Chapter 215 Fingers and claws accidentally left on the mud

The shadows of the trees on Shigu Peak are faint, and you can see the sparkling blue waves of Dalongtan in the distance. In the dusk, there are people walking on the grass path.

The long reed leaves fell with the howling evening wind, forming a sea of ​​grass that could drown people. However, the sound of footsteps never stopped, and followed the moon shadow hanging on the height of the canopy tree, two thin lines

The old figure quietly stopped in front of a mountain house made of bluestone.

"Amitabha, Tan Yue, and the old monk came to complain."

Abbot Hongbian lowered his head and walked into the mountain house. He saw that the house had been decorated, and a lit candle was quietly placed at the foot of the house to prevent it from being blown out by the harsh mountain wind. However, the light could not help but sway, so he took the light

The lonely figures in front of the bed are shadowy and ever-changing.

"Two masters, you are welcome to come."

Jiang Wen sat expressionless in front of the window. He saw that his right hand was tightly tied again, and Zhan Lujian was once again used as a splint. Coupled with the appearance of a serious injury that had not yet healed, his appearance was really miserable.

Although the previous earth-shattering blow caused the cracks in the stone to crack and the cave to collapse, it also acted on Jiang Wen's right hand that used the Palm of Ecstasy. The broken bone that had been barely healed during the fierce battle with the dragon ghost was shattered again this time under the load.

, the injury was more serious than before.

"Jiang Tanyue, does this girl still show no signs of waking up?"

When Abbot Hongbian saw Jiang Wen indicating that he was fine, he checked Luo Shuang'er's pulse after asking for permission. He found that Luo Shuang'er's pulse was basically stable, but that Luo Shuang'er was unconscious and unresponsive to external things. This was considered one of many misfortunes.

It's the only good thing.

"Thank you, abbot, for your concern. I have tried to wake her up in many ways. Sister Shuang's injuries to her meridians have obviously improved, but her mind has been hit hard. Now I am helpless."

Jiang Wen took a deep breath, looked solemn and solemn, and signaled the two old monks to sit down. There were many things that needed to be discussed in detail during the long night.

"I just hope you two can tell me everything - I just didn't expect that a Buddhist country like Jizu Mountain would be haunted..."

Jizu Mountain is haunted. This was Jiang Wen's most shocking discovery this time. Before entering the temple, he made repeated inquiries and ruled out suspicions such as the Bodhisattva incarnate and the illegal counterfeit shop. He thought he could rest easy, but in the end he never imagined that he would encounter something like this.

Simple and natural weirdness.

The expressions of shame on the faces of the two old monks were even heavier. Master Anren was not good at speaking, so now he could only lower his head and chant sutras. Abbot Hongbian twisted his beads and lowered his voice and gently closed the window, as if he was worried about the conversation between a few people.

Subtle sounds will be heard by the charming wooden mountain spirits who are rustling outside the cold window.

"Jiangtanyue, Jizu Mountain is a land of Buddhas opened in the sky, a city transformed by the earth, and the Venerable Maha Kassapa is here to keep his clothes and meditate. How can it be a place of ghost domain and disaster? It is just a disaster. All crimes should be held responsible.

Thanks to the old monk, Xitan Temple is now suffering from misfortune. The old monk thought that no matter what, it would not spread to the two Danyue..."

The two old monks looked at each other, knowing that any more explanations now would only make people feel like they were shirking their responsibilities. Fortunately, Jiang Wen was emotionally stable and had mixed feelings in his heart. Many things he said should not have been revealed to outsiders, but the situation was critical at this time.

No matter what, we cannot lose this Austrian aid.

Master Anren was silent for a while, and then he whispered in confusion: "Donor, there are many monks in the temple who have encountered ghosts. Master and senior brothers keep it secret for the sake of the reputation of Sittan Temple, but they have always been entangled by ghosts.

All of them are people who have received full ordination and come and go in front of Buddha statues. No pilgrims or believers have ever been affected, let alone anything in the rock chamber medicine pool..."

Two old monks told Jiang Wen that it was not a rare thing for ghosts to appear in Xitan Temple. It had happened as early as the Dingsi year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty when the temple was first built.

The former abbot was not a knowledgeable Zen master, so he found the origin of this ghost after reading the "Maha Zhi Kuan" written by the former master Zhiyi of Tiantai Mountain in the Sui Dynasty. The ghost of fear was supposed to be at the end of the Dharma of Kunagami Buddha.

There was a bhikkhu who liked to annoy the monks and was expelled by them. Then he swore evil oaths and turned into a ghost, which often annoyed people who were sitting in meditation. The ghost took on various shapes, or looked like an insect with thorns on the head or face of a person.

Later, traces were found in the "Secret Methods for the Treatment of Zen Diseases" translated by Juqu Jingsheng of Beiliang.

The fearful ghost appeared again during the time of Sakyamuni Buddha. At that time, Mahakasyapa was teaching thousands of monks to rest in the lonely garden monastery and practice rigorously. A ghost actually appeared and disturbed the world. All the monks saw it.

The ghosts and gods, with faces like lutes, were flying around the monastery, with four eyes and two mouths, and their faces were shining brightly. They were all in various ferocious and terrifying shapes, and they struck at the armpits and other parts of the body with their hands.

Mahakasyapa opened his eyes to look, and saw that the monks were horrified and speechless. He also heard the voice of the monks chanting "fear, fear, fear," which suddenly appeared and disappeared like a spinning fire wheel, like a lightning bolt, and for a while, they were in the void.

Either way, the monks in the hall immediately ran away in chaos. Fortunately, Mahakassapa's profound practice remained unmoved. The Buddha spoke out to expose the true identity of this person who had fallen into evil karma, and also passed down the secret method of impeachment and treatment, and the crisis was turned into peace.

Zen Master Benwu explained to many disciples that Mahakassapa was the "first shutu" among the Buddha's disciples and the first person to practice non-attachment. The fear of ghosts was one of the tribulations of the Venerable Mahakassapa. The previous life was eliminated by the Buddha.

Only then did I catch up to the Jizu Mountain Dojo.

The fact that the ghost of Horti is haunting the mountain is actually due to the karma between the Venerable Mahakasyapa and the ghost of Horti that has not been eliminated. The monks only need to deal with it with meditation and uphold Bodhi. This ghost will cause no other harm to the monks.

Everyone can practice with confidence.

However, this incident is particularly frequent and violent in the first month of every year. When the monks of Sidtan Temple are meditating and chanting sutras in the Buddhist hall, ghosts will always come to entangle them. However, they still rely on the monks and only appear in places where Buddha statues are displayed.

He never hurts anyone when he goes out - therefore, the Sidtan Temple has set up a rule to observe fasting and close the temple in the first month. Only those who have just become a monk and have no time to receive the certificate of observing the precepts are allowed to move freely in and out of the temple.

"So that's the case. No wonder Master Anren can break the root of the root and cast away ghosts by chanting sutras..."

Jiang Wen has always been doubtful about ghosts. Based on the basic skills of a rhino wielder, he was afraid that he might have encountered monsters again. Recalling that day, he seemed to have heard the voices of the two people. It was from the cave.

There was a faint sound, and a puff of poisonous smoke came out and hit the nose and mouth...

Abbot Hongbian told Jiang Wen in a low voice that during the first month before his arrival, the Sittan Temple was almost at the stage of collapse.

The Pingxi Prince's Mansion was aggressive outside, and the Horde ghost was haunting inside. Abbot Hongbian had no choice but to completely close the temple to calm the situation. The Horde ghost only bothered monks who had received full ordination, and only appeared near the Buddha statues.

Abbot Bian also sealed the meditation halls in all the main halls so that the monks could not see the images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

I thought that the strange things would subside a little, but what happened next was even more unexpected by everyone in Sidan Temple.

Some monks who chant sutras alone in the meditation room often feel that the buildings of the Sidtan Temple are shadowy, as if ghosts are constantly passing in and out. When they open the windows and take a closer look, there is no one there. And when the monks walk late at night, the buildings they pass by are heavily locked.

When you walk into the empty Buddhist temple, you will find faint laughter coming from it. When you peek out the window, you can see that there are numerous whip marks on the wooden and clay Buddha statues.

Later, there was a pair of moss-mottled stone lions and elephants outside the Three Holy Temples that had been deserted for a long time. They had not been taken care of for many years. There were also lone monks wandering nearby late at night. Hearing constant strange noises in the temple garden, they opened the door and opened the door.

When I saw the stone statues, they looked extremely weird. The brave stone lions had hair all over their bodies, and the Duanyan stone elephant was stumbling with all four legs on the ground. A strong earthy smell hit my face, almost suffocating me.

Therefore, Xitan Temple added an additional rule that no more than five people are allowed to go out after a certain period of time.

"Good guy, what kind of trouble did it happen to make you create a strange rule in the Sidan Temple..."

Jiang Wen frowned. He didn't expect that he just wanted to find an opportunity to sneak back to Guangxi and Guangxi, but he accidentally got into this dangerous place. But thinking about it carefully, there are still many loopholes in these rhetoric and cannot withstand careful scrutiny.

For example, there is no Buddha statue in the medicine pool in the cave, and Zejiang and Luo have never been ordained as monks. According to what the two old monks have said conclusively, there is no possibility of the fearful ghost haunting them at all - this would be

If it were Yan Yongchun, it would still make sense for Yuan Ziyi to bump into him. Could it be that Luo Shuang'er secretly followed Yuan Ziyi to become a monk while no one was paying attention, and ended up accidentally hurting herself?

Jiang Wen looked at the unconscious Luo Shuang'er with suspicion, and felt that this might be the most reliable statement.

If none of the above speculations are true, it is impossible that because the two of them are born with Buddha nature that overcomes human nature, they are the seeded contestants who are guaranteed to be sent to the Western Paradise, right?

"Amitabha, I'm afraid, as Master said, all this is because the karma between the Venerable Mahakassapa and the ghost of Phidi has not been eliminated, so the poison spread to Jizu Mountain and was taken over by Sidtan Temple. It's just that

Unintentionally, the two donors were involved, hey..."

"Two masters, I still have a doubt. If it is said that the ghost ghost has an unsolved karma with the Venerable Kassapa, why does it only bother the Sittan Temple and not go to the many temples on the mountain?"

As he heard this, the doubts in Jiang Wen's mind peeled off layer by layer, and he finally approached the central link where the truth came to light, and asked this question. However, as he was thinking about it, Jiang Wen thought of the stone carvings revealed on the top of the cave, and more.

Questions came to mind.

"Two masters, is the strange portrait that collapsed from the top of the stone chamber the true form of a certain Buddha and Bodhisattva?"

As soon as these words came out, Abbot Hongbian and Master Anren looked at each other and suddenly fell into silence, with both faces looking uneasy.

"Tan Yue, do you know who built this cave medicine pond?" Abbot Hongbian suddenly asked.

Jiang Wen shook his head, not understanding the purpose of the old monk's rhetorical question: "I only heard the master say that Xu Xiake came here. Logically speaking, it should have been here decades ago. It couldn't have been dug by this guest from the haze, right?"

Abbot Hongbian clasped his hands and said: "Amitabha, this cave and the three holy temples in the temple were originally built by my master Zen Master Benwu, who asked for Dharma from Tiantai Mountain. The painting on the top of the cave has been dusty for many years, and I am afraid it is also

What Master did..."

"Tiantai Mountain asks for help? This sounds like another story."

Looking at Luo Shuang'er who was still unconscious, Abbot Hongbian let out a long sigh, closed his monk's robes and lowered his head with his palms, using sadness to resolve all the unwillingness and resentment in his heart.

"Amitabha, how can this old monk have the power of the Buddha? The incident in Sidtan Temple originated from the Three Holy Temples, and the incident in the Three Holy Temples came from the fact that there was no Zen master in the first place. The two old monks just wished that they could not eliminate the evil consequences with their bodies.

, various reasons, wait for the two old monks to explain slowly..."

On the top of the solitary peak, Jiang Wen and several old monks were sitting in a mountain house. They planned to use dead leaves as a mat and temporarily hang the cold wind as a curtain. They let the wind howl outside the window and watched a cold moon hanging high in the distance.

With a guilty look on his face, the Master talked about some past events.

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Master Anren, who was originally practicing vigorously and diligently, suddenly encountered a tribulation one day. It seemed that he had been reduced from a seed of Buddhahood to a person who had cut off his good roots. As the master, Zen Master Benmu worried day and night to find a countermeasure, but he still had no clue. In order to find a way out.

In order to maintain the practice of Master Anren without retreat, Zen Master Benwu finally decided to go to Guoqing Temple in Tiantai Mountain to seek Dharma in person despite his old age.

Needless to say, the journey from Yunnan to Zhejiang was long, and the hardships were indescribable to outsiders. After experiencing many hardships, the old monk finally arrived at the foot of Tiantai Mountain.

Guoqing Temple, an ancient temple in Tiantai Mountain, was built in the 18th year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty. It was founded by Master Zhizhe, the founder of Tiantai Sect. It was first named Tiantai Temple. Later, it was renamed Guoqing Temple, which means "if the temple is completed, the country will be clear" because of its high status.

It is revered as the ancestral court of Tiantai Sect.

This time he went to Tiantai Mountain to ask for Dharma. In addition to asking for the "Huayan Great Repentance" to repent for his disciples' karma, he also wanted to ask for a martial arts. Zen Master Benwu knew that it would be difficult for his disciple Anren to learn Buddhism.

Then, he planned to find a new path from martial arts to Zen, and it was said that in the ancestral court of Tiantai Mountain, there was a weird and bizarre Buddhist Kung Fu called "Hanshan Kung Fu".

I just didn't expect that both of these things were extremely poisonous. The Three Holy Temples, which once enshrined the Avatamsaka Repentance, fell into disrepair after a certain incident, and no one dared to approach it, turning into a place where snakes and cats live in the Sidtan Temple;

"Hanshan Gong" has also been implicated by many foreign objects. Outsiders are not allowed to enter or exit the stone cave medicine pool, and there are many strange things. Today, it collapsed and its true appearance was revealed. In the end, even the temples in the mountain were at odds with each other...

"Two masters, this "Hanshan Kung Fu" is said to have been created by Master Hanshan, a poet monk in the Tang Dynasty. It is also occasionally taught in the world. From what I can see below, it is nothing more than a kung fu for cultivating one's moral character. Why do you think it is getting more and more evil in your mouth?"

Jiang Wen's expression was a little unnatural when he spoke, and his cheeks twitched unconsciously, but he quickly suppressed all signs and completely regained his composure.

Abbot Hongbian said without sadness or joy: "Amitabha, since Tan Yue also knows the story of the two masters found in Hanshan, it is naturally the best. Let the old monk repeat a few sentences to see if it is the same as what he heard..."

When Jiang Wen heard this, he thought the other party was praising him. After all, Hanshan Shide and Hanshan Shide were famous, so it was impossible for him not to know: "Oh? Could it be that the portrait on the top of the cave is Hanshan Shide?"

Hanshan lived in seclusion in Hanshi Mountain on Tiantai for more than seventy years, and named himself Hanshanzi; Shide, whose name is unknown, was named after Fenggan, a senior monk of Guoqing Temple when he was a child, and he found alms on the side of Chicheng Road.

It is said that Han Shan and Shi De met each other as if they were brothers. They usually climbed mountains to enjoy the water, read Buddhist scriptures, and recited ancient poems. Every time they gained something, they often wrote it among the trees and rocks. Most of their contents were about the joy of being secluded in the mountains and forests or warning the world. Later, they were collected by Taizhou

Lu Qiuyin, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, compiled the "Collection of Poems of Hanshanzi", which contains more than 300 poems. His deeds are also widely circulated because of his ridicule of tenses and bizarre behavior.

"...Exactly. It's a pity that there are so many falsehoods circulating in the world, some of which can be called ridiculous. But in the face of many particularly bizarre and ridiculous things, this may not be a bad thing."

Abbot Hongbian's words were euphemistic, and seeing that Jiang Wen had not changed his original intention about what he was listening to, he stopped pretending to be mysterious and continued.

"Master is not a Zen master. When he first arrived at Tiantai Mountain, he discovered that the people in Guoqing Temple were quite taboo about the story of Hanshan's discovery. At first, they did not dare to dig into the details. After repeated requests, the abbot of Guoqing Temple was willing to tell the truth.

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To be continued...