Dad, I'm so sorry. Fei Duoneng's voice was low, but he sincerely admitted his mistake. This allowed Fei Shiji to eliminate most of his resentment towards his son. He tapped on the dining table and said, "Du Neng, this disease cannot be delayed. He will go to the city hospital for surgery immediately. I will sign."
Fedonen was admitted to a hospital in a coastal city on the same day, and had a successful gastrectomy on the third day. He then underwent chemotherapy in the hospital for half a year, spending tens of thousands and almost all his savings from collecting house rent over the years.
During the hospitalization period, I was mostly cared for by my parents. After being discharged from the hospital, I returned to my hometown in the fishing village to recuperate. After more than half a year, my hair, which had been lost during chemotherapy, grew green again. I feel much more energetic. Of course, I have not stopped taking anti-cancer drugs for a long time, but I still have some worries.
Once a Buddhist layman passed by his door and asked for a drink of water because he was thirsty. Mother was very enthusiastic and asked the layman to sit in the room for a while, and then talked about Fei Duoneng's condition.
The layman said that generally people who suffer from bad diseases are suffering from sinister diseases. There is an abbot at Qinglong Temple on the other side of the sea. His dharma name is: Wu Zhen. He is known as Master Wu Zhen. Your son can go to see him and receive some enlightenment from him. Maybe if you don't take medicine for a long time, the disease will be cured.
My mother didn't quite believe it and just nodded in agreement. Fedonen was standing under a coconut tree in front of the door, watching his father carry the mended fishing net out to sea. He thought: If his body recovers, he will help or replace his father in fishing.
At this time, he listened to the conversation between the layman and his mother. He didn't care about this kind of pleasantries at first, but when his illness came up, he paid special attention to it and heard it clearly.
After the layman drank tea and thanked her and left, Fei Duoneng went into the room and asked his mother: "Mom, what did that man say to you just now?"
Nothing to say! Mother looked at him seriously. Fei Doneng asked directly, "Didn't you just talk about me?" It was said that there is Master Wu Zhen in Qinglong Temple who can treat patients. I really want to visit him.
Don't believe that. He's not a doctor. Does he know how to treat patients? Maybe it's a scam.
Grandma, the master is a monk. As the saying goes: monks do not lie and cannot deceive people. I really want to go to Qinglong Temple to visit Master Wu Zhen.
If you want to go, just go! His mother did not stop him and could not stop him. Fedoneng went out immediately and walked around the fishing village towards the sea.
The Qinglong Temple on the seaside is very popular with incense. In addition to Buddhist laymen and believers, there are also a large number of believers who come to burn incense and hope to seek medical advice and resolve disasters. Every morning, after the believers who had burned incense and kowtowed from the Main Hall, they rushed to line up in front of the door of the Shishizhai. They heard that Master Wu Zhen in the Shishizhai was talking about things.
Master Wu Zhen made a rule that after 12 noon, he would only finish what the believers were asking and stop talking. The people at the back, even if it was just one person, would have to wait until the next morning to come back. When queuing up, if the visitor delays, he or she will have to wait until the third day to queue up again. If the visitor always delays, it will be rare for him to have his turn to listen to what Master Wu Zhen has to say.
On this day, Fei Duo was able to rush to Qinglong Temple. It was just past 12 o'clock. He went to the incense burner to burn incense, went into the Main Hall to worship the Buddha, and then rushed to queue in front of the door of Shuoshizhai. Where could there be a queue? Everyone dispersed.
Master Wu Zhen finished speaking to the last believer who came to ask questions. Fei Duoneng arrived just in time. He bowed to Master Wu Zhen who came forward and was about to say something. Master Wu Zhen clasped his hands and said, Donor, I want to ask something. Come tomorrow! The temple does not accept applications after noon. Amitabha!
Where can Fedo be willing to leave? It feels like it's not easy to come here, and I really want Master Wu Zhen to make an exception and talk to him. So he knelt down and Master Wu Zhen said, Donor, don't kneel in front of me. Then he freed his cassock-clad arm, pointed to the Mahavira Hall, and said that kneeling down before the Buddha and Bodhisattvas can also eliminate karma. As expected, Fei Duoneng returned to the Mahavira Hall and knelt in front of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas in a polite manner.
Master Wu Zhen finished his recitation class in the afternoon, and it was almost dusk. He came out of the Sutra Hall, basking in the afterglow of the setting sun, and passed through the center of the temple. Suddenly he saw the man who had been pestering him at noon, still kneeling in the Main Hall. The big Buddha inside said, Amitabha, I didn't want to break the rules of self-reliance, but today I will not look at the monk's face or the Buddha's face, so I have to make an exception to this donor who is kneeling devoutly in front of the Buddha.
Then he bowed three times to a row of solemn Buddha and Bodhisattva statues, turned around and said to the man who was still kneeling, "Donor, get up and go to the speaking room."
This man was Fei Duoneng. He immediately stood up and followed Master Wu Zhen out of the Main Hall and to the Talking Room.
Master Wu Zhen looked at the look on his face and the gloomy eyes, and already knew what he wanted to ask, so he said straightforwardly, Donor, have you ever suffered from gastric cancer and had you undergone surgery?
Fei Duoneng said, yes. Master's reputation spread far and wide, so I came here to ask for help.
Master Wu Zhen said, you are suffering from a disease caused by killing snakes and eating their meat.
Fei Duoneng asked in confusion, what does my disease have to do with killing snakes and eating their meat?
Master Wu Zhen said, the relationship is very close! You enjoy eating snake meat, but you don’t know that the ghosts of those poisonous snakes are not willing to let you kill them and eat their meat. Their ghosts linger in your stomach for a long time and breed cancer cells, so You have this fatal disease.
Fei Duoneng said, I have removed the entire stomach containing cancer cells, and it should be fine now.
Master Wu Zhen smiled lightly, you are fine for the time being, but before long, cancer cells will grow in your liver or lungs again. You don’t know that the ghosts of snakes cannot be driven away with medical methods. Even if you remove the entire stomach, it seems that the cancer cells parasitizing on it are also removed, but the ghosts of snakes just lose a base, and they will come back. Moving to another place to establish a base for breeding cancer catches you off guard, and in the end you have no choice but to embark on a journey to death.
Fei Duo was frightened when he heard this, and said with great regret, "If I had known this, I really shouldn't have committed such a big sin in the first place."
He suddenly knelt down and begged Master Wu Zhen to teach him what to do so that the ghosts of the snakes could leave him and stop breeding cancer cells in his body.
Master Wu Zhen said that we should abstain from killing and release animals, that is, we should not kill any animals, big or small, but cherish, protect and release them. You must also repent of your past mistakes. If you can do this, the ghost of the snake will leave your body, give up its revenge on you, and your life will be healed. Amitabha!
Thanks to Master’s instructions, I will never catch snakes, sell snakes, kill snakes, or eat snakes again. Fedor can put his hands together and express himself sincerely.
Master Wu Zhen said, not just snakes, if you hurt other animals, the ghosts of other animals will still retaliate against you, so no animals can have grudges with them, and it is best to discard or abolish the tools used to capture them.
Fei Duo can remember this sentence very clearly and understand it thoroughly. He came out of Qinglong Temple and walked on the beach. He looked at the fishermen casting their nets on the sea and felt that their fishing behavior was a sin. He also thought that in the past, present and even in the future, some fishermen suffering from serious diseases were probably affected by the disease. The undead revenge of the numerous fish and turtles caught.
Therefore, Fei Duoneng secretly made up his mind to never kill again from now on. Every two days when he returned home, he would set fire to his father's fishing nets spread out by the door.
My father was not at home at the time. When my mother saw it, she angrily accused her, "Son!" This is the tool your father used to make a living at sea. If you burn it, if you don’t tell me that your father will come to settle the score with you, what will your father and I do for a living in this life?
Grandma, this is a tool for killing and committing evil, why do you need it? Burning it will also eliminate some bad karma for me. I suffer from this disease because of bad karma.
If Fei Duo could explain it like this, how could his mother believe it? She still scolded Fei Duoneng and said, where did you hear this nonsense? You are simply a lunatic. You burned a good pair of fishing nets. You either have to pay for it or buy a new pair of fishing nets to compensate your father. If you do this, why not come back? Your father and I will act as if we never had a son like you.
Facing his grumbling mother, Fei Duo was very calm. He said, "Mom, don't worry, you can pay for it, but don't pay so much that your father won't buy another fishing net. Catching animals in the sea is killing." Killing is a sin, and committing too many sins is a disease. If you and Abba are having difficulty, I, as your son, can take you to live in the city.
When the mother heard the last sentence, she felt that her son was quite filial, and her inner anger subsided a little. Then he said to his son, "Duo Neng, your father has a bad temper. When he comes back and disappears with the fishing net to look for him, you must not tell the truth. He asked you not to say anything and let me do the talking." Fei Duoneng said, Grandma, I listen to you.
