From the Siheyuan to the Heavens Travel Book

After saying that, the young monk went to find the abbot. There was a donor outside the abbot. He said he wanted to find you. He said he wanted to come and visit our Shaolin Temple, or compete with us in martial arts. I will arrange for him to go to the Main Hall first. What should the abbot do?

Abbot Xuanci: I was thinking that the people who come here are very likely to be evil.

After thinking about it, he said to the young monk, go to the Law Enforcement Hall and go to the Main Hall. I will go and have a look first.

Xu Damao walked around in the main hall and looked at a solemn statue of Bodhisattva. Buddhas were lined up on the four walls.

He was looking at the rows of Buddha statues. Xu Damao was recalling that he had visited several places of interest in his previous life, and the furnishings inside were not much different from this one.

But in his previous life, Xu Damao often saw several Taoist gods emerging from a large number of Buddha statues.

There are also many Buddha statues popping up in Taoism. I don’t know if Taoism has been cannibalized by Buddhism.

It is still due to the fusion of Taoism and Buddhism caused by the general environment. Sometimes it is quite ironic to think about it. The local Taoism is generally there, coming out to save the people during national disasters.

In the prosperous age, I retired to the mountains and forests to practice Taoism. (I spent all my poor life practicing on my own.) It preserved a culture of China that would not be invaded.

Look at those Buddhists again. Most of them were born in the prosperous times to recruit pilgrims, buy land, rent out land, and have no thought of production. Moreover, they did not pay taxes on the land.

The most disgusting thing is that after putting down the butcher knife, he immediately became a Buddha. Xu Damao wanted to ask, "What if, what if, just what if,

Because I refused to obey the landlord's management, I killed the landlord. Then I thought about killing a landlord and felt angry, so I killed the landlord's whole family.

Then he went to become a monk and became a monk. When someone asked, he said, "Amitabha, my donor, I have put down my butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately. I don't mind mentioning the past."

Then people were tricked into leaving. Although everyone was very angry, they couldn't fight. They had no choice but to endure it.

But when he saw that everyone had left, he saw a female pilgrim again a few days or months later, and his lust arose again, so he tricked the female pilgrim into going to a secluded place.

He raped her, and then because of her words, saying that her family knew that she came here to offer incense and worship Buddha,

Okay, now, he is afraid that his family will make trouble and ruin his reputation.

There was a family member who was killed, and then someone found out about him and went to him, and because of his words, he put down his butcher knife and became a Buddha immediately.

He is already a monk, and has nothing to do with worldly affairs. Oh, the law does not care about him, and he cannot be defeated by force. It is just a place where filth and evil practices are hidden.

Of course there are good monks, but too few because they are very self-disciplined. So they generally,

They all practice self-cultivation in a small temple, and some ascetics practice self-cultivation.

And you said that if in a disaster year, some temples come out and spend 20-30% of their money, they can save thousands or millions of lives.

Although it is said that you will not be full, you will not starve to death. (It would be admirable if you received relief, but there is no)

But thinking about it, it seems that it has never been done since Buddhism came to China. It would only happen when there are troubled times.

When the war was in turmoil, they couldn't leave the house, and they didn't care who the refugees were. However, they collected the land tax of tens of thousands of acres normally.

Then they don’t care whether Han people are in power, barbarians are in power, or who is in power.

As long as the local area is stable, these temples will be born, accepting believers and collecting incense. I don't care about the suffering in the world, just care about myself.

Think about those monks in previous lives. They either drove luxury cars or went to bars to pick up girls.

There are also monks who have wives. Hey, why do you think they (monks) don’t work, yet they have so much money to go out and mess around, while the conscientious public can only watch (monks) with envy as they mess around.

When Xu Damao was looking at the Buddha statues and sighing alone, Abbot Xuanzi arrived.