Chapter 24: Asura. Mortal. Heaven

Xiang Fei's consciousness received an answer: Luo Hou. Xiang Fei opened his eyes and said to the old immortal: "I heard a voice, or it can't be said to be a voice at all, and it went directly to my consciousness, the first Asura is called Luo Hou, but I want to know why he became an Asura?" ”

The old fairy nodded and said, "Very good, continue to type in the question as just now!" Xiang Fei continued to meditate, and a line of words flashed in her brain: Why did that Luo Hou become the first Asura? Then in Xiang Fei's consciousness, there was a dynamic picture like a film and television drama, but it was more real than TV: there was a wonderful fairy who fell into the sea next to Mount Meru out of nowhere, playing in the water, and after she left, she left behind a pink ball as big as a basketball with pearl brilliance, the ball floated in the sea for an unknown number of times, and then the ball egg burst and gave birth to a monster, with nine heads, each head has a thousand eyes, spits fire and water in the mouth, and there are thousands of hands, but only eight feet, Growing up from the sea, which only reached his waist, it was ugly and terrible! Xiang Fei opened his eyes in fright, patted his chest with both hands and said, "Mom! This Luo Hou looks too scary, no wonder the Shura girl is unwilling to marry the Shura man! This world of Asura is so terrifying, I don't want to look at it again! But what kind of person or cause can you tell me about being reborn in this asura path? ”

"Let's talk about this Luo Hou first, in his previous life, King Asura was a poor man who lived by a large river and often crossed the river to harvest wages and carry firewood. The river often had flash floods, and the water was deep and the waves were large, and he was flooded by the river several times, but fortunately survived. Crossing the river to carry firewood on the way to collect firewood, there is no rapids, there is no help, drifting with the waves, and he is about to die; struggled, but fortunately came out of the water and was saved.

Shortly thereafter, a Buddha turned into a Buddhist monk came to the door of the firewood man and begged for food. When the firewood collector saw the Buddhist monks coming to his house, he was very happy and exhausted all the food in the house and made a meal for the sake of food. After eating the fasting meal, the Buddha threw the bowl into the air and flew away. The firewood collector was very surprised when he saw it, and faced with the whereabouts of the Buddha, he swore to the heavens: May I be tall in the next life, all deep water, and incapable of passing the knees. Because of this karma, the firewood collector received the blessing, the body is huge, the four seas, can not reach the knee. Standing in the middle of the sea, passing through Sumeru, holding his hand on the top of the mountain, looking down at the Heavenly Palace, he is the first Asura King Luohou, and his wife is the princess of the Gandharva, but beauty does not change the genes of the asuras, on the contrary, the Asura people are seriously polarized:

Asura men are extremely ugly, all of them are shaped like Mount Meru, with 1,000 eyes, 24 feet, and 999 heads, mouths, and hands. The Asura Woman has inherited the beauty genes of the Ganda Pole Divine Clan, plus her natural divine power, and she does not have the delicate nature of the Ganda Woman, all of them are beautiful! Now many beauties in the world have come down from the Asura path, singing, acting, look at how many of their lifetime marriages are consummated?

Those who are reborn on the asura path, although they have not had any great evil deeds in their past lives, they are very contemptuous, very proud, and either look down on others or are jealous of others who are better than themselves, including doing minor evils in the body, in the mouth, in the mind, in arrogance, in the slow rise of self, in the slow rise of the uplift, in the slow rise of the great upset, in the slow rise of evil, in the slow rise of the good, and in the return to the roots of goodness. According to the Sutra of Lengyan, asuras are divided into four beings: egg, fetus, wetness, and incarnation due to their different karma: first, oviparity, if you use the power of Dharma protection in the ghost path to take advantage of the small supernatural powers and enter the air, such an asura is born from an egg and is photographed by ghosts; 2. Viviparity, if they are degraded in the way of heaven because of their degrading, and the place where they live is adjacent to the sun and the moon, such an asura is viviparous and is taken by human interest; 3. Wet life, there are some inferior asuras, reincarnated in the depths of the sea, sinking in the ** mouth, swimming in the void, returning to the water at dusk, such asuras are wet and taken by animal interest; Fourth, rebirth, there is an asura that holds the world, its power is great and fearless, and it can compete with the Brahman, the emperor, and the four heavenly kings.

"Dharma Recitation Sutra" cloud: In the past, the asuras practiced the Brahmanical Dharma, were first intelligent, good at knowing all kinds of techniques in the world, and were happy to give alms, and in the wilderness they gave food and drink, fruits, root food, clear springs and beautiful water, and dressing utensils for houses, and at the head of the four intersections, they gave to the sick, travelers, blind and poor, and gave to houses and food dressings to order satisfaction, but not correct views.

There is also the cloud of "The Treatise on Great Wisdom": Asura is disgusting and fights without breaking the vows, overhauls and blesses, is born and lives by the sea, and also has a city and palace. The asura dwelling place is open and vast, made of the Seven Treasures, and the internal structure is fine and solemn, which is directly related to his previous life of keeping vows and cultivating great generosity, but the troubles and habits of the Asura in his previous life are very heavy, his knowledge is not correct, and he is slow to pay tribute to the self, so he feels the path of the asura! ”

"Therefore, although many of you cultivators in the mortal world practice generosity, study the Fa and read the scriptures, they always regard themselves as cultivators, look down on ordinary people, and think that they are all stupid. Then there is the comparison between the practitioners, who goes to the temple is bigger, whose master is famous, who recites more sutras, who offers the Buddha utensils are good-looking, which master gave you Buddha beads and did not send others, and so on and so on are all to go to the Asura for yourself to repair the road, and there is also a kind of doubt while practicing, today I think the Dharma that the Buddha said is really the supreme wonderful law, and tomorrow I think Oh! The Buddha said that there is a blissful world, so what is the scientific basis for that? Where? Or being skeptical of Buddhist scriptures, opening large and small scriptures, taking a magnifying glass, and studying them desperately, etc., are all reasons to attract the asuras! ”

Xiang Fei kept nodding her head in admiration when she heard this like a chicken pecking rice, and she stretched out two thumbs to the old fairy and said, "Wow! I'm going to give you a big thumbs up! ”

"Actually, I told you this for a purpose, do you remember what I said you asked you to help me accomplish in the human world? Now I can tell you slowly, this has to start with the war between the Asura and the celestials, the war between the two of them is not unrelated to the people of your Yamafuti world, but it is related to the key factor of the victory of which side, in the "Chang Ahama Sutra" it is said: "The world is evil, not filial piety to parents, not to be a teacher, not to practice fasting, not to give to the poor, to the detriment of the heavens, to the benefit of the Ahurons." …… In the world, there can be filial piety to one's parents, respect one's teachers, practice fasting diligently, give to the poor, gain the heavens, and detract from the Ashrams. From this, it can be seen that the good and evil conditions of mortals are closely related to the increase or decrease of the power of the asuras and the celestial beings.

If there are many people who do evil, the power of the asuras will increase; If there are many people who do good, the strength of the heavenly beings will increase. Therefore, celestial beings often come to the world to guide sentient beings to stop evil and cultivate good, and Asura hopes that people in the world will create evil karma! That's why every few days I'll choose someone to help me complete my plan to guide the world! When the old fairy said this, he took out the Qiankun gourd from his waist and shook it in his hand. Xiang Fei held his breath and watched the old fairy swaying his body slowly, and then put the gourd king's Vientiane table down, the gourd naturally rose to hang upside down on the table at a distance of one meter, Xiang Fei stared intently at the gourd mouth, I don't know if this time it will pour out of it is moved, excited or sad?