The old abbot bent his back, wearing ginger monk clothes and a string of Buddha beads on his chest. His face is old, his eyebrows are white, his eye sockets are deep and gully, and his eyes are turbid but not clear.
The old abbot looked at the rambling Yan fan. He sighed, "I just want to give you a word."
Yan fan got up from his chair and didn't ask the old abbot what he said, but said carelessly, "since you are old and your legs are bad, just sit down first. Don't ask me to take you back to the meditation room at that time."
Hearing the speech, the old abbot shook his head, "No."
The old abbot looked at him, Yan fan looked at him, and then slowly put away the lazy and naughty on his face.
Yan fan saw the old abbot put a page of paper book on the table in front of him. The old abbot sighed, turned and left slowly.
Yan fan didn't look at the paper on the table, but frowned at the old abbot's staggering pace. He said, "Hey, old monk, I'd better take you back."
When the old abbot heard the speech, he stopped, smiled and shook his head, "no, I'm not too weak to walk."
The old abbot wouldn't let Yan fan send it, so Yan fan didn't send it.
He turned and picked up the paper book. When he saw the line on the paper book, Yan fan's body froze.
It seems that I heard the old abbot's hoarse and thick voice behind meââ
"Those who meet will leave, one period and one prayer."
Yan fan silently recited this sentence in his heart, and then pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled coolly.
He let go of his fingertips and a wind blew in. That page of paper and book is blowing away with the wind, blowing farther and farther
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After that, the monks of fanyin temple were surprised to find that Yan fan was seen several times in the morning class.
He was still lazy. He didn't seem to care about anything. He shouted "old monk" to the old abbot one by one. Next to them were martial uncles who were very angry and said that senior brother Yan fan had no rules, but the old abbot was not angry at all. Instead, he indulged senior brother Yan fan to shout so.
When everyone was closing their eyes and reciting the Sutra, elder martial brother Yan fan looked lazily from left to right. He looked very naughty.
Elder martial brother Yan fan often makes the martial uncles in the temple jump with anger, especially martial uncle Daozhen. Every time the little Shamis in the temple can always hear the voice of martial uncle Daozhen scolding elder martial brother Yan fan.
It is said that martial uncle Daozhen caught senior brother Yan fan secretly eating pheasants and drinking. Martial uncle Daozhen is punishing senior brother Yan fan for copying scriptures again.
Elder martial brother Yan fan didn't copy, but he was locked up in the Sutra Pavilion by martial uncle Daozhen.
Later, one day, the little Shamis turned to a Book handed down from generation to generation by the respected elders of the temple in the Sutra Pavilion. The content of the book is nothing more than the inspirational and moving story that they sacrificed themselves to educate all sentient beings and finally achieved good results, as well as some shocking Xinling chicken soup.
As a result, the little monks saw two words left on the last page of the bookââ
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Finally, the matter was known by martial uncle Daozhen, and senior brother Yan fan was punished again.
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Note: "those who meet will be determined to leave" comes from the Buddhist Nirvana Sutra, which says: "when a man is prosperous, he will decline, and when he meets, he will leave.". It means that people who often meet in the world will also have discrete times, and those who meet will eventually have separate times.
"One period and one prayer" comes from the variant of "one period and one meeting" in Japanese Zen.
The two words together mean that we should treat meeting everyone as a fate that only happens once in our life.
Therefore, we should cherish the meeting with everyone.
If you miss it, you'll never meet it again.