China Haiyun Temple is an online celebrity temple. The monks in the temple are basically highly educated, including doctors from Southwest Jiaotong University and graduate students from Sichuan University. Longquan Temple in Beijing is also a highly educated temple. There are also masters and university teachers in the north of the Qing Dynasty, and the temple management is very modern.
Coincidentally, 1995, a female scholar in Tsinghua who chose to become a monk after graduation is more in line with this sentence, because she graduated from the philosophy department of Tsinghua University. She is Master Zhihong, and her life is a little harder than others. Will she regret it later?
It doesn't hurt to become a monk before he sees through the world of mortals.
When watching TV series, there is often such a plot: someone chooses to become a monk because of emotional injury, but the host refuses to shave his head, which means that this person is not finished yet and has to escape into an empty door empty. However, Master Zhihong did not choose to become a monk because he saw through the world of mortals. She is high flyers from the Philosophy Department of Tsinghua University. She has the aura that everyone admires extremely, but she decided to become a monk after careful consideration.
Philosophy cannot explain all her problems. In order to find the answer that she didn't find in philosophy, Master Zhihong chose Buddhism and had her hair cut at Compassion Lotus House at the foot of Zhong Nanshan Mountain in Qinling Mountains. In order to find the true meaning of life and answer her doubts, she devoted herself to practicing and studying Buddhism and philosophy every day.
Buddha has no phase, and all beings take it as phase. Because all sentient beings have Buddha's heart and focus on practice blindly, it is difficult to have an epiphany in Buddhism. To cultivate Buddha is not to be alone, but to benefit all beings. But soon, the Buddha's fate of Master Zhihong came.
200 1 early spring, it's warm and cold at first sight. Master Zhihong was practicing in the Buddhist temple when he heard someone crying. Master Zhihong curiously walked out of the temple gate and found that the crying person was a little girl of six or seven years old. She kindly asked the girl where she lived, where she came from and why she came here. The little girl can't say why. Master Zhihong temporarily placed the girl in a temple until her family came to find her. The temple also spread news everywhere, but never found the girl's parents.
A conjecture gradually emerged in Master Zhihong's mind and gradually came true with the passage of time. The little girl is probably abandoned. Her parents raised her, but abandoned her halfway. The child should be ill. After some examination, Master Zhihong found that the girl's body was really unhealthy. During their days together, the girl was deeply dependent on Master Zhihong.
The monk was merciful and saw that the little girl was helpless. Master Zhihong was moved by compassion and took the poor girl in. She didn't know the girl's name, so she named her Dedao and took a Buddhist memorial day as Dedao's birthday. A person will still have feelings after naming cats and dogs, let alone adopting a person. Master Zhihong takes good care of the little girl and gives her the best within his own ability.
The health condition of things and morality gradually improved until they recovered. Her cruel family didn't find her, and Dedao always lived with Master Zhihong. Because he was immersed in Buddhism since childhood and abandoned by his biological parents, Dedao later became a graduate student of Buddhist colleges in China, inheriting and spreading Buddhism like Master Zhihong.
The power of Buddha's heart: with nearly 30 "children"
Since then, the world has seen that Master Zhihong is kind-hearted, as if she is a Buddhist and should adopt a child, but she keeps abandoning the child in front of the temple and regards it as an orphanage. Since 200 1, Master Zhihong has found nearly 30 children, mostly sick girls, only two sick boys, and one was born just three days in the dead of winter.
Master Zhihong could not bear it, so he adopted them all. Because it is not convenient to raise boys in buddhist nun, Master Zhihong put two boys in foster care and provided them with daily necessities such as milk powder every month. As for the rest of the girls, they basically grew up with Master Zhihong. Masters recite Buddha in the same way, and fall asleep with chanting every day.
It's not easy to raise them. After all, people live to eat, and children are basically sick when they are abandoned. Master Zhihong cultivated a vegetable field in the temple and planted all kinds of vegetables. Some of them eat and drink by themselves, and some sell money to support their children's lives and see a doctor. Life is very tight. Fortunately, the ending was gratifying and the child basically recovered.
It's easy to say, but it's not easy to look after a child's illness. Otherwise, how could they be abandoned by their parents? Some girls have lost their maxilla and can't speak clearly. Just to cure her, Master Zhihong spent tens of thousands of yuan. There are nearly thirty children with similar diseases. In Master Zhihong's view, taking good care of these children is the best answer to her question. She is not related to these children by blood, but she is willing to pay. She really has the Buddha's heart of all beings.
All beings see Buddha, and Buddha sees all beings.
Master Zhihong's adoption of children has aroused widespread concern in the media and become a much-told story in religious circles. Many people with lofty ideals will also come to Compassion Lotus to visit Master Zhihong and give these children some help within their power. There are also many netizens who come to volunteer and visit.
The name of the temple is unknown, and the main hall is very simple. Although there are expansion plans, the children's study, treatment and living expenses are delayed. Someone asked Master Zhihong what they could do to help her. Master Zhihong is only modest and authentic, and thanks the netizens for their concern. Everything she does is right, as long as she has a heart.
Some netizens don't understand why Master Zhihong of high flyers, who graduated from Tsinghua, wants to become a monk and adopt so many children. Adoption is adopted and made public to the media. It should be hype. However, she said it was unnecessary. Her adoption behavior is doing merit and practicing Buddhism. If the media doesn't take the initiative to report, she is more willing to keep the secret of her life for the children.
Master Zhihong raised his children without regrets and didn't want to influence their choices. However, the girls all chose to become monks. Growing up in a temple, they often avoid strangers, for fear that they will curiously ask about their origins. Because children are different in age, the progress of education is different. A few of them have stepped into temples to practice, most of them are still studying in Buddhist colleges, and some of them are still studying in primary schools, which cannot be separated from the care of Master Zhihong.
In a word, Master Zhihong has the aura of graduating from Tsinghua Philosophy Department, but he chose to become a monk. This is a personal choice and ambition, and others don't have to criticize him. Later, she brought the abandoned children abandoned by her parents and family back to the temple and raised them without any regrets, in order to truly practice and educate all beings. I believe that the doubts she once had that her philosophy could not solve were also answered in this process.