blue lotus

23. 3 Shangshou Temple

The next day was sunny and sunny. Uncle Jun got up earlier than usual, and he started tossing and tossing when he got up, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find either the quilt cover or the bed sheet, "Xiao Lei, get up quickly, and wait until I change it for you." Sleep. How about you lie down on the sofa for a while?"

I opened my eyes in a daze, "What are you going to do so early in the morning?"

"The quilt is dirty, I need to change it and wash it."

"I really admire you. A little joy in three days, a big joy in ten days."

"It's not thanks to you." Uncle Jun hated me so much that my teeth itch.

By the time I walked out of Uncle Jun’s den, the sun had already risen high, and the quilts and bed sheets, big pants, and undershirts that Uncle Jun had washed were drying on the drying racks, just like flags raised for a grand festival.

After washing my face and eating, I heard Uncle Jun say that Kang Bo in the town died of illness last night, and he is going to help out today, so he asked me if I could go.

"Kang Bo left?" Kang Bo's sunken eye sockets and skinny face appeared before my eyes again, and I couldn't help shivering, "I won't go, I will stay at school and look after your house. Are you coming back at night? "

"Come back, I'm just afraid that you will be hungry at noon." Uncle Jun looked refreshed today, with a clean shaven beard and glossy black hair, as if he was a different person. Seeing me staring at him well, He raised his thick black eyebrows at me, "Have you seen enough? If I've seen enough, I'm leaving."

"Well, not bad, like a bridegroom officer." I joked.

"What is resemblance? It's what it is." He raised his legs and stepped on the motorcycle, then turned his head to discuss with me, "How about I take you home and pick you up at night?"

"No, I'm fine here. If you're bored, there's my master. Don't worry."

"I know I miss your master, one day I have to kill him." Uncle Jun said angrily, started the motorcycle and left in a hurry.

Master Huijue would go down the mountain every morning to fetch water, so I sat on the seesaw on the playground and waited for him.

As expected, within a quarter of an hour, he carried two wooden barrels and walked down the stone steps in the mountain. I rushed over to greet him, "Good morning, master, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

When Huijue saw it was me, he was overjoyed, "Amitabha, Leilei, there are many things you want to tell Master recently, right?"

"Yes."

"Then go sit in the temple with the master?"

When I thought that Secretary Dong said that day that he would develop tourism in Tongzi Town and build a hotel next to Changshou Temple, I felt a little sad.Yes, once the 300-year-old quiet Zen forest becomes a playground for ordinary people, how long can the incense of Changshou Temple last in the bustling crowds, and where will Master Huijue go in the future?I told Master Huijue about my troubles, and he chuckled, "Leilei, you, like your Uncle Jun, can't let go of many things. If you worry about it, you will definitely not follow your wishes, and you will be disappointed. What the future of Changshou Temple is, there are Buddhas in it, and what I will be in the future, I am in my heart. Since you care about it, you must return it to sentient beings and let it go. "

I admit that I can't achieve Master Huijue's state of mind. "Then master, Kang Bo in the town died of illness today, do you know?"

"Someone came to ask me to take care of it in the morning. I just said that I was unwell, but I didn't go. I can't live without doing my own crimes. Whether I go or not, it doesn't help. If I don't go, it's good. If I go, it's evil."

"Then tell me, will something happen to my dad?" I finally said what I was most concerned about.

"Your father is a man in the world of mortals, and he has karma in the world of mortals. Everything is man-made, and it is beyond the control of the Buddha. The Buddha is only begging for alms. People who have no relationship with the Buddha can't say it."

"Master, you are used to being able to see through the good and evil in the world, you help me figure it out, will my dad die?" I asked anxiously.

"Things in the world of mortals are false and real. Things have yin and yang, people have yin and yang, and things have yin and yang. As soon as the vine withers, the flowers wither and the fruit falls, but people in the world never do things that are not worth the loss. The vines are in the flower and the fruit is in one year. One dry and prosperous, this is the number of luck. Things flock together, people are divided into groups, people are not in the group, the group is not in the group, things are difficult, a muscle and bone will affect the whole body, destroy a brick and tile palace, and it will be dangerous. Although small, ants can break the levee , Tell me, will something happen to your dad?"

This master Huijue said nothing, "You mean, will something happen to my dad, and we all rely on his close interpersonal circle? What if no one cares about him, or someone even makes trouble?"

"Smart. Naturally, someone will do these things, and you just have to accept the result."

"Then, what can I do?"

"Do what you have to do."

What should I do?Alas, it is really difficult for an ignorant person like me to decide on such an intricate and important matter, so let's not think about it.

Master Huijue always has a smile on his face, which makes me very envious.Yes, don't look at him living alone in the temple, guarding these stone bodhisattvas to live, but he has no other worries and is willing to be quiet.As the saying goes, contentment is always happy. People like him who abandon the emotions and desires and see through all phenomena in the world regard money and wealth as dung, so they have a heart of understanding and wisdom. So, it is a blessing.

At noon, I still ate vegetarian food at his place, but this time I ate noodles. Although it was as light as before, I ate it with relish.Life is to be tasted with heart, which is the biggest gain of my trip.

"Master, have you ever liked someone?" I tilted my head and asked earnestly while eating noodles.

"The monks pay attention to the purity of the six senses. What worries you?"

"I like someone, and it's someone I shouldn't like. Anyway, it's those things about children's affections, but I just can't get rid of them, they always entangle my heart, entangled to the point of losing my mind, so I often feel inferior, It was also painful and I didn’t know what to do.”

"Emotional matters, you have to solve them yourself. I can't convince you of these, and don't expect someone to help you guide the maze, because it itself is not a maze, it is fate, and everything will return to peace. The Longevity Temple is still there, if you have time, come and sit in the temple more, and soak in the lotus pond at night, I believe you can realize something."

"Master, why are you so kind to me?" I was so touched.

"It's fate, it's the fate of the previous life, but it's only in this life. Amitabha."

Looking up at the hall through the crack of the door, the cigarettes are curling up. Those stone Buddhas are sitting in meditation, with different expressions, and there is only one message in their brows and eyes: Dharma is boundless, don't worry.

Amitabha.