Zhou Tianyi, Miao Weiqiang, and Dong Tinghua sat cross-legged on the ground, listening to the old monk tell the story about Shakyamuni Buddha, and wanted to get more information from the story of the old monk, which was all clues to find the relic. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ。

Just seven days after Shakyamuni was born, his mother, Queen Maya, died of illness. The King of Pure Rice came from sorrow and mourning, and looking back on the young prince, he was even more compassionate. So he took Queen Maya's sister, Mahabo, into the palace and entrusted her with the care of the prince.

Mahabo Japhati was virtuous and benevolent, and regarded Prince Siddhartha as his own, and loved him for ten minutes. The King of Pure Rice also ordered thirty-two palace maids to assist in the care, eight women to hold them, eight women to bathe, eight women to breastfeed, and eight women to lead the play. Later, Mahabo Rakhoti married the King of Pure Rice, and he was even more dedicated to raising the prince.

Prince Siddhartha in his childhood was intelligent and unsurpassed. He was carefully guarded by his aunt, and when he was warm and cold, he ate well, he ate in moderation, his body was unusually healthy, and he grew very quickly, just like the Nishanda tree, which had to be planted with fertile soil, and it was growing day by day.

Prince Siddhartha in his youth was pure and clean. He was very tired of the noisy life in the court, and often thought about going out to enjoy the natural scenery.

One day, he took a seven-treasure wheel car, traveled from the east gate, and saw an old man, bent his back, holding a bamboo cane, walking with difficulty, like an ant. Prince Siddhartha suddenly felt the hardships of life, and his heart was particularly depressed.

One day, when he was traveling from the south gate, he saw a sick man, with a yellow complexion, and described as withered, panting and groaning, and in pain. Prince Siddhartha took pity on the sick and was terrified.

One day, when I traveled from the West Gate, I saw a deceased person, lying upright and stiff, bruising and overflowing, and the smell was unpleasant. Prince Siddhartha felt it again, and was terrified and depressed.

One day, Prince Siddhartha went out to play at the north gate and saw a monk with a dome and robe, good looks, clear spirit, and majestic manners. When the monk told him to practice the path of liberation, the prince decided to renounce the pleasures of wealth and pleasure and deliberately practice in order to be free from the sufferings of "old age", "sickness" and "death".

Prince Siddhartha begged his parents for permission to become a monk, but the King of Pure Rice and Lady Mahapathati wept and did not allow them. He also asked his parents for four wishes: one not to grow old, two not to get sick, three not to die, and four not to say goodbye. He said that if he could fulfill his four vows, he would not leave home. When the King of Pure Rice heard this, he knew that he still wanted to become a monk, and he was especially reunited.

In desperation, the King of Pure Rice worked hard to make people build a palace where flowers bloom in spring, summer and autumn, and added all kinds of wonderful songs and dances to please the prince's ears and eyes, and made people vigilant and guarded, and did not leave for a while, wanting the prince to get rid of the idea of leaving home.

Shakyamuni was not in the least impressed by the pleasures of the five desires. In the middle of the night on February 8, the moon was clear. He got up, stared at his sleeping wife, Yelundra and his son, Rahula, silently bid them farewell, and then went out of the room. He saw that the palace maids and the guards were all asleep, like wood and stone, and sighed again.

Prince Siddhartha said goodbye to his wife and children, and called the groom to hide the horse. Che Wei cried loudly, trying to wake up the people in the palace, but he couldn't wake up snoring, so he had to prepare a horse for the prince.

The prince stepped on the white horse and walked out of the wall through the north gate, followed by the chariot. The Buddhist scriptures say that at the beginning of the horse's steps, the earth shook, the four heavenly kings held the horse's feet, and the Brahma Emperor released the banner to lead the way.

When the prince left the city, he made a vow: "If I don't live or die, I won't return to the palace; If I don't become a Buddha, I will never see my father again; If I don't fulfill my affection, I will never see my aunt, wife and children. ”

So, Prince Siddhartha and his groom hid in the chariot, rode one step at a time, and crossed the clear stream in the vast night. By the time dawn came, they had reached a hundred miles away, and they had reached the deep forest by the Abbami River, which was the place where the ancient Varkya immortals practiced asceticism.

When Prince Siddhartha saw that the mountains and forests here were lush and silent, his heart rejoiced, so he ordered Che Cheng to lead the horse back to the palace, but Che Cheng refused, and wept and persuaded him: "The prince grew up in the palace and enjoyed honor, and now he is in the mountains and forests, accompanied by thorns, insects and beasts, how can he withstand all these hardships and dangers?" The prince replied, "You need not say much, but you must know that I am in the palace, and although I am free from visible thorns, insects, and beasts, I am not free from invisible thorns, insects, and beasts, and I am now trying to relieve old age, sickness, and death, and to have eternal and true happiness." ”

After that, Prince Siddhartha thought to himself; If you do not shave your beard, you will not become a monk, but you will draw a golden sword, cut your hair with your hands, and vow: "I will shave my hair today, and I will cut off the troubles and habits with all sentient beings." Then a hunter came, dressed in a robe, and the prince exchanged his splendid garments, and became a monk.

Seeing this situation, the groom knew that it was irreparable, so he had to lead the horse to say goodbye and find his way back to the palace.

After Shakyamuni became a monk, he sought the Master in many ways in order to find the Path. When he saw many cultivators, either using grass as clothing, or starving without food, or with one foot crossed, or lying in the dust and thorns, or worshipping the sun and the moon, or serving water and fire, he did not think so, and knew that they were all foreign ways.

Later, Shakyamuni learned meditation from Arorakarama and Uthagarama, who lived in seclusion in caves. The former taught him to "follow the steps of contemplation and meditation" and attain the "Kingdom of Emptiness"; The latter read to him "a state that is neither psychological nor psychological".

So Shakyamuni sat alone in a cave, sitting cross-legged, facing the wall and meditating, in order to seek enlightenment. When he realized that there was no enlightenment, he changed his mind and decided to experience ascetic austerity in order to find liberation.

Shakyamuni came to the ascetic forest of the Gyalan Mountain by the Nirenzen River, and sat alone under the tree. He has no covering, no shelter from the wind and rain, no momentary movement of his eyes, no terror of his heart, abandons everything, puts it all down, or restricts his breathing, and his mind is terrified, like a needle piercing the bone; It is said that because he kept his heart and kept the precepts, he did not lie down, and even a great eagle nested and fed his chicks on his head, and the dung of his body was also listened to.

Shakyamuni has been practicing asceticism for six years, and he has gradually eaten one hemp and one wheat a day at the beginning, and gradually eclipsed one hemp and one wheat every seven days to the point that he does not drink or eat. Eventually, his body became extremely emaciated, like a dead tree, and his hands rubbed against his chest and abdomen, and he could touch his back.

One day, he suddenly realized that it was not easy to attain the path of liberation by excessive enjoyment, but blind asceticism would not lead to the path of enlightenment, so he decided to eat again and join the path again.

After giving up his ascetic life, Shakyamuni went to the place known as Bodh Gaya, where he sat down under a tall and dense Bibora tree. He made a vow: "If I don't attain enlightenment, I'd rather shatter this body than I will never be able to do it!" ”

He readjusted his method of practice, and sat under the Bodhi tree with the intention of meditating. His mind recalls past experiences, contemplates the origin of life in the universe with great wisdom, and after a long period of reflection, enters a state of "understanding" or "awakening", and reaches a situation where he "knows neither satisfaction nor disappointment", as if the error disappears, wisdom emerges, the darkness passes, and the light comes.

The Buddhist scriptures say that after Shakyamuni ascended under the Bodhi tree, he became a Bodhi Dao fruit auspicious light leaping into the heavens and the earth, and the Bodhi Dao fruit is the birth of the holy fruit of Mahayana Buddhism. (To be continued.) )