Li Xiuyuan in the living room was in the midst of an epiphany. The old man shook his head, looked at him and replied, "What a man who lives toward death. Why didn't anyone tell me this truth before?"
The crow glanced at the old man and shouted, "Master, I'm afraid he won't be able to wake up for a while. Let's go outside for a walk. I smell the fruity aroma."
The old man also knew that with Li Xiuyuan's current appearance, he was afraid that he would no longer be able to explain to him.
So he reached out and hugged the crow, stood up and walked out of the living room, closing the door of the living room.
The moment the two of them went out, the crow screamed: "How come this newly planted osmanthus tree has grown so tall? Oh my god!"
The old man shouted to Huajiao, who was busy in the kitchen: "Huajiao, come out and let's go to the mountains to pick some fruits."
"Senior, wait a moment, I'm coming."
While he was talking, Huajiao looked at the osmanthus tree in the temple and screamed: "Oh my god, senior brother, what's going on? How come I smell Xing'er's fragrance?"
Crow smiled and said, "Senior will tell you later, now I'm going to pick a peach from the tree to eat."
When the three of them walked out of the temple, even the old man was shocked.
You must know that this place was originally just a barren mountain, and even the peaches and apricots on the mountain were only planted by the old man and his lover. How many years have passed?
Some of the big trees on the trees have long been cut down by the villagers at the foot of the mountain, leaving only some branches that have not yet grown tall.
It can be said that the only scenery here is the waterfall in the mountains.
It wasn't until Li Xiuyuan built Yunqi Temple last winter and the stone steps, pavilions, and mountain gates in spring that it gained some life.
But now, you can see towering trees everywhere on the mountain. The big trees on both sides of the long stone steps almost cover half of the stone steps.
It's such a hot summer, so you don't have to be exposed to the scorching sun when you go up and down the mountain.
The peach and apricot trees were full of branches, and the peach trees that I didn’t like to eat at first became juicy and juicy, as if they had changed varieties. He looked at the old man and the pepper and said, "Go pick a basket back and try it."
Huajiao covered her mouth and was speechless for a while.
He asked the old man and the crow: "I haven't come out for a while, why has it become like this? Is this a god coming?"
Crow shook his head and said with a smile: "Where is the god? The master is a god. He will break through in the living room."
Huajiao nodded: "It turns out to be sir. Let's pick a basket and let him taste it later. Senior brother, do you want to wake up the two people in the pavilion?"
Crow glanced at Qingfeng and Helian Ruoxue in the pavilion and shook his head: "Don't disturb them. Maybe they are also enlightening and breaking through. I am the stupidest and I haven't gained anything."
At this moment, the old man felt relaxed all over, and he felt like he was about to break through.
He laughed with the crow and said, "Go pick a basket of fruits and try them when you go back. Maybe you will transform after eating the fruits."
Huajiao laughed when he heard this: "Then senior brother will become junior brother."
After the three of them picked fruits and went to the field to pick a basket of vegetables, Qingfeng and Helian Ruoxue still didn't come back after lunch.
Huajiao left the food in the pot and didn't bother them.
It wasn't until Huajiao and Crow returned to the house to rest and the old man slept on the recliner for an hour that Li Xiuyuan woke up from his dream.
He sighed softly and murmured to himself: "Master, why did I break through without thunder tribulation? Why am I still blind after breaking through?"….
After a long time, the old Taoist priest under the green pear tree replied: "Out of sight, out of mind, what are you anxious about? The world is different, the rules are different, wouldn't it be nice to be less exposed to thunder?"
"Your breakthrough this time is beyond my expectation. Just like the old monk said, once you realize it, you will break through it."
The old Taoist priest sighed and said with a smile: "The principles that Ksitigarbha and the old monk taught you are not as profound as your own understanding, so you broke through."
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly: "If you can't see it, then you can't see it. Even compared to the old man in front of me, this disciple is much luckier."
Thinking of Xiao Die'er in the Buddhist hall, Li Xiuyuan asked: "Master, Xiao Die'er transformed into a dragon this time. There is no Dragon Transformation Pond.
How does she accomplish it? "
The old Taoist priest shook his head: "Everyone has opportunities, so don't envy others. You can't ask for her opportunities. Her Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon are different from what you thought before."
After hearing this, Li Xiuyuan no longer hesitated.
Thinking of the coming Helian Mingyue and the old man's past, Li Xiuyuan felt a little emotional.
After thinking for a while, he asked: "Master, I think about this, so I will take Xiaodie'er and the others to the East China Sea to have a look. How about it?"
In fact, he wanted to ask his master if he could leave this world from the East China Sea. The imperial city no longer had any appeal to him.
This is not his world, and he doesn't want to explore any more places.
The old Taoist priest smiled and replied: "If you want to, go ahead."
Li Xiuyuan stopped asking any more questions at the moment. If his master could say such words, it seemed that the East China Sea was where he wanted to go. Besides, Huajiao and Xiaodie'er have already had a relationship with Donghai's Pianpian.
Moving outside the living room, Li Xiuyuan was stunned when he saw the osmanthus tree that had grown into a big tree.
He murmured and asked: "Master, why is this happening? I remember that these osmanthus trees are just saplings. Did you make them grow taller with a wave of your hand?"
The old Taoist priest laughed and said: "This time you are still in the Buddhist hall without seeing the Buddha. I have no intention of caring about the one-third of an acre of land in front of you. Okay, I have to leave."
Li Xiuyuan came to the Buddhas in the main hall, turned to the Purple Bamboo Forest Bodhisattva, and silently lit three sticks of incense.
I know in my heart that I am just a failure in the ordinary, how can I create such a miracle?
After he saw the Buddhas and came outside the temple, looking at the scene on the mountain and down the mountain, he was stunned and speechless.
Xing'er grew bigger and became watery, and the peach turned into a peach. It was said to be a fairyland, but it was nothing more than that.
Accompanied by the dense waterfall hanging in the mountain, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but sigh softly, looking at the two people sitting in the pavilion unaware of waking up. I wonder if you are like me and have broken through in one day? ?
Like the crow, he did not wake up the two people in Enlightenment.
Returning to the living room, I brewed the remaining tea again and silently tasted the tea until it was tasteless.
At this moment, the old man slowly opened his eyes, looked at him and asked, "The butcher is not just himself, but also his family."
Looking down at the tea leaves in the cup, Li Xiuyuan subconsciously replied: "If a son inherits his father's legacy, then there is nothing wrong with it. It's just for living."
"After all, letting go only gives you more opportunities to hear the Tao, but it will not really make people become Bodhisattvas. If people in the world don't even dare to think about it, there is no need to actually do it."…
The old man savored this sentence carefully, and suddenly felt that practicing Buddhism could also help him understand some unintelligible principles in the world.
Just like Li Xiuyuan in front of him, he can figure out a certain truth and break through in an instant.
With a sigh, the old man stood up, sat down at the table, and drank a cup of tasteless spiritual tea.
Asked: "My lover died because of me, how can I forget each other?"
For an old man, knowing each other after seeing each other is his past.
But allowing him to avoid having to worry about life and death means betrayal of the past.
Li Xiuyuan was stunned, thinking about his past, and couldn't help but sigh.
Said: "My master has repeatedly warned me to recollect. To give up recollection is to gradually separate some people and events in the past from your life."
The old man asked: "But how can we forget?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said again: "There is a saying in the Buddhist scriptures: Those who know that I preach the Dharma are like a raft. The Dharma should be given up, let alone the illegal one?"
"Your wife is just your companion on the road to spiritual practice, just like a boat in the river when you cross it. You have left the East China Sea, is it possible that you will still carry this boat on your back for the rest of your life?"
"When she was alive, there was nothing wrong with your husband and wife loving each other. Since she has re-entered reincarnation, you should let her live, and you should also let yourself live."
"My former nephew, he once became a monk but lived in the past three lives and could not get out. As a result, he suffered, and his lover suffered too."
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Many years later, on a day when I was not around, he was killed and reincarnated, and then he began to let go of the past, met a new lover, and started a new life of his own."
The old man praised: "That is indeed a joyful thing."
Li Xiuyuan continued: "What is reincarnation? After crossing the Wangchuan Bridge and drinking Meng Po soup, she will no longer be the same person in this life. In that case, why can't you let her go and let her embrace the new reincarnation ??」
Thinking about Wu Xin and Jasmine, in his opinion, it was a gift from fate, but it was not the persistence of Wu Xin and Jasmine.
When Jasmine was reincarnated into a home in the west of the city where sewage flowed, she didn't complain at all. The little girl who didn't have enough to eat still happily went to school every day to listen to her husband's lessons.
This kind of life may not move others, but it makes Li Xiuyuan cry whenever he thinks about it.
Thinking of this, he murmured to himself again:
"But once we have met, we know each other, so we don't have to worry about lovesickness in life and death."
"In my opinion, Wu Xin only began his true cultivation in the world after suffering for three lives. But only by letting go of his identity as the son of the Nangong family can he see the sky, the earth, all living beings and himself."
He did not say that Wu Xin would become a saint one day in the future, which was too far away for the old man.
Hearing this, the old man was speechless for a moment. Then he pointed at the two people in the pavilion and smiled: "Where are these two little guys? Could they be the next us?"
Li Xiuyuan did not answer him, but just said: "Personal love can teach you life and death, but it cannot let you see the heaven and the earth, let alone the sentient beings as low as the dust."
When the old man heard this, he felt that Li Xiuyuan's words were like a knife, stabbing into his chest instantly.
For a moment, I was speechless. ….
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "I'm not very knowledgeable about love, but I also know that the so-called love saint is just a joke, because it doesn't make you realize the Tao and become a saint."
"A monk who doesn't respect heaven and earth and doesn't know how to pity all living beings is just a selfish person. A selfish person can't even see himself, so how can he see the heaven and the earth?"
"If you cannot see the sentient beings in heaven and earth, you will have to practice hard for a lifetime and still not be able to realize the Tao. Even if you taste all the elixirs in the heavens, you will not be able to become a saint who stands upright."
At this point, Li Xiuyuan looked at the old man and said quietly: "Believe me, in the end of your practice, all you will see is the world. If you can't see yourself, you will be just a fish in the pool if you practice again."
Continuing the previous topic, Li Xiuyuan revealed some truths that he had been unwilling to share with the old man one by one in front of the old man.
Just because the old man cut open the wound that he least wanted to show to others and placed it in front of Li Xiuyuan.
It gave him the opportunity to have a sudden enlightenment and break through the situation, so Li Xiuyuan was also willing to tell the old man some of the truths he knew.
Tell Lao some of the truths about heaven and earth that he knows, although he has not yet told Crow and Xiaodie'er about these truths.
It's just because Xiaodie'er has suffered too much, and he doesn't want to tell Xiaodie'er right now.
Because the crow has not yet transformed, even if he said it, the crow may not be able to understand it clearly.
Unlike the old man who has experienced the joys and sorrows of the world, Li Xiuyuan only needs to tell him a truth, which is like lighting a lamp for him in the dark night.
The old man sighed, looked at him and smiled: "Tomorrow, I have to help you see Qingfeng's practice."
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