Chapter 259 Heart Buddha Temple

"Let's start with the Heavenly King Hall?" Shi Feizhe said.

"Okay!" Liaochen naturally agreed.

The Heavenly King Hall is the first major building after entering the mountain gate of the temple. It usually enshrines the Four Heavenly Kings, Maitreya Buddha, and Weituo Bodhisattva.

The Four Heavenly Kings are angry and hold umbrellas, pipa, pearls, and swords on the left and right of the Heavenly King Hall. Maitreya Buddha is in front of the Heavenly King Hall, and Weituo is behind Maitreya Buddha.

"Why are the Heavenly Kings built so tall? And so scary?" Shi Feizhe pointed at the Four Heavenly Kings and said.

"The Four Heavenly Kings are guardian gods, guarding the four directions of the world, east, south, west, and north. Together with Maitreya Buddha and Weituo Bodhisattva, they symbolize protection and guarding." Liaochen said.

"Who do they protect and guard?" Shi Feizhe asked.

"Of course, it is the monks and believers in the temple." Liaochen said.

"If I remember correctly, only Buddhism places gods to defend against foreign enemies at the temple gate." Shi Feizhe thought for a while and said, "Is there a reason for this?"

"Of course." Lechen took a ball of tobacco, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and said honestly, "Because they are afraid of being robbed."

Buddhist temples are of course afraid of being robbed, because Buddhism is the richest.

Buddhism in the world is equal to being rich.

General wealthy families have several generations of family business, how can Buddhist temples be rich.

This defensive mentality is also reflected in the architectural layout of the temple, and also in the mentality of the monks.

After entering the empty door, the first is the Heavenly King Hall.

Maitreya Buddha is the Buddha of the future. He will become a Buddha in the future world after Sakyamuni Buddha's Nirvana and spread Buddhism. The worship of Maitreya Buddha symbolizes hope and future Buddhist teachings.

Weituo Bodhisattva is the guardian god in Buddhism, known as the "guardian god", responsible for protecting Buddhism and the monks, and expelling evil spirits.

In addition to the four heavenly kings.

A careful taste shows that this Heavenly King Hall is very interesting.

It seems that after becoming a monk, they are afraid that someone will come to kill them.

It is like some people always claim to be victims, but never say why others persecute them.

Shi Feizhe had seen such people or groups in his previous life.

Claiming to be the smartest nation in the world, they win sympathy by waving the banner of victims, and then they are doing nothing!

After leaving the Heavenly King Hall, there is a spacious courtyard, paved with flat stone slabs, with verdant pines and cypresses and various flowers planted on both sides, exuding a faint natural fragrance.

There is an incense burner in the center of the courtyard, and the smoke rises. In addition to the fragrance, it seems that you can smell the smell of tobacco.

Shi Feizhe took a look inside the incense burner. There were not only incense ash but also cigarette ash in the incense burner.

"You guys are smoking quite high!" Shi Feizhe said while looking at the cigarette ash.

"They are all tobacco leaves grown by ourselves. Sometimes they get damp and moldy. We can't waste them." Lechen explained.

This is reasonable. Only if you have planted these things yourself, you will not be willing to throw them away.

After the incense burner, there is a hall. In general temples, this hall is called the Great Hall, and in front of you is the Buddha Mother Hall.

In Buddhism, "Great Hero" is a respectful title for Sakyamuni Buddha, because he overcame all the troubles and obstacles in the world and achieved the Supreme Enlightenment, that is, becoming a Buddha.

Obviously, there is no Sakyamuni Buddha here.

When Shi Feizhe entered the Buddha Mother Hall, the first thing that caught his eye was the black-bodied and golden-faced Buddha Mother statue enshrined high in the center.

The Buddha Mother's body was as black as ink, with a hint of horror, but the face above her neck was shining with golden light, with a kind face and a gentle face, as if she was looking at the person in front of the Buddha statue.

In front of the Buddha Mother statue, there was an incense table, on which cakes, fruits, incense candles and incense burners were offered.

Shi Feizhe could see at a glance that the Buddha Mother statue was exactly the same as the girl in Liaochen's arms that year.

Below the Buddha Mother, there was a stone carving of a Buddha child.

The pillars of the main hall are engraved with scriptures and Buddha statues, each of which is solemn and majestic. The walls inside the main hall are painted with exquisite murals, depicting the story of how the World Master Lechen met the Buddha Mother Bodhisattva in a desperate situation, communicated with the Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, and realized the Buddhist Dharma through heart-to-heart communication.

The murals are colorful and vivid, and Shi Feizhe reads them with great interest.

"Why is my statue made of stone? I remember that it was rumored to be golden?" Shi Feizhe pointed to the Buddha statue and said.

The Buddha statue is seven points similar to him. He looked at the Buddha statue as if he saw his past self.

In the desert of Mobei in the past, Shi Feizhe heard others say that there was a golden Buddha statue next to the Buddha Mother Bodhisattva.

Lechen is indeed an honest monk. He said: "The temple expenses are too high, so it was scraped off."

"..."

You really say whatever you want!

You are indeed a ruthless person who sleeps in the wasteland for a few dozen coins.

"How much do you spend in your temple? This can also be scraped off." Shi Feizhe was speechless.

What kind of temple actually scraped off the gold plating of the Buddha statue.

"You can't lose money at the beginning, right?" he asked again.

Lechen nodded and said, "Farming can't support a temple."

"You are a real warrior, better than most people? One person can probably open up hundreds of acres of land, but can't this support a temple?" Shi Feizhe felt incredible.

"Seeds are expensive, and grain is not worth much. Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, are all very expensive, even the incense is expensive." Lechen said.

"Aren't the incense burned by pilgrims?" Shi Feizhe asked.

"At the beginning, I didn't want to rely on pilgrims." Liaochen said: "My Buddhist teachings penetrate the hearts of people. It's not that I don't want to pass them on, but they can't understand it."

"Since I can't pass on the Buddhist teachings, I feel ashamed to collect money from them."

"Especially now, they are asking for money from the Buddha Mother, which makes me laugh and cry."

Liaochen said honestly: "I can pull out the grass in the field, but the field will still grow grass. If the weeds next to the crops are gone, the crops will become weeds."

"Over the years, I have pulled less and less grass. Because I found that it was in There are also weeds around them."

"They are all my disciples, and I brought them up with my own hands!"

"They just think farming is hard, and they want to open branch temples in other places, and they want to become weeds."

"If it were many years ago, I would have killed them all."

"But they are already the second batch."

"What if the third batch is still like this? There seems to be something wrong with this field, and there is magic that turns the crops into weeds."

"Buddhist, what do you think we should do?"

Liaochen was in front of the Buddha Mother Hall, in front of the Buddha Mother and Buddha Son statues, telling the Buddha Son about his confusion for so many years.

The weed-pulling monk has not changed, but the crop field is still the same crop field.

There are still so many grasses and so few crops.

"Since there is a problem with the field, why not overturn the field and start over?" Shi Feizhe looked at him and said seriously.

It is said that the bald donkey likes to eat squid.