Waibiao's Travels: Iteration Three

[Maury 411]

Many a moon has passed since Waibiao last wrote, his time taken with friends and strangers alike. Meeting with a certain Ai Shan Ren did Waibiao, learning of deities from their pantheon they call ‘Brathmordakin’. Quite interesting are the beliefs of these short beings, so Waibiao will commit them to memory. Very wise are some in these vast stone halls, and it is hope of Waibiao that he can find friendship and learning with those few writers and teachers.

 

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Found himself to Tongyi-Hu did Waibiao, taking pleasure in caring for plants of Dengyu Monastery gardens. Fertilizer to wheat fields and feed to animals in their pens; Waibiao comb and cut soft wool from backs of miányáng - sheep flock. The swine ate their slop, the hens their grain, and for Waibiao he have some bread and hand-strung noodle from wheat harvest. After long day of work, he make himself a cup of tea and bathe in hot water spring under village.

 

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Met again with Jiangu, being who Waibiao not speak to in passing of many lunar cycles. With this one Waibiao teach fellow xiongdi about Hualian and universal truths, hoping to spread kindness and awaken seedling of enlightenment. Waibiao gave Jiangu copy of scroll on Hua-Jiao he wrote, too, finding that many lack in knowledge for teachings of prophet Hualian. Is hope of this one to spread knowledge of Hualian’s teachings, hope too that this knowledge help other find inner peace.

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With each ray of silver light shining from passing moon, Waibiao find strength and inner peace from Hua-Jiao, the unrest in his spirit trickle away with meditation and travel. Remembering his meditative journey on great tree in valley of orange and yellow, contemplating on what he should do with that knowledge he obtained...

 

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With a day that past, and a broken fast, Waibiao travel to small city of Vira’ker; once inhabited by many dark-skinned Jian Tou Ren, he remembers, from time when xiongdi erect temple beside long-dead city of Llyria. Remembering too, strange bearded man who practice Chi from this city who call himself Magnus - but this simply Waibiao digressing, as these times unimportant in ever changing nature of creation.

 

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Waibiao join xiongdi in forest outside Vira’ker after more traveling, sitting in meditation with Fumiko, Biao Gong, Sirong and more. This spiritual activity is interrupted by a great feral beast, an enormous creature with likeness of a Hei-Zhu but with size twice as this xiongdi of Hou-Zi -- horrifically grotesque. It was with great injury and pain of mind that Waibiao leap from tree that this creature threw him, striking him in his chest with Waibiao’s tarnished walking staff… Waibiao’s face is flushed with anguish, his hands stained with the blood of a sentient creature that he did not wish to harm. Try did Sirong to bring Waibiao comfort, he knows, but this one has never taken the life of another; even with help from his xiongdi. Running through Waibiao’s mind are thoughts of how this creature may have simply been trying to scare us from his territory, but also knowing that his xiongdi would have most certainly been crushed by this Qiángzhuàng de had he not plunged his bamboo staff through his chest; a certainty he did not wish to see. Throat clenched with sorrow, his face wet with tears, never has this one felt such anguish in all his years; even in comparison to the loss of his parents and Xiǎo dìdì. He is not sure what to do with himself, to pray or to cry, to grief or to lie in wake of the suffering he brought to another… Retreat into his mind, did Waibiao feel, the horror he had brought about a constant in his mind; a waking nightmare from which he did not feel he could escape...

 

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Despite the emotional and psychological exhaustion Waibiao suffered as written previously, he decided that it was important to carry on; for change in his eyes is inevitable whether a being wishes it or not. This is Waibiao’s resolve, to not drown in his sorrows and make the first move before change comes to him unexpectedly. This is the essence of Zhǎnwàng.

 

Waibiao decided this day to pull his mind from the darkness which plagues it by way of rigorous meditation. A lesson was held, Waibiao being joined by xiongdi Heise-Sirong to meditate and discuss the four facets of a beings looking-glass self. This was very therapeutic to Waibiao, and though he did not express as much to Sirong -- who seemed to enjoy this activity more than Waibiao showed, this one is ever so grateful to the young Hou for his attendance.

 

外表【Wàibiǎo】

花轿的僧和老师 - Huājiào de sēng hé lǎoshī

Huajiao Monk & Teacher