When everyone was sick and lying on the ground, there was a painful wail in the barren temple, and one person looked at the dilapidated Jizo Bodhisattva statue from beginning to end. It was an elderly woman, full of white hair, affectionate and vicissitudes, and from the first day she left the county seat and left home to the temple, she had been looking at the face of Jizo Bodhisattva with lowered eyebrows. Sitting cross-legged, he doesn't take medicine or drink water.

This is true on the first day, and so on the second day, and every day after that.

Some died, his family lay on top of him and sobbed quietly, while others had coughed and couldn't breathe and crawled out of the temple alone, like dogs trying to crawl home.

It was in such a purgatory that this woman suddenly raised her face and said to everyone, "I can save you." ”

She said, "I heard the Bodhisattva speak. The Bodhisattva has shown us a clear path that will lead to the healing of the sick and the resurrection of the dead. The Bodhisattva says that he will lead each of us to a place of bliss and guide us to the world of bliss. ”

At first people didn't believe it, they all thought she was crazy and said these things. People are indifferently and numb doing what they have in their hands, boiling medicine when they should boil medicine, going out to find food, looking for food.

Only the parents of the newly dead child came to her and asked tentatively, "Can you really bring my child back from the dead?" ”

She said, "That's what the Buddha said. ”

The parents took her hand and pleaded. She sat down beside the child, and she knelt down, folded her hands, closed her eyes, and began to chant.

No one could hear what she was reciting, only to see her lips opening and closing, her voice like a string of beads, and the related syllables were orderly and coherently connected and repeated. With the sound of her scriptures, the fingers of the young man, who should have closed his eyes and completely died, suddenly moved.

Then he began to tremble and struggle, as if he had fallen into water, trying to find a way out. He hissed from his mouth, over and over again, like a dying beast.

The people who had been indifferent for a long time stood up when they heard the noise. They gathered around to witness the miracle happen. As his roar grew louder and louder, people watched as the young man who was supposed to be dead suddenly opened his eyes.

When a miracle happens, everyone kneels down and shouts "Bodhisattva", but only the Bodhisattva himself knows whether this is a coincidence or a real miracle.

The young man bit the woman's palm as if he were about to bite a bite of flesh from her hand. But the woman never struggled, let him bite, and waited for the blood to slowly slide down her hand. His parents were overjoyed, but when they saw this, they hugged him in a panic and told him to open his mouth and stop doing these things.

They watched as the woman withdrew her bloodied hand and said softly, "Amitabha" and "It's okay, it's okay," and someone rushed over and tied the cloth into the young man's mouth. Seeing that he was still looking mad, the woman said, "This is the price of resurrection." His soul was left in Elysium, but his body was still concerned about a pair of parents, and he returned here for filial piety. ”

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. From the moment the dead young man opened her eyes, everything she said was the truth, and everything she did was absolutely right. No one will doubt her anymore.

People saw her stand up, like the Jizo Bodhisattva behind her, with her eyebrows lowered and her hands folded. Everyone kowtowed in front of her, and they called out to "Bodhisattva", saying "Bodhisattva, help", and saying, "Bodhisattva, we have listened to you, so I beg you, Bodhisattva." ”

I watched her casually tear off the cloth on the hem of her clothes, wrap it around her hands, walk out of the deserted temple step by step, point to the mass grave, and say to everyone, "The Buddha said that we should go north, to a barren but full of life." ”

So the people got up and followed her.

The Bodhisattva then turned around and said, "We can't leave our brothers and sisters behind." The Buddha said that we should be benevolent, and that we should treat all people as our relatives. When we are going to the north, we should go together.

So people supported each other, and several people carried them together, who were completely immobile.

Originally, there were people who had died in the temple, but the Bodhisattva and those who could still walk nodded and said that even the dead were our brothers and sisters, and they should be taken with them.

Someone asked, "Do you want to bring the medicine with you?" There's not much medicine left, and that's it.

The Bodhisattva shook his head and said that this medicine was brought by the hatred of those who had harmed us, and that it would be of no use to our recovery. The Buddha said that sincerity is spirituality, and the Buddha said to abandon these useless things.

So the people did the same, and threw all the medicine in its place, in front of the statue of Jizo Bodhisattva. They did as she said and went north, supporting each other, and staggered all the way, until they finally came to the mass grave.

For some reason, the Bodhisattva seemed to have heard the Buddha's will, and she opened a door, a door hidden under the tombstone, a door that led to the tomb.

People are still scared, and no one wants to just step into the grave. But the Bodhisattva said that there is light before there is darkness, and there is death before there is life, this is not a tomb, it is definitely not a dead road, as long as you go down, you will find this way of life.

The Bodhisattva took the lead and went into the tomb, and the sound of her footsteps spread far and wide, and people looked at the black hole and felt frightened, but the Bodhisattva had done too many things that seemed to them to be miraculous, and in such a situation, it would be disturbing to suspect her.

So there was the first person who stepped down the steps, and with the first there was a second, and then there was a third, and then a fourth.

People followed the Bodhisattva to a new place, a cave without sky and sunlight, a new home to live in. Beneath the tomb, there was an undercurrent, and the wind was blowing back and forth between the caves, sometimes so strong that it was as if someone was whispering from cave to cave.

Here they found candlesticks left by their predecessors, and there were even traces of people living here. The Bodhisattva sat on a broken futon, and she lit a candle at her feet, saying that this was the place where the Buddha had passed away, and that the Buddha had guided them, and that the Buddha hoped that they would continue to live.

And the people believed.

She said that from now on, all of us will become brothers and sisters, and we must not attack each other and do not lie. Love each other and restrain your desires.

Only then will everyone become better, you will be happy when you are alive, and you will be able to go to the Buddha's place to bless you in the world of bliss when you die.

The people nodded their heads and agreed.

She added that maybe someone will die soon, but don't panic and don't worry, your death only means that the soul will go to Elysium, and in a moment, the body will return here. It's just that if you are greedy and do evil deeds in front of you, the Buddha will not allow you to enjoy the mortal life in full form.

The Bodhisattva was talking about the young man who had risen from the dead, and she raised her bitten hand and said that it was because of this that he was like a wild beast.

The people agreed, and even the young man's parents nodded their heads, holding their son, who had been tied up, and looking at his madness, saying that it must have been because he stole sweet potatoes from his neighbor's house when he was a child, or lied to them and refused to go to school.

Yes, everyone believed it. Everyone was convinced of what the Bodhisattva said, and no one doubted the decision she had made. Everyone obeyed her and lived here. The bodhisattva lives in the one with the futon, and the brothers and sisters find a place to live in the cave.

A small, pious village was formed.

A group of patients no longer take medicine, just pray and chant sutras every day, this group of patients no longer believe in medicine, but believe everything that a woman who doesn't even know what the Diamond Sutra is, and believes that she is a living bodhisattva who saves everyone from suffering and sends everyone to the other side of happiness, the world of bliss.

The Bodhisattva said that we should help those who are not religious enough to come back from the dead and lose their minds.

So they did as she said, and they tied up all those who were about to die, or those who had died, and sat on lotus flowers with their legs crossed, and tied their hands together in a form of putting their hands together.

The Bodhisattva said let's give them some time and wait for them to regain their clarity. If he never recovers his scenity, it means that he has too many evil thoughts in his mind and needs to be cleared.

So the people did as she said, holding a long awl, and in the face of those who had come back from the dead in complete madness, they chanted "Amitabha" in their mouths and carried the awl through their eyebrows.

When the eyebrows of these crazy people who came back from the dead turned a little red with blood, the madness slowly left their bodies and floated towards an unknown place. Their flesh was finally at peace, and it was all over.

The Bodhisattva will say at the end, "Our brothers and sisters, he went where he wanted to go." It's all worth it.

When Murong Yuhua first heard the story of this living bodhisattva from the mouths of the believers in the cave, he realized that there were too many coincidences and too many improvised lies in this story. But in a desperate situation, people would rather pursue a lie that has no truth to speak of, but refuse to think about the truth behind it.

After Murong Yuhua came here as a patient, there were believers who walked around with him, and everyone looked calm and peaceful, extremely kind, and when they met him, they folded their hands and whispered "Amitabha". The believer took him to see those who were about to go to Elysium, and he was taken to see those who went to Elysium and came back from the dead.

The believer looked at the group of brothers and sisters who had lost their minds and screamed and struggled, and sighed, "If only they could be kind and have never done anything evil in their lives, they would not wake up like this." ”

Murong Yuhua knew almost the moment he saw their appearance that these were the living dead that Gu San was talking about. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, and it's not about resurrection at all!