Chapter 62 Yuantong Temple and ice cream

I went to worship in the main hall of Yuantong Temple, and the one on my right was a middle-aged woman who worshiped the Buddha very piously. I was also concentrating on worshiping the Buddha, when suddenly I heard two loud crackling noises from the right side. When I came back to my senses, I found that the woman on the right side was slapping the child’s face. Due to the force, even the silent Buddha hall echoed. With a buzzing sound, I watched ten bright red fingerprints appear on the child's left and right cheeks. "Didn't you see your mother praying to Buddha? You stupid girl, why don't you wait a while if you want to eat ice cream? Will you die if you don't eat it? I'm mad! I'm mad!" The mother blushed and almost trembled. Say.

It turned out that there was a hawker selling ice cream outside Yuantong Temple. It seemed that the seven or eight-year-old child couldn't resist the temptation and came to ask his mother who was worshiping Buddha for pocket money. The reaction of the mother who worshiped Buddha was beyond my expectation, but the reaction of the child who was beaten surprised me even more. He touched his face with his hands, gritted his teeth, stared at his resentful eyes to hold back the tears, and said angrily: "You first let me I'll eat ice cream, and I won't die if I pray to Buddha later!" After finishing speaking, the child turned around and rushed out of the main hall, the trembling mother went mad, grabbed the wooden board by the wall and chased it out.

I followed out and saw a mother and son chasing along the stone steps for hundreds of meters before disappearing down the mountain. Only then did I hear the ice-cream seller's hon-no-horn under the stone steps. I have no intention of praying to Buddha, sitting on the big rock in the courtyard and thinking, if I am praying to Buddha and my child comes to ask me for ice cream, how will I react, I think I will stop praying to Buddha, go buy ice cream for him, and then Come back to pray to Buddha; or just eat ice cream with him is unknown, after eating ice cream, the heart of worshiping Buddha may be cooler.

The Buddha is always there, it doesn't matter if you stop for a while. Buddha is everywhere, caring for the needs of all living beings is exactly worshiping Buddha. Every child has a noble Buddha-nature in his heart. Children and Buddha are inseparable. Why can't mothers understand it? While I was thinking about it, the panting mother came back, and I asked worriedly, "Have you caught up?" She said: "No! This dead solid boy is faster than flying. For the sake of the Buddha, spare his life. I brought this board back to the temple." Then I watched her put the board back in place and put on her shoes in front of the hall—she was so angry that she ran away without her shoes on.

I went down the stone steps of Yuantong Temple, looked at the clear and bright autumn scenery, and thought that the Buddha is always there, and the Buddha is everywhere, in every leaf, every flower, every grass, even eating ice cream Cool heart. However, among those who worship the Buddha, how many people can know it?