The hunters stared wide-eyed, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Huineng's gourd. Huineng smiled and said, "Forbearance and humiliation of Paramita is a subject that a bodhisattva must practice. The fourth brother, in particular, inadvertently made me. ”

The hunters didn't understand what he was talking about, and they became more and more confused: when people beat him and play tricks on him, he not only did not hold a grudge, but was grateful to them, which was unbelievable!

Even more incredible things are yet to come.

The hunters were about to go out, and two tolerances came from Sihui County, saying that there were two tigers in the mountains, which injured several people in a row, causing panic and restlessness. The local people all talked about the tiger's discoloration, and they were so frightened that they couldn't live all day, and they closed their doors every day, which was miserable. Therefore, the county lord specially invited their team of hunters to eliminate harm for the people.

The third child came to the spirit and asked: "Since the county lord came forward to invite us, then, how much reward can the county yamen give?" ”

"One hundred taels of silver!"

"Wow, that's a lot! It's worth a year for us! ”

The fourth child urged: "Big brother, let's pack up and go!" Brothers, let's go! ”

"Wait!" The Boss shouted, stopping the eager hunters.

He turned to the tolerance: "These two big brothers, the four of you also have Orions, why did you come to Huaiji to find us?" ”

The two men hesitated for a moment, looked at each other, and said, "You are the best hunters in our area, so we have come to invite you." ”

The boss asked Xiao Wuzi to pour tea for the tolerance, and took out the precious bacon jerky for them to enjoy. Then, he asked nonchalantly, "Is Boss Li in your county okay?" ”

A tolerance blurted out: "What's good, let the tiger tear off a thigh and half an arm, can it be good!" He ...... "From the solemn faces of the hunters, he knew that he had slipped out of his mouth, and hurriedly stopped talking.

The boss asked, "He, is it the two evil tigers who were injured?" ”

He had no choice but to nod and said, "The hunters in our county, there are several people who can't hunt tigers, but they are injured by tigers, and no one dares to come forward anymore, so ......"

The boss said, "Just as I expected." Boss Li's skills and means are on par with me. He couldn't help the tiger, and I couldn't do anything better. That tiger can seriously injure Boss Li, it seems extraordinary! ”

"The county lord said, I can't invite you, I want to ask the two of us! Boss, Big Brother...... Uncle...... Uncle ......"

Seeing that the boss was indifferent, he turned to the third and fourth brothers: "These two masters, you are strong and strong, you will definitely be able to subdue those two tigers, please ......"

The third and fourth children, who were very excited just now, are wilting at this time, and they just want to hide behind others.

He said, "If you can go, the reward will be doubled, and I will give you two hundred pieces of silver." Two hundred taels! ”

The third child muttered in a low voice: "If you put your life on the line, what is the use of 10,000 taels of silver?" ”

The two were disappointed and were about to leave, but unexpectedly, Huineng, who usually didn't dare to hurt even an ant, stood up and said, "Two big brothers, I'll go!" ”

All the people couldn't help but be stunned: You Huineng has a thin body, no power to restrain chickens, and no experience in hunting fierce beasts, how can you subdue the evil tiger?

He said, "Brother, will you make fun of us?" ”

The boss also said, "Huineng, what are you kidding?" ”

Huineng looked serious and said solemnly: "It is the unshirkable responsibility of our hunters to eliminate harm for the people, why am I joking?" ”

"However, although you have been here for more than a few months, you are only collecting firewood and cooking, and you don't even know the most basic knowledge of hunting. Didn't you hear? Those two evil tigers have even injured the seasoned old hunters, how can you deal with them! ”

Huineng said, "I have my own way. ”

Seeing that he was resolute, he couldn't help but ask the boss curiously: "What skills has this uncle practiced?" Maybe ......"

"He's a Buddhist, and he meditates and recites sutras. However, tigers are not vegetarians! ”

The tolerance is even more disappointed, Buddhism prohibits killing, you can't use bows and arrows, poisons, traps to hurt the tiger's life, you Huineng is to recite the sutra for a lifetime, how can you make the tiger change its evil and return to the right, and no longer harm the people?

Huineng said: "Tigers are also sentient beings. Buddha Shakyamuni said that all living beings have wisdom and virtue. So, I believe that we can find a way to prevent tigers from harming human lives. After saying that, Huineng wanted to go out.

The boss grabbed him: "Huineng, don't mess around!" The big tiger is not a little monkey, why should you bury your life in vain! ”

Huineng said: "The Buddha Shakyamuni once sacrificed his life to feed the tiger, if I die for the people, I will die a worthy death." Besides, boss, I'm not going to die. When I was young, I once sat face to face with a tiger for more than an hour, and it didn't eat me. Therefore, I will definitely be able to think of calming the tiger trouble of the four associations. ”

"Really?"

Huineng nodded.

The hunters remembered the wonders of Huineng playing with wild monkeys, and so on, so they stopped stopping him.

Huineng came to the place where the tigers haunted Sihui County alone. Although he is not afraid of death, he also does not want to be eaten by tigers needlessly. He struggled to contemplate what it was like to face the tiger as a child. He was absent-minded at that time, and he didn't know that the tiger was by his side, and he didn't defend himself out of fear of escaping, so although the man and the tiger were face to face, they were not opposites. It can be seen from this that if a person does not have the intention of harming the tiger, the tiger has no intention of harming others.

He remembered the story of Shakyamuni Buddha sacrificing himself to feed the tiger again, and immediately thought in his heart: The tiger eats people because of hunger; If it has food in its belly, it certainly won't risk biting. It is often said that the hungry tiger pounces on food, and the hungry tiger is unstoppable. The Hungry Tiger is so ferocious because hunger threatens its life!

Huineng held the demon slaying spell in his heart, and inspected the mountains and fields where two tigers had injured people. He found that when the mountain people set fire to the barren land before the beginning of spring, they burned all the thatch in the mountains and fields within a radius of several miles. Grass-fed rabbits, wild sheep, sika deer, etc., have no food and leave for other places. A tiger is a beast of prey that has a relatively fixed hunting territory. It can't find herbivores in its sphere of influence, and when it's hungry, it naturally attacks humans who break in.

So, while chanting the Buddha and praying, he used the reward silver of the county government to ask the villagers to buy some food, put it in the place where the tiger often haunts, and gradually threw the food into the deserted mountains and old forests. The two tigers finally dived into the depths of the mountain and disappeared.

The tiger plague in the Sihui area subsided in this way. Later, Huineng burned charcoal here for a living and lived in seclusion for many years. In order to commemorate him, people call the mountains and fields in this area "Fulu Mountain" - the meaning of supporting the Lu family. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, people built a temple at the foot of the mountain, called: Liuzu Temple.

After Huineng calmed the tiger trouble, he returned to the hunters.

One day, the hunters were walking through the woods. Suddenly, they found a large deer standing in the clearing. The third child quietly pulled out his bow and shot an arrow at the deer with a "whoosh"-

"Smack!" missed, and the arrow went into the trunk of a nearby tree. However, the deer stood still.

The third child took the arrow and drew the bow again. The boss stopped him and whispered, "Don't shoot again, the deer has the most intelligent sense of hearing, and it will run away when the wind blows." And this deer is motionless, it's so strange! Let's not collide with the mountain gods. ”

The hunters crept over and saw a fawn on the ground shot by a crossbow. The big deer stood beside the little deer. The third jumped over and pushed, and the big deer fell to the ground with a bang. It turns out that it has been out of gas for a long time.

The third child jumped high happily: "This time I made it, the crossbow shot a small one, and I also caught a big one, we are rich!" ”

The second child inspected the deer for a long time and said, "Strange, how did this deer die?" There wasn't even a single wound on his body. It didn't look like it died of illness, and what was even stranger was that it died standing on its own. ”

"It doesn't matter how it dies, as long as the meat isn't bad."

The eldest pondered for a while, and then said to the third child, "You cut open its belly and take a look." ”

The third child opened the belly of the deer, took a look, and was frightened.

The hunters asked in unison, "What's the matter?" The third child's voice trembled and said, "It, its heart has exploded, and its intestines have been broken into several ......."

The fifth asked the boss: "Big brother, what's going on?" For no reason, how could Dalu's heart be broken? ”

The boss kept silent. The second child whispered to the fifth child: "The fawn that was shot dead on the ground must be the cub of this doe." When the doe saw that the child was shot to death, she was angry and bloody, and she ......"

The boss yelled angrily, "Don't fucking say it! Bah! Bah! What a fucking bad luck, bury them! ”

In the evening of the same day, the hunters sat around the brazier, and one by one they hung their heads and their hearts were heavy. The boss sat on the sidelines, pinching the thatch with his fingernails repeatedly. After a while, he finally broke his silence and said slowly: "I don't want to do this murderous work anymore." ”

The second child pandered: "I don't want to do it either." I heard that people like us who kill living beings will fall into hell after death, go up the sword mountain, go down to the sea of fire, and enter the oil pot. Then they were reincarnated as animals and told others to slaughter them one by one. ”

Chapter 503 Cultivation (II)

"I'm afraid it's too late for us to change careers now. We've killed countless wild creatures, and we're going to hell when we go to hell. ”

The third child deliberately pretended not to care. Huineng said, "Amitabha." Third brother, put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha on the ground. Like all living beings in the world, you are pure and kind in nature, but because you are burdened by the desire to get rich, you do not understand the true purpose of life, and your heart is deluded, so you hunt and kill. Now, your hearts have become clear from the turbidity of your hearts, and you know that killing is for the sake of money. The birth of this thought is enlightenment, the sea of suffering is boundless, and the return is the shore. Coupled with serious repentance, sinful karma can naturally be eliminated. ”

The third child said suspiciously: "It's not such a cheap thing, right?" Let's kill thousands of animals, kneel in front of the Buddha statue and confess a few words, and then we'll be fine, no need to go to hell? So, isn't it true that everyone can go on a killing spree and do bad things, as long as they repent later......"

Huineng said solemnly: "Third brother, what you said is not repentance, but prayer. True repentance is unrepentance. What is confession? What is repentance? Confession is the confession of previous sins, foolishness, pride, jealousy, and other sins. Repentance is the cutting off of faults that may occur later. Repentance is called repentance for all sinful deeds that have been realized now, and will be cut off from all sins in the future. How can we atone for our sins if we only know how to confess past mistakes and constantly remove possible mistakes that may occur in the future? ”

Huineng's words made the hunters moved.

The second child walked up to Huineng and said, "Brother Huineng, you are a living bodhisattva, right?" Did you come to the mountains to make up our group of hunters? ”

"Second brother, you're joking, I'm just a student of Buddhism, and my cultivation is still not hot."

"Anyway, you know better than we do. Like me, I have done many evils in my life and killed countless people indiscriminately. If the karma of sin is tangible, I'm afraid this house won't be able to hold it, can you help me repent of my sins? ”

Huineng said lightly: "Okay, second brother, you find out your sinful karma, and I will help you repent." ”

The second child scratched his ears and cheeks, turned over his pockets again, and said embarrassedly: "Sinful karma is not a tangible thing, it is not easy to find." ”

Huineng smiled: "Since you can't find the sinful karma, won't the sinful karma be repented of?" ”

The second child was stunned for a moment, and then said happily: "I understand, I finally threw away all my sinful karma." Thank you, thank you Master Huineng! ”

Huineng said: "All the sins in the past are as empty as a mirror, as long as you change your past mistakes and stop doing evil, it is true repentance!" ”

It was completely dark. Huineng lit the oil lamp, and the stone house immediately brightened, but the blazing brazier looked dull.

Lao Wu said in amazement: "Oh, you don't think it's strange, this brazier has a lot of firewood burning, but it is not as good as a small oil lamp, which can illuminate the whole house." ”

Hui Neng took the opportunity to teach: "This large pile of firewood, like all kinds of human greed, it ignites a raging fire, although it can drive people to run for the satisfaction of desires, but it does not glorify the course of human life, but at the cost of burning the whole life. And the wisdom of enlightenment is like a lamp, a light that can dispel the darkness of thousands of years, illuminate life, and make people lose their way. ”

The third child pouted and said, "I don't know what the lights are, anyway, I know, I have no food in my stomach, and I am so hungry that I panic." Without hunting, what do we eat? What does the family depend on to feed? ”

The boss sighed heavily: "This is indeed a big problem. Huineng, you can meditate for five days without eating, but we can't. You have to think of a perfect solution. ”

The second child said: "It would be good if it was summer and autumn, we can collect medicines, as long as we are not afraid of danger, we can dig up precious medicinal materials." ”

"Nonsense, it's late winter and early spring, and hunting is the golden season." Everyone was silent, only the charcoal fire in the brazier burst out from time to time.

Huineng had an idea and said eagerly: "I have a good idea, which is safer and more secure than hunting." ”

"What's the idea? Speak it up and listen to it! The crowd spoke in unison. Huineng pointed to the brazier and said, "When I drove tigers in Sihui, I saw that there were a lot of unfinished hard miscellaneous trees in the mountains there, which was the best raw material for charcoal burning. Let's build a charcoal kiln to burn charcoal and make sure to make money. ”

The boss's eyes lit up and he slapped his thigh: "Good idea!" Hunting is mainly a matter of luck, and sometimes it is not possible to catch a good price for three days. Charcoal burning is different. As long as we are willing to work hard and use good raw materials, we can burn the best charcoal and sell it at the best price. ”

The second child said excitedly: "Then let's go tomorrow." "Hunters are all men who say the same, and they do what they say.

The next day, they set up camp and moved to Sihui, where they built stones into kilns and tried to burn charcoal. On the day of the kiln, everyone gathered around the charcoal kiln, excited and a little nervous, because after all, this was the first kiln of charcoal they burned, which was related to everyone's livelihood in the future.

The boss solemnly peeled open the clods of soil at the mouth of the kiln, revealing black charcoal.

With tears in his eyes, he pressed the hot charcoal to his face and murmured, "Success, success!" ”

The crowd shouted, "Oh—our charcoal is out of the kiln!" "Some of them were so excited that they jumped high, and some of them were so happy that they danced with their hands......