"The boat house is a little closer······ Get closer, hey, just row to the bottom" Xiang Que tilted his head and squinted his eyes, staring at the big Buddha towering to the top of the mountain.
The two old craftsmen who repaired the Buddha tied the rope from the top to wipe down, repaired, the Buddha has gone through thousands of years, there are man-made and natural reasons, and now it has been damaged very seriously, and the scenic spot will send people to repair it every year.
The bamboo raft was close to the bottom of the Big Buddha, and the person who bent his legs to the missing legs jumped up from the bamboo raft and landed lightly on the viewing platform at the foot of the Big Buddha.
The boatman holding the bamboo pole was frightened, and he only felt that the bamboo raft under his feet sank and the people on it were gone: "Light as a swallow?
” The visitors of the viewing platform looked at Xiang Que who suddenly jumped up in astonishment, he continued to look up at the top of the Buddha's head suspiciously, and after a few glances, he suddenly asked the people next to him: "How is the weather in Leshan these days?"
Is it raining?
” "Okay, it's very good, you look at the sun overhead, it's going to scorch people, and then look at the river behind it, the riverbed is exposed, Leshan has not rained for more than a week, this year is a dry year."
"Oh" Xiang Que responded, then turned around and jumped off the viewing platform with one hand on the railing, landed on the bamboo raft, and said to the boatman: "I want to go to the top of the head of the Big Buddha to see, how to go up?"
” "Don't you know how to fly, you can fly up, just like just now, with a wave of your hands, it's like you have wings, you are so good, you can fly up" The boatman squinted his eyes dissatisfied.
Xiang Que was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said, "Why are you still angry?"
The boatman, where did I provoke you?"
the boatman said angrily: "You jumped over the bamboo raft just now, and it landed on it, if you jump into the water, do you know it, I will lose my job?"
Then you have to pay a fine, the scenic spot has regulations, visitors are not allowed to leave the bamboo raft without permission to go into the water, you don't have to do this jump My whole family has to drink the northwest wind, sir, can you please be considerate of us who earn hard-earned money?
Please follow the rules of the scenic spot, is it okay?
” "Is that what going on?
Understood, understood, I'm sorry I don't know the rules, I'll apologize to you, let's continue to talk about the topic just now, I want to go to the top of the Buddha's head to see, how to go?
” The boatman gave him a blank look, pointed to the left side of the observation deck and said, "Do you see those people in line?"
There is a stone staircase leading to the top, and you can follow the ladder to the top of the mountain."
"Ah, I've been jumping around for nothing for a long time?"
"Gua Wazi" the boatman muttered in a low voice.
"Hmm" Xiang Missing two legs bent, the person jumped up from the bamboo raft again and jumped to the viewing platform, the boatman behind was suddenly stunned, and scolded angrily: "You turtle son······ The stone ladder is quite steep and spirals and extends to the top of the mountain, both sides are rusty handrails, visitors can reach the top of the mountain along the ladder from the bottom, you can enjoy the whole picture of the Buddha all the way along the way, follow the visitors to the top of the mountain from below, look at the head of the Leshan Giant Buddha at close range.
Xiang Que saw that it was a small day, leaning under a tree on the top of the mountain, squinting his eyes and staring at the face of the Leshan Giant Buddha without blinking, and the two old craftsmen who repaired the Buddha had risen to the top along the rope at this time, and came down from the viewing platform above.
"It's another unfortunate year," the old craftsman pursed his lips and shook his head after coming down, and his face looked a little unpleasant.
Another craftsman sighed: "I don't know, how many people are going to suffer" Leshan Giant Buddha's face, from the middle of the eyes below, there are two water marks that extend to the bottom, others may not see clearly, but Xiang Que can really see the flow of water, from morning to night has not dried up, the temperature in Leshan at this time is about 356 degrees, the ground temperature The degree is almost 40 degrees away, the Buddha is hewn with a boulder in the sun, and it will be hot when you reach out and touch it, and you will be evaporated in a few minutes if you pour a basin of water on it, but the water marks in the eyes of the Buddha have not been broken for several hours.
There has been a rumor in Leshan for thousands of years: "The Buddha has tears, and there will be a catastrophe in the world" Xiang Que took out a pack of cigarettes from his body, took out two and handed them to the two old craftsmen, the two looked at him in astonishment, and took it easily, and Xiang Que took the initiative to light them and asked; "Old man, looking at the repair techniques you just had, you are very skilled, presumably you have been here to maintain the Buddha for some years Right?
"Some years?
Oh, I started to repair the Buddha at the age of nineteen, and now there are thirty-five years, this old brother is not short, twenty-seven or eight years, this Buddha feng shui sun, Leshan here is high temperature to catch up with the rain season rain and constantly, if not often repaired then this Buddha will be damaged more serious, we are one for the work two is also because this is Leshan people, but I can't bear to see the Haitong monk repair is the big Buddha that suppresses the flood a year is not as good as a year, so it's okay to come over and repair it, Now that I'm older, I don't know how many more years I can do up" Xiang Que sincerely admired: "Cultivate the Buddha, you two will definitely be able to cultivate a merit immeasurable" The old craftsman laughed and said: "What kind of merit is to talk about, the ancestors of the people in Leshan have a deep affection for this Buddha, if it weren't for the Haitong monk who cultivated the Buddha, I'm afraid we can't say that the years have been flooded by the river, or they have moved to other places, to say that the merit is immeasurable."
I have to say that the monk Haitong is."
Xiang Que stretched out his hand and pointed to the face of the Buddha, and asked in surprise: "I see that there have been tears in the eyes of this Buddha, there has been no rain recently, the sun is shining, the weather is very hot, but why have the tears on the Buddha not dried?"
” The two old craftsmen sighed faintly again, shook their heads and said, "This is going to be a catastrophe, hey, what's not too peaceful?"
Xiang Que asked; "Where do you start?"
"This is the tears shed by the monk Haitong on behalf of the heavens for the people who suffer in the world······" Monk Haitong was born in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, at the age of 12 he became a monk and learned from the Taoist monk Huijing, and at the age of 24, he left his teacher to travel all over the world and traveled thousands of miles after finally coming to Lingyun Mountain, where he set up a thatched hut to practice.
He believes that Lingyun Mountain is the most ideal place for his cultivation, and the confluence of the Dadu River, the Luo River, and the Tsing Yi River is at the bottom of the mountain.
Seeing this situation, Haitong was extremely sad, he pondered day and night and finally came up with a way to chisel a largest Maitreya Buddha statue in the world on the mountain rock, so that he could face the mighty three rivers day and night, for thousands of years, Anlan Zhentao, and bless the common people.
As soon as the news of the construction of the Buddha spread, skilled craftsmen from near and far rushed to Lingyun Mountain, and wanted to build the Leshan Giant Buddha with Haitong, Haitong after the construction of the Buddha, and shouldered the burden of raising funds After all, there are still many good people in the world, and many people have donated generously to him.
Later, the Jiazhou county guard heard that Haitong had a large sum of money in his hand, so he brought a large number of entourages to beg for it, Haitong faced the threat, fearless, categorically refused, he said categorically: "Self-eyed can be stripped away, Buddha wealth is rare!"
” Haitong's arrogance and contempt angered the money-hungry county guard, he didn't believe that anyone would have the courage to gouge out his eyeballs, he said angrily: "Then you dig it out and see, if you don't dig me, I will destroy this big Buddha, if you dig it, I will take people away and will not interfere from now on."
Faced with the threat of the county guard, Haitong sat cross-legged, picked up a copper plate, and without hesitation, he pulled out one of his eyeballs and put it on it, and silently raised it in front of the county guard.
Suddenly, the county guard was shocked and lost his soul and fled down the mountain in a hurry, and was shocked by the righteousness of the Haitong monk, and did not dare to make a mistake.
But did not wait for the completion of the Buddha, Haitong passed away and returned to the sky, after many years by his disciples to take over the reconstruction, and so the Buddha finished the day of the construction, the people of the world in order to thank the merits of the Haitong monk so he buried his bones in the Buddha, so that he can watch the three rivers under his feet day and night Place, pray for the heavenly beings, since then almost every day there are people to worship this Buddha, it is said that over time this Buddha has spirituality, many people say that this is the Haitong monk into the Buddha manifestation.
The old craftsman said: "This Buddha is really spiritual, every time there is a big house in the year of disaster, the eyes of the Buddha will shed tears and constantly, I have cultivated the Buddha for more than 30 years, which has seen many times, there is a year when the Yellow River burst the embankment and the tears hung for three days, seven years on the eve of the Tangshan earthquake At that time, I happened to be repairing, and I saw the tears of the Buddha on the same day, and I knew that there must be a catastrophe again, and sure enough, there was an earthquake in Tangshan the next day, and there was a great flood in 98 years······" Another old craftsman pointed to the Buddha sadly and said: "This time I don't know where people are going to suffer again, I haven't seen it yesterday, this morning this morning the tears came out, hey, the natural disaster people, Haitong monk can't see the common people in trouble, he cried to the heavens this is" Xiang Que had an epiphany, and also understood why the tears did not disperse, the Buddha may have a spirit, but it is said that the Haitong monk who was buried in the Buddha has attained the Tao, just like the physical Buddha, the person is dead but the spirit is still there.
Xiang Que bowed respectfully to the Buddha, and his psychology suddenly became clear, and he had a kind of cleanness that could be understood at one point.
The cause and effect of Buddhism is really not something you can get if you ask you to cultivate, the old monk who presided over the White Horse Temple is very right, what you ask for is not what you can ask for, even if you stay in the White Horse Temple for one or two more years, it will definitely be in vain and wait, and there will be no result, even if he travels all over the world Buddhism, it will inevitably be nothing.