On the first day of New Year's Day, I went to Xi 'an, visited the Caotang Temple, entered the mountain, had dinner, and talked at night around the stove.
Eager and full of expectation.
1, to Xi 'an
Midnight 1 1: 58, arrive in Xi 'an. The weather is mild.
Four translation fields, six ancestral courts, the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, the ancient rhyme of the imperial city, thick and rich! Cultural achievements, who else?
The first lucky thing when I came to Xi 'an was that I was going into the mountain alone. Just when I panicked, I heard the good news that a fellow initiate from Xi 'an went up the mountain. Accompanied by Tian, a "noble" with a Cantonese accent, everything became calm and I could enjoy the mountain scenery along the way.
2. Visit Caotang Temple
From the first stop to Caotang Temple near Zhong Nanshan, one of the four translation venues, Master Kumarajiva's Dojo is not much different from ordinary temples except for its great background. Near the end of the year, only the monks in the temple are busy sorting out the tributes. After several halls, time was pressing, so I hurried to Nanshan.
3. Enter the mountainous area
At about 10, I started walking up the hill. The scenery is charming along the way, and there are bursts of birdsong from Shan Ye. The original road through the jungle, snow-covered, quiet and refreshing. It really deserves to be "the first monk in the world, and the south is the crown"! Before I arrived at the hut, my heart was cool and comfortable!
4. main meal
At noon, I met [seal] (abbreviation) and a fat big brother Hai who was working. After the tea break, everyone lights the stove, sets the tribute, prepares the lunch, and finishes the work. At about 1 in the evening, the New Year's Eve dinner began, and Yang, an old mage and hermit from other huts, was also invited. We chose the most convenient way-vegetarian hot pot.
Yin Shi has been here for more than four years and has never seen Yin Shi before. We once converted to the same master, which is destiny takes a hand. Of course, monks and nuns can't call each other brothers, but also call him master, although it is far less strict and formal than in temples. Indians can be described as solemn, with big foreheads, big noses and deep eye sockets. He looks firm and deep, somewhat similar to Dharma in the portrait. "Don't close the door until you get out of the mountain." Not everyone is qualified to close the mountain!
The 73-year-old wizard later walked into his hut and found that he didn't even need a stove. After going in for a while, I began to feel cold all over, but the old mage who only needed one meal every day was flushed.
There is also a hermit Yang, a famous actor, who often visits and supports him. And Pang Bai, a director who has been working. His self-directed film won the Vancouver Red Maple Leaf Award and was later directly called the director.
Many hermits who practice in Zhong Nanshan have no strict boundaries between Buddhism and Taoism, and pay more attention to the correctness and transparency of their own opinions! Pay more attention to the cognition and practice of cosmic life! In short, when Sakyamuni was alive, he never said he was a Buddhist, Confucius never said he was a Confucian, and Lao Tzu Zhuangzi never said he was a Taoist. These factions were formed by later generations in order to maintain a pure inheritance, and the emergence of this faction has also revealed certain drawbacks with the passage of time. However, isn't any worldly law both positive and negative? ! It is only reflected in different degrees in different periods.
5. Night talk around the stove
At 6 o'clock in the evening, sitting on a piece of incense, the printer also made a general understanding of everyone.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the night talk around the stove began. In addition to all kinds of anecdotes in the mountains, more were revealed by Indian teachers. This time is also a good opportunity to solve some inner doubts.
Bodhi Avenue certainly does not die, but it is also convenient to close the door. Therefore, for those who are interested in practicing, a good place of specialization is still very important, including the Taoist practice of "making friends and making wealth". Of course, for ordinary people in the world, no matter where they live, it is the beginning of important practice.
On the second day of the lunar new year, there are tea ceremony, guqin and whistling.
If you lose something, you will gain something.
The bamboo forest in front of the house is drizzling, and the dense rustling is wonderful. In the silent valley, it has a unique charm.
After breakfast, I am stretching my muscles. Suddenly, two tourists came, and their faces were slightly turbid. Later, they went into the house to chat with the Indian teacher who repaired the land, and left without entering the meditation hall at noon, leaving oil and rice.
I happened to find a hard thorn about a foot long in the house, which looked like a long needle used to knit sweaters earlier. It turned out that the porcupine thorn was found near the hut. I couldn't help but gasp when I saw this scene when I was looking for a signal last night. It turns out that the ecological protection on this mountain is good, and there are many exotic animals and plants, but they will be far away from human beings. Moreover, there are more than 5,000 hermits on this mountain, which seems to have formed a powerful army.
In the afternoon, two fellow initiates came, including Min Tong Guqin, who was good at painting and calligraphy, and even poetry and songs. They went to Tibetan areas to learn to paint Thangka, so their leisure during the retreat expanded from tea ceremony to guqin and whistling. And Min's calligraphy, chess, poetry and so on. There are many * * * on the same topic.
On the third day, Chinese New Year's Day, I sat down and showed off.
Uneasy mood, not heavy spirit.
Get up at 5: 30 and feel sleepy all day.
When I was eating today, I learned that the Indian chef personally cooked two dishes. It is unreasonable for Indian chefs to cook for everyone, whether between monks and nuns or between teachers and apprentices. As a result, the topic of solving crimes has triggered overwhelming inspiration from Indian chefs, from Chinese medicine to Huayan, from Yongjia to enlightenment. ...
On the fourth day, the rain turned to snow on the third day.
Disturbed thoughts and soft hearts. In the afternoon, ignorance and troubles broke out, anger rose and everything went wrong.
noon
Four "Wulin experts" from Beijing came to see the house, and they were good at Chen Taiji and Bagua Zhang. One of them is an old friend of the Indian teacher. I used to live in a thatched shed for a long time and set up plum blossom piles on the mountain. Now I am engaged in Chinese medicine projects, acupuncture, massage and Chinese medicine. Although he came to this mountain from Beijing, he didn't talk much (but on the day of finishing this article, he and the two of them got together for a long time in Dongsishitou).
In the afternoon, when he and Min visited the old mage, I was enlightened and said, From Hinayana to Mahayana Bodhi Road. Unfortunately, Huigen was not enough, and the dialect was not clear, so I wrote it down. However, the eagerness of the old mage to preach and teach is beyond words. When he was young, his eloquence was definitely not idle, and calligraphy was even more unusual. There was no stove in the room, it was cold and cloudy, but the old mage was flushed.
On the fifth day, the fourth day of snow, the snow scene was filmed.
I am not calm, but I am happy.
Get up at six.
Sporadic snowflakes, pine and bamboo covered with snow, are even more green. Run out, run along the mountain road, find scenery, take photos, Shan Ye is vast, the forest is silent, birds are singing, and the sounds are uneven. Seeing the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, filming it, the game won't stop, why should it stop?
At noon, fellow initiate Deng from Chengdu brought more than 20 kinds of tea for everyone to taste. He is a professional tea artist. Born after 70, but a face after 90, this may be the welfare of not marrying a wife. Good tea art feasts everyone's eyes.
In the afternoon, the sky is clear and sunny, practicing Tai Chi and seeing the beautiful scenery of the Western Hills.