Chapter 293: The Olan Festival

Businessmen who seek profit will always be faster than officials, and within a few days of He Baichuan and the others leaving, a large area under the mountain began to clean up the ground and dig foundations. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info can see earth-moving trucks coming in and out of a walled construction site at the foot of the mountain every day.

As early as more than a month ago, the city said that it would build a large parking lot at the foot of Jingxin Temple Mountain, and until now the progress has not been much faster than He Baichuan and others.

Now the cars under the mountain can be discharged more than 100 meters on both sides of the road every morning, which has greatly affected the traffic under the mountain.

However, there is nothing Su Wen can do about this matter, the matter was mentioned by the mayor himself, and now the progress is so slow, it is not easy for Su Wen to call and ask.

He didn't know that he had rejected the tourism bureau's intention to cooperate, so he was stumbled in this place.

In the past few days, after Qixia Temple and Caotang Temple sent monks to study, eight more monks went to the temple to study, all of them were monks who went out to study in various monasteries, knowing that Su Wen was facing several monks and lawyers in Wuzhen Temple and the other party was speechless, so he came to Jingxin Temple to study Buddhism. Coupled with the people studying in Qixia Temple and Caotang Temple, there are now ten monks in the temple.

In addition to this, there are three monks who worship in the Pure Heart Temple, and one ordinary person who wants to become a monk in the temple.

This person who wants to become a monk is called Xu Zitong, who has just graduated from university this year, and because he has been yearning for Buddhism since he was a child, he wants to become a monk and practice.

For these things are not too involved, if there are monks who want to go to the temple to place orders to study, all by Daoyan come forward, Xingzheng to arrange.

Now he has to let go of the things in the temple little by little, and some things that are not very important are arranged by others. Among them, Xingzheng and Xingjian are the two who are most responsible, and they are both responsible for dealing with the world and other monasteries.

Among them, in the face of secular people, it is mainly to do righteousness, and in the face of other monasteries, it is mainly to do difficulties. This is also because the practice of righteousness is still too shallow.

It is difficult to say whether you like the burden on your body or not.

A group of more than 20 senior brothers and sisters threw themselves into the Pure Heart Temple, and it is also important for them to be placed in this position, and it is also good for taking care of other senior brothers.

However, as far as his heart is concerned, he hopes to practice with peace of mind like Bodhi Monastery. You must know that except for a few disciples in the Bodhi Academy, the others are all Dharma masters. Being able to practice there is a great temptation for doing difficult things.

However, he still couldn't let go of the many brothers and sisters who came with him, so he has been doing his best since taking over this burden.

In addition, he is usually humble, gentle, and has a good grasp of proportion, and everything is based on righteousness, which has a very good relationship with righteousness during this period of time. Even with the monks of the original Lingshan Temple and the many disciples of the Jingxin Temple, the relationship is also good, and there is no rejection of the group.

As they became more familiar with each other, they now interacted more with people in their respective branches.

After Su Wen decentralized things in the past two days, he felt a lot more relaxed, at least he had a lot more time to practice meditation.

After lunch that day, Xingzheng came to Su Wen's side and first gave a salute: "Abbot." ”

"What's the matter?" Su Wen was holding a bowl and was filling it with vegetable soup to send it to the injured gray wolf, and in the past two days, Su Wen has given it a name, called Dishui. And the other two words of the four major words, fire and wind, were taken by him to the squirrel who helped him steal the chess pieces that day.

The gray wolf is light gray, named Dishui, and the squirrel is brown with black stripes, named Huofeng, which is quite appropriate in color.

Su Wen shouted for two days, and the gray wolf knew that Su Wen was calling him, but there was always a rather indifferent and a little contemptuous gaze towards Su Wen, and then he lay lazily on the ground, with a haughty posture, just the opposite of the jelly bean's slopbling and rolling fool.

"Fifteen days before the Yu Lan Festival, is there going to be a puja in the temple? If it is held, I am afraid that the arrangements will start now. Xingzheng said on the side, feeling a little grateful in his heart, if he hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have thought of this stubble.

Xingzheng is a smart man, and he knows his mind about difficult actions. He is also happy to see the intention of making friends with difficulties.

He is different from the difficulties of doing things, and he is dedicated to practicing the difficulties, and he has no concern for these worldly worlds. And his mind can be said to be all about these mundane things, and he is not very interested in cultivation.

"It's Yulan, it's time for the puja. Su Wen was stunned, I didn't expect it to come to this day so soon. The Olan Festival is also a folk Halloween Festival, but the land and water dojo is somewhat different from the last time.

According to the Buddhist scripture "The Buddha Says the Bon Sutra", the Buddha's eldest disciple Moggallen (Muren) saw his mother suffering in the area of Abi, and his body was broken, so he gave the food to his mother in a bowl, and the mother had to send the rice to his mouth, and the rice turned into charcoal fire as soon as it arrived.

Muren prayed to the Buddha for a way to save his mother. The Buddha said, "When your mother was born, she slandered the Buddha and the Sangha, and did not believe in the Dharma of cause and effect, so she suffered from this hungry ghost." On the 15th day of the seventh month, she should take a hundred delicacies and fresh fruits to offer to the monks of the ten directions, and through everyone's mana, she will be exceeded.

Why July 15th? In Buddhism, the 15th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar to the 15th day of the seventh month is the month of the clergy's resting month, and everyone is locked up in the temple to practice, and it ends on the 15th day of the seventh month, which is equivalent to a holiday. July 15 is called "the day of the monks' self-indulgence", also called "the day of the Buddha's joy". On this day, Muren made offerings to the monks and rescued his mother. He thanked the Buddha for this, and said that all Buddhists in the world should be able to save their parents in this way, and the Buddha agreed.

This is the origin of "Obon". Yulan is a Sanskrit word, translated as "upside down", describing the suffering of hungry ghosts, like people hanging upside down. Only by eating food in pots can the monks be relieved of the suffering of upside down.

"I wonder what the rules of this festival are?" Xingzheng also learned about these things from Xing Nan, so he had to ask for details.

In this way, the puja is called the Puja of Retribution, which begins eight days later, and the last day is the day of the festival. Those who want to participate in the puja still write the tablet in their names first, and when it is time to participate in the puja, they should bring some food to the temple to raise the monks. Money is not needed, food is not needed, a little is enough. With so many good faiths, if each person brought a lot of food, it would be wasted. Su Wen said to Xingzheng.

"Yes, Abbot." After Xingzheng listened to Su Wen's words, he had a plan in his heart, so he resigned. Although I have long heard that many temples and Taoist temples have to charge a fee to hold a water and land dojo on this day, and elect an incense master, but the Pure Heart Temple is naturally different from them. Although I don't know how much money there is in the temple today, there are now more than 10,000 pilgrims in the temple every month, and there will be no shortage of money just by giving incense.

What's more, at the soup kitchen, many pilgrims will give a little after drinking tea every day.

At first, it was just a few old tea customers expressing their gratitude with gratitude, but after this period of time, it has become a tacit behavior for many pilgrims.

After all, Jingxin Temple shares such good tea with ordinary pilgrims, and many people also want to express their gratitude. Although it is okay to leave after drinking, most people will have some meaning, and it is also a lot of income.

Of course, this money is insignificant compared to the value of the tea itself.

After the line went down, someone wrote a sign and stood in front of the door, announcing the news that the water and land puja would be held in eight days.

(To be continued.) )