Chapter 99 Flowing strings are the past

The noon sun poured down through the tiles, with a slight warmth, sprinkled on my body, under the sun, I saw our figures, they were so different. Walking through the sparse corridor, the cool wind blows over our skirts, perhaps because of the lack of penetrating strength, the thick clothes are still ironed on the body, let the sun shine, and we still feel cold. Master Miaochen, who was walking in front, said with a smile: "You came in a hurry, and you didn't make any preparations. At this moment, you still ordered someone to clean up the wing room. First, sit in my meditation room and have a cup of hot tea. After the tidying up, you can go again." Have a good rest."

I walked to her side and said gratefully: "Thank you Mrs. Miaochen, I have to bother you for a few days." Master Miaochen said with a smile: "What are you talking about, the arrival of a few of you will make the small nunnery shine. Although the Buddhist gate is a pure place, it needs spiritual women like you to listen to the ten thousand dharmas that arise from the heart and the ten thousand dharmas. The Zen sound of returning to the heart." I thought in my heart, saying that before the Buddha, everyone is equal, but there are still differences between people. Many pilgrims who come to the nunnery, how many people can understand the ten thousand dharmas that arise from the heart, and the ten thousand dharmas. What about the Zen sound of Guixin?I just came with a pious heart, made a secular wish, and left in a hurry.What did you really bring when you came?What can you really take with you when you leave?

Walking into her meditation room, it is as neat and clean as ever, full of leisurely Zen, with a touch of tranquility away from the hustle and bustle.The Zen room is also warm and harmonious, burning charcoal and sandalwood fragrance, which makes people have a nostalgic fascination. Sitting cross-legged on the lotus futon, as if facing the clouds, drinking the fragrant snow tea of ​​plum blossoms in Cuimei Nunnery. The tea is more fragrant than Zijin City. Concubine Wu tasted it lightly, and said with a smile: "This tea is really pure and mellow. I used to taste Xiangxue tea made by sister Mei, and I only felt that it was like fine nectar and jade liquid, the best in the world. Now that I have tasted the tea from Master Tai, I know that there is a fairyland here. Fairy dew."

Xie Ronghua also nodded in praise and said: "It is indeed Yao Chi Xianlu, if you drink one cup, you will be able to wash away the worldly dust, and drink another cup, you will be able to get rid of the mortal bones." I laughed and said, "Could it be that after three lamps, you will become a Buddha and an immortal." Xie Ronghua nodded triumphantly: "Miaozai, that's exactly what I wanted to do. After taking a sip, I feel that my flesh and blood are frozen." Gu Wanyi took a sip quietly and said with a smile: "It's really extraordinary. Only by gathering the fairy bones of plum blossoms and containing the spiritual flowers of heaven and earth can you cook just such a cup of clear tea."

Smelling the elegant fragrance of tea, I nodded and said in praise: "Yes, compared to the tea in Yueyang Palace, it is really a bit more desolate and out of dust, with the subtlety of Zen and Buddha. My eyebrows are ashamed, this tea is still the teacher's wife A man of such strength can cook." Gu Wanyi immediately said: "Sister Mei, different occasions brew different tastes. Yueyang Palace has the style of Yueyang Palace, and Cuimei Temple has the Zen spirit of Cuimei Temple. Each has its own merits, but they all make people fascinated. Tasting Yueyang Palace The tea made by you will remind you of my sister's blue heart, icy muscles and jade bones. When you taste the tea from Cuimei Temple, you will realize the profound Buddhist teachings of Mrs. Miaochen, and the Taoist demeanor." Gu Wanyi's words penetrated deeply into my heart. Heart, I smiled at her, naturally there was a different kind of friendship in it.For some reason, it seems that she and I do not need to speak too much, but we can deeply feel the understanding.

Xie Ronghua clapped his hands and praised: "Wonderful, wonderful, what you said is really wonderful. Sister Gu's words also express what I think in my heart. The tea party at Yueyang Palace reminds me of Sister Mei's people. She is elegant and unconventional. And the tea from Cuimei An, with its dense Zen flavor, has an indescribable flavor, which is loved by both.” Master Miaochen, who was sitting on the side, smiled kindly: "All the beautiful women have gathered in Cuimei Nunnery today. The poor nun is very happy." I said with a smile: "Master is too much of an award. It is everyone's wish to gather together to sit and drink tea with Master. This wish has come true today, and we are also filled with indescribable joy and gratitude in our hearts."

Concubine Wu nodded happily: "Yes, I have been looking forward to such an opportunity for a long time. In the past few days, I will definitely follow my master to worship Buddha diligently, read scriptures and listen to Zen, and live up to this hard-won time." Xie Ronghua smiled: "I suddenly thought of coming here on a lotus boat and leaving on a lotus boat. This should be such a beautiful artistic conception." I lowered my eyebrows and smiled slightly: "Among the people who come and go, who is a passer-by, and who is a returnee?" The teacher looked at us and said with a smile: "Leaving is a passerby, staying is returning to others. In fact, everything depends on you. Whether to go or stay depends on your own heart, so you can choose whether to pass by or return to others."

Concubine Wu took a sip of fragrant tea and smiled lightly: "My life is destined to be just a passer-by in the nunnery. My home is in Zijin City. I can't leave there. My soul, my dream, and my life live there. Everything. I just want to be a silent passerby of Cuimei Temple, come and go, leaving nothing behind.” Xie Ronghua thought for a while, and said: "Everything is optional. Passing away and returning home are the same for me. After staying and comprehending, it is enough. In the days to come, at least I will have a little memory. I just need to rely on this faint memory to keep warm, and I have no regrets."

Gu Wanyi nodded in agreement and said: "I agree with what Sister Shutong said, as long as I rely on the faint memories to keep warm, I will be satisfied. I dare not ask extravagantly for the rest." Seeing the sandalwood incense wafting around, and the whole room filled with a strong fragrance, I said intently: "What is the smell of the incense? What is the color of the smoke? What is the shadow of the lotus? What is the state of Bodhi?" Shi Tai replied peacefully: "There is no color, no taste, no shadow, no border. Listening to the stringed sound of the flowing water and watching the bright moon pass by, everything is illusory."

Concubine Wu sipped the fragrant tea and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it's Zen leisurely, and the realm I've been longing for can only be found here." She turned to look at Mrs. Miaochen: "Master, I haven't seen you for a few years. You are more beautiful than ever. Fully realized." Master Miaochen said with a smile: "The poor nun has lived in Cuimei Nunnery for a long time, and the old things in the world of mortals have been forgotten. If you don't fully understand it, you will fail all these years and fail my Buddha's compassionate heart."

I smiled and said: "The Buddha will not be let down, and ultimately it is only myself who is let down. When the teacher chose to come to Cuimei Nunnery and often accompany the Buddha, she must have experienced a lot of life changes, and also experienced a lot of struggle and thinking. Only then will there be the wisdom that is now settled." Master Miaochen waved his hand lightly: "Where does the wisdom come from? Just stay away from the sinking world, and gradually fade the vicissitudes of life into the eyebrows in tranquility, and it has become what it is today." Gu Wanyi smiled at Master Miaochen and said: "This is very good, quiet and calm, pure and far away." After she finished speaking, she turned to me and said with a smile: "Sister Mei, do you know? Just now when I first met Master, there was a very special kind of a feeling of." "Oh, what does it feel like?" I asked. Gu Wanyi replied: "I was shocked when I first saw the teacher. She has an aura very similar to yours, that undeniable elegance. And the charm between your eyebrows is also very similar, as if there is an unfathomable relationship between you and me." source of measurement." I smiled and said: "Really? Then I am really lucky to have this fate with my teacher. When I first met my teacher, I also felt a sense of intimacy, and I also thought there was a relationship. As for the unfathomable, it seems a little mysterious and Blurred, but I believe in this feeling." The teacher held a string of wooden rosary beads and said with a kind smile: "Yes, this is fate. In fact, not only Miss Shen and I, but you also have a very similar place, but you don't know it." Xie Ronghua agreed: "I believe that if there were no similarities, we would not have come to Cuimei Nunnery together today, let alone have the opportunity to kneel down and make long-cherished wishes together." Concubine Wu took a sip of fragrant tea and smiled: "Yes, I prayed for five hundred years or even longer in front of the Buddha before I could have such a kneeling together. I don't know how many years I asked for before I passed by once? " Gu Wanyi replied: "It will take at least a hundred years, maybe it's not enough. But there are too many passers-by passing by every day. If we don't live in the palace, how many people will we meet every day? Just rubbing Shoulder to shoulder, no one may recognize anyone when we meet again." I proudly said: "I am only a guest, not a returnee." Concubine Wu looked at me and smiled and said, "Sister, sometimes things are beyond your control. When you want to be a guest, you end up being a guest. When you want to be a guest, you can only be a guest." .” The teacher smiled: "It seems that you can all practice Zen, and your words contain Zen meaning. If you live quietly in Cuimei Nunnery for a few months, you must surpass the ten-year pure cultivation of a poor nun." I replied bluntly: "Master, you are joking again. A few months have been worth more than ten years to you. I am ashamed that I am not as good as you for decades. The most rare thing is a state of mind. In the turbulent world, we must be consistent with our words and deeds." , is indeed too difficult." Xie Ronghua nodded: "Yes, besides, we can stay in Cuimei Nunnery for a few days, kneel down to listen to Zen, and light a stick of incense, which is already very satisfying. After all, we are just passers-by here, and we are destined not to return home. " Gu Wanyi looked at Xie Ronghua, and said: "Sister, there have been too many changes in life. I think the teacher came to the nunnery back then, and she didn't expect that she would belong to others. She also thought that she was just a passer-by in front of the Buddha, but she walked in I’m here, and I can’t leave it again.” I can’t leave it anymore, I remembered what the Buddha said to me, if I come, I can’t leave it again, I suddenly believed this, because the Buddha has the ability to attract people’s hearts. The charm of the bone gives you peaceful wisdom and detached tranquility, which makes people nostalgic.Gu Wanyi is really a smart woman, it seems that among the four of us, she sees it the most thoroughly. Concubine Wu said in an almost affirmative tone: "I won't, because I am already a homecoming elsewhere, and my home is Zijin City. I am willing to give all my youth and have no complaints or regrets. I want to be brilliant there, and perish there." I smiled and said, "Okay, I know Sister Xue will say that, I appreciate your determination, your determination not to change." In fact, Concubine Wu has revealed it to me many times, and I know that she is true in this life. She was bound by Zijin City, because she found a man for whom she was willing to devote her whole life, and this man was Chunyi. The teacher said calmly: "Everything follows fate, the result of forcing may not be the result, and the process of omitting may not be the process. In the future, you will understand, and I may not understand enough, but I believe that in the end One day, the Buddha will tell me everything." The teacher's words are always so profound, and I also feel emotional after hearing it, but at this time I want to keep silent because I have lost a better language. Everyone fell into silence, a young nun knocked on the door and said to the teacher: "Master, the guest rooms of the benefactors have been cleaned up, please let them stay and rest." We got up one after another, each feeling a little tired, and wanted to go back to the room to rest first. The teacher said: "The poor nun will take all the benefactors to the wing room first, rest for a while, and then order you to eat vegetarian food." Following Mrs. Miaochen, we walked to a row of tidy wing rooms at the back. Because it was the Spring Festival, there were many pilgrims who came to the nunnery, and many people passed by like this. I couldn't help but think of the conversation we had just now. After moving in, what should I do in Cuimei Temple?