With the advent of a new era, the whole world has begun to slowly enter an aging society. Especially in our country, which values ????love and justice, aging has brought inconvenience to many families. , many people have a couple raising four elderly people. If no accident occurs, it will be fine. If there is any accident or illness, it will be extremely painful for the parties involved and their children.
The most important word for Chinese people is "filial piety". When they grow up, they will want to earn more money to support their parents living in the country, and some do not want their parents to be lonely. People all want to send their elderly relatives to nursing homes, hoping to find some nursing homes that can take good care of their parents. In Fujian Province, my country, there is such a nursing home, which is extremely popular.
To say it is a nursing home, in fact, it is more appropriate to say it is a temple. This is the Xianmi Jixiang Temple Nursing Home located in Sha County, Fujian Province. Unlike other nursing homes, this nursing home was established only to give back to the society. It not only provides basic necessities, food, housing and transportation It's completely free, and there are volunteers who take care of it every day. Although the facilities are not very high-end, the temple's superior geographical environment also attracts many people to want to retire here.
According to legend, the founding of Kichijoji Temple is quite legendary. It is said that Master Teruzen, the abbot of Kichijoji Temple at that time, suffered from bone cancer in 1994. At that time, major hospitals said they were helpless and the pain was helpless. , Master Zhao Zen made a great wish to the Buddha: If he recovers from his illness, he will build a Buddhist nursing home to house a hundred helpless and suffering old people. ?The serious illness gradually recovered after a month. Later, Zhao Chan and Master Nengqing went through a lot of hardships to build such a nursing home.
Today's Kichijoji not only has long-term care from guardian volunteers, but also has a medical office. It is understood that Kichijoji now has more than 400 guardians and about 90 guardian volunteers. Weekly meal recipes It will be listed on the wall and announced, including water and electricity bills and some daily necessities, all of which come from donations from some industrial and commercial enterprises or some well-wishers.
Since Kichijoji is free, there must be many people who want to stay here, right? Of course it is, but in order to avoid anyone being dissatisfied, there are many regulations in the temple. But if you want to stay, you must meet two conditions. The first is to convert to Buddhism. You must believe in Buddhism to be able to live in this kind of place. Live happily in a religious environment. The second is that there is no serious illness. If there is some serious illness, the temple will naturally not be able to support it. If the person dies in the temple, it will not be good for the temple itself.