Volume 2 Plane Battle, Chapter 182: Thirty-three Days on Mount Meru
The name of Rahura translates to "overturning", and the Buddha taught that because in his past life, when he was a child, he had blocked the rat hole with wood for six days before it was opened, so he would live in his mother's womb for six years in this life, and receive the retribution of those six days.
As the son of the Buddha, Luo Houluo cannot avoid the bad karma he created in the past, but has to live in his mother's womb for six years, so he is called "overcoming obstacles."
This "obstacle overcome" is also addressed to Yajendhara, who is the son of the Buddha in the past, present, and future.
Bai Wuchang Xie Bi'an said to Yang Zhuochao: "So the one asked by the immortals, the name is Rahu, which means "overcoming obstacles", and they are the same person as the previous "Luo Yuluo"! And they have nothing to do with the "Demon God Rahu".
It's just that before the "Demon God Rahu" entered the Demon Dao, he was indeed a member of the Asura clan. Because he was the son of "King Dayatiya Vibharati" and "Sinsika", and he was also an Asura tribe, it was understandable that the immortals thought that they were the same person!
Yang Zhuochao said: I see, this Rahu is not Bi Rahu! But they all have a close relationship with the Asura clan.
Bai Wuchang Xie Bi'an said: The "Asura" clan that is now thriving in the "Shura Realm" is still relatively large compared to the "Space Great Plane". Although there has been no big move in the past thousand years, it is still in confrontation with "Te Litian"!
It is translated as "thirty-three days" and is named after the thirty-three kingdoms of heaven. Because this heavenly realm is inhabited by the thirty-three heavens, hence the name. Western Buddhism says that there are eight heavenly cities on the four sides of the top of Sumeru Mountain, and the heavenly city where the central "Emperor Shakti" lives, a total of 33 places, so the clouds. That is, what is commonly known as heaven!
The center is the residence of the emperor Shakti, and there is the hand of the emperor's protector god "King Kong". Emperor Shi dwells in "good present city", the circumference is 10,000 "by the ten", there is a special palace, the week is by the ten, there are many cars, miscellaneous forests, rough evil, Xilin four gardens outside, there are round trees in the northeast outside the city, the flowers are fragrant and fragrant by the hundred, there is the good present hall in the southwest.
This is the auditorium and conference hall of the emperor. Thirty-three days of people are one hundred years tall, weigh six baht, live for 1,000 years, and be a hundred years in the world in one day, and their daily life span is 36.5 million years in the world. On this day, the Heavenly Lord Emperor Shakti is the Lord of the Thirty-Three Days and the Four Heavenly Kings.
The translation of this passage into the vernacular is: The heaven of the Buddha, or the heaven of luxury, is thirty-three days, the second heaven of the realm of desire. At the top of Mt. Meru, 80,000 years above the world.
On this day, everyone is forty miles long, and the life span is a thousand years old, and a hundred years in the world is one day and one night. For thirty-three days, there was a city on the top of Mount Meru called Joy Castle, or Zen Castle, which was 80,000 miles long, and the Emperor Shakti lived in it.
There are four peaks in the four directions of the Zenmi Castle, each of which is five hundred and ten days, and each peak has eight days, and the four directions have a total of thirty-two days, and even the Kimi Castle in the center has a total of thirty-three days.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a young Brahmin named Makha in the village of Maqata in the country of Magata, who and his 32 friends often did good deeds and charity together, and after their deaths they were all reborn in the heavenly realm.
Because Maka was their leader, he became the god of this heavenly realm, and the other thirty-two friends became the little kings.
The full name of "Emperor Shakti" is Shatihuan Indra, referred to as Indra, which is translated as "Emperor Nengtian" or "Emperor Shakti". Originally a god of the Tianzhu Sect, he was responsible for thunder and lightning and battle, and was later absorbed by Buddhism as a protector god.
According to the "Treatise on the Sutras", Shakti was originally a Brahmin of the Magadha kingdom, and because of the good fortune of cultivating generosity, he gave birth to the Buddha Buddha. Such accounts are the embodiment of the Indra deity in India from the Vedic to the Buddhist era.
The Buddhist scriptures say that when Shakyamuni was born, he manifested the golden steps of the Seven Treasures and let Shakyamuni descend from the heavenly realm. When he came down, Shakyamuni was in front of Shakyamuni on the left, holding a treasure cover, and the great Brahma in front of him on the right, waiting for Shakyamuni and guiding Shakyamuni.
After Shakyamuni's enlightenment, Buddhism came into being, and Indra became Shakyamuni's patron deity, known as Shakti. When the Buddha ascended to the Buddha as his mother, the Emperor Shakti held a treasure cover and served as the Buddha's attendant.
Shakti's status in Buddhism, along with Brahma, is the protector of Buddhism, and is the second king of the "Twenty Heavens" of Buddhism, one of the twelve heavens. The town protects the east, and lives on the top of Mount Meru, and its city is called the city of good sight.
There are ten heavenly sons guarding its side on the left and right. He once led the gods to build a lecture hall for the Buddha and the Arhats on a bull-headed sandalwood tree, and offered beds, bedding and various foods to the Buddha and his disciples. Shakti often met with the heavens in his abode, Mount Meru, to discuss the good and evil things in the world.
Yang Zhuochao asked: I don't know where this so-called "Mount Meru" is located in the "Great Plane of Space"?
Bai Wuchang Xie Bi'an replied: The immortals don't know, the word Mount Meru comes from a Brahmanical term, and was later quoted by Buddhism. Legend has it that Mount Meru is surrounded by the Aral Sea, and there are four continents and eight small continents on the sea.
According to legend, it is said that this Mount Meru is located in the center of the world's "small world". A thousand small worlds are called a small world, a thousand small worlds are called a thousand worlds, and a thousand middle worlds are a large world, which is the origin of "three thousand worlds"!
Mount Meru is composed of gold, silver, glass, crystal, and four treasures. It is 84,000 years high, the top of the mountain is the emperor's heaven, and the mountainside on all sides is the four heavenly kings. According to the theory, Mount Meru is north of the North Ju Lu Continent, east is the East Sheng Shenzhou, west is the West Niu He Continent, and the south is the South Ganbu Continent.
This is the incarnation of a Buddha! The lowest layer of each world is a layer of qi, called the wind wheel. Above the wind wheel is a layer of water, called a water wheel. Above the water wheel is a layer of gold, or hard stone, called the golden wheel. Above the golden wheel is the land composed of mountains, oceans, continents, etc. Mount Meru is located in the middle of this world.
Legend has it that this mountain has eight mountains and eight seas around it, 80,000 into the water, 80,000 from the water, and 80,000 from the water, and the amount of length and breadth is the same. There are 320,000 around it. It is made of four treasures, gold in the north, silver in the east, glass in the south, and pears in the west.
And the color of the void in the four directions of Mount Meru is also reflected by these treasures. The seven seas between the Seven Golden Mountains and the Sumeru Mountains are full of eight meritorious waters, and there are Tiewei Mountains across the Alkali Sea outside the Seven Golden Mountains, and there are four continents in the Alkali Sea, including Yu Danyue, Fu Poti, Yan Futi, and Qu Yeni, which is the so-called "Four Continents of Sumeru".
Among the mountains listed above, Mount Meru and Mount Qijin are both square, and only Mount Tiewei is round. The above nine mountains and eight seas are supported by three wheels. The wind wheel is at the bottom, and its volume is innumerable, and the thickness is 1.6 billion. There is a water wheel on it. The upper part of the water wheel is condensed into a golden wheel.
The depth of the water and gold wheels is 1.12 billion yuan, and the lower 800 million yuan is the water wheel. And the width of the two wheels is 1,23,450 years in diameter.
Originally, due to the increase of sentient karma, the wind wheel was born, relying on the void, and according to the karma of sentient beings, the big clouds and rain rose, and on the wind wheel, it accumulated into a water wheel, and because the karmic wind rose, it hit the water, and the upper part became a golden wheel. This is the attachment of sentient beings, that is, in the physical world, and the sentient beings who live here have the six pleasures of heaven, man, and asura.
Among the heavens, there is a difference between the earth dwelling in the sky and the empty dwelling in the sky, and the six desires of the heavens, the four kings and the two heavens belong to the earth, and the heaven is located on the top of Mount Meru. The Four Kings are located on the fourth level of Mount Meru, and below the third level of Mount Meru, there are the Yaksha gods of the four kings.
Those who live on the third layer are called Heng Shu, those who live on the second level are called holding the mane, and those who live on the first level are called Jianshou. In the palace of the Seven Golden Mountains and the Sun Wheel and the Moon Wheel, there are also the dependents of the Four Kings and Heavens. There are four days of the colored realm and sixteen days above the six heavens of desire, and there are four days of the colorless realm on it.
According to the support of the above three rounds, the land composed of nine mountains, eight seas, and four continents is called the One World or One Sumeru World. A thousand Sumeru worlds are called small thousand worlds, a thousand small thousand worlds are called one middle thousand worlds, and one thousand middle thousand worlds are called great thousand worlds.
Because there is a difference between small, medium and large, it is called the three thousand worlds, which is the incarnation of one Buddha. This world is based on the sentient beings of the six pleasures and twenty-five boundaries, and is called the "material world" as opposed to the sentient world.
Among the six pleasures, the hell is between 1,000 and 40,000 in the lower part of the South Yanfu Continent, and there are eight hot hells from the living hell to the infernal hell. His dependents belong to the hells, i.e., the Sixteen Wandering Hells, which are located at the four gates of each hell.
In addition, the Eight Cold Hells are also nearby, and there are also lonely hells scattered in the South Yanfu Continent and the East and West Continents. One said that hell is fun in the mountains surrounded by big iron. Secondly, in addition to living in the south of Yanfu Continent for 500 years, the hungry ghosts also live in the human world.
Animal interest is based in the sea, and it is all over the fun. The Asura Fun takes the foothills of Mount Meru and the Sea of Meru as its base, and it is everywhere to fight with the two heavens of the four kings.
People live on four continents and their dependents on eight continents, but the southern continent belongs to the continent of Shamala, which is the residence of the rakshasas. The Four Kings, the Six Desires of the Heavens, and the Colour Realm and the Colorless Realm are all the dwellings of the Heavenly Pleasures.
After a pause, the white impermanence Xie Bi'an continued: The above statements all come from the exposition of Western Buddhism, as for the specific location of Mount Meru in the "Great Plane of Space", not many people know it!
Yang Zhuochao said: Lord Impermanence seems to like selling Guan Zi very much! Do you want all of us to guess?
Bai Wuchang Xie Bi'an saw that Yang Zhuochao looked a little displeased, and hurriedly said: Shangxian has misunderstood, in fact, Western Buddhism has always liked to engage in a little mystery!
In fact, Mount Meru is located directly east of the "Great Plane of Space", located in the sky above the entire Eastern Continent, about hundreds of thousands of miles. And the day of Terri, that is, thirty-three days, was still on the top of his mountain.....