More than thirty years ago, in a small mountain village west of Jinling, a shocking murder occurred.

The butcher in the village loved to gamble, but he always lost every time he gambled. He lost all the money left by his ancestors and all his belongings. Even his worthless butcher's knife was pawned and taken away. gamble.

The butcher, who was deeply in debt, planned to sell his five-year-old son for money in an attempt to make a comeback.

But the butcher’s wife resisted desperately and would rather die than hand over her child.

During the fight, the butcher killed his wife, and this scene was witnessed by his son.

The butcher learned that he had killed someone, but he had no regrets. Instead, he planned to cover up the huge mistake he had committed.

So, regardless of his son who was still present, he dragged his wife's body directly to the chopping block, boiled water in a pot, and planned to feed the evidence of his crime to the wild dogs in the village.

Just when the butcher was about to take action, the son suddenly overturned the boiler, scalded the butcher with boiling water, and took the opportunity to escape.

The son was so frightened that he shouted in the village, which quickly attracted the attention of the villagers.

After listening to their son’s trembling voice telling what happened, the people in the village were extremely angry and started to fight to catch the murderer.

But when they arrived at the butcher’s house, they found that the butcher had fled long ago, and there was only a cold corpse left on the scene.

The son lay beside his mother’s body and cried bitterly.

The butcher seemed to have disappeared from the world, and there was no news at all. The orphaned son was sent to Hanshan Temple by the villagers.

When he first arrived at Hanshan Temple, his son was afraid of everything around him. He was like a frightened kitten and did not dare to come into contact with anyone.

But when he saw Abbot Yansong of Hanshan Temple, he suddenly felt extremely at ease. The kind-hearted old monk just smiled and cleared away all the haze in his heart.

The son became a disciple of Abbot Benheng of Hanshan Temple and was given the Buddhist name Miaohua.

Although Miaohua is the son of a butcher, he has never killed an animal, and he has a Buddhist heart and wisdom.

He practiced with Benheng and was taken care of by his senior brother Miaoji, and later he welcomed his younger junior brother Miaoyou.

The days of practicing in Hanshan Temple are the best memories in Miaohua’s heart. The three of them always went up the mountain to chop firewood, chanted sutras and meditated together, and secretly carried Master Ben Heng down the mountain to the town together. They watched the sideshow, and when they came back, they knelt together with buckets of water outside the temple to be punished.

Although the days at Hanshan Temple are beautiful, but there is always a haze in Miaohua's heart. No matter how many times he worships the Buddha, burns incense, or recites Buddhist sutras, it cannot be cleared away.

The scene where his father killed his mother would appear in Miaohua’s dreams almost every night, causing him to experience pain over and over again. Finally, he woke up from his dream, wet with fear. through.

When I reached out and touched it, my face was covered with tears.

Suddenly one day, while Abbot Yansong was in retreat and Master Benheng was protecting the Dharma, Miaohua said to her senior brother Miaoji: "Brother, I want to go down the mountain."

Of course Miaoji knew what Miaohua was going to do, and he also felt sorry for what happened to his junior brother.

After some deliberation, Miaoji decided to go down the mountain with her junior brother!

The two brothers packed their luggage, secretly went down the mountain, and then began to look for the butcher's whereabouts.

Because Miaohua knocked over the boiler and left a large burn on the butcher's face, so as long as the butcher was not dead, it was not impossible to find this person.

Finally, they found the butcher who had been anonymous for many years in a small mountain village in Huizhou.

The butcher changed his identity long ago. He married a wife and had children in this mountain village. People praised the butcher for his kindness, but they didn't know that he had killed his wife and abandoned his own son.

Seeing his father again, Miaohua was extremely angry, but the butcher seemed calm, as if he had been waiting for this day to come.

The butcher has been living in self-blame for the wrong things he has done - he thought he should have killed his son, so that he would not have to worry about the nightmare of the past every day. Broken!

And now, this nightmare has arrived.

When Miaohua saw that the butcher showed no remorse, he originally planned to save the man, but in the end he couldn't hold back and killed the butcher.

When Miaoji saw that Miaohua had committed the crime of killing, he knew that things were out of control, and he hurriedly took his junior brother back to Hanshan Temple.

But on the way back to the temple, Miaohua lost the spiritual support to live. She was despairing of all thoughts and was gradually swallowed up by her inner demons.

Returning to Hanshan Temple, what the two did made Zen Master Benheng extremely angry, but rescuing Miaohua is the most important thing right now.

They took Miaohua to seek help from Abbot Yansong, but it happened that Abbot Yansong had cast out an evil thought in order to practice and become a Buddha.

This wisp of evil thoughts originally had its place, but now the only one who can defeat Miaohua’s inner demon is Abbot Yansong’s evil thoughts. When Miaohua returns to Hanshan Temple, she thinks of the past in The happy time in Hanshan Temple, I don’t want to leave just like thatIn the human world, he begged Abbot Yansong to put his evil thoughts into his body.

Abbot Yansong originally refused, but he couldn't bear to see Miaohua die like this. In the end, he couldn't resist the pleas of Benheng and Miaoji, and made a wrong decision.

In order to help Miaohua suppress her inner demons, Abbot Yansong took away Miaohua’s painful memories.

When Miaohua woke up, he completely forgot everything. His beautiful life had already begun, but as his cultivation became stronger and stronger, his evil thoughts gradually emerged.

Miaohua began to fight against evil thoughts.

At first, he didn’t know the origin of his evil thoughts, but he was influenced by them and became more and more cruel and cold-blooded. When he was ordered to go down the mountain to kill demons, Miaohua’s methods became more and more vicious.

When Miaohua realized that something was wrong with her, the evil thoughts had become deeply ingrained and became another nightmare in Miaohua's heart.

After that, Miaohua held a grudge against Abbot Yansong. He didn’t say anything, but he was already planning everything in his heart.

This is what happens now.

But now, when Abbot Yansong was dying, he returned the memory that belonged to Miaohua. Only then did Miaohua realize everything.

He hated people he shouldn’t hate.

Abbot Ke Yansong was always kind and compassionate to him.

"Abbot, I..."

Miaohua was restrained hands and feet, with a golden hoop on his head. He could not make any more movements, but his face The self-blame and guilt I feel are beyond words.

Perhaps because she blamed herself too much, Miaohua shed tears unsatisfactorily.

Abbot Yansong still kept smiling, just like when he first met Miaohua.

He touched Miao Hua’s head and said kindly: "You can correct your mistakes if you know them... there is no greater good..."

"Namo Amitabha..."

After the words fell, Abbot Yansong also slowly lowered his head.

Benheng and Miaoji closed their eyes sadly, clasped their hands together, and recited in a choked voice.

　“Namo Amitabha.”