Before entering the monastery, he was a member of the criminal underworld for more than 10 years. Those hands now telling rosary beads had once held poker chips above and a knife below the table. Those feet carrying him on his arduous pilgrimage had once scaled a prison fence and run from the police.
如今撥弄念珠的手，過去只熟悉桌上的骨牌、籌碼，和桌下的扁鑽；那雙三年前踏入佛門、走向清淨光明的腳，曾經爬過監獄的圍牆、逃過全省憲兵的追緝，也曾在蘭嶼踩過管訓隊員的坎坷心路。