Chapter VIII: Punishment

After breakfast, I ran to the Dharma Hall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 In the hall, the abbot is sitting upright on the throne and explaining the Diamond Sutra, while the other monks are sitting in the listening seats on either side and listening quietly. I saw that there was a futon next to Senior Brother Jing'an and no one was sitting, so I thought it was specially reserved for me, so I hurried over and sat down.

Speaking from the heart, I really want to give the abbot face and listen to the lecture well. But as is the cliché, although he didn't listen to the scriptures he talked about in the past year, he has already been familiar with them by heart. So after listening to it for a long time, my eyelids involuntarily stuck together, and my head dozed off little by little.

I wasn't in a good position, in the front row. The abbot is high up, he should have seen it in his eyes a long time ago, but the people behind him should not be aware of it, so he endured it with one eye closed, pretending not to look at it, but his face is estimated to be ugly. Because of Jing'an next to me, from time to time he would secretly poke me with his elbow, poking me into a thrill, but as soon as he opened his eyes, he started fighting again.

Just when I was sleepy and out of control, leaning forward and backwards and staggering, and finally one of them didn't stand up and fell on Jing'an, the abbot who couldn't cover me completely broke out.

"Purify your heart!" The abbot gritted his back molars and snorted.

"Huh?" I sat up straight, rubbed my still sticky eyes, and wiped a handful of saliva from my chin.

"Pure heart, why are you so careless on the first day of class?" In front of everyone, the abbot is not good at hiding his secrets, and he maintains his prestige with a black face.

"Master, I know everything you say, so I'm sleepy when I listen to it."

The abbot was obviously very dissatisfied, and said angrily: "The monks don't speak, you ask your senior brothers, which one dares to say that he can do it?" At a young age, don't speak wildly. ”

"Master, I'm really not talking nonsense......" I muttered to myself in a low voice.

"What did you say?" The abbot was a little angry when he saw that I was not guilty and muttered, and raised his voice with his eyes open, and said to me.

"Master, I've heard that Pure Heart is a prodigy, if you test him, maybe he really will?" Jing'an saw that the situation was not good, so he was busy playing a round.

"Okay, then I'll test you, can't answer and see if I don't hit your hand?!"

"Okay." I nodded confidently.

"You can memorize the Diamond Sutra."

"The Diamond Sutra, also known as the Diamond Prajnaparamita Sutra, belongs to the ninth meeting of the Great Prajna Sutra, with a total of 32 products. The first product, **** cause points. That's what I smelled. For a while, the Buddha was defending the country. Gishu to the Garden of Solitude. with the great bhikshu congregation. 1,250 people. Then the world. When eating. Dressed and bowled. Settle in the city and beg for food. in its city. The second begging has begged. Return to the Locality. Meals. Collect the mantle. Wash your feet already. Sit on a seat. Second ......"

I recited fluently, and before I could finish memorizing, the abbot raised his hand and motioned for me to stop. "Okay, I know you will, but that's not a reason to sleep in class, you'll have to be punished." As he spoke, he took out a key from his arms, blew his beard and glared, and said with a tiger face: "Now punish you to go to the Scripture Pavilion to face the wall and think about it, go quickly!" ”

The Scripture Pavilion is an important place in the temple, and only the abbot has the key, and he cannot enter without permission. I didn't expect to receive the punishment there, and I suddenly felt that I was in the spirit, and hurriedly "eh" to agree, and hurriedly reached out to take the key and went straight to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. You know, that's where I've been fascinated for a long time.

The Scripture Pavilion is a three-story building with cornices, located in a remote corner not far from the Dharma Hall. Every time I pass by there, I see a big lock on it, and I feel as curious as a cat scratching, and I can't help but want to find out. I thought about whether to pry the door and sneak in to see, how the big lock was very strong, and I gave up after trying a few times to no avail, but I didn't expect that I could walk in openly today, and I felt beautiful when I thought about it.

I took three steps and two steps to the door, and when I picked up the key to open the door, I found that it was the same as the big lock on the door, with beautiful green rust flowers, carved with cloud dragon patterns, simple shape, made of bronze, and it was very weighty in my hand, and it looked like an old object.

What a beautiful thing! I held up the key and squinted into the sunlight. The fine workmanship and exquisite shape make me admire: this is the key, this is clearly a treasure!

I rubbed it in my hand for a long time before I was willing to insert it into the keyhole. With a "click", the lock opened. I took the lock down, suppressed my little excitement, and cautiously pushed the door.

The door creaked and opened. I poked my head in. I saw a blank scroll hanging on the opposite wall, with an incense case in front of it, and a thick futon on the ground in front of the case. There were three sticks of incense in the incense burner, and I don't know who had lit them, and they were curling with green smoke. In addition to the spacious open space in the middle, there are bookshelves on both sides, which are densely packed with books.

Tsk, how long will it take to finish reading this! If you can read all the books here, will you learn to be rich? Thinking wildly in his head, he searched for the stairs and climbed up the second and third floors. Sure enough, except for the incense case that did not have a layer, each floor was full of bookshelves and books.