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“Bodhi Guide”
The old monk in the mountain temple gave his young apprentice Mingxin a string of bodhi sandalwood bracelets: “108 beads, each engraved with a miniature Buddha statue. When you count all the Buddha images, you will find the answer.”

Mingxin twisted the Buddhist beads every day, but he always lost his mind when he counted the 72nd bead.

Ten years later, Zhou Yu, a photographer who had returned to secular life, took a photo in the ancient town: the bodhi string on the wrist of the teahouse owner was shining golden in the sunset, and the Buddha statues on each bead were facing different directions.

“This string,” the owner refilled his tea, “when I was a child, my master said that it contained my Buddha fate, but I don’t have a complete count.”

Zhou Yu suddenly raised the camera: “The 73rd Buddha is in the reflection when you lowered your head to pour tea.”

With the sound of the shutter, the bracelet suddenly broke. The bodhi beads rolled onto the tea table, reflecting 108 swaying spots of light in the water – in each ripple, there is a smiling Buddha.

It turns out that the answer that Master gave was never on the beads.

(🌿The meaning of Bodhi sandalwood: It is not the Buddha who saves people, but people themselves who need to see the Buddha nature)