Chapter 324: Black Bear Spirit
After sending Tutu and his party to rest, Shi Ming and several disciples went back to the back room, and Shi Ming repeatedly stroked the golden robe, touching it again and again and sighing.
'Squeak' –
The back door of the back room was pushed open, and a big black bear almost two meters tall walked in and said, "Master, the apprentice has come to see you!"
As soon as Shi Ming heard this voice, his eyes lit up, and an idea suddenly popped up in his brain! Suddenly, he lay on his robe and howled bitterly, so panicked that several disciples and the big black bear asked one after another, "Master, why are you crying?"
Shi Ming picked up his sleeve and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said sadly: "I cry that this Xuanzang'er has taken away my treasure! The poor old monk has been reciting scriptures and reciting Buddha for the Bodhisattva for hundreds of years, but in the end, he let a hairy boy pick up the cheap! I still have to call him a holy monk! I have lived for so many years, and even if I have hundreds of robes, I can't compare to him! If I can have this treasure, even if it is in the ground, it is a happy event!"
"What's so difficult about this? Master, if you keep him for a few more days, you will wear it for a few more days, why do you have to grieve your body so much?" The big black bear's honest voice came out muffled, he was the black bear spirit five hundred years ago.
Five hundred years ago, under the guidance of Bai Su, the black bear crossed the mountains and mountains, just to find a place to become a monk. It's a pity that the black bear spirit is a simple one, and he refuses to change into a human form in life or death, and must be apprenticed to the master in his original form, so that he can see his heart and treat each other sincerely.
It's a pity that others will be half frightened to death when they see his big black bear appearance! How dare they accept him as an apprentice! After wandering for 300 years, he settled near the Guanyin Temple.
Finally, one day I met Shi Ming, who was carrying water at the bottom of the mountain, Shi Ming was only in his forties at that time, his legs were weak, and when he wanted to run, the black bear spirit said: "Ask the master to accept the apprentice! The apprentice has eaten fasting and recited the Buddha for many years, and has never killed! I also beg the master to accept the apprentice!!"
Alas, never killed??vegetarian?
Shi Ming originally wanted to leave, but after thinking about it, this was not his chance! Has anyone ever accepted a monster as an apprentice? At least not in his cognition! This may be the opportunity given to him by the Bodhisattva! Let him no longer have to be an ordinary monk!!
After thinking about it like this, Shi Ming stabilized his lower plate and pretended to say: "It's difficult, it's difficult! You are a monster, I am a high-ranking monk, and I have never accepted monsters as apprentices, which is not tolerated by the world." If so......"
"If what? The apprentice is willing to do his best to satisfy it! I just ask the master to accept the apprentice, and the disciple will chant and worship the Buddha in a serious way!" The black bear spirit's eyes lit up! He never expected that anyone would respond to him, and no one was willing to accept him as an apprentice after so many years of encountering many monks. Either scare away and scare, or refuse to shirk, or shout and kill!
"It's not impossible to accept you as an apprentice, but the poor monk is now just an ordinary monk in the Guanyin Temple, if you are accepted as an apprentice and found out by the same disciples, I am afraid that you will be driven out of the temple. If...... If I could sit in the position of presiding abbot, no one would dare to do this!" Shi Ming's eyes flashed with ambition, but quickly calmed into a compassionate look.
"Yes...... But I can't let Master you be the presiding abbot......" The black bear spirit scratched his head, he felt that this master was very reasonable, but he couldn't control the thoughts of this presiding abbot!
Shi Ming shook his head and said, "You don't need to do it, if you can help me make some Buddha miracles...... For example, when I worship Guanyin Bodhisattva, the Buddha statue can give birth to living flowers and so on!"
The Guanyin in their temple is a wooden statue of only about one meter, and their incense is very ordinary, and they can barely mix food and clothing on weekdays, and even the mud Buddha statue has no money to hire craftsmen to make it!