Due to the arrangement of the elders in the family, I stayed in the temple for 2 days during the Spring Festival holiday this year, which also indicates that my Spring Festival holiday this time is with a bit of Zen.
The protagonist of the story is a monk with the surname Sun, and I call him Master Sun.
In a temple in Longshan, Cixi, after a Dharma class, I saw him carrying a chair, striding to the shade of a tree, and reading the scriptures with relish. I thought to myself, this person is very interesting, I just chanted for most of the day, and I had to pick up the scriptures and read them during the break, and sure enough, I could roll every line.
Occupational diseases "troubled", I went up to talk to him.
The 36-year-old Master Sun is of medium height, a little chubby, with a big face and big earlobes, and his eyes are narrowed into a line when he laughs. He is a native of Hebei Province and has been in Cixi for 10 years, and as soon as the conversation box opened, I knew that he was a qualified "interview subject".
I asked him why he chose this "career". Master Sun said that when he was young, his family was poor, low self-esteem and sensitive, and when he became an adult, he couldn't find a suitable job, so he came to the temple through the introduction of his relatives and began the life of "green lanterns with ancient Buddhas".
However, he not only recites **, but also borrows books on history, Confucianism, Zen Buddhism, etc., in order to cultivate his own mind. Nowadays, he said, many temples are equipped with borrowing rooms, which is very convenient.
I asked him again, why do modern young people like incense? Master Sun paused obviously, he said that he rarely surfed the Internet, unless he read e-books, so he was not very clear about this "stalk", but he also said that no matter whether it is incense or not, the "helmsman" of the road of life will not change, and many people in the world are seeking peace of mind.
Master Sun likes Wang Yangming very much, he said, according to Mr. Yangming, life is a process of enjoying the process, people should respect their own hearts, abandon unnecessary internal friction, and be their own "sky and clouds" between a stroke.
Master Sun is in the hustle and bustle of the world, and he understands his own life, and he enjoys it.
On the other hand, I am not confused at forty, and I can't understand the open-minded meaning of "coming and returning with excitement", but I can only cherish the moment of "a moment".
In anticipation of the New Year, I choose to walk slowly, stop at each frame of the scenery, enjoy it well, and be myself with my heart.
*: Yongpai client.