequisite for the rise of these two kinds of hearts is that you must have a wise heart. Only a wise heart can distinguish the right knowledge and enlightenment. The wise heart is the wisdom of seeing through."
"Because you can see through it, you can not be blinded by illusions and appearances, you can see through its essence, and you can stay away from ignorance because of your wisdom." At this point, Minghui sighed deeply.
At this point, Minghui stopped and looked at Li Ye quietly, waiting for him to digest these truths.
"Senior brother is extremely talented and has wisdom like the sea. I am sad that my junior brother can only flatter me. If I have this virtue, why do I sigh?"
Li Ye was slowly digesting the shock that Minghui's words had brought to him.
Looking at his compassionate look, I couldn't help but ask: "Is it enough to have these three kinds of hearts?"
Minghui shook his head and said: "If this is good enough, then everyone can become a Buddha. To improve this mind, you still need to practice it. Even if people in the world cultivate their minds in one lifetime, they may not be able to achieve it instantly. Buddha."
He smiled, looked at Li Ye and said comfortingly: "But I think junior brother has a lot of wisdom and profound blessings. It will be a pity not to enter Buddhism."
Li Ye shook his head and replied: "Senior Brother, stop it. Even if Junior Brother completes his cultivation and comes down the mountain, he can cultivate Buddhism in the world and save people in the mortal world. This is what the old monk of my Great Buddha Temple told me."
As he replied, he secretly cursed: I still have my parents, sister, family and friends, and a little sister who is practicing in the Royal Academy. How can I leave the world like my senior brother and become a monk who has nothing to do with the world?
Minghui was stunned, looked at Li Ye, and then laughed: "After all, it's senior brother who is obsessed with me. It turns out that letting go of obsession is not easy."
"Senior brother, you have mercy." You said with a smile.
"In your free time, you can sit in the main hall of the mountain gate, see more of the sentient beings going up and down the mountain, and go to the Sutra Pavilion to copy scriptures. These things are trivial to you now, but you will want to understand and understand them after you come down from the mountain. , but it’s not easy either.”
Minghui thought for a while, looked at Li Ye and said softly, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.
Li Ye was startled, and quickly clasped his hands to salute Ming Hui, and respectfully replied: "Senior brother is merciful, and junior brother can be taught."
Ming Hui waved her hand and said, "You go back to the house, I want to finish today's homework."
After saying that, he stood up and lit a stick of incense, picked up the Buddhist beads on the table, held the flowers in his left hand, and began to chant the scriptures in a low voice.
Li Ye bowed again, stood up and pushed the door open.
...
In the days that followed, a group of monks in the temple found that the little uncle who was rarely seen on weekdays seemed to be free.
After sweeping the square every day, I would sit on the stone bench outside the main hall and stare at the pilgrims going up and down the mountain in a daze.
Several elders of the Sutra Pavilion also found it strange that Li Ye, who usually borrowed scriptures to copy, actually came to the Sutra Pavilion for one to two hours every day to copy the scriptures without taking them away. , after copying, put it next to the scripture stand.
The monks in the temple informed Minghui of Li Ye's actions one after another. Minghui smiled and said, "Don't disturb him. This is junior brother's own practice."
After his husband left, under Ming Hui's guidance, Li Ye began to practice and cultivate his mind in Prajna Temple for nearly three years. In the words of Kan: "Sweeping the floor can reveal one's mind; copying scriptures can reveal one's nature."
This is the true meaning of his coming to Prajna Temple to practice.
In the days to come, I was either at Prajna Temple or on the way to Xuantian Temple.
The thin figure ran on the mountain trails of Fangcun Mountain like a whirlwind.
This was the quietest three years that Li Ye had spent on Fangcun Mountain.
This was also the quietest three years in Li Ye's life.
