Chapter 70 Abbot Longyuan
"Monk, I'll ask you to take the exam. If I can pass the test, you will take me to see the abbot in this temple. What do you think?" Chen Chufan called out to Abbot Longyuan who was about to walk away, and said something that made Abbot Longyuan laugh and cry.
"Amitabha, I wonder what the donor is doing to find the abbot of this temple?" Abbot Longyuan shouted the Buddha's name, concealed his impulse to laugh out loud, and asked seriously.
"I'm going to tell the monk that I have a fate with the Buddha!" Chen Chufan also replied seriously. The reason is very shit, and of course it is not Chen Chufan's real idea. He just simply felt that the most profound Buddhist teachings in this temple must be the abbot, so he suddenly had a whim and wanted to communicate with the abbot in this temple to see if he could solve his doubts.
However, he never thought that the abbot of a temple was not so easy to see! If every believer who came to the temple to study Buddhism could see the abbot, then the abbot of Guiyuan Zen Temple would not have to do anything every day, and there would not be enough time to serve these believers! Of course, what he unexpectedly did was that he had great luck, and he had already met the abbot of the temple and had been chatting for a long time.
"Oh, the donor wants to make a relationship with this temple? Ordering in this temple? It is really necessary to let the donor know that the ordaining is required. It is useless to directly find the abbot!" Abbot Longyuan was obviously wrong.
When Chen Chufan heard the monk understand his meaning, he quickly explained: "The monk has misunderstood. I have no intention of becoming a monk. I just think that the abbot in this temple must have a profound Buddhist teachings, and may be able to solve my doubts."
Abbot Longyuan shook his head and sighed inwardly that the young man was indeed lazy. After solving the doubts, he actually jumped out lines of a relationship with the Buddha. But he also stretched out a little curiosity in his heart. He didn't know where the young man came from so confident that he could pass his own exam. After thinking about it, Longyuan said, "Since the donor has this mind, there are some fate between you and me, so I promised you. But it's not convenient to talk here for a long time. Why don't you want to move to the living room of the temple to talk about it?"
Chen Chufan would not disagree, so he followed the old monk to a living room in Guiyuan Zen Temple. Sitting in front of the table, Master Longyuan was about to go to the exam school, but Chen Chufan spoke first.
"And you have to say it before the monk. I only say that the Buddhist scriptures can be memorized in a simplified manner, so if you want to take the school, you only need to take the memorization skills. Don't try some Zen skills with me or ask some Buddhist principles. That boy doesn't understand!" Chen Chufan was very afraid that the old man in front of him would ask some things in confusion, so he said first.
"Okay! Then please ask the donor to memorize a passage of the Lotus Sutra for me to listen to?" Abbot Longyuan was even more curious. He thought that this kid would play tricks with him and talk about some misunderstandings to deal with it, but he didn't expect that the boy really wanted to recite the Buddhist scriptures in front of him. You must know that the words of the Buddhist scriptures are obscure and difficult to understand, and I haven't been immersed in it for a few years. Not to mention memorizing, it is difficult to read even if I read them. However, I didn't expect that this boy was actually giving up the easy and seeking it. I couldn't help but be surprised.
"The monk is no longer authentic. The Lotus Sutra has seven volumes, twenty-eighth chapters, and more than 60,000 words. If you ask me to memorize them all, then when will I get it? I have something to do in the afternoon!" Chen Chufan said dissatisfied. He was memorized until he could recite it, but it was too long, and he didn't have so much time to delay.
"Okay, okay, okay, it's the monk's fault! Then you just want to talk about the Vajra Samadhi Sutra!" Abbot Longyuan shook his head and said.
Chen Chufan was no longer talking nonsense. After silently recalling it in his mind for a moment, he opened his mouth and recited: "I heard so much. For a moment, the Buddha was in the mountains of Gridhrakuta, the great city of the royal city......................"
As Chen Chufan shook his head and recited the scriptures, Master Longyuan's eyes became wider and wider, and his heart became more and more surprised. He really didn't expect that the young man in front of him could really recite the complete Vajra Samadhi Sutra. He was still clear in his mouth and did not fool him at all.
This Vajra Samadhi Gold itself is one of the classics of the Buddhist Prajna Heart Sutra, and Master Longyuan has naturally studied it carefully. He may have read it hundreds of times just by reading it, but he still has no strength to let Master Longyuan recite the content of the scriptures word for word without missing a word. But if he only listens, he can hear the mistakes, but when the young man was really reciting it, there was no mistakes. This made Abbot Longyuan startled the young man in front of him.
There is no reason for religion. Believing is believing, and not believing is not believing! Master Longyuan has been practicing Buddhism for more than 30 years and is a Buddhist. Since he is a Buddhist, he naturally believes in the Buddhist theory, such as cause and condition, such as reincarnation. Therefore, in the eyes of Master Longyuan, Chen Chufan is no longer an ordinary boy, and he clearly should be a reincarnation of a Buddhist master. If he had not been born to know it, he would have been able to recite this Buddhist scripture at such a young age? Not to mention that this scripture is obscure and difficult to understand, the boring words cannot be read by a young boy, let alone the level of reciting words.
But he didn't know that the young man in front of him had no connection with the Buddhist powers. He was just a lucky boy who had been developed by the extraordinary technology of alien civilizations, so he could never forget it. Of course, Master Longyuan believed that this was impossible, but he believed that Chen Chufan was reincarnated as a certain Buddha without any psychological obstacles.
It took Chen Chufan half an hour to recite the content of the scriptures that were more than 10,000 words to memorize them all. He recited the last sentence "......At that time, Ananda, the Bodhisattvas, and the four divisions, were all very happy, and he decided to bow to the Buddha's feet and followed them happily." After memorizing, Chen Chufan looked at the stunned monk opposite and spoke and asked, "How is it? Have I ever lie to you in vain?"
"Master, Longyuan worships you!" Abbot Longyuan finally said his Buddha's name in front of Chen Chufan.
"There is no need to accept me, just take me to see the abbot here!" Chen Chufan waved his hand and signaled the monk in front of him to fulfill his promise immediately.
Abbot Longyuan was stunned again. He thought that the young man in front of him wanted to see him, so he knew a little about the abbot of Guiyuan Temple. Even if he didn't know much, he should have known his Dharma name, but who knew that this young man was completely unaware of it! Longyuan didn't feel a little embarrassed, but he had already defined this young man as a reincarnation of a Buddhist master with preconcealed beliefs. Abbot Longyuan was not annoyed, but instead explained with a kind look: "To be honest with the donor, I am the host of this temple!"
"Uh?" This time it was Chen Chufan's turn to be stunned. Hearing this, Chen Chufan noticed that the monk in front of him seemed to be a little different from the monks he met along the way in the temple. At least the color of the robes he wore was much brighter than the gray monk's outfit worn by ordinary monks. He couldn't help but sigh that he was blind!
Thinking of this, I remembered that I was unceremonious and called the abbot in the temple by monks. It seemed that I was a little disrespectful, and I couldn't help but feel a little Hao Ran. But then I thought, how could I think that the legendary abbot in a temple could be so idle and talk to me for more than an hour. I was not polite, but he was not angry. He was not a little bit of an abbot? I deserved to be mistaken. So the embarrassing feeling faded, and after the initial shock, my mood stabilized.
However, he never thought that if he could become the abbot of this temple, how could he not be a person who studied Buddhism carefully and had great virtues? Without any cultivation, the abbot's position would not be the turn of the Master Longyuan in front of him!
Of course, Abbot Longyuan didn't know what Chen Chufan was thinking at this moment, so when he saw that the boy had only experienced a moment of surprise, he quickly recovered. He couldn't help but nodded secretly in his heart, appreciating the boy's nature. He felt that the boy in front of him was actually calm that was not as calm as his age. He was young and gentle, and he was not surprised by the praises and disgraces. It was really rare, and Master Longyuan even more suspected that the boy's origin must be related to Buddhism.
"Master Longyuan, I don't know your identity. I offended you so much in my words just now!" Although Chen Chufan forgives his disrespect to the abbot in his heart, he still asks him to do so, so he apologizes and uses a respectful title.
"There is no need to apologize. I just don't know what the donor has to worry about. I want me to solve my doubts for the donor?" Abbot Longyuan asked instead.
"Oh, that's a troublesome thing!" Chen Chufan told Abbot Longyuan in detail the choice he faced. "You see, how should I choose!"
"The donor is attached to the face. According to the donor, there is opportunity on one hand and friendship on the other, but I cannot do both. But I think there is no conflict between the two. You can choose both or abandon both, just ask your heart!" Abbot Longyuan gave his opinion after hearing Chen Chufan's statement.
"Ask your heart! Master is dealing with it! My heart is now divided into two halves, half left, and half stayed. Master, what can you do?" Chen Chufan was disappointed when he heard Master Longyuan say this.
Hearing Chen Chufan's argument made Master Longyuan quite helpless. But when he thought that as a monk, he was trying to figure out the young man's little thoughts, he simply said irresponsibly: "Then let go first, let it go, let it go, and whenever you figure it out, you will make a decision!"
Master Longyuan's words disappointed Chen Chufan very much. However, after thinking about it, the two of them were different in age and their job types were too different. It seemed that it was a bit difficult to ask the master for advice on this matter. Besides, even if he was forced to give an answer, he might not be satisfied. But he couldn't help but complain: "Master Longyuan is a monk, but he uses the Taoist nature to deal with the boy. It's so unkind!"
After saying that, without waiting for the opposite Abbot Longyuan to react, he began to speak out about the Buddha's words with Abbot Longyuan. In his words, he began to indirectly criticize whether Master Longyuan had seen or heard that there were really Buddhists who could truly cultivate the indestructible body of Vajra.
Master Longyuan didn't doubt that he was, and he started chatting with Chen Chufan in an enthusiastic manner. This old man, one of whom had been practicing Buddhism for many years, had learned profound Buddhist principles, one had extraordinary memories, could recite Buddhist scriptures, one was intentional in school, one showed off from time to time, one could pick up Buddhist secrets at will, and the other had a ulterior motive in his heart. He could even talk and enjoy it, but he felt that he had met too late. This was really a matter of fate between the two.
What made Chen Chufan depressed was that, with Master Longyuan as the abbot of the temple, he had never seen a Buddhist who had truly cultivated into a Vajra body that was invulnerable to swords and guns.
"In this way, except for legends, I heard and guessed that the master had never seen the real Vajra body?" Chen Chufan finally concluded disappointedly.
Master Longyuan was always obsessed with this question, so he didn't think too much about it. He only thought it was Chen Chufan's young character, so he calmly replied: "Yes, I really have never seen it with my own eyes!"
"It's getting late, and I won't disturb the master's practice. I'll say goodbye today. When I have free time, I'll listen to the master's teachings again!" If I couldn't get the answer I wanted, I felt that it was not very meaningful to sit down, especially Master Longyuan was the abbot of the temple after all, and I thought it was very busy. I was too embarrassed to delay such a long time, so Chen Chufan stood up and said goodbye.
"It's almost noon, so why donors have used vegetarian food in this temple and are leaving!" Master Longyuan actually spoke and kept it.
After Longyuan said this, Chen Chufan felt a little hungry in his stomach. In addition, he had never eaten vegetarian food in the monk temple, so he couldn't help but feel a little moved. He joked and said, "Master, are you treating a kid to dinner? You won't ask for money from a kid, right?"
Chapter completed!