Chapter 10: Bhikshus Are Not Easy to Be (2)

Li Chen wants to learn what to do with the five folds, first go to the monk, and then come to the victory of the life and the reversal, it seems that there is no hope. If you don't have money, you can't do anything.

This made him scratch his head very much, he used to think that being a monk was a profession similar to that of a liar, and he couldn't eat meat, which was troublesome. He didn't look down on monks, and he never wanted to be one. But now people tell him that a monk is not something you can do if you want to be a monk. Because, in the Tang Dynasty, being a monk was not just a meal ticket. It's also a good career.

How's that good? First of all, he became a monk, that is, he was raised by the temple, although usually those monks were not idle, they had to clean, they had to farm, they had to recite the scriptures, and they also recited in the morning and evening. Then I usually have nothing to do and sit in meditation to understand the essence of the Buddhist scriptures.

But what, that profession doesn't have to do things? Compared to ordinary occupations, when you become a monk, you are considered to have a job of providing food, lodging, and occasionally clothing, but you don't have money to work.

It seems bad to have no money, you say, I'd rather ask for money, find a place to live by myself, buy clothes by myself, don't want that kind of monk's clothes, ugly than lucky.

It's just that you have to think about it from a different angle, that profession is not worried about not having a business, not worrying about reducing income? Monks don't have to worry. Basically, every temple has a temple property, and the temple property does not have to be taxed, simply put, every temple has a lot of money, so when you become a monk, you don't have to worry about losing your job, you don't have to worry about starvation, you don't have to worry about any recession.

And, although you say you don't have any money, what do you want money for? You can't ask for a wife, food, clothing, and housing all depend on the temple. Moreover, sometimes it is useless to have money, not enough for you to spend. What's going on? Sick.

No matter what era you are in, once you get sick, it's not easy. Some minor ailments are of course easy to cure in modern times. But those minor illnesses, in ancient times, would have passed after a while. What if you get seriously ill? In modern times, it also costs a lot of money. But, the average person.

Today, after visiting the temple with Fan for a day, Li Chen saw a lot of things, and some patients came to the temple for medical treatment. Running to the temple for medical treatment? That's right, in the Tang Dynasty, temples also functioned as clinics. In ancient times, monks were more or less intellectuals. In this era of widespread illiteracy, monks had to read the scriptures and read Braille to some extent.

And in order to preach, many monks have some medical skills. Think about it, from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, how many cases have occurred, through the practice of medicine, to preach, and finally rebelled? The monks do not rebel, but they know how to heal, and they are easy to preach.

The most important thing is that you are a monk in the temple and can enjoy it for free.

This alone is attractive enough, but also add to the fact that travel does not have to bear the burden of room and board? As a monk, no matter where you travel, you can place an order at the local temple. Ordinary people are not so good, they ask for money. You don't need to be a monk. Complimentary hospitality.

However, it is not that you can immediately go to various temples to cheat and eat and drink when you become a monk. It depends on your vows. Spending a fortune on a ring is as useful as your resume. It will register when you have shaved and which sutras you will have.

Monks are graded by rank, and when they are just shaved, they are commonly known as novices (nuns). When you have received a certain degree of training, can recite sutras, and are not a fake monk who cheats and cheats on eating and drinking, you can be promoted to the level of bhikshu (nun), at this time, you can take the precepts and go to the world, no matter which monk temple you go to, as soon as the precepts are taken out, people will entertain you for free food and lodging.

Even, if those temples are short of manpower, and you place an order here, and you happen to be able to recite the scriptures they need, and they will also provide employment fees and hire you to help recite the scriptures, and then you even have travel expenses.

How good, in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to being an official, what profession could be like this, providing food, lodging, and clothing, free medical treatment when sick, wanting to travel, free food and lodging, and occasionally getting subsidies. Not to mention, after you die, you don't have to worry about finding a place to bury you, and there will be many monks who come to chant the scriptures, taking care of everything before and after your death.

Although the days will be hard, you must eat fasting and chant Buddha, and you can't ban women, but this kind of treatment is like a national civil servant. Even, if you cover it up well, you have an outer room, and you will pass on your ancestry, don't be exposed, it's not a big problem.

In addition, for Li Chen, being a monk has one of the greatest benefits. It's like a five-fold day. Of course, he didn't learn to be a nun first, and then wait for the opportunity to become a queen. Instead, he had to avoid being chased by the emperor from the current Tang Dynasty.

Five-fold heaven, to be able to marry the new emperor as a former emperor, the key is to be a nun. In modern times, being a monk is nothing great, you can't drink and drive just because you're a monk, you can hit and kill people and not live long, monks can't evade taxes or anything, many things are similar to ordinary people.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, or in ancient times, if you left home, even if the four major ones were empty, you could be regarded as an outsider. Not only do you not have to pay taxes, but you don't have to do labor, and the most important thing is that you can get married even if you leave home. All the things you had in the past have nothing to do with you.

Fifty percent of the day is a monk, and it has nothing to do with her before what talent she has identified. Yesterday's things are like yesterday's death, and today's things are like today's life. Therefore, she can get a wife from Taizong and an aunt from Gaozong, and become a wife from Gaozong. It is not bound by etiquette and law, and it is not criticized by others.

Li Chende plans to do the same, although he doesn't know why he has to hunt him down today, but being a monk can solve many problems. I'm a monk, no matter what grievances and grievances I have in the past, I can write them off. For modern people, of course, this is impossible, but his opponent is not like him.

Well, what if it doesn't work? No, let's talk about it. If not, you can become a monk and your life will be guaranteed in the future. If that bullshit saint doesn't give up, it's great that he will go to Yunyou, I can't afford to provoke him, so hide it.

But now that the road to becoming a monk is blocked, he has no money at all, and he has no way to buy anything. Originally, in the afternoon, Li Chen still felt that he had time to think about it slowly. But at night, he couldn't make such a fuss that he couldn't leave early.

"Where are you going?" Li Chen looked at the starry sky and thought. The starry sky in the Tang Dynasty was not affected by industrial pollution, and there was no light damage now, so when Li Chen had nothing to do, he would always look at the starry sky to see if he could see the constellations in the sky and let him recall his past life.

(Mom, Dad, are you all okay?) No, my son has made you worry again. Looking at the starry sky, Li Chen's thoughts drifted away again, and now he was a little more stable than before, he thought of his parents, and he made them worry again.

After graduating, they were nervous to find a job, start a family, and take care of their parents. But he didn't have the slightest worry, he was always a good child, his parents were healthy, and he was retired, so he didn't have any burden at all, he lived like a bachelor, just take care of himself.

No, he's even better than a bachelor, who won't have parents to worry about him. Now it's not easy, he wants to cheer up and do something seriously, but he is facing this situation again. It must be sad for the parents to send the black-haired people.

Although I'm not sure what happened to my original body, now that my soul is here, eighty percent of it is hanging. What's worse is that he didn't hang up, became a vegetative person, and dragged down his family.

When he thought of his parents, he thought of his son after he was born again. After being inexplicably reborn, he actually became a father. It's just that the kid seemed to be stunned, and fled in a hurry, not even having time to look at him more.

Thinking of this, Li Chen smiled. Because he remembered, when he just woke up, he heard it, he remembered that the child called him, grandpa....

Speaking of which, the Tang Dynasty people called it very strange, if you hear a person call another person, called grandpa, grandpa, just like the child called him when he woke up, it is not called grandfather, grandpa is called father.

As mentioned in Mulan's poem, when I first read it, that master was not Mulan's grandfather, but her father's meaning.

After the Yuan Dynasty, that kind of messy, with flattering names, when you see big people, you often call adults, uncles, and you can't wait to call people as your father. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the titles of adults and uncles can't be shouted indiscriminately. Only the father can be called that, and if he is a little more intimate, he can also be called brother, eldest brother. Respect a little more than an adult.

Don't try to say, it's okay to shout wrong. It's a big deal, think about it, someone came to you today to do something, and as soon as they walked in the door, they called you, "Dad." (Dad)', what do you think?

That's pretty cool. However, if you are cool, you will be a little uncomfortable. Regardless of whether you helped him with his errands or not, what would you think of him? Villain, no backbone at all, isn't it. When you enter the door and see someone, you call Dad. Either way, it's true that you're a flattering villain. Even some doctors who pay attention to etiquette will be furious and think that you are this

Even in the palace, it is the same, from Li Chende's dream, that is, in the memory of the original owner's body, he has never called the emperor, father, mother, or son in later generations, just like ordinary people, called father, or grandpa, and sometimes called adult.

It's the same for the mother, called A-Niang. Interestingly, he is also called Niangniang, which is very natural, obviously this is a kind of prince to call his biological mother.

Strictly speaking, it is not that the Tang people call it strange, but that there is a fault line in Chinese culture. No wonder some people say, "There is no China behind Yashan". The existence of the Mongols is a catastrophe.

"Grass... I'm thinking nonsense again.'" After thinking about it for a while, Li Chen was woken up coldly, and found that he had been here for a long time, but he didn't expect anything, it was really...