Chapter 48: Disasters can be overcome, but inner demons cannot be eliminated
After dinner, I accompanied the old man to perform the Five Animals Play, and corrected some of the mistakes of the two old men.
Wang An drove to the county seat and bought some New Year's goods, Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers, and a cable. When he passed by a fitness equipment store, he stopped the car and went in to take a look.
“Hello, what kind of fitness equipment would you like to see?” The store owner looked to be less than forty years old. He was quite strong and looked like someone who regularly works out.
“How much does your heaviest dumbbell weigh?”
“We have fifty kilograms of dumbbells here, as well as dumbbell plates that you can adjust yourself.”
“Fifty kilograms is too light.” Wang And said.
“Too light?” The man was stunned after hearing this and thought, “Did you have some misunderstanding about fifty kilograms?”
“It’s fifty kilograms, not fifty kilograms.” He repeated it again.
"I know."
Wang An walked to the dumbbells that could be combined. The heaviest dumbbell only weighed ten kilograms.
He assembled an 80-kilogram dumbbell by himself, tried it in his hand, and lifted it up with one hand.
The muscular-looking man next to him was stunned for a moment, his eyes widening.
“Holy shit, are you paying someone back?”
“Well, this weight is still a bit light. Don’t you guys have 20 kilograms of dumbbells?”
“Ah, what? 20 kilograms of dumbbell plates, those are barbell plates, used for barbells, the kind used for weightlifting.”
“Do you have one?” In Wang An’s view, there is not much difference between barbells and dumbbells. They are just large dumbbells.
“Yes, over here.”
Finally, Wang An left with a pair of barbells under the dumbfounded gaze of the shop owner.
The 200 kilogram barbell and the barbell plates were placed on the car, and the car obviously sank a lot.
“What a man of God!” The boss said with emotion as he looked at Wang An leaving.
Back home, Wang An assembled the barbell and gave it a try.
One hundred kilograms is a little light, and two hundred kilograms is a little heavy, but it’s not an unbearable weight. Just right for exercise.
At noon, after lunch, snowflakes started to fall in the sky, not big and scattered.
After lunch break, Wang An went to the mountains again and came to the place he had chosen yesterday.
He tied the millstone with a cable, then found a strong tree, selected one as thick as a bowl, and climbed up the tree in a few seconds.
Tie a few loops of rags to the branch and hang the millstone up with a cable.
Wang An held the cable with one hand, slowly pulled up the millstone, and then slowly lowered it.
Repeat twenty times and then switch to the other arm once to exercise your physical strength.
After using each arm a hundred times, he felt that both arms were swollen and hot, and his back was also a little burning.
Soon he began to practice "Five Animal Exercises" to relieve the discomfort in his arms and back. Think of it as stretching after strenuous exercise.
After that, the practice continued, and the millstone weighing more than 400 kilograms was pulled up and put down, and the repetition was repeated.
“You use your own method to exercise, and the muscles of your arms, shoulders, and back will be significantly exercised. If you stick to it, your strength will be enhanced.”
“It really works!” Wang Anxin said.
Then Wang An tied a circle of rags around the trunk of the dead tree he saw yesterday and began to practice his palm skills.
His luck, slapped his palm on the tree trunk,
Vajra Zen Palm,
Hand after palm, slapped on the tree trunk.
Hundreds of kilometers away, outside Hu'an City, in Songlin Temple.
Li Xinzhu looked at Monk Hong'an who was eating roast chicken. The other party was also looking at him.
“Is the roast chicken delicious?”
“Amitabha, the young monk is saving this chicken. It is guilty. Why is the donor here?”
“What the hell, I want to find the abbot Zen Master.”
After hearing this, Li Xinzhu went to sit down under a tree.
"The donor has something on his mind?" Hong An looked at his worried look and came over with the roast chicken.
Hmm, Li Xinzhu responded.
“Tell me, maybe the young monk can help the donor.”
“You?” Li Xinzhu glanced sideways at the young monk holding the roast chicken. "You can't do it, you look unreliable."
“Amitabha, don’t judge people by their appearance.”
“Okay, I’m idle anyway, so I’ll tell you something to relieve my boredom.”
Li Xinzhu then told Monk Hong'an about his experience of having nightmares every day since seeing the painting.
Monk Hong'an was silent for a long time after hearing this, with a solemn expression on his face.
"What's the matter? What did the monk think of?" Seeing Hong An's expression, Li Xinzhu's heart skipped a beat.
"Donor, you must be mentally prepared." Monk Hong'an said with a serious face.
“I, I was mentally prepared before I came.”
“If the donor has any unfulfilled wishes, please do it as soon as possible.”
“No, what’s going on? When you say this, you feel like I’m about to die?”
“The benefactor’s inner demons have arisen. If there is a way, the disaster can be overcome, but the inner demons cannot be eliminated.”
“Then what will happen to me? Will I die?”
Monk Hong'an shook his head, "He will go crazy."
“Damn!” Li Xinzhu cursed.
“Do you understand, don’t scare me, will anyone who has seen that painting have inner demons? Why is the friend who saw it with me okay?”
“Could the donor you were talking about be the donor who came with you last time?”
"Yes, that's him. The painting he looked at with me also had a dream, but the evil ghost in his dream not only did not appear, but became fainter and fainter. Why is this?"
“Amitabha, everyone is different, they also have inner demons. Some people close their eyes and open them, sleep, and their inner demons disappear;
Some people try every means and means, but their inner demons become more and more serious. Just like drinking, some people can drink just one cup, while others can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk.
The donor who came with you last time was an extraordinary person. "
“Then do you have any way to help me get rid of my inner demons?”
“Well, no!” Hong An said two words after thinking for a long time.
“Damn!” Li Xinzhu raised his **** decisively.
“Just say you are unreliable.”
“Those with a strong will and a simple mind can easily eliminate their inner demons, don’t you?” Monk Hong’an shook his head.
Li Xinzhu waited outside for about half an hour when he saw the door of the abbot's Zen room open.
A man who looked extraordinary came out.
“I’m disturbing the master.”
“The donor is polite.”
“Master, please stay.”
After the man left, Li Xinzhu stepped forward.
“I’ve seen the master.”
After hearing what Li Xinzhu said, the abbot Zen Master also looked solemn.
“This is the inner demon. I’m afraid that painting is similar to Buddhism’s practice of contemplation of impurity.”
“Practice, there are still people who use this practice?” Li Xinzhu said in surprise after hearing this.
“If you want to be fearless, you must first face your fear.”
“Master, is there any way to eliminate this inner demon?”
“I have two methods here.”
“Those two?” Li Xinzhu asked hurriedly after hearing this.
(End of this chapter)