那个中年和尚说他身体太单薄，他也不能挑水。
The middle—aged monk said that he was too thin and weak. He could not do that.
小和尚说：“可砖块是做不成镜子的呀，大师。”
The young acolyte said, "But it is impossible to make a mirror out of a brick, Father Prior."
老和尚说：“你是不是在五台山梦见过文殊菩萨？”
Then the old monk continued, "You have dreamed of Manjusri Bodhisattva on Wutai Mountain, right?"
庙里有个老和尚和小和尚。老和尚对小和尚说：……
There is an old temple monks and novices. The old monk said to the monk: …
老和尚对小和尚说：“从前有座山。”山里有座庙。
Old monk of the monk said: "there was once a mountain. The mountains there was a temple."
老和尚说：“你必须发誓保持沉默，只能说两个字每三年。”
The head monk said, "You must take a vow of silence and can only say two words every three years. ""
一名和尚说，“时代不同了，和尚不能只呆在佛寺里，佛教必须关注现代社会。”
"We have entered a new age, where the monks have to go out of the temple and make Buddhism relevant to modern people," a monk said.
但庙里的和尚说他们没有头发，不需要梳子，最终他一把梳子都没销掉，只好空手而归。
But the temple, the monk said they have no hair, do not need to comb, and eventually he a comb didn't crossed out, had to home empty-handed.
那个和尚说：“我已经发过誓，不管我现在有什么，绝不再多要了，我只用那些我已经拥有的。”
And he said, "I've already sworn that whatever I have here, I'll never get more, and just use what I have."
老和尚说：“无论做什么事，只有把时间放在身后，才能做到全神贯注，达到一种忘我的境界。”
The next day he told the old monk, "master, you're so masterly that I forget time with a switch of direction and absorb myself in the lection."
那个和尚说：“我已经发过誓，不管我现在有什么，绝不再多要了，我只用那些我已经拥有的。”
"And he said," I've already sworn that whatever I have here, I'll never get more, and just use what I have.
第二天他对老和尚说：“师父，你真高明，换个方向，我就忘记了时间，整个心思都放在经文上了。”
The next day he told the old monk, "master, you're so masterly I forget the time with a switch of direction and absorb myself in the lection."
他说，我到庙里跟老和尚说，庙里经常接受人家的捐赠，得有回报给人家，买梳子送给他们是最便宜的礼品。
And he said, I with the old monk said to the temple, the temple often receive a donation, about returns to the somebody else, comb to buy them is the cheap gift.
老和尚走了过来，意味深长地对小和尚说：“傻孩子，无论你今天怎么用力，明天的落叶还是会飘落下来的啊！”
An old monk came to him and said something profound: "Silly child, however hard you shake the trees today, tomorrow the leaves will still fall off the trees."
当小徒弟把饭端给老和尚的时候，老和尚说：“我听说，吃饭的时候，应该让长着先吃，晚辈要等到最后，才是附和礼仪的。”
When small apprentice to end the meal to the old monk, the old monk said: "I heard, to eat, it should make long to eat, junior to wait until the last, is the echo of etiquette."
和尚说，“那好，你必须走遍地球，然后告诉我们，一共有多少块草皮，有多少颗沙粒。一旦你有了这些数字，你就成为一名真正的和尚。”
"The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles.
来自一个欧洲小国的顾问说：“这里的生活要继续就必须有酒。” 他的国家以酒肉和尚闻名。
“You need booze here just to keep going, ” says a consultant from a small European country known for its beer-making monks.
来自一个欧洲小国的顾问说：“这里的生活要继续就必须有酒。” 他的国家以酒肉和尚闻名。
“You need booze here just to keep going,” says a consultant from a small European country known for its beer-making monks.
现在这个和尚面临了严重的问题，因为他不知道如何种植牧草，因此有个好心人建议他说：「你可以找个农夫当伙伴，或娶个农家女，那么你就可以进行耕种了。
So now the monk was having serious problems. Because he didn't know how to cultivate land.
“步行是摆脱思考最好的方法”，一个和尚托马斯说。
“Walking is the best way to get out of your head, ” said the monk, Thomas Merton.
“步行是摆脱思考最好的方法”，一个和尚托马斯说。
“Walking is the best way to get out of your head,” said the monk, Thomas Merton.
一天，有个和尚看见庙中的这两座像，心里很不高兴，说。
One day, a monk saw the two idols in the temple. He was displeased and said.
和尚，你不应该尊重自己，自大和傲慢地说：“我们已经培养了这个痛苦，无常，和无我的观念。”
Monks, you should not pride yourselves, arrogantly and haughtily saying, 'We have cultivated the idea of suffering, impermanence, and non-Self'.
比方说，依照佛教的传统，大乘佛教的和尚，他们至少是吃素的，而且不结婚。
For example in the buddhist tradition the monks of the mahayana eat vegetarian at least and they are unmarried.
就如同康熙说的，有没有任何一个欧洲王公会允许他派遣和尚过去“和谐”他们的国家？
As Kangxi said, would any European prince allow him to send monks to evangelize in their country?
有报道说有些现代和尚在使用计算机。
广缘和尚对石匠说：“请你速把石料运到西塘，那边造桥正等着石料，我还有别的事，要到其他地方去。
Wide margin of monks to the stone mason, said: "Please speed transport of stone to Xitang, building bridges over there waiting for stone, I have other things, to go to other places."
广缘和尚对石匠说：“请你速把石料运到西塘，那边造桥正等着石料，我还有别的事，要到其他地方去。
Wide margin of monks to the stone mason, said: "Please speed transport of stone to Xitang, building bridges over there waiting for stone, I have other things, to go to other places."
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