Chapter 122: White Lotus's Teachings
"From now on, fellow initiates, please listen to what I have to say. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info my statement, eclectic, enlightened, wonderful in the Q&A. Bai Lian's gentle and long voice came from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain.
The people were still kneeling, and Bai Lian said, "Get up, listen to me in the future, you can sit and stand, but you can't make noise, keep quiet, and be quiet will give you wisdom." ”
The hundred-man stood up, and the propaganda minister and the abbot stood in front. The Minister of Propaganda asked, "White Lotus, no, Bodhisattva, I ask the Bodhisattva, why do people have to worry about living in a constant way?" Why is it inseparable from fame and fortune that people live? Why can't people escape birth, old age, sickness and death while they live? Why can't people give up hell after death? ”
"The constant troubles are all due to the seven emotions and arrogance, fame and fortune are all due to the six desires, all things are inseparable from birth, old age, sickness and death, and the sufferings of hell are all due to the sins of previous lives. If life and death are separated from all suffering, unless you enter my paradise. Bai Lian replied.
"White Lotus Bodhisattva, when you say Paradise, do you mean the Western Elysium, or do you mean the Valley of Forgetfulness?" The abbot asked.
"It is neither the Western Bliss, nor the Valley of Forgetfulness, it is the paradise that my White Lotus will build, and those who enter my paradise will have no worries about life and death, and enjoy happiness at all times." Bai Lian replied.
"Bold White Lotus! Others fear you, but I am not afraid of you! You keep saying that you have built your own paradise, how can you be good and meritorious? Could it be that the Buddha is referring to the Western Bliss as nothing? Could it be that what you say about the Valley of Forgetfulness is self-deception? Where is your paradise? "The abbot was domineering.
Bai Lian smiled and said, "If you recite Amitabha Buddha wholeheartedly, you will definitely be reborn in the Elysian World after death." The Valley of Forgetfulness is the only Elysium in the world, and it may be difficult for those who have no chance to enter it. I make a great vow to build a paradise, and all those who enter my garden will enjoy happiness before and after death. Where Paradise is, far away in the sky, near in sight, the believer can go with him, and the unbeliever can retreat. ”
"A bunch of nonsense, gossip to confuse the public, everyone must not believe it, disperse quickly." The abbot agitated.
"We can listen to it if we don't believe it, why do we have to disperse? If you have the ability, you can go up and make up nonsense for us! One said.
"That's it, what kind of coaxing you are an abbot! If you can't stop listening, get out of the way! Another said angrily.
"You're still the master of White Lotus! She preached the scriptures on it, and you are jealous? Whether she is good or not, we are all willing to listen, we are happy to see her, what's the matter? Now that people are tired of living, there is a shortage of people like Bai Lian! People have dreams! It's one thing for us to hear what people say, it's another thing to believe them or not, and it's another thing to follow them! We're not allowed to listen to it, huh? You're too domineering, aren't you? Is this temple your home? What are you doing bullying a little girl! One said angrily.
The abbot didn't say anything anymore, where was she in the gray pestle, how uncomfortable and uncomfortable she was.
Suddenly, everyone saw that eight pigeons flew from afar and landed on Bai Lian's shoulders and head. The white lotus stood up and stretched out her arms, and the dove floated from her head to her arms. Standing above the head of the white lotus was the white dove of Cher. Bai Lian's hair was scattered when she danced in the Valley of Forgetting, so at this time, her black and white hair like a waterfall was scattered on her white clothes, like a beautiful and holy angel.
People didn't know that these eight pigeons belonged to the White Lotus family, and they all thought that they were inspired by the White Lotus Bodhisattva's sayings and were celestial phenomena, so moved that everyone knelt on the ground again and shouted "White Lotus Bodhisattva" in unison!
The sky is blue, the sun is shining, a few white clouds, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant.
"Get up, we are all mortals, we are all equal, the Bodhisattva is in the heart of each of us, when you are dedicated to goodness, you are the Bodhisattva, and when you tell people the idea of goodness and let people share it, you are speaking the Dharma." Bai Lian smiled.
"The White Lotus Bodhisattva is right! We believe what you say! One said.
"Bodhisattva, people often say that life and death are important matters, why is it difficult for people to live and die now?" One asked.
"No matter when, the dilemma of life and death is because I can't think about it and can't let go. Life and death are very simple things, one breath and one breath, life and death. It is precisely because our souls are polluted by real life that we have added a lot of materialistic things to life and death, and have only added a lot of extramental burdens to our souls, that it is difficult for us to live and die. White Lotus replied.
"But Bodhisattva, even if it's something on the spiritual level, people don't want to leave this world when they die, they don't want to leave their relatives! The dead are gone, and how painful it is for the living, and this grief is enough to destroy a person's health! One said bitterly.
"Buddhism has answered these questions, the so-called death is not death, life is not life, life is death, death is life, matter is immortal, energy is conserved, our true body leaves the body, follows cause and effect, and goes where it is supposed to go. Emotion is a double-edged sword, hurting yourself and hurting your relatives, affectionate and ruthless, small love becomes big love, but love is difficult to eliminate, love is difficult to stay, easy to say, hard to do! When Bai Lian said this, she left two lines of tears, "I, Bai Lian, swear that all those who enter my paradise will cut off cause and effect, and see each other in life and death!" ”
Suddenly, there was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and Bai Lian had a splitting headache.
Everyone was shocked by the thunder of the sunny sky, but they didn't know that it was because of what Bai Lian said, which angered the law of cause and effect in the universe.
Bai Lian knew that her oath was contrary to the law, however, she also knew that there were many laws in this universe, and there were problems that the living could not convince, such as the cause and effect of the three lives, so that the good people in the world would be disgraced, and the evildoers in the world would be free, why couldn't the law of cause and effect in the three worlds become the law of cause and effect in one life? Even if she can't change, her white lotus will also change.
"Bodhisattva, and we feel that it is too difficult and too difficult to send a dead person, and the items and procedures that must be in place almost dissipate our sorrow and emotions for the deceased, but in the face of the facts, we are at a loss! People, it's too tired to live! One sighed with deep feeling.
"Yes, your sigh is the sigh of most people. When people live, they always abandon their roots and follow the end. In the face of death, it is no exception, the custom has become a rule, and it is so difficult to break the old and establish the new! Sad! Mourn also! Bai Lian said, "The only way to do this is to break the old and create the new, simplify the complex, and unify all the stereotypes and bad habits of sending the dead to the point of focusing on the exaltation of the soul of the deceased and the cremation and burial of the body nearby." ”
Bai Lian said that as she walked down the mountain, she would walk from the top of the mountain to the crowd, and she believed that her ideal should be to solve the specific universal suffering of the people in concrete ways, and she had to preach her ideas among the crowd.
"O people, all who enter my paradise, you can deal with death according to my new rules, ignoring the eyes and mouths of the world, they laugh at us, and we have pity on them!"