Chapter 48 A girl from the Hou family of Xiuhu, lying alone next to the ancient Buddha with blue lanterns

It has always been believed that listening to Sanskrit music, reading scriptures, and understanding Buddhism requires a certain level of cultivation in life. Only after experiencing all the vicissitudes of life and hiding all the joys and sorrows in an unknown corner can one comprehend the profound artistic conception.However, many monks and nuns who have become monks may not have seen through the world of mortals and realized their destiny. Some of them are fateful arrangements, some are helpless in reality, and some are impulsive.But no matter what it is, it means that they have a predestined relationship with Zen Buddha, so in the dark, that lotus lamp will guide them into the door of Prajna.

What is Zen?On a cool morning, I watched an old man pick dewy jasmine in the yard; on a long afternoon, I watched a group of ants working hard in the corner of the wall; Returning slowly from the mountains and rivers; it is the process of looking at a single lamp in a quiet night, gradually turning from bright to dim. Speaking of this solitary lamp, it reminds me of another woman who became attached to Buddha.Xichun, the fourth miss of Jia's family, Jia Zhen's younger sister, and her father, Jia Jing, are all about alchemy and don't care about everything.Her mother died young, and she has been growing up beside Jia Mu in Rongguo Mansion, and has also developed her withdrawn and indifferent character.Her fate was determined by Cao Xueqin's verdict, like a life drama, from then on it can only be performed according to the script until the end.

Volume 7 of the fifth volume of "The Twelve Beauties of Jinling" depicts an ancient temple with a beautiful woman sitting alone reading scriptures. "Three springs are not long, and the black clothes are changed from the old makeup. Poor embroidered house Houmen girl, lying alone next to the ancient Buddha with the blue lamp." This is the destiny of Xichun, far away from the embroidered households of the Houmen, often accompanied by the blue lantern Ancient Buddha.In my impression, Xichun is just a little girl, when she first appeared, it was said that she was born with "not enough stature, so she is still small".Later, she didn't appear many times in the book, and she always seemed to be faintly hidden in a corner that was not noticed by others.Like a grass that is afraid of wind and rain, it dare not go into the world, dare not enter the vulgar, and has a strong sense of self-protection.

Every time the poetry club joins the poems, she doesn't write outstandingly, as if she just wants to make up the number, and follows behind to make fun.What impresses people is that she knows how to paint, and was once ordered by Jia's mother to paint "Pleasure in the Grand View Garden".Although everyone discussed her paintings and paints, brushes, rice paper, etc., but nothing happened in the end.The place where she lives is called Ouxiangxie, nicknamed Ouxie.Lotus root, related to lotus, is a thing with Buddha nature.Xichun is like a green lotus that hasn't had time to bloom yet, she abandons the dust when it is in bud, leaving behind her unfinished paintings and a life she never really started.

The book said she was a "cold-hearted and cruel-hearted person".During the inspection of the Grand View Garden, Sister Feng took Wang Shanbao's family and a group of people to the courtyard where Xichun lived, and when they found the "contraband" that her maid had put in the painting box, she not only refused to help and defend, but Instead, he urged to beat, kill, or sell her, and take her there quickly.She said: "The ancients said well, 'Good and evil live and die, and father and son can't help'... I just know that it is enough to keep me, and I don't care about you." .I am innocent and alone, why did you teach me badly!" Saying these words at such a young age, the hearts of those who heard them couldn't help but feel chilled.

Is Xichun's coldness innate?She deeply understands the turbidity of the world, and she wants to be innocent and clean, and she doesn't want to be contaminated by anyone or anything.To put it simply, she is a cowardly and selfish person, and her ruthlessness seems to have been carved into her bones.She can only build a ruthless city wall in her heart to protect her cowardice.With her weakness, she couldn't bear these things, so she could only let her go.The reason is that she has a close relationship with Miaoyu.Miaoyu is a nun with hair and practice in Changcui Temple, and she is a very savvy and spiritual woman. She is sober and transparent, and understands the world.

Xichun likes Buddha, and Miaoyu gradually passed on her detached thoughts to Xichun, letting her understand the fragility of the world and the ugliness of the world.However, her comprehension is not as good as Miaoyu's, and what she realizes is only some simple truths, thinking that ruthless escape is detachment, but she doesn't know that the real detachment is to keep one's heart out of things.Indifferent to all the ups and downs of honor and disgrace, if she truly realized the state of Zen Buddha, she should have a calm and compassionate heart, instead of treating a maid who grew up with her so coldly.

In the first book, Xichun has two close friends, one is Miaoyu, and the other is Zhizhier, a little nun from Shuiyue Temple.Xichun once said in half-joking, half-serious way that she would shave her head and become a sister-in-law with Zhizhi'er.Maybe when she said this, she had planned to be as ruthless as ice and snow.It's not because she has only cold blood in her bones, but she understands that in this Jia's mansion, she can no longer expect the warmth she wants.Rather than being hurt in the future, it is better to hide in the cocoon weaved by yourself as soon as possible, and wrap yourself tightly in a criss-cross pattern with the ruthless silk threads of the years.She would rather die of suffocation in her own cocoon than let others do her any harm.Such a cold little girl makes people feel sad, deplorable, and pitiful.

Xichun wiped out Shaohua with her own hands when the peach blossoms and willows were green, because she knew that neither young peaches nor pink apricots could survive autumn.Before the building of Jia's mansion collapsed, she chose to become a monk. No one's persuasion could change her firm mind.She saw Jia Yuanchun being sent to the palace, where his youth and life were ruined in that "unseen" place.She saw that Jia Yingchun was forced to marry Zhongshan Wolf, and within a year, she was tortured to death.She saw that Jia Tanchun was a man of great ambition, but he couldn't resist the arrangement of fate. Like a kite with a broken string, he was carried away by a sailboat and left his hometown.Too many tragedies have made her disheartened about life, and her only way out is to lead to Buddhism.Only this door is always open for her, willing to accept her, and give her a place to live for the rest of her life.

She took off the silk and satin, put on a dark black gown, removed the rouge and pearl hairpin, and shaved off three thousand threads of trouble. She wanted to be a thorough nun.The Jia family that gave birth to her and raised her has nothing to do with her, and even Miaoyu disappeared in the end, she is not moved by it.Alone beside the ancient Qingdeng Buddha, chanting sutras and meditating, being a cold-hearted little nun.In the continuation book, it is written that she lived in Changcui Nunnery, replacing Miaoyu, and guarding the few red plum plants for her, accompanied by a Zijuan maid who lost her master.It is said that her fate was more pitiful than this. She was wandering in the streets and alleys, begging for food in black clothes, and had a hard time.

Although Buddhism is a pure land, it is only for those who have fully realized the Zen state.What is Zen? Zen is flowers blooming in spring and leaves falling in autumn.Zen is a simple smile, a peaceful look.Zen is coming and going, opening and closing, together and going out.