I, Dasheng Sun, swear not to become a Buddha

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But after listening to Tang Sanzang's story about what they were about to experience, they were still so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths for a long time.

"Master, I have a question."

Sun Wukong asked.

"What's up monkey, say!"

Tang Sanzang was very happy, he lit a Huazi himself, and gave another one to the three disciples.

"It's just that you said that the fake king was transformed from Manjushri's mount, the green lion, and came down to take revenge, but it seems that Manjushri is not that weak, how could he be put in the water for three days? "

Sun Wukong expressed his doubts.

On the side, Zhu Bajie and Black Bear Monster also nodded.

"This thing, you can't think about it from the perspective of strength, you have to learn from other perspectives, for example, cause and effect."

Tang Sanzang explained that this problem is also Tang Sanzang's personal experience after he came to Journey to the West.

Everything seems to be controlled by a hand, who is it?

Or not who, but cause and effect.

For example, the upcoming Wuji Kingdom, Mr. Wu has already explained it at the end.

At a critical moment, Manjusri Bodhisattva arrived and ordered them to stop.It turned out that this monster is the green-haired lion that Manjusri Bodhisattva rides.

Monkey King blamed the Bodhisattva for releasing the lion to become a spirit.The Bodhisattva said that he never ran out, but was sent by the order of the Buddha.

At the beginning, the black chicken king was fond of Shanzhai monks, and the Buddha sent me to save him and return to the west, so that he could become a golden-bodied arhat early.Because I couldn't meet in my original body, I turned into an ordinary monk and offered him a fast, but I was embarrassed by a few words. He tied me up and sent me to the Yushui River to soak for three days and three nights. Thanks to Liujiajin Save me and return to the west.Played in the Tathagata, the Tathagata made the monster push him down the well and soak him for three years to repay my hatred for the three-day flood.

"One drink and one peck, is it predetermined."

Just these eight characters, what do they mean?

That is, everything happens for a reason. What you experience now is just the fruit of the past, and what you do now will be the cause of the future.

The antecedents of the suffering of the king of the Wuji Kingdom are not explained in the TV series "Journey to the West", so many people tend to overlook the details of the novel.

For another example, later on, when he was in Zhu Ziguo, it described that Sun Wukong came to Zhu Ziguo and healed the king of the disease that had troubled him for three years. The monster raced Tai Sui and rescued the queen.

Just when Monkey King was about to kill the monster Sai Taisui, Guanyin Bodhisattva came and said to Monkey King, I want to hunt down this monster.It turns out that Sai Taisui is the Golden Retriever, the mount of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.Because the shepherd boy fell asleep, the evil animal bit off the iron chain and came to the Zhuzi Kingdom, taking Jinsheng Palace captive.

In this TV series "Journey to the West", there is also no explanation as to why Guanyin Bodhisattva's mount, Golden Retriever, came to Zhuzi Kingdom to do evil.

In fact, Mr. Wu made a clear statement in the novel about the reason why the mount Golden Retriever is a demon in the lower realm: It turns out that when the king of Zhu Ziguo was the prince, he was very good at hunting.He once led men and horses and indulged eagles and dogs.The two sons, male and female, were born to Bodhisattva, the peacock of the Western Buddha. They fell down the hillside, and the prince shot the male peacock, and the female returned home with an arrow.After the Buddha's mother repented, she ordered the king to remove the phoenix for three years and was ill.

At that time, Guanyin Bodhisattva was passing by here, and Jin Maoyu also heard this, but he didn't expect it to pay attention, so he lied to the queen.Three years of disaster for the king is enough.

So it's totally fruitful.

There is also the story of Fengxian County begging for rain later. Why did the Jade Emperor want Fengxian County to have no rain for three years? It was messed up, and a few dogs ate the fruit that was supposed to be eaten by the Jade Emperor, so it didn't rain after that.

After Tang Sanzang came to this world of Journey to the West, he felt this kind of thing more personally.

Why does heaven repay those who have done wrong things in the mortal world?

To explain this problem clearly, we must first explain the problem of retribution.

It is what we often say is not the retribution that the time has not yet come.

The Buddha told Manjusri that in the age of the Dharma, there was a woman of the Brahman caste. Because of the deep and deep blessings accumulated in her previous life, people admired and respected her very much.Whether she walks, sits or lies down, she is protected by the gods.

But her mother believed in evil ways and despised the Three Jewels of Buddhism, Dharma, and Sangha.At this time, the Brahman girl used various methods to persuade her mother to understand the Three Jewels and believe in Buddhism.However, her mother was still half-hearted about Buddhism and could not fully believe in it.Not long after, her mother died, and her spiritual consciousness fell into the endless hell.

After the death of her mother, the Brahmin woman knew that it was the retribution of her mother's disbelief in karma when she was alive.

According to the calculation of her bad karma, she will definitely fall into the three evil ways.The Brahman woman is a filial daughter, she sold all the things in the family, real estate and land.With the money, she bought a lot of high-quality incense, flowers and utensils for offering to the Buddha, and went to various Buddha statues, pagodas, and temples to do good deeds of offering to the Buddha wholeheartedly.

After seeing the statue of King Juehua Dingzizai, the Brahman girl silently recited the Buddha's name in her heart.She thought to herself, if the Buddha is still alive, he must know where my mother's soul is.The Brahmin girl wept sadly for a long time, when suddenly she heard a voice in the sky saying: "Sorrowful saint, I will now show you where your mother is."

The Brahmin woman immediately jumped into the air, and her limbs were injured due to excessive force.She looked up at the sky and said, "May the Buddha be merciful and tell me where my mother is."King Juehua Dingzizai said to the Brahman woman: You finish your offerings, go home early, sit upright and recite my name silently, then you will know where your mother is.

The Brahman girl returned home and chanted the name of King Juehua Dingzizai wholeheartedly. After chanting for a day and a night, she suddenly found that she came to a sea. How did you come here?If you are not a person with mighty virtue, then you have karma, otherwise you cannot come here.

The saint asked the ghost king: Why are there so many sinners and evil beasts?

The ghost king said: These are all the evil beings in the world of Jambudvipa.For a newly dead person, after 49 days, if there is no heir, do meritorious deeds for him and rescue him from the suffering he deserved.When he is alive, he is not willing to do good deeds, so he can go to the suffering of hell that he himself inspired according to the evil karma he did when he was alive.

The saint asked the ghost king again: It has not been long since my mother died and came here. I wonder where she suffered?

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===Chapter 648===

The ghost king asked: What was your mother's occupation when she was alive?The saint said: My mother is prejudiced, does not believe in Buddhism, and slanders the Three Jewels of Buddhism, Dharma, and Sangha.Or sometimes believe, sometimes not believe.The ghost king clasped his hands together and told the saint: Don't worry about your mother, she has escaped from hell and ascended to heaven.The heavenly instructions said that because of the filial daughter who set up offerings for her mother to cultivate blessings, and the merits of giving to the Jue Hua Ding Zizai King Tathagata Temple, not only your mother will be freed from the sea of ​​suffering, but people who should suffer in hell will also enjoy happiness on this day. .May your mother be born in heaven.This saint is the later Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

There is another very interesting place. Later, Monkey King killed the grass bandit. Tang Seng felt that he had killed too many people, and he was afraid that those souls would settle accounts with them, so he burned incense and prayed: "His surname is Sun, and my surname is Chen. .The grievance has its head, and the debt has its owner, so don't sue me as a Buddhist monk."

It turned out that Tang Seng meant to let those souls not trouble him in the future. Monkey King was so angry that he pounded the grass bandit's grave three times with an iron rod, and threatened fiercely, "You can sue, my grandson will not be afraid."

This example illustrates the fear and flattery of the soul.

According to Buddhism, all living beings suffer suffering and happiness in the six realms because of doing good and evil, life and death, spinning like a wheel, never ending.

Suffering is real suffering, but enjoying is not real happiness.Because the five desires in the sky are free, and the fame and wealth in the world are like flint and lightning, which become the past in a blink of an eye.During the period of self-satisfaction, crimes such as killing, prostitution, stealing, and arrogance have been committed, and all of these will be repaid and liquidated according to the law of karma.Everyone who does good and evil will have corresponding retribution.

Karma reciprocates, which is never good.

Even if you can't get rid of the suffering of the six realms of reincarnation, because you do more good deeds, you can still be a god and enjoy a happy life without worries.When the heavenly blessings of thousands of years are exhausted, and when he is reincarnated, he will definitely transfer to a wealthy family and get good retribution.But in this life, if you still do some things that are harmful to the nature and cause harm to public morality and conscience, then in the next life, in addition to going to hell to suffer, those with lesser circumstances may become animals. bitter.

In the secular society, there is also a saying that "good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil; it's not that if you don't repay, the time has not yet come".

Generally speaking, the fruit of this life is created by the cause of the previous life; and the fruit of this life often requires retribution in the future life.Only those who have done a lot of evil can get retribution in this life before they can wait for the next life.This is what is often referred to in the secular world as the "Report of the World".

And the first present report that is about to go through is the Wuji Kingdom.

"The karma in this world is naturally on the one hand, but some karma is not necessary to impose. For example, the black-bone chicken country, although it is the fault of the black-bone chicken country, but Manjusri Bodhisattva provoked it first. Cause and effect."

Tang Sanzang said with emotion.

"Do you know why we rebelled?"

Tang Sanzang said.

"Is it because you don't like those guys in the sky?"

Monkey King is very disdainful.

"No, no, brother monkey, I think it's because I'm not free and everything is controlled."

Zhu Bajie thinks so.

"Uh, I think it's a philosophical question whether to oppose or not to oppose."

The black fur monster didn't know what he was talking about either.

"You are dismissed."

He was ridiculed by Monkey King and Zhu Bajie.

"Who is that? What you said is not bad. This is indeed a philosophical question. Think about it. From the perspective of others, we are a rebel, but from our perspective? We are an uprising."

Tang Sanzang spoke righteously.

"Why the uprising? Because there is injustice in this world."

"It's still true what Master said."

The kung fu of flattering a few people is about to be used again.

Tang Sanzang hurriedly waved his hand to stop.

"But master, what shall we do next? Do we want to save the king of Wuji Kingdom?"

Monkey King stepped forward and asked.

"Rescue is definitely necessary. After all, we have to drive the green lion back to complete this level. I just thought of it. Since the journey of learning the scriptures, we have almost overcome obstacles and have not encountered any actual difficulties. , but according to the arrangement of the script, we have ninety-nine and 81 difficulties. If we don’t complete these disasters, we will either run for nothing, or we will arrange disasters that I don’t know about later. It is estimated that the difficulty of the boss will increase. .”

"No matter how you look at it, it's not worth it."

Tang Sanzang was riding a white dragon horse, frowning and worried.

"So, from now on, keep a low profile and don't do it easily. Even if the monster captures me, you will capture me. You must wait until I am captured into the cave before you rescue me. If this is the case, it can be regarded as a catastrophe.”

"Besides, there are no monsters in the Wuji Kingdom that is coming up. They are not coming towards me, so there is no danger. Let's talk about what happens later."

Tang Sanzang has no good solution for the time being.

At the same time, in the palace of Wuji Kingdom, a thin old man was also thinking hard.

This old man is the current king of Wuji Kingdom, and also the mount of Manjusri Bodhisattva, a green lion.

Recently, the green lion is also very sad, finally going down to the realm to enjoy two days of blessings, now that Tang Sanzang and the others are coming soon, his good days are coming to an end.

How can we not only complete the tasks entrusted by the Bodhisattva, but also continue to enjoy the blessings here?

It has to be said that the lord of this country is really great, and the green lion is a little bit reluctant to leave.

Thanks to Manjusri Bodhisattva for giving him some missing body parts, otherwise, the whole Wuji Kingdom would have become a paradise for lions.

Several people were talking while walking.

After a while, we arrived in front of a monastery in front of us.

This is a temple on the outskirts of the Wuji country. Originally, the Wuji country paid more attention to Buddhism, so there were a lot of temples for a while, but later, after the blue lion descended to the realm, the money was useless in these aspects, so it gradually The decline.

But when it comes to being the emperor, the blue lion is obviously much better than the previous king.

First of all, regarding the issue of the victims, the previous king had no choice but to pray to God eagerly, and he could only find ways to guide and resettle the victims, and even personally sent steamed buns and porridge.

On the surface, he looks like a good emperor who loves the people like a son, but he doesn't care.

If the emperor were really a good emperor, there would not be so many disaster victims.

After the green lion came to power, he immediately used his own ability to point his fingers at the sky, and then it began to rain. With the rain, crops can be planted in the ground. As long as this period of time is passed, people's lives There is still hope.

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===Chapter 649 Mount Source===

Then there are the riots of the people all over the place, and the green lion personally led the team to suppress it. Isn't it easy for a fairy mount to clean up some messy peasant troops?

So it didn't take long for the disaster problem of the whole Wuji country to disappear.

On this basis, Qingshi vigorously develops the breeding industry. Pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, rabbits, everything that Qingshi thought it liked to eat before, is raised.

After raising it, the state will purchase it uniformly, and then the state will come forward to carry out business exchanges, and you will not worry about no sales. Don't you buy it?Then I will lead an army to attack you.

After one or two years of development, the current black-bone chicken country has become a well-known meat exporting country.

Of course, there are also certain disadvantages, such as the breeding industry, the smell is too strong, and the whole capital smells like chicken feathers and chicken excrement.

At first, the common people thought the smell was too strong, but after earning money and getting used to smelling it too much, it's just like that.

Furthermore, the smell of green lion smells very good, just like entering your own kitchen.

When he was under the seat of Manjusri Bodhisattva, Qingshi was a part-time animal breeder.

There is no way, Manjusri Bodhisattva can't kill, why can't he catch a chicken and kill it to feed it to the green lion?

So we can only let the green lion be self-sufficient, and he can raise whatever he wants to eat. After raising it, he doesn't need to kill it, just open his mouth and get it done.

In fact, this green lion spirit also has a name, and its name is lion cat.

Speaking of the origin of this green lion spirit, there is really a story. I think that this Tathagata Buddha was named the Western Buddha by the Jade Emperor, and he first took control of a fief, so he was inevitably lonely and lonely.

The Taishang Laojun asked the Jade Emperor to send Manjusri Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra to Tathagata as his right-hand man to help Tathagata educate all living beings in the western future.

But these two don't have any magic power, so what should we do?

So it can only be hung up, and the magic weapon mount and so on have to be given by others.For example, the magic mirror was given by the queen mother, the dragon sword was given by the Jade Emperor, the golden lotus was given by the Tathagata, and so on.

Tang Sanzang has also thought about this problem before, you are like Monkey King Zhu Bajie, they are all of the kind with a strong physical body, the kind of melee fighters, but you are like those big men with high mana, basically they don’t like to move. , when have you ever seen Guanyin Bodhisattva roll up his sleeves and fight with others?

Therefore, a person's comprehensive strength is a combination of his own force value and mana force value.

Some people's own force value is almost no, but mana force value is high.

Neither of these two is good or bad, both have disadvantages.

Just like before, Monkey King's own force value can be said to be quite powerful, but after the pipa bone was pierced, isn't he honest?

Not to mention the mana, if the mana is gone, nothing will work, you can only talk about it.

Let's just talk about the mount of Manjusri Bodhisattva. There are actually two mounts, one is a lion and the other is a raccoon.

This is why Manjushri Bodhisattva is also called Manjushri Bodhisattva.Shili, in the fairy tales, is the lion raccoon, which is the collective name of his two mounts.