Mother-in-law likes to burn incense and worship the Buddha, every morning and evening, she has to burn incense and kneel down in front of the Buddha shrine on the table at her home, looking extremely pious. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In addition, whenever someone in the family is sick or someone goes away, the mother-in-law will go to the Anning Temple on the Big Buddha Mountain outside the city to make a big worship, in order to ask the Buddha to bless the safety of the family. I don't believe in Buddhism myself, but I don't object to others believing in Buddhism. My point of view is that no matter whether there is a Buddha in the world or not, as long as the worshippers can find peace of mind. In fact, worshipping the Buddha is an excellent form of psychotherapy, which can calm down people who are irritable, and can also make people who have done things against their hearts reflect on themselves, or let desperate people rekindle hope in their hearts, and pin their wishes on the Buddha, so that they can live the rest of their lives with the feet of the Buddha. Many elderly people and rural people believe in Buddhism, so I don't think it's unusual for my mother-in-law to worship Buddha.

It's just that I recently found that the scale and extent of my mother-in-law's worship of Buddha have been upgraded: on the one hand, the venue has become larger, from a place with an offering table and a Buddhist shrine to a well-arranged Buddhist hall that occupies most of the room. The room that was converted into a Buddhist hall used to be the wedding room for Lu Tao and me. On the other hand, my mother-in-law has been going to the Big Buddha Mountain more and more often, and sometimes she lives on the mountain for a few days and does not come down. I heard Lu Tao say that her mother-in-law has become a layman in Anning Temple, so she has the privilege of staying in the temple. And what I feel awkward about is that the monks in the Anning Monastery are several monks, and what does it matter if my mother-in-law lives in it as a woman? Although she is an old woman, she is also a woman, and monks who do not eat fireworks in the world should be very shy of women, at least on the surface. Fortunately, there is a large group of people like my mother-in-law who live in the Buddha Mountain, and although there are also men, most of them are women. So there was such a strange sight, a group of women in the temple around a few monks.

I asked Lu Tao what his role was, and Lu Tao said that the monks were a group of lay people who devoted themselves to practicing Buddhism, and I asked them what they were doing in the temple, and Lu Tao said that it was to learn Buddhism and help the temple. Later, I went to the Buddha Mountain in the form of an outing, and saw men and women in and out of the temple, some cleaning the Buddhist hall, some repairing prayer flags and kneeling mats, and some cooking in the kitchen. As far as I know, my mother-in-law has sent almost half of her father-in-law's pension to the temple as incense money since she was promoted to a layman, to be precise, to the young presiding officer of the Anning Temple, who is only in his thirties. I think this young monk must have been clever enough to think of this way of living with thousands of dollars. Of course, this is something that only someone like me, who is not a believer in Buddhism at all, would dare to say that. As soon as I said this, Lu Tao would warn me to be careful of being punished by the Buddha, and I smiled and said, "The Buddha is so merciful and compassionate, how can you treat me as a mortal!" But seeing that Lu Tao also believes in Buddhism, I feel very sorry, and I think this is a big conflict between us, and it cannot be reconciled. I can accept other people's belief in Buddhism, but I can't accept my husband's belief in Buddhism, because I don't believe in Buddhism!

In order to express her sincerity to the Buddha, the mother-in-law not only abstained from meat and vegetarianism in the diet, but also mobilized the whole family to learn Buddhism. At first, I didn't want to go, but my mother-in-law said that I couldn't go, Yangyang had to go, and everyone with the surname Lu had to go, and I was worried that Lu Tao wouldn't be able to take Yangyang, so I had to follow them to the Big Buddha Mountain. It's not that I don't want to go to the Big Buddha Mountain, I usually go to the Buddha many times, but not to worship the Buddha, but only to climb the mountain and exercise.

The Big Buddha Mountain is not high, the trees on the mountain are scarce, and the foot of the mountain is also short of water and cut off the flow, which is the characteristic of the hills around Taigu. In other words, the Big Buddha Mountain is not a place with beautiful mountains and rivers. But the point is that there is a temple on this mountain! I don't know if this temple was built in that era, but judging by its old age and the carving style of the big Buddha statue in the temple, it should have been around since ancient times, at least a few hundred years ago. For as long as I can remember, this is a ruined temple, there is no one in the temple, the temple has collapsed in half, only the big Buddha statue in the main hall stands! A few years ago, a young monk came to the Big Buddha Mountain, where this person came from, few people know, only to see that after this monk came, he was not afraid of hardships, lived in the broken temple, chanted the Buddha on time every day, and it did not take long to attract many pilgrims and believers. With pilgrims and believers, there is incense, incense is prosperous, there is more money, young monks use the incense money collected to repair the temple, three years later, the temple is repaired to a magnificent atmosphere, the courtyard is deep, has become a real Buddhist pure land. The monk who repaired the temple is now the presiding officer of the Anning Temple on the mountain, but now he is no longer the thin appearance when he first came, he is fat, his face is broad and strong, and his image is getting closer and closer to the Buddha statue in the temple.

Our family rented two taxis, but we had to get to the bottom of the hill and we had to get off and walk up the hill because the road to the mountain was still a natural and rough road, and no vehicle could get up.

Yang Yang also followed us to climb the mountain on foot, at first I didn't hug him, nor did I let Lu Tao carry him, I wanted him to walk by himself for a while, and then hug him when he was tired. The road up the hill is still relatively steep, and there are gravel rolling, walking on it is tiring and slippery, and people need to hold on to the bushes or wild grasses on the side of the road from time to time. Although there are not many trees on the mountain, there are also slopes full of wild flowers, and it is very refreshing to come from the cement-colored castle to this slope full of nature. As soon as I climbed 100 meters, I began to gasp, which is a sign of a lack of exercise. And Lu Tao, who had been a soldier, of course, kept his expression unchanged, as if he were walking on the ground.

"Yangyang, do you want your mother to hug you?" I asked Yangyang, worried that he was tired.

"No, Yang Yang will go by himself. Yang Yang, who climbed the mountain for the first time, was very excited, looking around, not tired at all.

Of course, our climbing speed must be the same as that of Yangyang, like a snail, and we didn't walk a tenth of the way in half an hour.

"Come, Yangyang, let's let Dad carry you, otherwise, at your speed, when will you be able to reach the top of the mountain?" Lu Tao squatted down to carry Yangyang.

"No, Yangyang will go by himself!" Yangyang pushed Lu Tao's hand away and insisted on climbing the mountain by himself.

"Oh, you're walking too slowly, it's better for Dad to carry you!" Lu Tao forcibly carried Yang Yang, but Yang Yang kicked and hit him on the back, but he refused to let him carry it.

"If he doesn't let you carry it, don't carry it, let him down!" I stepped forward to take Yangyang off Lu Tao's back.

"Let him walk by himself, and he won't be able to go up the mountain after dark!" Lu Tao muttered at me.

"If he can't walk, he'll be carried. I said.

Lu Tao saw that Yangyang just refused to cooperate, put Yangyang down, and strode ahead alone.

Although Yangyang stopped and stopped, and had to pick and play with wildflowers when he saw them, he also walked one-third of the way. At this time, Yangyang was really tired, and I was also tired, so I suggested that everyone take a break before leaving, so I, Yangyang, my sister-in-law and my brother-in-law's girlfriend sat on the side of the road and rested. And my mother-in-law, who is nearly 70 years old, followed her brother-in-law and sister-in-law who was carrying the child on her back, had already walked in front, and she was 300 meters ahead of us. As for the veteran Lu Tao who was angry just now, I can't see him now.

After the three of us had rested for more than ten minutes, we had to start hurrying, otherwise we would really have to walk until dark. And I found that I had annoyed Lu Tao just now, and now it was my turn to suffer the bitter fruit -- I carried Yangyang on my back! Climbing the mountain with Yangyang on my back can be described as three steps, one stop, five steps and one rest, and the speed was even slower, although the other two ladies also helped me carry a certain way, but when we reached the top of the mountain, it was past twelve o'clock at noon, and we almost missed the fast meal on the mountain.

When we buried our heads in eating, my mother-in-law stood by with a conceited expression on her face, as if she was silently telling her children that she was also capable of making some benefits for her family, or that she also had a certain status among the laymen. Whenever a layman beckoned her mother-in-law to eat, her mother-in-law would say in the style of a general: "Don't worry, you eat first!"

I suddenly realized that my mother-in-law did not only come to Dafoshan to study Buddhism, but also to establish her social status for the satisfaction of establishing herself. Everyone wants to fully realize their social value and want to be recognized by others, and of course mother-in-law is too.

But the majesty shown by my mother-in-law was challenged by me in a short time. After eating, my mother-in-law asked us to go to the main hall to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and each of us donated ten yuan of incense money, but I refused. Because I don't believe in Buddhism, I don't want to bow down in front of a statue. When my mother-in-law saw that I didn't obey, her face immediately turned gloomy, and she said to me coldly: "I don't care if you worship me or not, but my grandson must worship." After speaking, he walked over and pulled Yang Yang into the main hall to worship the Buddha.

The problem is that I don't want my son to engage in these superstitious activities, at least when he is not yet able to discern, I don't want to teach him to do so, I don't want to force his beliefs. So I grabbed Yang Yang and said to my mother-in-law, "Don't let him do this, he's only two years old!"

My mother-in-law was almost dizzy by me, but fortunately, with the great Buddha she believed in, it seemed to remind her of the morality of benevolence and tolerance often talked about in Buddhist scriptures, she suppressed her anger, shook her head at me, and walked away silently with a hopeless expression for people like me.

This scene was all seen by her eldest son Lu Tao, who came over and got angry at me for his mother: "You don't worship the Buddha, why are you here?"

"I'm playing, can't I?" I said.

"If you don't believe in Buddhism, don't interfere with my son's belief in Buddhism! Come, Yangyang, go with Dad!"

"No, you can't let my son do these things!"

When Lu Tao wanted to hug Yangyang, I picked up Yangyang first and left the hall quickly. I really can't accept a two-year-old child engaging in these superstitious activities.

When I went down the mountain, I was completely isolated, silently following the Lu family, and Lu Tao didn't say a word to me until I returned home. (To be continued.) )