one person is right

Chapter 25: Serve me with incense

"480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, how many towers are in the mist and rain."

Sitting on the carriage, looking at the scenery along the way, Chen Cuo sighed deeply and deeply felt the influence of Buddhism in the Southern Dynasty, especially in Jiankang City.

He left Jiankang City from Donglimen in the east of the city this morning, followed the suburban road all the way to the north, turned to the west at Jiangshan Mountain, crossed the Dongmen Bridge, and walked along Fuzhou Mountain and Xuanwu Lake, and finally from the north The gate belongs to the outer city of Jiankang.

Along the way, I saw no less than twenty temples, large and small!

"What a poem!" On the side, Chen Hai, who was waiting by the car, started his routine touting for the first time.

Chen Cuo didn't take the flattery to heart, pointed to the continuous temple on the hill in the distance, and asked the guide next to him.

"Which monastery is that?"

"It's Guishan Temple. The owner of the temple is a well-known good person. He gave porridge to persuade good people and adopted orphans." Come to lead the way, "This temple was prosperous in the time of Gaozu, there are many halls, and the incense is flourishing!"

Chen Cuo nodded and praised, saying: "There are temples in the mountains, back to the outer city and a big temple, and then to the south to the tidal ditch? The place where this temple lives is expensive."

Ma Wu smiled and said, "Jun Hou Yingming, in another six or seven miles, you will be able to see the tidal creek."

Chen Cuo said again: "There are many mansions in Chaogou, and Guishan Temple is not far from Chaogou. It should be a little popular. Let's go and see."

Chen Hai is trying to figure out Chen Cuo's thoughts. There are so many temples along the way. Junhou just understands the question and drives forward. He has no idea of ​​visiting at all. Now that he sees Guishan Temple, he wants to take a look...

Thinking of this, Chen Hai already knew it.

As the master, he wanted to choose a temple that was close to the city and had a lot of people.

This is the fact.

Chen Cuo went out to find a temple, not really to worship Buddha, but to prevent the invasion of evil spirits and find a place to live in a Buddhist home.

Although Zhou Youzi did not say it explicitly, Chen Cuo guessed that the Buddhist temples in this world should have great power to ward off evil spirits and take shelter in the temples.

However, there are many wild jungles in the suburbs outside the city, and there are often beasts and birds. Even if you look at the magnificent temple, and the night falls, it is inevitable that you will feel a bit of an ancient temple in the wilderness.

In view of this, Chen Cuo wanted to get closer to the city, and if Zhou Youzi returned and was closer to the city, he could learn about it, go there, and meet him as soon as possible.

After thinking about it, the carriage he was riding in had already reached the periphery of the temple.

"I'm going to get off here." Ma Wu reminded outside the car, "From here, to the temple, the vast land belongs to the temple."

Chen Cuo was astonished. He got out of the car and looked up. The temple was still far away, surrounded by contiguous fertile farmland, and halfway through the countryside, there was a stone pavilion.

On both sides of the road, there are many farmers farming.

"Who are these people?"

"The tenant farmers of the temple, Guishan Temple said that there are dozens of land, this is only a part, there are many outside the city." Ma Wu is familiar with it, "There are not only tenant farmers in the temple, but also many warrior monks, who often go out of the city to inspect and sweep away bandits. ."

Chen Cuo followed Chen Fangqing's memory fragments and asked, "The temple has so much land, why do you often seek out aristocratic families and people to raise money?"

"I heard that it is to not forget the fundamentals." Ma Wu was a little uncertain.

Chen Cuo nodded, stopped asking questions, and took Chen Hai, Ma Wu, and San Liang's entourage along the road in the field.

On both sides, the years are quiet.

In the houses in the distance, there are women working and children playing, a picture of men plowing and women weaving.

Just as Chen Cuo was about to compliment him, his whole body sank, and he felt a little uncomfortable. Cold sweat broke out on his head, he was slightly dizzy, and he realized that something was wrong.

"What's going on here?"

In a hurry, he looked up, his eyes widened, and he saw a radiant Buddha above the temple!

Seemingly in response to Chen Cuo's gaze, the Buddha's sudden expansion fell straight down, with a tendency to push the top of Mount Tai!
Chen Cuo stopped abruptly, invisible pressure came upon him, and made him take two steps back, took a deep breath, and looked again, but he couldn't find it again.

The people on the side are a little strange, but they dare not ask more.

Chen Cuo frowned in thought, wiped off a cold sweat, and felt something in his heart.

"Zhou Daochang once said that evil ghosts are connected with my will, originally hidden in words and have no form, it was only formed by the outline of my thoughts, I am afraid that my body has been stained with evil spirits and evil spirits. As soon as I approached here, Buddha The traces are self-produced, maybe they are here to suppress Yin evil, so they will feel uncomfortable."

At this point, although his body is not clear, he has no intention of leaving.

"This also shows that if you come here to stay overnight, you can really resist evil ghosts!"

Thinking about it wrongly, Chen couldn't help speeding up his pace, but the more he walked, the more cold sweat on his head.

However, when he was halfway through and passed the stone pavilion, he heard the sound of laughter coming from the pavilion.I glanced around at random and saw that there were two Taoist priests sitting and talking, one looked at a young age and looked like a teenager, and the other was a young man.

"There is a Taoist priest in front of the Buddhist temple? Speaking of which, when I came to the temple, it was also suggested by the Taoist priest, weird, weird!"

Chen Cuo retracted his gaze and ignored it, just thinking about going to the temple quickly and suppressing the evil spirits.

"Senior brother, you just said that if you want to suppress the incense, you have to visualize it in your heart. I don't know what this means?"

Certainly!
Listening to the words from the pavilion, Chen Cuo suddenly stopped, as if he had been caught in a body-fixing technique, he retreated, went to the stone pavilion, and looked again.

He took a closer look and found that it was the young Taoist who was speaking, who actually called the young man next to him as senior brother.

The young Taoist priest smiled slightly, but did not speak, instead he looked at Chen wrongly.

"Two Taoists..." Chen Cuo cupped his hands to understand it, stepped forward to salute, and said, "I have seen two Taoists, and I just heard them talk about incense. I am very interested, can we go together?"

He was looking forward to it, but he was wondering in his heart, why Zhou Youzi didn't say much, there were so many restrictions, these two were just talking straight in broad daylight?

The young Taoist smiled and said, "It's fate to meet each other. Since Xiongtai can hear words, he is not an ordinary person. Why don't we sit down and discuss the Tao together."

"Thank you." Chen Cuo was full of weirdness, thinking about what you were talking about in front of the monk's temple, but the other party was willing to say that he could not ask for it, not to mention the temple, even in front of the palace!

Chen Cuo took his seat immediately.

The pavilion is not big. After three people sit down, it will be a bit crowded when other people come in.

Chen Hai and others could only retreat outside, especially Chen Hai, staring vigilantly.

Chen Cuo looked at the two of them again and asked, "I heard you two talk about the incense visualization, can you tell me more?"

"Why not? But it's best not to hear about it." The young Taoist laughed, raised his hand and threw his sleeves at Chen Hai and the others, "I talked about this with my junior brother because I was outside a Buddhist temple. Buddhists are best at creating Buddhas, spreading their teachings all over the world, then shaping Buddha statues and visualizing them in their hearts to prove the incense.”

"Oh?" Chen Cuo was attracted by the topic, but he didn't care about the curious boy's sleeve, and said to himself, according to this argument, what Buddhists follow is the way of incense?Is it because of this, Daochang Zhou let me come here?

After thinking about this, he was refreshed, and combined with the dissemination of the "Painted Skin" article, he asked: "Shaping a Buddha statue to let all beings know it is to attract people's thoughts, so how does it converge and use it for himself? "

The young Taoist said with a bold and unrestrained manner, "It turns out that Xiongtai only knows one of them, but I don't know the details. It's just to deceive the two of me. It's a good answer."

Chen Zuo was surprised and was about to explain.

The young Taoist waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's all said to be fate, Xiongtai also asked, what can't you say?"

Only then did Chen Cuo feel relieved, and sincerely asked for advice. He secretly said that although this person is not young, he is bold and generous.

The young Taoist said: "This method of condensing incense is mostly visualization. For example, Buddhist practitioners first make a Buddha statue, then visualize the Buddha in their hearts, and shape the gods in their hearts. To put it bluntly, the way of incense and incense is derived from the methods of gods, gods and gods. Standing in temples and heavenly courts, the Buddhist incense method is to make oneself a temple, keep a Buddha in the heart, swallow the incense of believers, and be strong and strong! It is to raise oneself as a god!"

Treat yourself as a god!
Chen Cuo chewed on these words, and gradually became aware of it, but it was not a detail after all, and we have to ask again.

But the two Taoists suddenly stood up.

"Two Taoist priests, you are..." Chen Cuo stood up and said a few words after thinking about it. Are you going to leave?
"Suddenly remembered, there are still some things to do, Xiongtai, we are destined to meet again!" As the young Taoist spoke, he and the young Taoist turned around and left, very fast, and in a blink of an eye, they were far away in the field.

"Why do people in the sect run so fast? Is it standard to shrink into an inch?"

Just as Chen Cuo was thinking, a Buddha's name came from behind him.

Chen Hai walked over quickly to report that it was the acquaintance monk from Guishan Temple.

Chen Cuo turned around to greet him.

The monk who knew the guest looked upright, looked calm, put his hands together, smiled back, and then led the way.

"What is the name of this acquaintance monk?" Chen Cuo just remembered the two Taoists, but he did not ask in detail, and now it was a bit inconvenient to speak, so he took the time to ask Ma Wu.

"The villain doesn't know either, and the monks who know the guest generally don't need to remember their names."

Chen Cuo thought of another thing and asked about his conversation with the two Taoists.

Ma Wu and Chen Hai both said: "I was waiting outside the pavilion, but I couldn't hear it clearly, and there was always the wind around my ears."

Chen Cuo was stunned and knew what means the two Taoists used.

"They appeared here and said they were talking about Taoism, but they revealed some details of Buddhism. They may not have no plans. I'm afraid it's a dispute between Buddhism and Taoism. I may have just happened to meet."

He is somewhat self-aware, and doesn't take himself too seriously.

Thinking about it, the invisible pressure became more and more intense. When he reached the main entrance of the temple, Chen Cuo took a deep breath, asked Chen Hai to take out the prayer letter, and made a donation of silver taels, requesting to visit the temple.

Only then did the monk know Chen Cuo's identity. Seeing that he was generous in his actions, he was immediately delighted, and he was more respectful in his words. Leading Chen Cuo was a brief introduction.

In the temple, as Ma Wu said, there are several halls in the front and back, all of which are majestic and magnificent, and the Buddha statues in the halls are solemn.

After hearing it wrongly, Chen felt relieved.

In his previous life, he occasionally traveled, and he has seen some good mountains and rivers, and has seen a lot of temples and Taoist temples. The scale and layout of the Guishan Temple are enough to shock the hearts of the Southern Dynasties, but only in exchange for Chen Cuo's admiration.

Monk Zhike watched and was secretly surprised. He believed that the monarch's joy and anger were invisible, and he became more and more respectful. He noticed that when Chen Cuo passed by the Buddha and the golden body of the Arhat, he would stop and solemn, his expression was serious, and he couldn't help but have a good impression. Come.

He didn't know that when Chen Cuo passed by Jin's side, the invisible pressure on his body was going to increase so much that it was a little difficult to take a step.

After visiting for a while, outside the King Kong Temple, Chen Cuo saw that the time was ripe, and said that he felt something after the tour and wanted to stay for a few days.

The monk who knew the guest immediately showed a happy look on his face. Naturally, he would not refuse such a distinguished guest, and immediately went to the reporting temple to take a seat.

Chen Cuo naturally asked him to go quickly, then found a place to sit down and let out a long breath.

Chen Hai had noticed Chen Cuo's abnormality for a long time, and stepped forward to ask if he wanted to go home to cultivate.

Chen Cuo shook his head and just waited.

As a result, after waiting for a while, the monk who knew the guest did not come back, and Chen Cuo became more and more uncomfortable.

"But it's so unbearable to stay for a while. If you really have to stay for a few days, I'm afraid it's not going to kill you!"

He was quite conflicted in his heart, the more uncomfortable he was, the more difficult it was for evil ghosts to come, but his body was a little unbearable, so he could only think of some ways to ease it-first, let Chen Hai fetch water to drink, and then find a place for ventilation. Not getting any better.

Chen Cuo was also a little anxious.

Suddenly, the thought moved, and I thought of the nameless breathing method.

"Try it first, it may not be effective. If it doesn't work, try the method of visualization again. It should be thinking about a Buddha statue in your heart."

After the thought fell, Chen Cuo's breathing rhythm suddenly changed.

hum!
In the Vajra Hall in front, the Dharma Protector Vajra standing on the left and right of the door suddenly trembled slightly and let out a cry.

However, because it was too slight, and it was fleeting, it was not discovered by the people in front of the door.

　I've been a little tired these days, so that's all for today, but the number of words is 27% more than the average number of words in normal chapters!

　　By the way, let me sort out the sequel.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)