Master Jiang Qingshan led a group to Europe on the way to the half-moon tour. Once registered, the activities of the branch actually begin. When everyone took the "Buddhist Supplement" that had just been distributed, it was natural that they began to browse through it. This is actually part of the outing.

Although the number of people in this tour group to Europe is small, only 20 people in total, it is a complex and wide range of sources, including the elderly, young professors, writers, poets, and many ordinary people from the bottom of society, such as workshop technicians, farmers who graduated from high school, street vendors, etc., is a tour group representing many industries in China. But their core consistency is that they are all learners and thinking players who love to read books and newspapers.

Sitting in the row with Master Jiang Qingshan was a female middle school physics teacher, who asked her a few questions, and the master patiently answered her. He said, Master Jiang, are there some live questions in the competition questions, the most obvious ones are known to the answerers, and there are some that seem to have standard answers, but they can't find the source, I think it may also be a kind of live answer.

Master Jiang replied with a smile, it seems that you are still a teacher who loves to think, not bad. The questioners of this contest are not monks, but two laymen in real life, who have shaved in their early years, meditated, chanted sutras, and received a more systematic and comprehensive Buddhist education, but now they are no longer taught, and they are also active advocates and promoters of human Buddhism. Our domestic branch also wants to mingle with ordinary people, try to find out the problems that people are generally concerned about through this competition, and carry out our Buddhist propaganda and education work in a more targeted manner, so as to serve a wider range of people.

Oh, that's how it came to be. The governess replied, thinking a little surprised. Master Jiang went on to say, "There is another thing, and I would like to tell you by the way, that is, many people in our branch were originally staff members of the European Buddhist Headquarters, because a young man in China proposed to return to China to establish a new type of Buddhist college, restore the human Buddhist system, and better serve our newly prosperous country and people. The starting point for us to set up a branch in China was proposed by the domestic people. Therefore, our work is all centered around this theme, and there is still a lot of work to be done, all of which revolve around the basic purpose of Buddhism to serve the country and the people.

Regarding the competition question, Master Jiang said that the person who wrote the competition question spent a lot of effort, and when it was finally determined, our branch also conducted serious discussions one by one before it was finally determined. Among the 200 questions, 10 are for personal play, and 10 are half answer-seeking and semi-autobiographical, that is, by answering the previous questions, and then talking about their own feelings. This is where the biggest value of this competition lies. We still spent a lot of money on this activity, and you can figure it out if you do the math, our group of 20 people has to spend more than 30,000 yuan each, and according to 30,000 yuan, there are 600,000 yuan. There are 40 people in the Southeast Asian tour group, 15,000 per person, there are 600,000, and the domestic tour group, according to 40 people, 5,000 yuan per person, and 200,000 yuan. It adds up to 1.5 million, and each person still has insurance, otherwise, who bears the risk for such a large group, right?

When the physics teacher heard this, she was a little moved, she said, yes, everything needs money everywhere, you really think about it for us, thank you. When she had finished speaking, she folded her hands together and made a gesture of devotion. The master also returned the salute and continued, these are okay, they should be like this, where they came from, where they went back, they should also be. As long as there is a practical effect, we will not waste our efforts and worry about it.

She said, "It's very good, I used to read books on basic Buddhist knowledge, and I also went to temples to pray to the Buddha, but there are still many questions that I can't figure out and don't understand." However, through participating in this competition, I really learned a lot of Buddhist knowledge, read a lot of Buddhist classics and dictionaries, and gradually understood many things that I didn't understand, which was really a free baptism of Buddhism.

The more he talked, the more excited he became, he continued, not only that, but this is also a great encouragement for my future teaching, as well as the re-understanding of science and technology, it is also a huge leap in cognition, I will live up to your expectations, and I will live up to your expectations, as well as the broad cosmology of Buddhism, the compassion of great love, the concept of fundamental education, etc., throughout my education, and do a good job of ladder work for the next generation.

There was also an old man sitting next to them, who was said to be a retired cadre of the Academy of Sciences, and while they were chatting, the old man was also listening quietly. When they rested, he chatted with Master Jiang.

The old man was twenty years older than Master Jiang, and when Master Jiang said that he was fifty-four, the old man told him that he was two rounds older than him, that is, the man was almost eighty. This is the oldest member of the regiment.

He said, "Master Jiang, am I the oldest person in the competition?" Master Jiang told him that he was not. Because, after the competition, they made detailed statistics, and the oldest was a retired vice president of Yenching University, six out of eighty. When the old man heard this, he said, I'm nearly a round older than me, hehehe, I'm still young, hahaha. They smiled happily and continued to talk.

The old man said, I don't have to worry about the live question, just write it down with my own feelings, and that's it. It's the hard work of those who need to find information. My wife is younger than me, and she is seventy-two, so she helped me find a lot of answers, and I feel sorry for her when I think about it. Hehehe, little brother, you don't understand the importance of old companions, and the two of us can't do without each other. This time, she wants to accompany me, I'm afraid that I'm old, and she won't worry about others helping her, so she will be sent to the airport when she leaves. After seeing that most of our group were young people, I returned.

Master Jiang took the old man's hand and shared with him the practice and realm of Buddhism. The two chatted for more than an hour, just like father and son, so happy.

The plane landed, and they began their official trip to Europe.

Only four of them were over 65 years old, and each of the young people from the headquarters walked out of the airport hall with one by one, and then sent them into the unit's car one by one, and then returned to the headquarters with their suitcases.

Entering the reception hall of the headquarters, the reality of a tea ceremony and dim sum to catch the wind, this tea, divided into three kinds, one is refreshing fitness tea, one is warm tea, one is herbal tea. This snack is not only desserts, but can be chosen from a variety of options, including desserts, which are popular with young people, as well as alkaline snacks, coffee-flavored, orange-flavored, jujube-flavored, and neutral snacks. There are also many kinds of dim sum, both Western and Chinese.

Not only that, but there were also several eminent monks in the living room, who were chatting with the people in the headquarters while eating and drinking. When they had almost eaten and drunk, the waiter led them to their lodgings to wash, place and organize their belongings. There is also a big meal waiting for everyone in the evening.

In the first lesson, they listened to the staff of the European Buddhist Studies Headquarters and their experiences and achievements over the past decades, and finally gave them a lecture on the action plan of the domestic branch. In addition to Jiang Qingshan and three others from the headquarters, ten of them from China received a baptism of Buddhist spirit, and they were also familiar with the connotation and purpose of their actions as a non-governmental organization, which was also a propaganda to the domestic people.

The next morning, I visited the dojo of the headquarters, listened to the famous Buddhist songs, selected my favorite Buddhist books, visited the Buddhist literature and library building, and went to several nearby scenic spots in the afternoon for more than three hours, and continued the lectures of the three Buddhist masters in the Buddhist class in the evening. On the third day, the European tour began.

During this more than a day of staying to visit and study, several people who participated in the trip were deeply infected by the great contribution of the mission of this organization, entered an unprecedented secret realm, produced a sense of holiness and incomparable piety from the heavens, and had a sense of disgust for their previous practices and ideas, and felt that the previous time was wasted and wasted, and it was really a fool if they did not go out, and if they did not listen to the guidance of the sages and capable people, they would be vain as ministers, parents, and individuals, and no different from animals. Some were so moved that they cried, and some even wrote down what they saw and heard anytime and anywhere. This also makes future travel meaningful. It is not the kind of tourism that used to be like a souvenir, but it has really become a kind of Buddhist journey, a journey of spiritual washing, and a journey of washing the heart and changing the face. This makes the meaning of traveling abroad thicker, richer and farther.

This was evident in later travels. They have understood that they are no longer tourists who spend other people's money to play abroad, but with a mission, a journey of life advancement, a journey of realm sublimation, a journey of upgrading the cosmology, a journey of purer outlook on life, and a journey of more expansive values.

This trip to Europe went to a country and more than 40 scenic spots, not only for the direct face of the Wenran landscape, but also for the thrilling personal experience of nature, as well as the sense of awe for the Buddhist organization, and for the great merit of Buddhism for mankind. It's a great journey of holiness and edification for everyone, and it's very meaningful. These are the sincere words that they published in Buddhist journals after they returned to China.