Chapter 3: The Abbot Who Became a Monk Halfway

In the eyes of Ergou, the abbot of Amitabha Buddha is far more mysterious. Ergou didn't know where the abbot came from, what he had done before, and he didn't know the abbot's experience. And the only bit of knowledge I heard from the Master's mouth.

The master said that the abbot was not a monk and a monk halfway. The abbot also wandered the rivers and lakes back then, wandering the world, and then was trapped by love, unable to be freed, and then one day by chance, he saw through the red dust at once, so he escaped into the empty door and became a Buddha.

Master's words were full of passion and spittle. Xiao Ergou was also stunned when he heard it, and added a little bit of admiration to his abbot.

Until the master said that he was tired, Ergou hurriedly offered a bowl of water.

Ergou looked at the master who was drinking water and said, Master, you are so powerful. How do you know so much about the abbot? Did the abbot tell you?

The master put the bowl down, wiped his mouth and said, No.

Ergou felt that Master was even more powerful. The abbot didn't tell the master anything, and the master could tell the abbot's past so clearly, could it be that the master had any magical powers and knew everything.

Ergou asked expectantly, "Then Master, how do you know this?"

Master's face is embarrassed, you don't have to worry about it so much, anyway, this matter is not far from ten.

How can this be the answer, of course Ergou will not give up and continue to ask.

Master sighed and clasped his hands together, Amitabha, sin and sin.

Ergou, what I want to tell you next, you can't tell the abbot, and you must not tell the other people in the temple, remember? Master's expression suddenly became serious. As soon as the two dogs calculated, there were only three people in the temple, and they couldn't tell the abbot, so could they still say to Ah Huang Ah Hua. Ergou nodded, I remembered, I didn't tell anyone.

Then the master said that in fact, the abbot never mentioned his past to me.

Ergou paused for a moment, and then asked Master, what about the abbot's past...

The master beckoned, motioned for the second dog to come closer, and then leaned over the dog's ear and whispered, I guess.

They all said that the family members didn't speak, and the master's nonsense came as soon as he opened his mouth, and Ergou began to suspect that the master should be the monk who became a monk halfway.

How many years later, when I remembered the saying that monks don't speak, Ergou understood the meaning of this sentence more deeply. There is nothing wrong with this sentence in itself, but it is easier said than done. People will always say a lot of things in their lives, and there are many words that are true and false, who dares to guarantee that there is not a single sentence in all the words. Monks are human beings, and so are they.

The impact of this incident on Ergou is that Ergou feels that the abbot and the master are not like serious monks.

Once, Ergou somehow always thought that he was a Taoist priest, because he had a lot of rules and precepts to follow, the simplest of which was to eat fasting, chant sutras, not steal, not rob, not drink, not kill, and abstain from sex.

One day, Ergou's master told him that we were all monks. Ergou realized that he had always been a monk.

But Ergou still envied those Taoist priests in his heart, because he heard that the pilgrims said that they all had hair, and the monks were all bald.

Ergou told the abbot of the temple about his idea.

The abbot looked at Ergou and said, Amitabha, what is there to envy about those few strands of black troubles, they are long and difficult to take care of. The children of the Buddhist family naturally want to cut off the fetters of those red dusts and devote themselves to the Buddha, which is the realm and purpose of the monks, and don't think about those hairs. Amitabha.

After saying that, the abbot closed his eyes and recited the scriptures silently in his mouth.

Ergou cautiously said to the abbot, Master Abbot, if you have hair, your head will not be so cold in winter.

The abbot stopped chanting, opened his eyes, glared at the two dogs, and said, The Buddha said, the hair is long, and the knowledge is short. From the hair, you can see that we are much stronger than those old miscellaneous hairs, and the Taoist priests in Wudang are all stupid people, so do you want to be like them? From another point of view, you see, we have less hair, oh, no, it is not at all, but we have more knowledge than them, and we have a high level of education, otherwise how can there be the word boundless Buddhism, and if we want to gain a foothold in the world, we must also have cultural heritage. Amitabha.

After the abbot finished speaking, Ergou saw this posture and knew that the abbot was angry, and he didn't dare to ask anything more, so he stood up and silently exited the meditation room.

Ergou doesn't know why, and the abbot will be very angry when he mentions the Taoist priest. Angry and angry. The second dog muttered to himself.

I don't know the reason, Xiao Ergou can only ponder by himself, could it be that the abbot was a Taoist priest before? I can't stand the precepts and rules, I broke the precepts, and I was kicked out by others? I can't help it, I became a monk? Or maybe the abbot is too lazy and unwilling to take care of my hair, so I shaved my hair and took the initiative to be a monk? Xiao Ergou pondered countless possibilities in his mind, each of which can make himself happy, and the more he thinks about it, the more funny it becomes, and he can't help but giggle out loud.

Suddenly, the dog's head hurt, and something knocked it.

When Ergou looked back, it turned out that the abbot was standing behind him, still holding a mallet to knock on the wooden fish.

Ergou, what were you laughing at just now, your voice overshadowed my wooden fish voice, tell me, I'm also happy. The abbot asked Ergou with a smile.

Ergou touched his head that was hurting, folded his hands, and bowed in reply, Master Abbot, there is really nothing. Ergou can't tell the abbot what is in his heart.

Really, what's there?, the abbot still smiled.

Really, Master Abbot.

That's good, since it's okay, why don't you go and help your master chop wood and cook.

Yes, disciple, let's go. After speaking, Ergou bowed and saluted, turned around and ran away.

The abbot put away his smile and sighed, alas, this mentally weak junior brother is really, cooking is getting later and later, and there is less and less shape, can these two dogs learn from him to be serious, alas.

After speaking, he turned around and returned to the meditation room, and the sound of wooden fish slowly sounded.

Ergou ran to the firewood room and found that the master was already waiting for him. Master said, "The vegetables are washed and the rice is in the pot, why did you come, waiting for you to chop wood and make a fire?"

The second dog did not speak, but picked up an axe from the side of the wooden pile and began to chop wood.

Once, the master and the abbot were both very surprised, the strength of the second dog was really great, so big that it was very human. When you are just as tall as a bucket, you can carry the bucket to the bottom of the mountain to fetch water. Now the little second dog is as tall as the handle of the axe, but when he picks up the firewood with the axe, it is called a relaxed, his face is not red and he is not panting, and even the master sighs to himself.

The abbot was very surprised to see the difference between the two dogs for the first time, and the little child, carrying two buckets filled with water, ran around the temple, thinking that this was the younger brother punishing him. But later, when the abbot realized that the second dog might be born with divine powers, the abbot didn't fall asleep in the middle of the night.

The abbot went to his brother's room, looked at the second dog who had fallen asleep, pulled the sleepy brother, and said vigorously, "It's really good, eat less, have a lot of strength, and work a lot, it's really a big bargain, and we won't have to work in the future, it's really good..."

After saying that, I looked at Ergou, the more I watched, the happier I became, the more I watched, the more I looked at it, the happier I became, and I couldn't help laughing, and I didn't hold it back when I covered my mouth with my hand. I had half the night.

His mentally weak junior brother had been snoring for a long time.

It's just that no one knows, the abbot who was happy in the first half of the night, but in the second half of the night, he was extremely sad, and no one knew the reason.

After a while, the smoke curled and the fire rose, and the vegetables were cooked, and the rice was cooked.