Ancient trees, temples, Buddha statues, and Baoen Temple are as ordinary as any ordinary temple. There are few tourists here and the incense is lonely, but it has saved tens of thousands of precious lives.

Ancient trees, temples, Buddha statues, Baoen Temple as ordinary as any ordinary temple.

But it is special again. The barking of cats and dogs replaces the sound of chanting scriptures.

There are few tourists here and the incense is lonely, but it has saved tens of thousands of precious lives.

A man in work clothes, traveling through it, seems to be more like a decoration worker than a mage.

He took off his monk's robe, not for pleasure, but just to save more lives in a row: Master Zhixiang. Source: The documentary "Outsider" of B station was created by "New Weekly"

Every day at dawn, Master Zhixiang will start a busy day:

Clean the cat and dog kennel, feed the animals, and then drive out to rescue stray animals.

The cat and dog rescued are dirty all over and must be patiently cleaned.

Then deworm internally and externally, treat diseases, and those who are not sick are vaccinated first and then send them to the base. He has been persisting in things like

day after day.

Things will start from 1994.

That day, Master Zhixiang drove past the viaduct and accidentally caught a glimpse of a kitten, crushed by a speeding car.

It endured the severe pain, dragged its broken legs, and moved in the traffic with difficulty, leaving a dazzling scarlet red.

Everything in the world doesn't seem to care about this innocent little life, and the mottled blood on the ground has not attracted anyone's attention.

But that scene touched him a lot.

Can't turn back on the elevated road, let alone stop at will, so he could only watch the kitten struggling to die...

Since then, Master Zhixiang has begun to rescue the cat on the viaduct.

Encountering a stray animal who died on the roadside will also bring it back and bury it well.

Because I couldn't bear to see stray animals being humanely destroyed, I negotiated with the relevant departments to take in these poor little animals.

is like this, and the more you save, from dozens to hundreds, and then to tens of thousands of them now. When the most

, more than 200 people can be saved in a day.

The small Baoen Temple is no longer able to accommodate it.

For this reason, he rented more than 10,000 square meters of site not far from the temple and transformed it into a residence for a hairy child.

Although there are many animals, the adoption base is clean, hygienic, neat and orderly, and well-managed.

Cat cages designed by Master Zhixiang themselves are each spacious 7 square meters and up to 5 floors.

has cat climbing frame . Cats can climb freely and will not be too cramped and frustrated.

Cathouse built by Master Zhixiang

Dogs are separated by size and health status.

Half of the kennel is indoors and half is outdoors, ensuring sufficient space for activity.

Each animal has its own "file", recording injections, feeding and other situations.

Clean up feces every morning, release water, feed them, and immediately send them to the hospital when they find that the animals are uncomfortable.

Fine management allows each stray animal to regain its vitality.

They are getting stronger day by day, their bodies grow, and their hair gradually becomes brighter.

People outside always joke that stray dogs here are raised "like pigs".

Now it is hard to imagine how terrible they looked like they were just rescued...

Some of their teeth fell off, some of their eyes fell off, some of them were picked off the tendons of their feet, and there were no fewer ones who broke their arms and legs.

Some of them were beaten and covered in blood and blood, while others were hungry and skinny.

The abused hairy child is being rescued in the hospital

Bethany was rescued, her body was skin and bone-weight, weighing only 1.2 kilograms, and the knotted hair was covered with insect feces.

It was extremely exhausted, with hypoglycemia, and its life was hanging on the line. When it was sent to the hospital, it was so weak that it could not even draw blood.

Some other cats and dogs were severely scalded and there was almost no good skin on their bodies.

Some dogs were injured all over when they were rescued and sent to the hospital for treatment for 5 consecutive days, but they were still unable to recover.

There is a dog with a big fist tumor, hiding in the corner and whimpering, which is heartbreaking.

There is a pregnant bitch, He passed away before he was due to the birth period. He had a corpse and two lives. He could only hold the dog and shed tears silently...

Such a tragic case is tragic, countless, and there is no end to talk about it...

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Recovery period, has now been adopted by a caring family

Animals that have been abused are often sensitive and stressed, distrust humans, and will bite people.

So, there was almost no inch intact on Master Zhixiang's hand, and another finger had been bitten and was ruined.

He treated the dog, but he was bitten but couldn't bear to spend money, so he just used hydrogen peroxide to treat it simply.

The scar on the hand of Master Zhixiang

But he did not stop treating him because of this, and he was still full of love for every abandoned animal.

He gently called them "baby" and coaxed them like comforting the child: I will not be afraid when I go to the temple, Bodhisattvas will not beat babies, right?

When rescue first started, many animals died of diseases or trauma, with a mortality rate of more than 50%.

After many efforts, the mortality rate is now controlled at more than ten percent, and the survival rate is greatly improved.

Master Zhixiang said: I don’t have time to be sad, and there are still many things to do. Your sadness will not help the rescue. We cannot let our rescue heart be decadent because of its death.

With this purpose, he does his best and does not slacken off in every life.

The dog who has stopped breathing does not give up, mouth-to-mouth artificially breathing , and finally a miracle of life occurs.

He was excitedly like a child and said to his companion: You say you are dead, and giving up means you are dead.

Although he has saved tens of thousands of times, he will still be grateful for the life he has lived.

He never said that he picked up a cat and dog, but said that he saved it.

Because the life of animals is also life.

This is the most basic respect for them.

Some of the dogs rescued will be trained as military dog ​​ or police dogs;

Some of the dogs rescued will be sent to families willing to adopt after deworming and sterilizing;

Most of the elderly, weak, sick and disabled will stay in temples and rescue bases to spend the rest of their lives.

Master Zhixiang said: I will send you to every cat and dog that cannot be adopted.

Didn't farewell to the adopted pet at the airport

In 2019, the first cat who was not released Lai Fu, after accompanying Master Zhixiang for 14 years, he died of old age and naturally died of old age.

Before his death, it used all its last bit of strength to stretch out its left front paw and gently stroked Master Zhixiang's right cheek, as if it was making a final farewell.

Laifu

Now, where Laifu corpse is buried for a long time, a solar-powered Buddha chanting machine is still chanting and praying for it continuously.

Save life, it sounds good, but there is a realistic problem that cannot be avoided: funds.

Every day, you have to open your eyes and open your mouth to wait for support. How easy is

?

The rent of the adoption base alone is as high as 1.98 million yuan a year.

Tens of thousands of mouths will consume 70 tons of feed in one month.

Not to mention, various expenses such as vaccination, treatment of diseases, deworming internally and externally, hiring workers, etc.

Animals that have just been adopted must be sent for cleaning first. It costs 200 yuan to wash them outside once.

Now, in order to save money, a small house was built in the temple and cleaned it yourself to save costs.

Moreover, long-term illness has become a doctor, Master Zhixiang is now able to provide simple treatment for animals.

but it is far from enough.

In 2020, Master Zhixiang borrowed 500,000 from his parents and still owed millions of foreign debts outside, so he barely maintained his operations.

Later, as the epidemic recurred, the hairy children led the extreme challenges and fell into a dilemma of food shortage.

According to the current situation, at least 12 million is required a year to maintain the overhead.

But he did not stop the rescue, so he could only do it with his teeth and save it first.

He said: You can’t stop saving just because there is no way. It is a life to save a life.

But he also knows very well: by saving, the problem cannot be solved.

In his opinion, the people who cause stray animals are not the people who do not love animals, nor the management departments, but the so-called "dog lovers" and "cat lovers".

They have love, but not much.

Once, Master Zhixiang loaded the dog and transported it to the base.

It happened to be that there was a bald head in the factory opposite. He recognized that a dog in the cage belonged to his own, so he ran over to tease it, and had no intention of carrying it back.

Master Zhixiang was very angry when he saw it and scolded: It was you last year! I just stuffed two dogs over here, and I let it have it again this year, and I don’t care if I have it!

The bald head didn't take it seriously and just smiled and said: Are you just a few dogs? As for being so angry? He also said he was a monk...

so angry that Master Zhixiang scolded: People like you still can't grow hair after reincarnation!

And those people who say they like it but are unwilling to consider the pet.

is not sterilized, is unwilling to spend money to apply for a certificate, is illegally raised, and is constantly producing second-generation wanderings, more and more...

These animals will be captured by the management department and will be destroyed by humanitarianism.

You see, a kind heart without good deeds is a harm to another life.

In the eyes of these people, life is air, and you can breathe as long as you want, and there is so much air.

Therefore, Master Zhixiang often says: Good intentions are easy to develop, but good deeds are difficult to do. It is not possible to have kindness alone.

Kindness comes, and adopts it if you want to adopt it, but finds that you can't handle it, so you don't want to raise it anymore, so you abandon it casually.

But they didn't know that this was fatal damage to pets.

When adopting, they all felt that they were the kindest person in the world. When they abandoned

, they felt that they were the most wronged person in the world: I also want to raise it, but reality does not allow it.

has moved, and it is not convenient to take the pets with me;

has graduated, and the economy is a bit tight;

is pregnant, and the family is not allowed to keep pets;

has broken up, and I don’t want to touch things to hurt my feelings;

pet birth I am sick and spend too much money;

No one at home, no one takes care of me...

stray cat looks pitifully at the pet cat being caressed

racks his brains to find an excuse to abandon his pet, which is really embarrassing them.

Under these high-sounding reasons, abandoning pets seems to be the most preferred.

It seems that they are not abandoning a life, but just throwing away an old piece of clothing...

stray cat also longs to be caressed, but only the cold glass

forgive the crow for saying frankly that no matter how high-sounding excuses are, there is no way to hide a fact. These people have only one thing in common: lazy and bad.

Your uncle, what did you do when you adopted it?

, can’t you find a good home for it?

is difficult anymore. At least it has been with you, has brought you some happiness, has done something for it, and has found a next home for it. Is it difficult?

abandoned pets are foolishly waiting for their owners

Some people are smart. They find a next home for their pets, just throw them at various charities at will, transferring the pressure to others.

For example, as Bao'en Temple, as Master Zhixiang became popular online, more and more people randomly abandon cats and dogs at the entrance of the temple.

Once, someone deliberately unloaded the license plate and came over to discard the dog.

Some netizens also exhorted the dog owner: It is OK to be able to be placed.

Master Zhixiang said: This behavior is like stabbing you but not stabbing you to death. You must be grateful and thank him for showing mercy.

There are also people who don’t want to spend money when they are sick, so they send them to the temple and say: I don’t want to raise them anymore.

Master Zhixiang was so anxious that he shouted: Then you must at least cure the disease!

The temple does good deeds to save lives, not to wipe the butts of these irresponsible people.

Just imagine, if everyone doesn’t want to raise it, they will throw it in the temple at will, increasing the cost and cost of the temple, but the abandoned ones can be understood and have a stable conscience.

And those stray animals who are homeless and abused have their living space further compressed. How unfair is

?

When abandoning is not burdened, it will only grow more whim kindness and harm more pitiful innocent lives!

When the dog was adopted on the first day, he was very excited.

However, he was abandoned again in the end, his eyes were disappointed, and he refused to return to the cage for a long time.

Netizen: From a poor little kitten to a graceful and beautiful cat.

Netizen: At first, no one was willing to adopt it because its ears were short and looked "terrible", but now it is healthy and lively, and everyone you meet loves it.

Netizen: The dog rescued from the street is now back to health.

Netizen: I found it on the wheel of the forklift, and now it lives with me at home.

Netizen: After just one day of adoption, the dog underwent a 180-degree transformation.

It has been 28 years since the first cat was rescued in 1994.

Master Zhixiang has also gone from a young man to his current age of over fifty years old.

He dedicated the best years of his life to these living lives.

Now, at the age of 54, he still works 14 hours a day and is seriously overdrawn.

He drives a broken truck every day and runs on the front line of rescue.

He has 9 sets of identical work clothes, and sometimes he has to change three sets a day because it is so dirty.

Every time I enter the kennel, I spend 1-2 hours, covered in sweat, dirty and tired.

He once laughed at himself: If the time is not enough, you can borrow it from the morning and evening, if the energy is not enough, you can borrow it from the future. If the manpower is not enough, you can only ask for Thousand-handed Guanyin ...

During this period, some people scolded him for not doing his job properly, some said that he was not a qualified monk, and some people advised him to meditate and recite scriptures and be a serious monk.

The world is full of troubles, but he just laughed it off.

He said: The Buddha did not become a Buddha after chanting the Buddha. Before he became a Buddha, there was no Buddha to recite. Only by doing selfless good for sentient beings can he have the Buddha later...

However, in addition to overwhelming misunderstandings and abuses, there were also malicious reports that he was not qualified to raise a dog.

Master Zhixiang was helpless about this.

More than one department came to investigate, and he cooperated with the relevant departments with all his strength and actively coordinated with the relevant departments.

moved all the more than 200 elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and young animals in the temple to the adoption base, which stopped the gossip around.

In the past few decades, he has witnessed too many favors, but he has never complained, but just focused on treatment.

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Some people also sneered: No one forced you to do these things, why make yourself so tired?

Yes, why bother?

How great is it to wear a robe, meditate, recite scriptures, and accept the support of believers?

But, sweeping the floor will not hurt the lives of ants, let alone live lives?

When you meet those longing eyes, when you hear their helpless whimpering, how can you bear it in your heart?

What is more important than promoting Buddhism is to benefit sentient beings and respect every life equally.

"If monks of all generations want to be comfortable, who will support us? If you don't do it for the people, you can only be flies."

He knows better than anyone else. This road is long, but he is also firmer than anyone else.

either walk to the end of the road or walk to lie down on yourself.

secular troubles, temple clean rules , slander and slander, in front of every life, all of them are just noises that are not worth worrying about.

The only belief in his heart is the struggling and wailing weak life.

Finally, let me show you a way. The above is the 17th episode of the character documentary "Outsiders" column of the character documentary "Cat and Dog Monks" created by the New Weekly.