Chapter 91 Relics
Facts have proved that observing other people's things can really learn a lot. For example, when I was a child, the teacher taught students to learn other people's articles and understand the author's thoughts and feelings. It was a little bit bigger. Those who learn painting observed famous calligraphy and painting to improve their own painting skills, those who learn music listened to famous songs to improve their own skills... and so on.
To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is not as mysterious as imagined. It is just that it is based on the things left by the predecessors to restore something in the mind.
Of course, everyone has different ways of thinking, and they have different observations and understandings. Some people even understand things based on other people's things, while others imagine things fit their predecessors, while more people think about things without getting anything...
"Human imagination is really wonderful." Liu Xiu looked at Baishita and said to himself for a moment.
As soon as he watched the Baishi Tower, based on the traces on the tower, he actually restored the scene of the swordsman wielding his sword to cut the mountain and carving the Baishi Tower. Liu Xiu didn't think that the scene at that time was really like what he imagined in his mind, and could not be true.
Based on the scene of a swordsman wielding a knife imagined in his mind with the tower body, Liu Xiu suddenly felt that if he had a knife in his hand at this time, he seemed to know how to wield the knife more effort and faster, and there were some unexplainable things in his heart.
All these things were like illusions. When he looked at the White Stone Tower again, it was still just an ordinary stone tower containing the vicissitudes of history.
Feeling something, Liu Xiu turned around slightly, looked at a tree dozens of meters away and nodded slightly, then walked towards the gate of the stone tower.
There, at some point, the old monk who had previously talked with Liu Xiu at the foot of the mountain appeared there.
At this time, the old monk saw that Liu Xiu turned around and wanted to go over and talk for a few words, but Liu Xiu nodded slightly and turned around and left. He could only shake his head gently and stop and turn around and leave.
"He has the aura of a great demon, and he should be carrying some kind of great demon's item. I don't know if he got it by chance. I hope he won't cause disaster to him. I originally wanted to persuade him to give up, but the fate is shallow. I can't force everything. This son is pure in nature and has deep blessings. He should get something when watching the white tower. He also has unpredictable strength. I think he should know the importance of it."
A whisper quietly dissipated in the wind as the old monk left...
The White Stone Tower does not restrict tourists from going up, which can be seen from the crowds entering and leaving at will. However, everyone entering will receive a kind warning from the monks, and Liu Xiu is no exception.
When he came to the gate of the stone pagoda, a middle-aged monk stepped forward and said, "The layman is polite. The old monk has two words to tell you, please stay a little."
"I wonder what the master has to give me?" Liu Xiu stopped and nodded.
The old monk smiled and said, "I dare not take the advice, I am just a few things to pay attention to. Layman, this pagoda is strictly not owned by this temple. Therefore, tourists are not prohibited from entering. However, some items in this temple are stored. I hope that the layman will not destroy it when he is visiting."
"Of course," Liu Xiu smiled, thinking that people who destroyed items at will were afraid that they would go to the foot of the mountain to plow the fields and farm. Then he asked curiously: "I wonder what they have stored?"
"It's not a valuable item, just some Buddhist scriptures. If the layman is interested, he can also copy and read them at will. Please do not take them away at will. Many of the scriptures are isolated books," reminded the middle-aged monk.
A little stunned, Liu Xiu asked subconsciously: "Can you copy and read them all at will?"
It’s not a question that Liu Xiu asked this. After all, in his understanding, the stone pagoda stored the classics of Baiyun Temple, which can be regarded as a place like the "Sutra Pavilion". Such an important place not only makes people casually play but also can read it. How can you not be strange in your heart?
The monk smiled and said, "What's wrong? They are all things that encourage people to be kind. Don't talk about copying and reading. If it can be spread throughout the world, it's the best."
After hearing this sentence, Liu Xiu felt sincere admiration. This is the mind that monks should have. They do not advocate how kind and compassionate they are, but they hope that more people will have good intentions and good deeds, just classics, and even circulate them better. After all, they are things that encourage people to be kind.
Originally, Liu Xiu wanted to ask if there were any martial arts secrets here, but I would just forget it. This is obviously impossible. Not to mention that any monks seen in Baiyun Temple do not seem to have practiced martial arts. Even if there is one, how can I place them here to recognize people and watch?
There is a difference between monks and martial arts. It is obvious that the Baiyun Temple is all monk Wen. However, after seeing the old monk at the foot of the mountain before, Liu Xiu did not dare to underestimate these monks. Wu monks practice martial arts to polish themselves, while monk Wen worships Buddha and cultivates his mind. Who knows what magical powers they have learned from the nature of heaven and earth?
This is not something Liu Xiu thought of himself. If there is a fact that the old monk proves, he is the same himself. He does not practice martial arts, but he can control the wind in just one year. Although it is not a real flying, it also shows from the side that there is only one way to practice martial arts in this world!
Even if I do this, how could those old monks who have lived a long life have no means? It’s just that they don’t show off deliberately. There is a saying that a bottle of water is full of water without a sound, and those who jump around happily see how many people have a good end?
When bidding farewell to the monk at the door, Liu Xiu stepped on the first floor of the White Stone Tower. What he saw was a three-meter-high statue, which was in the middle. This statue was almost exactly the same as the ones worshipped in the hall outside, but because the carving people were more skilled, it looked more sympathetic.
Some people also knelt down here to pray for blessings. After Liu Xiu stopped for a moment, he followed the stairs up to the second floor.
There are many bookshelves on the second floor, and there are a wide variety of books. Many people are quietly looking through them here. There are also seats provided by Baiyun Temple for people to rest and copy.
Curiously, Liu Xiu also read some books. As the monk at the door said, the place is filled with things that encourage people to be kind. The content of the books is mainly about the stories of all the great monks traveling around the world to do good deeds and accumulate virtues, as well as medical books.
Needless to say, medical books are all things that can cure diseases and save people. Liu Xiu found it quite interesting after reading a few books about the stories of the monks traveling.
In fact, those stories are mainly records of the travels of monks in this temple. Liu Xiu learned from it that those monks did not beg for alms, did not advocate Buddhism to cultivate believers, nor did they sell things like peace talismans. They just used their medical skills to travel around the world, cure diseases and save people, and did not charge money, and only took a little stuff to fill their stomachs. In short, it was not a thing that could be obtained without any effort.
In this way, Liu Xiu had to sigh again that this was the "real" monk.
This is true from the second floor. Similar books are placed layer by layer. There are more than 30 floors. Liu Xiu estimated that there are no less than 100,000 books stored here. He didn't think there are many. Baiyun Temple is estimated to have a history of 1800 years. After collecting them from generation to generation, there are fewer books.
After paying a little attention, Liu Xiu found that most of the people who come here to read are doctors. In fact, it can be understood that Baiyun Temple started with "medical skills", and most of the books here are medical books. Here they can learn more good prescriptions for curing diseases and saving lives and actual "medical cases". What is commendable is that Baiyun Temple does not hide its shortcomings at all and allows others to watch.
Liu Xiu guessed that perhaps many of these doctors would leave their skill here for others to learn. As Liu Xiu understood during this period, most doctors in this world are noble people, and they really wanted the medicine on the cabinet to cause dust to cause illness.
Of course, if there are good people in the world, there will naturally be bad people. In general, there are more good people.
In this way, I walked and stopped and read books from time to time. Time passed quietly. In the afternoon, Liu Xiucai climbed to the 33rd floor of the top floor of the White Stone Tower.
Standing on this highest level, looking around, the mountains are undulating, and Baita Town is in the distance, the scenery under the setting sun is quite good.
The highest floor is no longer a book, there is only an altar with an incense burner on the altar. Some people kneel down to pray for blessings. Whenever someone kneels down, an old monk next to him will ring the bowl.
People are no longer cemeteries, but a bead on the altar.
The bead dragon rock is the size of an earthy yellow irregular shape, and it is located on a lotus-shaped tray.
Seeing the bead, a trace of unconcealed color flashed in Liu Xiu's eyes, because the bead was glowing, emitting a soft golden light, and it was floating in the air one foot above the lotus-shaped tray!
"Relics"
When Liu Xiu saw the bead, this name popped up in his heart. He really couldn't imagine anything other than this kind of thing.
Liu Xiu had heard of the relics but had never seen them, even after he became rich, he had never seen them. In his cognition, the relics had nothing magical, and the symbolic meaning was greater than the actual meaning.
But the relic I see now subverts Liu Xiu's perception.
Of course, this is an extraordinary world in itself. Liu Xiu quickly calmed down after being slightly surprised.
From the whispering conversations of those around you, Liu Xiu learned that this relic was left by the Venerable Baiyun after he was transformed. It has been stored in Baiyun Temple until now. Many people come to worship every day, and it has been the same for thousands of years.
With curiosity about the relics, Liu Xiu waited for the people in front of him to visit and prepared to take a closer look.
Slowly, as the people in front of him knelt down and left, Liu Xiu approached the relics little by little. When he was about ten meters away from the relics, his eyelids suddenly jumped and stopped.
At this moment, the time and space around seemed to be still, everything was frozen, the floating relics were soft and golden light, and a kind-eyed old monk composed of golden light and shadow appeared in the void above the relics. His appearance seemed to be the center of the world, and everything else was eclipsed, just like the Buddha was in the dust.
He looked at Liu Xiu with a kind face, slowly raised his hand, stretched out a finger and pointed it over.
Liu Xiu found that he could not move at this time, but his thinking was still very clear and he could not make other moves. He could only watch the old monk composed of golden light and shadow with a guide.
That finger, with compassion, seems to have come across a long river of time.
At this moment, when Liu Xiu came out of his arms, the scales given to him by his neighbor changed abnormally, as if he was angry...
Chapter completed!