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Chapter 152: Shredded Potatoes? Tour in the Temple

There are meditation rooms on both sides of the Sutra Pavilion. The East Zen Room is the place where monks meditate and meditate, and the West Zen Room is the hall responsible for receiving guests.

"Amitabha." A monk with white eyebrows and beards came over with a monk named Zhike. It was the abbot of Shaolin Master.

"Good monk!" Everyone clasped their hands together.

"Amitabha, several young heroes are visiting, but they are not welcome." The abbot said politely.

Li Luojie, Hua, Xue, and Yue all made a name for themselves in the world. Only when the abbot came out to see him when he received a message from him.

"The temple is the world's number one temple. I have admired it for a long time and made a special trip to watch and disturb the monk." Li Luojie said with a smile.

"Buddhist is convenient for others, and several donors will be blessed according to circumstances." The abbot chanted the Buddha's name and called a little novice monk, "Fu Cultivation, you can accompany several donors and walk around the temple."

"Amitabha, respect the Dharma." Fu Xiu was a young monk of eleven or twelve years old.

Fu Xiu brought several people into the Sixth Patriarch's Hall, "There are worships of Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta, Manjushri Bodhisattva, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva."

Huali clasped her hands together and said, "The Bodhisattva is merciful and merciful, saves the suffering and the suffering."

On the side are the first ancestor of Zen Buddhism, the second ancestor Huike, the third ancestor Sengcan, the fourth ancestor Daoxin, the fifth ancestor Hongren and the sixth ancestor Huineng.

There was a big iron bell in the corridor in front of the hall. Li Luotang asked Fu Xiu, "My little master, how heavy is this bell?"

"It's about 1,300 kilograms." Fu Xiu replied.

"It's so heavy, how did you transport it up the mountain?" Li Luotang continued to ask.

Fu Xiu thought for a while and replied, "I heard from the master that the little monk was pulled up with mules and horses."

When the iron bell was transported to the temple, Fu Xiu was not even a cell.

Then I saw two four-story attics in the east and west, with the bell tower on the east and the drum tower on the west.

The two buildings are cleverly shaped and majestic.

"Morning bells and evening drums" are signals for monks to live and perform Buddhist activities.

Keep moving forward and arrive at the Damo Pavilion.

The Dharma Pavilion, also known as the Lixue Pavilion.

"This is where the second ancestor Huike stood in the snow and asked Master Bodhidharma to cut off his arms to seek the Dharma." Fu Xiu said.

"It's a bit bloody to use this method to test people." Li Luotang muttered.

"Isn't this very compassionate?" Feng Xinming also whispered.

The two looked at each other and smiled, followed Fu Xiu into the temple and entered the last hall, the Thousand Buddha Hall.

The temple of Thousand Buddhas Hall enshrines the bronze statue of Vairocana Buddha and the white jade statue of Sakyamuni. On the three walls in the hall are large-scale colorful paintings of the five hundred Arhats of Vairocana.

The painting is exquisite and magnificent.

At this time, the bricks on the ground of the Thousand Buddha Hall were flat. The monks practiced in the door-head room near the temple, and did not have to regard the place where the sutras and Buddha statues were stored as secret practice rooms.

After coming out of the Thousand Buddha Hall, I heard the sound of placing a board in the temple, which reminded the monks to go to the vegetarian hall for vegetarian meals.

When we arrived at the dining hall, the monks were already filled with orderly.

Fu Xiu led everyone to the table where the pilgrims were sitting. In addition to Li Luotang's group, there were more than a dozen other pilgrims.

After the abbot and the presidency entered, all the monks began to recite scriptures.

Seeing the monks chanting scriptures devoutly, Li Luotang was also sitting upright, although she didn't understand the scriptures at all.

In front of each person were two bowls, a plate, a pair of chopsticks and a soup spoon.

After the monks finished reciting the sutras, the monks on duty began to distribute meals, walked to Li Luotang, and asked in a low voice: "How much meal does the donor need?"

"Half a bowl is enough." Li Luotang was not interested in vegetarian dishes.

"Today there are three dishes. Should the donor want them all, or choose one or two?"

Li Luotang looked at the three vegetarian dishes: shredded potatoes, fried black fungus with eggplant and cabbage.

Potato shreds, evenly thick and light yellow in color,

Fried black fungus with cabbage, black and white are distinct.

The appearance of these two dishes has aroused Li Luotang's appetite.

As for eggplant, Li Luotang still doesn't want to eat it for the time being, "I want to stir-fried black fungus with shredded potatoes and cabbage."

The monk on duty scooped a portion of these two dishes to her, bowed to her, and continued to serve food for others.

Li Luotang and shredded potatoes are soft and crispy, and they are full of chewyness. Although I can’t taste any seasonings and the taste is also very light, it has the most original taste of potatoes.

When stir-fried black fungus with cabbage, there are no seasonings such as onions, ginger, pepper, star anise, salt, chicken essence, etc., but the cabbage has a sweet taste, while the black fungus is refreshing and crispy.

Brown rice with this simple dish is very delicious and fragrant.

Another monk on duty came over and asked, "Don't you want this rice soup?"

Seeing that the rice soup was not fair enough, Li Luotang smiled and refused, "No, thank you."

After eating this meal, which was not very good or bad, Fu Xiu continued to lead them to visit Shaolin Temple.

They left the temple and walked up the river bank, but saw the monk picking up water by the river with a pointed bucket.

Li Luotang suddenly thought of the saying "Shaolin is produced in the world, and Shaolin Kung Fu is the best in the world", and pulled Li Luojie's sleeves, "Brother, is Shaolin Kung Fu the most powerful in the world?"

How should Li Luojie answer this question?

It is said that it feels like flattery, after all, the most powerful skill in the world is indefinitely undecided.

If you say no, it also means belittlement. Shaolin's 72 unique skills are sure to be all possessed by the martial arts oxen.

Li Luojie looked around and pretended he didn't hear it.

Feng Xinming smiled and said, "Anyone who practices kung fu, regardless of soft and hard skills, focuses on concentrating the mind and concentrating the essence, calming the mind and calming the energy. Buddhism emphasizes that the four elements are empty and the six senses are pure and quiet."

"In this way, you can concentrate on practicing martial arts and become the best in the world." Li Luotang said seriously.

Li Luojie clenched his fist with his right hand, put his lips on his back, and coughed twice. These slightly mocking words were not suitable for saying in front of the little novice monk.

"The form is invisible, the intention is unintentional, and the inadvertent is true meaning. The highest level of martial arts should be 'no moves are better than moves'!" Feng Xinming smiled.

"What you are talking about is Taoist theory. Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to ten thousand, and all things eventually return to nothing."

"Buddhism, Taoism, different paths, and there are similarities."

"There is no fixed style of the boxing, and there are moves everywhere."

Feng Xinming's eyes lit up and he smiled, "The road of martial arts has no peak, it's just better, there's no best."

Li Luotang nodded, "It's reasonable."

While speaking, I arrived at the Talin, which was surrounded by Shaoxi River in the south, Longhuling in the back, Funiu Mountains in the east, and Dangyang Slope in the west, with lush trees and beautiful and elegant environment.

To put it bluntly, this Talin is a tomb, burying Shaolin monks from all generations of Shaolin Temple.

The towers in Tallinn are of varying sizes, heights, levels, thicknesses, and shapes. Most of them have tower inscriptions and tower ridges.

There are many types of tower shapes, including squares, rectangles, hexagons, octagons and circles.

Most of the towers in Tallinn are made of bricks and stone, and most of the towers are engraved with exquisite patterns and reliefs.

Not far north to Tallinn, you will reach Chuzu Temple.

Chuzu Temple faces valleys on three sides and is connected to the five breast peaks on the back. The scenery is elegant and beautiful, with a mountain gate, a main hall and a Thousand Buddha Pavilion.
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