Time is like a flying arrow, and in the blink of an eye, he has been a monk for more than half a year and has experienced the first summer.

During the three months of summer, from April 16 to July 15, monks are required to live in monasteries and are not allowed to travel their feet.

Because summer is the period when all things sprout and grow, in order to prevent monks and nuns from inadvertently hurting plants and insects when they go out, committing the great precept of "killing", which violates the fundamental spirit of Buddhism's great compassion, Buddhism stipulates that monks and nuns are not allowed to go out to travel during these three months.

According to the past practice, the monastery should hold a ceremony to repay the favor seven days before the summer liberation, that is: from the ninth to the fifteenth day of the seventh month, worship the Liang Emperor Bao Confession (which began in the period of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, and his confession ceremony, that is, he created, so it is called "Liang Huang Confession"), in order to surpass the parents of the seventh generation, and recommend the deceased relatives.

Over time, this ritual spread to the people, forming the 14th of July. On this day, every family burns paper and incense to remember and mourn those relatives who have died.

Tianhua Temple is located on the seaside, since ancient times, the fishermen who live by the sea are on the cusp of the storm to beg for a living, the sea is mysterious, the wind and clouds are unpredictable, and the shipwrecks occur frequently. Therefore, most of the people who come to Tianhua Temple to do Buddhist things and overstay their relatives are widows who have encountered misfortune. The puja is held for seven days in a row, and there are Buddhist services in the evenings, so the women who have traveled far away live in the rooms of the monastery.

During the puja, there are many people, there are many places to light incense and candles, and those believers will burn paper money, paper boats, and paper ingots, and most of the temples are wooden buildings, which can easily cause fires.

Therefore, the prison did not let him collect firewood, but let him replace the original old watchman, who was on duty at night, patrolling the temple, carefully guarding the fire and candles, and wishing Rong Rong to come with the god of fire prevention.

He didn't dare to slack off, and he didn't fit his eyes all night long, and kept patrolling every corner of the temple.

It's finally the last night of the puja.

The ritual of this night was to release the yoga flame.

This is the culmination of the whole Midyear Festival Thanksgiving Puja, which is extremely complex and lasts for three hours.

All the monks of the temple gathered in the square in front of the Daxiong Hall to chant sutras, and those pilgrims who came to recommend their relatives also came to participate in this most important ceremony with tablets, paper boats, and paper ingots.

The yoga flame mouth ceremony is extremely solemn, especially the flame mouth master sitting high on the altar, wearing a gorgeous golden silk robe, wearing a sacred Pilu hat, reciting secret mantras, and his voice runs through the sky and down to the yellow spring, which makes people awe-inspiring; And his complicated handprints, varied, are extremely beautiful......

In the unique atmosphere of the puja, you will take it for granted that such a sincere mantra, such a mysterious mudra, will naturally communicate with other forms of beings......

The flame mouth ceremony reached its climax, and the mage proclaimed:

The dust brake is all round,

There are a lot of differences.

Sticking up coral branches to the moon,

The light shines brightly.

Flamemouth Master recited mantras while making mudras......

A waiter moves the vial in front of the mage. Mage Ruler Cloud:

The earthquake tide sound said Pumen,

The nine lotus flowers are innocent.

A drop of true nectar from a poplar branch,

Scattered mountains and rivers and the earth spring.

The Master then took the water out of the bottle and sprinkled it in all directions......

Although the flame mouth ceremony is mysterious and fascinating, he has not forgotten his duty and still patrols the various courtyards of the temple.

When he came to the West Cross Courtyard where the pilgrims lived, he faintly heard the sound of men and women laughing and flirting in the room......

Despite the reluctance of the hundred, the unbearable voice was still heard clearly, and, he was almost sure, it was the three of them again. Women, naturally, are widows who can't stand loneliness......

I thought to myself: The pure land of the temple, how can such a filthy thing be tolerated! So, he shouted the Buddha's name: "Amitabha! ”

The room immediately fell silent.

Knowing that they didn't dare to do anything wrong, they hurriedly left the place of right and wrong.

However, he got into trouble because of this.

Early the next morning, Yingqing and the other three led a young woman to the guest hall and found the prison.

The woman wept and cried, snorting and tearing, and said: Last night, a young monk with a big belly took advantage of the fact that all the monks and laymen of the temple were setting off flames in front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and teased her.

The pot-bellied young monk, of course, is in tune with this! It can only be a contract.

Needless to say, there was such a scandal in the temple that corrupted the door, and the prison in charge of management certainly lost face.

He trembled with anger, and his lips trembled so much that he couldn't even finish his words: "Ben, the monks of this monastery, and the monks have committed such and such a serious crime, and they will not be tolerated!" Go...... Go find the deed, find the ......"

"Don't look for it, you see, isn't that him?" Ying Qing pointed to Qi who was walking leisurely and walked over from a distance.

How did he know that a storm awaited him?

He is in the youth of seventeen or eighteen years old, although his figure is slightly fat, but because he is far away from the red dust, his heart is pure, and he exudes a holy, cool and solemn charm between his gestures, which makes people can't help but be moved.

Isn't it, even the woman who accused him of molesting him was demented, and the expression on her face turned out to be longing and greed!

This is just the right way to the guest hall.

The prison asked the woman, "Is the big-bellied monk he was talking about?" ”

The woman's heart seemed to be wandering in a beautiful realm, and her expression was in a trance due to intoxication, so she did not hear the questioning of the prison.

Seeing this, Ying Qing quietly kicked her.

The woman was clever, woke up from thinking about what was wrong, and asked Yingqing in a daze: "What's wrong?" ”

Ying Qing hurriedly pointed to the prison and said, "The master asks you!" ”

"What's the matter?" The woman was still at a loss.

The prison subconsciously frowned, and his eyes seemed to be getting closer and closer: "The person you are talking about, is it him?" ”

The woman finally came back to her senses, glanced at Ying Qing out of the corner of her eye, and said, "It's him, it's him." Last night, the slave family had a stomachache and did not participate in the flames. When he was approaching, a figure touched the bed of the slave family......"

The woman described it vividly

The prison couldn't listen anymore and scolded her: "Don't say it! Are you ashamed? I'm embarrassed to learn that kind of ugly thing! ”

The woman was very spicy and shouted at the prison, "Hey! You monks have done everything, but the slaves can't say anything? The slave family was originally a flower, but it was ruined by the monks in your monastery for no reason! On the contrary, I am not ashamed! How can there be such a truth in the world? ”

How could the prison have provoked such a sharp-toothed woman! He hurriedly changed direction and shouted at Qi Ji: "Qi this, you come to the guest hall!" ”

After Qi came in, when he saw Yingqing and the other three and a woman in the guest hall together, he "chuckled" in his heart and secretly screamed "not good". I thought: I don't know what kind of bad luck awaits him.

Sure enough, the prison said: "Yes, you did a good job last night!" ”

Qi Zhi defended himself as a matter of course: "Master of the house, Qi was assigned by you last night to patrol the night and strictly prevent fire candles, and there was no omission!" ”

When the prison saw this, he put on an innocent and blank appearance, and he was angry, and said in a mocking tone: "Do you want to say again that you are cleaner than the fish that has just been fished out of the sea?" Are you really going to let me tell you what you did ugly? ”

There are no words. First, he didn't know if he had inadvertently committed any mistakes; Second, he didn't want to argue with the elders in the temple in front of the laity, so he knelt silently in front of the Buddha statue in the guest hall.

The prison court saw that he did not speak, and took the initiative to kneel down, thinking that he had acquiesced, and said: "Don't worry, I won't let people beat you, because you don't deserve us to punish you at all." I'm afraid you'll dirty the temple board! Therefore, I don't say that you also understand how to deal with the crime of Boroyi. ”

When he heard this, he was taken aback. Because he knows that the parai is the fundamental and most evil vow of the precepts. If a practitioner violates this vow, first, he will lose his qualification as a monk and will not be able to attain the holy fruits. secondly, to be expelled immediately from the monastery and not to live with the monks; Third, after death, you will go to hell.

After thinking about it seriously, he really couldn't think of how he could commit such a serious crime last night, so he could only look at the prison yard pitifully.

Seeing this ignorance, the prison court thought that he did not understand the punishment that should be punished for the crime of Boroyi, and said: "The crime of Borosu is called the most evil. Just like the punishment of beheading in the world, it is impossible to grow a head again, so whoever commits this sin will be abandoned from Buddhism forever! As a result, you will leave Tianhua Temple immediately, and you will never be able to set foot in the mountain gate again! ”

After hearing this, it was like five thunderbolts - stunned, stunned, frozen, stupid, stupid.

In the middle of the ring, his mind was like a frozen snake, slowly waking up, and said to himself, "Why? Why, exactly? Why did you have to kick me out of the monastery? ”

"Why?" The prison said: "Can a needle be reused if the nose of the needle is broken?" ”

He shook his head.

"If a man dies, can he be resurrected?"

Che shook his head again.

"A stone broken in half, can it still be put back together?"

He shook his head for the third time.

The fourth vow of the prison said: "If the Bedoro tree is broken by the wind, can it be resurrected?" ”

It is known that the Dora tree is produced in the hometown of the Buddha and is a tall tropical tree of the palm family. Its leaves are long and broad, smooth and solid, and have been used to write scriptures since ancient times, called the Bayeux Sutra. If its trunk is broken, it will not regenerate buds.

And so he shook his head for the fourth time—his head was about to turn into a rattle.

The prison finally said, "These four parables are spoken by the Buddha himself. Monks and criminals, just like these four situations, so the Buddha can't keep you anymore. ”

Qi suddenly understood: Ying Qing must be afraid that I will expose their misdeeds last night, so he beat me up and framed me instead! This woman must be their friend, and the two have already colluded!

Now, Qi knows in his heart that it is useless to say anything more, just adding meaningless tongues.

However, he didn't want to be kicked out of the monastery, so in his desperation, he silently prayed to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in his heart: "Nan no Master Shakyamuni Buddha, Nan no Great Wisdom Manjushri Bodhisattva, Nan no Relief Guanyin Bodhisattva...... Om Mani Horn Mi (Guanyin Inspiration Mantra) ......, Om Sam Mando Mother Murmur A Bowl Bowl Di He Duosha (Disaster Elimination Auspicious Divine Mantra) ......"

Qi kept chanting in his mouth, and he didn't read the Buddha and Bodhisattva, but the abbot Yunqing came uninvited.

After listening to the narration of the prison, Zen Master Yunqing turned a pair of sharp eyes to the woman.

The woman seemed to be pointed at the tip of her nose by a cold knife, and beads of sweat immediately appeared on her forehead. She didn't dare to look at Monk Yunqing, so she quickly lowered her head.

However, instead of blaming her, Monk Yunqing politely said, "Donor, it seems that you are a well-informed person. And the old man has been a monk since he was a child, and he doesn't know much about some things in the world, can I ask you a few questions? ”

The old monk didn't wait for her to say anything, and then said: "For example, flowers, are they beautiful with buds, or are they better withered and withered?" ”

The woman didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Yunqing gourd, so she had to tell the truth: "Of course, it's beautiful with buds." Broken flowers and willows, who loves! ”

Yun Qing asked casually, "What about you women?" Some people say that the twenty-eight Jiao Niang is shy of flowers in the closed month; Some people also say that are still charming......"

The woman didn't wait for the old monk to finish speaking, then sighed and said with great feeling: "The woman has two hundred and eighty-one flowers, and she is over thirty years old. ”

She glanced at Monk Yunqing and continued, "Elder, you don't have to fool the slave family. There is white and tender tofu, who likes tofu dregs? Unless he's two hundred and five, taking the wrong medicine! ”

Monk Yunqing smiled: "There is a stupid and stupid two hundred and five like you said in front of me, and he really took the wrong medicine!" ”

Yun Qing's hand pointed to this.

The woman was the most sensitive, and immediately her face flushed, and then turned the color of a pig's liver.

She dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, so she had to quietly take a half step back. And the others, not knowing the meaning of the abbot, fell into the clouds.

Yun Qing turned to the prison and said, "Master of the family, do you know why Qi became a monk more than half a year ago?" ”

The prison shook its head. The old monk continued: "In order to escape from marriage, he hurriedly ran to Yuelin Temple, shaved his head overnight, and put on a robe. After speaking, the old monk Yunqing didn't say anything, turned his head and walked out the door.

Out of the door of the guest hall, he stopped again, but did not turn back, and said, "Master of the family, give you a chance to walk." I heard that the Yunxia girl who was supposed to marry this is the most beautiful girl on both sides of the county river and in Fenghua. You can ask around and see if it's true. ”

Needless to say, the master also understood the meaning of the abbot monk in his heart, and he couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.

Although he was not expelled from Tianhua Temple, God knows what was going on, and the story of him fooling around with the fisherman's widow who entered the incense still spread inside and outside the temple.

In Tianhua Temple, Qi fell into an invisible net, which was woven with the disdain, disgust, and resentful gaze of the monks.

Think about it, how can a villain who has committed a crime of fornication have a good life?

Of the four or five hundred monks in the monastery, not a single one looked at him, and wherever he went, it immediately became a dead silence - the brothers and sisters avoided him for fear of being contaminated with dirt. Even when he was eating, no one was willing to be next to him.

It's like a pile of shit exposed in broad daylight, stinking and everyone is afraid to avoid it;

He is like a pair of broken straw sandals, and everyone can kick him a few times for no reason;

He was also like a garbage can, ready to pour the filthiest things on his head at every moment......

You deserve it, who let you break your vows!

At this point, the rat crossing the street may be blinded, disgusted, and humiliated at any time and place, as if he dragged a long, sinful shadow behind him, which could never be shaken off.

As a result, he was burdened with an unusually heavy mental load. His originally youthful face was shrouded in dark clouds;

His original carefree demeanor is gone, and there is only sadness and pain with his lonely figure.

He felt his tormented heart sobbing silently.

However, for the sake of the reputation of the temple and the woman's honor, and in order to reduce disputes and right and wrong, he has been forbearing, and has never defended or excused himself, let alone told anyone the actual situation.

One evening, he inspected the West Cross Courtyard where the guest room was located as usual, and placed an order in the monastery to temporarily stay with the Youpoyi (female layman), and when he saw him coming, like a little white rabbit seeing a big bad wolf, he quickly hid in the dormitory, and closed the door one after another......

It was like a bucket of ice water poured down from the top of his head, so not only was his whole body icy, but his heart twitched, and an indescribable desolation gradually rose from his heart, his nose was sour, and two huge tears rolled in the corners of his eyes, slowly flowing down......

The next day, the Youpoyi found the prison and strongly demanded that the temple remove the husband, for fear that they would take the opportunity to fight again and misbehave in the middle of the night.

The donor is the god of wealth of the temple, and the prison does not dare to offend, so he has to not let the contract be changed. A big living person can't let him eat for nothing.

However, all parts of the temple do not accept this deed. People would rather work more and suffer more on their own than be in the company of him.

There is a huge Tianhua Temple, and there is no place to live!

He wanted to complain silently, he wanted to cry without tears, only the wound in his heart was dripping blood.

The temple could not tolerate this, so the prison sent him to serve outside the temple - to work in the paddy fields where the temple belonged.

In ancient times, each temple had some farm products. There are lay people who give alms. The laymen came from all over the world, so the donated fields were far and near. The land far from the temple had to be rented to others for farming, and it was commonly known as the grange.

The paddy fields and dry land near the monastery are either cultivated by the monks collectively out of the slope (labor), or by the monks leading the hired villagers.

Tianhua Temple is the largest temple in the coastal area of Fenghua, which has accumulated for many years, and has a large area of paddy fields and slopes nearby, which needs to be managed by special personnel.

In this way, he became a farmer wearing monk's clothes and a monk who planted crops.