The news that Huineng used wild herbs from Tianlu Mountain to cure Li's skin disease quickly spread throughout Tianlu Mountain's Shibadongzhai Village. Whether the mountain people suffered from skin diseases or other diseases, they all wanted to try it. I came to seek medical treatment for my mental illness.
Huineng does not reject anyone who comes and treats patients enthusiastically.
All patients who have been diagnosed and treated by Huineng are basically cured and relieved of the pain of the disease. They affectionately call Huineng a miracle doctor.
Early that morning, Liang Yaocheng carried a bag of rice, salted rapeseed, etc., and walked through the dewdrops to Shimen to visit Huineng's mother and son.
While they were talking, suddenly there were faint and shrill screams coming from a distance.
Li: "Aneng, what is this cry?"
"Wait until I go out and listen." Huineng hurriedly ran out of the house and listened carefully. Through the sound of mountain wind and pine waves, he judged that it was the cry of a tiger. His heart skipped a beat, and he quickly returned to the yard and said to Liang Yaocheng, "Uncle Yaocheng, if something happens, I recognized it as the roar of a tiger!"
Liang Yaocheng listened carefully and said: "It's in the direction of the tiger pit. The tiger must have stepped on the trap we set up there and was caught in the animal trap."
Huineng urged: "Uncle Yaocheng, let's go take a look."
"Okay." Liang Yaocheng casually took down the bow and arrows hanging on the stone wall, and walked towards the tiger pit with Huineng. After a while, they came to the tiger pit and saw a big tiger caught in a trap and fighting for his life. Roar struggled.
Not long ago, the fast horse in Liang Yaocheng's home was seriously injured by a tiger. Now that he saw this enemy, of course he was furious and cursed, "Huh, how long will you be so powerful?!" With anger, he drew his bow and set an arrow. , "Whoosh!", shooting towards the tiger.
Seeing this, Hui Neng flew over and reached out to catch the flying arrow.
Liang Yaocheng saw that he was about to shoot the tiger, but Hui Neng spoiled the big deal. He became angry and stamped his foot on the ground, complaining: "Ahem, Aneng, I was about to shoot this tiger to death, why did you reach out and grab it?" My bow and arrows?! Are you going to let this ferocious beast go?"
Before Huineng could reply, it was too late, but soon, "swish, swish, swish", a burst of flying arrows flew over like raindrops. In desperation, Huineng took out the cassock from the bag and shook it. In an instant, thousands of golden lights appeared. Soaring into the sky, driving away the rain of arrows, Liang Yaocheng and the men who were shooting arrows behind were stunned... After a long time, they came back to their senses and said in unison: "Aneng, why did you stop us?"
Among them, there was a young hunter named Shi and Han Qiang. He said angrily: "Aneng, you also know that this tiger bit my cattle last month and maimed it. In recent years, it has eaten all around us." How many goats did the villagers kill, kill pigs, and injure cows? What a heinous crime!"
Many of the villagers who came after hearing the news had been harmed by tigers. They felt the same way, pointed at the tiger, and cursed loudly.
"Kill it!"
"If you don't kill it, you won't understand the hatred in my heart!"
"Kill it! Skin it and cramp it!"
"In addition to eating its meat, we also use its bones to make soup!"
Angry voices rose one after another, one wave higher than the other. The originally silent forest became a battlefield to denounce the tiger.
Shi Hanqiang's younger brother Shi Hanwei thought about the two goats that were killed by a tiger last month. He became angry and spat on the ground. "Bah!" He stabbed the tiger in the butt with a spear.
Hui Neng rushed up, moved the spear to the other side with his hand, and said, "Awei, wait a minute!"
Shi Hanqiang stretched his right hand to his back, pulled out another sharp arrow from the quiver on his back, and put it on the bowstring.
Hui Neng had quick hands and quick eyes. He stretched out his hand and snatched the arrow from Shi Hanqiang. Then he stuffed it back into Shi Hanqiang's quiver and clasped his hands together: "Good! Good! Tigers are also living beings. Let me preach the Dharma for this tiger, get rid of evil and do good." "
As Huineng talked, he walked around the tiger and looked at it for a while. There was a scab in the middle of the tiger's nose. Apparently, it was a scab he had hit with a stone when he rescued a sika deer. The scars left by it.
Shi Hanqiang shook his head in disbelief, "This evil tiger can also turn evil into good?" He asked Huineng in confusion: "Why did you stop us from killing this tiger? It has eaten so many livestock of our villagers, and it is a heinous crime." As the saying goes, evil will be rewarded with evil, and good will be rewarded with good. Today, the debt must be paid with blood. If we don't kill it, letting the tiger return to the mountain will cause endless troubles!"
"Yes, if you let the tiger return to the mountain, there will be endless troubles!" Everyone agreed with Shi Hanqiang's opinion.
The tiger also has spirituality. After hearing Huineng's sermon, he wanted to preach to it, asking it to do evil and do good, and everyone counted its sins. It wanted to twitch its tendons and skin it. From the angry voice, it knew that its death was coming soon. He actually shed tears of sadness and looked at Huineng with pitiful eyes.
The eyes are the windows of the soul. Huineng naturally understood the tiger's repentance and found that the fierceness and murderous intent in its green eyes had disappeared, revealing a strong desire to survive and repentance. He knew that this move had already yielded initial results.
Hui Neng then spoke the Dharma to it. When he realized that the tigress had eliminated its evil thoughts, he gradually walked closer to it and gently stroked its fur, then stroked its forelimbs. Seeing that it would not attack people with its claws, it finally walked to the tigress. In front of it, touch its forehead in a friendly manner and communicate silently with it through practical actions.
Under the influence of Huineng's sincerity, the tiger's copper bell-like eyes showed a look of gratitude, and it would gently lick Huineng's hand with its tongue from time to time, conveying the message that it and Huineng exchanged in their hearts.
At the beginning, Liang Yaocheng, Shi Hanqiang and some villagers were worried about Huineng. But later I saw that things were developing step by step in a good direction, and I was happy for Huineng.
Huineng, a "charitable man", made the tiger "heartbeat" too, and it and Huineng became good friends who could play together.
Shi Hanqiang witnessed the development of the entire incident from beginning to end, and said to Huineng with admiration: "You are really amazing. Such a ferocious tiger has been tamed so obediently by you."
Hui Neng’s words are meaningful: “The ways of getting along with all things in the world are the same. If you have a tiger in your heart, it will always be a tiger. If this tiger is no longer a man-eating tiger in your heart, then it will no longer be a man-eating tiger. A human tiger.”
Shi Hanqiang pondered Huineng's words and understood something from them: "You are right. What is your secret weapon?"
Huineng pointed to his chest: "If you have a clear understanding of your heart, everything will be possible if you act kindly."
Seeing that the time had come, Hui Neng untied the animal trap himself, applied the collected Chinese herbal medicine to the wound on the tigress's right hind leg, and then bandaged it with a cloth strip.
The tigress trapped in the animal trap was freed, and you can imagine her joy. It circled around Huineng three times, then lay down on its forelimbs as if kneeling down, and then went back wagging its tail.
From then on, Huineng became good friends with the tiger, and used leaves as whistles to communicate with it. He often played with it and tamed it.
This tiger is also very sensible and will no longer do the evil deeds of killing villagers in Tianlu Mountain. When the surrounding villagers saw the tiger, they would not be frightened out of their wits and run away like before. This is because when the tiger is looking for food, it often goes to distant mountains and forests to catch ferocious animals.
Those evil thieves who once came to Tianlu Mountain to steal chickens and dogs saw big tigers often patrolling around the tiger pit. How could they dare to come and do evil again?
Over time, the name "Tiger Pit" spread further and further, and finally became a fixed place name in people's mouths.
Huineng said about the tiger that taming the tiger was not a fantasy. There were people in the Western Regions who had long been able to tame tigers and lions and brought them to Chang'an to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and even took them up and down the thoroughfares. There are eighteen Arhats who protect the Buddha under Sakyamuni. One of them is the Dragon-subduing Arhat Qingyou, who has subdued the demon dragon, and the other is the Tiger-subduing Arhat Venerable Maitreya, who has subdued the tiger.
