Chapter 8: Five Tastes of Life
There was smoke from cooking in the market. Kongming added a piece of dry firewood under the stove and got up. He added a little salt, a few drops of sesame oil, and boiled cabbage in fragrant water.
Jiang Xiaoyu stood beside Kong Ming with his bowls and chopsticks! Kong Ming took Jiang Xiaoyu's bowls and chopsticks, grabbed a few cabbage leaves, put a spoonful of clear soup and handed it to Jiang Xiaoyu.
"Amitabha! Fisherman, the taste of clear soup and water is the taste that the Buddha should have. I am not contaminated with the mortal world and eat vegetable leaves without any seasonings.
This cabbage carries the loneliness of an old woman throughout her life, and she does good deeds in her life! It is the sweetest thing to cook. This is also her last charity to my master, so when you eat it, you should carefully taste the taste of this old woman’s life.
Under the lonely night, the lonely soul wandered and turned to the Hanku Temple in Foyin Mountain." Kong Ming said.
Jiang Xiaoyu couldn't understand because he was hungry! The first bite of cabbage with salt added with sesame oil is fragrant and sweet in the mouth. This is the first bite.
After Jiang Xiaoyu finished eating the first cabbage leaf and the second one, the taste was faintly salty in his mouth! When he ate three cabbage leaves, he felt bitter.
"How come Master has the salty and astringent taste of tears? It's bitter." Jiang Xiaoyu put down the bowls and chopsticks.
"Amitabha! A mortal will experience the three flavors of sweet, fragrant and bitter in their lives. Fisherman, what you experience now is sweet, and when you recall it, it is fragrant. After experiencing the world, the final taste will only be bitter.
You know the warmth and coldness, and you will taste the sweetness and bitterness." Kong Ming taught.
"Oh! Yuer doesn't understand what it means, but Yuer remembers it." Jiang Xiaoyu responded.
"Just remember! The five flavors of life: sweet, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. Yuer, you can eat three flavors now. One of the bitter tastes shows that you are kind in your heart and know the way to suffering." Kong Ming said.
Kong Ming got up and put the last few cabbage leaves and vegetable soup in the pot into the bowl. The open fire under the stove had now been extinguished, and the vegetables in the pot were burnt clean.
"Bitty!? What is the question of the sufferings of life?" Jiang Xiaoyu asked for a moment of fright.
Kong Ming picked up the vegetable leaves from the bowl and put them into his mouth, and then taught: "The bitterness of life can only be truly experienced by entering the world. You will find that the bitterness at that time is even more bitter than the bitterness tasted now.
That is the pain in my heart, which cannot be said or spoken.
Five flavors of life! This cabbage given to the old woman by the old woman is difficult to swallow in the mouth of the master. You can taste the old woman's lifelong loneliness by taking a bite.
The five flavors are mixed, and the taste in the mouth is called mixed flavors.
Do you remember what Master said!?”
"The disciple remember! What the master said is the tastelessness is sweet, bitter, spicy and salty! The disciple can now eat the sweet and bitter taste, and the fragrance is not one of the five flavors, but the fragrance of sesame oil that the disciple eats.
The disciple wants to eat other real three flavors, and only after entering the world can he truly taste them." Jiang Xiaoyu responded.
"Amitabha! After practicing Buddhism and practicing Buddhism, how many pure Buddhist disciples will eventually embark on the most difficult path to the devil Buddha.
My disciple has too many evil deeds in his previous life, so I searched for the mortal world! It is difficult and difficult to become an immortal in your Buddhist path.
Good! Good!" Kong Ming sighed.
Jiang Xiaoyu is the most talented Buddhist disciple and the most profound Buddhist disciple! When he becomes a demon and becomes a pure Buddha, he will wait for a cause and effect when he becomes a demon.
"Master, are you talking about Yu'er?" Jiang Xiaoyu looked at Kong Ming with clear and clean eyes.
"Yes! A piece of white paper when you are ignorant. What Master can do now is to draw a frame on your white paper and set rules to form a square.
When you are ignorant, those who learn good are good, and those who are accustomed to evil are evil.
Growing up is one thing, and real adulthood is another.
Fisherman, Master can teach you to grow up with you! But he can’t accompany you to adulthood.
What adults need is the experience of the world and the baptism of the mortal world! Only then can people truly understand the truth and understand the true meaning of life.
Becoming a Buddha means Buddha! Becoming a demon means demon.
It's all a fate method." Kong Ming squatted down and touched Jiang Xiaoyu's head, took the dishes and chopsticks in Jiang Xiaoyu's hand to his hand, washed it clean, and hid it with a wave.
"I still don't understand!" Jiang Xiaoyu responded confusedly.
For the eight-year-old Jiang Xiaoyu, he still doesn’t know what it means.
"Desire, anger! Lifelong thoughts, eternal thoughts. Amitabha..." Kong Ming did not continue to say anything after he yelled the Buddha's name.
Jiang Xiaoyu thought ignorantly, remembering every word his master said! But he couldn't even understand no matter how much he thought about it.
"Why does a pure Buddha come to the mortal world? Master can let his disciples stay by your side forever, practice Buddhism, recite Buddhist scriptures, and eat vegetarian food." Jiang Xiaoyu, who was thinking, suddenly said.
"Buddhism and Buddhism! Where is the law of fate, the so-called pure Buddha is a practitioner who is born in the mortal world and is nirvana. He has the pure light of the Buddha's path, and all dharmas are not invaded! All evil people avoid it.
He is the strongest and most invincible Vajra Buddha among the immortals.
Yu'er, just remember it! You will naturally realize it when you have the fate." Kong Ming responded.
At this time, Kongming built up the scattered dried vegetables, faced the Buddha's heart seal apricot yellow flag, sat cross-legged, buzzing in his mouth, chanting the Buddha's mantra, and the Buddha's heart seal shone brightly.
Jiang Xiaoyu knew that Master was doing Buddhism, so he never disturbed him again! If he could figure it out, he would listen to Master’s thoughts and stop thinking about it.
He looked at the master who was sitting cross-legged and chanting the Buddha's mantra, and just watched and listened! He instantly fell into an ethereal state, surrounded by Buddha seals, and Jiang Xiaoyu's body was shining with a faint Buddha's light.
After a moment, Kongming stood up and the Sanskrit disappeared! Jiang Xiaoyu also woke up.
"Amitabha!" Kong Ming looked at Jiang Xiaoyu's Buddha light hidden in his body and smiled with satisfaction.
Jiang Xiaoyu opened his eyes and pointed at the Buddha's heart seal apricot yellow flag curiously and shouted: "Master, you added the Buddhist true words! Will there be a major disaster here?"
"No! Master teaches you to practice within ten years. Master will never go down the mountain again in the past ten years. This is used to protect all the people below the mountain to offset disasters and block all kinds of evil charms." Kong Ming responded.
The Buddha's heart seals the apricot yellow flag, and there is a Buddhist mantra hanging on each side.
Mamiba Paihum
Amitabha Buddha
"Oh!" Jiang Xiaoyu responded.
At this moment, Jiang Xiaoyu responded, the candied haws rack placed in the shed fell to the ground with a "splash".
Jiang Xiaoyu turned his head and wanted to go up and help the candied haw rack covered with sugar! The candied haw rack just ran over and suddenly started to burn, burning! It burned to ashes in an instant.
"Amitabha! The worldly fate has come to an end." Kong Ming exclaimed the Buddha's name and said.
"Master! Is it that old donor?" Jiang Xiaoyu asked.
"That's right! Now he should have been in the gradient and ended all the world. He is a Buddhist disciple from now on, cultivating that pure Buddha.
Fisherman! Let's go.
There are still mortals waiting to be saved by the master in the temple." Kong Ming said with a sigh.
Chapter completed!