During the sermon of Buddha, one of the holy arhats indulged in vain dreams. Hellish torment relied on this, but the Buddha mercifully sent the offender to earth to be reborn in human form. Now his name is Liu Junzuo, he is unstable in faith, he can deviate from the righteous path. In order to instruct him, the Buddha Mile was sent in the form of a Monk with a bag. In addition, another teacher in the guise of a man named Liu Ninth was sent in order to induce Liu Junzuo to leave the monastery, to accept the teachings of the Great Chariot, to renounce wine, lust, greed and anger. Then the term of his skill will be fulfilled.
Liu Junzu is the richest man in the city, but is characterized by incredible stinginess. On a cold snowy day, a hungry poor man freezes at the gates of his house. Usually not a compassionate rich man, to his own surprise, imbued with pity for the unfortunate, invites him into the house, heats and asks. It turns out that the stranger also bears the name Ayu and also comes from Luoyang. Liu Junzu invites the poor to fraternize and entrusts the management of his mortgage shop.
Six months pass. Adopted into the family of a wealthy younger brother, Liu Junzu regularly replaces the owner in the mortgage shop: lends money, collects debts.On the benefactor's birthday, he decides to invite him to a feast, but, knowing the stinginess of the named brother, he assures that all the refreshments and wine are presented by relatives, friends and neighbors. Liu Junzou gladly agrees to the free festival.
At this time, the Monk appears with a bag. He is trying to convince Liu Junzu of his own holiness, but he does not believe. Then the Monk draws in his palm the character "patience". This is one of the commandments of Buddhism, which averts from worldly thoughts. However, patience is not one of Liu's virtues. When the holy teacher in the guise of a beggar Liu Ninth asks for money from him, he beats him, and he dies. The rich man is terrified that he has become a killer. The younger brother promises to take the blame on himself. Then the Monk returns. He promises to bring the murdered man back to life if Liu Junzu, who has not kept his prescribed patience, goes to the monastery.
Liu agrees, but then asks for permission to live as a monk in a hut in the garden behind his house - he is sorry to leave his wife and children. He entrusts all household chores to a twin. He himself eats Lenten three times a day and reads prayers. One day, from his own child, he learns that in his absence his wife drinks wine all day and has mercy with his brother. Recluse embraces anger. He decides to take revenge, secretly enters the house, but instead of the expected lover, he discovers a Monk with a bag behind the canopy. The monk tells Liu to endure and demands that he go with him to the monastery, because he could not live at home as a monk.
In the monastery he listens to instructions, but his thoughts constantly return home: he misses his wife and children, worries about the wealth left. The abbot - poor monk Dinghui - inspires that patience is above all. It is necessary to cleanse the heart, get rid of desire and pray.But his sermon does not reach the novice. Junzu by the will of a mentor comes his wife and children. On each of them he sees a sign of "patience." Then he sees a monk with two women and two children. The abbot assures us that this is the first and second wife of the teacher. Liu Junzo leaves the monastery in anger. He believes that he was deceived: they talked about holiness, but they themselves live quietly with their wives.
He goes home and turns to the cemetery to visit the graves of his ancestors. The cemetery looks unusually overgrown. From a conversation with the old man whom he meets near the birth graves, it turns out that Liu was absent not for three months, but for one hundred years. The old man is his grandson. Liu himself did not grow old at all, and this is the merit of the Buddha. Then a monk appears, from whom Junzo learns that in the previous birth he was an arhat from the holy heavens, for transgressions cast down to the earth. All his relatives are also saints. The monk admits that he is also not a simple monk, but the Buddha Mile. With a prayer cry on his lips, Liu prostrates himself before him.
