It had been sunny for several days on Luoxia Mountain. Xiaoqing, who couldn't sit still, took Xiaolong'er, and Hua Tianyu took Hua Chenyu, and they all went hunting in the back mountain of the Taoist temple.
Old man Zhang finished cooking porridge early in the morning and went down the mountain to buy daily necessities.
Li Xiuyuan was the only one left in the Taoist temple to sit quietly in the main hall, guarding a pot of spiritual tea and copying the unfinished scriptures.
The poem I wrote before has been framed by Old Man Zhang and hung on the side of the hall.
Li Xiuyuan said this was inappropriate. Old Zhang frowned and said that he was the Taoist priest now, so he just liked it.
Hua Tianyu laughed at Li Xiuyuan. This is something that comes from itself.
Li Xiuyuan saw that there was no progress in his swordsmanship, so he stayed in the main hall to copy scriptures for the past two days, which was regarded as cultivating his mind and character and stealing half a day's leisure.
While I was deep in thought, I remembered Xiaoyun's voice at the intersection: "Li Xiuyuan, where are you hiding? You haven't come out to see anyone yet."
Putting down his pen, Li Xiuyuan walked to the front of the palace and said, "Sister Li Yun, it's freezing cold today. You and your empress are not celebrating the festival in the palace. Why are you going up the mountain to do this?"
Xiao Yun asked the four palace maids behind her to carry the gifts inside, then stepped forward and said with a smile: "I miss Xiao Long'er. Come up and take her to the palace to play for a few days."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the smile on the face of Empress Changsun, and suddenly his heart moved, and he said: "Empress, why do I bother you to go up the mountain in person? If you have something to do, just ask Sister Xiaoyun to come and give me instructions."
Changsun Ben was looking at the scenery at the bottom of the mountain. When he heard the sound, he turned around and looked at the young man in front of him, speechless.
Walking towards the temple. While sighing, he said: "From now on, I don't dare to call you like this... Do you know how you did it in New Year's Eve? Even Xiaoyun and I broke through... ....”
Queen Changsun told Li Xiuyuan in detail what happened in the vision of heaven and earth on New Year's Eve.
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, the expression on his face became a little strange.
After being stunned for a long time, he replied in a soft voice: "That night, Xiao Long'er and the others went to bed early. I was copying scriptures alone in this hall. How could I know about this vision in heaven and earth?"
After saying that, he handed the scriptures that he had copied only one-third of to his grandson, and replied calmly: "You can ask when they come back later, although they have also broken through the second realm..."
The eldest grandson pointed to the sky and murmured, "You don't know?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head repeatedly and replied quietly: "Yes, there is. Why should I lie? Is there anything else in this world that is worthy of me lying?"
Changsun did not ask any more questions, but quietly read the scripture in his hand. However, after she only read two sentences, she showed a shocked expression.
After a moment of silence, he asked: "A person's handwriting will follow him throughout his life from the moment he starts learning it... Why did you change your handwriting just after I haven't seen you for a few months?"
Upon hearing this, Xiaoyun also leaned over to take a closer look: "Come on, Li Xiuyuan, are you a monster? Let my sister take a good look at you."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the two of them and didn't know how to answer, so he could only reply quietly: "This may be the memory of my previous life, what? Isn't it allowed?"
Queen Changsun looked at him and sighed deeply, and said quietly: "It seems that you were in a dream that night, and you don't know what happened in the world..."
Seeing this, Xiaoyun turned around and said to the four palace maids: "You go to the foot of the mountain and wait with the imperial guards. My wife and I will go down the mountain after lunch."
The woman standing outside the hall replied, turned around and walked down the mountain.
Seeing the four palaces leaving, Xiaoyun turned her head and described to Li Xiuyuan the vision of heaven and earth that happened that night.
"If it hadn't been for midnight and there was heavy snow on the mountain, my wife and I would have wanted to go up the mountain that night to have a look. Who told you that you were like a pig and kept in the dark? I was really angry."
Xiaoyun looked at him and started shouting, looking unwilling to do so.
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, but didn't know how to answer, so he had to reply: "My brother Hua Tianyu and his sister took Xiao Qing and Xiao Long'er to the back mountain for hunting, and they will be back soon. If you don't believe it, you can ask them. "
Changsun glanced at Xiaoyun and said lightly: "Maybe he really doesn't know about this. How many people in this world can see him clearly?"
After saying this, he put down the scripture in his hand, raised his head and looked around the hall. With just a glance, he saw the silk hanging on the side of the hall.
Standing up and approaching, Empress Changsun read it twice softly, then looked at Xiaoyun and said, "Copy it down."
When Xiaoyun heard this, she raised her head and looked at the wall.
Looking at the small regular script that was as gentle as jade and water, I couldn't help but cover my mouth. Without saying a word, he walked to the table and copied the poems on the wall one by one on his silk scarf with a pool of ink on the table.
"It is expected that the heart will be broken every year... It is expected that the intestine will be broken every year... Li Xiuyuan, could this be the reincarnation of the Bodhisattva? How about the imperial city paying for it to turn this Taoist temple into a temple?"
Changsun looked at Li Xiuyuan with a loving expression on his face.
Chen Changsheng did not reply, but stood up to make tea. When the water was boiling and the tea was fragrant, the steaming spirit tea was placed in front of the three of them. Then Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "Please drink tea."
After the spirit tea fell down his throat, Changsun sighed softly: "This tea should only be found in heaven."
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and said quietly: "Buddha has escaped from reincarnation. He is a person who understands everything in the world and the world, and is a person who is truly and completely enlightened. A person who has achieved self-consciousness, awareness of others, and perfect enlightenment is a Buddha."
"Buddha is enlightenment. That is, the person who has gained great wisdom and can see through all the characteristics of the three realms of the universe is a Buddha. Buddha: no compassion, no joy, no action, no abiding, no appearance, no body, no existence... ..."
Xiaoyun could only listen with open ears at this time and did not dare to disturb the discussion between the two.
Changsun carefully thought about Li Xiuyuan's words and said with a smile: "That's good, please continue. Thank you."
Li Xiuyuan took a sip of the spiritual tea and added it for the two of them.
He continued to elaborate: "He said: As a son of man, you should be filial to your parents, do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small. This is the way of humanity. Another example: The sun rises in the east and sets in the west every day, and the water will only go lower. Just wait, this is the way of heaven!"
"What a human being and heavenly being. I think you are really the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva! Please continue to tell me."
Changsun looked at Li Xiuyuan with satisfaction and joy, his voice became softer and more gentle.
Li Xiuyuan looked at the two men and said seriously: "The Tao is divided into the innate Tao and the acquired Tao. The innate is created out of nothing, that is, Tao creates one. When things exist, they will change. It may go to the left or to the right. This is the way. One life and two..."
"It's just that no matter whether you go left or right, there will be a result. This result is two giving birth to three. But the result also has a fixed principle. In the end, things will either go left or right. Going left or right will make two give birth to two."
"Then the two that gave birth to three in the beginning became one and two, and so on, all things were created, that is, three gave birth to all things... This is the way of heaven and earth and all things in my eyes."
Seeing the confused looks of the two people, Li Xiu couldn't help but smile lightly and said: "And all truths and all existence, whether it is Tao or Buddha, come from the original root, which is 'nothing'."
"The existence of the Buddha is also a manifestation of the Tao, and is just one of the ways of all things in the world. When the original 'nothing' gave birth to the Tao, the Buddha was already destined to exist, and the existence of the Buddha is the 'one way'."
"Is Buddha the Tao?" Empress Changsun, who was deep in thought, looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked seriously.
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and nodded with a smile: "Please have some tea and see if my tea is a good one!"
Empress Changsun shook her head, picked up the tea cup in front of her, took a sip, and replied: "I have only heard people say that tea is Zen, but I have never heard of tea."
Li Xiuyuan sighed softly: "Everyone claims to be a Buddhist, but how many people have finally achieved enlightenment? I have only brewed this spiritual tea twice. Could it be that it is not spiritual tea after I brew it three times?" "
Empress Changsun nodded thoughtfully and said, "When the tea is tasteless, it's natural to throw it out and replace it with new tea!"
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he finally couldn't help laughing.
He patted the table and said with a smile: "People in the world always talk about enlightenment through drinking tea. Even if you have spiritual tea in your hand, how can you achieve enlightenment if you don't have the Tao in your heart? If the tea is tasteless and you can't understand it, then you can't understand it if you try another way? How can you practice cultivation? Do you have to drink spiritual tea to be able to practice Taoism?"
"It's like practicing cultivation. Do you have to be born in the academy to practice? If you leave the academy and return to this world, you can't practice? Buddha is also the Tao, tea is also the Tao, and the Tao is everywhere, but the world likes to find different reasons to deal with themselves. That’s all.”
Having said this, Li Xiuyuan drank up the warm tea in the cup in one gulp, poured the warm water in the pot into the cup, and drank it in one gulp.
Then he looked at the two people and continued: "In my opinion, only when the tea is tasteless can you still realize the Tao, and then you can understand the true meaning of the Tao! I am not a Buddha, and I have never entered the Tao. I am just a practitioner walking on the path of seeking the Tao... ..”
"After listening to your words, I felt a sudden enlightenment. It seems that I have to go back and study the "Tao Te Ching" and the "Ksitigarbha" you left behind. Everything in the world is so amazing."
Empress Changsun looked at him with a motherly smile on her face, as if Li Xiuyuan was the wanderer he had left home for ten years.
Xiaoyun looked at the two of them and shook her head, and said with a sad face: "What you said is too profound, Xiaoyun can't understand it at all."
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and felt a headache. He thought for a while and said, "Sister Xiaoyun, you are about to enter the realm of breaking the void. It's time to realize some of the power of heaven and earth... Where is the scripture I gave you back then? ?Have you seen it?"
Xiaoyun shook her head and said, "Am I willing to watch it?"
Empress Changsun couldn't help but glared at her: "You treat it like a treasure, and it will be useful if you keep it there? If you had read the poem earlier, maybe you would have entered Poxu long ago..."
Empress Changsun looked like she hated the iron.
Seeing that the conversation had reached this point, Li Xiuyuan had no choice but to continue: "Every sword strike you strike must follow a principle. Is that the way of swordsmanship?"
"Every arrow I shoot must maintain the same direction. Is that an arrow path? The path is everywhere. When has the world ever seriously thought about it? Poxu? What is Poxu? If you can't understand the world You can never borrow the power of heaven and earth."
Li Xiuyuan didn't expect that this guy would hide the scripture he gave her like a treasure, so he had to take the trouble to explain it to her.
Having said this, Li Xiuyuan took out a space ring and quietly pushed it in front of Queen Changsun.
"Why are you giving me this thing? Are you afraid that I won't have money to spend it?" Queen Changsun looked at him and asked.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said calmly: "I have taken the spirit stone and gold coins inside to appease the dead villagers. This ring and clothing will be handed over to Qin Yiyuan's relatives...In Baijin City, outside the Liyuan, I shot an arrow kill him!"
"A villager like him who doesn't honor his parents at home and kills innocent villagers indiscriminately when he goes out is both against humanity and against nature. If God doesn't accept him, I will! Tell his relatives that they can seek revenge from me, Li Xiuyuan, at any time, but don't do it again. They are innocent if you mess with the villagers at the foot of the mountain.”
Li Xiuyuan quietly recounted what happened in Baijin City to the two of them.
When Empress Changsun heard this, her vision went dark. She couldn't help but put her hand on the table and was silent for a long time.
After a long time, he murmured: "At first, I asked him to follow Qianshan to Taoyuan and he would be a good person. I didn't expect that he would follow Qianshan to kill people at the foot of the mountain...The young master of Baijin City, Mo Wuqing, is not a good person either." thing!"
"He! After we left Baijin City, it was said that heaven sent punishment, and a strange fire destroyed him!"
Li Xiuyuan spoke to the two of them in a calm tone, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him. The softness of his words was like the spring breeze blowing in March.
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