Ever since he and Li Ye came out of Minghui Buddhist Hall, he was no longer in a hurry to practice the ninth mental method of the Formless Dharma Body.
Instead, after sweeping the floor every day, he would sit under the eaves of the main hall and stare blankly at the pilgrims coming and going in Prajna Temple.
Sometimes Nangong Ruyu would sit with him for a while, but most of the time it was him alone. In Nangong Ruyu's words, the master was a bit scary when he sat outside the hall, saying nothing, and it was not fun at all.
Mu Mu sometimes came over to sit with him for a while, but in the end she couldn't stand him anymore and ran away with Nangong Ruyu.
Later, Wuyou came to accompany him.
"Uncle, what are you looking at?" Wuyou knew that Li Ye was not crazy.
"I'm looking at all living beings." Li Ye replied softly.
"All living beings? My master once said that you can see all living beings at the bottom of the mountain, you can see yourself on the mountainside, and you can see the heaven and earth on the top of the mountain. Why did uncle go to the top of the mountain to see all living beings?" Wuyou followed his master's teachings and looked at Li Ye in a daze.
Li Ye turned around and looked at him quietly and said with a smile: "Because the sentient beings at the bottom of the mountain want to come to the mountain to see the Buddha, that's why they let me see them."
Wuyou nodded thoughtfully and said: "The sentient beings at the bottom of the mountain are the sentient beings at the bottom of the mountain. What Uncle Master wants to see are the sentient beings who come up the mountain?"
When Li Ye heard this, he was shocked. After a while, he replied: "I'm just lazy. The living beings at the foot of the mountain are also living beings. I just think it's too troublesome to run down the mountain..."
After some explanations, Li Ye couldn't convince himself.
As he said himself, he was really just looking at the sentient beings outside the hall for convenience.
But with his current practice, there is no need to go to the Buddhist capital at the foot of the mountain to meet sentient beings.
What he is anxious about now is cultivating his own mind, not the minds of all sentient beings. He just wants to find his own cultivation heart from the eyes of all living beings.
Not patience, not compassion, not bodhicitta...
What he is looking for is the heart that is related to time.
For this reason, he has been suffering for several months.
Sure enough, this ninth level is the simplest, but also the most difficult mental method to get started with.
Shaking his head, Li Ye, who was puzzled, left the hall and walked to his small courtyard.
When I walked to the entrance of the small courtyard, I saw Wu Xin playing with Nangong Ruyu. Looking at Li Ye who came back, Nangong Ruyu shouted: "Master, you don't even love Yu'er anymore. You sit in front of the hall and watch people every day." "
Wuxin was startled when he heard this, looked at him and asked: "Uncle, what's wrong with you, is there anything unhappy?"
Li Ye shook his head and walked towards the yard.
"Wuxin, what kind of heart do you think is related to time? It's neither bodhicitta nor compassion..." He had already walked into the small courtyard and stretched out his head to ask again.
"A heart related to time? What kind of heart? My master never told me...is it perseverance?" Wu Xin said casually as he carried Nangong Yu'er towards the small courtyard.
"Time has no end, but idealism is eternal?...Perseverance?" Li Ye murmured after hearing this.
Nangong Ruyu looked at him and smiled: "Master, what is perseverance? Can it be eaten?"
Li Ye touched her head and smiled and said: "Perseverance is a saying. Master will explain it to you when you grow up." After saying that, he looked at Wu Xin and said seriously: "It seems that you returned to the temple and enlightened. There are many Buddhist teachings, which is gratifying and congratulatory.”
Wuxin put Nangong Ruyu on the stool under the tree and replied calmly: "It's all because of Master's compassion that the disciples can calm down and practice Buddhism."
Li Ye looked at it and shook his head and said: "But your path is not here after all. Think about it carefully. Yu'er can live without a master, but she cannot live without a father. And your father..."
Waving his hand, before Wu Xin could say anything else, Di Ye said, "Go back and think about it carefully. Before it snows, I will send Yu'er back to the city. If you are willing, take her home with you."
Nangong Ruyu looked at Wuxin and shouted, "Daddy, come home with me."
Wuxin looked at the two of them, thought for a while and replied, "Let me think about it again."
"There are still more than two months before it snows. Think about it for yourself." After saying that, he raised his head and shouted: "Mumu, where are you."
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The Buddha said that as soon as a thought arises, it becomes the past, and the past cannot be grasped.
We cannot reach the future before the next thought arises. Life is only between breaths. Life seems to be very long, but in fact, the past and the future are time that we cannot reach.
Only the current breath can be grasped by us.
Although it is only for a moment, it is precisely because of this moment that we can know that we have been here and we have breathed.
Mu Mu went to the back mountain with Xiao Qing and Xiao Hua, and Li Ye sat under the tree with Nangong Ruyu, thinking repeatedly about the perseverance Wu Xin said.
Since time has no end, only by maintaining an unchanging heart can we see the past, grasp the present, and see the future.
There is no permanent practice, only the eternal Dharma and truth.
Refining the mind is not about the past or the future, but the perseverance in the present moment.
Thinking of this, Li Ye felt a golden light shining in the sea of consciousness. Nangong Ruyu, who was sitting next to him, saw that the master sitting on the chair suddenly had a golden light...
After sitting blankly for a long time, she covered her mouth and said to Li Ye: "Master, how come you become like the Bodhisattva in the hall, with golden light flashing on your body?
After Li Ye came back to his senses, he quietly felt the changes in the sea of consciousness. The consciousness he released could actually see the three girls hunting on the back mountain...
"Master just wants to understand something. Master is not a Bodhisattva yet." Li Ye reached out and touched her head and smiled.
In the past, the Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. It would be an incredible thing for me to understand the ninth level of formless Dharmakaya under the pear tree.
If Xindao hadn't asked one more question at the door, Wuxin wouldn't have casually answered his own question.
If there were no unintentional actions, I don't know how long it would take for me to realize the truth.
It turns out that every drink and peck in the world has its own cause and effect.
"Sister and the others caught pheasants in the back mountain. Master can roast them for Yu'er in the evening." Li Ye insisted on being a vegetarian at Prajna Temple, but the four girls couldn't live without meat.
When Nangong Ruyu heard this, she clapped her little hands and said with a smile: "Okay, there is meat to eat again. Yu'er hasn't eaten for a long time."
Li Ye felt a pain in his heart and thought that Yu'er was still too young after all. She did not belong to Prajna Temple, so he had to find a way to let Wu Xin return to the Nangong family as soon as possible.
The realization of the last layer of the formless body made him feel very good. He hugged Nangong Ruyu and said, "Yu'er, grow up quickly. Master can teach you how to practice so that you can become as powerful as your sisters."
Nangong Ruyu smiled, pinched his face and said, "Dad said that Yu'er will be able to practice in the spring of next year."
Li Ye smiled and said, "Just in time, I'll wait until you return to the mountain and Master will teach you."
He has tempered Nangong Ruyu's body six times, and the next three times used herbs left by the woman in white. Her physical body is already much stronger than those of her age.
Li Ye thought that when she was ten years old, he would give her the space ring left by the woman in white.
Before that, he had to teach her how to practice and cultivate her mind.
Only after she reaches the golden elixir realm can she awaken the skills left to her by the woman in white. Before that, if Wu Xin cannot protect her, then she must take on the responsibility of protecting her.
This was his agreement with the woman in white.
And he has always been a man of his word.
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When Minghui learned that Li Ye had mastered the Ninth House Mental Method, he came to the small courtyard to beat him and drink tea.
"I heard that my junior brother has understood the ninth-level mental method. I feel happy. I came here today to ask for advice." Minghui sat down under the tree and looked at Nangong Ruyu who was holding an autumn pear and chewing on it.
"Senior brother, it's not as magical as you said. I just understand some truths." Li Ye took a cup for him, boiled it and poured tea into it.
"No one in the temple can give you advice on the cultivation of the formless body, just because no one has accomplished it, so I really want to know about you." Minghui looked at Li Ye, who was neither arrogant nor arrogant, and felt very satisfied.
Li Ye lowered his head and thought for a moment, then slowly told Minghui that his unintentional actions had made him understand the essence of time and Buddhism. Then I looked at him and wondered if my senior brother had anything else to add.
Ming Hui held the hot tea in her hand and said: "The fate in the world is really wonderful. You have to convince Wu Xin to let him go down the mountain to practice humanity. For this reason, you also accepted her daughter as a disciple, but he unintentionally helped you understand the essence of Buddhism. ."
Li Ye was speechless, thinking that I still hope that my senior brother will give me more enlightenment.
"Senior brother, in your opinion, is it possible for me to practice the ninth-level mental method to perfection in the next year?" Li Ye thought to himself, only by completing the cultivation of the Formless Dharma Body can I continue to make breakthroughs in my practice.
"If you concentrate on practicing Buddhism and practice hard on the mountain, you can achieve it in about five years." Minghui was also complaining about Li Ye. You knew that I had never practiced this mental method, but you came to make me look bad several times.
Li Ye sighed softly: "Another five years?"
Ming Hui said with a smile: "In five years' time you will only be in your early twenties. If you can really cultivate the formless body by then, as long as you are willing to become a monk, will senior brother give you the position of the leader?"
When Li Ye heard this, he shook his head in shame, thinking that of course I am not practicing Buddhism to become a monk.
It’s not about whether I was the little white wolf in my previous life. Even if I was, it was still a previous life. I still have my own responsibilities in this life. What’s more, the woman in white in the previous life chose Wuxin in this life, which explains some problems. .
Minghui watched as the expression on Li Ye's face changed again and again, and finally returned to a calm state. She thought to herself that one day you would surpass the practice of being a brother.
Li Ye looked at Nangong Ruyu with sugary juice on her face after eating the pear, shook her head, took out a handkerchief and called her over, and carefully wiped the juice from her face, but thinking about the time when she wiped Mu Mu's mouth, he couldn't help but smile. got up.
Suddenly he thought of something, raised his head and looked at Minghui and said: "Brother, there is something I have forgotten to tell you. My master said that there are too many things in the temple, so I invite you to come over for tea."
Minghui thought for a moment and then nodded and said, "Since he can't come over, next time you go over, I'll go with you for a walk. Maybe I haven't seen him for a long time."
Li Ye heard Minghui's respect for Qingxu, and after a moment of silence he said, "I guess Master won't be able to stay here for long."
After hearing this, Minghui was shocked and blurted out: "Where do you start talking about this? Is he sick?"
Li Ye opened his mouth when he heard this and was speechless for a long time.
It wasn't until Nangong Ruyu pulled his sleeve that Li Ye looked at him and said sarcastically: "I guess master, he is not far from ascending. I'm afraid the heaven here can no longer accommodate him."
After saying that, he reached out and hugged Nangong Ruyu over, sat down next to him, poured a cup of tea from the table and put it in front of her, and said softly: "I just finished eating the candy, take a sip after the tea cools down."
Nangong Ruyu responded obediently, then raised her head and stared blankly at the two of them.
Ming Hui, who understood, looked at Li Ye and shook his head, smiling lightly and said: "This is a good thing. I have to enlighten him. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. He always carries the burden for them. How long can he bear it?"
Li Ye looked at him and smiled: "I mean the same thing, but Master, he still has a lot of things that he can't let go of!"
"He knows shit. Even you understand the truth, but he still can't figure it out. What does letting go mean? Only by letting go can one attain enlightenment. Is it possible that he can drag a bunch of disciples and disciples along with him to ascend?"
After saying these words, Minghui quickly recited the scriptures several times, looked at Li Ye and said, "You see, senior brother will get angry when he is in a hurry."
Li Ye looked at him and smiled: "Senior brother is mighty."
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