"Arhats have the faintness of dwelling in the womb, and bodhisattvas have the mystery of separating yin. If you ask about your past life, it's much easier. If you ask about reincarnation, I'm afraid it's very difficult. Jiuyi sighed.

"Arhats have the faintness of dwelling in the womb, and bodhisattvas have the mystery of separating yin?"

"yes. Even if you are an Arhat with great magical powers, once you enter the womb, you will forget all your magical powers. Even if you are a bodhisattva who has attained enlightenment, as soon as you pass through this womb, you will be lost as soon as you are reincarnated. Both arhats and bodhisattvas are afraid of reincarnation, let alone an ordinary person. Ninety-one said Chief.

Grandpa said, "I have heard that people have an eighth consciousness, which is called alayya. Ignorance means clinging to the Dharma without losing one's mind; It is the foundation of all laws, so it is also called knowledge; It is the strongest of the functions of all knowledge, so it is also called the master of knowledge. This knowledge is the foundation of all things in the universe, which contains all things and makes them exist without losing them, so it is called Tibetan knowledge. And because it can contain the seeds of all things, it is also called seed knowledge. As long as you have this kind of awareness, it is possible to remember reincarnations and past lives. I have been to Tibet before, and I have seen reincarnated spirit children and living Buddhas, and I have heard them say that there is no need to worry about forgetting the Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist principles that I have learned in this life, and I don't have to worry about learning in vain in this life. Because the sutras and teachings that we have studied in our past lives have been deeply planted in our eighth consciousness, which is the alayya. Once the seed of alayas arises, we hear about the Dharma again and then go deep into the sutras. At this time, you will find out why others are confused when you listen to the scriptures and the Dharma, but you listen to them with relish and can understand the meaning of the Buddha. It is because of the good roots you planted in your past life, that you have heard such scriptures, and that you have even studied the scriptures without sleep or food. Therefore, the good roots of the past generations may be able to be fulfilled in this life! Buddhism and Taoism are not separated, and I think you have already opened up the consciousness of alayya, so you can remember all the things of your past lives. I'm here to ask you how you can open up the alayas so that they can take root and sprout like seeds in future lives. ”

Jiuyi listened patiently to his grandfather's words, and laughed nonstop. He laughed and said, "So you already know Alayya!" It can be seen that you have studied the theory of reincarnation very deeply, and you have done a lot of homework before you came to me. It seems that I can't fool you even if I want to fool you today. The friend who can make you so dedicated must not be an ordinary friend, right? ”

Grandpa was silent for a long time.

Captain Jiuyi walked up to his grandfather and patted him on the shoulder, signaling that he didn't have to answer. The Taoist chief said, "As you said, people have eight senses. Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, consciousness, mana, alayya. When the first seven consciousnesses are dead and destroyed, only the 'I' of the eighth alayya consciousness is the true nature of human beings, which can flow with us to the five realms and the six realms, reincarnation in heaven and earth, and is eternal and will not be destroyed. Because I naturally remembered the previous life, and I followed its path and diligently, like a blind fly drilling a hole indiscriminately, and luckily found a way to escape, I realized the trick of it, and only then did I understand ≡the existence and continuation of the alayya, and since I remembered the ninety-one times that the events of the previous life were spread one after another, I did not have a good life. A lot of people who sincerely ask questions or are just curious come to this Dayun Mountain, so that I have no free time to move, and I am emaciated. Later, I had to pretend that I didn't know anything, persuade those people to leave Dayun Mountain, and return me to purity. ”

Grandpa felt the same way and said, "I'm like this in my hometown. Because I know a little bit of Xuanhuang technique, I once helped people to calculate, and then people nearby came to me for everything to pinch and calculate. From life and death to trivialities, everything is trivial and annoying. However, those people are all neighbors who bow their heads and don't look up, and it's not good to refuse to shirk. ”

Because of similar pain, Captain Jiuyi regarded his grandfather as a confidant and asked him to stay in the Taoist temple.

Grandpa wanted to ask the trick and tell Xie Xiaomi that he wanted to come early and come back early. Ninety-one chief advised him not to be anxious. Seeing that he was so enthusiastic, his grandfather admitted that he had fooled the people who came to ask him, and sent them away, thinking that he must have decided to tell him the answer, so he stayed in Dayun Mountain for forty-one days, during which he had a long talk with Jiuyi about Buddhism and Taoism, and meditated and participated in Zen.

In the first 40 days, Captain Jiuyi taught his grandfather the skills and know-how of entering and exiting the determination, so that he could not only enter the meditation smoothly, but also get out of the meditation safely and completely. Grandpa didn't make it to the cave in Mount Emei again.

On the morning of the forty-first day, Jiuyi called his grandfather up early and led him around Dayun Mountain.

Grandpa Fox said suspiciously: "Dao Chief, did you wake me up so early just to take a walk?" ”

"I'm going to show you what the real alayas are." Ninety-one said the chief.

"Oh?" Grandpa was shocked, thinking that he was finally willing to preach, and he couldn't help but be happy.

Jiuyi smiled, raised his hand and pointed to a paddy field at the foot of the mountain in the distance, and said, "Alaya is like a field. The field is the place where the seedlings grow, and the seeds that are sown will grow the fruits. The alayas take with them the karma created by the first six consciousnesses, whether good or evil, and they are transmitted to it through the seventh consciousness, and it will receive them one by one. Then, as karma grows in the field of the eight consciousnesses, whether it is good or evil, whether it is good or bad, whether it is good or unfortunate, the previous consciousnesses do not matter, only the eighth consciousness is like a field, allowing the seed to sprout and become a retribution. ”

"Oh......" Grandpa didn't seem to understand, so he had to accept it first.

Captain Jiuyi led his grandfather to walk a little further, came to the place where the sundries were stored in the Taoist temple, pointed to the utility room and said, "Alaya is like a utility room. The utility room is a place where things are stored, gold and silver treasures can be stored here, and tables, chairs, and stools can also be stored here. In the same way, the fruits of greed and attachment are stored, and in this storehouse, no one will steal or rot. As long as the time is ripe, retribution will appear, and that is the main cause of the suffering and happiness of the human being. ”

"Hmm......" Daddy pondered.

Captain Jiuyi left the utility room and walked to the top of the mountain. At this highest point, you can see a large river farther away than the paddy fields. "Ten thousand rivers return to the sea. Alayas are like the sea, rivers and streams flow to the sea, and the sea does not dislike or reject them; Even if you throw dirty garbage into the sea, it will not pollute the cleanliness of the sea. This is equivalent to the karma that people create in the world, and although the main body of life, alayya, has to receive karmic retribution, but the karmic retribution is endless, and the existence of life is eternal. Therefore, people have birth and death, which is the phenomenon of karmic retribution; But really, the alayas of the main body of life have never been born or died, and they are always present with time and space, coexisting with nature. ”

"Well...... dad tried his best to understand the truth.

Standing at the top, Jiuyi said again: "Alaya is like a lifeline. Alayas are the main body of human life, and the lifeblood of this subject is like a firewood burning a fire, and the firewood burns one and then burns another, and although the firewood is different, the torch of life will continue forever. This is just like we circulate in the five pleasures and six paths, although Zhang San, Li Si, pigs, horses, cows, sheep, and the shapes of life are different, but the fire of life is all burning the same, so the real life is immortal. ”

Grandpa said, "Dao Chief, I understand all these truths you said, but I still don't have an answer on how to use the alayas to remember my previous life in my reincarnation. ”

"Hahaha," Jiuyi said with a long laugh, "If you pursue it too deliberately, you often can't get it." Follow the law to keep it, and you can get your wish. ”

"The Taoist chief said too mysteriously, I am only shallow in my learning, and I don't understand the mystery."

Chief Jiuyi walked down from the high place and said, "After these days of chatting, I know that you are not talented and knowledgeable, and you know too much. I have been living near this Dayun Mountain from beginning to end, without leaving the county, with no more than a hundred miles in my eyes, and very little reading, in terms of talent and knowledge, I am far inferior to you. However, it is precisely because you are well-informed and knowledgeable that you forget the origin and cannot see the essence. ”

Grandpa did feel the same way, so he was silent. He's not the kind of person who can't stand being said a few words.

Seeing that he did not argue, Jiuyi nodded appreciatively: "If you want your friend to remember the events of this life after she is reincarnated, it is in vain for you to let her remember your face, your character, and your voice, and you try to use all kinds of methods to help her, but it is also in vain." People are originally boats that cross the world, and if you ask her to remember the shape, characteristics, and wood of this boat, and want her to find you again in the next life according to these, it is tantamount to carving a boat and asking for a sword. The boat is still the same boat, but the sword is not here. ”

"That is to say, the assistance of external forces is useless?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"Keep your heart."

Grandpa covered his chest and said softly, "Heart? ”

Jiuyi took his father's hand away and said with a smile: "The heart is not here." It is in the paddy fields, in the utility room, in the sea, in the root of life, in all things in this world. Alayas are different from the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, consciousness, and mana, but they are their synthesis and their seeds. It can grow rice grass again like a paddy field, it can accommodate others again like a utility room, it can receive thousands of rivers like the sea, and it can continue for generations like a liferoot. ”

After forty-one days passed, my grandfather wanted to stay on Dayun Mountain, but Jiuyi didn't keep him.

Grandpa had no choice but to return to Thrush Village.

On the second day after returning to Thrush Village, Xie Xiaomi came to the Ma family's old house. Grandpa told Xie Xiaomi's story about what happened to Dayun Mountain.

After Xie Xiaomi heard it, he couldn't help but smile shyly and said, "I understand." ”

Grandpa was surprised: "I stayed there for forty-one days and couldn't understand it, but you actually listened to me and understood the long words of the ninety-one days?" ”

Luo Buzhai, who was also in the same room, also frowned, and looked at Xie Xiaomi with suspicion.

Xie Xiaomi picked up the brush commonly used by her grandfather and wrote a sentence on the paper: "The mountains have trees and the trees have branches." Then leave.

Luo Buzhai didn't understand it, so he walked up to his father with the paper and asked him to read it.

After reading it, Grandpa was stunned.