After Becoming a Taoist - Chapter 925

   Chapter 925 Learning from Immortals

  Yuan Shoucheng turned into a woodcutter who was chopping wood and blocked the road where the stone monkeys came out of the mountain.

At the same time, he sang: “The axe in the waist is rotten, and the chess has been rotten, and the moon has been polished. If you don’t file the branches, there is no shortage of steel. Don’t spare the ape branch and the crane, and you are used to standing on the rocky mud slope. Fame is reined in locks, and there is a song outside the cloud.”

The    voice was loud and lofty, and soon attracted the stone monkey.

  Stone Monkey listened to the song: “This must be a fairy!”

   The one who was crawling and running at the moment came to the front: “Old god! Old god, accept me as a disciple.”

   “Hahaha, I’m not an immortal.” Yuan Shoucheng said: “But a woodcutter in the mountains, who bows his waist all day long to fight rice, what kind of immortal is he?”

  The stone monkey scratched his ears and cheeks: “You are not an immortal, how can you say something that an immortal says?”

   “Haha, what did the immortal say? The immortal has already obtained Xiaoyao, so why would he say things like asking for Xiaoyao? It’s just entertainment.” Yuan Shoucheng said.

  Little Stone Monkey said: “Then you have also seen immortals. The young ones are here specifically to seek immortals. Please also introduce them.”

   “Hahaha.” Yuan Shoucheng laughed: “You monkey, you are so utilitarian, you want to learn immortals without learning from others?”

   “Do you need to learn from people first to learn immortals?” Monkey scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks: “I heard that people also learn from immortals naturally, so why did they learn from humans first when they came to me?”

“If you don’t learn from people first, you don’t know the truth. If you don’t know the truth, how can you learn the immortals?” Yuan Shoucheng advised: “If you are looking for Xianshan, if you don’t understand human nature and don’t understand the principles of being a human being, even if you see an immortal, you may not be able to catch it. Immortal Fate.”

  The little monkey heard this and went down the mountain to look for people.

   It’s just that I didn’t see the way down the mountain, the fog was thick, and it seemed to have the aroma of yellow rice.

   is also a little bit of disaster.

   When the stone monkey came down the mountain, the first person he met was a peasant. The peasant saw that he was handsome and wanted to present it to the superior.

  Monkey is innately alert, senses the hurt, and runs away quickly.

   First learned to be defensive.

   It’s just that the monkeys crawled away and walked in the downtown area, which attracted a lot of ridicule, so he quickly learned to walk upright.

  Waiting to learn to walk on his own, but instead attracts the attention of many people, and the owner of the acrobatic troupe thinks that the goods are rare, and sets up traps to lure them with fresh fruits and vegetables.

  Although the little monkey has been prepared for a long time, what is the wisdom of the beast? How can it be compared to people.

   After being caught by the monkey juggler, he was tamed and tortured again: “Beasts are animals, and they really turned themselves into humans.”

   He was beaten and restrained in chains. Every day, he performed some somersaults in the streets and alleys, did arithmetic, and received a few pennies…

  In such a prisoner-like life, the little monkey learned to forbear.

  One day, the monkey player got drunk, and the stone monkey stole the key and opened the chain.

   Originally thought of strangling the Monkey Man with chains, but in the end, he was not wrapped by the “evil” in the world.

   is learning tolerance.

   took the clothes and shoes, and the little monkey pretended to be a stray child and walked a lot.

   Finally stopped by a village school, across the window, listening to the reading inside: “The Master said: Learn and learn from time to time, you can’t say it…”

   He had been eavesdropping for a while, and the teacher also discovered him.

   Stone Monkey thought that the master would drive him away, but he didn’t want to acquiesce to him to stay here, and even said to the school children: “Even monkeys are better at learning than you!”

   As time went by, the stone monkey also sat up in the school, learned to read, and learned a lot of reasoning.

   But soon the parents of the school heard that monkeys followed their dolls to class, and they all said: “How can scholars be in the company of animals?”

   As a last resort, the teacher said to the stone monkey: “You are the most alert and studious student I have ever met, but unfortunately you and I have run out of fate, so let’s go.”

  The stone monkey was mottled with tears, and his emotions became more and more abundant. Since then, he has learned to be grateful and also learned to behave.

   set foot on the road to find immortals again, and I don’t know how long it took, the monkey learned to speak, and learned to make a fire to cook.

  Sometimes when I enter a Buddhist temple, I also want to meet the great monks and attend the meditation and worship the Buddha, but seeing that there are many sitting dead and few teaching the Dharma, I also leave.

   Or in the Taoist temple, but only said: “It’s a spiritual thing.” Looking at it as an ornamental animal, even if you open your mouth to ask for immortals, only Taoism is not lightly passed on.

   Just going around like this, the little monkey has also become a big monkey, but the goal of seeking immortals has always been in his heart, and he has not given up.

  …

   “How about my test?” Yuan Shoucheng laughed.

   “As expected of knowing people’s affairs.” Li Dandao sighed: “Good and evil have no reason, and things in the world are impermanent.”

   “This is nothing but an illusion of Huangliang Liangliang, it’s just true and false, false and true.” Yuan Shoucheng said: “I am afraid that learning from people like this will save him a few years of effort.”

  Li Dandao nodded: “It’s just that he needs to experience it himself.”

  Yuan Shoucheng withdrew from the illusion, the monkey was confused, and found himself back at the intersection where he went down the mountain many years ago.

   immediately realized that something was wrong, and shouted: “God, god!”

   However, I couldn’t find anything, so I felt a sense of loss, and for the first time I felt resentment: Since I tested me, why didn’t I see me, it made me so miserable.

   But he also regained his mood and went down the mountain.

  Although I have experienced a lot in the fantasy world, when I come to the world, it is a new experience.

   “What a handsome monkey!” a farmer exclaimed.

   This reminds the stone monkey of the experience of the fantasy world and begins to be defensive.

   But the peasants did not have the idea to capture them.

   Waiting to walk in the market, but it only attracted some children to chase and play, and no one laughed at him for not being able to walk.

  Because in the human mind, a monkey is a monkey.

   Soon what happened in the illusion, the little monkey experienced it again, but the school teacher did not let him enter the school.

  Because the monkey is stubborn, he is afraid of hurting the students.

   Little Stone Monkey was not caught by the Monkey Man…

   It was a real ups and downs all the way, sleeping in the wind and sleeping in the wild. This time, it may be too realistic. These market atmospheres have shaken the little stone monkey’s heart of seeking the Tao.

   Hunger, loneliness, incomprehension, and even death…

   “Learning Immortals…”

   I have also visited famous mountains. There are no immortals in famous mountains, but they are all worshipers of immortals. I have also visited Dongfu. The deserted and dark cave is not another world-shaking.

   After all, he reached the boundless sea and crossed the vast ocean on a raft, but it was nothing but vain. When a wave hit, he fell into the sea and drifted along with the sea, and he did not know where to go.

  I was just waiting to get to the shore again, and it was a peach garden again. The peach forest that was not missed by myself when I went down the mountain seemed to be the best home.

  The stone monkey walked into the peach forest and ate the peaches in a big mouth, and the tears flowed in big drops.

   “Are you still learning immortals?”

   “Stop studying!”

   was relieved, and after putting it down, the stone monkey, who seemed to be relieved, slowly entered a dream.

  …

   Yuan Gong felt a little distressed: “You are a good seedling, why are you tossing him so much?”

   Yuan Shoucheng also said: “Will it be too much?”

  Li Dan said with a smile: “That’s good. If you seek immortals, you will not be immortals. Now you don’t ask for them, but you can understand them in your heart. If you don’t have obsessions, you will be easy to teach.”

   (end of this chapter)