So far, Li Xiuyuan has lived in the temple this winter.
A Zen room, an oil lamp, and a pair of mango shoes made him feel like he had returned to the original time.
At that time, the young man who had just descended from Tianshan Mountain followed the old monk Kuchan and danced to the sound of chickens in the Great Buddha Temple, beginning his first practice of Buddhism in his life.
While Sanzang was busy with the final compilation these days, he began to read and recite the half volume of scriptures given to him by Li Xiuyuan.
It wasn't until he finished reading half a volume of Buddhist scriptures that Sanzang couldn't help but ask, "Why is there only half a volume of this scripture?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "Even in half a volume of scriptures, I went to Suiye City with you and got it accidentally after you left."
Upon hearing this, Sanzang showed compassion on his face.
He praised: "Sir, you are truly worthy of being a great sage in the world. Even in the place where Zoroastrianism is practiced in Suiye City, you can find this half volume of Buddhist scriptures."
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "In order to understand this half of the scripture, after you and Wuliang left Suiye City, I bought a group of sheep and worked as a shepherd for several years."
"Later, I shepherded sheep all the way back to Dunhuang, and stayed in seclusion in the grotto for more than ten years. Even when you turned around, I was still practicing hard in the grotto..."
After hearing this, Tripitaka praised again: "Sir, in order to practice Buddhism, you have really tasted all the ups and downs of the human world."
"if not?"
Li Xiuyuan continued: "I haven't come to see you in the past ten years, but I have been working as a waiter in the Hongchen Inn, trying to understand this Buddhist scripture from the hell on earth."
After hearing this, Sanzang clapped his hands and replied: "It turns out that I am translating scriptures in the Buddhist hall, but my husband wants to cultivate Buddhism in the world..."
"Haha, to be honest, monk, I
I have been practicing Buddhism since I was a child. My first master in life was not my husband, but an old monk from the Great Buddha Temple. The place where I was born was not in this world..."
It was not until decades after he had known Tripitaka that Li Xiuyuan shared with him his journey of thinking about Buddhism for the first time.
It was only now that Sanzang realized that the young man he met on the snowy mountain had been practicing Buddhism for countless years.
"Monk, you may not know that the first method I practiced in life was the formless body of Buddhism... At that time, I was not much different from the infinite age I was back then..."
Having said this, Li Xiuyuan waved his hand and said with a smile: "We're all going, no more talk."
Sanzang thought for a while and asked: "You have been practicing the method of Nirvana for decades and have failed to find the right method. Is it possible that I can enter the Tao in one winter?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "My seniors told me that Buddhism sometimes does not require hard practice, but is about an opportunity. Once you realize it, you will break it."
Upon hearing this, Sanzang smiled knowingly, held a flower in one hand and said, "That's true."
…
This winter, Li Xiuyuan spent time in the Buddhist altar with Tripitaka translating scriptures and exchanging ideas about the path to nirvana.
In the blink of an eye, it was the first year of Linde, that is, 664. Before the New Year, Tripitaka translated a volume. Before that, he had translated all six hundred volumes.
Like a spring silkworm spinning silk, all your wishes are finally fulfilled.
When Sanzang met Li Xiuyuan at the beginning of that year, he had great ambitions to retrieve the true scriptures from Tianzhu and compile them for future generations.
He did it, just like the spring silkworm spinning silk.
On New Year's Eve, the two of them stayed together
A solitary lamp and a pot of spiritual tea from the snowy mountains.
Sanzang's eyes were as if the lake was about to dry up. He looked at the Buddhas on the altar and murmured to himself: "I feel that the fire of my life is about to burn out. Can I still burn the fire of Nirvana?"
Li Xiuyuan sighed: "It should be okay."
At this time, he remembered the golden light that entered Sanzang's body when the old monk waved his hand.
After taking a sip of spiritual tea, Sanzang finally asked the question he had always wanted to ask.
He looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "Sir, can you tell me where you are from?"
Li Xiuyuan held the flower in one hand, looked at him and said quietly: "Buddha said that the past cannot be grasped, the present mind cannot be grasped, and the future mind cannot be grasped."
Sanzang was silent when he heard this: "Yes, that's the truth."
"Actually, this is not entirely true."
Li Xiuyuan replied seriously: "This is what the Buddha said for the world to listen to, asking the world to respect heaven and fear the earth... But I come from the future..."
After a pause, Li Xiuyuan continued: "Now you should understand why I can't get too close to Juier, and why I can't show my true face to you when I accompany you to learn scriptures..."
"Sir, you actually come from the future... Then you are just a passerby and can't change anything..."
Sanzang opened his mouth and said with some difficulty: "Then you are indeed suffering more than Sanzang. You can obviously change, you have the ability to change, but you can't change..."
Nodding, Li Xiuyuan continued: "And if it weren't for Sanzang's impending nirvana, I wouldn't be able to say these words to you."
Sanzang lowered his head feebly and murmured: "That's good."
After thinking about it again and again, I finally asked Li Xiuyuan something that seemed impossible.
A wish that can be fulfilled.
"Since sir, you come from the future, can you help Sanzang fulfill one of his wishes?"
Hearing this, Li Xiuyuan felt as if a needle was pricking his chest. He sighed and said, "Please tell me."
Sanzang picked up the spiritual tea in front of him, took a sip, and said: "Sanzang supposedly fulfilled his wish and has no more worries in the world... but he is still thinking about his mother who has entered reincarnation..."
"My mother left me when Sanzang was young. I want to see what she looks like after reincarnation. I wonder if gods and Buddhas can let Sanzang see what my mother looks like now?"
Sanzang's words were like a long sword piercing Li Xiuyuan's chest, leaving him speechless for a long time.
I murmured in my heart that I also have a mother. Who can show me what my mother looks like now?
Although his heart felt like being stabbed by knives and needles, he still looked at Ksitigarbha on the Buddhist altar and said, "Bodhisattva, for the sake of me being in hell, how about letting Sanzang fulfill this wish?"
After a long time, Ksitigarbha's voice, which was neither sad nor happy, came from the divine sea: "So what if I just saw it? Their mother and son are only in love for one life, is it possible that you want them to be together for all eternity?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan stretched out a finger and said: "Just once, no, just one glance..."
Ksitigarbha in the Divine Sea smiled faintly: "Never again, don't make things difficult for me again."
Li Xiuyuan lowered his head and said with a wry smile: "Okay."
So, just when Sanzang looked troubled and confused, a big golden hand suddenly appeared in the Buddhist hall, wiping a golden light from his eyes...
When Li Xiuyuan saw him, he immediately began to recite Buddhist scriptures gently.
I see them with the eyes of a Buddha, so they are still countless. These are all the kalpas that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has lived through for a long time, have been saved, will be saved, and are yet to be saved...
until
After quietly reciting Buddhist sutras for half an hour, the golden light in the Buddhist hall gradually disappeared.
A rare smile appeared on Sanzang's face, but he shouted softly: "Mother, my son misses you..."
"Idiot!"
Li Xiuyuan had no choice but to shout softly and call Sanzang back.
Looking at him, he said seriously: "It's not easy for you mother and son to be in love for a lifetime. Don't let go of your infatuated heart for three lifetimes..."
"Thank you, sir."
Sanzang folded his hands and replied: "Let Sanzang be able to look at his mother again..."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and smiled bitterly: "Actually, the last time you called me mother was when you were about to die in the eight hundred miles of desert..."
Sanzang nodded: "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva still has a mother, and the same goes for Sanzang."
"Let her go, forget her, think about her, stop thinking about her, and complete the first nirvana in your life here."
Li Xiuyuan looked at Sanzang seriously and said: "My master has always told me that if you want to practice Taoism, you must recite and give up reciting. The same goes for Sanzang."
"Back then, it was your idea to go to Tianzhu to obtain scriptures. Later, translating scriptures became your obsession. Now, let me help you let go of all your obsessions."
Sanzang smiled when he heard this, and a fire burned in his eyes.
Looking at Li Xiuyuan, he said: "The so-called happiness and suffering, impermanence, purity and impurity, selflessness, reality and unreality, refuge is not refuge, all living beings are not all living beings..."
Before he could speak, a golden flame burned from Sanzang's body.
Li Xiuyuan held the flowers in one hand and spread them out with the other, chanting: "If you always cultivate and gather the four immeasurable hearts, you will gain the power to become a Buddha..."
The burning Sanzang stretched out his flowers
Afterwards, when he tried to touch Li Xiuyuan, his arms burned.
So I had no choice but to say goodbye to Li Xiuyuan: "Someone is reciting the classics from the heart, hoping to reach the other side of the world... You and I are destined to meet again..."
With a sound of "Boom!", the last flame enveloped Sanzang's entire body.
In just a blink of an eye, the Tripitaka in the Buddhist hall turned into a fire of Nirvana...
This fire of Nirvana burned in the Buddhist hall for three days and three nights. At the last moment, the sky above the entire Yuhua Temple was filled with golden light, and the sky was filled with the sound of chanting Buddha.
Sitting in the Buddhist hall, Li Xiuyuan was reciting Buddhist scriptures.
The monks and disciples kneeling outside the temple chanted solemn Buddhist sutras over and over again.
There is a divine light falling from the nine heavens, just like the ascending divine light of the monks, no, it is more solemn and mysterious than the ascending divine light.
A ray of divine light took away the monk Tripitaka in nirvana, leaving gem-like relics on the ground.
Li Xiuyuan offered the relic to the Buddha and murmured: "If I can return to the Dharma Realm with this, I will eventually become a Buddha and transcend life and death."
After reciting, he bowed his hands, flicked his sleeves and walked out of the Buddhist hall, drifting away.
In February of the first year of Linde, Tripitaka entered nirvana in the Buddhist hall.
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On this night, the day of Sanzang's Nirvana, Li Xiuyuan appeared for the first time in the Hall of Immortals of the Imperial Palace.
It was half past midnight, and as the queen, Jue'er had not rested yet. She was leaning against the window in a daze, when she saw her brother walking towards her step by step on the night wind.
The startled empress quickly pushed away the palace maids and eunuchs around her.
Seeing Li Xiuyuan coming like a god, he murmured to himself: "Brother, why do you think of Juier..." After saying that, he took Li Xiuyuan's hand and sat down next to her.
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and smiled: "Are you
I feel strange that the inner courtyard of the palace is heavily guarded, why can I come? "
Duo'er shook his head and said angrily: "Brother is a god-like figure, how can a mere palace ban you? I was just wondering if brother has forgotten Duo'er."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, reached out and lit the stove on the table, and cooked a pot of spiritual tea for the two of them.
Then he said: "Find some pastries, I haven't eaten for five days and five nights."
As the empress, Jue'er was startled. She quickly got up and took out a few plates of exquisite pastries and put them on the table. She reached out and touched Li Xiuyuan's forehead.
Carefully asked: "Brother, what's going on? Why does my junior sister say that my brother has been on the snow-capped mountains all these years and never comes down?"
I picked up a piece of cake and ate it quietly.
Li Xiuyuan took the boiling spring water and poured it on the purple sand. After pouring the spiritual tea into it, he poured two cups of steaming spiritual tea for the two of them.
After picking it up and taking a sip, he let out a long sigh.
He replied: "I have been with Monk Tripitaka this whole winter. Today he has returned to Nirvana, so I have time to come to the palace to see you."
Jue'er was shocked when she heard this: "The great monk is gone? Why didn't I know, this..."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and replied seriously: "The monks in the temple will take care of Sanzang's funeral affairs. You don't need to worry about it. Just let them take care of it."
Duo'er nodded and asked in a low voice: "Brother, can you tell Duo'er whether Monk Sanzang has become a god?"
Li Xiuyuan picked up another piece of pastry and put it in his mouth. Hearing this, he sighed and replied, "Guess."
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