Ghostly Masked Prince Xiao: Pampering and Spoiling the Little Adorable Consort

(94) The Ordinary Mortal in The Mortal World is Me

Chu Qing-Yan came back to her senses under his calm gaze and immediately became somewhat fidgety. "Great Master, although I hold Buddhism in high regards, I don't have intentions to take refuge in religious life. Also, don't you think that talking about this to a 10 year old child is somewhat excessive?"

Who would be interested in becoming his disciple? Maybe this god stick would bring her up to become a little god stick, showing her off everywhere to swindle everyone.

Moreover, to accompany the sound of the wooden fish for the rest of her life was not the kind of life she wanted.

"Although the rain from the sky is heavy, it's hard to dampen the neverending amount of grass. The door of Buddhism is vast, and will not accept people who are not fated. Age is not a hindrance, female benefactor has the intellect, not entering Buddhism would be such a pity." Xu Xian guided patiently and systematically.

Chu Qing-Yan rolled her eyes towards the sky. According to him, since everyone has intellect, then everyone should enter Buddhism. In that case, surveying the whole world, then all the streets would be full of monks. Chu Qing-Yan really wanted to ridicule this, but seeing his attitude was resolute, as if he really wanted to pull her into entering Buddhism, she really wanted to flip the table. However, in the end she was able to hold it down. She recalled the reverence that everyone had towards him from earlier and didn't want to incur the wrath of the public. Since he wanted her to enter Buddhism, then she would reason with him about it.

"Great Master, what are the benefits of becoming a monk?" Chu Qing-Yan raised a difficult question.

"It's not because of good benefits that people enter Buddhism, rather because all living things are empty, greedy, wrathful, ignorant and have hatred. The eight distresses (1) of life are intertwined with the world, it would be better to enter Buddhism to cleanse and cultivate one's physical, mental and spiritual well being." Xu Xian said with a serious face.

"Not so!" Chu Qing-Yan raise a finger and shook her hand.

"Oh? Female Benefactor has other views?" Xu Xian looked at her seriously.

"All living things are empty? That is your pessimistic way of thinking. In your eyes, all living things in heaven and earth only last for an instant, things will remain the same but people will change. The people are things, just like flowers that bloom, then wilt. The flowers blooming and then wilting are merely a round trip from the starting point to the end point, there's no change at all. The only thing that changed was the form of the flower, whether it bloomed or wilted." Although Chu Qing-Yan was smiling, the traces of her smile did not reach the depth of her eyes. She saw that Xu Xian somewhat disagreed and she narrowed her eyes before continuing.

"But in the eyes of us common people, everything that happened in our lives are worth it. The people we've come across and matters that we've experienced would leave behind memories in our minds. Everytime we recall it, it would always be very meaningful."

"This poor monk feels that Female Benefactor has misinterpreted my meaning." Xu Xian smilingly said.

"Please advise, Great Master" Chu Qing-Yan cupped her hands and said.

"Because there is no direction it gives birth to anxiety in their hearts! All living things will eternally sink into a sea of bitterness, inciting their heart to be knotted with bad karma and committing all kinds of evil deeds, sinking into a sea of sin."

Saying up to here, Xu Xian determinedly looked at her, his eyes filled with understanding and mercy, half-closing them as he continued to speak.

"Leaving home to follow Buddha and meditating and praying in peace, without greed and desires, calm and at ease. The so called 'rejecting the world for monastic life' really isn't pessimistic, rather it's even more positive and hopeful. It's not disillusioned, rather, it sees beyond the facade. It really isn't just doing nothing, rather it does it promptly. It's also not about not seeking anything, but rather being satisfied with what one has."