The funeral banquet was in full swing by the Zhuanglang River, and the dignitaries in the hall were exchanging cups and cups, laughing and watching the show. No one expected that the crazy monk wearing a red robe would barge into the banquet in front of everyone.
Everyone in the house was shocked, and the soldier and squire angrily scolded him for his immorality and madness, but no one saw the hand hidden in his sleeve to break the situation, and no one knew that behind the "noisy banquet" was a bloody disaster for the nuns in the temple and a catastrophe for the common people!
From then on, he traveled thousands of miles crazily and devoted himself to the world.
He went all the way east, from the loess in the northwest to the hinterland of the Central Plains, and then into the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River:
In the northwest chapter, he laughs crazily to calm down the demon atmosphere, and scares the bully out of his wits with a single motto;
In the Central Plains chapter, he broke into the Yamen in anger and overthrew the court, and single-handedly saved the wronged people;
In the Jiangnan chapter, he spent all his wealth to help the poor, but left a last word before his death, which made the officials and people in the city kneel down and cry bitterly for three days!
The world only knows that he is crazy and absurd, but does not know that he cares about the common people; they only know that he broke the precepts and violated the prohibitions, but they do not know that what he broke is the biggest "attachment" in the world.
All living beings call him "Crazy", but little do they know that underneath the skin of madness is the most compassionate Buddha's heart.
(Based on the Qing Dynasty Gansu Yongdeng folk manuscript "The Practical Record of Crazy Zen Master". This story is purely fictitious and should be interpreted appropriately. Please be careful)
[Selected from the first volume of "The Crazy Monk Appears in the World"]
