各位法師、各位善知識，阿彌陀佛：
今天方丈和尚叫我去核桃園附近，請我們的鄰居來參加敬老節；叫我跟 Howard（胡果浩）去，因為Howard 很熟悉那些鄰居。我也帶了我兒子去。當我們來到一個比較靠近我們，一個叫Terry（泰利）的美國鄰居家，去邀請他的時候，他等不及的第一句話就問我們，「你們的人有沒有學功夫？有沒有學武功的？」第一句話就問我們這個，沒講別的。
那麼我們就說，「武功？沒有啊！」他說他在洗衣店遇見一個朋友，他那個朋友喜歡打獵。他說這個朋友講的話，他不會不相信的；如果是別的朋友，他可能不會相信，這個朋友他特別相信他所講的話。他講他有一個很大的疑問，我們問他到底是什麼事？他說他那個朋友去到我們核桃園後面湖邊——我們核桃園後面有一個湖——那麼他去那邊打獵，在打獵的時候，突然出現七位穿著黑袍，舉著寶劍的人，嚇得他跑了。所以他朋友就跟他講，說這個地方是不是有什麼會武功的人住在那邊？就問他，所以他第一句話就問我們核桃園裏是不是有學武功的人。
當時我不知道是怎麼回事，我兒子就問，「這個是幾時啊？」那麼我又問他，「你朋友到底是幾時看到的？」他說白天呀，就在白天看見的！
比丘恒實師：不簡單啊！問題當然是恆閣師（住核桃園）到底修什麼功呢？不要怪恒閣師，他也不一定知道這個事情。不過什麼是眞話，眞話就是說，「在三寶地不要打獵」，所以說，萬佛城這個地方就是不簡單！ |
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Dharma Masters and Good Advisors, Amitabha!
Today the Abbot asked me to go to the Walnut Ranch to invite some of our neighbors to our celebration of Honoring Elders Day. I went with Mr. Howard Hu, who knows those neighbors well. I also brought my son along. When we invited a man named Terry, an American who lives nearest to us, his first sentence was: "Do your men study martial arts?"
We said, "Martial arts? No, we don't have anyone practicing it right now." Terry said that he went to the laundromat and met an old friend who loved to hunt, and he could hardly believe what this friend said. He might not have believed it if it had been anyone else, but Terry trusted this friend deeply. The friend asked Terry what was going on at our temple. Terry said, "My friend went hunting in the back of Walnut Ranch by the lake"—we have a lake behind the Ranch—"and when he was hunting, all of a sudden seven people wielding swords and wearing black robes popped out!" His friend was so scared that he ran away. His friend thought there might be people practicing martial arts at the Walnut Ranch, and that's why Terry asked us.
At the time I did not know what this was all about. My son asked what time it was when his friend saw those people. I asked Terry, and he said it was in the daytime.
Heng Sure Shi: That's no ordinary occurrence! The question is, what is Heng Ge Shi (who lives at the Walnut Ranch) cultivating over there? But don't blame him, he probably doesn't even know about this. However, it certainly is true that we should not hunt on the grounds of the Triple Jewel. And the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas is no ordinary place! |
