Female Buddha

Chapter 9 Copying Scripture and Tasting Tea

Qingli came out of the shower and found that breakfast had been delivered.Qingli finished her breakfast and started copying scriptures.Qingli thought that the Buddha's birthday next year would be less than eight months away.Her parents can come to this ceremony.Although she had converted to Buddhism, her kindness was not repaid.Buddhism emphasizes cause and effect, and she also wants to do something for her family.The scriptures copied by Buddhist monks are very precious things to ordinary people.Because when copying, they often inject their own thoughts into it.Therefore, the scriptures will reflect the situation of the people who copied the scriptures to a certain extent.

But in just two days, Qingli has already deeply realized how special people with Buddha seeds are.At least when her cultivation base was still so low, the power of vows in the copied scriptures was no less than that copied by Buddhist scriptures in the Juyuan period.That is to say, the scriptures she copied for her family's blessings are placed in front of the Buddha and worshiped, and she recites them devoutly every day. When they are handed over to her parents, they will really protect the family to a certain extent.

What Qingli copied today was "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra".Qingli was grateful to her parents and prayed for the happiness and health of her family while copying and reciting.During the process of copying, the Buddhist energy in the body began to circulate unconsciously.The bodhi leaves in Qingli Dantian are even more golden.Part of the Buddha's energy was injected into the beads hanging in front of her.Wait until these one hundred and eight beads are warmed and nourished by the power of Buddha.They began to glow faintly.Then those Buddha energy seemed to be compressed and purified by the beads, and a stream of pure Buddha energy fed back into Qingli's dantian.Qingli seemed to be aware of it, but she soon sank all her mind into the scriptures.

By the time Qingli had finished copying and reciting the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Fundamental Vows Sutra", three quarters of an hour had passed.Qingli respectfully placed the copied scriptures in front of the altar, and then bowed to the Buddha statue three times.Only then did Qingli have the thought to study the strangeness she had just noticed.Qingli looked inside the dantian, and found that the power of the Buddha under the sapling of the bodhi tree had decreased a lot, but the color was more golden.The Buddha's energy has also become much more mellow.Qingli recalled her actions when she just copied the scriptures, and tentatively injected a trace of Buddha's energy into the beads.Sure enough, after a while, a thinner but more pure Buddha energy overflowed from the beads and entered his dantian.It was only at this moment that Qingli realized that warming the Buddha beads could not only deepen the intimacy between herself and the Buddha beads, but also purify her own Buddha power.

Qingli was very pleasantly surprised by this discovery.You should know that doing so can delay your progress in practice.It can not only strengthen one's own foundation, but also make oneself have the largest reserve of Buddha power among monks of the same level.The power of the Buddha's power has also increased.Qingli made a decision based on this, and after each practice, all the energy of the Buddha should be poured into the beads for warming.

Qingli is a decisive person. Now that she has made a decision, she starts to act.She returned to the meditation room and began to pour the Buddha's energy in her body into the beads.The Buddha beads also continuously fed back the purified Buddha's power to her.After running like this for a few weeks, Qingli found that the Buddha's energy in her body was only the level of the Buddha.However, after all, Qingli is at the second level of asking Buddha.At this time, the surrounding spiritual energy began to pour into her body automatically.In order to prevent being overwhelmed by the aura, Qingli began to perform exercises to transform the aura into Buddha's power.This time, Qingli didn't just store the transformed Buddha's energy in Dantian.Instead, inject these Buddha's energy into the beads.I don't know how long it lasted like this, until the surrounding aura no longer poured into the body, Qingli stopped performing the exercises.

Qingli opened her eyes and found that the beads on her chest seemed to be full of energy.At first glance, there seems to be nothing special, but if you look closely, you will find that every Buddhist bead is faintly emitting light.Qingli could feel that the connection between herself and the Buddhist beads was getting closer.

Qingli looked at the hourglass and found that there was still more than an hour until lunch time.Qingli began to use Buddha consciousness to engrave the Diamond Sutra into the corresponding beads.Not every prayer bead requires a whole scripture to be activated.Some beads only need a part of a scripture to activate.At this moment, what Qingli is going to activate is a Buddhist bead with defensive function.Although activating it requires only one verse from the Diamond Sutra.But this time Qingli didn't dare to push her too hard.As long as she felt that her Buddha consciousness was a little weak, Qingli would stop and meditate.Fortunately, activating the beads does not require all the scriptures to be injected at once.Otherwise, Qingli doesn't know how long it will take to activate a Buddhist bead.

Stopping and stopping like this, until lunch time, Qingli reluctantly used his Buddhist consciousness to engrave a passage of more than 300 characters into a Buddhist bead.Seeing the golden light flashing across the Buddhist beads, which represented activation, Qingli breathed a sigh of relief.To be honest, in the novel, the law of strong spiritual consciousness of those who travel through rebirth does not appear in Qingli.The practice of Buddhism is to take into account both inside and outside, and practice the Dharma together.Buddha consciousness is also generally higher than one's own realm.But there is a limit to how high this is.At present, Qingli's state is at the second level of questioning Buddha, while the Buddha consciousness is at the fourth level of questioning Buddha.But Qingli clearly felt that her Buddha consciousness became more condensed after using Buddha consciousness to burn scriptures into Buddhist beads.Qingli understood that this was a good way to cultivate Buddha consciousness.Although every time she burns the scriptures, she can feel exhausted from the bottom of her spirit.But Qingli still decided to speed up the activation of the function of the prayer beads.

Qingli left the monastery half an hour after finishing lunch.She followed the route she took yesterday and arrived at the fourth floor of the Sutra Pavilion.Master Liao Yuan is the only one on the fourth floor of the Sutra Pavilion today.He was sitting on the futon at the moment, with a tea set on the low table in front of him.Qingli stepped forward and bowed with her hands together: "Amitabha, my disciple Qingli pays homage to the master."

"Amitabha." Liao Yuan bowed and bowed.Then he pointed to the other side of the short table, motioning for Qingli to sit down.Qingli sat on the futon on the other side.

Liao Yuan reached out and poured a cup of tea to Qingli.Qingli took it with both hands, and in the small cup, the tea soup was red in color, with a faint fragrance coming out.Qingli took a deep breath with some intoxication, and then took a small sip.With her eyes closed and the warm tea soup flowing down her throat, Qingli felt that the pores all over her body had been opened, which was extremely refreshing.Qingli opened her eyes in surprise, and took another sip of her tea.Then he looked at the master sitting across from him.

Liao Yuan smiled and asked, "How do you feel after drinking this tea?"

"Well," Qingli tilted her head and thought for a while, as if organizing her words, "Quiet and peaceful, quiet and at ease."

"Hahahaha," Liao Yuan laughed loudly, "tasting tea is like tasting a person. If you can taste this much, disciple, you are indeed a person of great wisdom."

Qingli still didn't understand that this tea was brewed by Liao Yuan.Even if the old monk in front of him is really as pure and pure as shown in the tea.His invisible boasting at this moment also made her unable to respect him.

Qingli said: "Master invited me, didn't he just let me taste your good tea art?"

Liao Yuan smiled and said: "This is just one of the reasons. My dear boy, you don't have any hobbies yet, do you? Seeing that you have reached the second level of Buddha in less than two months. If you continue like this, I am afraid that you will die before you are six years old." It’s time to get together. Hurry up and find a hobby to pass the time.”

The masters of other people's families want their disciples to hurry up and practice hard.Only the masters in Fahua Temple would advise their apprentices to find a hobby to kill time.If he didn't know the reason for this, someone else would definitely hate such a master.

Qingli finished the tea in the small cup in one gulp, and refilled another cup bluntly: "But hobbies are not easy to find. Yesterday I told Brother Qingtan that my hobby is beauty. But This is obviously not suitable for cultivation in the Buddhist sect. Do you have any suggestions, Master?"

Liao Yuan looked like he was waiting for you to ask: "My boy, is this tea delicious? Why don't you learn how to make and cook tea. This tea making and cooking can cultivate sentiment and temperament."

"Isn't this the only reason why I want to learn how to make and cook tea? The master should explain clearly what I have not said." Qingli looked directly at Yuan.

Clearly, Qingli underestimated the thickness of Yuan's skin.He smiled rascally: "The important thing is that the teacher likes to drink tea. The so-called disciples do their best. Anyway, you don't have any hobbies now, so let's just settle for it. And you love beauty so much, a beauty cooking tea is a scene in the world."

Hehe, Qingli just wanted to hehe his face.Sure enough, Fahua Temple is covered with black inside.The higher you go, the darker your belly gets.How could she expect her master to be virtuous?Sure enough, she still didn't practice enough, she was too naive.But after listening to the last sentence, Qingli's heart was moved again.

Don't look at Qingli's two lifetimes, the two lifetimes are quite Buddhist.In fact, she is a boring person inside.Although she doesn't think she is a peerless beauty.But she really loves beauty.Now that I am a candidate for Buddhahood, I have no hope of dressing up in this life.He clearly knew that Yuan's last sentence was simply fooling her.But Qingli still jumped into the pit willingly.She nodded: "So let's study first. If I'm really interested, I will definitely cultivate it as a hobby."

The one covered by the white beard.The corners of his mouth curled up: "So dear disciple, I will tell you about the tea scriptures today as a teacher. The innermost bookshelf on the first floor of the Tibetan scripture pavilion contains books on various customs and human relationships in the cultivation world, and the four arts of cultivation. You can also go and read Turn it over, there are also books on tea art in there."

Therefore, Qingli’s first afternoon of studying with her master was spent listening to her master’s lecture on the so-called Tea Sutra.Maybe she really has expectations for tea art, maybe it’s because Liao Yuan’s talk was too vivid.In short, Qingli began to develop her lifelong hobby on this day.

At Shenshi, Qingli followed Yuan to do evening classes in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.Then, she brought a few books on tea art recommended by Yuan, as well as the small red clay stove and tea set that Yuan gave her to practice tea cooking, and walked out of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion in a daze.She didn't wake up until she returned to the Buddhist monastery.Sure enough, the old monk's routine was deep, and she was fooled miserably.

(End of this chapter)