Before he left, Gu Yi gave a donation of 20,000 yuan, which was already very rare for a non-believer in Buddhism.
Some people have a predestined relationship with the Buddha, while some people have no predestined relationship with the Buddha.
People who are predestined to the Buddha worship the Buddha, worship the Buddha, respect the Buddha, visit the Buddha, and practice Buddhism; those who are not predestined to the Buddha are far away from the Buddha, abandon the Buddha, curse the Buddha, and curse the Buddha.
The Buddha saves people who are destined to be good and evil in a single thought.
Lao Tan sent Gu Yi and Yang Zhijun to the parking lot on the mountainside and watched them go away, feeling a sense of sadness in his heart.
Gu Yi told him about opening a store, and he advised Gu Yi not to open it. He told him that this year he would mainly focus on recuperating and cultivating his internal strength, improving the quality of dishes and services, improving management capabilities, and improving the operation system. In a word, he would suspend opening a store to lay the foundation.
Accumulate energy for future development.
Although Gu Yi was puzzled, he believed in Lao Tan in this regard, so he agreed.
Before Lao Tan went up the mountain, he had handed over the focus of this year's work to Zhou Xiaomei. He hoped that Zhou Xiaomei would follow the plan he had made. This was the most correct thing for Ah Qiao at the moment.
Again, money cannot be earned in a short time. If the foundation is not laid well, everything will be a castle in the air, and sooner or later it will collapse. This year is a year of rectification, laying the foundation, and withdrawing funds. Only by laying the foundation well will the funds come back.
Only then can we be ready to develop our ambitions.
He also took his body into consideration.
It's a lie to say you're not afraid of death. As the saying goes, it's better to live than to die. If there is a glimmer of hope, you don't want to die.
I have to admit that he has a good attitude and is optimistic about his condition. He is glad that he has met a good Chinese medicine doctor who can responsibly prescribe the right medicine and treatment and control the condition.
He could feel the changes in his body. The cancer cells were controlled from the root, unlike chemotherapy which only killed them on the surface.
This feeling is very subtle. It can be felt, but it is difficult to explain clearly.
If a cancer cell is compared to a poisonous lotus, then his stomach is the soil suitable for the growth of this poisonous lotus.
If it is chemotherapy, it will only wither a few petals of the lotus, but the roots are still there and the soil is still there. Within a few days, the withered petals will wither and new petals will grow out.
The current situation is that the poisonous lotus is still there and growing normally, but the soil suitable for its growth is quietly changing, from being suitable in the past to being unsuitable. To put it bluntly, the nutrients for the poisonous lotus to grow are gradually decreasing.
It won't be long before it disappears.
Once the soil is gone, the poisonous lotus will die sooner or later, no matter how good it grows.
This is the magic of traditional Chinese medicine - treating the root cause. If not, then the root cause will be eliminated.
Lao Tan understands that getting sick is like a wall falling down, and getting rid of it is like spinning. He is keeping an optimistic attitude now, telling himself not to worry, and to take care of himself, and he will probably be cured in two years.
It is best not to let anything happen during this period, and don’t get angry in a hurry. Once you get angry in a hurry, it will easily make the condition worse and all your efforts will be wasted.
This is his true feeling, and this is also the actual situation.
In the afternoon, seven pilgrims from Chongqing arrived.
There were seven pilgrims, four women and three men, with an average age of over fifty. The oldest one, sixty-eight years old, was the group leader, named Wang Jianguo. He was a soldier. He was tall, with a Chinese-character face, a majestic face, not angry, and looked like a leader.
The other two men are sixty-one years old, around 22, with medium build. They appear to be retired cadres, named Wang Shengli and Li Guohua.
The eldest of the four girls is fifty-eight, named Li Xia, and the other three are named Yue Guimei, Li Yanjing, and Yuan Fang. Yuan Fang is the youngest, forty-five.
The seven people are all diabetic patients and can be said to be fellow patients. They all love to travel and are Buddhist believers, so they organized a group trip together to visit ancient temples and temples hidden in the mountains. It can be said that they must enter every temple and burn incense in the temple.
It not only cultivates the sentiment, but also exercises the body, indirectly cures the disease, and at the same time pays homage to the Buddha. It can be said that it kills four birds with one stone.
To be honest, pilgrims like them who can travel around have an economic foundation that ordinary people cannot compare with. Ordinary people have to live a tight life with diabetes. No matter how good their life is, they can live a tight life. It is impossible to travel around - without spending money
Money.
That night, Lao Tan cooked a table full of dishes to welcome his new friends. Knowing that they were from Chongqing, he specially cooked four spicy and numbing dishes.
Mr. Jia brought out the pine needle wine, and Lao Tan also contributed the Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng wine, and they had a sumptuous dinner together.
At the dinner table, Mr. Jia explained the rules here. The seven people understood it immediately and also understood it before coming. Wang Jianguo made personnel arrangements on the spot.
Wang Shengli and Li Guohua were responsible for carrying water, Li Xia and Du Guimei were making breakfast, and Li Yanjing and Yuan Fang were responsible for helping Lao Tan cook and going up the mountain to collect firewood with him.
Wang Jianguo said: "We have traveled to many places. In other places, you have to pay to stay in a guest room and have meals, and there is a time limit, which cannot exceed five days. Those places are said to be in the mountains, but in fact they are all commercialized, and it is difficult to even drink water.
Want money.
We learned about our place from the Internet. Someone who had stayed here posted photos online and introduced the situation in detail. We came here because of its reputation and have always wanted to find a place like this."
Li Xia, the eldest of the four girls, said with some worry: "We took the train from Hohhot and hired a minibus when we came here. We didn't have time to buy too many vegetables, and we didn't have much rice and noodles. It was only enough for a week."
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Lao Tan said: "Don't worry about food. The rice, flour and oil I brought are enough for us to eat for a month, and there is enough meat. My friend brought a lot of it today. As for the vegetables, don't worry about it. A special car will go down to the mountain to buy it every three days. Send the money
Just give it to them.
When you came here, you should have looked at the village where you just entered the mountain. You can buy all the vegetables there. They are pure green and you can eat them with confidence."
The next morning, Old Tan led Wang Shengli and Li Guohua to Donggou to fetch water. Mr. Jia led Wang Jianguo, Li Yanjing and Yuan Fang up the mountain to collect firewood. Old Mrs. Jiang led Li Xia and Yue Guimei to make breakfast.
It was the first time for Wang Shengli and Li Guohua to carry water. Lao Tan did not ask them to carry a full bucket, but filled one bucket with two buckets of water, which was not easy to spill but also light.
"You two come step by step, don't get tired all at once. You are over sixty years old, no younger than you are." Lao Tan said.
"Yes, it's been many years since I carried water."
Lao Tan walked in front carrying two full buckets of water, and the two of them followed behind.
The air in the morning is crisp and refreshing.
The young grass buds on the sunny slopes have already protruded from the ground, mixed with the withered grass. From a distance, they looked green and yellow, with a hint of spring. The mountain peach branches were green, and the flower bones arched out were like blue beans, with a hint of light in the center.
pink.
Lao Tan was carrying the water and walked easily. If you look closely, his steps and breathing were very regular. He took exactly four steps with one breath and one breath, two steps with one breath and two steps with one breath. The pole on his shoulders trembled exactly twice.
After learning the method of breathing and breathing from the old lama, Lao Tan practiced it for a week and now he has mastered it. When carrying water, he found the rhythm between steps and breathing. He felt more relaxed and no longer breathless.
He could clearly hear the footsteps and breathing of the two people behind him from the front. After walking for a while, he heard the two people's shortness of breath. When he was out of breath, he stopped in time and asked the two people to take a rest.
"Are you tired?" Lao Tan asked with a smile.
"A little bit." Wang Shengli said while wiping his sweat.
Lao Tan said: "Take your time and just exercise and you'll be fine."
Li Guohua said: "Yes, it's mainly due to lack of exercise."
Lao Tan nodded, and then said: "I will teach you two a breathing method. You two will try it later to see if it feels lighter."
So Lao Tan explained his method of two steps, one inhale, two steps and one exhale, and tried to practice it after the two of them shouldered the burden again.
The two of them couldn't find the pace and breathing frequency at first, and they were a little confused. After walking a hundred meters, they gradually caught up. The pace and breathing reached the same level, and they felt relaxed. It wasn't until they walked the same distance as when they took the first break that they started to catch up.
tired.
When resting again, Lao Tan said: "The air is good in the morning, the sun is rising, the yang energy is rising and the yin energy is sinking, it is the best time to let go of the old and bring in the new. Morning walking, morning jogging and water carrying are all exercises, and the principles are the same.
Master the rhythm of breathing and movement, and achieve a balance between the two, often getting twice the result with half the effort.
Cultivating Buddhism and Taoism is about letting go of the old and embracing the new. The so-called method is the rules. Once you find the rules, stick to them and form a habit."