Chapter 249: Meditation
Su Wen walked around the field again, and found several older children in one of the fields.
"Abbot!" several children stood up and greeted Su Wen when they saw him coming.
"How many of you?" Su Wen found that the children were the oldest, and he didn't know how they arranged for weeding, and it seemed that most of the children took care of them except for the first sowing seeds.
"We were idle and had nothing to do, come up and have a look. One of the children smiled shyly. The smile is very simple, and he is also very happy, it seems that the temple has taken them in, and he is happy to be able to do things for the temple, such a simple smile makes Su Wen a little distracted.
Many times children's smiles are the most touching because they do not contain any impurities.
"You're doing a great job. But it can't just be a few of you, pulling weeds in the field is also a kind of exercise, and everyone else needs this opportunity too. Su Wen said with a chuckle. "After a few days, all the monks in the monastery will go to work in the fields. ”
"But if there are too many people, it will be chaotic, and it will trample on grasshoppers, grasshoppers and the like. The child's eyes widened and he asked.
Su Wen smiled when he heard this, and asked, "Did Fahai Dade teach you?"
A few of the children nodded.
Su Wen pulled the children aside and sat on the grass next to the field and asked, "What have you learned these days?"
"Learned...... I learned that one cannot only see with one's own eyes. Whether the good guy is the bad guy or the bad guy is not so clear, but it depends on which angle you look at. One of the children said.
"Yes, it's like a white lady. The other child continued, putting a smile on Su Wen's face, it seems that Fahai's "The Legend of the White Snake" has made these children remember it very deeply.
"She's a good person, and Teacher Fahai ......"
Although the child didn't finish speaking, Su Wen understood what he meant. It's not wrong for Fahai to catch youkai, but he's too stubborn and completely immersed in his gaze, completely ignoring everything else.
"What else have you learned?" Su Wen continued to ask with a smile, and while a few people were talking, a yellow weasel came out of nowhere and ran to Su Wen to look at it, then turned around and ran away.
"Life is essentially the same, and there is no distinction between high and low. The same is true of people. Another child thought for a moment and said.
"There are eight sufferings in life, birth, old age, sickness, death, resentment, love, parting, unwanted, and five yin flourishing. ”
"Do you understand?" asked Suwen?
"I understand some of them, and some of them don't. A few children hesitated. These children are all fifteen years old, and they have all experienced the life of an orphanage, and they are far more mature than ordinary children, but some things are still too profound for them.
"When you are older, you have more contacts, and you have experienced all kinds of things, you will all understand, and you will have your own opinions. Su Wen told the children that many things still need to be experienced by themselves.
After chatting with a few children for a while, and then asking about their lives in the temple, Su Wen turned around and went down the mountain.
"Abbot!" the shout behind him stopped him, and he turned his head to look over, and several children looked hesitant to speak, but did not dare to speak.
"There's something, but it doesn't hurt to say it. Su Wen smiled at the children.
"Abbot, are we going to school in the future?" the children hesitated, but finally said what they had been worried about.
"Naturally, when the new semester starts, all of you, you will have to go to school. In this day and age, you can't do without knowledge, and even being a monk has to be educated. What's more, you have to go back to society in the future and choose your own path. Su Wen suddenly joked.
"Huh?" The children were a little happy when they heard the first half of the sentence, but the middle sentence surprised them.
Su Wen smiled, didn't say anything more, waved at a few children and went down the mountain on his own, and didn't go far before he heard the cheers of several children from behind.
In the afternoon, when the tourists had already left, and there was still a trace of afterglow in the sky, Su Wen called out all the monks of all the lines in front of him. Including more than a dozen people in Xingzheng, Xingzang, Xingyuan, Xinghui, Xingjing and others, all gathered together.
In addition to them, there are also Deyan, Defa and Ma Tian.
The children on the second floor were also informed that if they were willing to learn, they could also come to study together. Although the children didn't know what to teach, they all came down from the mountain.
Listening to what Xingzheng said, when the two female students were there a few days ago, they disturbed the minds of some monks of the Xingzi generation, although the behavior of the two female students was inappropriate, but it also showed that the monks of these Xingzi generations were unstable.
However, this is also normal, after all, these monks have uncertain backgrounds, especially those who were forcibly turned back by Su Wen, the original quality and qualifications are not high, and the monks are not willing, and the time in Buddhism is also short, so they are naturally unstable. If you only let them practice on their own, I'm afraid it will take a long time to settle down. So Su Wen intended to teach them the method of meditation in order to increase their spiritual practice.
Letting everyone sit cross-legged on the ground, Su Wen said to them, "I want to talk to you about meditation today, and in the future, meditation will be a necessary lesson for the practice in the temple." ”
In fact, Su Wen had already taught them meditation before, but he didn't say much at that time, and he didn't let them pay too much attention to it. Therefore, except for a few who have Buddha fate, most of the others do not pay much attention to it.
"First of all, what is meditation? Meditation is the cultivation of thinking, the practice of merit, and the means of cultivation. ”
"The greatest use of meditation is to restrain your scattered minds and let you find wisdom in concentration. Or, to put it simply, meditation allows you to concentrate your mind, to think faster, to get rid of the clutter of your mind. ”
"Whether you are in the monastery or elsewhere, the benefits of meditation when you practice meditation are immense, and they will stay with you for the rest of your life.
In the same way, it can also make you no longer easily disturbed by external objects, and when you go into the depths, you can keep your mind at all times, and you are in the center, that is, walking, sitting, and lying are all fixed. ”
When Su Wen finished talking about the usefulness of meditation and its benefits, everyone listened attentively.
"First of all, how to enter meditation. Empty all your desires, your emotions, all these things, and reveal your true nature. It's hard for you to immediately enter into concentration when you first sit down, so it's going to be divided into two parts. One is 'stop', the other is 'view'......"
Su Wen spent an hour before dinner explaining meditation and the counting of breaths. Until everyone has memorized it, everyone is required to practice every day until they can freely enter the center.
After that, there was a period of time every night for everyone to meditate, and the time was set after dinner and tea. After drinking the Purifying Heart Tea to cleanse the heart and nourish the soul, the effect will be much better if you practice meditation.
When they can really enter the concentration freely, they will stick to it every day without asking questions. Because the feeling of finding wisdom in the emptiness is very familiar, and when they feel it, they will consciously practice without the supervision of others. Because making yourself stronger is what everyone desires, such as martial arts training and fitness, all of which make people physically strong.
And practice is to make people strong in mind and wisdom. It's hard to let go of this feeling once you've experienced it. (To be continued.) )