The Buddha of the Western Realm believes that life, old age, sickness and death are all suffering, and the root cause of this is due to the various desires of various people, and in order to get rid of suffering, it is necessary to practice with little desire and endure all the suffering in the world.

And the word for patience and obedience, is the fundamental method of practice, all Buddhist believers are monks, so Buddhists are called "monks", monks are required to shave their heads, hair is a symbol of human troubles and bad spirits, cutting hair for clean is to cut off troubles, eliminate old habits, that is, to remove pride and slackness. As long as all desires are eliminated, the practice is painstaking, there is no quarrel with the world, and all the sufferings of the world are endured, and the soul can ascend to heaven after death. There is also an explanation that the word monk is a transliteration of Sanskrit, and the Sanskrit original meaning is "teacher", which was originally translated as Falcon Society, Heshe and so on.

Demon: "One day, when your Dharma is at the end of the Dharma period, when the Dharma fortune fails, I will destroy your teachings!" ”

Buddha: "How do you destroy my teachings?" My temples have spread all over the world, and my robed disciples have grown like trees in the forest. ”

Demon: "I will destroy your teachings and Dharma in 2,500 years, and I will let my demon sons and grandsons put on your robes and enter your temples to preach my demons and corrupt your monks. ”

Buddha: "Then you can't help me, then my true disciples will take off their robes, put on civilian clothes, and go to the world, then Hongchen will become a temple, a family will become a dojo, and a temple will become a prison for your demon son and grandson..."

There is a temple in the center of Xicheng, there is an abbot in the temple, thirteen monks who practice, because the temple is in the city, so the incense is very vigorous, not only the people who live in the city come to worship on time, but the people who are within a hundred miles outside the city are competing to visit.

The abbot monk Dharma name Xuanzhen, round face and big ears, wide mouth and belly, when he saw the guests who entered the incense, he smiled, and then bowed deeply and recited a sentence of Amitabha. It stands to reason that there are such famous temples and monks stationed on one side of the land, and there is no room for those evil demons to live, but here it is the opposite.

On the eve of the Qingming Festival, several families in the city had strange dreams at the same time at night, in which the deceased elders cried and complained of grievances, saying that a few evil ghosts had come from nowhere recently. These evil spirits are rampant, bullying them, not to mention, but also taking their houses and things burned by their descendants, and what is even more hateful is that in order to show their strength, the evil spirits also cut off the left hand of each bullied ghost as a souvenir.

After listening to the story of the deceased, several families looked again, and sure enough, they saw that the dead elder was missing a left hand. The news spread quickly, and what scared everyone was that everyone's dreams were surprisingly similar, and as the Qingming day approached, several families living in Xicheng dreamed of this scene. However, the family living in the westernmost part of the West City did not dream about it, to be precise, it did not dream that the scene was different from other families.

This family has a different identity from others, that is, the butcher, and the skill of killing pigs and sheep has been passed down from generation to generation, and the butcher has a lot of blood on his body, even if he is dead, he is not an ordinary ghost can bully. In the dream, the old butcher said to his juniors that these evil ghosts were not local ghosts, and he fought with them several times, and found that the anger on their bodies was racing day by day, which showed that there were people nearby who were worshipping them, and if you wanted to get rid of them completely, you must first find someone to worship.

A few prestigious people in the city gathered everyone together to exchange information and discuss how to solve the problem, depending on the situation, if it is not dealt with as soon as possible, it will one day affect the living. Even if it does not spread, the family is restless, and it is easy to affect the fortune of the living, after a day of deliberation, everyone finally decided to send a representative to ask the monks in the temple to help.

So, a few people quickly rushed to the temple to see the abbot Xuan Zhen, and after everyone explained the situation, Xuan Zhen's face did not change, but he also stopped smiling, he squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and said to a few people.

"Everyone, please go back first, and then I will give you an answer when I gather everyone in the temple to discuss."

"Master, you must help with this!"

"Definitely, definitely! Rest assured, we will take action to subdue these demons. ”

Seeing Xuan Zhen's reply, several people stopped pestering and left, so they had to go back home and wait, one of them was the butcher, and what made the butcher feel strange was that since ancient times, good and evil were not separated, and the abbot Xuan Zhen's performance was really not like the reaction that an old Buddhist monk should have. When he returned home, the butcher had another dream that night, in which he saw the old butcher again, and this time to his surprise, the old butcher was scarred and had lost his previous look.

The old butcher tiredly told his family that these demons were now angry, that they had been defeated, and that if they were not resolved, in a few days, they would come back to the evil side of the Yang world. The old butcher also said an important piece of information, when he was fighting with the evil spirits, he found that they emitted a faint golden light, and he judged that this golden light should be the reason for the increasing anger on the evil spirits. If you find the source of the golden light, you will probably be able to find the nest of evil spirits, so that you can destroy them all, and at this point, the old butcher asked his family to find a family by the river outside the city that made a living by fishing, and if they were willing to help, the matter could be solved.

The next day, as soon as the fish was white, the butcher dressed himself and went to the river outside the city, and he found the fisherman very smoothly, because this is the only one on the river. After the butcher explained his intentions, the old fisherman frowned, turned around and took out a palm-sized turtle shell from the house, and took out three copper coins from his clothes.

The old fisherman leaned down and looked at it carefully, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and after a while, the old fisherman put away the turtle shell copper coins on the ground, and said in a solemn tone.

"It's not easy to solve this matter, the problem is in the temple, and the relationship between the evil ghost and the monk in the temple is not ordinary."

The butcher was taken aback when he heard this, he never thought that the evil ghost would have anything to do with the monk, and after learning the reason, the butcher said goodbye to the old fishermen and rushed back to the city, and found a few leaders to tell him the news. Everyone was skeptical, and the butcher also said his doubts about the abbot Xuan Zhen in the temple that day, and since that day, several people asked Xuan Zhen for help, and there was no reply, which couldn't help but make everyone believe the butcher's words a little more.

After all, everyone can't break into the temple to find out without direct evidence, so they can only agree on a good time to go to the temple together to see the situation.

That night, most of the people in the city had strange dreams again, and in the dream, their relatives were bruised and mutilated, and their eyes were bloody and tearful, telling their families that evil spirits had occupied all the yin lands within a hundred miles. They also said very arrogantly that it was impossible to hurt them, because they had the Buddha's light to protect their bodies, and ordinary ghosts and gods were not capable of dealing with them. Without waiting to continue, a golden light shrouded over the undead, and then quickly retreated towards the Netherworld.

After dawn, everyone gathered again, and after telling the strange dream, this time everyone no longer hesitated, and surrounded the temple while reporting to the officials to enter the search, and indeed found the tablets of the evil spirits in an apse.