30 graduate students gave up their million-dollar annual salary to become monks together
Buddhism has been prevalent since ancient times, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and has left a deep impression on the hearts of the Chinese. For more than 20 years, during holidays such as the Spring Festival, the temple is full of incense and crowds.
One of the very important reasons is that Buddhism brings spiritual comfort to people, allowing them to have their own spiritual harbor and spiritual world in the ever-changing life.
Nowadays, many people do not seek fame and fortune, give up their original life and high-quality education, and devote themselves to returning to the world, becoming a young monk, and practicing in the temple.
There must be a lot of people who don't realize that such a good degree is something that many people can't get no matter how hard they try? Why do they give up so easily, or even feel sorry for themselves?
It's a mystery, and it's the question we have to ask today, what was life like in the temple when they were away from home? Are there any difficulties?
Most of these spiritual intellectuals in modern society come from colleges and universities, and they have rich learning and sensational thoughts. Among them are not only master's and graduate students, but also future social elites. These 30 graduate students are among the most outstanding talents cultivated by Chinese social education.
However, in the prime of their lives, they chose to become monks, walk in a group, away from the distractions of the world, and live the simplest life.
In fact, it's hard for anyone to understand why they chose to become ordained because their minds are so insightful and they are a rare and good perspective in society.
These thirty monks come from different places and have different backgrounds, but they all share common characteristics.
Isolated from the outside world, without mobile phones, televisions, computers and other electronic communication devices, they began a journey of self-cultivation and integration into the religious culture of the temple.
In the temple, they get up on time, arrange work on time, and do their part. They also eat together, eat vegetarian food every day, meditate and chant sutras, and the rhythm of their lives in the temple is more or less consistent.
To outsiders, it may seem monotonous, boring and boring, but in their eyes, it is an important thing of special value, seemingly simple, but in fact secret.
He was a temple priest who, in his youth, gave up his high-quality studies and well-paid jobs, gave up a comfortable and leisurely life, pursued his light in the temple, and looked for what he had lost in a world that longed for peace and freedom.
In the temple, we can feel the boundless tranquility, without all worries, and the earthly fireworks are far away.
In the heart of the mage, there has always been a dream, that is, to be able to get away from the hustle and bustle and return to the countryside. At that moment, he realized his dream of being alone in the temple admiring the mountains and rivers and enjoying a peaceful life.
At the call of the temple, he felt a feeling that he had never felt before, an indescribable mystery, and since then he has lived in the temple, in the mountains and forests, with the birds in the morning, and his life has also felt peaceful.
Everyone should know the Fairy Mountain in Sichuan, where there is a temple called Yunhai Temple, the incense was very prosperous before, attracting many monks and tourists, and then due to the disrepair of the temple, it was gradually abandoned.
The temple was rebuilt, thanks to the return of the mage, who was determined to rebuild the ancient temple in 2014. He had a great future, but he abandoned the hustle and bustle of the city, and found this abandoned ancient temple while visiting the mountains and rivers.
With the help of local residents, he was fascinated by the landscapes and legends of Sanhai Temple, an ancient temple that has buried too much history to be unearthed.
From then on, he embarked on a journey to the temple in the name of Venerable Rinqing and began his own work as a builder and abbot.
I think the happiest thing in this life is to do my best to continue to shine for Buddhism"。This is a sentence written by Abbot Renqing on his WeChat***.
This story tells us that everyone has their own yearnings, and we all have the freedom to pursue tranquility and yearning in our hearts, even if we live in the mortal world, living in the noise and noise, we must also have a heart that pursues freedom.
In real life, we tend to be disconnected from our feelings, hovering between work and life, and ignoring our truest feelings. However, at our age, should we enjoy the pleasures of time more?
Be brave to do what you want to do, be brave to try what you want to try, don't take the world's eyes in your eyes, we live for ourselves, not for others, and pleasing ourselves is more important than anything else.
Perhaps, we should learn from Venerable Renqing's courage and self-confidence. If we don't pursue the life we aspire to, what joy is there in life, and what is there to make our hearts happy?
So, how did 30 graduate students join him?
One day in 2017, Abbot Renqing met dozens of college students who hoped that he would welcome them to Yunhai Temple, and they also wanted to become monks.
Actually, I didn't believe it at the time, after all, it was not a trivial matter, and I didn't expect his story to spread on the Internet, and it also brought a group of social masters in the new era, attracting so many like-minded people.
So he hurriedly dealt with this matter and let them settle down to do processing, and these 30 ** soon became monks of Yunhai Temple, and together with Renqing, they made this temple better and better.
They say that when studying life, there is a sense of emptiness and a sense of confusion that always occupies their hearts, and deep in their hearts, they feel that life lacks a little meaning, a lack of color.
So, they finally felt that they wanted to learn from the abbot and come to Yunhai Temple to become a monk. They allow themselves to seek a little sense of security, find the direction of life, and be a young person with direction and goals in the society of the new era.
* Li Jun once said:"I used to work for a foreign company with an annual salary of one million. But I was anxious and tired, and I always felt that life was boring. Now that I have finally found my faith, I feel very calm and content"。
It is also a good choice for these 30 graduate students to put aside their lives and work and choose to become monks here and keep to themselves. The tranquility and freedom here allow you to better comfort your soul and experience a different life.
There are good and bad ways to become a monk, and there will be many difficulties along the way, and there will be a lot of incomprehension, so here are just a few reasons.
1.Lack of understanding from family and friends.
Our parents worked hard to bring us up, so naturally they couldn't accept us as monks, after all, they were traditional-minded and not as open as they are now.
Maybe they want to leave their jobs with an annual salary of one million and become a small monk in a temple, with no income** and a difficult environment, while their own conditions are enough to live a good life in many cities.
Parents want their children to study and start a family, but if they are told that they are going to become a monk, it will be like a bolt from the blue, and they will do whatever it takes to make their children change their minds and return to the edge of the cliff, to the other side of the river.
This is understandable because children grow up as swaddling babies and are born with a lot of taciturn problems, in this case, they should sit down with their families and communicate well and not be too anxious.
2.Pressure from society.
Since becoming a monk, it has caused a lot of repercussions in society, ** an uproar, the weather vane continues, some people think that this is a good thing, a unique courage and faith, but some people think that this is a waste of talent.
People are different, and of course the society cannot be unified, and it is easy to be led astray by this kind of **.
The first two points deal with the difficulties and sufferings of becoming a monk in modern society, but for a long time people have been indifferent to this issue.
The Internet is developing very rapidly, and one hot event after another has come one after another, and we have all had to disappear.
After years of cold war, the family also began to give in, after all, it is their own daughter, every Spring Festival, they will get along with their families in harmony, reunite, and get closer to family communication.
So, how are your 30 recent graduates doing now?
Nowadays, Yunhaizi Temple is thriving day by day, and under the leadership of Abbot Renqing, it is gradually on the right track, and the older generation of ** people are also working hard here to create a better temple.
Yunhai Temple has also become a place for local residents to purify their souls, and the local ** built a new building for the temple and sent people to take care of it.
They gave all their hearts and minds to Buddhism, to the temples, and to the faith. Although they no longer live a life with an annual salary of one million and are labeled as high school students, they are satisfied in their hearts, which is exactly the original intention of the monks.
Conclusion. Through the stories of these great directors, we realize the need to pay attention to the profound significance of Buddhism to today's society, and also feel the unique charm and attraction of Buddhism, so that countless people can find spiritual solace and ultimate confidence in Buddhism.
Of course, in modern society, everyone aspires to a different way of life, and we must respect and recognize that any way of life, whether living in the chaos of the world or practicing in front of an empty door, is a valuable existence for us and has its own unique meaning.
The most important thing is to have enthusiasm in life, to have an attitude towards life, to find ways and means that suit us, to have fun, to find happiness, so that our life is perfect.
Finally, I hope that everyone can be a good person, have good intentions, and find their own way of life as soon as possible to become better.