Chapter 147: Put Down the Knife and Become a Buddha
"Donor Chen! Be careful!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Master Jiande moved his feet, his hands were like a big bird spreading its wings, his body twisted, his feet stepped forward with force, and then he kicked upwards, rushing straight towards Chen Jue's crotch without warning.
This is the Liangchi Ba in the Xinyi Ba. It looks like it is to hit the opponent with the hands, but in fact it is to confuse the opponent with the upper body posture, and then kick the crotch to attack the opponent when he is unprepared. It is a vicious move.
Chen Jue had seen similar mind-control moves in online videos before, and knew the changes in the moves, so he was prepared in advance. In addition, this fight was just a competition, and Master Jiande was holding back when he made his moves, so Chen Jue also wanted to give the other party some pointers, and also only put in one-tenth of his strength.
Chen Jue hooked his front foot outward and deflected the kick from under his crotch with a bang. Then he pulled with one hand, changing from a loose and lazy posture of lazy Zhayi to a hard one. He pointed his Tai Chi whip hand at the opponent's head, and a snapping sound was heard in the air.
When Master Jiande saw that Liang Chi's kick missed, he turned his body slightly, crossed his hands in front of him, and with a "dong" sound, he blocked Chen Jue's Tai Chi single whip. Then he half-crouched, turned around, turned his palms into fists and swung them back, as if he was squatting and swinging two big hammers at Chen Jue's ribs, waist and abdomen.
Seeing this, Chen Jue stepped back, his figure flying up and down like a butterfly flying through flowers, avoiding the opponent's counter-attack and chop punch.
After his punch missed, Master Jiande moved in a chicken-like step, like a golden rooster standing on one leg, in a half-squatting position, with his fists and knees level, and swung his fists again, each move aimed at the man's waist, abdomen, and crotch, attacking the man's soft spots.
The saying that he has the most cruel and vicious intention is not an exaggeration. There is indeed murderous intent and hostility hidden in every move and every style.
Just like the daily practice of combining agriculture and martial arts, the mind-control rack for harvesting wheat and the rack for digging the hoe. The whole person has to bend over and half squat. If you keep your body straight without bending over, you cannot harvest the wheat in the field, nor can you use the hoe to dig the land.
Just like a farmer working with his face to the earth and his back to the sky, he has to bend down and squat to dig out food from the ground.
However, the sickle and hoe in the farmer's hands changed their meaning when they were integrated into martial arts. The sickle no longer cuts wheat but people's legs, and the hoe no longer digs the land but people's knees and crotch.
You should know that traditional martial arts techniques basically target the upper body, while the lower body is based on standing in horse stance.
The more stable your lower body is, the less likely you are to fall.
But Xinyi's way of cutting wheat racks and using hoes was the opposite. He specialized in digging up people's roots and hitting them from below with every move, which was exactly in line with the saying that the most cruel and vicious thing was done.
Seeing this scene, Chen Jue naturally knew that Master Jiande had several more moves that were linked to each other, and he didn't want to get entangled with him too much.
Since the opponent wanted to experience firsthand what the realm of Tathagata was like, Chen Jue would use hard force to fight back. His moves changed suddenly, his chest inflated, his whole body trembled, his skin was covered with a thick layer of dark bruises, and his whole body seemed to swell with blood at this moment. He squatted down and used the Tai Chi move of "Luo Xi Ao Bu" to face Master Jiande's forward-moving Pi Ba Chui.
"Bang!" A loud drumbeat seemed to sound on the protruding cliff. The two men's arms collided with each other in the lower body. At this moment, the sleeves of both men were torn and exploded, turning into pieces of cloth.
Master Jiande suddenly exclaimed, he had not expected that the Luo Xi Ao Bu move in Tai Chi, which involves hugging the knee with the legs, could be changed to another move, where the knee is hugged with the hands.
The light and dark forces emanating from Chen Jue's hands instantly shattered his wheat-cutting rack, forcing him to take several steps back to relieve the force, and he finally stepped on the edge of the protruding rock.
At this moment, Master Jiande finally understood what the realm of Tathagata is.
If he didn't make a move, it would be fine, but once he made a move, all the demons would be scared away. Even he, a Buddhist monk who was half a step away from forming a relic, couldn't withstand the force of this move and fell off the cliff.
But at this critical moment, Master Jiande suddenly felt his shoulders tighten, and his body was pulled back onto the protruding rock.
When he came to his senses, he saw Chen Jue smiling and saying to him, "Master Jiande, are you okay?"
It is said that there is great terror between life and death. Master Jiande had been to the gates of hell, and at this moment he seemed to have realized something. He chanted the Buddha's name, sat down cross-legged, and seemed to have entered a state of meditation at this moment.
Chen Jue's expression changed slightly, and he observed the changes in Master Jiande's temperament with his divine sense.
Master Jiande, who had not yet produced any relics, was stimulated by the experience of life and death. His spirit began to rise, and he chanted in Sanskrit: "All appearances are false. If you see that all appearances are not appearances, you will see the Tathagata..."
“ Good fellow !”
"Master, you actually got an epiphany from my stimulation?" It was the first time for Chen Jue to see someone get an epiphany in front of him. He hurriedly held his breath and concentrated, using his divine sense to observe the changes in Master Jiande.
Master Jiande, who originally had a ruddy complexion, began to lose color. The Qi and blood in his body converged at the Shangqu acupoint, and he entered the realm of "colorlessness, formlessness, and tastelessness" that Buddhist monks dreamed of.
The sincerity in his pious worship of Buddha reached its peak at this moment, as if the real Buddha had come to the world. His temperament began to become mellow and transparent, and the vicious and cruel spirit in his mind was eliminated.
This is called "Put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha instantly" in the practice of Buddhism. It is also because Master Jiande had just discussed with Chen Jue and realized the realm of Tathagata with his own body. At the moment of falling off the cliff, he understood the horrifying truth between life and death. The combination of various factors made him take this big step in practice.
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Having stayed on the cliff for nearly 4 hours, Chen Jue was like a guardian, guarding the transformation of Master Jiande.
It was not until the sun began to set that Master Jiande stopped shaking his cracked lips, opened his eyes, and shouted "Amitabha". He then stood up from his sitting position and bowed to Chen Jue: "Thank you, Mr. Chen, for helping me attain enlightenment and produce a relic! I will always remember this kindness in my heart!"
“Master, you are too polite! With your practice of Buddhism and your way of combining Zen and martial arts, you will become a Buddha sooner or later. I just happened to give you a push.” Chen Jue smiled slightly. He finally felt that his trip to Shaolin was not in vain. He actually helped a Buddhist monk become a Buddha on the spot.
"Amitabha! I have only gained something from the sudden enlightenment of life and death just now. At most, I can be considered to have achieved the status of an arhat, but I cannot be considered to have attained Buddhahood."
"It's you, Benefactor Chen. Although your body is at the level of Tathagata, your mind is still undetermined."
"Since Mr. Chen helped me to produce the sarira, I will repay part of his kindness today and use Buddhist teachings and Zen principles to help him gain enlightenment. I hope he can gain something from Buddhist teachings and Zen principles." Master Jiande said with his palms clasped together.
"Then I would like to thank you, Master!" Chen Jue nodded. He saw the sincerity that a monk should have in the other party.
Master Jiande clasped his hands together and bowed again, then led Chen Jue down the cliff and back to the stone temple.
There were only a few simple houses in the stone temple. Master Jiande took Chen Jue into the house where he lived.
The furnishings in the house were simple, with only a lacquered wooden bed, several bookcases filled with Buddhist scriptures, two cushions, a Buddhist shrine, a dining table, and several sets of neatly folded monk robes.
After entering the room, Master Jiande first poured himself a glass of water and drank it to moisten his dry and blistered mouth and tongue. Then he lit the sandalwood incense in the room, took out a , and knocked it gently.
Suddenly there was a clanging sound in the house, like a wake-up call, which was thought-provoking.
"Donor Chen, please!"
"Master, please!"
The two of them sat cross-legged on the cushions in the room and began to discuss Buddhist principles and some spiritual practices.
It was not until night fell that the disciples standing guard outside the house repeatedly urged them to eat vegetarian food, and only then did the two stop meditating and discussing the Dao.
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After eating the vegetarian meal brought by Master Jiande's disciples, the two continued to sit and talk until the moon was at its zenith. Only then did Chen Jue carry his schoolbag and go down the back mountain of Shaolin Temple.
Of course, the reason why he did not stay here was because Master Jiande had just produced a relic, and he needed to spend a hundred days of foundation-building to nourish the "relic" before he could finally complete his merit.
It was already a great privilege to waste half a day's time. In addition, Chen Jue had gained a lot from his previous meditation and discussion of Taoism. Only then did he understand and said goodbye to Master Jiande directly.
