Li Xingyun has an answer to this. He told the Buddha that he should practice one-man Buddhism without crossing all sentient beings.
He is a Buddhist, but he can choose who he wants to be.
So he wants to practice Buddhism.
He has a Buddha in his heart, and that Buddha is Ling Er. He wants to turn Ling Er into my Buddha and his own Buddha, and then he is willing to be a Ling Er Buddha.
This is the true meaning of cultivating a Buddha and the true meaning of his coming to another life.
On the fact that Chu Zen is alive and dead, whether Li Xingyun, the Zen master of Nanshan, wants to do something is never to cultivate the afterlife, but to cultivate Buddha! Cultivate a person to be a Buddha himself!
But these things are very clear and reasonable, but it is very difficult to really do them.
This 3-meter-high boulder is very hard. He is just a thin monk who hasn’t been repaired. Even if he is absorbed in his knife, he can persist for too long.
At first, he was easily tired.
The stone hammer kept banging on the short iron knife, and the quiet temple made a very frequent response, but after a puff of gas, it was
Often can knock off a very thin layer of stone skin.
According to his speed, it will take a long time if you want to carve the little feet completely, but now he is the richest.
Before he was in no hurry, he had arranged the daily workload very carefully, for example, when repairing the Buddha’s feet, when repairing the Buddha’s legs, when repairing the Buddha’s body … He needed to do it step by step.
Soon the sky darkened.
Li Xingyun cleaned the rubble all over the temple and picked some mushrooms and wild fruits by himself. After cleaning, he built a stove in front of the temple to cook.
Theory of later generations or this life, he will cook, although it is better than Su Xiaofan’s craftsmanship, but it is much better than those guys in Luochangfeng River.
You have to learn to cook with your hands tied, or you won’t starve to death if you can’t catch the chicken. This is the truth that Mr. Wang once taught him, and he firmly remembers it.
Made two dishes. Li Xingyun ate alone in the starlight and moonlight, then washed the dishes and went to bed.
At dawn, he got up, washed and made breakfast. After breakfast, he continued to practice other buddhas.
Away from the world, the day of helping the small town always flies. Before you know it, Li Xingyun has lived in a temple by the Qingshui River for three years. After three years of practicing Buddhism, you will finally get something.
Three years later, the three-meter-high boulder has a pair of small and exquisite feet.
He trimmed it into a feather foot.
One day, it was raining heavily outside, and children were playing by the Qinghe River, so they escaped from the rain and broke into this inhabited but still deserted temple.
Those children are all growing up, and the oldest is ten years old.
The ten-year-old boy vaguely remembered something. He took the initiative to come forward and watched the stone hammer and iron knife beating the monk in front of the boulder. "Have you repaired the Buddha?"
See you later in Li Xingyun. I asked him a question three years ago. The child pointed to the boulder feet and smiled. "Look, I repaired a pair of feet."
The child still doesn’t understand "how can one pair of feet represent Buddha?"
Li Xingyun has some dim feet. How can he be a Buddha?
He looked at the child and said, "Will you come back later and tell you what a Buddha is when I fix it?"
The child is clever nodded "good".
……
Another six years passed.
After the incense table, the huge stone standing upright has basically got rid of the stone shape and initially has a humanoid outline.
In the past six years, this temple has appeared more or less, and some people have passed by, but when they saw that Li Xingyun was obsessed with the Buddha statue as if he were possessed, he didn’t dare to disturb and burn incense and add fire, and then he left quietly.
Gradually, the residents of Fushu Town are used to this. Sometimes, when Li Xingyun is alone, he will take turns to send some fruits and vegetables.
Li Xingyun’s appearance looks haggard, but it doesn’t seem to have changed much except haggard. However, it is undeniable that his skill in carving and repairing Buddha has become extremely skilled because of his six-year-old knife. He is confident that he can finish the carving of this Buddha statue in time.
So three years passed.
After twelve years of cultivation, the Buddha statue not only has a pair of exquisite feet, but also a pair of slender straight legs with gentle and graceful bumps. The Buddha’s body is smooth as a mirror, the Buddha’s face is smart and beautiful, the Buddha’s eyes are 3,000 moss, and there is a graceful Buddha’s dress.
Looks like a young girl …
It was a snowy day.
The town was covered with heaven and earth, and it was white and silent.
The Qinghe water in front of the temple was frozen on this cold winter day.
Originally, there would be no more nearby pedestrians crossing the road through the snow to make pilgrimages. Li Xingyun was preparing to close the temple door when he cleaned the rubble at the foot of the complete Buddha statue and accidentally saw a figure.
It was a young man with a weak crown, and snowflakes piled up on the umbrella. Although he had not seen it for many years, Li Xingyun recognized him as the child at first sight.
The young man took the umbrella and went into the temple. He looked at the lifelike Buddha statue and was stupid.
He looked at Li Xingyun who didn’t seem to have changed in ten years and asked, "Is this the Zen master Buddha?"
Li Xingyun put his hands together. "Yes, this is my Buddha."
Young people still don’t understand "can Buddha be a woman?"
Li Xingyun quietly looked at the young man’s ignorant face. He didn’t explain too much. He still said as in previous years, "Are you weak? Or wait a few days until you are older, and I will tell you the answer?"
The weak crown man agreed to come and leave.
