The old monk sat quietly, without opening his eyes or speaking.
"Master Abbot, Master Abbot!" Ma Xiaoyao shouted twice, but the old monk still didn't respond.
"Master Abbot!!!"
Ma Xiaoyao raised his voice and shouted: "Master Abbot, wake up!"
This time the old monk reacted, his eyelids trembled slightly, and then he slowly opened his eyes, looking at Ma Xiaoyao and Lei Dazhuang with surprised expressions: "Who are you? Why are you here?" The old monk spoke.
His voice was slow and powerful, sounding a little old.
"Master Abbot, hello!" Ma Xiaoyao hurriedly saluted and said hello: "My name is Ma Xiaoyao, and his name is Lei Dazhuang. We are both national civil servants. I am taking the liberty to come here this time because I have something important to ask Master Abbot for help."
"I asked two questions, but you only answered one." The old monk said calmly: "How did you get in?"
"This..." Ma Xiaoyao looked a little embarrassed: "We ran in secretly..."
"Sneaking in?" The old monk was stunned.
Ma Xiaoyao rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "Actually, we don't want to do this... but the disciples of your temple don't let us in. In order to see you, the abbot master... so we ran in secretly..."
The old monk looked at Ma Xiaoyao with a strange expression: "You keep calling me abbot, how do you know that I am abbot?"
"Huh?" Ma Xiaoyao was stunned: "What? Could it be that... you are not the abbot?"
The old monk shook his head: "No, I am not the abbot."
Oops! You got the wrong person! Ma Xiaoyao's face suddenly changed.
Lei Dazhuang also frowned.
"I was in retreat just now to meditate on Buddhist scriptures. I was interrupted by you at a critical moment." The old monk said slowly: "If you don't give me an explanation today, I won't let you go." The old monk said.
He fell out of favor as soon as he said he was going to fall out. Just a moment ago he was kind and smiling, but in the blink of an eye he became cold and cold.
"Uh...well, I'm sorry...we didn't mean to offend you...we apologize to you..." Ma Xiaoyao said embarrassedly.
"Can just apologizing make up for my loss?" The old monk said indifferently: "I tell you, I retreated for six months before I had a little understanding. Before I could feel it carefully, I was beaten by you.
You interrupted me and made my hard work for half a year in vain."
"I just don't understand. Is it really so important to study Buddhist scriptures?" Ma Xiaoyao frowned: "Don't you understand that life is limited? Besides, you are so old and you don't have much life left.
You should enjoy your life more, and you should not stay in this cave to meditate on Buddhist scriptures, and then retreat for half a year... Do you know what you are doing? You are wasting your life!"
Two gleams flashed in the old monk's eyes: "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand!"
"Why don't you understand?" Ma Xiaoyao stared and said: "You look like you are seventy or eighty years old at least? How many more years of good life do you have? If I were you, I would leave here and walk around more.
Take a look, enjoy life as much as possible, and don’t leave too many regrets in your life.”
"You..." The old monk was about to speak, but was interrupted by Ma Xiaoyao.
"Shut up! I haven't finished speaking yet!" Ma Xiaoyao got angry and refused to give face to anyone. He pointed at the old monk's nose and said: "You monks, open your mouth to read the Buddhist scriptures. Shut up to the Buddhist scriptures. Look.
It seems that they understand the meaning of Buddhist scriptures very well, but in fact they only have a partial understanding and do not understand the true meaning of Buddhist scriptures at all.”
"Whoa!"
The old monk's face suddenly darkened: "Listen to what you mean...you seem to understand the meaning of Buddhist scriptures very well?"
"I also know a little bit about it, but I know more than you." Ma Xiaoyao snorted.
"Haha..." The old monk was exasperated: "In so many years, this is the first time someone has said that he understands Buddhist scriptures better than me..." At this point, a sharp light flashed in the old monk's eyes: "Tell me about your understanding of Buddhist scriptures.
Please understand, let me see how powerful you are."
"Just say it, who is afraid of whom?" Ma Xiaoyao puffed up his chest: "Let me tell you..." Ma Xiaoyao was about to speak when he heard a rush of footsteps behind him. He turned around and found that
A middle-aged monk was running towards him and arrived in the stone room in an instant.
The middle-aged monk glared at Ma Xiaoyao and Lei Dazhuang, and then bowed respectfully to the old monk: "I see my uncle. Because of my negligence, outsiders sneaked in and disturbed my uncle's practice. I really deserve it."
Ten thousand deaths..."
The old monk waved his hand: "Wuxiang, you came just in time. This young man in front of me is going to explain to me the meaning of some Buddhist scriptures. You might as well listen."
"What?" The middle-aged monk was stunned for a moment, with a look of disbelief on his face: "He wants to explain the meaning of Buddhist scriptures to his uncle? This...his tone is so loud..."
"Perhaps people really have a special understanding of Buddhist scriptures?" The old monk said calmly: "Stand aside and listen. Whether you are being arrogant or really capable, we will know later."
"Yes." The middle-aged monk nodded, then stepped aside and looked at Ma Xiaoyao quietly, waiting for Ma Xiaoyao to explain the meaning of the Buddhist scriptures.
"Okay, we can start." The old monk waved to Ma Xiaoyao.
Ma Xiaoyao coughed, and then said in a pretentious manner: "Since you want to listen, let me just say a few words, ahem... The content of Buddhist scriptures is very profound and extensive. It is difficult to understand them all. In fact,
To put it bluntly, the main purpose of Buddhist scriptures is to be kind to others. It teaches people to be good people with conscience and morality, and not to do bad things, otherwise they will be punished. What Buddhism advocates is the cycle of cause and effect. Where there is a cause, there will be an effect. Good causes lead to good results.
Fruit, bad causes sow bad consequences, good people will be rewarded, and bad people will be rewarded with evil. It’s not because the time has not come yet!”
"How can we be a good person? The Buddhist scriptures tell us that as long as we eliminate the desires in our hearts, we can be a good person. Why do people go astray? Why do they do bad things? It is because of the desires in our hearts.
!Desire is actually a double-edged sword. If you use it well, it can make people more motivated. If you use it poorly, you will go astray and become a bad person who does all kinds of evil. "
"Everyone has desires in their heart. The difference between good people and bad people is whether they can control their desires. If they can't control them, they will gradually lose their reason and eventually become a devil. So, control your desires.
Desire is very important... Next, I will focus on how to effectively control desire..."
"Controlling desires requires something, which everyone has. That is 'willpower'. Only with strong willpower can we better control desires. The key question is, how should we
What about strengthening your own willpower?”
"Some people deliberately live in seclusion, deliberately avoid the colorful world outside, and use avoidance to control their desires. This method is the lowest and most undesirable. Once tempted, they will become crazy.
Incomparable, so, I think... people should open their hearts and work hard to face the colorful world outside, play when they should, have fun when they should, pick up women when they should... use all the things in the world that can 'tempt' people
Try all the things, in this way, your resistance will gradually become stronger. One day, you are tired of playing, tired of the colorful world outside, and want to live a relaxed and ordinary life. At that time, your will
Your strength will become unprecedentedly powerful, and you will never lose yourself no matter what temptation you face."
"There is a saying that I like very much. This sentence is: After wine and meat pass through the intestines, the Buddha will stay in his heart! The meaning of this sentence is very simple. Don't deliberately restrict your behavior. Eat whatever you want and drink whatever you want.
What, just stay awake all the time. Only people with this kind of mentality can develop strong willpower! They can resist any temptation!"
"To sum up: Don't deliberately escape, let alone deliberately alienate. You should take the initiative to face and experience. Only by truly experiencing it can you achieve the best expected results! Only in this way can you better hone yourself and let yourself
Become stronger."
"This is my understanding of the Buddhist scriptures. Of course, this is just my personal understanding. If you don't agree, then I have nothing to say. The Buddhist scriptures are unpredictable and everyone will have different understandings. I just put it
I have expressed my understanding, and whether you accept it or not, I have no control over."
…
Ma Xiaoyao talked for a long time in one breath. After finishing speaking, his mouth felt dry. Unfortunately, there was no water here, so he had to endure it.
Lei Dazhuang looked at Ma Xiaoyao with a look of great admiration. He didn't expect that Ma Xiaoyao had such in-depth research on Buddhist scriptures. It's amazing, it's amazing! He is indeed my idol!
The old monk and the middle-aged monk were stunned immediately, with a hint of understanding in their eyes...
"Cough cough cough..." Ma Xiaoyao coughed a few times: "I've finished speaking, won't you give me a review?"
"Well..." The old monk woke up first. He looked at Ma Xiaoyao with a strange expression: "Did you understand these things yourself?"
Ma Xiaoyao nodded: "Yes, I realized it all by myself. I like to think about problems. I usually like to think about random things when I have nothing to do."
The old monk turned to look at the thoughtful middle-aged monk: "Wuxiang, what do you think?"
"What this young man said... makes sense and made me realize a lot of things." The middle-aged monk nodded and said.
"Haha..." The old monk laughed, the laughter was deafening. The old monk laughed for a long time before he stopped. He looked at Ma Xiaoyao with interest: "I really didn't expect that you would have so many strange ideas.
Not bad, very good..."
"Thank you for the compliment, I just said it casually." Ma Xiaoyao said modestly.
