The carriage shook, causing Liu Yaoyu to complain softly, "I don't know who is in that carriage, how dare they act so recklessly on the mountain road."
Yu Jiao handed her her hand and helped Liu Yaoyu get off the carriage, and Tao Ge'er jumped off the carriage by himself.
Madam Liu and Old Lady Liu were already waiting in front. The three of them walked forward and saw a nun waiting outside the nunnery. She welcomed them into the nunnery. In the main hall, the Three Buddhas were enshrined. The nun serving incense in the hall distributed incense to them. After offering incense, everyone knelt on the cushions in turn to worship the Buddha.
The hall was filled with smoke, solemn and dignified.
Yu Jiao knelt on the cushion, looked up at the golden Buddha statue that showed compassion for all living beings, and bowed down with extreme piety.
She didn't believe in gods or Buddhas before, even though her grandfather had asked her to read the Book of Changes and learn astrology and divination since she was a child. But Yu Jiao always felt that astrology could be explained by science. The Five Elements and Eight Trigrams were actually a form of calculation, just like Western classical philosophy. It belonged to the category of philosophy. Philosophy guided science, and this thing needed to be viewed dialectically.
But after my soul traveled through Tai Yan's body, I felt that perhaps there is destiny.
When people are extremely powerless, placing hope in gods and Buddhas is also a form of spiritual sustenance.
After worshipping the Three Buddhas, Mrs. Liu went to the Guanyin Temple. Liu Yaozhen had been married to the Cui family for two years, but there was still no movement in her stomach. Every time Mrs. Liu came to Lianxi Temple, she would go to the Guanyin Temple to help her eldest daughter pray for a child.
The old lady also knew about it. She asked Madam Liu to go to the Guanyin Temple by herself, while she took Yu Jiao, Liu Yaoyu and Tao Ge'er to the Ksitigarbha Temple to meet the abbot.
There are hundreds of yellow lamp tubes with green lamps burning inside the Ksitigarbha Hall. The whole hall is filled with a warm yellow candle halo, which further highlights the noble and majestic appearance of the golden statue of Ksitigarbha.
The presiding nun held a sutra in her hand, knelt on a cushion beside a candlestick table, and the sound of Sanskrit lingered in the air.
In the curling scent of sandalwood, even the most faithless person can develop a compassionate heart.
The host, Master Miaochang, finished reciting a volume of scriptures, then stood up and led Old Madam Liu and the others to sit in a side hall.
The old lady worshipped Buddha all year round, so she built a small Buddhist temple in Baoshou Hall. She was very familiar with Master Miaochang. She asked Yu Jiao to take out the seal incense and Baohe incense cakes, and said to Master Miaochang, "This is made by my third daughter. Medicinal herbs are used in the incense. Burning it can calm the mind and purify the heart. It is very good to burn this incense when worshiping Buddha and chanting scriptures. I brought some to Master Miaochang."
Master Miao Chang opened the wooden box and saw the swastika incense inside. Her eyes lit up slightly and she lowered her head to sniff it. She looked at Yu Jiao with a kind smile and praised, "The third young lady of the Ling Mansion is really clever and skillful. Making incense seals is time-consuming and requires patience. People with impetuous minds cannot make such delicate seals. The third young lady is so patient at such a young age. It is rare."
Yu Jiao smiled faintly, "Master, you are too kind."
Master Miao Chang smiled faintly and said, "Monks do not tell lies."
The most distinctive feature of seal incense is that when you light either end of it, the incense itself will burn out completely according to the seal-shaped imprint. Temples often use seal incense to tell time, so seal incense is also called hundred-carve incense. In addition to smelling the fragrance, you can also watch the smoke.
Master Miaochang took out a flat incense burner with inscriptions all over the ten directions, put the swastika incense made by Yu Jiao into it, burned it, and concentrated on observing.
Liu Yaoyu knew that her grandmother would talk about Buddhism with Master Miaochang for a long time every time she came. Now that Master Miaochang had burned the seal incense made by Yu Jiao and watched the smoke, Yu Jiao was afraid that she would not be able to leave this side hall for a while.
She had originally thought that while her grandmother was discussing Buddhism with Master Miaochang, she would take Yu Jiao to the yard in the back mountain to watch the rabbits!
Liu Yaoyu was not interested in Buddhism. She sat there for a while, then leaned close to Yu Jiao's ear and whispered to her, "I'm going to the back hill to see the rabbits. You can find me there later."
After saying that, Liu Yaoyu quietly got up and left the side hall.
When Tao Ge'er saw this, he also followed out on tiptoe.
Old Madam Liu noticed what the two were doing, but as she didn't want to be impolite in front of Master Miaochang, she kept silent and let them go.
The Buddhist smoke was vague. Master Miaochang closed her eyes and smelled the light agarwood in the air. She felt her mind was cleansed and the surroundings seemed to be quiet in an instant. Her whole body became light as well. She heard the sound of the wind outside the house, the singing of birds in the deep forest behind the mountain, the gurgling sound of the stream, and had a feeling of being detached from the world.
Miao Chang knew that she had entered into a state of tranquility and selflessness. When she came back to her senses, she looked at Yu Jiao, put her hands together, and solemnly chanted a Zen mantra, saying, "The smell of this seal incense is too light if it is too little, and too strong if it is too much. It is very suitable for Buddhist meditation."
"As long as you like it, Master." Yu Jiao said politely.
Master Miaochang went to look at the incense burner, and after a moment of silence, she said to Old Lady Liu, "The third young lady has a very Zen mind, and she has a connection with my Buddhist sect."
"What do you mean?" Old Madam Liu was extremely happy when she heard Master Miaochang say that Yu Jiao had a Zen mind. But after hearing the second half of the sentence, her mood became complicated. "Having a connection with Buddhism" did it mean that Yu Jiao was suitable to be accompanied by the ancient Buddha and the green lamp?
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