Chapter 9 8. Mind cleansing scene

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Racine took us to a small garden near the hotel. The garden is very beautiful, with dense forests, and there are several white palace-style buildings hidden in the depths. It is very quiet, and the humid air smells like flowers. It makes people want to pack a bag in a plastic bag, and the scattered small floor lamps are shining yellow halos, hitting the wall covered with green vines. On a terrace in the middle of the garden, there are two rows of futons. An old man in local Nepalese clothes is sitting right in front of him, waiting for us with his eyes closed. White gauze hangs around the terrace, and a candle is placed next to each futon. The flames fluttered flickeringly, although it looked a little godlike, but it did have a sense of solemnity.

Everyone took off their shoes according to Racine's instructions, and sat down on the futon one by one. They were all guys who had not exercised for a long time. The sound of bones being folded was ear-piercing. After each sat down, Racine sat on the side of the old man devoutly. The old man opened his eyes and looked at us. "Welcome everyone to come and practice emptiness meditation with me. Today, I will lead you to explore the peace of mind." Racine began to help the old man translate. Everyone's faces were eager to try, including Wang Can, but because he drank alcohol, his body swayed uncontrollably on the futon. , also rolled over a burst of unknown foot odor, faintly lingering around us.

The old man said another sentence, and Racine then helped us translate: "I am a Buddhist and have practiced for many years. Nepal is a country dominated by Hinduism, but it is also the birthplace of Sakyamuni. I chose to convert to Buddhism because Einstein once said: 'If there is any religion that can meet the needs of modern science, it may be Buddhism...'” This famous quote is really cross-disciplinary. The old man went on to say: "I believe in science, so I believe in Buddhism. Next, let's start the spiritual cleaning before meditation. I will ask you a question first: You came to Nepal, the spiritual country, through the guidance of your own soul. ?"

The big sister group and the stormtroopers nodded one after another. The strange thing is, apart from me, Wang Can didn't nod. The Zen master naturally turned his attention to the two of us, and Racine asked the old man, "Then why did you come to Nepal?" I looked into the eyes of the Zen master, not sure if the gods were above me, and whether I should lie or not. After a compromise, I decided to keep the answer as concise as possible: "I was going to go to another place, but I didn't make it, so I came to Nepal." .” After Racine finished translating for me, the Zen master nodded expressionlessly, not knowing whether he was satisfied with the answer, and then looked at Wang Can: "What about you?"

Wang Can looked up ignorantly: "Huh?" "Why did you come to Nepal?" Wang Can was stunned for a moment, with a misty expression on his face: "This...you can't lie to Master, right?" This Racine nodded for the master without needing an interpreter. Wang Can thought for a while, then spoke. "I came to Nepal because I was forced to fuck." With a strong sense of alcohol, Wang Can started a long stand-up performance, telling his teacher about the reason why he was forced to come to Nepal. Four months before coming to Nepal, Wang Can was planning to get married. He was 28 years old at the time, and his marriage partner was a few years younger than him.

"He looks good, but there are a lot of things." As for the conditions of the two families, Wang Can's original words were, "My dad is a stupid rich man, his dad is a coal boss, and the two met playing golf. In the golf club, the members are almost all rich locals. They all play very badly, but they make appointments every week to play for two purposes: one is to talk about business, and the other is to sell their sons and daughters. , the old men on the green are absent-mindedly playing golf while showing photos to golfers, which is basically a money-burning version of a white-collar blind date in the world."

"I've been talking with my girlfriend for half a year, and I said it's time to get married, so let's get married. Anyway, I'm pretty good at playing. The fortune teller said that my dad is not in good health this year, so I just take it as a blessing. I don't care about women. It’s not that important. For me, Wang Can, for us men, what is the most important thing in this life? Friends! Loyalty!! Brothers!!!” When Wang Can said this, he stood up from the futon, walked unsteadily to the Zen master, and put his shoulders on his shoulders to continue spraying. Fortunately, Racine helped him back to his original position in time.

"Right, master, am I right? Who can prove that you have lived in this life? What can prove that you have lived? There is only one thing! My friend! When you are old, seventy or eighty, call me When you have a fucking heart attack when you sneeze, you feel deserted, make a few phone calls, a group of old men tremblingly come, fight the landlord for a long time, sleep at my house at night, I want to live this kind of life, this kind of life, only friends Can it be given to you, wife and child? I guess I can't count on it, so my girlfriend has done a good job in this, and she doesn't care about me, so I'm happy to get married. "

Just like that, the wedding date is approaching, Wang Can still hangs out with his buddies every day, fighting landlords, connecting with Warcraft, and flying abroad to drink red wine and go fishing every now and then. , looking for girls wearing black silk and fake fur, "The nightclub is simply a wholesale market for this kind of girl, you can get as many as you want, sometimes it's delicious, and you can hug it, but because everyone else is like this , I don’t do that, people think I like men, if my brothers guard against me, this misunderstanding is not worth it.” The first dispute before marriage happened over the issue of wedding invitations. The fiancée is a wedding enthusiast. She may have been thinking about how to marry herself since she was five years old. In order to get married in the church, she ran away at the age of eighteen. I went to believe in Catholicism, and the two had occasional appointments before marriage, and it was Wang Can who listened to her rambling, what kind of flowers should I order, and whether the wedding dress should be in the A line or the mermaid style.

One day when we were talking about invitations, my fiancée brought a thick stack of them, all kinds of them, some of which were three-dimensional hearts after opening, some of which were garlands, and some with scents, all in such a mess that Wang Can’s scalp felt numb. "Which one should I choose?" his fiancee asked him, "You decide for yourself, this thing is a bitch, how can I give you an idea." Two days later, the two went to a friend's wedding. Next to him, his fiancée was playing with the invitation card of the couple, and began to mutter: "Actually, the invitation card with our photo is also good..." In order to change the subject, Wang Can He asked casually: "Hey? Why do you think they get married on weekends? It's the same, no creativity."

His fiancée replied to him at the time: "You treat everyone like you. You don't usually go to work. Everyone has a job. You plan to get married on a weekday. Why do people miss work for a day to attend your wedding? Who cares. " The fiancée is a sensible person, but she didn't expect that her answer would bring Wang Can a spark of inspiration. A few days later, Wang Can came with a box of invitations, so beautiful, he threw out one to his fiancée: " I designed the invitation." The fiancée was pleasantly surprised at the time, but when she took the invitation and saw it, her face froze. The design of the invitation card is concise and to the point, there are no garlands, no scents, and no photos of the two of you. On the cover is a round red sun with two large characters in the middle of the red sun: The wedding is scheduled for this Wednesday and whoever comes is a true friend. The fiancée had a cold war with Wang Can for a long time because of this terrible invitation, "I don't understand, I don't get involved in so many things about the wedding, you can mess around as you like, I just want to make something new with the invitation, why not?" What if it doesn't work?" Wang Can insisted not to change the invitation, saying that he wanted to use the invitation to prove to his friends that their Master Can would not go back to the countryside after marriage, and the fiancée would forget it later, but after all, he still felt awkward until the wedding that day. As a result, the day before the wedding, something happened, and it also happened to Wang Can and his group of friends. Two days before the wedding, this group of people were playing in a nightclub, and the girls from the Black Silk Women's Army asked what happened recently Seeing that Wang Can came out to hang out together, my friends said, Lord Can is getting married, and has been sent to another miserable world. When the girls heard this, they were not happy. If you say you get married, you will get married. Before that What's the matter with the little hugs we drank?Although this group of girls hang out in the night market every day, they are a group of children who grew up drinking Baijia wine, and they don't have high hopes to marry a rich second generation in this kind of place, but when they come out to play, they all pay attention to personal feelings. , You withdrew as soon as you said, you didn’t hold our hand and shed tears, you didn’t express the most basic reluctance, and you were on guard against us, isn’t this too ignorant of nightclub manners? The girls got more and more angry, went to the bathroom to make up their minds, decided to vent their anger, returned to the box, and started drinking the group of people, and set out the time and place of the wedding, planning to harm Wang Can. On the day of the wedding, at the request of the fiancée, all the female guests were required to wear light pink attires. "Princess is sick, there is no way." Come on... oh, Hello Kitty! - as if you are going to get married". But as soon as Wang Can arrived at the scene, he was stupid. The black silk women's army wore black fur and black gloves, and one of them wore a hat with a black veil. They all looked very retro, with flaming red lips. Sitting in the auditorium, looking around, a group of black widows are pierced in a field of pink birds and flowers, as eye-catching as possible. Standing beside the priest, Wang Can's feet were limp, and the female legionaries didn't make trouble, but just sat quietly, looking at Wang Can with tender eyes, Wang Can glared at his buddies, and the buddies also They all expressed their helplessness with sad eyes, and the eyes of the whole church fluttered for a while, all of them were acting school. The choir sang hymns, the door of the church opened, and his fiancée walked in holding his father's hand. Wang Can stood in front of the altar and prayed to the priest: "Let her concentrate on walking forward, don't look left, don't look left Look……" But the fiancée still saw it, the key was the hostile gaze of the female legionaries, and the fiancee couldn't help but look for the source of the line of sight, the fiancee later described the gazes of the female legionaries to Wang Can on the phone: "Master Can, you are so happy! " After being attacked by the eyes of the female army, the fiancée walked more and more slowly, and the expression on her face changed from excitement and nervousness to a kind of numbness that could not be slowed down. When she was about to walk over, Wang Cansong With a sigh of relief, he stretched out his hand gratefully, ready to take his fiancée over from her father. But at this moment, the fiancée suddenly whispered something in her father's ear, and her father nodded calmly after listening. We were about to reach the altar. The priest stood on the stage and spread out the Bible. Everyone's eyes were on Wang Can. At this moment, the fiancée and her father turned around and walked back. Wang Can His hand froze in mid-air for a second, and he almost rushed up to grab her with a lunge. The choir couldn't react, and continued to sing the wedding carols. The priest stood on the stage with his mouth half open. The surrounding people didn't know what was going on. Only the father and daughter were still keeping pace with the music. One footprint, down-to-earth, back to the original path, all the way out of the church, at this time, the singing stopped, and the audience was silent. "In this world, there are a few weddings where the woman asked her father to hold her hand, strolled to the groom's eyes, and turned back! Hey, and then f---ing strolled out again! What a morning walk!" In the subsequent telephone negotiation with his fiancée, his fiancée told him frankly: "I told my dad at the time, Dad, I don't want to end this marriage. Is it too late to regret it now? My dad is not stupid or blind. I should see I saw it all, so he took me back and walked back. Let me tell you clearly, I will definitely not end this marriage. My dad was going to rent a tank to bombard your house, but I persuaded him. So you can be content, just treat it as being returned." Wang Can, who had lost face in front of his friends, had not yet healed the wound in his heart, and faced ups and downs in life again. After half a month, his father was finally willing to talk to him, "My old man said that I , 'You can even do such a bad thing, there must be something wrong with your life, your father and I have an elementary school education, what is wrong with you, I can't sum it up, you went to college, think about it yourself Go,' I thought at first I would just bow my head and admit my mistake, and the matter would be over. I didn’t expect him to be really angry this time, and his credit card was also suspended, and he didn’t answer the phone. In short, it’s my son who doesn’t plan to The posture of asking for it." Later, when I was drinking with a buddy, my friend had an idea and gave him an idea: "Didn't your old man ask you to find the meaning of life? You go to India, India is not so special about temples? Take more photos of temples." Send the photo of the entrance to your father, saying that you have meditated at the entrance of this temple for an afternoon, and you have understood a lot of life principles, and you have deeply realized that you have problems. Of course, don’t brag about being awesome. , your father must also understand that you don't have the roots of great enlightenment, so you can talk about it casually, as long as you get the meaning, it should be over." Wang Can pondered that this was feasible, but he didn't want to go to India: "I'm the most annoying Indian." "Then go to Nepal, a small country, it sounds more ascetic." "Okay, let's go to Nepal." Wang Can decided that, because the credit card was blocked, so this trip was invited by a friend, but judging from the current standards, this friend should always be stingy, so that's all. , Wang Can came to Nepal. After listening to Racine's translation, the Zen master had a complex expression and pondered for a long time. "Master, look, I have made friends with you, and I am not afraid that everyone here will laugh at me. In fact, I just want to ask you: I know I am wrong, but where am I wrong? Look at me, One is not harmful to people’s hearts, and the other is righteousness. My brain is not full of strings. What evils from the previous life? You said that if I buy some bastards and set them free, will it work?" The Zen master's expression was subtle for a while, but he finally spoke. The translated words are: "People feel stupid because stupidity temporarily covers your mind with a layer of dust. It doesn't matter, there will always be a day when it will be blown away by the wind." After hearing this, I think Zen master is too polite. For ordinary idiots, it is ignorance that casts a layer of dust on the mind, but for Wang Can, it should be ignorance that has covered his mind with a vegetable greenhouse, right?It is still the kind that is airtight and has constant temperature and humidity all year round.