Chapter 73 Listening to Flowers
After Li Ye understood from Mu Mu the importance of the Heavenly Eye in the practice of swordsmanship, he never touched the sword again.
Every day, apart from cooking for Mumu and making tea for myself, I would cover my eyes and use my ears and consciousness to feel everything.
I sat by the water tank at the entrance of the cave for a long time, listening carefully to the sound of the snow in the cave flowing out of the bamboo tubes, flowing along the cliff, and finally hugging the stone slabs at the foot of the mountain.
Feel the force at which water droplets of different sizes smash on the stone slab at the moment they hit the ground, and the different sounds of falling on leaves and stones and stone slabs.
Thinking about how he would fight against the falling water if he was sitting on the stone slab of the cliff, he kept waving his hands, as if he was carefully performing every sword technique in his hand.
Mu Mu moved a stool and sat under the eaves. Li Ye, who was in a daze, couldn't help but take a piece of bamboo leaf, waved his little hand, and gently floated it towards Li Ye.
Li Ye, who felt the airflow around him changed, gathered his consciousness, felt the airflow around him, stretched out his hand, and grabbed the leaf thrown by Mu Mu.
Li Ye was stunned and looked at the bamboo leaves in his hand.
Mu Mu was stunned and looked at the bamboo leaf in her brother's hand.
His mind was spinning, Mu Mu looked at Li Ye in confusion, and shouted: "Brother, I obviously didn't use any force, I was floating lightly, and you are blindfolded!"
Li Ye didn't understand either. He looked at Mu Mu and said, "I don't know either. I just felt that the airflow around me had changed, so I grabbed it subconsciously."
"Mumu come again, this time use a little more force on the leaves." Li Ye said, blindfolded again.
When Mu Mu heard this, she waved her little hand, and another bamboo leaf cut through the air and hit Li Ye's side.
His ears trembled, his consciousness concentrated, and he felt the changes in the air around him with all his strength. He waved his right hand and clamped the bamboo leaf attacking his right side with his fingers.
When Mu Mu took a look, she became interested and yelled not to move and continued. With a wave of her hand, she threw out two bamboo leaves this time, flying to Li Ye's left and right in different directions.
At this time, Li Ye had completely emptied his mind and entered a state where he forgot both things and me.
Although I didn't open my eyes, I could see more clearly than usual.
At this moment, he finally understood why Mu Mu said that the bamboo leaves he threw were too slow. It was not because his throwing speed was slow, but because Mu Mu had a clear eye to see through the essence of everything.
It seemed that the leaves thrown by Li Ye became much slower in front of her, and she could catch every leaf she threw calmly.
Looking at the bamboo leaves flying towards him, he stretched out his left and right hands respectively and gently caught the two bamboo leaves that Mu Mu threw towards him.
Taking off the black cloth covering his eyes, Li Ye waved to Mu Mu and said, "Sister, I understand a little bit why you said the leaves I threw were too slow. Thank you for accompanying me these days."
Mu Mu ran over, hugged Li Ye who was sitting on the ground, and kissed him on the face. She said coquettishly: "Brother, we have been bored here for several days. How about we go out to play today?"
Li Ye took Mu Mu's hand and stood up, smiling happily: "If you are happy today, we can go wherever you want. It doesn't matter if you go crazy for a day!"
"Go, get some dried meat and a kettle, let's go play." Mu Mu clapped her hands and shouted.
After patting the dust on his clothes, Li Ye went into the wooden house and poured hot water into the kettle. He also took some dried meat from the shelf, turned around and left the house, took Mu Mu's hand and walked out of the woods.
go.
Mu Mu held Li Ye's hand and murmured as they walked: "Let's go to the grassy slope where you first picked mushrooms. There should be flowers blooming there now."
Li Ye nodded and said yes.
After leaving the woods, Mu Mu stopped, waving her little hands and mumbling. In just a moment, the entrance to the woods changed. The path in was no longer visible, only a gentle mist.
Li Ye made a request in front of him and was stunned for a moment.
Mu Mu pulled Li Ye and asked her to carry him. Li Ye lowered his head and let Mu Mu climb on his back, and ran up the mountain road with her on his back.
Mu Mu lay on Li Ye's back, giggling at the scenery in front of her, and whispered in his ear: "That's a little trick. Mr. taught me when he went up the mountain. We left the wooden house and came to see the people and beasts in the mountain."
I can’t even get in.”
Only then did Li Ye understand why his husband had been talking about Mumu God for a long time when he left. It turned out that he was teaching the whole Mumu forest the restrictions. He just couldn't understand why he didn't teach him.
March in the Tianshan Mountains is the season when warblers fly and grass grows. The fragrance of flowers and grasses all over the mountains and plains, as well as the fragrance of the earth after melting snow water, are caught in the spring breeze of the mountain, blowing towards the two of them.
Li Ye was so excited that he forgot that he was carrying a younger sister, Mu Mu, like a shadow, heading towards the grassy slope of the mountain.
After bypassing many mountain roads and passing through pine forests, in less than half an hour, we arrived at the hillside where Li Ye and his husband first came.
After putting Mu Mu down, Li Ye found a cedar tree to sit down on, took out the kettle and drank some water.
Mumu took steps forward and ran towards the hillside full of wild flowers.
With the moisture from the melted snow and the warm sunshine from morning to night, the weeds on the mountain are growing like crazy.
The flowers that want to bloom in spring are competing to bloom. They want to grow and bloom to their heart's content in this warm spring day for the fruits of summer.
Li Ye looked at Mu Mu who was dancing in the flowers and shouted: "Sister, don't run too far. I will stay under this tree to rest for a while. If you are hungry, come over and drink water and eat meat."
Mu Mu turned around and nodded towards Li Ye, using her small hands to pick the wild flowers all over the slope.
Li Ye closed his eyes, let go of his consciousness, and felt every sound and subtle change in this land with his heart.
At this moment, in addition to his ears, he was observing the world with his heart.
Use the movement of your spiritual consciousness, like the wind, to feel the movement of all things, showing the various shapes of mountain creatures, such as shaking and shaking the trees, causing them to break and make a loud noise, or the cold and hot winds blowing on you, causing joy.
And joy.
Wind has no limbs, face, shape, nor colors such as black, white, yellow, and red. The same is true for ordinary consciousness, which has no color, shape, or light.
But Li Ye showed various differences due to the combination of causes and conditions. At this moment, his perception, awareness, and Dharma world had colors and shapes, as if he had opened his eyes to see the world.
With his spiritual consciousness flying, he can conceive and draw various patterns and images, and draw all kinds of strange paintings.
The mind and spirit seem to have developed six faculties. Because the eye faculties see color and dust, eye consciousness is invisible; because the ears faculties hear sounds, sounds have form and color; because the body faculties are aware of touch, they can experience form and color.
The little hand stretched out, as if touching the green grass swaying gently in the wind on the hillside, and the flowers blooming one by one.
There are also seeds that sprout in the soil and want to break through the seeds that block their growth...
This feeling was something Li Ye had never experienced before. He had developed the Eye of Wisdom and was only one step away from the Eye of Buddha.
At this moment, he finally saw the invisible world with his eyes and observed the world with his heart.
Mumu, who was tired from playing, ran back, sat down next to Li Ye, and shouted for water and meat. She was so crazy that she was a little hungry and wanted to fill her stomach before playing.
Li Ye took out the kettle and handed it to her, then took out the dried meat, carefully tore it open, and fed it to Ye's mouth. Mu Mu stretched out her head and opened her small mouth to eat.
Looking at the white clouds floating in the sky, I thought that I would be seven years old in a few months.
At the age of seven, he is already at the seventh level of foundation building, and has reached the fifth level of "Phaseless Dharmakaya" practice. He has developed a spiritual consciousness that surpasses Mu Mu, and has an eye that can perceive the heaven and earth. In this world, it is a miracle.
Looking at Mu Mu who was eating meat seriously, Li Ye thought for a moment, hugged her and said, "Mu Mu, when you're full, you can climb up the tree and try to drop the flowers in your hands one by one.
Can I catch it, okay?"
While eating the meat that Li Ye had torn into pieces, Mu Mu looked up and said, "You don't have to climb this tree. I'll jump up there. I'll help you when I'm full."
"You pick more flowers later, and when you get back, I will throw them from the house for you to play with, so that your sword skills can improve a bit."
Mu Mu nodded, saying that was okay, and then took another sip of water.
If the gentleman were here, he would be surprised. He would never have thought that Li Ye would blindfold his eyes and practice his swordsmanship by listening to the sound of the wind, and he had already found the method.
For almost all practitioners, the darkness where they can't see their fingers is a terrifying thing, let alone practicing their swordsmanship in such circumstances.
Li Ye unexpectedly discovered the secret of practicing in the dark while practicing swordplay with Mu Mu.
After eating, Mu Mu took another sip of water, patted her belly and said, "Brother, I can only play with you for a while. I have to go pick some flowers and put them in the house."
Li Ye nodded and told her to be careful.
Mu Mu exerted force on her feet, twisted her waist, and climbed onto the branch of the cedar tree next to her. She stood on it and looked at Li Ye, giggling and saying, "Quickly, cover your eyes."
Li Ye nodded, sat down under the cedar tree, covered his eyes, emptyed his consciousness, and carefully felt every inch of the land around him and every wind that blew by.
Mumu sat on the tree, holding the flower in her hand, carefully peeling it off petal by petal, and gently threw it on Li Ye's head.
Without using any force, just let the petals fall naturally one by one.
Li Ye, with his five hearts pointing toward the sky, felt the changes in the air above his head, and spread his palms to welcome every falling petal. At this moment, Li Ye's heart turned to the Buddha, and the Buddha was in my heart.
A faint golden light appeared around him, spreading to the surroundings and to Mumu on the tree above his head.
The fallen petals seemed to have eyes, and each petal fell quietly into Li Ye's palm.
Mu Mu looked at Li Ye under the tree and couldn't help but open her mouth. She looked at the faint Buddha's light spreading over Li Ye's body and the Buddha's light around her.
The petals in my hand continued to fall down one by one, gently, as if there was a rain of petals.
Under the tree, Li Ye stretched out his palms like a Buddha holding a flower, catching each fallen petal, and then gently placed it in the open space in front of him.
Mu Mu, who was on the tree, tilted her head and thought for a while, then stretched out her hand to pick off the pine branches from the tree. She polished her hands and gently threw the thin pine needles down. She thought that the pine needles were so thin and it depends on how you pick them up.
Li Ye, who was under the tree, suddenly felt the change in the airflow above his head. He couldn't help but freeze his consciousness and carefully appreciate the subtle changes in the air.
He turned his palms and gently pinched the fallen pine needles.
Although I didn't catch it completely, I caught 70 to 80% of what fell.
Mumu on the tree was stunned again, thinking that even if she sat under the tree, she might not be able to catch pine needles?
Could it be that in just a few days, my brother surpassed his own perception of changes in these subtle things?
She changed patterns on the tree, dropping petals for a while and pine needles for a while.
Li Ye under the tree carefully felt every change, grabbed every falling petal, and tried hard to catch every falling pine needle.
Mu Mu became impatient. With a wave of her hand, she threw down all the pine needles and petals in her hand, and shouted: "No more playing. Brother, you are already better than Mu Mu."
With a strong kick, he flew down the branch and ran towards the flowers on the hillside.
Catching the last fallen petals and pine needles, Li Ye uncovered the black cloth covering his eyes, looked at his hands, at the petals placed beside him and the pine needles on the ground...
Flowers are blooming quietly on the hillside.
The spring mountain breeze is blowing gently.
The sun shone lazily on him.
Chapter completed!