Daoist Abandoned Wisdom

Lanterns were hung on both sides of the streets in Jizhou city, illuminating the road brightly.Anan sent them to a bright place, then turned and walked back to the dark outskirts of the city.

After Anan left, they walked forward for a while, and Abo looked at Tao Xinian hesitantly, with an expression of wanting to say something but not being able to say it.

"What do you want to say, say it quickly..." Tao Xinian narrowed his eyes and looked at the lantern in the distance.

"Well... we don't have much money left, so don't be so kind as to give this and that..." It's been the same way all the way, and Tao Xinian will give them a hundred and eighty money if they have money difficulties. Money, but today is unprecedented, throwing out a tael of silver directly.

"Got it, I won't give it indiscriminately. Today is an exception. Their life is not easy. Even if it is a tael of silver, they won't last long. In that case, it might be better to die. But..." If he treated Anan like this Said, too hurt his heart.

Before he finished speaking, a lot of people suddenly appeared at the far corner of the street, old and young, although they were dressed in different clothes, they all held lotus lanterns in their hands, lined up in a row, bowed their heads, chanting words, as if they were chanting scriptures .Walking on the road, they put lotus lamps on their foreheads, as if praying.Someone sang sutras, which were faintly passed on. Tao Xinian listened to it for a while, and it sounded like the "Lotus Sutra".

Walking to an open and flat place, the people formed a circle and held the lotus lantern in their hands.Followed by monks in gray robes.They carried a huge lotus seat with cyan lotus petals and red lotus heart, on which sat cross-legged a monk in a crimson cassock, like an eminent monk.

Tao Xinian always felt that the eminent monk was a bit strange, his back was straight, his body was stiff, his lips were tightly shut, his face was blue and gray, like someone who had been ill for a long time.If he hadn't seen his little finger move slightly, he would have thought that this eminent monk was already dead.

Just when he was thinking about what was so strange, the scene in front of him was shocking.I saw all the monks set up the firewood pile and put the monk's lotus seat on the firewood pile.Immediately, the believers knelt down one after another, bowed their heads in worship, and chanted a name, Tao Xinian thought, it should be the name of the eminent monk.

A monk lit a fire, and the wind was strong at night, and the fire spread rapidly, trapping the monk in the fire.

Abo screamed: "Master Dao, they...they are burning people!"

Tao Xinian looked around, many pedestrians on the street stopped, knelt on the ground, and participated in this cruel event.

Buddhism does not advocate killing, but in some scriptures it mentions the cultivation method of sacrificing one's life. In the Lotus Sutra, there is a record of the Medicine King Bodhisattva lighting a lamp as an offering to the Buddha.

This is the first time he has seen this extreme cultivation method.He also came into contact with Buddhism in Liang State, but none of the Buddhist practitioners he had contacted practiced in the way of sacrificing their lives. They only burned their bodies with fire after death and returned to dust.

Abo covered his eyes, the scene in front of him was like hell.Tao Xinian hugged his shoulders, walked through the worshiping crowd, and walked towards the small courtyard he rented, but the scene just now appeared in his mind.

He saw it.In the fire, the monk tilted his head to one side in pain, his lips were still tightly pressed, and there was a trace of blood on his lips. Soon, his whole body was engulfed by the fire, and only a faint figure could be seen.

He knew what was strange.That person was not at all voluntary.

The body is stiff because it is nailed to the rosette and cannot move.The red lotus heart and crimson cassock can cover up bloodstains.The lips were tightly pressed, but blood was bleeding in the fire. It was because the lips were sewn up, and the lips cracked and blood flowed after struggling hard.

The believers are not stupid, they can tell whether the eminent monk who sacrificed his life is alive or dead; but they are not smart enough, they can't see whether the person who sacrificed his life is voluntary or designed by others.

But it was too late, and no believers found out.Besides, even if that person wasn't incinerated and impaled, he wouldn't live long.

What a horrible nightmare.

"Master Dao, the people here are too scary, right? The monks here...why are they like this?"

Tao Xinian murmured: "What happened here is too unusual, I'm afraid there is a ghost."

Abo nodded emphatically, and said, "There must be a ghost! They seem to be bewitched. It's so cruel to go to see it when it's so scary..."

"Enang Enang!"

A few donkey brays pierced the sky, and several nearby families surrounded the small courtyard he rented. Tao Xinian's scalp was numb, and he thought of an important matter.

"It's broken, I forgot to feed Huahua before going out!"

The next day, Tao Xinian slowly ate the breakfast made by Abo, changed into a thin shirt and went out to wander around.Recently, the sun has become more and more poisonous, and he wished to put on an umbrella when he was walking on the street, lest the sun hurt his eyes.But after thinking about it, it was weird for a man to hold an umbrella on a sunny day, so he gave up on it.

"What are you going to do today?" Abo yawned and followed behind him.

"Look for the Taoist temple in the city. The Tianshi Daochang Conference is held in Jizhou, so the Taoist temple here must be very powerful. I will go to visit the Taoist friends first to see how the Taoist Taoism here is."

When Tao Xinian said this, Abo also felt somewhat excited.Unexpectedly, I asked a few people along the way, and no one knew where there was a Taoist temple nearby.

This is really strange.

Finally, I asked a local old man to find out the address of the nearby Taoist temple. After walking for nearly an hour, I finally found a Taoist temple outside the northern suburbs.The Taoist temple was built on the hillside, hanging on the mountainside, hidden in the woods, it was very shady, and the plaque in front of the door had the words "Xuanmiaoguan" written on it.

Tao Xinian lingered outside the door for a while, feeling that something was wrong, so he lowered his body and peeked in through the hole in front of the Taoist temple.

Yes, this Taoist temple is so broken that the gate is broken in several places. The biggest hole is the size of a bowl, enough to fit a grown man's fist.Looking left and right, it seems that this Xuanmiao Temple is not comparable to his Qinglong Taoist Temple except that it occupies a slightly larger area.

He looked inside and saw a white thing floating around.He opened his eyes wide, what on earth is this?

Just when he was about to take out the ghost exorcism talisman, the door of the Taoist temple creaked open, and a Taoist man in white stood in front of him.

Tao Xinian stood up straight, saw the person in front of him clearly, and didn't dare to guess the age of this person for a while.If this person only looked at his appearance, he was about the same age as him, handsome, with a gentle face, but his black silk had completely turned into white hair, hanging down to his waist.

Could it be the tall man with white hair and childlike face in the legend?

"Since you are here as a guest, why doesn't this guest come in and have a seat?" The man made a gesture of invitation, with a gentle smile on his lips, seemingly lifeless.

Tao Xinian was a little ashamed, and said: "This Taoist priest, you really offended me. Just now I saw this Taoist temple living in a remote mountain, surrounded by desolation, I thought no one lived there..."

He followed the man to the Taoist temple, but he didn't expect the inside to be more dilapidated than the outside, but fortunately it was clean and tidy.The statue of Laojun in the main hall is new, offering fruits and incense.The white-haired Taoist led Tao Xinian into the living room, and the two sat down at the low table.He brewed a bowl of tea for Tao Xinian, there was no tea in it, only a few kinds of petals, the aroma was tangy, quite special.

Tao Xinian took a sip, the taste was fragrant and sweet aftertaste, he thought that if he had no money to sell tea in the future, it would be great to drink some dried flowers soaked in water.

"This guest must be a Taoist. I don't know how to call the guest?"

"Jian Su" is this person's dao name, and at such a time, he must report his dao name.Tao Xinian bit the bullet and said: "My surname is Tao, and my Taoist name is Qizhi." He pointed to Abo again, "This is my disciple, Abo."

"Abandoning wisdom, does it mean 'absolutely abandoning wisdom'?" Jian Su smiled slightly.

This was the first time someone told the origin of his dao name, and Tao Xinian couldn't help being secretly moved.

"The Taoist name of Taoist Master Jiansu must have come from 'Jiansu Baopu'?"

Jian Su said: "Exactly. I don't know where Tao Taoist priest came from, and why did he come to my Xuanmiao Temple?"

"See Daoist Master Su, have you heard that Jizhou will hold a Daoist Dao Dao Dao Conference on the sixth day of June?"

Jian Su frowned slightly, and said, "I heard about it a little, but I don't know who is undertaking it."

"Is there a bigger Taoist temple nearby?"

Jian Su shook his head and said, "Many people in Jizhou believe in Buddhism, but this is the only Taoist temple."

Thinking about what he saw and heard yesterday, he believed that what Jian Su said was true, and most of the people in Jizhou believed in Buddhism.

"That's really strange. Northern Tianshi is the most authentic place in Songshan, Hecheng, and Luoyang, and there are more people who practice Taoism. Why do you want to hold the Tianshi Taoist Daoist Conference here in Jizhou?"

"Pindao really doesn't know, and I'm also very curious about who released the news."

"To be honest, Taoist Master Su, I came from Nanliang. I wanted to experience the Taoism of Bei Tianshi, so I traveled thousands of miles north to arrive here. I only found out about this because I received the invitation from the Jizhou Daochang Conference in Jiankang City by chance. Announcement, although I felt that it was a bit strange to set up a dojo in Jizhou at the time, but I couldn't hold back my curiosity and wanted to come and have a look."

Jian Su nodded and said: "It's no wonder that people in the north know that Northern Celestial Masters are the most prosperous in Songshan, Pingcheng, and Luoyang, so they will not come here easily when they receive news. Except for the practitioners in these three places, there are practitioners in other places. People come here especially for their reputation. Yesterday I met a Taoist who traveled from the south to the north like Taoist Priest Tao. He should still be staying in Jizhou City at this time, living in Yueke Residence. If Taoist Priest Tao wants to meet Taoist friends, you might as well go to Go and see..."

Abo was a little sleepy at first, and after listening to Tao Xinian and Taoist Jian Su's eye-catching conversation, he fell asleep on Tao Xinian's lap, snoring slightly.

Tao Xinian wanted to poke him twice, but seeing Su shook his head, telling him not to wake up Abo, and asked softly, "Humancao?"

Tao Xinian was startled, seeing that Su could recognize Abo's real body at a glance.He smiled and said: "Yes, I picked it up from the mountain. If you don't practice hard enough, you won't be able to transform into a human form."

The author has something to say: See (xiàn) Su Baopu, from "Lao Tzu".It has the meaning of showing its true nature and not being restrained by foreign objects.

It turns out that cassock is also a harmonious word, I don't know it...