From that day on, Li Xiuyuan taught Li Bai how to see the traces of flying flowers and fallen leaves in his shop at the north entrance.
Li Bai was not happy at first, because the pine needles and bamboo leaves thrown by the gentleman sitting at the counter could fly through the living room and into the backyard.
Accidentally, Li Bai was either hit on his hand or hit by a pine needle on his face.
Although the pine needles were small, the pain caused him to scream whether they were stuck on his face or hands.
There were even several times when he couldn't stand it anymore and shouted to the sky in the backyard: "Sir, you are bullying me. I won't practice anymore."
Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting at the counter, smiled faintly and said, "The door is not closed. It's a good idea to leave."
So, Li Bai went home in anger and stayed bored for five days without coming to the north gate.
Until the sixth day, he came to the door again.
He placed the bag of spring tea in his hand on the counter, thought for a while and said, "My mother bought this, saying thank you sir."
Li Xiuyuan glanced at him without saying a word, but picked up a cup and poured him a cup of herbal tea.
He said, "Is it hard to practice swordsmanship? Was it hard when you were a child learning to write from your husband? Was it hard when you were fighting with a bunch of kids on the street?"
Gently stretching out his palms, Li Bai leaned on the counter blankly.
After thinking about it, I drank up the herbal tea in front of me in one gulp and said: "Sir, my mother said that after you learn your skills from your husband, you are not allowed to follow the pigs. They fought."
Li Xiuyuan ignored his image and pulled his ear and said, "It's okay, you can fight as you like. No matter you win or lose, I'll beat you up again when you come back!"
Seeing his disbelief, Li Xiu said vigorously: "As my student, you can't bully the weak!"
"Come on, I will remember sir's words and won't fight with those little brats. Can you rest assured now?"
After Li Bai finished speaking, he ducked into the yard at the back. He had to make up for his cultivation these days.
Li Xiuyuan looked at his back and shook his head: "If you can't bear this little hardship, don't even want to be a man who stands upright."
Li Bai, who was wielding his sword endlessly in the backyard, smiled and said: "Right now, I am still your teacher's student, not a grown man!"
Li Xiuyuan laughed angrily, pointed at him and cursed: "You shameless guy, do you want to go out and embarrass me, or do you want to embarrass your mother?"
After saying that, he picked up a pine needle from the counter and threw it with his hand: "Be careful, the sword is coming!"
"Ouch!" Li Bai yelled, "Sir, you are unreasonable."
…
The autumn wind is starting to pick up, and school will start in about ten days, and Li Bai will continue to go to school.
After obtaining the consent of his parents, Li Bai quietly left the north gate with his husband one early morning.
After riding a carriage for two days, we arrived at the edge of the Minjiang River and took a passing merchant ship down the river.
It was Li Bai's first time taking a boat, so he was naturally very excited.
Watching the river rushing away, Li Bai, who was sitting on the bow of the boat, held on to the side of the boat and asked, "Sir, where are we going?"
"The sage said that reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles. While you are not going to school, I will take you to Lingyun Mountain in Jiazhou to visit an old friend."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the mountain peaks by the river and said calmly.
"Lingyun Mountain in Jiazhou, I just heard my mother mention it. It's so far away. I never thought I could go there with my husband?"
Li Bai didn't expect that this trip would make him unable to find his way home.
Li Xiuyuan touched his head and smiled: "You are still young. When you grow up, you can travel around. This is a great land."
Li Bai said firmly: "We will wait until the students grow up."
"Whatever you want?" Li Xiuyuan said calmly: "I may only take you out to play once, but you will have to rely on yourself from now on."
Li Bai was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and replied: "Where are you going, sir?"
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Xiuyuan shook his head and replied: "
I don’t know, I don’t have a fixed destination in my itinerary, I can go wherever I want. "
The merchant ship went straight down and walked on the water for two days before finally arriving in Jiazhou.
Li Xiuyuan took Li Bai's little hand, climbed up the steps, faced the starry sky and the lights of the city, and walked forward.
...
Early the next morning, after having breakfast at the inn, the two of them got on the carriage and headed out of the city.
Li Bai saw that he had just entered the city and had not visited yet, and was about to leave the city again, so he couldn't help but ask: "Sir? Where are you going?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the mountain not far ahead and replied calmly: "Go climb the mountain."
"Where is the mountain?" Li Bai thought to himself. My home also has a mountain. Why are we here? Another carriage, another boat.
"Lingyun Mountain, we'll be there in a moment." Li Xiuyuan replied.
"Lingyun Mountain? What kind of place is this? My mother seems to have never told me about it." Li Bai said with a smile.
The carriage soon arrived at the bottom of the mountain. Li Xiuyuan jumped off the carriage and pulled Li Bai up slowly.
All the way up, I saw a narrow valley in front of me, with a huge stone standing on the stone wall, like a natural barrier.
Carved on a huge stone are two large characters: "无二."
Walking further up, it took half an hour, and Li Xiuyuan took Li Bai all the way to the top of the mountain.
I saw the intersection of three rivers at my feet, and the water was rolling in, like dragons roaring and tigers roaring, and like thousands of horses galloping, giving people a majestic and majestic feeling that they dare not look directly at.
Li Bai even felt the mountains under his feet trembling slightly. Sure enough, the mountains here were not like the ones he had seen before.
"Sir, why is the water here so scary?"
The mountain wind blew, ruffling their hair, causing their green clothes to vibrate and making hunting sounds.
Li Xiuyuan replied in a concentrated voice: "This is the top of the mountain where the Minjiang River, the Qingyi River, and the Dadu River converge. The water power of the three rivers collides together, and the power is certainly fierce."
"It turns out that my husband brought me to see the confluence of the three rivers!" Li Bai muttered softly.
"Not necessarily?" Li Xiuyuan quietly watched the river beneath his feet roll up thousands of piles of snow, and replied, "Come to see an old friend."
Li Bai nodded: "There is a sculpture of Fuji on the mountain. Is your old friend a monk?"
Li Xiuyuan remembered the two words he saw before, smiled and said, "As I wish, he has no words, no explanations, no manifestations and no knowledge of all dharma. He is separated from questions and answers, and is the only Dharma door."
"Sir, could you please help clarify the students' doubts?" Li Bai had not yet practiced Buddhism, so naturally he did not understand what he meant.
Li Xiuyuan replied: "Two is the mind of discrimination, and non-duality is the mind of non-discrimination. Non-duality is the return of all dharma. Although the methods are different, the purpose is the same."
"What is discrimination and what is non-discrimination?" Li Bai frowned.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "When you come back here in a few years, ask the great monk here to explain it slowly to you."
"Then I will accompany you here again in a few years." Li Bai said with a smile.
After thinking for a while, Li Bai asked again: "Sir, is Lingyun Mountain famous?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at him, smiled thoughtfully and said: "Listen, the mountain is not high, as long as there are immortals, there is a spirit. A mountain can be changed because of one person..."
Li Bai looked at the surging river below his feet and thought for a long time before replying: "That must be a powerful monk."
"Are the monks here more powerful than sir?" Li Bai grinned.
Li Xiuyuan was startled, and after a while he said: "Buddhism is not about being more powerful than anyone else, it is about compassion."
"Amitabha, you are so kind. Why do the two donors have time to come here?" At this moment, a loud voice sounded from behind.
When he turned around, he saw a fat monk standing behind the two of them at some point.
"Long time no see, how are you, monk?" Li Xiuyuan bowed to the fat monk.
Following his example, Li Bai also bowed to the monk.
The fat monk looked at the two of them and smiled and replied: "I am very happy to see the Bodhisattva again. Please invite me."
How about coming with me to the Buddhist temple for a cup of crude tea? "
Li Xiuyuan sighed and asked: "Monk, the water of the three rivers at the foot of the mountain is so dangerous, how different is it from the sea of suffering?"
Li Bai couldn't understand what he said. He just looked at the fat monk with confusion on his face.
The fat monk was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: "I was just thinking that the water here is fierce, and the boat will be easily overturned..."
"Whenever there are summer floods, the river floods the mountain wall, causing tragedies like shipwrecks and fatalities. The monk just wants to reduce the water flow for all living beings, but he is causing trouble for himself..."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "Buddha said: There are people in the world who can cross the sea of suffering, and there are people who have not drowned in the sea of suffering. Who among the world's practitioners is not rowing in the sea of suffering, hoping that one day he can escape from the sea of suffering and cross the other side?"
"However, life and death have ended, the holy life has been established, the work has been done, and there is no more conception. Knowing it truthfully, there is no nirvana realm left here and parinirvana is said to be that this person has crossed to the other side."
Li Xiuyuan silently stared at the river at his feet and said quietly.
For the fat monk, a Sanskrit sound from above the nine heavens sounded in his ears.
Standing quietly on the edge of the cliff, he seemed to have fallen into a dream for an instant. He stood motionless in front of the two people, like the river at the foot of the mountain, with a faint mist emerging around him.
After nearly a quarter of an hour, a golden light shone from the side of the fat monk, making Li Bai look like he was dreaming.
Before he could take a closer look, the golden light disappeared in front of the two of them.
Looking at the fat monk in front of him, Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "Congratulations to the monk for hearing the truth. The day when he escapes from the sea of suffering is getting closer. I am very happy and congratulated."
The fat monk clasped his hands and saluted, and murmured: "I am stupid, I need to be enlightened by my teacher, I will be happy."
Li Xiuyuan stopped arguing with him, pointed at Li Bai beside him and said, "Monk, look at this little guy, how about it?"
The fat monk smiled and replied: "Sir's students are naturally smart and sensible, and they should have a wonderful future."
"Haha, what a great prize for the monk." Li Xiuyuan smiled, his expression unchanged.
Li Bai clapped his little hands, pulled Li Xiuyuan's sleeve and said with a smile: "Sir, I'm thirsty. Let's go to the great monk's Buddhist hall for tea!"
Upon hearing this, the fat monk glanced at Li Bai, then at Li Xiuyuan, laughed a few times, and walked back.
He smiled and said, "Sir, please move to the Buddhist hall."
Li Xiuyuan pulled Li Bai to follow the fat monk. As he walked, Li Bai shouted: "You only use the word "chi" to eat, and you use the word "drink" to drink tea, not "eat"!
Even Li Xiuyuan was amused by Li Bai's words and followed the monk and laughed.
...
The three of them climbed up the steps and arrived at the Buddhist hall. A young monk came over to help the fat monk fetch a bucket of spring water and light a charcoal fire.
The three of them sat around the table in front of the Buddhist altar. The fat monk took out a bag of tea from the cabinet behind him, placed it next to the tea set, and waited for the water to boil.
Li Bai frowned and asked, "Sir, now that we have entered the Buddhist hall, why doesn't the great monk burn a stick of incense in front of the Buddha?"
The fat monk shook his head and turned to look at Li Xiuyuan with a smile on his face.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "Are you interested in this matter? Do you want to stay and become the great monk's apprentice?"
Li Bai looked at the fat monk, turned back to Li Xiuyuan and said, "Forget it, it's better to go home with your husband."
The three of them drank two courses of tea. Li Bai was tired from climbing the mountain.
The fat monk called the little monk and took him to the Zen room to rest. Li Bai thought for a while and asked, "Sir, do we want to spend the night here?"
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