Feng Junzi's tone was obviously low: "No, no one made any mistakes! I have said enough today... Don't mention these words to me again in the future, I don't want to say them again!... Today is mainly to guide you to break the delusion. I have already said a lot about breaking the delusion. What else do you want to know? If there is nothing else, I'm leaving."

"Don't hurry to leave, don't ask if you don't ask. Can you say more about breaking delusion? I vaguely feel that I'm about to understand it."

Feng Junzi: "You are about to understand? I haven't heard of anyone so fast! I think I only understood it when I turned back. Let's do this, I'll ask you a few questions, and think about it yourself."

"What's the question, please ask."

Feng Junzi: "You should have heard of the practice temple in Wucheng, Zhengyimen and Qiyunguan, Guangjiao Temple and Gejujizan Living Buddha, you should also hear about it, tell me."

Unexpectedly, what he asked me was this kind of question. There was a long history of the story about Qiyun Temple, that was, when the Red Guards rushed into Qiyun Temple, demolished the Taoist temple, and threw the statue of the Sanqing ancestors off the cliff. Ten years ago, the government rebuilt Qiyun Temple, and all the missing Taoist priests came back overnight. Feng Junzi should know these stories, so I told them again.

After hearing this, he asked me: "The Taoist priests in Qi Yunguan are disciples of Zhengyi, and most of them have supernatural powers. I wonder why someone destroyed the Taoist temple back then, why did the true man who guarded Zheng order to avoid leaving without fighting?"

It is too difficult to answer this question! If the Taoist priests of Qi Yunguan really dare to fight against the Red Guards, it may cause chaos. At that time, the army may enter Qiyun Mountain. That is not something that the cultivation sect can resist. Besides, there are rules in the cultivation world that cannot use supernatural powers to ordinary people. I was considering how to answer, but Feng Junzi did not wait for my answer, but continued: "Ten years later, Zhengyi or Zhengyi, Qiyunguan or Qiyunguan. Has the Zhengyi changed? No, what has changed is the world and human relationships... Let's not talk about this question for the time being, let's talk about the Living Buddha and Guangjiao Temple."

The story of the Living Buddha is not a legend. It can be said that most people in Wucheng know it. Twenty years ago, his temple in western Sichuan was destroyed and he traveled alone to Guangjiao Temple in Wucheng. I remember that when Guangjiao Temple was at its worst, he was the only monk. Shang Yunfei was able to make a connection with the Living Buddha since he was a child, which is unpredictable. I have also briefly said this experience of Guangjiao Temple.

After I finished speaking, Feng Junzi pondered: "At the beginning, Guangjiao Temple had only four cold walls, two broken pagodas, and an orphan monk. Now Guangjiao Temple is incense and the old living Buddha is high above all else! Has the living Buddha changed? No, the living Buddha or the living Buddha... The world is like a delusion, and the way of heaven is always there. I have already said this method of breaking delusion, so I can't say it anymore... Shi Ye, don't worry, in two days, the abbot of the Fayuan Temple in Jiulin Zen Temple will open an altar to preach. Facheng and I have an agreement that what you hear in Jiulin Zen Temple should be transferred to me word by word. When you listen to the sutra, we will meet at the Zhuangyuan Bridge at night."

...

The next day, Ah Xiu still didn't come to class.

On the third day, Axiu still didn't come to class. In the morning, I heard from Teacher Liu that Axiu's cousin asked her for leave, saying that her father from another place was sick and asked her to go back and see her. It didn't take long to come back. Axiu's father from another place? Sister Ziying was obviously lying! Why haven't I heard about it yet?

At noon, I hurried to the noodle shop and wanted to ask Sister Ziying what was going on. When Sister Ziying saw me, she hurriedly pulled me to the kitchen: "Ono, something happened to Axiu last night!"

"What's going on? What happened to Axiu? Is it dangerous?" I instinctively thought of what happened in Qi Yunguan last time. Did Axiu get into trouble again?

Sister Ziying's expression was not very anxious, but she was a little worried: "It's not dangerous, it's just a few days to suffer! Someone came to my house last night and took her away."

"Who can take A Xiu away? A Xiu followed him? You didn't stop him!"

Sister Ziying smiled bitterly: "None of us dares to stop this person! Guess who he is - Feng Junzi! He seemed a little unhappy when he came, and he was carrying something in his hand. Seeing this thing, A Xiu and I didn't dare to talk much."

"What?"

Sister Ziying: "It's Hei Ruyi."

I could only smile bitterly when I heard this. Hei Ruyi was in Feng Junzi's hands, and only I knew it. But last time Feng Junzi recited the "Transformation Chapter" in the mountain temple, he held Hei Ruyi in his hand. At that time, Sister Ziying and Xiu Xiu should have seen it. But they were very well-behaved and consciously kept this secret. Feng Junzi said last time that Ah Xiu's behavior towards me was not allowed in the world. It seemed that she could not help but punish her.

Although Feng Junzi didn't let me call him Master, he unconsciously regarded me as a disciple. In the world of cultivation, A Xiu's actions against me are a taboo in the master's sect. He, the master, cannot ignore it, so he still took care of it. Even though he knew that Feng Junzi would not do anything to A Xiu, I still asked Sister Ziying a little worriedly: "Did Feng Junzi say where to take A Xiu? When will she be let go?"

Sister Ziying: "I can guess if he doesn't say it. Who can control A Xiu? He must have sent her to Luxue, Zhaoting Mountain, and trapped her in the sacred wood forest. I'm afraid it will depend on you when A Xiu will come back."

"Look at me?"

Sister Ziying lowered her head and said in a vain: "When Feng Junzi left, she warned me that I would not be allowed to touch you before seeing Liu Yiyi..." She was a little shy and a little aggrieved when she spoke.

I can more or less guess what Feng Junzi did. If you want to see Liu Yiyi, you have to wait until I break the delusion. There is another meaning here. He specifically told me that night that he should not let Liu Yiyi down. It seems that he was deliberately trying to match Liu Yiyi and me. Feng Junzi is a bit too ungrateful. Could it be that he still wants to arrange a marriage?

I understand. He hopes to see his two disciples together. Ah Xiu intervened first to "drug and rape me". Of course Feng Junzi was unhappy. He vented his anger for Liu Yiyi. Fortunately, he did not interfere with other things in the world, so I could only let him go. If he wanted to let Ah Xiu go, he had to wait for me to take Liu Yiyi out first. Although Feng Junzi said he was not in a hurry to wait for me to break the delusion, he was actually holding hostages and urging me. Feng Junzi was a little angry when he did this. He said it was right. He was a second-rate temperament.

"Sister Ziying, do you know Luxue too? Have you seen her?" I have always suspected that the woman who made Feng Junzi "shi" on Zhaoting Mountain is Luxue. But I have never found a chance to figure it out. Now that Sister Ziying mentions Luxue, I want to ask.

Sister Ziying: "Of course I have met her. I was practicing at Feijin Peak back then. She has been practicing in Zhaoting Mountain for more than a thousand years. We met three hundred years ago. Recently I heard that she often meets Feng Junzi. If she wants to control A Xiufeng Junzi, I am afraid she can only find her."

It would be better if I couldn't see Ah Xiu during this period, otherwise I really didn't know how to get along with her. I'd better not think about it for the time being, and I'm going to go to Jiulin Zen Temple to listen to the Diamond Sutra. I don't know what Feng Junzi and Facheng are doing.

...

Monk Facheng personally sent a documentary ticket, which was equivalent to the certificate of entering and leaving the Julin Zen Temple. Last time the Living Buddha invited me to Guangjiao Temple, my monk Yunfei was stopped outside the gate by a temporary worker from the Tourism Bureau to collect the tickets. All practitioners in the world saw it and made a joke. Jiulin Zen Temple obviously knew this joke, so this time he sent the entry and exit certificate in advance. Facheng sent the things to the noodle shop. I was not there at that time, so he left it to Sister Ziying and told her to hand it over to me.

Looking at this entry and exit certificate, I suddenly remembered the story of Monk Facheng. There are some strange and bizarre legends in every place. When I was a child, I heard an adult tell a story: An old lady went to the grain station to buy rice and oil. The staff of the grain station asked her how many kilograms of rice she bought? The old lady said she would buy as much as she weighed. As a result, the old lady stood on the scale and weighed more than 200 kilograms, and the grain station sold her so much rice. After buying the rice, she asked her how many kilograms of oil she bought? The old lady still said that she would buy as much as she weighed. She stood on the scale. This time it turned into a five kilograms, so she bought five kilograms of oil.

When I was a child, I thought it was a joke by adults. Later, Sister Ziying told me that it was true, and this old lady was Facheng. Of course, for decades of circulating in the market, the story changed. The little monk said to be an old lady in people's mouths. Why was it called a little monk? Because Facheng was still young at that time, and followed his senior brother to the market to buy rice and noodles. Someone teased him how much rice and noodles the little monk wanted to buy? The little monk replied: "I will buy as much as you weigh me!" As a result, this story was left behind. That was a long time ago. At that time, Facheng's senior brother Fahai had not yet been in seclusion and had entered meditation. At least more than 60 years ago.

As mentioned above, during the * period, the practice temples in Wucheng such as Guangjiao Temple and Qiyun Temple received great impact, but Jiulin Zen Temple was an exception. The reason is largely because of a person - Master Faling, the former abbot of Jiulin Zen Temple. Fifty-nine years ago, Master Fahai, the master of Jiulin Zen Temple, went into seclusion and practiced in meditation for decades. At that time, he passed the position of the abbot to his second junior brother Faling. This Zen Master Faling has a compassion for the world, but his nature is like a fire, not very much like a monk.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Japanese pirates invaded, and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began in full swing, and the people in Wucheng were displaced. Monk Faling saw that the country was in trouble, so he was unwilling to keep the Buddha's seat in the temple and participated in the underground anti-Japanese organization at that time. Jiulin Zen Temple became a secret stronghold of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Wucheng at that time, and with the protection of the temple, the coming and going were very hidden. At that time, Gao Feijin, the leader of the underground party in Wucheng, also took refuge in Jiulin Zen Temple and was close comrades-in-arms with Faling.

Later, Fa Ling passed the position of abbot to his junior brother Fayuan, and he raised his hair and returned to the secular world and picked up a battle pole to join the anti-Japanese armed forces. Later, Monk Fa Ling died in the battlefield and served the national crisis. After liberation, Fa Ling was posthumously considered a revolutionary martyr, and there were also photos and introductions of him in the martyrs' cemetery. Of course, his name was not Fa Ling, but his secular name Wang Jinling. During the Qingming Festival, our school organized a commemoration at the martyrs' cemetery and presented wreaths to Wang Jinling.

Almost everyone knows the story of Fa Ling in Wucheng. His comrade Gao Feitian became a combat hero later, and later became the first deputy committee commissioner and secretary of the municipal party committee in Wucheng. During the ten years of turmoil, a small group of people tried to go to Jiulin Zen Temple to smash it, but no one responded and supported it. People from all walks of life stopped it openly and secretly, protecting this thousand-year-old ancient temple without much impact. Otherwise, the old Zen master Fahai would not have been able to stay in seclusion for decades without asking about human affairs.

Think about the monks of the Fazi generation in Jiulin Zen Temple, they are really different. Since Fahai won the title of the last World Sect Conference, he has been in seclusion for decades and has not yet broken through the pass. His junior brother Fa Ling has returned to the secular army and has become a revolutionary martyr and a hero of anti-Japanese war. There is also the monk Facheng I know, who is so old, but he has always been naive like a child. As for the current abbot Fayuan, I have only seen him once when Feng Junzi was conquered the gods in Zhaoting Mountain, Fayuan once stopped him, but Lu Xue made another move and made a fuss. In the same temple, all the Zen practices, how can the monks cultivated in various shapes?

I won’t mention what I think, I must listen to this sutra anyway. Fayuan talks about the Diamond Sutra after sunset every day, and it is specifically at 6 o’clock every night. This time is fine, so I don’t delay class, but I can’t do it at night self-study, so I’m afraid I can’t have time to eat dinner. However, as far as I know, those people don’t eat after lunch.

I told Teacher Liu that I wanted to take a month off, which scared her and thought something had happened to me. After I understood that I was just taking the evening study leave, she breathed a sigh of relief and said to me: "Ishino, you opened a restaurant at a young age and it should be very busy. Originally, day students in the school could not come to the evening study, so the school was not strict. If you have something to do, go and do it. Pay attention to yourself. You are still young and you can still have a lot of things to do in the future. Don't delay your studies, I won't say anything extra... Also, how did you consider the matter of opening a restaurant last time? If someone can help and don't delay your energy, you should still consider it."

Looking at her, I couldn't help but think of the love that I had with "her" in the false realm. I couldn't help but blush and my heart beat. I quickly agreed to leave. She stopped me again and reminded me: "I know your secret identity. If you want to perform any task, you have to be careful."

...

Jiulin Zen Temple is the largest temple in Wucheng City. It is not small in scale, but it is not easy to see outside because it is submerged in an ordinary residential area in Wucheng's old city. If you want to go to Jiulin Zen Temple, there is no road or even a car cannot open the door. Walking through a winding and bluestone alley, and walking to a relatively open place among the old houses, you will see the gate of Jiulin Zen Temple.

The gate of Jiulin Zen Temple is ordinary, the gate tower is not high, and the door plaque is not big. The four words "Jiulin Zen Temple" on the door plaque are said to be written by the imperial pen of the Tang Dynasty Empress Wu Zetian. Although the door is not big, there are many signs hanging on the temple walls on both sides of the gate! The largest wooden sign with black letters on white background is "Wucheng Buddhist Association". Other big and small signs include "Wucheng Branch of Buddhist Calligraphy Research Association", "Zen Literature Research Association", etc., and there is even a sign of "Youth Patriotism Education Base".

I did not show the document, because Monk Facheng was waiting for me at the door. Seeing me coming, I stepped forward and bowed: "Mr. Shi, the old monk has been waiting for you. You are indeed trustworthy. Come with me quickly, the time is right."

While leading me through the front yard, he whispered to me the rules of lay Buddhists to listen to the scriptures. In addition to the halls and Buddha statues, the arrangement of Jiulin Zen Temple is very similar to the private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. There are ponds and willows in the front yard, and the back yard has winding paths and secluded paths. Even the surrounding partition walls are inlaid with carved stone windows. A typical garden style can decorate very unique layers of landscapes in small places, and it will be different if you take a few steps.

The lecture hall is in the side hall of the backyard, which is similar to the layout of Guangjiao Temple. There is a futon around and a small podium in the middle. There is a futon and a wooden fish on the podium, and there is no extra. When I arrived, Fayuan had just ascended to sit down and nodded slightly when he saw me entering the door, he could not tell what his expression was.

Speaking of which, I had a little holiday with Fayuan. On Zhaoting Mountain, he once wanted to break the statue of Liu Yiyi who was living in the divine world, but was secretly stopped by Luxue. This is not a glorious thing for Fayuan. If you can, don’t mention it. It is said that Feng Junzi has also made a bet with Fayuan. He couldn’t catch Xiu Xiu in one of the bets, but Feng Junzi lost. These are all things in the past. I have no deep hatred with Fayuan, and I have never heard of him having any evil deeds. Today, let’s listen to his preaching carefully.

Putting aside personal grievances, Monk Fayuan is the most monk I have ever seen. He has a straight facial features and a jade-like face. He sat there with straight waist, straight and steady waist, and indeed a solemn appearance. He should be not young anymore, at least in his eighties, but he looks like a middle-aged monk in his forties, and he does have practice. Feng Junzi said he is a master, and I felt it as soon as he sat down. When he sat on the lecture stage, I felt a momentum filled with him as the center throughout the lecture hall. This momentum is similar to the fluctuations in the spirit of my body after the golden elixir is perfected, but it is also different. It gives people a gentle and kind feeling. As long as you calm down, you will be infected unconsciously and feel that your mind is much more peaceful. I believe that practitioners should be able to feel it, and ordinary people may also feel it.

Fayuan didn't talk much nonsense, and he could say nothing nonsense. As soon as the time came, he knocked on Muyu and started talking directly. Feng Junzi told me that the scriptures I heard here would be explained to him word by word at night, so I also brought a notebook and a pen. Later, Facheng told me the rules of listening to the scriptures, and I realized that it would be best not to take notes.

Facheng told me that before I enter the door, I should enter the first place before I enter the door. Even if I do not have the conditions to burn incense and purify my hands, I should worship the Buddha with the incense of my heart to make my body and mind calm. Although I am not a Buddhist disciple, since I have come, I should do this. When listening to the sutra, you should not make a sound at will, and you should not twist your body to disturb others at will. Sitting on the cushion and listen to the Dharma with the mind of stopping thoughts, it is best to enter the meditation of the Śrāvaka. In other words, just listen. The wonderful thing is to understand the mind, not to think hard, which is completely different from listening in class. None of the other people in the meditation hall recorded with paper and pen, and then look at the source of Dharma on the forum. Although I was preaching, I only held a wooden hammer in my hand, and I didn’t even have this sutra. I could only sit there and listen honestly, and I was embarrassed to take out the book and pen.

I felt friendly when I sat on the cushion in Jiulin Zen Temple. No wonder, the cushion that I have been meditating was stolen from Jiulin Zen Temple. I don’t know what sharia meditation is, but I thought that before Shang Yunfei taught me to resolve the thunder in the ear, he told me that there was sharia and sharia in the ear. Later, Feng Junzi said that I had cultivated the supernatural power of the ear. Now that I have achieved the supernatural power of the ears, I have become more diligent than before, and I can be activated freely in one thought. I also adjust my mind to calm down while sitting, and I will naturally activate my ears without realizing it. I will calm my mind and listen to the sound of the scriptures coming from all around me. Didn’t Facheng say it? Just listen!

...

The day I went to Jiulin Zen Temple to listen to the scriptures was October 26, 1990, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and the Double Ninth Festival. Contemporary people seem to have forgotten this festival. If Sister Ziying had not told me specifically, I would not have remembered it. At night that day, as agreed, I came to Zhuangyuan Bridge to meet Feng Junzi Yinshen again.

"You went there one night. How long did Fayuan speak and how many words of scriptures have you said?" Feng Junzi asked me.

"He talked about it for about three hours and only talked about the 71-character scriptures." Today, Fayuan only talked about the first chapter "The Causes of Dharma Assembly".

Feng Junzi: "Oh, what seventy-one words do you still remember?"

"I heard that, at that moment, the Buddha was in the Kingdom of Shravas. The Jetavana gave the Lonely Garden. He and the great monks were all together. At that time, when the Buddha was eating, he put on his clothes and held a bowl and went to the Great City of Shravas to beg for food. He begged in the city in sequence and returned to the original place. After the meal, he collected the clothes and bowls, washed his feet and sat down."

Feng Junzi: "This is a translation of Kumarajiva, and the Prince Zhaoming divided the chapters. Why did the seventy-one words be said for so long?"

"I think the source of Dharma is already very short, and I haven't talked about it in many places. He just talked about the name Vajra Prajna Paramita for almost an hour, but he still hasn't finished his wish."

Feng Junzi: "Does Monk Fayuan talk a lot?"

"Not many, I have never seen anyone who talks so little nonsense, I have no nonsense."

Feng Junzi nodded: "Okay, you can convey to me the words that Monk Fayuan said clearly."

"No word-of-mouth? How is that possible? I don't have such a good memory!"

Feng Junzi smiled and said, "How do you know if you don't try it? Just say whatever you listen to it, don't worry about whether you can remember it. Now you are the Dharma Yuan, and I am Shino. Do you know what to do?"

Feng Junzi's words seemed to have a deep meaning. He was reminding me of something. When I entered meditation and listened to the sutra, I did feel that my body and mind were clear and clear, without a body or seat, and only the sound of the scriptures. Thinking of this, I said to Feng Junzi: "Then come down from the stone, give me the position of the cushion, find a place next to me, and sit down honestly."

Feng Junzi was abnormal and did not talk back to me. He obediently let him go to the side and found a place to sit down. I sat down and adjusted my mind. Everything was as good as when I was listening to the sutras in the Jiulin Zen Temple. After sitting down, the spiritual platform was clear and the thoughts were not moving, and the scriptures had already surged into my heart, and I immediately started to recite it. This lecture took more than an hour.

"Have you finished speaking? Do you dare to guarantee that you will be right?" After I stopped, Feng Junzi asked me.

"No word of mouth, I can guarantee it!"

Feng Junzi: "How can you guarantee it?"

"I don't know if this is the meditation of the Śrāvaka, but in this state, I can see through my ears and see what I hear and hear as usual, of course, no word is wrong!"

Feng Junzi: "Congratulations, your ear power has reached a higher level and reached the realm of the Shrine."

"Ear supernatural power? What does this have to do with ear supernatural power?"

Feng Junzi: "When Buddhism talks about ear magic, of course, there are more than one state. For example, eye magic power, there are different states such as naked eyes, heavenly eyes, wisdom eyes, Dharma eyes, etc., and the ear magic power is the same. Ear magic power is not just about hearing, but about hearing far. I ask you, what is the purpose of human ears?"

"It is used to listen to sounds, and people can speak, and of course it is also used to obey."

Feng Junzi: "Hearing is just to receive information. If you can't remember it after listening, what kind of magical power is it?"

"You said that this skill that can be understood in detail is also a kind of magical power?"

Feng Junzi: "It is a kind of supernatural power in the ear, but I can't say that completely. For example, I have never forgotten it since I was a child, and I can express it in a sentence after I read it. I originally thought it was also a supernatural power. Later, I read history and learned that there was a Ji Xiaolan in the Qing Dynasty. He was like you, had natural yin eyes, and like me, and could not forget it. But this person is not a practitioner."

Feng Junzi's words were a bit exaggerated. He said that he would never forget to express his words in his eyes, which was a bit reluctant. But his memory is indeed very good. He can tell the things he has seen at a glance, and it will be even more exciting to convey them. As for the express words, I don't know much. Maybe Teacher Liu knows that only she knows how Feng Junzi's composition is. I only know that he is drunk and loves poetry, and at a young age he thinks he has the legacy of Taibai.

"If you don't talk about magical powers, then what is that?"

Feng Junzi: "Before you learned the alchemy path, you learned the mind method of Buddhist 'contemplation'. You saw 'stagnation' in observing, and later you entered 'stagnation' from 'stagnation', deviating from the 'sitation' that I wanted to teach you. Since the condition is like this, I have no choice but to let you listen to the Diamond Sutra and know 'stagnation' from 'stagnation'. Buddhism says that wisdom is produced in sitation, which is also a kind of small Prajna, a kind of wisdom in sitation. It seems that you have better qualifications than I imagined. You can achieve this wisdom by listening to the scriptures for just one night... I asked you to go to break the delusion, and the test of the delusional realm is the root of wisdom."

"The ear magic has indeed made such a little progress, but I still don't understand how to break the delusion?"

Feng Junzi: "Tonight, do you want to enter the realm of delusion and try it?"

"I don't want to go."

Feng Junzi looked a little surprised: "Why don't you want to go? After everyone enters delusion, they are eager to stay there. After dealing with the real events, they will find time to enter the delusion again. If you want to enter the delusion again tonight, I will wait for you here, and there will be no problem."

"The feeling in the false realm is indeed wonderful, but in the past three days I returned to reality and saw those people in the false realm, I felt even more uncomfortable. I think I would be more uncomfortable after I went back, unless I plan to go back forever." What I was telling the truth is that when I saw Teacher Liu during the day, Teacher Liu was still Teacher Liu, not Fei'er in my arms. This feeling really made me feel uncomfortable. If I had no experience in the false realm, although I had some regrets, I would not have lost something precious.

Feng Junzi: "There is always a gap between the false realm and reality. If you don't go, you won't go. Then you go."
To be continued...