Taoist chanting

Chapter 338 Have confidence, what are you afraid of?

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the wilderness is peaceful and quiet.

One person and one donkey flew in the night sky, looking for the barren hills in the remote countryside, and went around to the northeast. The donkey took double doses of healing elixir, and the body gradually benefited from it, and the pain didn't feel so bad.

It can't stand being boring, so when it's idle and bored, it finds topics to pass the time on the road.

"Monastery Master, do you think Bian Wu Guo is a good person or a bad person?"

Silently pondering and deducing the previous dangerous fight, Zhang Wenfeng, who summed up the gains and losses, was slightly taken aback when he heard the esoteric proposition asked by the donkey. , Only then did I realize that I was thinking too much, and the original meaning of the donkey was the literal meaning.

He pondered and replied: "From the perspective of a monk in the Yanhua Pavilion, Bian Wuguo is basically a good person, because he can give guidance and instruction to apprentices, win honor and reputation for the sect, win cultivation resources, etc. But from our Looking at it from a different perspective, he is a villain who is not greedy enough, who will take revenge, bully others, and take advantage of the fire to rob, so he deserves to die."

He split it into two and made a final conclusion for Bian Wulai.

The donkey's eyes widened, "uh, uh" After a long time of surprise, he said, "My lord, what you said is quite interesting. I always thought that he was a complete villain, the kind who is so bad that the soles of his feet ooze pus. Want to kill him, listen to you, it doesn't seem like he's such a bad guy, how can I put it...he shouldn't trouble us."

After a while, it choked out this simple and rude reason.

"So, there is no absolute good or bad for most people in the world, it depends on how you look at it."

Zhang Wenfeng saw that the donkey had brought up such a philosophical issue, so he took advantage of the opportunity to say a few more words, so that the donkey would have a steelyard in his mind when doing things, and continued: "There is a saying in the "Cultivation of Self-cultivation and Tranquility" in the "Sifang Miaojing" that is very important. Well, 'Those who have deep desires have shallow secrets', there is no room for a speck of dust in the human heart, and if there is a little dust in it, there may be endless distracting thoughts and desires. Wipe it from time to time to keep your state of mind bright as before, the path of practice becomes wider and wider, and the realm of practice goes farther and farther.”

He tried his best to make it easy to understand, but it was counterproductive to talk too hard.

The donkey showed a dazed expression, grinned and said, "My lord, how should I cultivate my mind and self-examination?"

Very good, I have listened to it.

Zhang Wenfeng smiled and said: "You are in the Taoist school, of course you have to solve it according to the Taoist method. From now on, apart from the daily listening to the scriptures outside the temple, you have to read the scriptures and do your homework by yourself sooner or later. You usually copy the scriptures to deepen your impression and understand the profound meaning." Say tranquility, tranquility means restoration of life', 'If you don't want to be tranquil, the heaven and the earth will straighten itself', many of the 'Tao' principles in practice are recorded in the Taoist classics, and it is the right way to think about it yourself."

The donkey drooped its ears and muttered, "My lord, I can't even recognize the words. How can I do my homework by reciting scriptures?"

It suspected that the viewer was setting a trap for it, but unfortunately it couldn't find evidence.

Just thinking about copying the scriptures with its hooves makes its brain ache. It tried hard to think back, when did it accidentally offend the Lord?
It must have offended the viewer.

"The apprentices of Qingzheng Bieyuan haven't read all the words yet, and they have recited more than [-] volumes of the "Sifang Wonderful Scripture". Those who are diligent like Gu Chaowen, Wei Jingjie, and Shi Nanguan have memorized more than [-] volumes. , you don’t have to memorize the scriptures every day like the apprentices, you are talented and have a good memory, and you only need to study the nine volumes of “Cultivation of the Body and Tranquility”, isn’t that much?”

"Not much, not much."

The donkey quickly agreed, but it had to bite the bullet.

Otherwise, the master will add "Prayer and Blessing Chapter", "Minor Cleansing Chapter" and so on, it will be called big brain.

Zhang Wenfeng smiled and recited a Taoist poem as the conclusion of this conversation.

"Clean and clear, clear and clear, clear and bright. Deep and dark, forever and ever, firm and firm and forever. Bright and clear, bright and bright, and the spirit is manifested."

The donkey repeated it and wrote it down, slowly understanding the meaning.

There was no more chatting along the way, the donkey didn't want to chat with the temple master anymore, and the temple master chatted to death.

It was already dead of night when we returned to the Fairy Temple, and the half moon was slanting to the west.

The second senior brother who received Huang Fu's message earlier sat in meditation with Yue Anyan and waited in the Banshan Pavilion, a lantern was hung outside the pavilion.

When the three met, they exchanged a few simple greetings, went up the mountain and walked into the West Hall together, and chatted for a quarter of an hour.

Yue Anyan was slightly surprised when he heard that the audience asked her to teach the donkey to recite scriptures and copy scriptures, and agreed with a smile.

It's not difficult to read the scriptures. It's really embarrassing for a donkey to let Lu Zijin copy the scriptures.

"Bitting on the penholder with your mouth, you can still write. There are always more ways than difficulties. Slowly get used to it. Luzi's learning is growing too fast, and he needs to cultivate the purity of his heart and sharpen his state of mind."

"Yes, don't worry, the Lord, I will teach it."

Yue Anyan understood that he had misunderstood, so he bowed slightly.

After admiring several rare treasures brought back by the temple master, the two retired and went down the mountain to rest.

Zhang Wenfeng stored most of the treasures in the secret room of the underground palace, and the key to unlocking the mechanism of the underground palace has been taught to the second senior brother and Yue Anyan, just in case something unexpected happens, or if he is trapped in a certain place for several years or ten years, the Taoist temple can Smooth development.

Early in the morning of the second day, the temple master, who hadn't shown up for a long time, had morning lessons with everyone.

There was a burst of low cheers from the apprentices.

During breakfast, the old cripple couldn't wait until he heard that the donkey had come back together. He got up and searched for the back mountain, and found the bald donkey wandering in the northwest woods.

"Donkey day, isn't it just shedding a few tufts of hair, and one is really embarrassed to see people? I don't lack a few pieces or items. Come here and go to the dining hall with Lao Tzu. I have prepared a jar of good wine for you. The ingredients mixed with fresh spiritual grass, you don't eat the livestock that I poured into the shed."

Hearing that there was fresh spiritual grass to eat, the donkey's eyes were so bright, he rushed over and shook his head again and again, put the old-fashioned bastard on its back, and rushed towards Qingzheng other courtyard, running as fast as he could. Steady and fast.

The old cripple touched the scratches on the donkey's back and the bald marks left by each fist, and smiled very relievedly, cursing honestly: "Every time you go out, you get injured all over your body, you can't Be more aggressive, and practice your skills well? Look at Brother Feng, you are just like everyone else, you don’t have to learn more."

The donkey snorted and rolled its eyes vigorously, but it was speechless to refute.

After breakfast, Zhang Wenfeng didn't go to the tea house to drink tea and chat with the two. He had a lot of things to do today.

I came to the back mountain alone, walked into the white mist-filled mountain depression, and went down to the cave hall. I saw a short man in a khaki short robe with his hands behind his back, walking around the bronze lamp in the middle.

The two looked at each other, and the earth spirit stood still without speaking.

Zhang Wenfeng sized it up carefully for a while, feeling overjoyed, cupped his hands and said, "Friend Tukun has restored his cultivation to the third level, congratulations!"

The two whiskers of the earth spirit moved, showing a dry smile: "With the help of this bronze lamp, I have saved a lot of time, but it will take time for the third stage to return to the fourth stage. Extremely long."

As for the cheap temple master he recognized, even though he has no feelings in his heart, he has to follow the wishes of the hairpin ancestor and wait until he is full.

Zhang Wenfeng understood the hidden meaning of the earth spirit, and asked with a smile: "This time I went out to get some treasures, I don't know if there are 200 years of purple spirit ginseng, can fellow Daoist Tukun get it?"

A wooden box appeared in his hand, erased the restriction and opened it, revealing a spiritual ginseng missing a few beards.

This is the reward earned by the donkey.

He used it to win over the earth spirit, the treasures of heaven, material and earth that are more than two hundred years old, which are very attractive to the second and third rank demon cultivators.

The ability of the earth spirit to recover to the third level of cultivation in advance is the confidence of the whole fairy temple.

He was a little worried at first that Bian Wuguo was going to die because of Bian Wuguo's imminent death, and he would come to find his troubles and seek his bad luck afterwards, but now that the haze in his heart has been swept away, what else is he afraid of?

He has the confidence to argue with the other party, anyway, he did not kill Bian Wu Guo.

With only one, they can stand on their feet.

Tu Kun sniffed his nose, took the wooden box and cupped his hands: "Thank you, the Lord, for your thoughtfulness, it just happens to be useful."

After standing and chatting briefly for a while, Zhang Wenfeng turned around and went out. He also had to go to White Fox Castle to meet Xin Xing who had been shutting himself at home, and then go to the secret room where ghost-headed mushrooms were grown.

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(End of this chapter)