During the senior high school entrance examination, teachers and parents talked about the word "key high school" all day; In the college entrance examination, in order to stimulate the candidates' fighting spirit, our instructor tried his best. "Full of Zhu Chaozi are all scholars" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of candidates.
And those candidates who can finally get on the gold list are all hyped by the media, schools and even parents, thus becoming the envy of others.
However, some people would rather give up this honor and start from what they want to pursue the quiet wilderness that belongs to their own heart.
Zhang Mingguang is such a representative. Different from the conspicuous hot spot of "Peking University graduates selling pork", Zhang Mingguang seems willing to find his final destination, and is willing to "embrace the bright moon and die for a long time" accompanied by the ancient Buddha.
The favored son of heaven was born in the field.
Zhang Mingguang, male, 1980, from Yucheng County, Shangqiu, Henan Province. His parents are not intellectuals, but ordinary farmers with their backs to the loess.
However, even in such a family environment, Zhang Mingguang showed a strong learning ability when he was young. He was gifted, and he became famous in villages and towns with excellent academic performance in middle school. He was the "Fang Zhongyong" of Rainbow Anshi.
With the expectations of his parents and relatives, he persevered and was unconstrained, and finally got the doctorate in engineering thermophysics in Tsinghua University in 2007. It can be said that he is in the right place at the right time, and his first half of life is like a boat.
This kind of life, not to mention a certain region, is a certain era, and it is also a favored son of heaven. His parents and teachers are naturally overjoyed to see how he can turn the tide in the future.
However, nature is not a human choice. Fortunately, Zhang Mingguang, who has been surrounded by flowers and applause, made a shocking decision in 2008: becoming a monk!
Determined to become a monk, the whole country was in an uproar.
Everyone, including Tsinghua students, was shocked by this incident. Internet hot discussions about this matter have also been frequently set off, and word of mouth has passed, and most people hold objections.
In the eyes of netizens, Zhang Mingguang is one in a million with excellent academic performance. Whether he is engaged in scientific research or going to work, the road ahead will be smooth sailing. Some people even think that it is selfish and disloyal for Zhang Mingguang to ignore his parents' upbringing and his freedom.
For Zhang Mingguang's parents, such a decision is really hard to accept. They can't wait all day, half doing ideological work, half pleading, and finally even kneeling down to him, just asking him to change his mind and not to be possessed.
However, Zhang Mingguang, who was well-behaved and rarely rebelled, ignored the dissuasion of his family and insisted on becoming a monk in Beijing Longquan Temple, and named himself "Xianqing".
After studying hard at the cold window for twenty years, his son abandoned his future, which made Zhang Mingguang's parents feel very sad. Suffered hardships and turned into a piece of snow; After a night's sleep, I sent a descendant to the Buddha.
In today's Beijing, no matter how you look for it, there is no longer a master Zhang Mingguang, only a wise and clear mage who teaches and preaches in temples all day.
Worldweary and vulgar, what does it matter to me to spend ten thousand minutes?
For ordinary people, Zhang Mingguang's first half of his life was a dream. But at present, he is rich and prosperous, and his high-paying job has been abandoned by himself, which is inevitably ridiculed by the world. Just like the living Buddha who has been passed down from mouth to mouth, he became a monk after marriage. It is people who cross the river and suffer.
Zhang Mingguang doesn't think so. He has a strong interest in Buddhism for a long time. Now he can finally get rid of the name of genius and join Buddhism, which is a dream practice for him.
In the whole Longquan Temple, there are many people who have his experience. There are some high-end talents in high-end universities that ordinary people can't reach. There are countless people in Qingbei and Chinese Academy of Sciences. I'm afraid these people have had psychological struggles similar to Zhang Mingguang's.
After all, the chosen son is different from ordinary people, and too many honors make him upset and unbearable. Perhaps he was tired of the noise, or perhaps the fame and fortune in the past could not be realized, so Zhang Mingguang finally gave up this flashy appearance and fell to the Buddha. As a result, a student who was once confined to other places had to confine his mind to Buddhist temples.
Someone said, "If a person sincerely converts to Buddhism, then you don't have to get rid of 3,000 troubles to understand the true meaning of Buddhism. If there is a Buddha in your heart, it will naturally be accepted by Sakyamuni. " On the one hand, Zhang Mingguang wanted to give it wholeheartedly, because he hated the social environment of conformity.
He said: "I am very disappointed with the observation of world life." He hates the daily pandering of the world. Even though he engaged in scientific research and made contributions to science, the atmosphere of taking part in accidental amusement pervaded all corners of society made him unable to get rid of social interaction. "If you have to bear it, it is a bottomless pit, a bottomless pit!" Selfishness, self-denial, selling dignity all day for three meals a day, making him feel at the mercy of others.
He gave up his high-paying career, gave up the mediocre communication in the world and chose the pure land to accommodate him. He walked towards the sunset, covered with gorgeous light.
I am indifferent and dedicated to the Buddhist temple all my life.
If you are willing to take the time to check the websites related to Buddhism, you will find that Master Xianqing is very famous in the field of Buddhism, and he has gradually become a signboard for the spread of Buddhism. In the encyclopedias of major search engines, the name Zhang Mingguang is rare. Master Xian Qing is detached from things and unwilling to entangle the world.
Today, Zhang Mingguang is no longer the pedantic scholar image in vulgar folk novels. He is not a secular expert. He "How can I tell by all these clouds?" All day. After becoming a monk, his management of Longquan Temple was further differentiated, which made Longquan Temple famous and got rid of the desolate situation of being empty.
In the form of publicity, Master Xian Qing is not limited to traditional teaching methods. He used the media and other modern media to promote Buddhism, and used the powerful power of the Internet to persuade people to actively do good.
In today's Zhang Mingguang, there are many faithful believers from all over the world, but they are all gathered together because of him. In addition, Zhang Mingguang often attends important lectures at home and abroad. And his speech, for people who believe in Buddhism, is often hard to find a ticket.
Zhang Mingguang still has a good habit of reading in his spare time, not only to teach all beings, but also to cultivate one's morality.
After all, he is a mortal, and Zhang Mingguang feels endless guilt for his parents. His parents placed so much hope on him that he could neither give up his heart nor endure his parents' dim eyes. His ideal has just been realized, which makes his parents' hopes fail, which is a knot in his heart that is difficult to untie.
Fortunately, his parents are very open-minded, and gradually understand that "everyone has his own interests and cannot be forced", so that his son can concentrate on practice. What I can do now is to stay with them day and night, and occasionally go to the temple to burn incense and visit my son.
Summary:
"People's livelihood is happy, I am used to independence"-this is probably the best summary of Zhang Mingguang's inner realm. It is really impressive to combine the hard-working fate of ordinary people with the experience of Master Xian Qing. He is a man out of the jewelry world. The smell of human fireworks doesn't suit him, but he has freedom that ordinary people can't understand. He came from Shan Ye, and he also wanted to hide in Shan Ye. In the end, he left naked and carefree.
So from the ups and downs of Zhang Mingguang's life journey, we can also see different scenery. People who strive for fame and fortune should ridicule this kind of abandonment of martial arts in every way, but people with pure hearts should yearn for this rare liberation.
Perhaps many years later, when we are flogged by the shame of society, but it is difficult to turn over, we will also think of the seemingly absurd choices made by Master Xian Qing. At that time, we may be more tolerant of this "anti-human" behavior.