Chapter 151: Entering the Temple
The two children involved in the fight were very young, both eight years old. When I arranged www.biquge.info the room, I deliberately arranged the older children with the orphanage where I was located, and I thought that the younger ones would not have problems, but I didn't expect to fight.
When the other children saw Su Wen coming out of the room, they retracted their heads and closed the door carefully, leaving a slit so that they could hear the sound outside.
When Su Wen entered the room, the two children were glaring angrily, while the other two children slipped out of bed one after another.
"Go back to bed. Su Wen said to the two, although the two glared at each other, they still had to listen to Su Wen's words. Although he was only eight years old, he also knew that he would have to listen to Su Wen in the future.
Su Wen didn't want to preach to them, just sat down cross-legged and recited a Buddhist scripture, the voice was not loud, but it just covered this row of rooms, and soon the entire corridor and the entire floor were quiet.
A policeman at the corner of the stairs was silently smoking, after all, two monks with more than 50 children were here, and they all came out of the welfare home, and he was on duty here for a while, so he could be regarded as taking care of him so as not to have any trouble.
When there was a child fighting, he didn't care too much, he just felt that there was a headache for the monk.
Children fighting are not a problem in his eyes. But more than 50 children have just come out of the welfare home, and if they don't do well, I'm afraid other children will be psychologically uneasy. And anxiety and fear are contagious.
Unexpectedly, after the monk entered, it didn't take long for the sound of chanting to come out.
From such a distance, he felt a sense of peace and tranquility in his mind.
It wasn't until the scripture stopped that he came to his senses, took a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and turned into the elevator.
The next morning, all the children were in good spirits, including the one who had a fight last night. Even the children with depression look much better.
Although these children are not very old, the experience of the welfare home has made them think more about things. A lot of people were waiting to see what to do with them last night. After Suwen chanted, all the children were full of peace and joy in their hearts, and they all slept well, and they saw Suwen a lot closer.
After breakfast, Su Wen bought a bottle of water, a loaf of bread, and a sausage for each child, and if anyone was hungry on the way, they could take a cushion first.
After a day's trekking, I finally arrived at the foot of Baiyun Mountain at 8 o'clock in the evening.
"This is your home from now on. Su Wen said to the children who got out of the car and moved their bodies.
However, it was pitch black everywhere, and the ground was full of gravel and the like, and there was only a little light on the mountainside, and many older children muttered mentally, feeling that they had been abducted and trafficked.
Many young children are a little scared.
Su Wen saw their thoughts and said with a smile: "Don't worry, someone will come down to pick you up soon." ”
As Su Wen said, within a few minutes, several flashlights shone down from the mountain. As the light moved little by little, more than a dozen people walked down the mountain.
They are all bald like Su Wen, gray monk robes, the difference is that they do not have the gentle and friendly feeling on Su Wen's body, and there is no large string of hanging beads around their necks.
"Abbot. Xingjie came down first and shouted, followed by those who were under the original thief.
Su Wen paid the driver and thanked him.
The driver hurriedly said, "Don't thank me, mage, you are a great person." If it weren't for the car and the company, I would have been able to pull you all in vain. ”
Originally, the driver was from the East China Sea, and he had heard of Jingxin Temple for a long time, and this time he walked with Suwen all the way. Seeing what he did, my heart was truly respectful.
Saying goodbye to the driver, Su Wen walked in front, followed by dozens of children, a dozen monks, and looked after the younger children.
The driver did not leave after Su Wen and the others started to go up the mountain, but turned the front of the car in a different direction and used the headlights to illuminate the way up the mountain with the headlights.
At the end of the stone steps, all the children looked up at the seven-meter-high mountain gate, which was very spectacular.
Seven meters is just over two stories high, but the seven-meter-high gate looks particularly majestic at night.
When they arrived at the mountain, everyone else was waiting here, watching Su Wen take a group of children up the mountain and give salutes.
Then Su Wen and his entourage took the child to turn the main hall to the back mountain, after passing the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is a stone step to continue up, and after two hundred steps go up, it is a large flat land. At one end is the guest room and the soup kitchen under construction, while on the other side a long row of tin rooms has been erected.
It is said that it is an iron house, but it is actually a color steel sandwich with a thermal insulation board to insulate the cool and heat, and there is absolutely no problem to live in this season.
"You live here first. Su Wen brought the children over and began to arrange the rooms, with 5-6 people sleeping in a bunk in each room.
Opposite the Chase shop is a row of simple wooden cabinets that have just been made, not even painted, with the fragrance of wood. Although the environment is not very good, it is a little worse than the residence in the welfare home, but it can only be like this in a hurry. Wait for more than a month for the monastic house on the mountain to be built.
Urine buckets are available for younger children to use at night, while older children can go to the freshly dug open toilet a short distance outside. And a light is installed on the outside of each tin room, which can be lit when someone comes out.
After arranging all the children, Su Wen was just about to leave when he heard someone calling out to him from behind: "Abbot".
Su Wen turned his head to look at the children and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Can the abbot recite to us the one from last night?" ”
"Good. Su Wen smiled at the others.
Then he waved for the others to go back first, and began chanting in the open space outside a row of tin houses.
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The next morning, Su Wen got up and did a morning class, and shouted that he was coming to the back mountain. After all, he is alone and lacks skills, and he can't watch these children every day, ready to let Xingzheng help manage them first.
Most of the children were still in bed when they arrived, but they were already awake. Seeing the two coming, he hurriedly dressed up and came outside.
Su Wen stood in front of all the children, glanced around, and saw that everyone's mental state was fine, and nodded in his heart. He began to say to them: "From today onwards, you will live here for a few years to ten years.
During this period, the temple will arrange for you to go to school, and in your spare time, you can learn Buddhism, martial arts, and physical fitness, and also have a skill. But there are a few things I want you to know, first, from today onwards, all of you are members of the Pure Heart Temple, just like us, and you must maintain each other, your companions, and the Pure Heart Temple.
Second, inside the mountain gate, below and here, you can move freely, but don't do some bad things, you will know the specific things slowly.
Thirdly, you can follow the temple to learn martial arts, but whether it is at school or outside, unless it endangers yourself or others, you are not allowed to fight and hurt others, and those who violate it will be forbidden to continue to practice martial arts.
Fourth, in your spare time, I hope you do what you can, which you will know later.
The country has its own laws, and temples have its rules, and if you make mistakes, you will also be punished. It hurts to hit the ruler on the hand. ”
Su Wen has been very gentle with these children along the way, and now he is not speaking harshly, but he is also more serious. All the children were shocked and agreed.
Su Wen looked at these children nervously and nodded, he didn't want to talk to them like that, but many of these children were too young and not very sensible, and needed rules to teach them what they could and couldn't do. Since he brought these children here, he has to teach them how to behave and how to think, instead of herding sheep and raising them.
In addition, many children have some problems in their hearts, and this also needs to be taught slowly by the Dharma.
Su Wen is also preparing to give a Dharma class, on the one hand, because the seventeen of them have either switched to the precepts and practiced the righteousness, or they have just started and do not understand the Dharma very well. On the one hand, for the sake of these children, this lesson is also a teaching for them.
Also, I would like to talk about it to the laymen, because he found that many laymen and pilgrims have the wrong understanding of the Dharma.
And this kind of lecture should also be done regularly in the future.