China has a very profound Buddhist culture. I believe that everyone has been to temples and met monks at one time or another. You must know that becoming a monk nowadays is not something you can just go if you want. It requires good facial features, sound limbs, and no defects. There are certain restrictions on hobbies and even academic qualifications, but it was much easier to become a monk in ancient times. As long as you devote yourself to Buddha, you can become a monk even if you are illiterate and pray for Buddha. This also made many ancient monks famous among the people;
For example, the Huiming monk we are going to introduce today has a medical skill that can rejuvenate people. There is an endless stream of people coming to him for treatment. He also became rich because of it. However, he later changed his life after diagnosing the pulse of a woman. What happened to becoming a pauper?
Monk Huiming had excellent medical skills but was stingy, which caused him to lose money.
Buddhism had been developing and growing since it was introduced to China during the Han Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, there were already a large number of loyal Buddhist believers. Temples and monks abound. The monk Huiming we are going to talk about today is a figure from the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.
Monk Huiming is the abbot monk of a temple in Suzhou . He is mainly responsible for taking charge of all the affairs in the temple. Various chores do not need to be done by himself, so he has a lot of free time every day, and he is naturally interested in medical skills. He was very interested and had certain talents. When he didn't have to conduct rituals, he would stay in the meditation room and study various medical techniques and herbal medicines. Over time, he really learned medical skills. At first, he tried to treat some people around him. , Unexpectedly, the effect was very good, the disease was cured by the medicine, and the reputation became more and more popular;
As the saying goes, "one spreads it to ten, and ten spreads it to a hundred", and soon people in the city knew that there was a master of rejuvenation in this temple. The famous monk Huiming came to him for treatment of any ailment, and monk Huiming never disappoints anyone. Basically, anyone who comes to him for treatment can find out the focus of the disease and cure it with medicine, even outside the city. Many people came to him for consultation. Monk Huiming charges money for consultations and medicines. The more people come to him for treatment, the more money he earns. In addition, there are usually many pilgrims in the temple, and those who come to see the doctor usually make offerings. With some incense, Monk Huiming's family fortune snowballed and became richer and richer.
It is said that the family members are compassionate, but this monk Huiming is not very compassionate. On the contrary, he is also a bit cunning. Relying on his superb medical skills and an endless stream of patients and pilgrims, he gradually becomes complacent and often He arbitrarily raises the price of consultation. If the patient is unwilling to pay, he will refuse to see the doctor. Although many patients are dissatisfied, his medical skills are indeed superb, and everyone wants to cure the disease as soon as possible, so they can only accept this Dumb loss. In addition to being merciless to patients, Monk Huiming was also very stingy towards the people in the temple. Some tools and facilities were broken, and when the monks reported to him asking him to pay for replacements, he turned a deaf ear and refused to pay for them. He deducted monthly money from the monks, which made everyone miserable, and they secretly complained about him, but they couldn't do anything to him. After all, monks have a bottom line, and they live under the same roof, so they can't quarrel with him.
However, someone was interested, because he made a lot of money by seeing doctors, and everyone around him saw it. Some ruffians were quite greedy, and they always wanted to make a fortune from him. In addition, Huiming The monk was not an honest man, and many people were resentful of him. These ruffians seized this opportunity and prepared to blackmail him severely. Because of this, the monk Huiming suffered a financial disaster and became a wealthy man overnight. pauper.So, what's going on?
The thieves used a beauty trap, and Monk Huiming couldn't help but fell into the trap.
Faced with the huge fortune in the hands of Monk Huiming, these scoundrels were itchy. After thinking about it, they finally came up with a plan to blackmail Monk Huiming. , that is a honey trap, so what exactly happened? It turned out that these scoundrels went to a brothel to invite a very beautiful and charming prostitute, and also found an elderly man, and asked them to pretend to be father and daughter, and rowed a boat full of good wine and meat. Boat to see Monk Huiming for medical treatment!
After arriving at the temple, the pretended father told Huiming that his daughter had been suffering from heart disease for so many years and could not be cured no matter how hard he tried. He heard that Master Huiming’s medical skills were superb and he could cure all kinds of difficult and complicated diseases. He specially I brought my daughter here for consultation. Monk Huiming believed it to be true, and began to take the woman's pulse and examine her. However, after struggling for a long time, he found no signs of illness in the woman, which was very puzzling. And the woman was not idle, taking advantage of the monk Huiming to take her pulse. , kept coquettishly saying that her heart hurt, and she wanted to lean on Monk Huiming. Facing such a beautiful and active woman, Monk Huiming couldn't help but have wild thoughts, but he didn't dare to do anything, he just said that he had not been diagnosed with the disease. There was something wrong, so the father and daughter proposed to stay in the temple for one night and let Monk Huiming take a good look at it, and Monk Huiming agreed.
When the old man saw that Monk Huiming had agreed to his request, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He quickly took the wine and meat from the boat and invited Monk Huiming to enjoy it. He also said all kinds of good things in his mouth. The woman also chimed in. Monk Huiming suddenly became elated. , actually actually sat drinking and eating meat with the two of them, completely forgetting their identity. After eating, Monk Huiming arranged for the old man to stay, but the woman stayed in his room. At this time, Monk Huiming had drunk a lot of wine and was unconscious, and the woman also deliberately teased him. It kept going on and on, and Monk Huiming couldn't control himself at all, so the two went to spend the spring night together.
Early the next morning, before the two of them crawled out of bed, the old man pushed open the door and caught the two people on the bed. He became furious and started yelling, calling Monk Huiming a filthy person. Having lost sight of his daughter's innocence, Monk Huiming was so panicked that he quickly begged him for forgiveness. At this time, several well-dressed young men came outside. Seeing the commotion, they stepped forward and asked what was going on. After hearing the whole story, they were filled with indignation and were about to tie Huiming to the Yamen. Huiming was so frightened that he tried his best to Seeing this, these young masters gave Huiming an "idea" and asked him to pay a large sum of money to the father and daughter quickly to avoid jail. After hearing this, the monk Huiming agreed repeatedly. In this way, everyone By cooperating inside and outside, they defrauded monk Huiming of his family fortune, and Huiming became a pauper overnight.
Conclusion:
Monk Huiming ended up like this. It has to be said that it was the result of his own misbehavior. If he was not so stingy and arrogant on weekdays, he would not attract retaliation from others. If he could keep the rules and precepts that a monk should have. , it is impossible to fall into such a handle. What do you think after hearing this story?
