Chapter 69: A Letter
There are two more bleak new graves outside the bamboo forest building, in front of the grave are burned incense candles, and there are two newly planted evergreen trees on the left and right sides of the tomb, but there is no tombstone. (You can find this site)
This is the meaning of Uncle Li, life and death grievances are eliminated, this part of the journey is over, you don't need to erect a monument to remember who you are, and the descendants who have a heart can come to pay tribute, if you arrive a long time later, forget it.
A tombstone is a tedious task, and it is not necessary.
"Master may have seen through it and felt that the essence of everything is actually very simple, birth, old age, sickness and death, no matter who you are, you will always have to face it. After thinking about all this, I can't wait for everything to be simple. "Brother Chengqing said this after handing over some things to us.
It was something left behind by the older generation who ran away, and now it was taught to us by Brother Chengqing.
In my hand, there are four volumes of books compiled by Master, and there is a letter, I caress the four volumes, in fact, I have seen them, in the bamboo forest Xiaozhu, in Beijing, when Master is free, he will always write and draw, and when asked about him, he also said that he wants to sort out what he has learned in his life.
It's been a long work, and it's been since I followed Master, or even earlier, so I didn't pay attention. Now it seems that Master had a plan.
I didn't dare to read that letter, I was afraid that there would be some unbearable news, but I couldn't help but read it, because this was Master's last letter to me, and maybe I could only rely on this letter to remember Master in my life, because Master never took pictures in his life, and he didn't even leave a portrait.
Thinking of this, I feel a little sad.
When I opened the envelope, Master's familiar handwriting was imprinted in my eyes, and I couldn't help but reddened my eyes, Master once said that if you want to laugh, you can laugh, and if you want to cry, crying is the true nature of a man.
But at this time, I hated my tears a little, and I really wanted to settle down the pain and get strong as soon as possible, at least on the surface.
Thinking of this, I took a deep breath, wiped my eyes, calmed myself, and then began to read the letter.
Disciples:
When I read the letter, I am afraid that we have separated the master and the apprentice, may you be well, have come out of the sad nostalgia, and face the future life of a person with a smile.
I've always been thinking about whether to tell you seriously that I'm leaving, or whether to just leave as usual.
After thinking about it, I have decided to choose the most normal way to leave, just like back then, when you were in the mountains, I just went down the mountain to buy some things for life.
Forgive me for my choice, maybe I am not strong enough, I don't want to face the pain of parting, and I am afraid that after I say it, I am reluctant to leave - after all, you are my biggest concern in this world.
When Master left, he was going to pursue something that he had wanted to pursue all his life, and that was something that Master had been determined to do since he was twenty-five, not only for me, but also for my brothers and sisters.
Originally, I thought that when I could finally do it, I would be very happy and free. But after all, the world is unpredictable, and I have an inseparable master-apprentice affection for you, but the more this is the case, the more I have to do it.
I thought that my master also had an inseparable affection for us.
We won't tell you what we're going to do, it's the result of our older generation's discussions. Once, I said that everything in the world is in reincarnation, just like life, no matter how wonderful the journey is, the end is only death, unless you can cultivate the mind and enlightenment, and finally jump out of reincarnation.
We of the older generation don't want you to continue our reincarnation, so we can only stop it like this, tell you nothing, and let you jump out of samsara.
In the end, this is something that I have been trying to pursue all my life, and it can be said that I have been running around all my life, collecting clues, and now I finally have some certainty.
Don't worry about me, it's just too ethereal, but it's not dangerous.
However, we have made up our minds this time, and we will not give up until we achieve our goal, Chengyi, I'm afraid I won't come back, we have been together for 20 years, and there should be no regrets about separation, I hope you can think so.
In the end, I compiled what I have learned in my life into four volumes, and if you have any shortcomings in your cultivation, you can read them from time to time, I am not by your side, and I hope that you can still work hard every day and reach a higher level than me.
In our vein, I hope that some of you juniors can continue to pass it on, and if you want to accept apprentices in your later years, remember your conduct, fate is indispensable. If there is no apprenticeship, go to Longhu Mountain, Taoist ancestral garden, or contact the department xxx to donate the book, so that they can continue to find the destined person, and it will not be considered as breaking the inheritance.
In addition, I hope that you can continue to make up these four books in your old age, after the years have settled. I believe that by that time, your state of mind, your technique should be able to improve to a higher realm than mine, my Jiang Lichun's apprentice is not bad, isn't it?
I have been chic all my life, and I am about to leave in a blink of an eye, sorting out my life's thoughts, except that you are concerned, but I have no regrets. There is just one thing, seeing that my Taoism is declining year by year, I will inevitably regret that those with inherent interests have ruined the name of my Taoism, but I have to admit that there is a major reason for the inheritance and the catastrophe of Taoist culture.
Nothing can flourish forever, and it always has to go into a cycle of high and low, and Master has already seen through this truth, but it is inevitable that his heart will ache.
Chengyi, I hope that in your lifetime, you can do it right, do it properly, and change a few people's views of my Taoism, and change a few people. After all, the prosperity of Taoism is not in you alone, but a spark can start a prairie fire, and my apprentice Jiang Lichun must remember his conduct, remember, remember.
Long years, 20 years, the past is vivid, as if you were still the naughty boy back then, but when you came back to your senses, you found that when you had to separate, you have to ask me what I have to explain, then there is really one sentence, that is
Just remember that you are my old Li lineage, and then forget me and continue to live.
Jiang Lichun
Forgot you? Moving on with life? Master, have you ever forgotten your ancestor? I folded the letter carefully, put it in the pocket of my jacket, and thought about it without realizing that I was already in tears.
As Master said, He wants to break the cycle of our generation on a certain issue. Therefore, he really didn't leave any clues, including the last letter, and he didn't explain anything, let alone mention what he was going to do.
But is there really no clue? I wiped away my tears, closed my eyes and recalled, and remembered that one morning more than ten years ago, I picked up a few pieces of paper from under Master's window, on which only two words were written - Kunlun.
Before that morning, it was the first time that Master mentioned to me some of the secrets of the Master, including the mystery of the Master's age, and then the Master should have stayed up all night and wrote Kunlun all night.
It was definitely a revelation of the heart, but Master didn't know that one morning, while he was sleeping, I picked up such a piece of paper, and then buried it in my heart for so many years, and I didn't say anything.
This may be the fate that I can't explain, so I never asked the master and didn't expose this matter.
Coupled with the words in Master's letter, I thought that my Master also had an inseparable affection for us. Things seem to have faintly connected the clues, my ancestor, Kunlun!
In the past few days, I have been too sad, in the sadness, people do not want to think about anything, the instinctive reaction is to get rid of this sadness first, the bystanders may be able to stand and talk without back pain, feel how it should be, only those who experience it understand that when the power of sadness sweeps in, how small people are, no matter how strong they are afterwards, they will always sink at that time.
The deeper the feelings, the longer they will sink.
If it can be avoided, then it will really be cultivated into a fairy-like Vajra incorruptible heart.
I vaguely sorted out some clues, my mood was also a little clearer, and I touched the four books left by the master, I think this is the responsibility left to me by the master.
When I arrived at the hall, everyone was already waiting in the hall, and everyone's eyes were red, and I believe they all looked at what their respective masters had left behind.
This is our agreement, after reading the letter, everything will be discussed, the clues will be sorted out, and the decision will be made in the future.
When I entered the hall, Qin Huai took Hui Gen'er and walked towards me, handed me two pages, and said, "You must have read Hui Gen'er's letter, which contains some explanations from Uncle Hui. ”