Suzaku

: The Orchard Debate

The philosopher Zhu Shishu cooks in the high-end kitchen of Mount Sumeru, which has been smokeless for a long time, and welcomes the rare visitors for hundreds of years.

Yi Tianxing walked alone on the top of the mountain pressing the grass. Now that he has come to Mount Sumeru, he will be able to see Shigong soon, so he is not as anxious as he was at first.

Five hundred years is just a snap of the fingers, so why care about a few days of leisure.

It’s just that he misses his wife and children, and the middle-aged man’s emotions now occupy Yi Tianxing’s head. When he was alone, he leaned on the black stone slab for a while and stared blankly for a while, Leilei’s beautiful eyes and Xiao Yizhu’s hateful appearance flashed in his eyes, and he thought about it again Ye Xiangseng, this guy is getting more and more handsome With a smile on his face, he thought, if he returned to the human world, Ye Xiang wouldn’t be a little baby, would he?

After homesickness was over, he frowned, and carefully put his consciousness into the black stone under his elbow.

The black stone is not pure black, there seem to be many strange blue rays of light flowing slowly in it, like the eternal night of stars in the universe.

But to Yi Tianxing’s surprise, when he put his consciousness into the black stone, he found that there was nothing behind this strange black stone, no matter how much he manipulated his consciousness, he couldn’t touch any real things.

This black stone is like a door, and there is nothing behind the door.

He rubbed his nose, and a sternness flashed in the corner of his eyes. For some reason, instead of continuing to try again, he raised his hands and walked towards the back of the extremely large peak of Mount Xumi.

Walking among the wild grass, he unknowingly came to a mountain forest. There was wind in the forest, but the wind had no direction. It just blew gently in all directions, and the trees in the forest fell eastward and westward, as if elves were dancing.

A gust of wind was a little stronger, and a hard object was blown off, and it landed on Yi Tian with a bang.in front of you.

He took a closer look and found that it was a fruit that was already ripe and about to rot. He couldn’t help but smiled slightly and said to himself: “You helped Newton solve the problem, are you going to help me solve the problem again this time?”

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he suddenly thought of the conversation he had with his ancestors in the back garden of Guiyuan Temple after returning from Tibet that year, and he couldn’t help frowning, and looked around.

All the trees around are full of fruit.

Or red or green or yellow, or round or flat or oddly shaped.

Numerous fruits, born among the trees, showing their distinctive smiling faces, dragged the branches heavily, pressing into countless curved curves, as if saluting Yi Tian in the middle of the forest.

Yi Tianxing stretched out his hand, and an invisible force broke through the air. He picked a green and yellow wild fruit from the bent treetop, rubbed it twice with his hand, brought it to his lips, and took a bite.

With an ouch, he almost knocked his teeth out. After two poohs, he spat out the fruit on the ground, cursing, “What a sour fruit.”

With a thump in his heart, he remembered what the old monkey said.

“I gave the sour fruit to Buddha to eat, hee hee.”

Yi Tianxing was in a trance, his consciousness was uncertain, and he seemed to be able to see the boring conversation between the Buddha and the old monkey in this dilapidated orchard five hundred years ago.

The trees swayed gently, and a Buddha and a monkey sat facing each other.

There is a field of fruit scattered around the two, and several bottles of good wine that the old monkey stole from the Heavenly Palace. The top of Mount Sumeru is filled with clear light.

“Wukong, after eating this fruit, what should I do with the core?”

The Buddha statue is merciful but vague, and the five sense organs cannot be seen clearly, but a faint tranquility and elegance emanate from the Buddha.

Although the old monkey was wearing cassocks, he still looked like a stubborn beast, his body was full of rebellion, and he grinned sharply and said: “The Buddha thinks that after eating the fruit, just throw away the core.”

The Buddha smiled slightly, not confused, but still asked: “If the core is thrown into the ground, fruit trees will grow again, and sour fruits will grow again, what should I do?”

The old monkey rolled up the hem of his cassock, took two sips of wine, and stuck out his tongue hotly. After a long while, he understood what the Buddha said, and said in a daze: “You are so wise, how can you be more confused than my family? When it bears fruit, it is natural to eat it.”

“Then what to do with the core after eating it?”

The Buddha’s eyes were full of infinite compassion, and he said with compassion: “What should I do?”

The old monkey was stunned in place, and subconsciously stretched out the back of his furry hand to touch the Buddha’s forehead to see if he was burnt out. He stretched his hand halfway, only to realize that this action was a little out of place, he withdrew his hand with a shrill smile, pulled the corner of the cassock, wiped the wine on his mouth twice, and sneered: “Don’t be too confused, why are you talking all this?” lies.”

The Buddha was neither angry nor sighed. He just asked with a smile, “There must be an end. The seed grows into a tree, and the tree bears sour fruit. The fruit retains its seed, and the life is endless. Why did it end?”

There was a long silence.

After all, this kind of philosophical question aroused the violent emotions that the old monkey had suppressed for a long time. Naturally, the monkey didn’t play any tricks that he was good at, so he felt that he couldn’t hold back his face, and shouted sharply: “In this case, if you crush the violin, don’t you think about it?” Shit.”

With a soft click, the dark brown fruit core in the old monkey’s hand was easily crushed into countless pieces by two iron fingers, and scattered on the ground in the forest with a rustling sound.

The Buddha smiled again, clasped his hands together, bowed to the old monkey, read some scriptures softly, got up and left.

Kong left the Zhang Er monkey in the orchard, full of smoldering stomachs.

The light gradually changed, and Yi Tianxing suddenly woke up from the illusion in front of him, and countless cold sweats seemed to flow from his forehead.

He touched it subconsciously, only to find that there was not a drop of sweat on his forehead. This had something to do with his own constitution. He had never sweated since he was a child, but he felt cold sweat in his consciousness, which was enough to prove the panic in his heart. disturbed.

After reading this conversation in the orchard five hundred years ago, Yi Tianxing’s heart was full of panic and bewilderment. This kind of panic and bewilderment came for no reason, and even he himself didn’t understand why.

He could understand the scripture that the Buddha said at the end of the dialogue with the old monkey.

Although the scripture seems to be in Sanskrit, and it seems to be some kind of ancient language, but as soon as Yi Tianxing heard it, he immediately understood the meaning of the sentence.

Because this sentence means too many things to him and has been with him for too long. As early as in that summer pond in 1994, when he first realized the Taoist surname, he had seen this sentence floating in front of his eyes in the form of golden characters all over the sky.

At that time, he didn’t understand what these Sanskrit words meant, but from that day on, he gradually came to his senses, and changed from a hard-bodied human boy to a cultivation genius who was unimpeded by the Dharma.

This sentence was the first turning point in his life.

“When exhaling and inhaling, observe the impermanence. The method of exhalation is born in stages, and the cause of each other is changed, and all the conditions are combined, and there is no pause when it starts”

Yi Tianxing frowned, sitting cross-legged on the loess in the orchard, shaking uncontrollably all over his body, he didn’t know what he was afraid of, so he had to use the meditation method in the Zen scriptures to protect his mind, so as to relieve his depression .

Yi Tianxing met the Buddha for the second timeThe last sentence he said was on Wudang Mountain. At that time, the power of the real martial arts was overwhelming, and there was a sky fire outside. He passed out. In a coma, Yoyo looked at the Sanskrit scripture.

But until then, he still didn’t know what this sentence meant.

Until the future cultivation base is great, and finally it is about to break through the sky and leave. In the small valley behind the six places, facing Qin Linchuan and the great lama of Tashilhunpo Monastery, he was about to take that step, the step that separates God from man.

Countless birds flew from outside the valley, forming a line of strange characters high above the sky.

Yi Tianxing wandered out of the body, and finally achieved great success, and finally understood the meaning of these words, which were the meanings of the Sanskrit words he saw in the small pond.

Very simple four words.

“Life is suffering.”

These four words were the last words spoken by the Buddha and the old monkey in the “debate on the fruit core”.

“Life is suffering.”

Sitting cross-legged in the orchard behind Mount Sumeru, Yi Tianxing moaned and said, “Life is suffering.” He recalled many past events in his life in his mind, and only then did he understand why he was in the small valley behind the six places. Why kill people so indifferently, treating life like nothing.

Inspired by these four-character mantras, at that time, he and Xiao Yi Zhu thought in the depths of their spiritual consciousness that erasing a trace of life was to liberate the other party, not to be violent.

It’s absurd, it’s fucking logic.

But I don’t know what the Buddha meant when he said these four words.

“It’s boring to think about it.”

At the mouth of the orchard, under a fruit tree, the Second Uncle Wu Neng was gnawing on an old corn cob, and said vaguely: “Buddha, great Bodhisattva, these people who are almost at the end of their practice are the most boring, and they don’t give anything to you.” You know, if you keep thinking about what they said, you’ll get confused.”

Yi Tianxing forced a smile, got up from the ground, walked to him, saluted and said, “Master, teach me.”

Wu Neng touched his chubby belly, and said sarcastically, “Tell you what to do. There is nothing in the world. If you don’t care about my brother getting out of trouble, if you don’t care about Manjusri’s life and death, I’m afraid you are still living happily in the world. In this situation now It’s your own choice, so naturally you have to worry about it yourself, so it has nothing to do with me.”

Yi Tianxing smiled wryly and said, “Ignore these things for now, but if we want to take Shigong to the human world, I’m afraid that if we don’t do anything in the Pure Land, we will need Shishu’s help when there is a fight.”

“Fool.” Wu Neng sneered, stretched out a round finger and shook it: “It was Guanyin Bodhisattva who threw you down, and she lured you up, so naturally she wants you to do something, and you have never even seen her face , how do you know what to do? Since she wants to use you, she will naturally not watch you being thrown into the nether world. With her as a great helper, who are you afraid of?”

Yi Tianxing was taken aback, and wondered why this second uncle looked like an old military adviser

“It’s just going with the flow.” Wu Neng seemed to see the doubts in his heart, and sighed like an old philosopher: “In life, there must be a living head. I just want to live comfortably and have too much greed. So thousands of years ago, I have suffered a lot. When I was learning the scriptures, the Bodhisattva asked me to escort me, and I escorted him. Since others use you, they will always give you some benefits, but as for how much we will contribute, that is another matter.”

He paused, couldn’t help grinning and said, “I’m not an honest person like Senior Brother. On the way to learn the scriptures, I actually fought those monsters for real, and I didn’t even look at the people behind those monsters. He beat so many dogs, I don’t know how many immortals in the heavens he has offended.”

“Of course, he’s better than me, so he’s not afraid of offending people. I can’t do it.” Wu Neng said again: “So it’s okay to work without putting effort into it. Anyway, I’ve seen through it a long time ago, and it will be my turn in the end.” If it doesn’t benefit us, it’s just a bunch of shit that the Buddha made up while he was idle.”

Yi Tianxing smiled wryly and said, “If I have the kindness of my second uncle, I would be happy.”

Wu Neng chuckled, stretched out his big palm-like hand, and patted Yi Tianxing’s head lovingly: “Your boy is different from me, both Buddhism and Taoism are fighting for you, you are similar to my senior brother, it seems He will be a very powerful person in the future, and when the time comes, I will give your uncle some benefits.”

Yi Tianxing was speechless, and said after a long while: “That is, that is, one family does not speak two languages.”

Wu Neng suddenly lowered his voice and said: “Even if the Bodhisattva promises you great benefits in the future, don’t work too hard.” He turned his head and looked around, and said cautiously: “You must know that monkey, your master, claims to be a natural genius, and fights fiercely. , I never give in to others, but at the end of the journey of learning the scriptures, like your uncle and me, I have seen through and understood, and started to work without exerting any effort.”

“That’s true.” Yi Tianxing also came to talk, cursing: “In the end, a lion, a peng, and an elephant were used as roadblocks. This Buddha is too cruel.”

Wu Neng glanced at him, and said with a sneer, “It’s not a matter of the big Bodhisattvas like Manjusri and Samantabhadra.”

Yi Tianxing grinned, thinking that the old monkey was imprisoned in Guiyuan Temple, but he didn’t seem to have any hatred for Ye Xiang, and he didn’t know what was going on.

Wu Neng thought back to the past, and sighed: “Actually, on the way to learn the scriptures, there is no monster that can do nothing to win the senior brother. He also understood that no monster dared to eat the master, so he was always lazy later, when things happened,Then he flew back to the sky to find the monster master to fight. By the way, he could also enjoy two days of paid vacation. He was so happy that the senior brother felt like fighting until he met Peng’er. ”

Yi Tianxing thumped in his heart: “That Peng’er is very powerful.”

Wu Neng rolled his eyes at him, hummed and said: “The first time the Buddhist and Taoist families fought was that thief bird, do you think it’s great or not?”

“what do you mean”

“Suzaku, have you heard of it?”

Yi Tianxing’s face turned pale for a while, and after a while, his mother’s surname became prominent, and his face glowed with pride, and said, “It’s not just what I heard.”

That is, it’s not just that he was born.

To be continued: