We also met up with the other lady on WuTai who is her friend and her name is Chang. We went to a vegetarian restaurant and had lunch there. I realized most of American Chinese food is more in alignment with Cantonese food. Because it really doesn't taste like the rest of China not even Sichuan or Huanan advertised food taste like the Sichuan or Hunan food here. The Sichuan, Hunan food here is much better.
We all went to Guang Xiao Si: Light Filial Monastery. It was called something else before. It was where Ven. Hui Neng first appeared when he came out of hiding and talked about the flag moving or mind moving. This is also where he officially shaved his head.
There was a Bodhi tree, which they said he spoke dharma under that tree. I don't know if it is the original tree or not. There was a pagoda that commemorated his head shaving ceremony next to it.
Both Liang and Chang are very nice people who are Buddhist but really doesn't know where to start or how to go about it. They have faith. They like most people I've met in china treat things like body medicine. This is for this and that is for that. This Buddha only responds to this and that Bodhisattva only responds to that. It's quite specific and limiting. People don't get it when I tell them, they don't get to where they are by being so inflexible and unresponsive. But people can't hear it.
Chang saw a interview on TV of a monk saying women can't enter this Chan hall because women are more karmically obstructed and etc..... She was really disturbed and felt sinned or something and was determined she was a bad person. I told her the Surangama Sutra of the story of the prostitute jumping into 3rd stage Arhatship and the Dragon Girl becoming enlightened and Guan Yin Bodhisattva in as Mao Shan princess etc.... She couldn't hear it because some monk on TV said so. So I ended up bowing and praying for them to realize all the potentials within and not just into self created jail cells of the mind
