Since returning from Zhu Fugui's house and building the Zen Hui Garden, Le Zhidan seems to have grown up a lot suddenly, and began to read the scriptures seriously, practice meditation, and worship the Buddha sincerely.

One morning, Le Zhihua and Wang Jinfa came to visit Zhang Shaofei and brought a box of snacks. Zhang Shaofei casually gave Le Zhidan and a group of small novices.

Le Zhidan was greedy, and when he watched Zhang Shaofei divide the snacks, he was salivating and swallowing saliva in a hurry. However, when she really got the dim sum and put it to her mouth, she ran out in a hurry as if she suddenly thought of something - she wanted to offer the dim sum to the Buddha and Bodhisattva first. If there is something good, first of all, it is dedicated to the Buddha and Bodhisattva, which is her piety; Anyway, those statues won't really eat the snacks, and they will end up in their stomachs! In this way, one has the merit of offering to the Buddha, and the other does not delay his own hunger, which is really a double win! This is Le Zhidan's unique shrewdness.

There are statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas everywhere in the temple. There are Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjushri Bodhisattva, Fuxian Bodhisattva, Dashi Zhi Bodhisattva, Jizo King Bodhisattva...... There are also three Buddhas of the past, present and future, Buddhas of the east, west, south and north, but there is only one piece of dim sum, where should it be offered? Le Zhidan pondered for a long time, and finally decided to make offerings to Shakyamuni Buddha. Because he is the present Buddha and the teacher of all the monks.

Le Zhidan came to the Daxiong Treasure Hall, respectfully put the dim sum on the offering table, and bowed three times. However, when she stood up and bowed, she seemed to notice that the statue of Ananda, which was about the same size as herself, standing on the right side of the Buddha Shakyamuni, was secretly snickering.

Hmph, my dim sum is for the Buddha of the Buddha, but you are not allowed to eat it!

Le Zhidan climbed onto the lotus seat and put the dim sum directly into the palm of Shakyamuni's meditation mudra. She grimaced at the statue of Ananda and ran away.

In the afternoon, Le Zhidan came to the Daxiong Hall to pick up snacks, and he was surprised to find that the piece of dim sum placed on the palm of Shakyamuni's hand was gone, gone!

Oh my God, the Buddha enjoyed the dim sum I offered! Shakyamuni Buddha! Thankfully, the Buddha appeared......

Le Zhidan threw himself to the ground, knelt down in front of the Buddha statue, and kept kowtowing like a chicken eating rice. I don't know how long it took to stumble, but his pounding heart finally calmed down. The child's curiosity finally made him overcome his fear and piety, and climbed the lotus seat again to see what was going on.

It didn't matter what it was, which made Le Zhidan angry. In the palm of the Buddha statue, he found some crumbs of snack, among which there were a few black mouse droppings!

Le Zhidan's anger skyrocketed: "I was enjoying the Buddha's snacks, but I was stolen and eaten by hateful mice!" My own salivating food was stolen by damn rats! Le Zhidan couldn't help but scold.

Fortunately, the eighteenth generation of rats had already rotted into ashes, otherwise, their bones would have been scolded by Le Zhidan.

Le Zhidan's scolding naturally couldn't attract mice, but it attracted Zhang Shaofei, Xingsi, Fahai, and Fada.

After listening to Le Zhidan's story, they couldn't help laughing.

Le Zhidan was annoyed by their laughter and said, "The rat stole my snack, but you are happy to be like this." It seems that the rat who stole must be your relatives and friends! ”

Fahai said: "Rats are also sentient beings, and of course they live with us. ”

Le Zhidan seemed to have been inspired by this, and asked Zhang Shaofei instead: "Do rats have Buddha nature?" ”

Zhang Shaofei said with a smile: "All sentient beings do not lack Buddha nature, of course mice have Buddha nature!" ”

"Since it has Buddha nature, why does it steal the offerings of the Buddha? And to in the hands of the Buddha, isn't it sacred? Le Zhidan suddenly showed his killer feature, wanting to stump Zhang Shaofei with this.

Faced with Le Zhidan's smug smile, Zhang Shaofei was confident and asked with great humor: "Why don't the mice go to the cat's nest to steal something to eat?" Why not poop on cat's paws? ”

"Nonsense, if it dares to provoke the cat, it will be eaten by the cat as a snack!" Le Zhidan said.

Zhang Shaofei said: "You must know that the mouse does not go to the cat's nest to steal food, does not poop on the cat's paws, and knows to avoid danger, which proves that it has Buddha nature." It has the same physical and spiritual troubles as human beings, and it wants to get rid of them. This kind of mindfulness of avoiding suffering and seeking happiness, seeking liberation, and yearning for peace is the manifestation of the Buddha-nature of all beings. In other words, rats originally have Buddha nature. ”

Zhang Shaofei asked Le Zhidan again: "Why did you put the dim sum in the palm of the Buddha statue?" ”

"This ......" Le Zhidan sighed, unwilling to explain.

Zhang Shaofei's heart was like a mirror, and he immediately said: "Ask Sister Dan, are you afraid that other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will share dim sum?" ”

"How did you guess my mind?"

Zhang Shaofei said: "You, you, you are not big, and there are a lot of ghosts!" You have to understand that Buddhas and Buddhas are equal, and there is no difference; Everything is one, and one is everything. Therefore, if you worship one Buddha and Bodhisattva, you are offering all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. The key is that we must have an equal and broad heart! The bigger your heart, the greater the merit of offering to the Buddha. ”

Fahai said Le Zhidan: "What you do is called 'living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain'." Do you think that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are as careful as you! ”

Le Zhidan understands this truth, but she can't worship the Buddha's dim sum and the mouse in the palm of the Buddha statue as equals.

Zhang Shaofei said: "When the rat is eating snacks, it only knows that it smells and comes, so it doesn't tell where you put it!" It pooped on the hands of the Buddha statue, and it just thought it was a safe place! Therefore, its behavior is completely natural and unintentional, not malicious. It's indecent, but it's the same as our human values. Although its unintentional act stains the Buddha statue, it is also better than putting the dim sum on the palm of the Buddha's hand! ”

Le Zhidan shuddered and lowered his head in shame.

That night, Le Zhidan had a dream. In the dream, her clothes, his shoes, and even the bowl he eats with are stolen by mice. She went to the sky and the earth, turned over the rivers and the sea, but she couldn't find any trace of the mouse, and she couldn't help crying.

When she woke up the next day, she was sullen. When she came to the Zen Hui Garden, Fahai, who lived in the garden, asked her what was going on. She recounted the dream.

Fahai laughed: "Life is like a dream, and the things in your dreams are even more ethereal, like water reflecting the wind and clouds, and smoke in the mirror, why should you take it seriously?" ”

Le Zhidan said: "The water reflects the wind and clouds, and the mirror shows smoke, although it is illusory and unreal, but after all, there is still wind and clouds in the sky, and there is still smoke on the opposite side!" ”

Fahai knew that he was entangled with her, so he laughed and said: "The images that appear in the mirror in the water are all reversed, left is right, right is left, therefore, things in the dream are also opposite. You cry in your dreams and laugh during the day. ”

Le Zhidan was extremely smart and alert, and immediately asked: "If that's the case, then, I'm crying in my dreams at night, and isn't I laughing during the day?" ”

Zhang Shaofei, who had been listening, suddenly shouted: "Where are you without you?" ”

yes, where am I without me? If our nature is immortal, impure, and impure, then where are we before our parents are born? What was our state of mind at that time? Le Zhidan's heart was greatly shocked, his spine was numb for a while, and a big mystery sprouted in his heart......

The Zen patriarch said: Small doubts and small realizations, big doubts and big realizations, and no doubts and no understandings. Suspicion is the premise of comprehending Zen Buddhism.

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