The rice in the temple is damp, there are really a lot of rice worms, pick it up carefully with your hands, you can't kill it, it's time-consuming and laborious, not to mention, even if it's all clean, there are no precautions, and you still have to have worms when you put it in a bag? But you have to do it, you have to do it if you don't do it, because everyone else is doing it, buddy helplessly sat on the chair and began to pick up rice worms, Kou Zhen and Zhang Run saw me doing it, and they didn't have the temper to pick up worms together. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Heavy physical labor, on the special mother yesterday at half past ten o'clock ate a meal of clear soup and little water, until now the stomach has not eaten a drop of rice, and at night have to catch goblins, other laymen at least have slept for four hours, buddies have not even slept for four hours, it is really a little dizzy, picking up insects is a particularly boring thing, a hard dozing.

In the process of picking up insects, Zhang Run killed a rice worm, and the law enforcement monk next to him came up to hit the palm of his hand, and read the scriptures of excess, Zhang Run almost went berserk, and was pressed down by me with his eyes, so he picked up the worm for three hours, and a monk picked someone to chop firewood, buddy really picked enough rice worms, and volunteered to chop firewood, Kou Zhen and Zhang Run also volunteered.

The monk took the three of us to the backyard, and the buddy looked at the piles of wood like a hill, very confused, where did the wood come from? Isn't it time to stop indiscriminate logging? Why not use briquettes instead? I asked curiously, and the monk told me that there are briquettes, but I have to make them myself, and I can make them.

I think it's better to be active in the morning, pick up the axe and chop wood, Kou Zhen and Zhang Run complained bitterly, saying that if it goes on like this, life is better than death, and let me strike, buddy is also a little unbearable, but those ordinary laymen have survived, what can't I survive? It's hypocrisy.

I ignored the two goods, raised my axe and chopped the wood, cut it until seven o'clock, and was called to the morning class...... After doing the morning class to build the pharmacist hall, at half past ten, go back to wash up, it's time to eat lunch again, the first day to eat the food in the temple feels so bad that it can't be eaten, and after a day of hunger, I suddenly found that there is nothing bad in the world, see if you are hungry to the home, Zhang Run and Kou Zhen are also going to die, no way, no oil and water to eat, to last until this time tomorrow, not to eat, really can't stand it.

I had a stomachache after a meal, and when I returned to the house after eating, Kou Zhen's forehead was sweating as if he had a stomach problem, and my buddy was also shocked, if I really want to experience it, then I still have the energy and strength to deal with those two things? Zhang Run helped Kou Zhen and said to me: "Senior brother, Kou Zhen has eaten a lot of food, so we all have to lie down like this, let alone help Puji Temple solve the problem." ”

I'm also dizzy, I feel that I can't support it, Zhang Run is right, don't say that I have to catch goblins at night, I'm afraid that I won't be able to get up from bed, and I'm more and more sure of what went wrong with Puji Temple, and said to Kou Zhen Zhang Run: "I'll go talk to the abbot, you two are waiting for me here." ”

Out of the meditation room, met the deacon monk, asked the abbot where the meditation room was, went alone, arrived at the meditation room, knocked lightly on the door, the abbot said enter, I stepped in, I saw the abbot's meditation room is very simple, a bed, a table, a chair, nothing else, the abbot saw me come in, poured a cup of tea, asked, "Something?" ”

"Master, I think I've found the reason why the Puji Temple is making trouble with goblins."

The abbot's eyes lit up, and he asked, "What is the reason?" ”

"Penance, the master's penance has gone astray, I'm not saying that the rules are bad, but the rules should be in the hearts of people, not in the form, the master knows that I am a cultivator, even I can't stick to it, how many ordinary people can stick to it? Is cultivating too hard the Dharma? Penance can't become a Buddha, but it can become a demon, I don't know why the master insists on penance so much? ”

After listening to me, the abbot said to me, "I understand what you said, the Buddha sat alone under a tree in the ascetic forest of Mount Garan by the Nirenzen River. He has no covering, no shelter from the wind and rain, no momentary movement of his eyes, no terror of his heart, abandons everything, puts it all down, or restricts his breathing, and his mind is terrified, like a needle piercing the bone; It is said that because he kept his heart and kept the precepts, he did not lie down, and even a great eagle nested and fed his chicks on his head, and the dung of his body was also listened to. ”

"The Buddha practiced asceticism alone for six years, and he gradually ate one hemp and one wheat a day at the beginning, and gradually ate one hemp and one wheat every seven days, so that he did not drink or eat. His body became extremely emaciated, like a dead tree, and his hands touched his chest and abdomen, and he could touch his back. One day, he suddenly realized that it was not easy to attain the path of liberation by excessive enjoyment, but blind asceticism could not lead to the path of enlightenment, so he decided to eat again and go to the path of enlightenment. ”

"Not only the Buddha, Bodhidharma Patriarch came to the Central Plains, but also faced the wall for ten years, before finally enlightenment, the reason why Puji Temple pursues the method of asceticism, the poor monk is also well-intentioned, think about it, if the Buddha did not have six years of asceticism, can he finally enlighten? If Patriarch Bodhidharma hadn't faced the wall for ten years, I'm afraid he wouldn't have attained enlightenment, so asceticism is just a process, and the important thing is the result. ”

The abbot is a graduate of the Buddhist college, speaking of Buddhist allusions and Buddhism is a set, although the buddy is not a student of Buddhism, but also understands some truths, to the abbot said: "Master, there is a saying called teaching according to aptitude, maybe some people are suitable for penance, but some people are not suitable for penance, and penance has to be willing, like Puji Temple this kind of penance is bound by rules and regulations, how effective can it be?" ”

"Practicing the Dharma, no matter what method you practice, the ultimate goal is to become a Buddha. Why are there so many ways to Dharma? Because the root nature and causes of sentient beings are different, the Dharma will be different, and there will be many Dharmas. Asceticism is also one of them, Puji Temple pursues asceticism, there is nothing wrong with that, the monks and laymen who remain are recognized by asceticism will stay, is not there a saying that is good, do not experience wind and rain, how can you see the rainbow? ”

The buddy suddenly understood, why several Buddhist and Taoist arguments in history, all of them were lost by Taoism, did the monks have other skills, and the kung fu on the lips can definitely be called a master-level figure.

But I'm obviously the right party, not to mention the root of the goblins in Puji Temple, the abbot insists on such asceticism, then it is called obsession, I am unwilling, and the abbot said: "Master, the Buddha has been ascetic for six years, isn't there no enlightenment?" And the Buddha does not approve of asceticism, why did Puji Temple pick up the methods that didn't work? ”

"No, no, no, the Buddha is not disapproving of asceticism, what the Buddha is against is asceticism that has no effect, and although Puji Temple also adopts the method of asceticism, it does help to study the Dharma and achieve liberation. It's like sleeping on cow dung, which is an austerity, but it has no effect, so it's opposed, and a meal in the middle of the day, which helps to monasticism, then take it and praise it. As I said before, asceticism is just a process, without this process, you will not be truly enlightened, and the rules of Puji Temple are to let monks and laymen restrain their own behavior, so as to restrain their hearts, and there is nothing wrong with the Dharma. ”

Discuss with the monk how to practice Buddhism, Zhente Ma is looking for sin, but it is clear that this is not right, but I was stunned to say that it is not the abbot, I am quite depressed, silent for a long time, and said: "That can not be a meal a day, sleep for four hours, do heavy work every day, yesterday afternoon when I was working, I saw a forty-year-old monk fainted tiredly, the Buddha said, the world is originally a sea of suffering, why bother to add to suffering?" ”

"The benefits of asceticism are to weaken self-grasping and facilitate enlightenment, but what is not good? What's more, the temple does not force monks and laymen to come to Puji Temple for asceticism, all of them are voluntary, of course, they must strictly abide by the rules of the temple and the hardship of practice, the practice is already bitter, and the suffering on the body is nothing?

I really can't say anything about the abbot, I was silent and silent, and said to him: "Master, you are in it, maybe you don't think there is anything wrong, but if you ask me to help you completely solve the problem of Puji Temple, you have to listen to me, the asceticism of Puji Temple is not right, the reason why there are monks and laymen to stay, is because of the fear in their hearts, it is you who make them feel that it is wrong not to practice like this, and only by suffering can they be liberated, isn't this also an obsession?" The Buddha said that all the Dharma is like dew and electricity, and it should be viewed as such, since the Buddha can't realize the Tao through asceticism, we mortals can do it? ”

Seeing that I was a little anxious, the abbot smiled and said to me, "Some roads seem to be crooked, but if you don't take them, how can you get to the right path?" It's true that asceticism can't help people become enlightened, but it's an extremely important process, just like going to school, if you don't go through elementary school, how can you go to junior high school? Therefore, ascetic practice is still necessary, and Venerable Mahakala is the first ascetic among the disciples of the Buddha. ”

The Buddha once said meaningfully to the Buddha: "In the future, my Dharma will not be destroyed by the outer paths of the heavenly demons, but by the corruption and degeneration of the Sangha." If you want to stay in the Dharma for a long time and the Sangha is to be strengthened, you must live a serious life like the Kasya. Kaya, I don't force you, you just go your own way. ”

"Therefore, asceticism is to subdue its heart."

At this point, I can't go on, I was silent and said to the abbot: "You asked me to help, I helped, asceticism is not suitable for the current society, and the effect is not so great, because not everyone has your kind of realm, master, I will help you solve it, but the root matter, you have to find it yourself, we talked for a long time, you often put the Buddha and the Bodhidharma Patriarch on your lips, I want to ask, throughout the ages, how many people can have the heart and perseverance of the Buddha and the Bodhidharma Patriarch?" ”

After saying the last few words, I smiled bitterly at the abbot, and said goodbye, but there was no reason in my heart to relax, I only know that this kind of asceticism in Puji Temple is not suitable for me, then I solved those two things to the abbot There is nothing to feel guilty about, as for the future of Puji Temple, it is not something I can manage.

Cultivation is to cultivate the purity of body and mind, and self-abuse can purify the body and mind? I was unimpressed. (To be continued.) )