"Ding Ding Dang!" The 46th front courtyard began to smash the extremely strong stone wall, just to smash a door hole.
Just like Qin Xiangyu said, it is impossible to build an inn when it snows, but it does not prevent a group of craftsmen from doing the simplest decoration in Courtyard No. 46.
Sanzang was unmoved by the outside world and came to No. 47 for tea after finishing his morning classes.
The old man cooked a pot of porridge and waited for everyone to start eating.
Li Xiuyuan looked at Sanzang and smiled and said, "If the monks find it too noisy, you can move to my courtyard."
Sanzang shook his head: "Monks should not be disturbed by the sound of wind and rain. It is a blessing to have a place to stay and take shelter from the rain. How can you look at the height of this mountain?"
The old man smiled slightly, pointed to the yard next to him and asked, "Do you want to call shopkeeper Qin over?"
Li Xiuyuan served the monk a bowl of porridge and said, "No matter, this is not a temple's dining hall."
Sanzang smiled when he heard this: "You are really good-natured. Your tea and wine are a lot more complicated than this bowl of porridge. It seems that you are really a person who is afraid of trouble."
"So, I asked her to quickly block this door for me."
Li Xiuyuan also served a bowl of porridge to the old man, and then said, "Fortunately, you haven't seen my brothers and sisters."
When the old man heard this, he couldn't help laughing anymore.
It wasn't until almost noon that the craftsmen moved the bluestone to block the door connecting the two courtyards.
Qin Xiangyu clapped her hands and entered the living room after busying herself.
Li Xiuyuan poured her a cup of hot tea, pointed to the wooden box and wine jar on the bookshelf and said, "I'll take these two things to No. 46 later. I can't sleep well if I leave them here."
When Qin Xiangyu heard this, he curled his lips and said, "What's all the fuss about?"
He held the cup to warm his hands, and then put his warmed hands against his cold face. Qin Xiangyu, who felt like he had come back to his senses, complained: "This damn weather is really torturous."
Li Xiuyuan replied calmly: "The yard is given to you, you can wait until spring before moving on!"
"How?"
Taking a sip of hot tea, Qin Xiangyu said resolutely: "I want to spend the winter solstice and New Year here, how can I wait until spring?"
"So anxious..."
Li Xiuyuan only said half a sentence and then stopped immediately.
Because even he himself didn’t know whether he and the old man would go to the wooden house on the snow-capped mountains during the winter solstice and the new year.
After all, the winter plum blossoms on the mountain are about to bloom at that time.
You have to take a look at the winter plums that have been planted with a lot of effort, pick a few petals and keep them for picking tea leaves in the spring, and try to see if they can be like Tianshan.
Could it be the same as the Meishan Spiritual Tea I drank this time, with a different kind of aura of heaven and earth?
After all, he was sitting on nothing, and his spiritual tea on Tianshan Mountain was about to bottom out.
Qin Xiangyu ignored the two of them and added a few pieces of charcoal to the brazier. Gradually, his body finally became warmer.
Then he looked at the two people and said: "There is news in the palace that the emperor will change the name of the country after the New Year. Is this going to make Emperor Gaozu a thing of the past?"
Sanzang's hand holding the tea cup trembled slightly, but he said nothing.
Li Xiuyuan smiled: "He spent countless efforts, isn't it just for the arrival of this day, and then start a great prosperous age?"
Qin Xiangyu nodded, and then said: "Why do I think there is something in your words? It's weird."
Just at this time, the old man came back from outside, looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "I bought some ingredients. If I want to cook a hot pot tonight, I also bought a lot of spices."
It had been a long time since he had eaten the hot pot cooked by Li Xiuyuan. The old man finally couldn't bear it today and went to the market early in the morning to buy some.
When Qin Xiangyu heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "What is hot pot? Is it delicious?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the old man and said with a smile: "You are greedy for shopkeeper Qin and offended the monk. I don't care."
Sanzang frowned slightly, looked at Li Xiuyuan and said seriously: "The monk obeys the three donors."
So Qin Xiangyu, who was very curious, finally couldn't help but go to the kitchen with the old man to confirm that the ingredients the old man mentioned were also what she liked.
Otherwise, I might as well go to the market in person while it’s still early.
Seeing the woman leaving the living room, Sanzang told Li Xiuyuan the wonderful meaning of one thought and one realm in Buddhism.
Turning the Buddhist beads in his hand, Sanzang said: "A few days ago, when we talked about Buddhism, it was just a matter of not having a single thought, and we would all fall into one realm. People in the world say that a single thought can lead to ten Dharma realms..."
The first is the Buddha Dharma Realm, the second is the Bodhisattva Dharma Realm, the third is the Pratyekabuddha Dharma Realm, and the fourth is the Sravaka Dharma Realm.
The fifth is the heavenly realm, the sixth is the human realm, the seventh is the asura realm, the eighth is the animal realm, the ninth is the hungry ghost realm, the tenth is the hell realm, etc.
The first four are the realm of enlightenment, the Dharma realm of saints.
The last six belong to the Mysterious Realm, which is the Dharma Realm of the six mortals, that is, the world of six paths of reincarnation.
Furthermore, the last nine realms are the cause, and the former Buddha realm is the effect. Therefore, the Ten Dharma Realms are also called: "Nine Causes and One Effect."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and responded: "The Buddha said: If people want to understand all the Buddhas in the three worlds, they should observe the nature of the Dharma Realm, and everything is created by the mind. The Dharma Realm refers to the ten Dharma Realms. If the world's people can't think of it, they will all fall into one realm. "
After hearing this, Sanzang praised him again and sighed: "In Sanzang's eyes, neither the Xuanwu Sect back then nor the elders of the Discipline Hall at the foot of the mountain can withstand his own thoughts..."
Li Xiuyuan didn't expect that Sanzang had been hiding the Emperor of Tang Dynasty and the elders of the Discipline Hall at the foot of the mountain, so he couldn't help but sigh.
He originally didn't want to talk about Buddhism with Sanzang, but he couldn't help but talk patiently.
He tapped the table lightly and shouted like a wake-up call: "Those who know my Dharma are like metaphors on a raft. Dharma should be given up, let alone illegal!"
"Monk, since you have crossed the river, you should forget about the boat that once carried it across the river. Whether it is Xuanwumen or the monks at the foot of the mountain who want to practice Buddhism, it is not your cause and effect. Aren't you tired of worrying about it?"
"If you want to use this to warn future generations, you can write it down in the scriptures, then forget all these things and let future generations comment..."
When Sanzang heard this, he felt as if he had been slapped, his expression condensed, and then he laughed.
He replied: "Well, I should write it down as you said and forget about it."
Li Xiuyuan continued: "Before talking about the Ten Dharma Realms, let's talk about killing and releasing animals first. Anyway, you will have to face these two gluttons in a while."
So the two of them stood guard over a pot of tea and a pot of fire.
Li Xiuyuan told Ksitigarbha what he had said that day, only sparing him the experience of decades of hard training under the abyss.
Finally, he said: "So, do you think we are like the fish who are desperately trying to find freedom?"
When Sanzang heard this, he suddenly looked sad.
After a while, he replied softly: "Sanzang's cultivation is still shallow. All knowledge comes from Buddhist scriptures, and the connections with the world have not yet been verified one by one."
The Buddha said: "When all sentient beings see flesh-eating people, they run away in fear. When all sentient beings see flesh-eating people, there is a bloody light on their heads."
I once heard my brother say: "Those who eat meat, even if their hearts are open, are like Samadhi, they are all great Rakshasas, but they will eventually sink into the sea of suffering in life and death. How can a person come out of the three realms?"
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he couldn't help but recite the Buddha's verse: "Without liberation from life and death, killing all living beings for profit, and using wealth to obtain flesh, both are bad karma, and falling into hell is called hell."
Sanzang sighed softly and said: "Killing sentient beings for profit and using wealth nets to obtain flesh are both evil deeds and are good."
Li Xiuyuan replied seriously: "Back then, one of my disciples asked me, is it wrong for merchants to release wild animals? Should those people in the world build nets for fishing? I have been confused to this day."
"I hope that when you go to the Western Regions to study scriptures, you can think about this truth. When you return to the Tang Dynasty next year, you can teach me the Dharma and help me to be liberated."
"Now, let's talk about the hot pot we're going to eat later." Li Xiuyuan sighed.
When Sanzang heard this, the expression on his face changed again and again, until Li Xiuyuan talked about the dinner he was going to have later, and his face even frowned.
Seeing something bad, Li Xiuyuan had no choice but to explain: "Monk, is my old shopkeeper your friend? Is shopkeeper Qin a good person?"
"Yes." Sanzang said seriously.
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said: "Then, is it true that only by cultivating Buddhism in this world can one achieve enlightenment? Are there other methods in this world that can also be practiced?"
"Yes." Sanzang nodded again.
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said: "This is a world of mortals, a human world. Even if you are a monk who practices Buddhism, you still need to eat and drink, and you will also get sick, right?"
"That's right." At this point, Sanzang's brows gradually relaxed.
"Okay, this is not a Buddhist country, nor is it your world. This is the world of all living beings. The law of heaven allows the weak to eat the strong. People in the world eat meat, fish and kill in order to live..."
"Buddha talks about three realms of enlightenment: foreknowledge, awareness later, and unconsciousness... The first one talks about Buddha, the second one talks about Tripitaka and you, and the third one talks about all living beings in the world..."
Speaking of this, Li Xiuyuan thought of all the living beings in Tianyu City and sighed heavily.
He continued: "If the monks of the Tang Dynasty practice hard one day and transcend this world to go to the higher starry sky... they will find that the way of heaven there is not much different from that of the Tang Dynasty."
"Now, let's talk about the ten realms." Li Xiuyuan stopped temporarily.
At this point, Sanzang's frown finally relaxed.
Looking at Li Xiuyuan stroking his palms, he exclaimed: "Wonderful, I didn't expect that the donor has already practiced the supreme Dharma, and today Sanzang is allowed to learn it."
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "That's not necessarily the case, I also kill."
For example, when people in the world recite Buddha's name, they have unknowingly entered the Buddha's Dharma Realm.
Or if you have a single thought that seeks transformation from above, you will manifest the Dharma Realm of Bodhisattvas; or if you have a single thought of thinking and only focus on causes and conditions, and are not willing to control others, you will enter the Dharma Realm of Pratyekabuddha.
Or if you just think about yourself and just think about being a vegetarian and reciting Buddha's name, just go beyond that and ignore others, then you are in the realm of the Sravaka Dharma.
If people in the world diligently practice the Five Precepts and Ten Good Deeds with one thought, if they obtain the highest quality, they will be transferred to the Heavenly Dharma Realm, if they are of the middle grade, they will not lose the human Dharma Realm, and if they are of the lowest grade, they will fall into the Asura Dharma Realm.
Also, if a person in the world follows delusions and follows evil in a single thought, and commits the Five Inverse and Ten Evils, he will be transferred to the Dharma Realm of Animals; if he is a middle-grade person, he will be transferred to the Dharma Realm of Hungry Ghosts; if he is a high-grade person, he will be transferred to the Dharma Realm of Hell.
Speaking of this, Li Xiuyuan sighed softly and said: "I later thought hard and came to the conclusion that the businessman who released the life originally had a Bodhisattva heart and wanted to save all sentient beings in the world."
"Later, due to the greed of the world, people even built a net to catch the fish he had just released, so he retreated to the next best thing. After that, he no longer released animals, but returned home and devoted himself to vegetarianism and Buddhism, from saving sentient beings to saving lives. Own……"
"Perhaps this is the difference between Buddhas and Bodhisattvas."
At this point, Li Xiuyuan felt his throat was dry, so he had to hold the cup and drink two cups of warm tea.
Li Xiuyuan talked about his experience, but he didn't know that Sanzang had already closed his eyes and fell into his own enlightenment about Buddhism.
When Li Di finished drinking two cups of warm tea, he raised his head and looked at Sanzang in front of him.
Only then did he realize that a faint Buddha light shrouded the Tripitaka in front of him. There was not much difference between the solemn Tripitaka and the Buddhas on the altar.
Li Xiuyuan secretly admired him and thought to himself: "Is it possible that you want to be like the old monk from Xuanwu Continent and become the only holy monk in the Tang Dynasty?"
Quietly, Li Xiuyuan simply picked up a book and started reading.
Until a scent of aroma wafted from outside the living room, Qin Xiangyu shouted: "Monk, you can eat hot pot."
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