[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

I suddenly remembered that Houzi said, "My old grandson just doesn't have the same knowledge as the Jade Emperor, so I don't want to care about it, otherwise..." Otherwise, he didn't say it at that time, but I think this time, maybe he really didn't want to bear it anymore. stop.

That's right, the monkeys I know don't seem like people who can swallow their anger.I think so.

Another hundred years passed in a daze, my back injury healed a bit, those dead trees were also plowed out and new ones were planted, and there were still nine thousand and one peach trees in the flat peach orchard.

In the past hundred years, I still desperately absorb nutrients and absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, but it is no longer for flowering and fruiting, but for cultivating a human body.But the time has passed so long, I don't remember much about the monkey, I only remember the day when the celestial horse broke into the Peach Garden, he was wearing a golden armour, his feet were on the auspicious clouds, and he looked over deeply when he swung his stick down.

I thought I was relieved, even if he was tortured by ice and fire under the Five Elements Mountain, it had nothing to do with me anymore.

Until that day, the Jade Emperor, Donghua, Beitai, and Wenchang suddenly came to visit the garden, along with Jin Chan and Maitreya from Xitian. They talked under me and mentioned the incident of monkeys making trouble in the Heavenly Palace. I just realized that in these years, I didn't have a moment where I didn't want to see him again.

Jin Chanzi asked if they were going too far in doing this, and he couldn't bear to press the monkey down the mountain.

The Jade Emperor stroked his beard, glanced at me, and shook his head in embarrassment.

Maitreya Buddha clasped his hands together, said "Amitabha Buddha", and said another six words——

Time, luck, and fate.

These six characters are the most mysterious six characters I have ever heard in my life, but where is the "mysterious" and "mysterious", when I understand it, it will be a matter of a lifetime.

Next, Emperor Wenchang swung his hexagram tube to divination a hexagram. The Jade Emperor and Maitreya said a few more obscure Zen words when he analyzed the hexagram, mentioning "common life" and "calamity". I'm in a fog.Jin Chanzi stood silently at the side, clasped his hands together, and chanted sutras devoutly.

Monkey once said to me that Jin Chanzi's ideal is to save all sentient beings.

I looked at Jin Chan's thin shoulders and lonely expression, and thought to myself, how can such a frail and thin person be able to bear the weight of "all beings of the Three Realms"?Just thinking about it makes people feel distressed.But his eyes are full of compassion and tenacity, making people believe that under his seemingly fragile appearance, there is a heart filled with great love.

I admire Jin Chan, but I start to miss Monkey.He is the opposite of Jin Chan. The world has only seen the majestic, proud and uninhibited Grand Sage. Only I have seen monkeys showing a little fragility after being drunk.

"How is his recovery from the injury on his waist?" When I was looking at Jin Chan in a trance, Maitreya stretched out his hand to cover the broken part of my branch, pouring some spiritual power into it.

The Jade Emperor said: "It looks like it should be all right now, I'm afraid it will happen again. And the scar left by the fracture will not go away for a while."

"Scar..." Maitreya pressed the belly of his thumb on my waist, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "This is easy to say, I have a band here, you can use it." After speaking, he took out a belt The gold hoops of five small bells were stuck at the opening of my waist.

I looked down and saw that the ring was reddish gold, but it could be big or small, and it could change according to my mind.Now it is put on my waist, about the thickness of the mouth of a bowl, and wider than two fingers. On the one hand, it can cover the scars, and on the other hand, it can also help me fix the bones that have just recovered. It is a good thing!

"Thank you, thank you Buddha!" ​​I bowed gratefully.

"It's so good." Maitreya touched my branch lovingly, and said with a smile, "Remember, this thing is called 'Prajna', and its bell can dispel the animal nature and hostility of all animals. It may be useful to you..."

"?!" I was taken aback, this old monk is talking to me?Can he see me?And... this golden bell... is a magic weapon?But I am a tree, what can I do if I need a bell that can tame all beasts?

"Hey!" I was about to ask clearly, but when I looked up, I saw that Maitreya and the Jade Emperor had already left.Jin Chanzi watched them go away, lifted the hem of the cassock, and sat on the ground at my feet.

His eyes are empty, I don't know where they are, and I can't see what he is thinking, but the posture of him leaning on me is the same as when the monkey showed him the golden cudgel that day.

I have heard that "meditation", "entering concentration" and "cultivation of Zen" are compulsory courses for Western Buddhists, but I did not expect that Jin Chanzi has practiced these three subjects to the peak of his proficiency, and he can sit next to me. In the same posture, I remained motionless for three whole days without taking in a drop of water or eating a grain of rice.If a young novice came to call him away three days later, maybe he could sit there until the end of time.

"You really deserve to be the second eldest disciple under Tathagata, and your realm is extraordinary." I praised sincerely, sitting on a thick branch, resting my chin in one hand, and swinging my legs back and forth like a swing. I kicked my legs a few times, but felt something was wrong.

I am a piece of rotten wood, where did my legs and feet come from, and where did my hands come to support my cheeks? !Immediately, I was covered in white sweat by myself. I looked down and found that at some point, my spiritual consciousness had cultivated into a human body, and I was sitting on a branch in the appearance of a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy.

I was overjoyed, and was about to jump off the tree and go to Wuxing Mountain to look for monkeys, but found that my range of activities was only on that tree, and I couldn't leave at all. Only then did I realize that I was just a fuzzy spirit body with no In the physical body, you can't see the specific appearance, and you don't know whether it looks good or not.

"Hey, Uncle, is that how you practice?" I frowned, stretched my neck and asked an old tree next to me.

It was a wild wolfberry tree, older than me, and it existed before I came to Pantaoyuan, and I have been practicing it all these years.According to himself, he fell in love with a wild salamander tree at the north end of the garden, and he always wanted to talk to him, but he couldn't get far away, so he thought that after he could cultivate, he could pull his legs and feet out of the mud nest| Come out, walk over and express your heart to others.

"Don't ask me, my realm is not as high as yours!" said the old tree, and asked again: "It is because I am old that I finally found a girl I like, and I am in a hurry to confess, you are so young , and don’t engage in dating, why are you in such a hurry to practice?”

"Isn't it superficial for you to say that?" I said, "Although I don't talk about partners, I have ideals! I want to realize my ideals! If Shusheng has no ideals, what is the difference with Xianyu?"

"Come on!" The old tree poured cold water on my head unceremoniously, "Salted fish, it's still a salted fish if you turn over."

"..." I was speechless for a while, and rolled my eyes at him with my mouth pursed.

"Hahaha, I'm just kidding you." The old tree laughed and said, "It's a good thing to have ideals. You're still young and you work hard. Unlike me, when you get older, you just want to find a wife to live with. Yes Now, what is your ideal?"

"That..." I twirled my fingers, tilted my head and thought about the demeanor of the monkey that day, raised my chin, and vowed: "My tree-born dream is to one day become like the Monkey King, with his feet on the clouds and his body covered with auspicious clouds. The unrivaled hero with golden armor that everyone is looking forward to!"

"The Great Sage Equaling Heaven?" The old tree was taken aback, and asked, "Didn't he be crushed by the Tathagata Buddha under the Five Elements Mountain 100 years ago?"

"That's right..." I blinked my eyes and said helplessly, "That's why I want to cultivate a human body as soon as possible, leave the soil, leave here, and go see him again."

"You want to go to the mortal world?" the old tree hesitated.

I nodded and sighed: "Yes, but the cultivation is too slow. Now I'm just a spirit body. Not to mention leaving the peach garden, I can't even leave my physical body, this tree."

The old tree said: "Actually... I have a way, but it's been a long time, so I don't know if it's good or not."

My eyes lit up, and I said, "Tell me and listen."

"Since you can't live without this tree, why don't you take it with you to the lower world?" The old tree said, "You just need to find a way to uproot the tree, and jump off it."

"This idea is to be honest..." I thought about it for a while, and said leisurely: "It's a bit rotten..."

That night, there was a tornado and gust of wind for no reason in the Pantao Garden, which destroyed many flowers, plants and trees in the garden.

All living beings avoid it if they can, but I, this tree with a crooked neck, which looks unbearable to blow, sticks its neck and stretches its head, begging the wind god mother-in-law to blow it hard.

Just listening to "click——", the ground under my feet split several feet radially, exposing tens of thousands of small and soft rhizomes.Taking advantage of the strong wind, I hastily pulled the roots and branches out of the soil.However, there were a few side roots as thick as a baby's arm that were deeply rooted and connected to my lifeline, and I couldn't pull them out no matter how hard I tried.

The old tree poked its head out from the shelter, saw me pulling out the roots, and said in surprise: "You are really stupid, you want to cut off the roots and go to the lower world?! I just said it casually during the day, don't take it seriously, if this method It really works, I have used it long ago, why bother to practice here?!"

"..." The strong wind blew me so that I couldn't stand upright. The thickest root was exposed|exposed to the outside, and it was about to break.

"Children, don't be stupid! We are trees! If a tree has no roots, it will surely die!" The old tree was kind-hearted, even though he was bent over by the strong wind, he still shouted at me: "Go and bury the roots!" Alright, about going to the lower realm, let’s think of a way later!”

"Why didn't you say that earlier?!" I hurriedly picked up rocks, mud and other objects to bury myself again. At this time, the wind increased, and the sound of "click!" broke my lifeline.

"Ouch!" I wailed, my eyes turned black from the pain, and I was swept into the air by the wind. Before my consciousness disappeared, I could vaguely see that there was a half-broken tree root in the tree pit where I was staying, and burst out several times in an instant. The golden light cut through the hazy night sky and illuminated the entire Pantao Garden brightly.