When
he entered into the high school, he
began to understand that although
Buddhist teachings and Buddhist culture
were imported from outside, Buddhism
was different from the advantageous
modern invasion of western culture.
Buddhism did not replace or assume
a presumptuous position in Chinese
culture, but to correspond and mix
with Chinese native culture, and gradually
assimilated Chinese culture and became
an inseparable part of it. It was
in the early 1980s and just after
ten years of turmoil and nightmare
when throughout the whole country
too many monasteries waited to be
revitalized.
In this time, the
young Jue Xing in face of the brownish
Bohai looked into south and thought
about the Jade Buddha Monastery in
Shanghai on the coast of the East
Sea. The young Jue Xing made his first
and also the last decision: to be
a monk in the Jade Buddha Monastery.
That happened in the spring of 1985.
Soon Master Zhen
Chan, abbot of the Jade Buddha Monastery
received a letter from the young Jue
Xing. And the master who survived
all hardships was moved by the enlightenment
of the young Jue Xing and answered
the letter personally to express his
acceptance of his conversion into
Buddhism.
In February 1985,
the young Jue Xing fulfilled his wish
and became a monk in the Jade Buddha
monastery and lived a monastic life
of evening drum and morning bell.
Although the Jade
Buddha Monastery was in the center
of the city, the young Jue Xing was
absorbed in the Buddhist culture,
whose souls are compassionate, loving-kind,
joyful and equanimous, willing to
save sentient beings without discrimination.
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