Monk

Yuanjue quickly answered Wei Yuan's call.

Although he was a little surprised that Wei Yuan contacted him suddenly, Yuanjue was obviously in a good mood.

The two chatted a little on the phone, but because the matter was a little complicated and it was difficult to explain clearly on the phone, Wei Yuan suggested that they should just find a way to meet and talk. Yuanjue agreed very readily and shared a geographical location with Wei Yuan. The two agreed to meet at seven o'clock in the evening.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Wei Yuan arrived at the place on time on a shared bicycle.

But he didn't expect that the place in front of him would be such a scene.

The open-air shed, the smoke from burning, the tables put together one by one, the noisy sounds, the crisp sound of beer bottles colliding, this is a night market with barbecue stalls, and the bald monk wearing gray monk robes and full of muscles is too eye-catching among a group of people eating barbecue.

There is an incandescent lamp hanging under the ceiling, shining on that head, bright and bright.

Yuanjue opened his eyes, saw Wei Yuan, and called out loudly:

"Donor Wei, here, I am here!"

No, you don't need to speak, your physique and hairstyle are like fireflies in the crowd, you can't ignore them at all.

Wei Yuan's mouth twitched, he shook his head and laughed, walked over and sat in front of Yuanjue, looked around, with a strange expression on his face, and said:

"I didn't expect that the place you arranged to meet Master Yuanjue was a barbecue stall..."

Yuanjue smiled and said, "No one has stipulated that monks are not allowed to come here."

Wei Yuan smiled and said, "Of course not, it's just that there are people drinking and eating meat around here, I am worried that you will feel uncomfortable."

Yuanjue put his hands together and said with a smile, "I eat my own food, and they eat theirs."

"It's good for everyone to enjoy themselves and not disturb each other."

"Besides, the precepts are used to restrain oneself, and others are happy to do what they want."

"If you insist that others listen to your own ideas, if you don't eat meat, others can't eat it, you don't Eat this meat, others can't eat it either; this is not a precept. I was reading a book recently and saw a sentence: "Do not do to others what you don't want others to do to you." Actually, after thinking about it, it's better not to do to others what you want yourself."

"You are yourself, and others are others."

"So..."

Yuanjue smiled and put the menu in front of Wei Yuan, and said proudly:

"Today I got my salary, I'm treating you, Mr. Wei, you can choose what you want to eat."

"I'll order what I want to eat."

Wei Yuan didn't refuse and ordered a few vegetarian dishes. Yuanjue raised his hand and skillfully spit out a series of nouns from his mouth, saying:

"Boss, give me ten more skewers of vegetarian chicken, ten more skewers of mushrooms, ten more skewers of enoki mushrooms, and add chili peppers to the enoki mushrooms, but no garlic, and then twenty more Grilled beans on a skewer, eggplant in foil, three baked pancakes, sprinkled with chili sprouts, cut into small pieces and serve. "

"Oh, two more bottles of cabin fruit beer."

"Chilled, chilled."

He lifted up the hem of his monk's robe, ran over and picked up two bottles of chilled fruit beer. It was called fruit beer, but in fact it was just hops, without any alcohol content. Yuanjue took the opportunity to pry open the bottle cap on the fruit beer with his fingers, handed a bottle to Wei Yuan, and said embarrassedly: "This thing has no alcohol content, so it is not considered alcohol."

Wei Yuan joked, "It has no alcohol content, but it is called fruit beer, so it can be drunk?"

"If you make vegetarian food like meat dishes, then is it considered a violation of the precepts, or not?"

Yuanjue put down his robe and put his hands together. He said, "Master, would you like to test me?"

He thought for a moment and said, "That depends on what the precepts were established for. The reason for prohibiting drinking alcohol is that alcohol can cause sexual disorder and make people lose their minds, so they cannot drink alcohol; the reason for prohibiting eating meat, or in other words, the original precepts are that one cannot eat unclean meat, that is, one cannot kill for the sake of eating, not to prohibit the desire for food."

"There are dangers everywhere in life. If you are not careful, you will fall into the karma of obsession. When you see someone accidentally falling off the mountain, you will definitely hold him back and show him the right way, but some people don't listen, so you just use the precepts to prohibit him from going there."

"If you do not allow yourself to kill because of your own desires, you can avoid falling into the karma of killing;"

"If you do not drink alcohol, you can avoid losing your mind, It will mess up your mind."

"In fact, monks must observe the precepts against money, so true ascetic monks are not allowed to touch money with their hands, because when they know that money can be obtained so easily, they will have demons in their hearts; they are not allowed to meet and talk with female donors alone, and they cannot actively show their supernatural powers."

"In some sects, you can pull a monk to ask him to preach to you, but after the preaching, he will not accept your charity, because he preaches to you not for the things you give him."

"Why is it called a donor? A donor is because people are willing to give some food with kindness, but they should not hold a box to ask for money. This is wrong. You should not use supernatural powers to deceive people to get money, and you should not use the wisdom of Buddhist scriptures to exchange for money. "

Yuanjue sighed and said: "Buddhists walking on the path of asceticism are like walking on a suspended bridge, with winds coming from all directions. When they are as calm as the earth and unmoved by the eight winds, they can maintain a Buddha's heart. In the final analysis, rules are just external constraints. Our ancestors thought hard and blocked those places that would lead you astray, forcing you to take the right path. "

"When you truly understand the core of the precepts, there is no such thing as precepts or no precepts. In the end, the mountain is still the mountain. This state is very high. In Confucianism, it is the legendary freedom of doing what you want without breaking the rules, so..."

The monk bit a piece of fish tofu without any fish ingredients, and in his heart he sincerely thanked this thing for being so cheap that he was reluctant to add a little fish meat, and said vaguely: " So, I feel more and more that the paths taken by the predecessors of various schools will eventually reach the last step, and they will all end up at the same destination. "

"That state is called the awakened one in Buddhism, the saint in Confucianism, the giant in Mohism, and the heavenly master in Taoism. The truth will always be there, and there will always be people who will discover them and describe them in words, but this does not mean that these predecessors created such a state. "

"They describe it in words just to teach ordinary people."

"So those enemies of Buddhism fool ordinary people and say that supporting monks has great merit because it can preserve wisdom and Buddhism. I'll go to you!"

"The Dharma is there. It will not disappear whether there is a monk being supported or not. Besides, you know that the Dharma is here. Come and get it! Everyone knows that it is a bit stupid to watch the money and not spend it; but you know that Buddhism is a good thing, but you don't think about it yourself, and you spend money to let the fat monks watch it for you, is this merit? "

"You don't learn, and he doesn't learn, knocking the wooden fish, chanting Buddhist scriptures, and that thing is preserved?"

Yuanjue sighed, holding the bottle of wine in one hand, tilting his neck to drink a big mouthful, with a face full of regret, like the spirit of the contemporary Lu Zhishen, but unfortunately the bottle of wine contains fruit beer, or to be more precise, it should be fruit-flavored soda. Wei Yuan and Yuanjue ate something, and Yuanjue touched his belly and said embarrassedly:

"I have always heard that the poor monk said, benefactor, you called me out, is there something you want me to help you with?"

Wei Yuan pressed his eyebrows and muttered to himself silently.

Is it so obvious?

He smiled helplessly and said, "I do have something to ask Master Yuanjue."

He paused and said thoughtfully, "There is such a person who puts himself in the most dangerous place to protect more ordinary people. He has been struggling for a very long time, and his soul is broken. He protects tens of thousands, even millions, or more people."

"But his soul is mixed with parts of strange beasts and evil spirits."

"Do you know any way to save him? Or, at least there is a possible way to protect his spirituality."

Yuanjue was surprised. Their voices were firmly protected by magic, not leaked, and never known to outsiders. He pondered for a long time and said, "As I said before, the realms reached by various schools and sects are similar. The person mentioned by Master Wei can almost be called a great wish. In other sects, Door, this is already called a great bodhisattva. "

"I am a Zen sect, so I naturally don't believe in or like what the enemies of Buddha do."

"But their practice methods are indeed effective, which cannot be denied."

"Great vows?"

Yuanjue said frankly: "Yes, in other Buddhist sects, it is said that bodhisattvas must make great vows to save all living beings."

"And in the Pure Land Sect, the most well-known great vow scripture is the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Original Vow Sutra."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Original Vow Sutra...

Wei Yuan murmured in his heart, looked at Yuanjue, and joked: "You call them enemies of Buddha, but you recommend the practice of enemies of Buddha to me. Is this a shot in the foot?"

Yuanjue put his hands together and said: "I am just saving people."

"Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda."

Wei Yuan only felt that the monk in front of him had a solemn and calm expression, and his actions were also open and aboveboard.

Then, Yuanjue rubbed his hands again and said:

"Besides, this technique belongs to those enemies of Buddhism, and it is in their lair."

"What do you think, Master Wei, should we take him down?!"

Wei Yuan: "..."

He looked at Yuanjue who was eager to try, and his mouth twitched.

Master, your character is broken.