222. Murder? Save?

Although the Japanese army is well-equipped and advanced in combat effectiveness, it does not have any of the basic qualities that a modern army should have, and it does not pay attention to humanity, ignores the laws of international war, and infringes on civilians.

Some time ago, the Japanese army had just landed at Chuanshakou, and 31 villagers, regardless of men, women, and children, were all driven to the cemetery by the Japanese army, tied together with iron chains, and then poured gasoline on their bodies and burned alive with fire.

Zhao Zhichong, a farmer in Zhao's house, fled to Quyang Tomb with his wife and two children who were about to give birth, but the child was frightened and cried and was found by the Japanese army. Several Japanese soldiers shot at the unarmed family and stabbed them with bayonets.

One child had his head cut off, and the other was cut in two by the waist. What's even more cruel is that Zhao's wife, who was about to give birth, was disemboweled by the Japanese army, and the baby who was not born in time was picked out by the Japanese army with a bayonet and thrown around for fun.

More than a dozen adults and children were shot dead by the Japanese army at the Jiang family house in Hejian Village, and Wang Peiying, an 8-year-old girl, was greatly frightened after witnessing the atrocities of the Japanese army, and fled to the field alone and lived a savage life for several months.

When the villagers found her, she had a thin yellow face, deep-set eyes, and white hair, so she was later called the white-haired girl of Luo Jing.

Even the Red Cross personnel, who are protected by international law, have not escaped the slaughter of Japanese beasts, and the devils have raped female nurses and cut the bodies of medical staff into several pieces, which is horrific to see.

According to incomplete statistics, in less than 100 days after the Japanese army landed, 2,244 innocent civilians were killed by the Japanese army in Luojing Township alone, accounting for 80% of the number of villagers at that time. Houses were burned down (about 10,908 rooms) and hundreds of women were raped.

Later, the people of Luojing set the 18th day of the seventh lunar month as the general death day, and asked future generations to always remember this blood debt owed by the Japanese invaders.

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When Sangou was recuperating from his injuries, he had the opportunity to contact the monk for a long time, and talked about these things together, as well as the monk's healing of the superordinate devil, originally the monk didn't talk about it with others, but he watched Sangou read the book, and he probably could understand, so he chatted.

"Monk, take the liberty of it, with all due respect, you are a health soldier of the company, and it is normal work to save our own people, but you, why do you want to save the enemy's wounded soldiers?" The three dogs get straight to the point.

The monk replied: "In front of the Buddha, all people, including the Japanese casualties, are equal, and this is what it means that all beings are equal. ”

"But the Japanese army is the initiator, and without their aggression, there would be no sacrifice of our Chinese, and there would be no casualties of their invaders." Sangou is still a little puzzled.

"What they do, what we do, can't change the meaning that all people are born equal, we can despise their behavior, to resist and stop their cruelty, but, as human beings, we are all equal."

"All people are born equal, but it is precisely because the Japanese army invaded our existence and deprived us of equality, they used strong ships and guns to invade us, and regarded our lives as grass and mustard, they did not tell us about equality, do you want us to talk to them about equality?" Sangou was furious.

"That's why for such brutal people as the Japanese army, it is even more necessary to surpass them, cleanse their souls, and hope that they can wash away the sins of their past lives, no longer have injustice and hatred, start again, and next time if they have the opportunity to come to this world again, they will be a person who can give happiness to themselves and others."

"The next life and the rest of the world are too far away, and it is difficult for us to manage them, so let's just say that in front of us, they are going to kill us, won't we fight back and be killed by them?"

"It's not like this, our justice, our resistance, is normal and necessary, in the face of evil, the Buddha also wants to destroy it."

"If you want to destroy them, why save them?"

"Because they are defenseless, they have no ability to create evil anymore, they are originally one of the equal beings of all beings, they are human beings, they are the same as us, no matter how evil they used to be, now as long as they put down the butcher's knife, they will turn back."

"Then can the evil obstacles they created before be written off because they are defenseless and have no ability to create new evils?"

"Of course it can't be written off, karma, they will naturally get retribution, whether in this life or in the next life, there will be retribution."

"But if we catch them, kill them, or mend them, is that retribution for them? Or if you don't give them treatment, don't you give them excess, is it a retribution for them? ”

"Amitabha! Three dogs, we can't do this, even if they behave like animals, but we are human beings, we can't learn from them to be animals, as for retribution, we don't need to do it, we are not judges and executors, and retribution will naturally have it. If we are like them, we are doing evil. ”

"I'd rather be an animal myself, but also treat them in the way of animals, because what they do is like animals, and from that moment on, they are animals, not people, and we can't use the methods of animals, we have to treat them in the way of animals."

"We are human beings, and we can't stop being human because they are animals, and we will go with them to be animals; Amitabha, I wish all people could become human beings, not animals. ”

Sangou couldn't convince the monk at once, and the monk didn't plan to convince Sangou, Sangou felt that the monk should not come to the battlefield, or that his belief was not suitable for the battlefield. So, I asked him:

"You pay attention to thinking good and doing good, so why did you come to this battlefield where evil is done everywhere? It's like hell, it's full of ferocity and brutality. ”

"The Buddha said: If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell? I came here not only for personal practice, but also to save one person and save one person. ”

"Then you don't plan to kill devils with all the kung fu you practiced before?"

"I didn't intend to kill people, I only saved people."

"Then if you are attacked by devils and your life is in danger, will you take action?"

"Yes, because saving others includes saving yourself."

"Then if you see me, or our comrades-in-arms, when their lives are threatened by devils, will you take action?"

"Yes, it's also because of saving people, including saving everyone."

"What if you are forced to kill the enemy in order to save people? Is it considered homicide? ”

"Saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, in order to save a life, when necessary, you can kill someone."

"Didn't you say you didn't intend to kill?"

"I didn't plan to kill people, I didn't want to actively kill people, but if I killed people passively in order to save people, it was okay."

"Then we take the initiative to kill the enemy, but also to save the lives of more people, but also to save people to kill, from this point of view, we are also passive killing, because we did not go to the Japanese country to kill people to invade, we are only defending against the invaders in our own country, so is this considered passive killing?"

"From the point of view of aggression and counter-aggression, you are not wrong."

"Since there is nothing wrong, since we are all passive killings, then why don't you join us and go to passive killing?"

"Amitabha, in the Buddha's place, there is no aggression and counter-aggression, there, we are all people in this world, and it doesn't matter where we live, as long as we are in this world, any place in the world, is the home of all our human beings."

"Then what do you mean is that it is not wrong to agree that the Japanese army invaded us?"

"I don't think it's right, and I'm against them dealing with things in this way of war; Like, we are all the same kind in this world, why can't we put down the butcher's knife and give up this cannibalism, in the end, for what? ”

"You should say this to the aggressors, let them put down the butcher knife, if they put it down, we will naturally put down the butcher knife, because they raised the butcher knife first, and they want to slaughter us, we just resist." Sangou was obviously talking angrily.

"I alone will definitely not be able to convince them, so, just like this, we can't change the big situation, we can only try to do our best, for example, you go to resist, to kill, I go to save people."

“……”

Sangou was speechless and couldn't refute, for the first time, he was so rude and competitive with the people of the Buddhist family, perhaps because he couldn't let go of his hatred for the invaders and his indignation at the sacrifice of his comrades.

It can only be said that two people with different worldviews can't convince anyone, but in the end they can still reach a consensus, even if it is a helpless consensus, they can perform their duties and be at peace with each other.

Perhaps, it was the last sentence of the monk that hit the three dogs - we can't change the big situation, we can only try to do our best.

We are all sentient beings, we are all small people in the big era, we cannot control our own destiny, we are not willing to go with the flow, but we have to go with the flow, because we are so powerless to resist fate.