Chapter 453: Mother and Aunt 2
In the midst of excitement and joy, the King of Pure Rice invited the most famous Wutong immortal at that time, Ashita, to look at Prince Siddhartha. Unexpectedly, after Ah Zhi Tuoxian saw it, he actually cried with tears. His cry alarmed the King of Pure Rice, and then asked him, "Does it mean that this child of mine has some ominous appearance?"
"No, there is not the slightest sense of foreboding about him, it's just that he looks so good, so I feel sorry for myself. After all, he ......"
"What does this mean, he, what kind of figure is he, may I ask Daxian?" King Pure Rice was very suspicious.
I mean, "When this child grows up, he will definitely become a monk and become a Buddha, but I myself don't have the blessing to be close to the Buddha, I'm already too old to die." Ashita was still weeping sadly.
"We won't let him become a monk, many physiognomy masters have already said that this child will become the Wheel Saint King. So what you say doesn't convince me in the slightest!" said King Pure Rice with great interest.
That is their ignorance, you know, in this age of the last eons, there will be no reincarnation, so I know that he will become a monk in the future. After reading the picture, he left the palace, walked out of the royal city, and returned to his mountain.
This made the King of Pure Rice happy, but also made the King of Pure Rice worried. Of course, he never wanted Prince Siddhartha to really become a monk, and even if he would become a Buddha after becoming a monk, he would never want it under the concept of worldly family affection. What he hopes for is to inherit his royal legacy, expand the scope of his royal legacy, and even become the holy king of the wheel as the masters said, and rule the world and the people of the four worlds with the politics of peace and goodness.
However, an unfortunate event happened, the great illusion of Lady Maya, seven days after the birth of Prince Siddhartha, died, which for Siddhartha, the loss of his mother in infancy was unfortunate, even for the entire royal family, it was a great loss. Fortunately, the second lady of the King of Pure Rice is the sister of Mrs. Maya, and at the same time, Mrs. Transfiguration also gave birth to a child, and her appearance is also very special, his name is Nanda, he has thirty kinds of adult appearances, only two less than Prince Siddhartha, if he does not leave home, he can also be the king of the silver wheel, and can rule the world and people under the three heavens.
In this way, the responsibility of raising Prince Siddhartha was assumed by the Lady of Transfiguration. She loved Prince Nanda, whom she had born, but she loved Prince Siddhartha, who was born to her sister. Her affection and intentions for Prince Siddhartha are not like an aunt, let alone a stepmother, completely like a biological mother. Although the prince has been very well-behaved since he was a child, he is very obedient, has extraordinary wisdom, and has superhuman physical strength, but as the prince's mother, especially as the prince's protector, the painstaking work can be imagined.
Prince Siddhartha finally grew up gradually under the careful care of the Lady of Transfiguration. What makes the great love of the Tao happy is that the prince and prince she raised did not disappoint her, there are many princes of the same age in the royal family, and they have been playing games and playing together since childhood, whether it is better than wisdom or martial arts, every time it is always Prince Siddhartha first, Prince Nanda second, and the other most naughty and mischievous Prince Devadatta, he is the nephew of King Pure Rice, although he wants to take the lead in everything, but he is third every time.
However, the words of the Ashita Immortal have finally come true. Fearing that the prince would really become a monk, King Jingfan married three flower-like concubines for the prince, but after all, he could not stop the prince's determination to become a monk. When he was twenty-nine years old, he traveled to the four city gates, discovered the horrors of birth, old age, sickness and death, and became aware of the suffering of all sentient beings, and wanted to find a way to relieve all sentient beings from their suffering. So, in the middle of the night, riding a horse and taking a groom with him, he quietly left the palace and, with the support of the gods, went beyond the city walls, crossed the city, and went to become a monk.
For the care of the prince, in addition to the king of pure rice, Mrs. Da Ai Dao is the most cordial and considerate person, so the prince passed through the city to become a monk, although at night, Mrs. Da Ai Dao still had a strange dream, dreaming of four strange scenes: one is the lunar eclipse, the second is the sunrise in the east, and then disappears, the third is to see many people come to bow, and the fourth is to see yourself laughing or crying. When she knew that the prince had quietly become a monk, she realized that this strange dream should be on the prince, although she still did not understand the true meaning of the dream.
After Prince Siddhartha became a monk, he went for more than six years, and during this time, the Great Love Tao was naturally often worried, especially after hearing the news of the prince's ascetic journey in the snowy mountains, and hearing that the prince had been thin like a handful of dry wood, and haggard like an eighty-year-old woman.
Fortunately, the news of the Buddha's enlightenment was transmitted back to the palace. Soon after, I heard that the Buddha was coming back to meet everyone. Then there was another wave of excitement and joy in the palace.
The Buddha's return to the palace did not stay permanently because of this, and he did not stay in the palace for a single night. However, the Buddha's every move left a fresh and * impression on everyone, especially the Buddha's words and teachings, which made everyone feel a sense of detachment.
So many people, including the King of Pure Rice, took refuge in the Three Jewels and attained the pre-flowing fruits, and the King of Pure Rice also advised many of the sons of the royal family to follow the Buddha and become monks. These scenes are seen in the eyes of the Great Love, heard in the ears of the Great Love, and recorded in the heart of the Great Love. She thought: The prince has become a monk, and he has really become a Buddha, and many children of the royal family have also become monks, and the prince Nanda, who was born to her, has also been ordained. Since Buddhism is so good, and since it is so good to become a monk, a man can become a monk, but is it also a woman who is a monk?
This thought hovered in the heart of the Great Love Dao for a long time, and finally she also made up her mind, and announced her determination to the women in the palace, and she was determined to become a monk with the Buddha.
In fact, the women in the palace also had such hopes, but as palace maids, they had no freedom and did not dare to speak out. After this news came out, many royal women also came to follow the great love. This is an unprecedented women's ordination movement of the Shakya people, and it is also an unprecedented women's ordination movement in the history of Buddhism.
However, since the Buddha returned to the royal palace of the Acropolis of Kapila in his homeland and sent away a large number of young princes, he rarely returned to his homeland in order to prevent the children of the royal family who had already become monks from being affected by worldly feelings. After waiting for many years, the Buddha finally returned to his homeland, which is really the best opportunity for the great love path.
When she heard that the Buddha had returned to China and was living in the multi-rooted tree garden outside the city, she thought that her wish would be granted, so she took 500 women to the multi-root tree garden to meet the Buddha. First of all, the Buddha was asked to preach the teachings of the Dharma to them, and then all the women led by the Great Love Path pleaded with the Buddha with their palms together, and they said in a very skillful way: "O Great Venerable World-Honored One, is there any woman who has become a monk in Buddhism, and has she been able to practice pure practice and attain the four holy fruits of shama after she has become a monk in Buddhism?"
The Buddha was an omniscient and omniscient sapient being, and he had long understood the meaning of the path of great love, so he replied directly: "Do you want to ask these things? But I want to tell you, the way of great love, you can wear the clothes of your home and practice the pure practice of the Dharma, and if you can achieve the level of purity, perfection, and unblemishedness, you can also attain supreme benefits and happiness." ”
"O Great Virtuous World-Honored One, plead for mercy, and let us women become monks. The Great Love Path pleaded with the Buddha three times again, but the Buddha's reply was the same as that of practicing at home. This made her very sad, but the Buddha's virtue made her dare not continue to plead, so she had to respectfully bow to the Buddha and return to the palace in a daze.
However, although she was very sad when the Buddha refused to accept the invitation, she did not lose heart, nor did she retreat, but on the contrary, she called on the women who followed her, took further action, automatically shaved off their hair, automatically put on a bad-colored robe, and when everything was done, she went to see the Buddha again.
However, when they arrived at the multi-root tree, the Buddha and the disciples of the great bhikshus had already left him the day before! In desperation, the Great Love Dao had no choice but to lead 500 women along the route of the Buddha and then followed, but the distance between them and the Buddha was always a day's journey.
Finally, the Buddha paused for a day in a place called Acacia Grove and let them catch up.
The women of the royal family, who have always lived in the deep palace, have never had a long journey, have never suffered such hardships, on the road, day and night, eat wind and rain, sun and night dew, no regular and quantitative diet, and do not have enough rest and sleep. On a good day, the sky is full of flying dust, and on a rainy day, the road is full of dirty mud. After walking for several days, their feet were blistered, and their bodies were covered with a layer of dirt, and when they caught up with the Buddha and saw the Buddha, they were already exhausted and like a clay statue.
When the Buddha saw that they had worked so hard and arrived so reverently, he comforted them and told them some Dharma as is customary. This was a great joy for them, and they thought that the Buddha must have been moved by their actions since he had comforted them so compassionately, and that he would allow them to become monks.
Therefore, after hearing the Dharma, the Great Love Dao led all the women to bow to the Buddha and plead with their palms, and ask the Buddha as they had done before, "O great virtuous world-honored one, are there any women who have become ordained in Buddhism? Are there any women who, after being ordained in Buddhism, have been able to practice pure Brahmanism and attain the four holy fruits of shamun?"