Chapter 125: Resign and return home
The news of Bai Lian's lecture on the top of the temple soon spread throughout the county, and some people came to visit, but they came to nothing, because Bai Lian had resigned from her post as the president of the Buddhist Association and returned to her own village, so they had to walk or hitchhike to Bai Lian's village. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The abbot of info took over the post of president of the Buddhist Association, and was naturally overjoyed.
In the eyes of outsiders, the name of Bailian's village is no longer important, the important thing is that there is a living Bodhisattva in this small village by the mountains and rivers, and the people of the whole county are talking about one thing, there is a female Bodhisattva in our county, let's go to the Bodhisattva Village to see. So in people's hearts and mouths, they all call the village of White Lotus "Bodhisattva Village".
What a smart person the village chief is, since she reformed her ways, she has been thinking about doing good things for the whole village, when he heard people talking about the Bodhisattva Village wherever he went, his heart was broken, he called the men, women and children of the village to the village committee office compound, and told his heart, he wanted to change the name of the village to "Bodhisattva Village", and asked for everyone's consent. People say that this name is good, but as soon as this name is called, all the people in our village have become bodhisattvas, and such a meritorious thing should not be decided quickly. The village chief said that this is the blessing that the white lotus brings to the whole village, so that the whole village is contaminated with fairy and Buddha energy.
The reason why Bai Lian resigned and left the temple was because she thought that she had to return to the real life and the common people, so that it would be easier to conceive and create her own ideal paradise, and to spread her own paradise concept in a down-to-earth manner, so as not to become a mirage.
Centered on your own village, it radiates to the surrounding area and shines like light on the world.
Bai Lian first set up the Paradise Dance Group, and the women who originally went to her house to worship the Buddha all joined the Paradise Dance Group, and Bai Lian mobilized her parents and parents-in-law to join in, and the Mingyan Mother-in-law and his son's family, as well as the village chief's family, also took the initiative to join.
Bailian stipulates that every day from 9:30 to 10:30 in the morning and from 3:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon, they will gather in the square outside the village. Everyone formed a small circle, or a large circle with three layers inside and three layers outside, and danced. After jumping for half an hour, gasping for breath, everyone began to meditate cross-legged on the spot, chanting Amitabha!
The Paradise Dance Group does not force anyone, you can arrive late and leave early, you can go to work in the fields and do housework at home, and when you want to come out for activities and chanting sutras, you can come out whenever you want, regardless of gender, young and old.
After everyone formed a circle, they first turned around and walked in a circle ten times in a circle, and then walked in a circle ten times after turning around, like a walk, stretching their arms and bounce their legs, warming up, and then starting to dance very relaxed.
Bai Lian taught everyone the dances she learned and saw in the Valley of Forgetfulness from memory.
People are dancing, laughing, and singing happily, so unhappy, in such an atmosphere, what troubles can people have in their hearts, even if there are, they can get a moment of stress relief and release.
Bai Lian received a letter from Wanjin that day, and after she read it, she couldn't tell whether she was excited or not, her heart was very calm, and the enthusiasm for seeing Wanjin was gone. She showed the letter to her parents, and then to her parents-in-law, and then put the letter in her mother's bedroom, and since she came back from the temple, she has been living in her mother's house.
Wanjin, my love, can you really come back? Perhaps, when you come back one day, your White Lotus, your wife, no longer needs you, because she is no longer the original White Lotus, she has become a woman who only has great love and great happiness, a woman who longs to return to eternal happiness, and no longer belongs to anyone.
People from other villages continued to join their Paradise Dance Group, and the big square could no longer accommodate it, so Bai Lian enlightened them to go back to their villages or streets to organize their own and set up their own Paradise Dance Group.
Bai Lian thinks that more and more people are beginning to understand the value of accepting the dance and chanting of the Paradise Sutra, and that its ease of operation, entertainment, fitness, and the popularity of chanting in the way of the Pure Land sect will spring up like mushrooms on the earth. As a result, tens of thousands of dance composers and choreographers who combine dance and fitness have been born.
"White Lotus, I propose that our entire village, the members of the Whole Paradise Dance Group, elect you as the leader of the Paradise Sect!" The village chief laughed.
"No kidding, what Sect Master! Then you still start a church! Bai Lian also smiled.
"I'm telling the truth. Look at Bai Lian, the number of people developed by this paradise dance group is at least a thousand, right? In the future, it will increase and increase, and your influence can be said to be known to everyone, and our village has also been changed to a Bodhisattva village. Now, I think if we officially create a church, elect you as the leader, and let more people officially join our church, do you think, will our merit be even greater? White Lotus, only by preaching, can we develop and grow the team of Paradise Dance, the church is just a form, and promoting the gospel of Paradise Dance is the purpose and meaning! The village chief said in one breath.
"Then the position of the sect leader, you should sit down." White Lotus said.
"I am the head of the village and a party member, I can only join the paradise dance group in the village, and I definitely don't join any church, I just suggest it to you. Besides, only you are worthy of sitting in the chair of the sect leader. The village chief said.
"But does the creation of a church make people think that it is a reactionary organization?" Bai Lian asked.
"It depends on what your organization does, how can you become a reactionary church if you dance and recite scriptures every day, don't say any reactionary words, don't do anything reactionary?" The village chief said.
"Village chief, in fact, before you proposed, I also thought about creating a church, but how easy it is to create a church, you have to go through the approval of the state, you have to compile a catechesis, and how many talents do you need. If you want Shakyamuni to establish Buddhism, you must also be enlightened under the Bodhi tree in order to spread the Dharma and spread the Dharma. I have a child of Bailian, how can he de! Even if you want to start a church, it's not a church! Bai Lian smiled.
"Don't be modest, let's not compare with Sakyamuni, aren't you already preaching the scriptures on the temple mountain? You just have to do it, you can! It's a big deal, just have fun. But how do you say that founding a church is not a church? I don't understand. The village chief said.
"I just don't want to call it 'teaching.'" White Lotus said,
"And what's your name?" The village chief looked at Bai Lian and asked strangely.
"I think it's called 'Circle'!" Bai Lian said with a smile.
"'Circle'? Or is it a 'garden'? Which word? The village chief asked.
"The circle of great reunion is not the garden of paradise." White Lotus said.
"Oh, Yuan! It's not called teaching, it's round, it's fresh! White Lotus, you can really be funny! The village chief laughed.
"What I'm saying is true, it's called Circle!" Bai Lian said solemnly.
"So, what kind of circle? There are Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism, and Taoism, so what is your circle called? Hahaha, Bailian, if you say you, you can make your uncle and me happy! The village chief smiled from ear to ear.
"Yuanyuan!" Bai Lian said word by word.
"Yuanyuan? That's the Yuanyuan Sect! This name is good, and it is also smooth, Yuanyuanjiao, very good, very good, White Lotus, there is you! The village chief chewed on these two words, laughing, and muttering.
"It's not 'Yuanyuanjiao', it's 'Yuanyuan'." Bai Lian corrected.
"It's the same, it's the same, it's called Yuanyuanjiao." The village chief said. "It's decided, Yuanyuan Sect, you are the sect leader, Yuanyuan, you are the Yuanzhuo. Ah, gardener, ah no, it's the head of the kindergarten, ah no, it's the head of the Yuanyuan Sect! ”
"Hey, I said all the comrades of the Paradise Dance Group, today, I would like to announce to you a very meaningful thing, from today onwards, our Paradise Dance Group will be remodeled, and it will be called the Yuanyuan Sect in the future, that is, the Yuanyuan Church will be officially established today! The leader of the Yuanyuan Sect is the White Lotus! The village chief announced loudly with a smile on his face.