Buddhism ** pays the most attention to a word.
There is a fate to meet thousands of miles away, but there is no chance to meet on the other side.
Fate birth, fate extinction, fate origin, fate awakening, just because of this fate word, there are more or less stories of life and death, joy and sorrow in the world.
The protagonist of this story, Master Lianchi, also began his glorious life course from this fate.
In the fourteenth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1535 AD, the spring was said.
The West Lake in Hangzhou is full of red men and green women who go out to the spring.
On the lake, there are many boats. The boat sings and dances lightly, and the sheng flute is leisurely, rippling with the waves, and the traffic is endless.
On the shore of the lake, it is a sentiment again, visitors are in groups of three or five, call relatives and friends, see the flowers and pick the grass, laugh endlessly, some simply spread out the mat under the flowers, put on the fruits, shout five and drink six, enjoy the flowers and drink, order to guess the boxing, if there is no one around, only seek to do the pleasure of the moment.
There are also people carrying thatched bags, not far from hundreds of miles away to Hangzhou, towards the mountain incense, pray for the blessing of the son, in order to hope for peace and harvest every year.
The Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu once had the sentence "Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain", which is said to be a swan song. In fact, according to the statistics of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were 480 people who knew Hangzhou, and by the end of the Song Dynasty, there were 480 of them.
Buddhism is prosperous, and there are naturally many people who believe in Buddhism.
On a beautiful spring day, the men, women and children who travel to spring and incense are in an endless stream, inside and outside the temple, the cigarette smoke is swirling, and the mist is a piece.
On the long bridge outside the Qingbo Gate, a Confucian scholar hurriedly walked at this time, he had a slight beard under his collar, he should be forty years old, but his spirit was unusually full, he was wearing a square Dongpo scarf, wearing a blue plate-collared long shirt, in order to walk fast, his right hand also pulled the front of the long shirt.
said that he was Youchun, but he did not have the calmness and intoxication of Youchun people; said that he went to the incense, but he did not bring anything like incense and candles, nor did he have the focused look and piety of the incense person.
His surname is Shen, and his name is Mingzhai.
In Hangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, there were four major families: Zhang, Chen, Wang, and Shen. Almost monopolized the city's silk weaving industry and market merchants, Shen Mingzhai is the leader of the Chu Tang Shen family.
His family is well-to-do and has a field house store, but his main property is far away in Mingzhou, which is by the sea. During the year, except for the good moon after the autumn, most of them go to Mingzhou to cook and rent rice, and most of them live in the former residence of the Shen family in Yongjinmen.
This Shen's former residence, backed by the city wall, is located in a secluded, small and elegant, there are ponds, mountains, pavilions, flowers in the garden, it is a good place to read, and because of this, he chose this place, so he has learned a lot, very rich, hundreds of schools, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, almost everything is fine.
When he was young, he was fascinated by Lao Zhuang and also went into the five lakes and three mountains; Middle-aged turned to Buddhism, meditated on the small bamboo building, and did not want to be an official all his life.
At that time, Yan Song's father and son controlled the power of the court, and the emperor burned pills and refined medicine all day long in the deep palace.
Shen Mingzhai holds the talent of helping the world, but he refuses to go with the flow, bribes the road, in order to forge ahead, and would rather be accompanied by the ancient books of the green lantern and live at home, so it is still cloth. The people of Hangzhou are all called Shen Buyi, and he is proud of it.
What he admired in his life were the two sages.
One is a native of Hangzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, surnamed Lin Ming, living in seclusion in the lonely mountain all his life, taking Mei as his wife, taking the crane as his son, and not entering the city for forty years.
The other is Su Dongpo, a scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty who has been to Hangzhou twice as an official, whose ancestral home is Meizhou, Sichuan, but who is "confident in his native Hangzhou".
He had no ambition in his life, but everywhere he went, he left behind countless political achievements. In Hangzhou, dredging two rivers and six wells, building a long embankment in the lake, deeply praised by the people of Hangzhou, its embankment is also called "Sugong embankment".
Shen Mingzhai especially loves Su Dongpo's poems, smooth and natural, the momentum is extraordinary, every time with Su's poems and texts, while reading and drinking, with a lot of money to buy Su Dongpo's handwritten "Sky Dark Cloud Post" in Hangzhou, hanging high in the study, and named its room as "Bao Su Zhai", burning incense and bowing in front of Su Shi's words day and night.
Su Dongpo's poems write that the West Lake Buddhism is extremely prosperous, and there are many temples, and it takes a year to visit a temple every day.
This ancient Dongpo monk did have an indissoluble bond with Buddhism.
When I first came to Hangzhou, the first thing I did was to go to the lonely mountain in the lake to visit the high monk Huiqin Zen Master, and successively made friends with many monks and poets such as Qingshun, Shenxiao, Huisi, Zhongshu, Biancai, Buddha Yin, etc., leaving many good stories and immortal masterpieces.
Since then, Shen Mingzhai made a wish, to follow in the footsteps of the sages, all the temples in Hangzhou, footprints everywhere, as far as Yuhang Jingshan, Lin'an Dongxiao, close to Lingyin, pure mercy, not only to visit the historical sites, but also with the monks in the temple to discuss poetry and tea, meditation and Zen.
Over the past few years, Shen Mingzhai has fulfilled his wishes, and has also made a lot of friends and friends, especially with the abbot of Jingci Temple at the foot of Nanping Mountain, Yongming Zen Master knows each other the most, and runs to the temple when he is free.
Yongming Zen Master is more than 80 years old, more than one Jiazi of Qing cultivation, does not speak much, and has profound Zen principles. On several occasions, the two faced each other silently, and could count hours without saying a word.
Shen Mingzhai has always been generous, and he is even more responsive to the temple's needs, and he has made good connections. Build towers and repair buildings, give alms to monks, never stingy with money, Hangzhou monasteries, benefited a lot.
The reputation of Shen Ming Zhai has therefore spread all over the streets and alleys of Hangzhou, and the major monasteries have mentioned the name of Shen Ming Zhai's priests, and the monks have all called the Buddha's name, and they have praised each other. But he himself never took credit, let alone bullying others with money, he felt that he had gained a lot from Buddhism. I read a "Diamond Sutra" very well, and I also wrote more than ten copies by myself and gave them to relatives and friends.
Although he did not immediately see through the world and became a monk, he regarded fame and fortune even more lightly. It's just a blind affection for the landscape, and it is also at ease in the Buddhist temple to spend time from the volume.
Of course, life can't be perfect.
Shen Mingzhai's only flaw is that he has no children under his knees.
Mrs. Zhou, who is also a famous lady with a virtuous temperament, sees that her husband is not confused, and she can't give birth to a son for him, so as to continue the incense of the Shen family, the huge family wealth, I don't know who will fall into the hands of someone in the future, I am anxious, and I persuade my husband to accept concubines several times. But Shen Mingzhai just didn't listen, just smiled and said
You can't escape all of your hits, and you can't get them if you hit them. ”
Mrs. Zhou also had no way to take him, and was even more moved by his husband and wife love, so she went to various temples in Hangzhou to burn incense and worship Buddha in order to have children.
Sincerely, the gold and stone are open, between the summer and autumn of last year, already pregnant with Liujia, sooner or later will be in the end.
On this day, he got up early in the morning, washed his hands and cleaned his face, and then burned incense and chanted sutras in the Buddha hall, prayed secretly, and asked the Buddha to bless the birth of a unicorn.
Shen Mingzhai and Yongming Zen Master have intersected for several years, and he has always visited him. The Zen master is very old, and he has not gone out for a long time, and he has never sent anyone to invite him. He knew something was wrong, and he didn't dare to lag behind, so he hurried out the door.
Update tomorrow. 
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