Hearing this, Jiang Cheng took a breath, "So Master Huicong is really going to become a Buddha?"
After saying these words, Jiang Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then a strong uneasiness surged in his heart. He would rather Huicong was a ghost than face a Buddha who would kill innocent babies.
After a while, Jiang Cheng took a deep breath and tried his best to calm down. After all, his worries must be based on one premise, that is, everything the abbot said in the darkness in front of him was true.
The abbot rarely answered Jiang Cheng's question. Instead, he chanted the Buddha's name, "Amitabha, donor, are you willing to listen to the poor monk to continue speaking?"
We’ve already come, wouldn’t it be a big loss to leave now? Jiang Cheng pretended to be calm and said, “Master, please speak.”
As if he had thought of something, the abbot sighed dullly, "At dawn, not long after the senior brother said these words, Huicong came. He clasped his hands and walked out from behind the Buddha statue in the Buddhist hall. No one saw him. When we hid inside, the monks guarding outside didn’t notice at all.”
"I've seen all my uncles, masters, and disciples here."
"Although I was shocked by my senior brother's words at the time, when I thought of the evil things my disciple had committed, I was so angry that I trembled all over. I asked him to fully accuse him of all the wrong things he had committed."
"Unexpectedly, Huicong looked at me calmly, clasped his hands and asked: Master, my disciple is doing good deeds, what is wrong with me?"
"I was stunned. I don't know how he dared to say such a thing in front of the Buddha in the temple."
Suddenly, Jiang Cheng was keenly aware that the abbot's tone had changed. His voice was trembling, as if he was in extreme fear, "And...and Huicong's eyes. His eyes changed and became so compassionate. , and... the same look as the Buddha statue in the Buddhist hall!"
"He is pitying us, pitying us old monks who have nothing but an old skin!"
"Master, don't get excited, speak slowly, speak slowly..."
Jiang Cheng was frightened that the abbot suddenly became like this. He was worried that if the abbot could not take a breath, his visit today would be in vain.
After the violent breathing, the abbot slowly calmed down, "I was shocked at the time. Fortunately, one of my junior brothers was the first to speak. The junior brother stretched out his hand to make a petition. Then he cleared his mind and eyesight and sat down on the futon in lotus position. He asked Huicong why he broke the sexual precept."
Jiang Cheng probably had an image of that time in his mind, sitting in lotus position, also known as "Vajrasana". Because the Buddha often used this sitting posture during meditation, it was also called "meditation sitting". The abbot was inviting Huicong to sit and debate scriptures.
Due to the difference in status and generation between the two, the junior abbot may be suspected of bullying the younger, but this also reflects the importance these eminent monks attach to Huicong.
"Huicong sat meditating like this, raising his head calmly and calmly: A few months ago, more than a dozen village women were hung from the beam outside the temple gate, and their bodies were not found after they died. Did my uncle know about this?" "Dozens of nearby villages suffer heavy burdens every year How many village women have died by hanging from a beam and jumping into a river in the name of the Stone Girl? Has Uncle Master ever paid any attention to them?"
"It has only been a few months since I came down from the mountain. Master, have you ever heard of such heart-cutting happenings?"
"Bold fallacy, how can you be allowed to speak arrogantly in front of the Buddha's golden body!" The abbot imitated the tone of his junior brother and sternly reprimanded, "We in the Buddhist sect are supposed to be knowledgeable about the mystical and enlightened minds, but you are greedy for worldly things and indulge in evil desires. !」
"Amitabha, who has no sign of self, no sign of anyone, no sign of sentient beings, and no sign of longevity, can only pass through the mortal world with pink skulls and white bones and flesh. Disciples sacrificed their own bodies to cross over a hundred stone girls to save their lives, complete their families, and benefit them. In the village, the stone girl is happy, the villagers are happy, and dozens of villages are also happy, so what is the disciple's fault?"
"Disciple, I don't understand why all living beings are happy but only my uncle is not happy?"
"Uncle thinks that the disciple is greedy for the world of mortals and is sad about love. Don't you know that the reason why uncle is sad about love in the world of mortals is that uncle's roots in the world of mortals are impure. Seeing the world of mortals is also the world of mortals. Disciple is not the same. The disciple sees that the beauty of the world of mortals is nothing more than a handful of loess, and he spends it with a ruthless body. When there is a lover, the disciple does not feel guilty, only feels joyful!”.
"Quiet! How do you explain drinking and having fun?"
"The drinking precept is a covering precept, not a sexual precept. Drinking alcohol itself is not wrong. What the Buddha was really worried about was just overindulgence in drinking and the loss of one's true nature.
The mind can cause other mistakes and violate other precepts, such as starting fights, clouding wisdom, telling hidden things, or indulge in sexual behavior and alienating the good. But has your uncle ever seen a disciple lose his temper when he was drunk? "
"Okay, what a sharp tongue! Then let me ask you again, why did you slaughter the villagers, and even...even the infant babies were not spared?"
Having said this, the abbot paused for a moment, and then the voice of the wise monk he was imitating also changed, becoming extremely cold and hard, "Amitabha, because they have sinned, a big sin!"
"Nonsense! Forget about the rest of the villagers, let me ask you, we have already investigated the old woman in Anding Village who was murdered by you. Her real name is Xue Yinhua. She is now in her seventies. She has been doing good deeds throughout her life and is praised by people from all over the country. She is such a good person, what crime is she guilty of?"
The abbot's next words sent a chill down Jiang Cheng's body, "Xue Yinhua is not guilty now, but she was guilty three years later!"
"In the 6th year of Emperor Dezong's reign, General Ye Ling, the border guard general, was poisoned by Nanman Xizuo. He died of poisoning in his mansion. The Nanman army entered the country and the border was lost."
"My army was defeated like a mountain. The Southern Barbarian army seemed to be in an uninhabited territory. Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers fell into the hands of the enemy. A Southern Barbarian vanguard army attacked near Anding Village. Originally, the villagers of Anding Village had already fled with their families into the mountains for refuge a few days ago, but Xue Yinhua She couldn't bear to part with her bundles of cloth, so she sneaked down the mountain back to the village when no one was prepared. Unfortunately, she was discovered by a Southern barbarian guard. The guard did not alert Xue Yinhua, but followed her back to the mountain, marking her along the way. That night, a large number of Southern barbarian troops came and killed her. All the male villagers were slaughtered, and their heads were hung under the saddles. As a military honor, the young women were tied on horseback and carried back to the camp. There were more than 300 men, women, and children in the village who were not spared."
"You...are you telling the truth? Can you see three years later? So the baby is also..."
"Song Zixian, the son of Song Shenggen of Luofeng Village. Song Shenggen had a son at an old age and was loved by the whole family. Song Zixian was born with a bad nature. He went rampant in the countryside when he was young. He insulted his mother at the age of fourteen and killed his father at the age of sixteen. He then fled to Shenshe The winding mountains and falling grass are bandits."
"In the 21st year of Emperor Dezong's reign, Song Zixian, as an internal agent, led a group of bandits to attack Luofeng Village at night. Except for a few people in the village who went to a neighboring village for a feast and did not return that night, all the men in the village were killed, and their bodies were hung under the door beams. Women They were all kidnapped, some were taken back to the village, and the rest were sold to Goulan Fireworks Land, including his biological sister."
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