Old monk Xuyun 10

Old monk Xuyun 10

 

Although the old monk is more than 110 years old, his strength is immeasurable.

The master who once lived with the old monk in Yunmen Temple said that once they were clearing wasteland in Yunmen and there was a big stone that several people could not move.

Later, the old monk came and told them all to go away, and he moved the big stone to a far away place alone.

One day in the second half of 1957, I happened to come back from outside.

I saw the old monk carrying two large bundles of firewood in both hands and walking towards Daliao, so I asked,

 "Old monk, why did you come here to carry firewood?" After I asked him, he put down the firewood and went back to his dormitory.

I went to the big house to find the master who was responsible for cutting firewood and told him what had just happened.

He was very surprised and said, "I chopped three big bundles of firewood and carried one bundle back to the big house.

 I still have some left. The next two big bundles were placed on the roadside to the west of the thatch.

Because they were too heavy, I couldn't even lift one bundle.

How could the old monk have so much strength to lift the two big bundles together?"

Later I helped him lift them. That bundle can carry a scale, and it weighs more than two hundred kilograms.

Therefore, the strength of the old monk cannot be measured.

As a practitioner, the more difficult the environment, the stronger the cultivating mind.

The old monk often said: "How can you get the fragrance of plum blossoms without experiencing a bone-chilling cold?"

At that time, Yun Ju mountain's life was very poor, and the workload was heavy and stressful.

In addition to farming, building temples, and houses, as well as the daily rituals of sitting incense and going to the temple, the masters also had to demarcate a large area of ​​wasteland for reclamation every day.

If they could not complete it during the day, they had to continue working after dark until the goal was completed.

雖然，老和尚已有一百一十多歲的高齡，但是他的氣力卻是無法測量的。

曾跟隨老和尚在雲門寺同住的師父說，有一次他們在雲門開荒，有一塊大石頭，好幾個人都搬不動。

後來老和尚來到，叫他們都走開，獨自一人就把那塊大石頭搬到很遠的地方去了。

五七年下半年有一天，我剛好從外面回來，見到老和尚雙手提著兩大捆木柴向大寮方向走，便問：「老和尚呀，您老人家怎麼到這裡來搬木柴呢？」經我一問，他就把木柴放下，回寮房去了。

我便到大寮找那位負責砍木柴的自性師，把剛才的情景告訴他，他很驚訝地說：「我砍了三大捆木柴，自己扛了一捆回大寮去。

還留下兩大捆在茅蓬西面的路邊上，因為太重了，我連一捆也扛不起來。

老和尚怎麼有那麼大的力氣，兩大捆一起提起呢？」後來我幫他把那一捆扛起一秤，一捆就有二百多斤重。

所以老和尚的氣力是沒法測量的。

修行的人，環境愈是艱苦，道心愈是堅固。

老和尚常說：「不經一番寒徹骨，焉得梅花撲鼻香？」

當時，雲居山的生活非常清苦，工作勞動量很大，很緊張。

除了耕種、蓋廟、建房子，以及日常的坐香、上殿外，師父們每天還要劃定很大面積的荒地來開墾，如果白天不能完成，天黑了還得繼續幹，直至把目標完成為止。