The abbot saw that the white lotus was ugly in front of the pilgrims, and her heart was much more relieved, she smiled and said with a hidden knife: "What is the white lotus, you have also seen, the so-called real gold is not afraid of fire, and it is a bodhisattva who can save the suffering." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" She leaned down and wiped her hand in front of the foreheads of the three fainting pilgrims, and woke up one by one. The other pilgrims were shocked by the abbot's mana, and they all kowtowed to the abbot and said, "Thank you, Bodhisattva, for saving your life!" Thank you Bodhisattva for help! "How did they know that the abbot had used a spell to detain the souls of the three pilgrims, and that the bell had to be tied to the bell, so she pretended to release the souls of the three pilgrims.

For a month, Bai Lian cleaned the inside and outside of the temple every day according to the abbot's arrangement, and at noon, she climbed to the top of the mountain and practiced grasping the clouds with her hands. The abbot did not let Bai Lian read books and read the scriptures, saying that Bai Lian must first practice penance in order to hone his mind and eliminate the bad habits of impetuousness, mania and arrogance. And she herself recited the scriptures when the white lotus was cleaning, and sat in the pavilion at the bottom of the mountain when the white lotus grabbed the clouds with her bare hands, looking at the ridiculous and stupid appearance of the white lotus monkey jumping on the top of the mountain, she not only laughed in her heart, but also laughed on her face, laughing in the words: "Hey, I said white lotus, white lotus, aren't you Guanyin Bodhisattva?" Guanyin Bodhisattva soaring through the clouds and fog is your appearance of rushing up and down? Hahaha, pitiful, pitiful! Ridiculous, ridiculous! What a sin to tarnish the reputation of Guanyin Bodhisattva in this way! Thou shalt atone thy sin on the top of the mountain every day! ”

Bai Lian had nothing to say. What is deserved, what is lifting a stone to shoot herself in the foot, what is self-inflicted, she has truly paid for it in the past 30 days. But can she blame herself? Everything is predestined! It's like a dream!

Hate the abbot's punishment? It's false not to hate, she really hasn't cultivated to that point. Why did she go to the temple to practice in the first place? Isn't it just that you have seen through the red dust? The village chief has hurt her, her lover has fled for her life, and she has died a few times, who else will she hate? What about true hate? In the end, it's yourself who hurts!

The real ridiculous and pitiful is the abbot herself! What can you do if you stay in the temple for decades? Not yet a jealous layman? What about chanting sutras every day? Not a wicked person who hurts others and hurts himself? Pathetic, pathetic! Thinking of this, Bai Lian forgave the abbot.

It's not that she doesn't know that only a fool can believe in grabbing clouds with her bare hands every day, and she wants to cultivate herself like this. The abbot is right, you can hone your mind! She wants to comprehend a spirit and faith in the stupid and ridiculous action of grabbing clouds with her bare hands! She believed that she had caught the clouds in these thirty days of hard training, and she was already standing in the clouds, but the abbot would not see it! More importantly, she has to save the abbot by jumping and jumping, because only when the abbot sees herself jumping so stupidly, will her jealousy be extinguished, her heart will be balanced, and her illness will not burn and worsen.

But she can't keep jumping like this, she has to leave the temple and return to the people, to the world. And before leaving, she had to learn to recite the Heart Sutra and the Great Compassion Mantra.

"Master, I still have to leave the temple and go to the people to promote the Dharma and help the suffering." One night, Bai Lian knelt down and said to the abbot.

"Do you still want to ride the white clouds to pretend to be Guanyin Bodhisattva? So you've learned to ride the clouds? How about a demonstration to the master? The abbot sneered with a look of disdain.

Bai Lian was speechless.

"Hmph, you don't have that ability! Why are you so restless and self-conscious? Isn't it unbearable to suffer? Well, you start tomorrow and obediently chant the scriptures in the temple. Catch the clouds on the top of the mountain and do it. After the abbot finished speaking, he took out some Buddhist scriptures from the bookcase and handed them to the white lotus. It seems that your heart is not over, when to leave the temple, please take care of yourself, everything is as it is, Amitabha! ”

White Lotus was secretly happy.

At night, the white lotus meditates under a poplar tree in the temple and recites sutras. This poplar tree was planted by a centenarian with nearly 100 people more than 20 years ago, and now it has grown into a towering tree. Under the tree stands a marble stele, the inscription is a short poem: "Poplar is the people, saving the suffering for the Bodhisattva; The heart is planted with all beings, and the Dharma is the same as the sun and the moon. It is said that the old man was also a layman, because he had revered the Buddha all his life and had a lot of enlightenment, so he planted a poplar tree here to encourage future generations to have an epiphany of Buddhism. Three meters from the poplar tree, a wire was pulled and a light was installed, and the poplar tree was flanked by pine and cypress trees. At this time, it is high and crisp in autumn, and the moon and stars are scarce. Bai Lian recited the Heart Sutra and the Great Compassion Mantra, and her heart shone like the bright moon.

I don't know how many times I read it, but Bai Lian felt that she could recite it naturally without reading a book. Her eyes suddenly opened up, as if she were sitting in the sky, looking down at the bright moon and the clear sky, and everything on the earth.

When the abbot heard the sound of the white lotus's chanting, he felt abnormal and came out to take a look. I saw Bai Lian sitting under the poplar tree, with a light like a moon ring on her head, and the grass futon she was sitting on cross-legged had clearly turned into a big lotus flower.

"Didn't you look dazzled yourself?" The abbot exclaimed in his heart. She looked closer, and it was still the same.

"That is to say, Bai Lian is now, at this moment, she has attained the Tao? No way! No way! It must be a hallucination! It must be a hallucination! The abbot was inexplicably surprised and frightened. The jealousy disappeared, and the boundless fear made her suddenly feel small! She felt like she was shrinking, shrinking smaller and smaller, and she even felt herself shivering.

"White Lotus, White Lotus." The abbot called Bai Lian's name and called Bai Lian's name, but she only felt her mouth move and couldn't hear her own voice, and Bai Lian didn't hear it, because she was still motionless.

The whole temple resounded with the sound of the white lotus reciting the "Great Compassion Mantra".

The entire sky resounded with the sound of the White Lotus reciting the Great Compassion Mantra.

Three days later, Bailian said goodbye to the abbot and walked out of the temple on foot.

This time, she didn't take the clouds. She is very sober, she is not Guanyin Bodhisattva, she is a white lotus, an ordinary woman who has just learned to recite the Heart Sutra and the Great Compassion Mantra, a restless woman who does not want to stay in the temple and die chanting the Sutra of Death.