Xie Baoshu only felt that this senior monk was very verbose.

These stories are kept going on and on. Once upon a time at the foot of the snow-capped mountains lived a bird with two heads and only one body, one of which was called "Ka Yu" and the other was called "Yubo Ka". The two heads of the two-headed bird take turns resting, and if one head falls asleep, the other will wake up.

Once, when he fell asleep, he woke up, and a gust of wind blew the flowers of a nearby Motouga fruit tree to the two birds.

Yuboga thought to himself, "Although I eat this flower alone, when I eat it in my stomach, both of us can relieve hunger and thirst, and grow our spirits and strength." So he didn't wake him up, but ate the flower alone.

After a while, he woke up and felt that his stomach was very full, and he couldn't help but burp and asked Yuboga, "Where did you find this sweet and wonderful food?" ”

Upoka replied, "While you were asleep, a gust of wind blew the flowers of the Motouga fruit tree not far away to me. I think that although I ate it alone, we could both quench our hunger and thirst and increase our mental strength, so I ate it myself without waking you up. ”

When he heard this, he was very unhappy, and thought, "He has eaten something good, but he didn't wake me up, and enjoyed the delicious food alone." Later, when I came across something good, I didn't want to tell him. ”

After some time, two birds saw a poisonous flower in one place.

"Okay, let me eat this flower, and let's both die together!"

Then he said to Upaga, "Sleep first, and I will keep watch." ”

So Yuboga went to sleep with peace of mind.

When he saw that he was asleep, he secretly plucked the poisonous flower and swallowed it in one gulp.

After a while, Yupoga woke up, felt sick all over, and felt that his breath was poisonous, and asked, "When I was asleep just now, what bad food did you eat?

"When you were asleep, I ate that poisonous flower, and I want both of us to die together." ”

When he heard this, he was puzzled and asked, "Why are you so reckless?"

After speaking, he sang mournfully:

At that time, you slept, and the flowers fell beside me.

I eat delicious flowers, but you blame me.

I hope that from now on, different fools live.

It hurts others and harms oneself, and there is no benefit in living together.

In life, we are all two-headed birds, and there is good and evil buried in our hearts. We often hover on the edge of good and evil, whether it is good or evil, just in our thoughts. Foolishness is foolishness, and if you use your own life and death to get away with a momentary revenge, you will definitely go into an irreparable situation.

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In the history of Buddhism, there have been countless great achievers. But the one we are going to talk about today can be said to be the great achiever of the great achievers, and his promotion and influence on Mahayana Buddhism is extremely profound and extensive. He and Ma Mingbo

There is a juxtaposition of the title, also known as the Lord of the Thousand Parts. But when it comes to the greatest person after Shakyamuni Buddha, it is Nagarjuna.

In our Han Buddhism, Nagarjuna enjoys the title of "Eight Ancestors", which is the eight sects of Mahayana Buddhism, and their ancestors are the same as him. So this Nagarjuna, who lived almost in the second century A.D., was also a native of the Southern Tianzhu Kingdom, who was born into a family of great Brahmins, and was a nobleman in India. Then his father was suffering from having no son, and he had no son, and he was begging for a son, and one night he had a dream that someone told him, "If you can make a heart, and give a good heart, to make offerings to a hundred Brahmins, and there are many Brahmins who are monks and religious worshippers, you can get a son." He listened to this and "practiced according to the teaching", and in technical terms, we called "obedient and obedient". Then after giving birth to a son, the priest said, "This child has only seven days to live, and if you want him to live longer, you have to continue to provide for a hundred brahmins." So when you see Nagarjuna coming, you bring with you this kind of merit that makes merit for others to do merit. Then what about offering another hundred, you can live to be seven years old, and then there is no way.

Then when Nagarjuna's parents watched their children grow up to seven years old, they were a little desperate and couldn't bear to see their son die like this, so they were ruthless and drove him and a servant out of the house.

Then the young Nagarjuna began to wander very miserably. When he went to a Nalanda monastery and saw a great brahmin, after understanding his background, he gave him instructions, saying that if you become a monk, you can avoid the calamity of death, and he also taught him a mantra, which is to teach him that on the last night of the seventh year, you will continue to chant the mantra all night, and so that the causes of your death do not come together and make it a reality. With such diligence, Nagarjuna survived this tribulation and became a monk at the age of eight. After becoming a monk, he became proficient in all worldly learning, all the Mahayana and all the Buddhist scriptures.

But when he became an adult, he thought that he had already understood all the scriptures, and he also developed great arrogance, thinking that the Dharma of Shakyamuni Buddha was nothing more than that, and he could start a sect. In this case, there is a great dragon Bodhisattva invited him to swim around the Dragon Palace, let him read his collection of classics, he finally saw the "Dafang Guang Buddha Huayan Sutra", we all know that "Huayan Sutra" is the first core and roundest classic that Shakyamuni Buddha preached. For example, our current version has 80 volumes of Huayan and 60 volumes of Huayan, but what does this belong to? It's the people in our world who can read it through the heart and brain, and there are such people. Then it will take quite a while for us to recite a Huayan Sutra now. However, the Huayan Sutra also has a middle book and an upper version, and to what extent are there many sentences in the upper version?

The dictionary describes the number of Ganges sands, you can't count them at all, just such a large number of classics, finally convinced him, he knew how shallow he was. Then he later set out to bring the next version of the Huayan Sutra out of the Dragon Palace, so that we can now spread it widely in the world and be able to see it.

Then about Nagarjuna, Shakyamuni Buddha has an instruction in the "Ranga Sutra". You may hear the word memorization and think it's a bit professional. The imparting means that the Buddha follows the wisdom of his Buddha's mind and Buddha's eyes, and then immediately observes the true state of the universe in all the dharmas, the rhythm of the antecedents and consequences, so he can pick out a point at random, and he can know what his antecedents are and what the consequences will inevitably be. Then he gave the memorization, which is actually the part where he already knows what the consequences will inevitably be, saying that in the great kingdom of the Southern Heavens, there is a great monk named Nagarjuna, who is able to propagate the Mahayana Dharma, and he is able to attain the land of joy.

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