Ye Chao directly took a copy of "Qingjing Sutra" and came to the Taoist temple in Qingcheng Mountain, in the name of consulting the classics, to see if there were any masters here. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

It's a pity that the Taoists who come out to meet and communicate with guests are generally not people with advanced Taoism, Ye Chao has been tempted a few times, so he had to come out disappointed.

It took a few endurances before I couldn't resist using my heart magic to conduct a large-scale search.

In the end, Ye Chao, who was unwilling, used heart magic on some little Taoist priests to read their minds.

It's a pity that they still know too little, at least, as far as they know, there are no high-ranking cultivators in Qingcheng Mountain.

Ye Chao sighed.

After thinking about it, even if it was a heart magic search, most of them couldn't be searched. Because most of the people who have the Tao can avoid the search of their minds, and if there is really a master, it will make the master unhappy.

Then, he stayed in Qingcheng Mountain for a few days, walking around, intending to try his luck.

When you get bored, you find a place to sit down and read the Bible.

Although a copy of the "Qingjing Sutra" has several hundred words, it is still very intriguing.

Turning over the scriptures that Chen Wanqiu bought for herself, Ye Chao also found a "Heart Sutra", of course, this is a Buddhist classic.

In China, Confucianism is the official religion, Taoism is the state religion, and Buddhism is a foreign religion.

The "Heart Sutra" in Ye Chao's hand is a classic Buddhist scripture that Buddhists must read and know. The full name is "Mahaprajnaparamita Heart Sutra", abbreviated as "Prajna Heart Sutra" or "Heart Sutra".

There is only one volume in the whole scripture, 260 words. It belongs to one of the 600 volumes of the "Great Pin Prajna Sutra", which is a classic work with the least number of words in the Buddhist scriptures, because it has the least number of words, the deepest meaning, the most legends, and the greatest influence, and is considered to be the summary of the Prajna Sutra.

There have been seven Chinese translations of the Sutra.

The more famous ones are the "Mahaprajnaparamita Mantra" translated by the Later Qin Dynasty and the "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra" translated by Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty.

There is a magical story about this volume of the Heart Sutra, which is related to the story of the monk Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty who traveled west to learn the scriptures.

It is said that Tang Seng got a sutra from an old mage, which is the Heart Sutra. Tang Seng recited the "Heart Sutra" to learn the scriptures.

A few years ago, CCTV's 100 forums invited Professor Qian Wenzhong to talk about "Xuanzang's Journey to the West". It is said that Tang Seng encountered many difficulties and obstacles on the way to the west, which were magically resolved. It is said that it depends on reciting this Heart Sutra.

Once, Tang Seng got lost in the desert and had no water to drink.

I couldn't stand it anymore, so I lay down. Soon Tang Seng was in a daze and saw a great god who held the vajra appeared in front of him and warned him not to lie down and to move forward. Seeing this, Tang Seng was suddenly awakened. So I continued to move forward, and soon found a source of water and resolved the crisis.

Tang Seng later recalled that it must have been the incarnation of the Bodhisattva who was helping him through the difficulties.

Professor Qian Wenzhong's "Xuanzang's Journey to the West" also talked about. The foothold of Tang monks to learn scriptures in the west is Nalanda Temple. And the then head of Nalanda Monastery, Venerable Jiexian, knew early on that a Chinese monk would come to study with him.

It turned out that three years ago, the Elder Master of Jiexian, who was already more than 100 years old, suddenly fell ill with a disease that was extremely painful. Venerable Jiexian felt that he could not bear this pain and was ready to break off through a hunger strike. In the course of the hunger strike, I once dreamed of three bodhisattvas.

The Bodhisattva told him to endure these sufferings, which were the result of the failure to care for the people when the Dharma was a king in his previous life. If you can repent and endure these pains, you can make the suffering less. At the same time, he also admonished Venerable Jiexian and said, "In three years' time, a Chinese monk will come to you to study, and you have to wait for him to come and teach him."

Three years later, Tang Seng really arrived. Venerable Jiexian howled and cried when he saw Tang Seng, and his younger brother told him the reason three years ago.

On the way to India, Xuanzang relied on the power of the Heart Sutra to expel all adverse circumstances.

Back then, he took some dependents to the west to learn scriptures, but he was the only one left for various reasons. Once he passed by a monastery and saw an old monk who was very ill, Xuanzang had great compassion and did not continue to travel but stayed in the monastery to take care of him.

Later, the old monk's illness was basically cured, and before leaving, he gave Xuanzang a Sanskrit copy of the Heart Sutra, and Xuanzang was reciting it all the way.

One day he came to the bank of the Ganges and saw thousands of people gathered together, so he went up to see it with curiosity, and it turned out to be a Brahmin who was worshipping the river god. According to local tradition, a young man is chosen every year to be thrown into the river in order to worship the river god.

His family was so sad that he cried with the man. When they were reluctant, they suddenly saw a foreign monk (Master Xuanzang), who immediately smiled and was overjoyed, and immediately tied up Xuanzang, preparing to let him replace the young man.

Xuanzang told them: "If you have to offer me to God, I can't do anything, but as a monk, can I finish reciting today's sutra? ”

And they agreed. Xuanzang immediately began to recite the Heart Sutra, and after three times, the sky was covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder.

Everyone was so frightened that they didn't dare to offend him, so they let him go. Xuanzang escaped another hardship.

Since then, Xuanzang has paid more attention to the "Heart Sutra" of the Prajna Collection.

His translation of the Heart Sutra is shorter than the Tibetan translation and other Chinese translations, but it has received special blessings from Guanyin Bodhisattva. It is said that when he returned from India, he remembered the kindness of the Heart Sutra given by the monk and was ready to repay it.

Who knew that when he arrived at the original place, not only the old monk, but even the monastery disappeared without a trace. Later, everyone said that the old monk was actually the embodiment of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Ye Chao knew this story, and Chen Wanqiu probably knew it, otherwise she wouldn't have bought a hardcover version of the Heart Sutra for Ye Chao.

The full text of this sutra is as follows:

When contemplating the bodhisattva of freedom and walking in the deep prajnaparamita, he sees that the five aggregates are empty and overcomes all suffering.

The relics are not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is emptiness, emptiness is color, and the same is true when you want to know it. The relics are the empty phase of all the laws, which are neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor pure, nor increased nor decreased.

Therefore, there is no color in the air, no thoughts, no thoughts, no thoughts, no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, no color, sound, fragrance, touch, no vision, and even no consciousness.

There is no ignorance, there is no end to ignorance, there is no old age and death, and there is no old age and death. There is no suffering to gather and destroy the Tao, and there is no wisdom and no gain. With no gain, Bodhisattva, according to Prajnaparamita, has no hindrances, no obstacles, no fears, is far away from upside-down dreams, and is nirvana.

The Buddhas of the three worlds, according to Prajnaparamita, attained the three bodhisattvas of Anuttara. Therefore, it is known that Prajnaparamita is a great mantra, a great mantra, a supreme mantra, and an unequal mantra, which can remove all suffering, and it is true.

Therefore, to say the Prajnaparamita mantra is to say the mantra: Reveal the truth of the Buddha

The short "Heart Sutra", with intentional translation and chapter translation, is quite emotional to read. It can be seen that Master Xuanzang's translation work is quite good.

It can only be said that this is a fairly story-telling book.

Ye Chao recited this "Heart Sutra", and felt that the essence was similar to the "Qingjing Sutra".

In fact, the five aggregates are empty, which is exactly the same as the meaning of quiet inaction, not to say that it is exactly the same, but they all have the same effect.