Hours during the Song Dynasty, there was a Ming'an Temple outside Caizhou City. The incense was very popular. There were more than 70 monks in the temple. The abbot, Master Guangming, was highly respected and the precepts were strict in the temple.
There are not many temple fields in Ming'an Temple, which cannot solve the food and food of all monks. People who like good people often donate, but they mainly focus on grain, and some vegetables need to be purchased.
There is a village three miles from the temple. There are more than a dozen vegetable farmers in the village who specialize in delivering vegetables to Ming'an Temple. It has been twenty years since Master Guangming was the presidency.
One of these vegetable farmers has the surname Tian. The head of the family is Tian Bao. He is honest and will choose the vegetables sent to Ming'an Temple in advance. Tian Bao's parents died early, his wife's surname was Wang, and the couple had a son and a daughter, and their lives were pretty good.
Don’t want people to have good fortune and good fortune at any time. That summer, Tian Bao suddenly fell ill and died. Wang became a widow. People call her Widow Tian.
Tian Widow was twenty-five years old at the time, and her son and daughter were twin siblings. They were just six years old. The family had no pillars and life began to be difficult. Fortunately, when her husband was alive, she taught her to grow vegetables, and the orphan and widowed mother could live.
The son and daughter are sensible. They help their mother deliver vegetables at a young age. On the small road from the village to Ming'an Temple, you will always see three people in this family. A wooden car is filled with vegetables. The widow in the field is pulling in front and two children are pushing in back.
The monk Fen Tou in the temple is Guangchen, who is over 60 years old. He feels sorry for the experience of this family. He usually orders more widows from the field, and the price is higher. Other vegetable farmers are kind-hearted people, so he has no objection to this.
Who knew that God was not good at doing good. In the second year, Monk Guangchen passed away. The monk from Fen Tou became a monk named Juekong. As soon as he took office, he established many rules.
Buddhism is a place of purity. In the past, vegetable farmers used to wait outside the corner of the temple to deliver vegetables. Monk Guangchen arranged for monks to move vegetables in, but after Jikong took office, in order to save trouble, he let the vegetable farmers move them into the kitchen of the vegetarian hall.
Jueming also required that the vegetables must be picked and washed before they are delivered, otherwise they will not be charged. Not only that, he also reduced the price of vegetables by 10%. In this way, the vegetable farmers suffered a lot, but for the sake of making a living, everyone had to do so.
Tian Widow looks outstanding. When she was a girl at home, many families came to propose marriage. Although she is a few years older now, her beauty is still the same as back then. The wind and frost of time have added a bit of charm to her. Many girls of seventeen or eighteen years old are not as good as her.
Jiekong was a slut before he became a monk. He ran to the temple to become a monk because he beat him to a disabled person. More than ten years of practice have changed a lot. In addition, Abbot Guangming was very strict with the monks, which suppressed his temperament.
The so-called "the country is easy to change and its nature is difficult to change. In recent years, Abbot Guangming has been old and weak, and is mostly dedicated to meditation. Juekong is assigned to the vegetarian hall again. His inner temperament gradually emerges, and he violates the precept of dirty sex by going out to purchase and begging for alms.
Wife Tian’s beauty attracted Juekong at once. She took advantage of the opportunity of delivering and moving vegetables to tease her verbally, which made Widow Tian very disgusted. But I can’t do anything except growing vegetables, and I can only endure it for the sake of my livelihood and for the sake of my children.
On this day, Widow Tian came to deliver vegetables again. When she moved the last basket in, she found that except for the jukong, the other monks were no longer there. He was so brave that he even went forward to his feet.
For the sake of livelihood, Widow Tian did not dare to shout. While she was hiding, she whispered: "This is a temple, a pure place for Buddhism. Buddha will blame him."
Jikong was stunned, and then smiled and said, "What I said is that this is inconvenient here. Why don't I go to your house at night?"
"No, the child is grown up and sensible, so you can't do this." Taking advantage of the moment when he was stunned, Widow Tian quickly ran out and took the child home.
After this time, Widow Tian moved the vegetables in and asked her son and daughter to follow her, making Jukong unable to start. Juekong was unwilling to give up and always said that when he went to her house at night, Widow Tian always refused on the grounds of her child.
Jikong checks the reason for the growth of vegetables, has been to the village several times, and has also been to Widow Tian’s house twice. Because the two children are inseparable, it is difficult for him to do it.
To be honest, every time I go to deliver vegetables, Widow Tian has a headache. She said to herself: "This damn bald thief is so hateful. If it weren't for a few taels of silver, why should I be bullied?" Every time she thinks of this, she burst into tears.
In a blink of an eye, it was almost the death day of her deceased husband. Widow Tian wanted to invite a monk to her home and be a wizard. Although the monk was a monk, he was a man after all. In order to avoid suspicion, she went to Shuiyue Temple, seven miles away and invited several nuns to do rituals.
Unexpectedly, the leading young nun Miaofan was very greedy for money. After that, he increased the money for incense and oil, which made Widow Tian very angry, but the time of the ritual could not be changed, so she had to agree.
was bullied by monks when delivering vegetables, and was made difficult by nuns when doing rituals. Widow Tian became more and more angry the more she thought about it. That night, after arranging her son and daughter to sleep, she sat in the room and she cried alone. After thinking for a long time, she suddenly gritted her teeth and became calculating.
A few days later, she took the children back to her parents' home and said that she was busy recently and had no time to take care of her. She wanted to keep the children here for a few days so that her sister-in-law would have more trouble.
Tian Widow's brother and sister-in-law's family are also hard-working. After her brother-in-law passed away, she didn't help her anymore and felt sorry for her. Now that my sister is asking for it, there is no reason to refuse.
sent the child. Widow Tian went to Shuiyue Temple and said that since the practice, she has been restless these days. She wanted to ask Master Miaofan to accompany her for a few days and recite scriptures to her. After saying that, she added a lot of money for incense and oil. The temple master, Master Jingxuan, agreed immediately and asked Miaofan to pack up his luggage and go to Widow Tian’s house to preach for five days.
On the morning of the third day, Widow Tian asked Miaofan to recuperate at home and went to Ming'an Temple to deliver vegetables. When Juekong saw her, his eyes were already shining and his saliva was almost flowing out. Due to the presence of other monks, he did not dare to act too badly.
At this time, the monk Juechen asked, "Donor, why did you send less food today?"
Widow Tian said with apologetic look on his face and said, "That's right. He sent the children to his uncle's house the day before yesterday. He had no children to get up early and made trouble. He slept in the past two days. This morning, he got up a little late, and he made trouble in a hurry. I'm really sorry. When the children come back tomorrow, they will be restored as before."
After saying this, Widow Tian deliberately glanced at Juekong, with a slightly charming look in his eyes.
After dinner that day, Widow Tian went to the wing room to listen to Miaofan chanting scriptures. She knocked over the tea while she was unprepared, and the bedding was wet. Widow Tian said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Master Miaofan, it's all my fault. Or do you think so. You'll sleep in my room tonight. I'm a country man. I'm dealing with mud and water all day long, and it doesn't stop sleeping on a wet mattress."
Miaofan loves to be clean, so he naturally agrees. In this way, the two changed the house.
Around the second hour that night, a figure sneaked into the yard and tiptoed into Widow Tian’s bedroom. A moment later, a shout came from the room. Widow Tian, who was prepared, rushed in with a lantern and shouted, "Master Miaofan, what's wrong?"
said to the ground and found Juekong standing in front of the window and about to jump out of the window. Widow Tian deliberately said, "Ah! Master Juekong!"
At this time, dog barking came from around, which should have alarmed the neighbors. There were still sounds of doors in several yards. Juekong dared not stay there, so he jumped out of the window and ran away.
Miaofan's face turned pale, and it took him a while to calm down. She asked, "Donor, do you know the monk just now?"
"I know, he is Master Juekong, the rice monk from Ming'an Temple. My family is a vegetable farmer and is responsible for delivering vegetables to the temple, so I know him." Widow Tian said seriously.
"I am Amitabha Buddha, there are such evil people in the Buddhist land. My master also admires Master Guangming very much, saying that he has profound Buddhism and is nothingness. Look at the disciples he trained, what kind of morality is. You should accompany me back to Shuiyue Temple now. I want the master to uphold justice for me and ask Master Guangming to punish this evil man." Miaofan was obviously furious.
Widow Tian smiled in her heart, then packed up her things and accompanied Miaofan back to the temple. Master Jingxuan was so angry that he immediately went to Fayuan Temple in the city to meet the monk Master Huicong, and then went to Ming'an Temple together.
Let’s talk about Juekong again. He didn’t know that the house was the nun of Shuiyue Temple, and he thought it was Widow Tian’s relative or neighbor, so he ran back to the temple and did not escape. Unexpectedly, Master Jingxuan and Master Huiming, the monk, came after dawn. It was too late to escape.
Jiekong is domineering, and all the monks in the dining hall have been bullied by him. Now that the wall is falling, everyone has recommended him, and everyone has listed all his bad deeds. Master Huiming took him to Fayuan Temple and was punished by the Criminal Court. After Juekong was punished by a stick, he was imprisoned in the precepts courtyard facing the wall. He would never think of a step out of the temple in his life.
That Master Miaofan has been confused and has no mind since that incident. He also violated the precepts a few years later and was punished. After Juekong left, Ming'an Temple changed to Juechen's monk. He was like Monk Guangchen, who was kind and kind, and was very helpful to Widow Tian.
In a blink of an eye, many years have passed, and their children have already started a family and have a wealthy life. Their son and daughter-in-law are filial. Widow Tian doesn’t have to work hard anymore. She takes care of her granddaughter and teases her grandson all day long and enjoys the joy of family.
(The story is over)
[Written at the end]
For the sake of children and life, Widow Tian had to think of a snake with the evil people. This is sour. I think many people at the moment can understand that for those few pieces of silver, how many people are not like this?
The purpose of monks should be to seek Buddhahood and transform sentient beings, and to see what Juekong and Miaofan have done? One is greedy for money and the other is the color. If Widow Tian designed a punishment, would the Buddha punish them?
Some people may say that the Buddha punished the two of them with the help of Widow Tian. This seems to be very obvious, that is, it is better to seek oneself than to seek others, and worshiping Buddha is actually to worship the heart.
Miaofan has no idea about the past, but before Juekong became a monk, he was a scoundrel with a bad character. He actually became a monk to avoid disasters. His Buddhist teachings for more than ten years have not resolved his mind. From this, it can be seen that the evils of some people are brought from the bones and will never go away for the rest of their lives.
is like a famous person saying: Conscience is like talent. There is something, there is nothing, there is nothing, there is nothing, there is no one, there is no one, there is no one, there is no one, there is no one, there is no one awakening or not, people without conscience, no matter how you call it, it will be useless. This is probably because nature is difficult to move.
The Buddhist saying that "putting down the butcher's sword and becoming a Buddha" is a certain truth. But there are always some people in the world who will not become a Buddha regardless of whether they put down the sword or not, because the demon in their hearts is too powerful and cannot be pushed down or resolved.
