Chapter 4 Chapter 2 Man is a form, and so is a stone

Bupin expected to see something weird and inexplicable in his heart, but he didn't see anything. Although the people in the room, even if they didn't move at all, seemed inexplicably weird, there was nothing special about it. He looks at Eun-ji suspiciously, and Eun-ji gestures to him, pointing forward. Bupin looked at what he was pointing, while still thinking: What did he tell me to look at?If there was something weird in the room, I should have seen it. His line of sight touched the thing that Enji was pointing at, and he still didn't know what he was looking at. He asked him to look at that thing.

Bupin has seen that thing, but he still doesn't understand what he wants to see. There is only one possibility, that is, that thing is too inconspicuous and too ordinary. That's right, at this moment, what Bupin saw was too ordinary. It was a rock. If you ask a stupid question: what is the most abundant in the Himalayas? The answer is: stones!The whole mountain is full of stones. Therefore, seeing a stone in the mountains must not attract any special attention. But what Enji wanted Bupin to look at was a stone. Bupin stared at the stone. He couldn't see anything special about the stone, but he was sure that everyone's attention was focused on that stone.

The blind lama wriggled his hand against the stone, and it looked as if he was facing the stone and casting some great supernatural powers and spells. The two standing upright had a strange light in their eyes, staring at the stone, as if trying to see through it. The person lying on his side rested his chin on one hand and put the other on the ground. Only then did Bupin notice that the four fingers of his hand lying flat on the ground were bent, and only the middle finger was stretched forward, pointing at the stone. . The three sitting upright, their hands are also in a very special posture, with one finger pointing at the stone.

From this, it can be proved that they are studying that stone in this room. And that stone—it should be described in detail, how should I put it?A stone is just a stone. It is irregular, about half the height of a person, and has a slightly cubic shape. There are many stone corners and cracks. Those cracks in the wall are quite deep, forming holes of different sizes and shapes. There is really nothing more to say about it, it's just that kind of a stone. Bupin stared at the stone for several minutes, trying to figure out what was different about it.But a rock is always a rock. Bupin looked at Eunji again, and saw Eunji looking at him too, full of hope, obviously hoping that he would have an answer.Boupin had to make a very apologetic gesture.He wanted to say something, but the atmosphere in the room was so solemn that he couldn't make a sound.

However, Bupin didn't have to say anything at all, his expression and gestures had already explained everything.Enji was immediately disappointed and shook his head slowly.Boupin gestured to him again, asking if it was okay to leave with him so he could talk. Eunji nodded resignedly, took a step back, and opened the door. The strong wind made the candle light sway again, and the shadows of the stone and several people also swayed on the four walls of the room, which seemed very strange. As soon as Enji and Bupin came out, they closed the door, and Bupin immediately asked, "God, what are you doing?"

Enji didn't answer immediately, and brought Bupin back to the original small room. Bupin sighed: "You study classics, Buddhism, nature, and even everything in the spiritual world. People all over the world know that you have extraordinary wisdom, but God, there is just a stone in that room." Enji didn't refute Bupin's words. After he finished speaking, he said: "Do you know how this stone came from?" Bupin was angry: "Did it fall from the sky?" Enji was not angry, but shook his head: "No, no one knows how it came from." Bupin said sincerely: "Master, this is a mountainous area, and there are rocks everywhere in the mountain."

Enji was still shaking his head, and Bupin didn't say anything more. At this moment, he was sure of one thing: the stone must have a rather unusual origin, otherwise it would not have attracted their attention.He waits for Eun-ji to say it. Enji paused for a moment before saying, "Just now, did you see Lama Gongyun?" Bupin pointed to his eyes, instead of asking "Is that the blind man?" Eunji nodded.Bu Pingcai said: "I heard that Master Gongyun is the person with the highest wisdom and the oldest qualifications in the teaching." Enji said: "Yes, I don't know how old he is, and he can't even say it himself. I only know that when the Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia became the emperor, he sent people to welcome him to preach, but he didn't agree."

(Buping doesn't know the year when the Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia claimed to be the emperor. It's no wonder that he is just a mountain climber, not a historian. Even if he was, he would not pay attention to such a remote historical event. The small event in history that the Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia proclaimed himself emperor happened in 1921 AD.) Enji continued: "Grandmaster Gongyun is a wise man respected by everyone. The monks in our temple don't have many chances to see him. If you can get a word or two from him, it is the supreme Glory, so, that morning, when the bell rang in the room where he was sitting in meditation, the people in the whole temple were overjoyed, and everyone immediately came outside his meditation room and waited quietly."

Bupin took a breath, and Enji explained: "The ringing of the bell has a special meaning. It means that he is going to speak to the people in the temple. We all thought that he was going to speak. That is a great happy event." Bupin said "hmm" to express his understanding, and motioned for Enji to continue talking. Everyone, please note that in Bupin's narrative, there is Enji's narrative.That morning, in Master Gongyun's meditation room, what happened after the ringing of the bell was narrated by Enji. Narrative within narrative, it might seem like it might cause a little confusion, so let me clarify.

All the monks, big and small, from the top to the bottom of the Sanboqi Temple gathered outside Master Gongyun's meditation room, and stood respectfully with their hands folded.They came so fast, the ringing of the bell calling everyone out from the meditation room seemed to be still rippling and never dissipated. Not long after everyone stood there, the door of the meditation room opened, and Master Gong Yun walked out slowly.Several high-ranking masters in the temple, including Enji, went forward to meet him. Master Gong Yun has been blind for a long time, everyone knows, but he doesn't need anyone's support, he just raised his hands to tell the few people who are going up to him not to move forward.

Everyone held their breath, ready to listen to his speech. Looking under the sun, every wrinkle on Master Gong Yun's face was so obvious, representing the traces left by the years. Master Gong Yun didn't wait long before he spoke, "A miraculous messenger has come to the temple, and I want to invite him to come to me." He spoke slowly and clearly, and everyone who looked at him could hear him clearly. However, after hearing his words, everyone was stunned. They were not surprised that Master Gongyun could know what happened in the temple without leaving the meditation room.Everyone believes that Master Gongyun has magical abilities, can know things that many people don't know, and can foresee many mysterious things. It's strange, just because there is no "magic messenger" in the temple.The temple is not very big, if anyone comes, someone must know about it. No one came from the temple at all, but Master Gongyun summoned all the people in the temple to meet the person who didn't exist, which made people feel extremely strange. If this situation happened in another place, everyone's first reaction must be that Master Gong Yun made a mistake.But because the master's status in everyone's mind is so lofty, "Wrong" and him have long been insulated, so everyone was just surprised, and asked each other with winks, but no one dared to speak out. Master Gong Yun said again: "Please come to me." At this time, everyone was not only surprised, but also a little scared.The master insisted that someone is coming, what's going on?Among them, still no one thought that the master might be wrong, it was just a kind of extreme astonishment. After a while of silence, Enji stepped forward and whispered, "In the temple, no outsiders have come recently." The wrinkles on Master Gong Yun's face moved together, which showed that he was excited. Everyone who saw this situation was even more surprised, and some even chanted sutras secretly: this situation is too abnormal. But fortunately, the master immediately returned to normal, and said very calmly: "He is here, I know he is here, you don't know, I know, he... I am..." After the master spoke, he seemed to be muttering to himself, with a very low voice.But since everyone was holding their breath and listening, it was very quiet, so he could still hear what he said. When he spoke here, he paused for a while, as if he was thinking about where "he" should be. Then, after a short pause, Master Gong Yun stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "He is there, bring him here." Everyone looked in the direction he pointed. The place he pointed was a wall, and Enji said cautiously: "Master, that is a wall." Master Gong Yun smiled: "What is a wall?" Enji was stunned for a while, unable to answer, Master Gongyun said again: "There is no wall at all! Go!──" Enji was startled again, and suddenly rejoiced: "Yes, thank you for your guidance, Master." As he spoke, he hurried forward, and when he came to the wall, several people followed him and supported him, and he climbed onto the top of the wall. Enji's status in the temple was quite high, it was a very funny thing to jump over the wall all of a sudden, but with Master Gong Yun's two words before it, no one would find it funny. As soon as Enji climbed over the wall, he was suddenly stunned. He has been in the Thornbridge Temple for more than thirty years, and he is very familiar with everything in every corner of the temple. At this time, he leaned against the wall and saw a small courtyard. On the left side of the yard is a house where scriptures and calligraphy utensils are placed, and in the middle of the small yard is an iron-cast incense burner with a long history, all of which are familiar to Enji. However, right next to the censer, there was something that should never be there, a big stone. The stone was nearly half a person tall, quite large, and appeared in this small courtyard, quite an eyesore, and Enji had never seen it before. After he stayed for a while, he heard Master Gongyun ask: "Is he there?" Enji couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Master, it's just a rock, a big rock." As soon as Enji said this, the others were also stunned. Everyone knows that there is a small courtyard beyond the wall, and the small courtyard is very clean, not even a single fallen leaf, let alone a big rock. But Eunji said it so seriously. Just when everyone was astonished, Master Gong Yun said loudly: "A man is a form, and a stone is also a form. Please come here and see what he wants to say to me." En Ji was on top of the wall, and was taken aback when he heard Master Gong Yun say this.He has been in the temple since he was a child, intensively studying various Buddhist theories. In many cases, the Buddhist principles are difficult to comprehend. A very simple question can be pondered for a long time, and he keeps thinking about it. Often it takes ten or eight years without a conclusion. But often under the guidance of the seniors, in one or two sentences, I got comprehension. En Ji did not pay attention to the second part of Master Gong Yun's words, because the first part, "Man is a form, and a stone is also a form" has already made him fall into deep thought, thinking about the profound meaning contained in this simple sentence. Master Gong Yun, who was blind, looked up with a wrinkled face, waiting for Enji to make a move.But what about Eunji?Climbing on the wall in a daze.Another lama approached the wall and gave Enji a push: "Master wants to invite guests." Enji lost his voice: "There are no visitors, only a stone—" When he said this, he suddenly stopped. Didn't Master Gong Yun already talked about it just now?A person is a form, and a stone is also a form. They are all forms. It is the same whether it is a person or a stone. Master Gongyun said that there are visitors in the temple. The stone was not there before, but now it suddenly comes. , of course that stone is the visitor, why bother to care about whether the visitor is a human or a stone. Once he figured this out, he was full of joy and agreed loudly. He shrugged and climbed over the wall. When he reached the small courtyard, he first bowed to the stone, but then he couldn't help being dazed. Although people and stones are both bodies, if it is a person, Enji can take him to the front of Master Gongyun, but stones cannot walk.Enji tried to lift it, but of course he couldn't lift such a big stone. Eunji tried to push again, but couldn't. At this time, several lamas climbed up to the top of the wall. They were also extremely surprised when they saw the big stone.In this small courtyard, there was never such a big rock in the first place, this is something they can all be sure of. As soon as Eun Ji saw them, he quickly waved to them, signaling them to climb over the wall. More and more people crossed the bridge and came to the courtyard. When there were eight people, they could barely push the boulder, but it was still very difficult to move the boulder to Master Gong Yun.The eight people discussed it, and Enji returned to Master Gongyun: "Master, that stone is very big and heavy. If it is convenient for the master... it is best to go to the stone...." Eun Ji stuttered and mustered up the courage to speak out the last sentence.Master Gong Yun has a high status. Usually, he never leaves the meditation room, and it is a great honor to hear his voice through the door. But now, to invite him to go in front of a stone, even Enji himself I feel like I'm asking too much.Sure enough, he had just finished speaking, and quite a few people were already angry.But Master Gong Yun didn't express anything in particular, he tilted his head, thought for a while, then nodded, and stretched out his hand. Enji let out a breath, took his hand and walked forward.Although there was only a wall between the small courtyard and them, Enji couldn't take someone as prestigious as Master Gongyun to climb over the wall, so they took a detour. Enji supported Master Gongyun to move forward, and all the lamas followed behind, forming a small procession. This is a rare event in the Sanboqi Temple. There are still a few in the temple. All the old lamas who were meditating in his own meditation room also came out, and the order of advancement in the ranks was arranged according to their respective status. After a while, they arrived at the small courtyard together. As soon as they entered the small courtyard, Master Gong Yun suddenly shook, raised his hands, and stopped walking. As soon as he stopped, the people behind him couldn't move forward. Those with lower status stopped before they even entered the yard, so naturally they couldn't see the big rock. After Master Gong Yun stopped, his lips trembled, and he murmured: "Where did you come from? Where did you come from?" He said, and walked forward slowly, until he came to the big rock.He stretched out his hand first, and pressed lightly on the boulder.Then, he stood still, and several old lamas with higher status in the temple also stepped forward and surrounded the big rock.At this time, not only the people with lower status had an unclear expression on their faces, but even the old lamas were completely confused. Their surprise was due to the fact that they had no way of knowing how this boulder came from on the one hand, and on the other hand, they didn't know why Master Gong Yun seemed to be so serious about this boulder. Master Gong Yun's expression was very serious, and he kept repeating a sentence: "I know you want to tell me something, tell me, just tell me." He repeated forty or fifty times before he fell silent.All the people, still baffled, an old lama asked, "Master, how do you know it's going to tell you something?" Gong Yun raised his head: "I feel it." Zen monks all attach great importance to sensations. Some of the abilities that can be called supersensory are born with it, and some are acquired through practice and comprehension. If Gong Yun's answer is spoken elsewhere, it may cause refutation, or it may be laughed at, as he is talking nonsense, but if he speaks it here, no one will doubt it.There is an extra boulder here, but no one has discovered it at all. If Master Gong Yun hadn't told everyone, no one would have known. Therefore, the old lama who asked the question sighed lowly, ashamed that his super-sensory ability was not as good as it was. Master Gong Yun said again: "It brought information from the spiritual world, I know it must have brought information from the spiritual world—" When he said this, he took a deep breath: "If you don't want to tell me now, please come to the meditation room to discuss it in detail." After saying this, he turned around and walked out.At this time, Enji asked: "Master, should you move this big rock to your meditation room?" Gong Yun suddenly laughed. When he laughed, the wrinkles on his face moved, forming a pattern that seemed full of mystery. He smiled and sighed again: "If it is willing to tell me , why bother to move it?" Enji didn't understand very well. Just now the master said that the stone should be brought to his meditation room, but now he said it was unnecessary.Enji is not in a hurry to understand it. It is a good thing to have a question that you can't figure out for meditation in the leisurely time in the temple. As soon as Master Gongyun walked out, the procession followed, until Master Gongyun returned to his meditation room, the old wooden door was slowly closed, and he was still standing outside the door.Master Gong Yun's voice came from inside the door: "Stay away, don't bother our visitors, it seems that it is still a little...a little..." Master Gong Yun didn't say what happened to that big rock, but just repeated it several times, and then he sighed: "There are too many things that I don't understand between heaven and earth." Master Gong Yun's words really shocked everyone who heard it.Even Master Gongyun has things that he doesn't understand, let alone other people. Everyone is thinking in their hearts: It is extremely difficult to reach the level of Master Gongyun. From this we can see that there is no limit to learning. Therefore, after everyone dispersed, their hearts were very heavy, even the little lama was no exception. Most of them went to their respective meditation places on weekdays to sit down and meditate. Because of this, they must do their assigned work, so they cannot meditate quietly, but they can also work and think at the same time. Under such circumstances, no one paid attention to the big rock.It wasn't until the next afternoon that Enji thought of the big rock. When he went to the small yard, he couldn't help being stunned for a while: the rock was gone. For a moment, Enji didn't know what to do. The stone was gone, which meant that the visitor who brought the news from the spiritual world, which Master Gong Yun said, had already left. This is a big event and should be reported to Master Gong Yun immediately.But no one dared to harass Master Gongyun's retreat, so Enji first consulted with a higher-ranking lama. As a result of the discussion, it was unanimously decided that it was still necessary to tell Master Gongyun about this matter, so Enji and the three old lamas came together outside Master Gongyun's meditation room. Before Enji could speak, he yelled, and then he yelled. Before he could speak again, Gong Yun's voice came from the room: "I know why you are here, go." Enji was a little anxious: "Master, that stone—" Master Gong Yun's voice came out again: "The visitor has not left, he is in my meditation room, go, don't disturb me." Upon hearing what Master Gongyun said, Enji and the three old lamas couldn't help being stunned. How is that possible? This big rock, eight people exhausted their strength, could only shake it slightly.If it is to be moved to Master Ye Yun's meditation room, at least thirty to fifty people must be mobilized, and a lot of tools must be used. If stones were moved in the temple, there is absolutely no reason for Enji not to know that he is the actual abbot of the temple!The three old lamas probably didn't know about it, because they were meditating in their own meditation rooms.Therefore, the three old lamas looked at Enji together, with doubts and inquiries on their faces. Enji hurriedly said: "No, no one in the temple has ever moved that... visitor." For a moment, they didn't believe that the big rock was in the master's meditation room.This kind of suspicion is a great disrespect to Master Gong Yun!If it weren't for Master Gong Yun's lofty status, they would have opened the door of the meditation room to see what happened. Either that big rock is really in the meditation room, or Master Gong Yun is lying. It is impossible for Master Gongyun to lie, and it is impossible for that big rock to go to the meditation room by himself. One of the two impossible things must happen. The expressions of Enji and the three old lamas were extremely puzzled. They stood in front of the meditation room for quite a long time before leaving full of doubts. In the next few days, the Sanboqi Temple was as peaceful as before, and no one talked about this matter again.Everyone knows that it is so profound that even Master Gongyun doesn't understand it, and other people will waste their efforts in thinking about it or talking about it. On the tenth day, the bell rang again from Master Yun's room.Same as last time, the whole temple went up and down, and gathered outside the master's meditation room. After waiting for a short time, the door of the meditation room opened. As soon as the door of the Zen room opened, everyone was stunned. Although the light outside is strong and the light in the meditation room is dark, you can still see clearly. There is a big stone in the master's meditation room. It is certain that it is the one that suddenly appeared in the courtyard ten days ago. All the monks in the He Temple were present, and everyone knew that he had never moved the big rock. Unless Master Gong Yun really had supernatural powers, otherwise, could the rock move by itself? Everyone held their breath, and it was extremely quiet, so when Master Gong Yun stepped out, the ruffling sound of his clothes was a bit surprising. Master Gongyun appeared to come out of a corner of the meditation room, and he appeared at the door.Everyone was even more surprised, more wrinkles appeared on Grandmaster's face, in the past ten days, he seemed to have aged a lot. He stood still at the door and raised his hand: "I can't understand the message from the spiritual world. I want some people to help me meditate together." After he spoke, there was silence again, and he said again: "Who will meditate with me?" The silence was even worse, no one made a sound.Who can do what even Master Gongyun can't do?Master Gong Yun waited for a while, and then said: "No need to shirk, I may not be someone who has a chance, maybe some of us can understand what the visitor wants to tell us." The whisper broke, and there were two old lamas, walking forward.Except for these two old lamas who are also very qualified, the rest dare not move at all, for fear that if they move, they will be mistaken for being overconfident and trying to understand things that even the master can't understand. The two old lamas came to the door of the meditation room. Master Gongyun turned sideways to let them in, then closed the door again, and everyone dispersed. After that time, the bell rang again, and it took another ten days. When everyone gathered in front of the meditation room, the door opened, and first the two old lamas walked out without a word, their heads bowed. Master Gong Yun followed behind them, and one could tell from the expressions of the three people that they still had nothing to gain in these ten days. Master Gong Yun announced: "Go and ask the masters of other sects and tell them that I invited them to use wisdom together to understand the information from the spiritual world." Originally, the masters of various sects had quite deep differences. They each had their own comprehension and opinions about Buddhism, and they did not communicate with each other on weekdays.However, those who sent out to invite all received affirmative answers, and the masters of various sects all agreed. Firstly, it is naturally due to the great reputation of Master Gong Yun, and secondly, "messages from the spiritual world" are exactly what they have dreamed of and the biggest wish in their lives. As long as there is even a chance, they will not let it go. As a result, in the Sanboqi Temple, the situation that Bupin saw when he went there appeared. Obviously, after gathering so many masters, there was still no result, so Bupin was also invited to participate in meditation.As soon as Buping saw that it was a big rock, of course he was baffled, so he withdrew immediately. Enji's narration of the origin of the big rock and what happened in the temple to Bupin came to an end. Although Bupin recounted Enji's narration, he didn't really believe in Enji's words. He said: "The big stone weighs at least three tons. It is unreasonable to assume that it rolled down the mountain and just rolled into the courtyard. It is still possible to assume that the stone will automatically go to the master's meditation room. There is no way to explain it, I think it must be that blind master called dozens of people to move in in the middle of the night, and told the people who moved to not say anything." I thought for a while, then shook my head and said, "It's hard to say, a three-ton boulder suddenly appeared, this matter itself is already mysterious enough." Buffin said, "You're thinking of—" I said: "The most logical explanation is naturally that big rock fell from the sky." Bupin opened his mouth wide. I said: "This is more reasonable than your explanation of rolling down the mountain. Although a stone rolling down the mountain is a common phenomenon, it must hit the wall before it rolls into the yard. Unless it hits the wall, it will jump." In the past—this kind of assumption is even more ridiculous. It fell from the sky and was hung down to make it fall in the yard." Bupin snorted: "The stone has weight, from what height do you assume it fell?" I waved my hand: "You're mistaken. I'm not saying that the stone really fell from the sky. I just said that the saying that the stone fell from the sky is more logical than rolling down from the mountain." Bu Ping snorted: "It's not logical at all. How could Master Gong Yun insist that the big stone is a messenger from the spirit world and will bring information from the spirit world." I laughed: "That's right, actually, what is the 'spirit world'? It's a very vague term. What does the 'spirit world' represent? Another world? Another space? Heaven? Hell? Only I’m afraid that even Master Gongyun won’t be able to tell, so if you ask him, he will at most tell you that the spirit world is the spirit world.” Bupin was very surprised: "How do you know?" When I heard him ask me that, I knew he had something going on in the Temple of Sandbridge that he hadn't told me. I laughed and said, "Anyone can say a few words about this kind of words full of so-called Zen ideas." Bupin thought for a while: "At that time, after Enji told me how the big stone appeared in the temple, I was full of doubts——" Bupin was full of doubts, and he asked Enji: "Why is the master sure that the big stone brought information from the spirit world?" Enji said: "That's the feeling of a master." Bupin shook his head and said, "It doesn't make sense. Since he has such a feeling, then the messenger from the spirit world should tell him the information immediately." Enji frowned: "you made a mistake, of course you have told him." Buping was even more puzzled. Looking at Enji, Enji sighed: "But the master can't understand the meaning." Bupin blinked, but still didn't understand, Enji said again: "Those masters in the meditation room have all got the information, but they don't understand it." Bupin laughed and said, "I don't understand anymore. I got information about everything, but I don't understand it." Enji glared: "It's like a person who told you a sentence, or you don't understand his language at all, or you understand his language, but you don't know what he means." Bupin nodded: "I understand. The master just asked me to go into the meditation room, indicating that I might really have a chance. Just now, I was too hasty. Please let me go again, maybe I will understand." Enji looked at him for a long while before saying, "Okay, wait for me." Eunji walks away.Boupin waited anxiously.At this time, Bupin asked to go to the meditation room again, just out of curiosity. Bupin can be sure: these Tantric masters are by no means pretending to be ghosts, but truly wise and eminent monks. There is no need for them to lie to others. What they say and do has some truth to them.