The eyes of the Sixth Patriarch Master Huineng patrolled under the hall like a torch, and when he saw the eyes of the monks one by one, he swayed with doubtful light waves, so he cut into his gist of "all living beings have Buddha nature" in a timely manner.

In the silence, the hall sounded again the voice of the Sixth Ancestor Huineng, which seemed to come from the Buddha Kingdom-

At that time, after hearing everyone's discussions, I pointed to the tigress and said with confidence, "You must know that it is also a creature with feelings, as long as we are sincere and skillful, it will also be gradually influenced and turn evil into good, of course, this requires a process." ”

Wang Tianbao asked, "What should we do now?" ”

I said, "You go to the tiger's den and get those tiger cubs here." ”

"Okay." Wang Tianlei responded and pulled a sturdy villager beside him and walked towards the end of the pit.

I turned sideways to Liang Jinhui and said, "Ah Hui, your hunting dog Ah Wang has just given birth to three paparazzi, and you have brought Ah Wang here." ”

"Okay." Liang Jinhui turned and walked home.

In less than half a bag of cigarettes, Ah Hui returned to the scene with the big hunting dog Ah Wang. Not long after, Wang Tianlei and Ah Sheng also returned to the scene with a little tiger cub in their arms.

The two cubs were just waiting to be fed, and when they saw the mother tiger standing on the other side, they reflexively screamed.

This is a terrible call! When the tigress saw her children fall into the hands of the people, she thought that they were going to hurt them, and the motherly nature drove her desperate struggle and roared wildly. The sound was like thunder rolling in the sky, shaking the earth, and its right hind leg was firmly clamped by an iron clamp, but its two forelimbs still moved freely. It stretches out its forelimbs and grabs the ground with its sharp claws. The dirt on the ground was grabbed and splashed in all directions.

As a result, the villagers who were so frightened that they were originally close to the tigress panicked and ran out one after another, walking far away.

Faced with this scene, I asked Liang Jinhui to press the hound, Ah Wang, to the ground about seven or eight feet away from the tigress. I personally picked up the two tiger cubs and put them next to the female dog Ah Wang.

The two cubs had been without milk for most of the day, and they were very hungry and uncomfortable. For example, today I saw the place with the smell of milk in front of me, regardless of whether it was tiger milk or dog milk, I stretched my neck vigorously, and ate the dog's swollen nipples with my mouth. This scene made the villagers around stunned.

After some struggle, the tigress wound became more painful, knowing that she was in prison and had done nothing, she stared at Huineng's every move, and saw that her newborn children were eating dog milk with relish, and people not only did not hurt them, but treated them so well, they no longer struggled and roared in vain, quieted down, became regular, and looked at me with grateful eyes.

When I saw that the two tiger cubs had eaten enough milk, I picked them up with both hands, carried them in my arms, and played with them in front of the tigress.

The well-fed little tiger cub shook its head proudly at me, waging its tail, very lively and cute.

After I played with the little tiger cubs, I instructed Wang Tianlei: You can put them back in the tiger's den over there. When the tigress saw that the people were carrying her children away from her, she did not agitate or roar, as if she knew that people would not harm her children.

The sunset has sunk from the western mountain, and the vast twilight drifts on the Tianlu Mountain. The homing birds in the forest gradually quieted down. Wang Tianbao pointed to the tigress that had become a little more restrained and asked me, "What are we going to do with this guy now?" ”

I confidently said, "As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." The indoctrination of it can only be done slowly. Now that the fire has not yet arrived, let time wear off its viciousness. Now it's still so angry, and we can only indulge it with our desires. ”

Wang Tianbao looked at me incomprehensibly and asked, "Want to get away with it?" ”

I told him, "The nature of a tiger is that of a beast, it has no humanity, but it also has spirituality. It will only recognize the food that will keep it alive, so let's make it suffer a little more, and let it make it when it is desperate and helpless. ”

When Wang Tianbao heard me say this, he suddenly realized the meaning in his heart: "Do you want to starve it for a few days first?" ”

"Not bad!" I nodded, "Let's leave it alone tonight, let it starve, and then take its time to fix it." I waved my hand outwards and motioned, "It's getting late, let's go home first." Let the tiger spend the night here. ”

Seeing that it was getting late, the people of the four villages dispersed in twos and threes.

In the afternoon of the next day, Uncle Ah Cheng and Ah Hui and I came to the tigress with the hound's hound, Ah Wang, as we did yesterday.

Uncle Ah Cheng and Ah Hui took the two tiger cubs out of the tiger's den and fed them the two tiger cubs again with dog milk in front of the tigress. The tigress struggled and roared desperately when she first fell into the trap and was caught by the beast, which consumed a lot of energy. In broad daylight, exposed to the unsheltered place, exposed to the scorching sun in the air, the whole body is hot and hot, and the sweat of the whole body is dripping down. At night, the mountain wind is cool, like a cold arrow from the pores into the tigress's body, making it constantly shiver.

In this way, for several days, the tigress had nothing to eat or water to drink, her bulging belly was deeply dented, and her thick ribs were exposed under the colorful tiger skin.

This tiger, which has always been mighty and vicious, has been so hungry that it is weak, and its whole body is weak and limp.

These days, I'm doing it while watching the tigress look.

The eyes are the windows to the soul. I found that the fierce light and murderous aura in the tigress's green eyes were gone, revealing a strong desire to survive. At this point, I knew that this trick was already paying off.

The next day, I divided half of my meal from home, served it in a basin, and came to the tiger, who was almost dying.

At first, I didn't dare to approach the tigress, but slowly pushed the bowl with the food in front of the tigress with a stick.

There is a way to be hungry and not choose to eat. The tigress smelled the fragrant meal in front of her, lowered her head and gulped it down, and finally licked the remaining juice from the bottom of the pot with her wide red tongue.

For a few days, I did the same thing as the tigress. When I realized that the tigress had no ill will towards me, I had the courage to gradually approach it, gently stroked its fur, caught lice for it, and then stroked its forelimbs, seeing that it would not attack people with its claws, and finally I could walk in front of the tigress, directly and kindly touch its forehead, and communicate with it silently with practical actions.

Sincerely, the gold and stone are open. As the days passed, the tigress's affection for me increased day by day, and her brass bell-like eyes flowed with gratitude, and she gently licked my hand with her tongue from time to time, conveying the message of communication between her and my heart.

Wang Tianbao, Wang Tianlei and some villagers came to watch me get along with this tigress every day, and at first they were a little worried about me, but then they were happy for me when they saw that things were developing in a good direction step by step.

In this way, I touched the tigress with kindness, and she and I became good friends to play with.

Wang Tianbao witnessed the development of the whole incident from beginning to end, and said to me with admiration: "Ah Neng, you are really amazing! Such a ferocious tiger has also been tamed so obediently by you. ”

I said meaningfully, "Everything in the world is the same." If you have a tiger in your heart, it will always be a tiger. If this tiger is no longer a man-eating tiger in your heart, then it is no longer a man-eating tiger. ”

Wang Tianbao pondered my words, and also realized something from them: "You have a point, what is your secret weapon?" ”

I pointed to my chest: "If you have a good heart, you can do everything with kindness." ”

After a few days, I saw that the time was ripe, so I untied the trap myself, and applied the collected Chinese herbs to the wound on the tigress's right hind leg, and then bandaged it with a strip of cloth.

Trapped in the trap for more than half a month, and her tiger's den is close at hand, the joy of the tigress regaining her freedom and reuniting with her growing children is conceivable.

The tigress circled around me three times, then knelt down on her forelegs, and then waged her tail and went home.

Since then, I have become good friends with this tigress and her two tiger cubs.

I also use the leaves as a whistle to connect with them in this special way, often playing with them and domesticating them.

This tigress is also very knowledgeable, and no longer does the evil deeds of mutilating the villagers in Tianlu Mountain.

When the surrounding villagers saw this tiger, they would not be as frightened as before, and they would run away. This is because the tiger often runs to distant mountains and forests to catch vicious animals when foraging for food.

Those thieves who once came to Tianlu Mountain to steal chickens and dogs saw that the big tiger often cruised around the tiger pit, where did they dare to come and do evil again?

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I tamed the tiger, and at first glance, it seems absurd.

From a historical point of view, in the Western Regions, there have long been people who have been able to domesticate tigers and lions to Chang'an to pay tribute to the Tang Emperor, and also take them back and forth on Tongqu Street.

There are eighteen Arhats who protect the Dharma under the seat of Buddha Shakya Benni, one of whom is Venerable Qingyou, an Arhat who has subdued the demon dragon, and there is also a Venerable Maitreya, an Arhat who has surrendered to a tiger.

In this regard, it is not surprising that I tamed the tiger.

With his own experience, the Sixth Patriarch Huineng vividly illustrated the unique saying that "all sentient beings have Buddha nature", which won warm applause from the audience. Master Kongshan said with admiration: "The epiphany Zen of the six ancestors Huineng, rooted in the fertile soil of the people, is really a veritable Buddhist scripture of the working people!" ”