Yuan Yin's trip to Putuo

Going home with the desire to become a monk, although I am in my hometown, my heart is in Putuo. It was not until I was 26 years old that I finally persuaded my mother to take a trip to Putuo again. However, when passing through Funing, the travel expenses were stolen, so I had no choice but to return to my hometown, continue to plow and firewood, and live a life of chanting Buddha and keeping precepts. At the age of 28, my mother died. At home, a monk from Huangbai wanfu temple, Qingyuan was invited to attend the funeral. Yuan Yin went to Lin Yin Temple in Beijing to meet the monk Huang Bai Jianyuan and celebrate his birthday. After learning that Yuan Yin wanted to become a monk, Jianyuan earnestly said to him, "You don't have to choose a place to seek Taoism. The destiny takes a hand's place is your Dojo. " Suggest him to become a monk in Huangbai. However, Yuan Yin believes that Huang Bai is too close to the secular world to argue with Buddhism compared with Mount Putuo. Jianyuan said: "It doesn't matter if you are vulgar, just be kind." Yuan finally suddenly realized. In the forty-eighth year of Wanli (1620), on February 19th, he became a monk from Jianyuan and gave up his long-cherished wish to become a monk.

When Yuan Yin became a monk, there were only a few halls in wanfu temple, Bo Huang, such as Daxiong Hall, Abbot Room, Sutra Pavilion and Ugly Eye Hall. The former Buddhist Dojo was destroyed by Japanese rebels and has long since been abandoned. So soon after he became a monk, he took on the task of giving alms and ran between Fuqing and Putian. This winter, after listening to the Shurangama Sutra taught by Master Dao Heng at Ruifeng Temple in Haikou, Fuqing, I made up my mind to rebuild Huangbai Temple myself after the New Year and set off for Beijing. When passing through Hangzhou, Yuan Yin met a stone man who came back from Beijing. Knowing that the war in the north was tight, he had to give up the idea of going to Beijing for alms.

In the days when I get along with him, Yuan He often talks. On one occasion, Yuan Yin asked the stone man, "Explaining the Buddha's meaning according to the scriptures is like wronged Buddha III, and leaving the scriptures is like a magic word. The truth is really insoluble." The stone man said, "I'll tell you after thirty years." Yuan felt very disappointed.

Later, Yuan Yin recalled the events of that year and said with deep feelings: "As the Stone Man said, it is a great encouragement for me to tell you after 30 years. If the stone man had explained it according to the scriptures, I would not have sought another answer and returned to Huangbai Temple. Then, it is impossible to have me today. " Because of the conversation with him, he broke up angrily, and Yin Yuan began to worship him everywhere. He visited Xingshan Temple in Jiaxing County, Zhejiang Province, Yunxiu Temple at the top of Yingwo Mountain in Haiyan County, Biyun Temple in Shi Xia and Guan Zenan in Qin. When I visited Guan Zenan, a A Qin native who lives in the mountains, I spent a summer here at the invitation of Jingxi, the abbot of the temple. Take part in the study and listen to the classics everywhere. There are many questions about the hidden elements. One day, Yuan Yin and Jingxi discussed going to Xuan Tong Temple in Tiantai Mountain and sending Miyun Yuan monk to Lin Ji for advice. Suddenly, they heard that Miyun Wu Yuan came to Guanghui Temple in Jinsu Mountain, Haiyan County, and immediately took Jingxi to Jinsu by boat.