Suzaku

: The Smile in front of the Arhat Statue

“Tap, tap, tap” Following the sound of the bamboo stick gently hitting the flagstone floor, the blind Uncle Zhu walked into the unremarkable, quaint courtyard in the provincial capital.

The little auspicious boy in white clothes, barefoot, gently combed his black hair with his fingers.With beautiful hair, he asked softly: “That student has been in Guiyuan Temple for a few days.”

“I haven’t left the gate of the temple for three days and three nights.” Uncle Zhu replied respectfully.

The young master’s face was like ice and snow, and he said in a soft voice: “Uncle Zhu was right that day, this student is not an ordinary person, and the wood green Gu in the upper third level can be silently melted away by him, it is because I am not prudent in dealing with things, instead Letting a master die under the sect, it will be inconvenient to explain to the Yungui sect in the future.”

Uncle Zhu said: “My lord, you don’t need to worry. Everyone in the sect has contributed to your lord’s behalf. Even though they died, they still wouldn’t regret it.”

“Guiyuan Temple still refused to agree to lend us cassocks”

“Yes, Master Binku has practiced Zen for many years, but he is still stubborn.”

“Forget it, it seems that I can only go to pay a visit in person.”

Uncle Zhu hesitated and said: “I still have a piece of advice from my subordinates.”

“Speaking.”

“The old sect master has a clear order not to harass Guiyuan Temple. It seems that there is something strange in that temple. After the old sect master passed away, his father took over the throne, but he has always paid respect to Guiyuan Temple. If it is just to get rid of Taiwan Lin Bo If you want to fight rashly, the subordinates think it is unwise.”

“Uncle Zhu is very thoughtful, I understand.” The young master put his slender hands together in front of him, and said in a soft voice, “It’s just that Mo Sha under Lin Bo’s men is too serious to kill in Taiwan. I’ll go to Taiwan for three days. More than 30 people were burnt to death in the sea of ​​flowers in Puli, such a great enmity, how can we not avenge it?

Seeing that he was persistent, Uncle Zhu didn’t persuade him much, he bowed down and said again: “I made another divination yesterday, although there is no danger in this trip, but it will hinder the young master’s future practice, if not The young master asked the old slave to go and meet the monks of Guiyuan Temple for a while.”

The young master smiled slightly, his eyes rolled around, and the room was full of spring, and he said softly: “I know you are afraid of that young man named Yi Tianxing. Someone went to see him in person. Although the young man’s body is full of fire, his body is red and dry. Wen Gao obviously doesn’t know how to control it. He thinks that his supernatural powers are due to some coincidence, or because he was born with too much gold and fire. But he doesn’t know the five elements and Taoism. If he continues like this, he will die within a few months. Why should you worry about me?”

Uncle Zhu frowned and said nothing more.

The little boy lifted his heels lightly, sliding his feet on the thick blanket: “It’s just a little pervert.”

Yi Tianxing had indeed stayed in Guiyuan Temple for three days and three nights. As for the reason, it started with Little Suzaku booing in the clay bottle of Avalokitesvara three days ago.

“Be good, baby. Daddy will take you to the toilet. Although it is difficult to find the toilet in Guiyuan Temple, you can’t do bad things in the face of Master Guanyin.” Yi Tianxing called the little red bird under the Bodhisattva statue, thinking But he was puzzled, “You kid is strong, I don’t usually see you eating and drinking, but this is good, I actually dirty the clean bottle of Guanyin.” Thinking of being so arrogant, he didn’t lose face for himself, Yi Tianxing couldn’t help showing a smug look on his face.

Master Binku watched anxiously from the side, saw his face, and heard his words that secretly hurt his own mountain gate, he couldn’t get angry, groaned, turned around and bowed to the Guanyin statue, and said to him in a very strange way. The cooing little red bird bowed, then waved its right arm and rolled up its monk’s robe.

The monk’s robe was rolled up, and the wide cuffs twirled rapidly.

“Sleeve Qiankun, close”

Master Bin Ku’s true energy is in a hurry, the open sleeves of the cassock are round and flowing, and the cuffs hiss, sucking in air like a wind tunnel

In an instant, there was a strong wind in the side hall of Guiyuan Temple, and the incense candles fluttered. As soon as the little Suzaku standing on the mouth of the clean bottle failed to stand still, the air around him was sucked into Master Bin Ku’s sleeve. Master Bin Ku held his cuffs with his left hand, watching Little Suzaku keep playing with his cassock sleeves, a small circle was formed on the monk’s sleeves from time to time, his face was full of alertness.

Yi Tianxing said anxiously: “Master, be careful”

Master Bin Ku gave a salute to Yi Tianxing with one hand, and returned to his former appearance of a worldly expert, and said gently: “Don’t worry, little benefactor, I have my own measure.”

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words finished, there was a bang, and Bin Ku’s wide monk’s sleeves burned violently.

Master Bin Ku’s face was slumped, and the monk sleeve on his right arm was completely burned to ashes, revealing his shirtless shirt which was black and gray. Yi Tianxing hugged the cooing little red bird, looked at him innocently, and softly flattered him: “Children are ignorant, and it doesn’t matter what they say.”

Bin coughed bitterly, went to the meditation room to change into a cassock, and asked Yi Tianxing and the fire-breathing little ancestor to sit down in the lake pavilion in the back garden.

Yi Tianxing looked at the surrounding scenery, and said with a smile: “It collapsed a few days ago, and it was repaired so quickly. Guiyuan Temple is indeed a place to make a fortune.”

Bin Ku’s face was serious, he didn’t accept his jokes, and lowered his voice, “Yi Shizhu, do you know what the fiery red bird in your arms is?”

Yi Tianxing looked bewildered.

Bin sighed bitterly: “I don’t know where you got it from, but your natural fire nature is full of essence, which is similar to this god’s nature.”

The “divine thing” Yi Tianxing’s eyes widened.

“That’s right.” Master Binku looked at the scarlet bird in his palm, and said quietly, “It’s been a thousand years since this fetish has appeared in the human world. It’s unexpected that it will obediently lie on your palm.”

Yi Tianxing frowned and said: “Here I am, since it is a fetish, let it go, what is it?”

“It’s the Suzaku.” Master Bin Ku said mysteriously, but there was still a trace of puzzlement on his face, “It’s just that the sound of the Suzaku in the classics should be clear and clear, but why is this one cooing like a small bird?” like a chicken”

Yi Tianxing smiled.

In traditional Chinese culture, Suzaku is one of the four elephants and a spiritual beast in the south. The bird is made of vermilion, shaped like a golden pheasant, with colorful feathers. It is noble in nature and does not like lust. Among the twenty-eight mansions in the starry sky, Suzaku is the general vein of the seven star wells, ghosts, willows, stars, Zhang, wings, and zhen in the south.

Yi Tianxing has read a lot of books, so he naturally knows the background of Suzaku, but this kind of fetish that only exists in classics, this kind of existence is only in legends, is it the cute little red thing that is staying in the palm of his hand at this moment?

Gently stroking the red feathers on the top of the little red bird on his palm, Yi Tianxing thought for a long time, but it was still difficult to accept this fact, and said: “The Suzaku in the book looks like a golden pheasant, but it is far from my son. ”

Hearing bitterly that he stubbornly called the divine beast Suzaku his son, Bin couldn’t help laughing. He carefully took Suzaku from him, put it on the tea tray on the stone table, and praised: “Namo Amitabha, indeed, he is worthy of being a divine beast. I was still a newborn, so I easily used the Nine Heavens Profound Fire to break through my sixty years of practice.”

Yi Tianxing was cunning, and when he saw the expression on the face of the bitter monk who was about to chant “two suns inside and outside the plane”, he knew what he was thinking, and quickly put the little red bird back into his aluminum lunch box.

Master Binku was startled and said: “Master Yi, what are you going to do? Don’t place such sacred objects in the folk at will, it will disturb the flow of true energy between heaven and earth.” You, little red bird, let me think it is Suzaku, who should give birth to who should raise it? If you don’t have an answer that convinces me, of course I have no choice but to continue to raise him and teach him, and train him to become a love xx, love xx, have xx, have xx progressive Suzaku, right?”

He didn’t wait for Master Binku to answer, and said again: “Don’t mention anything about the sentient beings in the world. As soon as you recognize this bird, I will know what your old monk is thinking again. I will tell you clearly. I won’t give my son to others, so you should give up on it too.”

Master Bin Ku smiled wryly: “But such a divine creature, how can the benefactor feed it? It is safer to put it in our temple, and it is also convenient for the divine beast to absorb the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth and grow up to take shape.”

“There are no doors, and I nailed the windows for you. I worked so hard to raise it a few days ago, and almost turned the provincial university into a big sauna room. I never saw you come to help me raise it. , fight with me.” Yi Tianxing said angrily.

Master Binku thought for a while, and took a detour to attack: “The high fever on the benefactor has not subsided. From now on, it is natural that the Suzaku beast absorbs the fire element in the donor’s body, and then interferes with the external fire. If you do not try to separate the benefactor from the Suzaku beast, I am afraid that the high fever will It’s still a small matter, some time will pass.”

What Yi Tianxing waited for was his sentence. He pretended to look up at the blue sky outside the pavilion. He didn’t know what he was thinking about. He sighed falsely and said, “Buddhism is merciful. I think the Buddha used to feed eagles with his body. Why don’t I, Lao Yi, feed birds with fire?”

Master Bin Ku could hear the young man’s jokes, he couldn’t laugh or cry: “What exactly does the benefactor want?”

“Master, please teach me the essence of Buddhism carefully, and I will let my son of Suzaku practice hard, so that everyone will be happy,” Yi Tianxing salivated.

Only then did Bin Ku hear the smell, thinking that you boy still wanted to learn the spells of his own convenience, but he couldn’t help hesitating when he thought about the importance of Suzaku. His original intention was to keep this young man in the temple The later ancestors were happy, in order to cope with the three-day extortion, and to facilitate the practice of the sect, they would never dare to pass it on to outsiders. But after seeing Suzaku today, Monk Bin Ku had a good impression of this young man for no reason. His idea was very simple: Suzaku is a sacred object in Buddhism, and the sacred object can be chosen as a companion day and night. The young man’s mind is very good, so he said after a long silence: “The benefactor can stay in the temple to practice the law.”

Yi Tianxing said seriously: “Thank you for hosting.”

“But I would like to advise the little benefactor that the Suzaku beast is fire by nature. Although the fire element in the donor’s body is hard to see, the Suzaku bird cannot control its firepower before it takes shape. If you get along with it for a long time, I am afraid it will be very harmful to the body. .”

Yi Tianxing really hoped to get rid of his illness as soon as possible, and with a so-called divine beast in his arms, he was also worried. After making up his mind, he called the school in the office of Guiyuan Temple and asked his classmates in the same dormitory to ask for a few days off. He took advantage of these days to hide in the gate of Guiyuan Temple to repair Buddhist scriptures come from Zen.

In Guiyuan Temple, there are rare copies of Heart Sutra, Qisha Collection, Huayan Sutra and Lotus Sutra in blood books. Since the abbot Bin Ku tacitly agreed to his practice, he naturally no longer kept his secrets, and led him into the scripture storage in the back garden to visit with him. Although Yi Tianxing is very talented, he is new to Buddhism after all, and he still needs to consult Master Bin Ku for some sentences that he does not know the beginning and end of. Various seals were produced for comparison.

After half a day, Yi Tianxing accepted all the ways to control the true essence. Although he had benefited a lot, he looked at himself according to the method of the Heart Sutra, and he still had great doubts and fears in his heart. Then he entered the Arhat Hall on the west side of the temple.

Yi Tianxing looked at the countless statues of arhats around him with his eyes on Wei Mi.They are different, some of them are sitting cross-legged, most of them are studying Buddhist scriptures in their hands, their faces may be majestic and solemn, or gentle and simple, or they are masterpieces of vicissitudes of life.

Walking slowly to an arhat, he found that the arhat was lying on a stone looking at the sky, his eyes seemed to be closed, Yi Tianxing suddenly felt a leisurely heart, full of joy.

Stopping in front of the Arhat statue for a while, Yi Tianxing moved his body, and faintly noticed that the Arhat statue was flowing with the lines of his clothes, and there seemed to be countless channels of real energy, whether strong or soft, moving along with it. Looking at this Arhat again Since he was arrogant, he began to understand the spiritual practice of Buddhist instant noodles.

Another Arhat is the Venerable Tuo Nu, surrounded by six boys, some of the six boys are covering the mouth of the Arhat, and some are pulling the ears of the Arhat. Childish and innocent attitude spontaneously appeared, Yi Tianxing smiled Zan said: “The great monk has a childish heart, and only then can he attain the Tao.”

“More than that.” The Binku monk who has been by his side smiled and said: “These six plays of Maitreya refer to blinding his eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, so that he will not be disturbed by external evils, so that he can be single-minded. road.”

Yi Tianxing stopped suddenly and stood silently in the courtyard.

On the porcelain blue sky, a few white clouds float freely; a bell rings from Guiyuan Temple from nowhere;

“Guan Yinzi has a way: only the deaf will not hear the sound, only the blind will not see the color, but the dumb will not hear the sound. Those who do not hear the sound do not hear the way, do not hear things, and do not hear me ss4509291 Those who do not see color do not see the way and see Things, don’t see me ss4509291 Those who don’t speak don’t talk, don’t talk about things, don’t talk about me.” Yi Tianxing chanted softly.

Bin Ku knew that the young man had mastered the key, so he made a tithe: “Amitabha, the founder of Taoism, Lao Tzu once asked about the Buddha. Later, Buddhism spread eastward, and after the suffering of the Tang emperor burning temples and destroying the sect, it gradually declined. Such a physiological cycle is the most reasonable.”

At this time, Yi Tianxing seemed to be distracted, with a smile that was not a smile on his face, his lips moved slightly, and he continued to read: “People only know that there are truths and mistakes in what is false, but they don’t know that there are truths and mistakes in what is true. They only know that there is true and false in the false, but they do not know that there is true and false in the real.”

He suddenly laughed, like a fox who has eaten bacon.

The little Suzaku in her arms squeezed out her furry head, stared curiously at the young man’s thoughtful and smiling cheek, and cooed softly.

Many years later, the Six Opera Maitreya Statue in Guiyuan Temple became a place of pilgrimage for practitioners.

The reason for this is all because a young man named Yi Tianxing once stopped in front of this arhat statue for a long time to meditate, then laughed a few times, and entered the meditation room of Guiyuan Temple without eating or drinking, and retreated for three days.

I heard that someone recommended it, but where is it? I look around at a loss, and there are already many traces of immortals. If you dare to ask any brother to leave an address, I will pay my respects: