Chapter 32: The Story of the Bodhisattva

In Turkish Buddhism, there are four great bodhisattvas who are the most famous.

That is Guanyin, Fugen, Shu and Jizo King Bodhisattva.

These four Bodhisattvas often appear in the world, so often people worship, its Guanyin Bodhisattva compassion first, Puxian Bodhisattva first, Shu Bodhisattva wisdom first, Jizo King Bodhisattva wish power first, although never cultivated the Buddha's position, but is the most authentic and noble monk, the most admired by all the people.

If you worship Shakyamuni Buddha, there will be two Bodhisattvas next to the Buddha statue, Shu and Puxian, Wisdom and Xingmen, which represent the words "solution" and "action" respectively. Shu and Puxian Bodhisattva, is the Buddha's side of the coercion, according to the world, these two will be the first and second heirs to inherit the Buddha's throne in the future, the origin is a big scary.

The dojo of Fuxian Bodhisattva is in Emei Mountain, Sichuan, and it is said that this Bodhisattva is like a full moon boy, wearing a crown of five Buddhas, holding a vajra pestle in his right hand, holding a vajra bell in his left hand, sitting on a thousand leaves and flowers, carried by a three-headed white elephant king.

The reason why the legend in the world says that Emei is the dojo of this Bodhisattva is because it has been said that the southwest Guangming Mountain, and Emei Mountain resembles an image.

No matter how many legends there are, most of them point to one point - the Bodhisattva should be a mellow image with a face like a full moon.

And Yi Tianxing's ...... in front of him It seems that the gap between the Bodhisattva and the majestic image is too great.

His hair covered his forehead, he was skinny, and his body was full of wounds, like a ghost.

Although Ye Xiang is the reincarnation of Shu, his face is handsome and not like a mortal, so Yi Tianxing was not very surprised when he first met his identity, and accepted it easily.

But when he saw the ghost-like Fuxian Bodhisattva, he couldn't help but exclaim, because it was really difficult to suppress the shock in his heart.

Who is so ruthless? Who can have such great magical powers, and actually knock the coercion next to the Buddha to the mortal dust, and he has not escaped this calamity for hundreds of years!

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The white-clothed boy is naturally a Puxian Bodhisattva, the most noble existence who should have cultivated Buddha in the Western Heaven Elysium, and the Great Truth Bodhisattva who should have enjoyed incense on Emei Mountain, actually appeared on this snowy field, in this Gelug Sect Lashhunpo Temple.

The white-clothed young man smiled slightly, but the skin and flesh on his face seemed to have been stiffened, and the corners of his lips twitched, but he didn't show a smile, but it made people feel a little miserable, but the smile in those bright eyes comforted Ye Xiangseng.

Ye Xiangseng squatted in front of his small bed and said softly, "Senior brother, why haven't you returned yet?"

The white-clothed Puxian Bodhisattva shook his head, gently took back his withered hand, and pointed at Yi Tianxing: "I can't return, the matter hasn't been explained clearly, how can I get it?"

Yi Tianxing was slightly nervous, but his face was calm.

"Will this young good knowledge have some time to listen to me?"

Fuxian Bodhisattva asked softly, his face full of scars was faintly filled with compassion and incomparable firmness, and the Buddha's light appeared slightly, and it was soft.

Yi Tianxing knelt in front of the Bodhisattva and said respectfully: "Please enlighten the Bodhisattva." ”

Ye Xiangseng glanced at the two of them, gently left the small bed, and sat down cross-legged beside Yi Tianxing.

Fuxian Bodhisattva laughed and said, "You are left and I are right, I have not sat like this for many years." He seemed to be extremely pleased, and at this time, looking at his scarred face, he did not feel terrible, but felt a perseverance that seemed to have been accumulated for thousands of years.

Ye Xiangseng's tears had dried, and he nodded with a smile.

Fuxian Bodhisattva turned around, stretched out his withered hands, and gently put them together in front of him: "Young good knowledge, I don't have much time, now there is a sutra and an old news I want to tell you, which one do you want to listen to first?"

Yi Tianxing was stunned for a moment, and a thought flashed in his heart.

"Bodhisattvas are bodhisattvas in the end, they have become miserable like this, their attitude is still so kind, and their speech is still so slow and reasonable......"

Suddenly waking up, he quickly stopped thinking and replied sincerely: "Listen to the Bodhisattva's story first." ”

Old news is story.

This story must not be simple, and it can make a bodhisattva persist in a hostile environment for so many years.

The voice of the Bodhisattva was very indifferent, but it made the people who heard it feel a strong desire to pierce the stone and crack the gold.

Yi Tianxing secretly clenched his hands, and the nervousness that he had been suppressing finally couldn't help but show it, he didn't know what this story would tell.

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"On that day, after the Buddha finished speaking on a sutra, Shu and I went back separately. I heard that an arhat came to say that the great sage had gone up to Mount Meru. ”

Fuxian Bodhisattva is straight to the point, not the slightest word confusion.

"The great sage returned from studying the scriptures and cultivated to the Buddhahood, but he was not happy to become a rìjie to preach and recite the Buddha, so he still played and ate and drank as before. Although Mount Meru is a holy place, he also thinks that we Bodhisattvas are boring and hateful, but after all, they are acquaintances, and he usually comes to play with a few of us occasionally...... Because there is an orchard behind Mount Meru, the peaches in the Tiangong Peach Orchard were eaten by him in the early years, and he likes to come to the orchard of Mount Meru to pick some fresh fruits to eat. So I was not surprised to hear that he was coming. ”

Fuxian Bodhisattva sighed, and then said: "I went to the orchard to invite the Great Sage, and outside the orchard, I listened to him talking to the Buddha, I don't know what to say, the Buddha sighed, and then the Great Sage smiled and came out with a coat of fruit. I stepped forward to greet them, and the two of them went to talk about fasting......" At this point, the Bodhisattva's resolute eyes looked upward, as if he was still a little puzzled to this day.

"A few days after this incident, I suddenly heard that the Great Sage had committed the two crimes of ignorance and hatred, and was ...... Degrade the mortal. ”

The wound on the face of Fuxian Bodhisattva twisted slightly: "The former Buddha and the Great Sage were still smiling and gentle in the orchard, but the latter few rì relegated the Great Sage to the mortal dust, this matter is very incomprehensible. ”

"The Great Sage has traveled a lot in Mount Meru, and we are all his close friends, knowing that the monkey was born with a pure heart, and he has entered the teachings of Buddhism, suppressed evil and promoted good, and returned to the original, and has long been out of the path of ignorance, how could he commit the two sins of ignorance and hatred?"

So I went to the Buddha's abode with Shushu, as well as Guanyin and Zhantan Merit Buddha to inquire. ”

He looked at Yi Tianxing and explained, "The Zhantan Merit Buddha is the second disciple of the Buddha. ”

Yi Tianxing hurriedly nodded: "I know, in the mortal world, we generally call him Tang Seng." ”

The Bodhisattva continued: "Unexpectedly, when the Buddha asked us, he only smiled slightly and did not answer. The Buddha is the supreme existence of great freedom and great wisdom, and there are wonderful things in a fortune and a line, and I and several other people can not see the results in detail, so they naturally think that maybe this is another blessing of the great sage, so they naturally do not care, and go to meditate on their own, only to seek results from the place where they have no fate. ”

"But another few years passed. Fuxian Bodhisattva frowned slightly, and his withered right hand subconsciously swayed lightly in the air: "There is an incident on Mount Meru. ”

Yi Tianxing vaguely guessed what that matter was, this matter had been in his heart for a long time, but he had never heard the person concerned confirm it in person, so he was still a little worried.

"The Buddha is gone. ”

Fuxian Bodhisattva said so, said indifferently, but this fact is as heavy as a thousand jun.

Yi Tianxing lowered his head slightly, without interjecting, he knew that there were still many stories behind.

"No one knows where the Buddha has gone, and no one even believes that the Buddha is no longer on Mount Meru, but only that the Buddha may be thinking about something. ”

"Because since the great sage spoke to him once in the orchard, the Buddha's thoughts began to have some very subtle changes from the usual, after the great sage was demoted to the mortal world, the Buddha stopped the ** conference, and began to meditate alone in the orchard behind Mount Meru, and the Buddha's sons and arhats often saw the Buddha staring at those fruit trees and smiling. ”

So when everyone found out that the Buddha was gone, they didn't feel anything. I just thought that the Buddha had been touched by something and began to think about certain questions, as he had done for thousands of years. ”

Fuxian Bodhisattva smiled: "But I am different, the two of us are the Bodhisattvas who always serve the Buddha. On Mount Meru, we can't feel a trace of the Buddha's breath at all, which has never happened for thousands of years. ”

"So, we thought that the Buddha had left Mount Meru, so we went to the Pure Land of Bliss to look for it, but the three Pure Land Buddhas didn't know where the Buddha had gone. ”

"We went to the yīn room again to look for the Bodhisattva of the Earth, who had a great wish to transcend all sinners, but the Buddha never came. ”

"We searched for the four Brahmatians, but there was no trace of them. ”

Fuxian Bodhisattva looked at Ye Xiangsheng and asked softly, "Do you remember that time?"

Ye Xiangseng shook his head in distress.

Fuxian sighed, and continued:

"We searched all over the world for thirty-three days, and found nothing...... Finally we came to earth. ”

"The Dharma is boundless, immortal, and the Buddha must be in this world, not seen for thirty-three days, then he must be reborn in the world. ”

Fuxian Bodhisattva stared at Yi Tianxing coldly.

Yi Tianxing shuddered.

"So I came to the human realm, and I went to report to the Pure Land...... At that time, I thought that the Buddha would be found immediately, and I was happy...... I didn't expect the aftermath to be so bumpy. ”

Fuxian sighed.

"The human world is the foundation of this universe. There is a law for bodhisattvas walking in the world, and good knowledge can be known?"

"You know, the Bodhisattva walks in the world, not to walk with the true body, if the real body walks, the treasure image is solemn and gorgeous, and will lure believers into the mountain gate, this is done by external demons, not the Buddha's way to follow. Yi Tianxing replied respectfully.

Fuxian Bodhisattva nodded, and the withered yellow messy hair covered his scarred forehead again, Ye Xiangsheng waved his hand gently, and the wind rose, brushing his hair behind his ears.

"Hidden part of the cultivation, I walked in this world to find the true traces of the Buddha, after several years, through the snowy mountains, barren hills, Daze, oceans and deserts, still nothing. When I was shaking my heart, a strange omen fell from heaven, and I was seriously injured and could not recover. ”

"Who is it?" Yi Tianxing's heart tightened, knowing that the person who made the move must have nothing to do with the disappearance of the Buddha.

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"There are three Pure Lands of Bliss, the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha, the Pure Land of Maitreya, the Pure Land of Medicine Master, and the Pure Land closest to Mount Meru, and the Pure Land closest to the world is the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha. The Bodhisattva did not directly answer his question: "Do you know who the two attendant Bodhisattvas beside Amitabha Buddha are?"

Yi Tianxing vaguely remembered that the Pure Land Sect's texts once recorded: Buddha is the Buddha of the present world, and Amitabha Buddha is the Buddha of the future life.

Legend has it that Amitabha Buddha is the head of the Western Elysium, with Guanyin Bodhisattva on his left and Dashi Zhi Bodhisattva on his right, which is the so-called "Three Sages of the West".

Yi Tianxing groaned in the depths of his heart, knowing that if he participated in this matter, he would definitely meet the two Bodhisattvas who he couldn't win for eight hundred years, Rao is so, seeing the miserable appearance of the Fuxian Bodhisattva, he still has some resentment towards the two coerced Bodhisattvas.

"Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Great Trend to the Bodhisattva. The young man then argued: "Guanyin Master is the first to be compassionate, how can it be related to this matter?"

Fuxian Bodhisattva closed his eyes slightly, and said softly: "Then I walked under the snow-capped mountains with my mortal body, the sky was shining, and the Pure Land served the Bodhisattva with a bottle, without saying a word, and attacked with supernatural powers. ”

"The Bodhisattva of the top bottle?" Yi Tianxing knew that this must be the Bodhisattva of the Great Trend beside Amitabha Buddha, once he knew that it was not the black hand of Guanyin Master, for some reason, he was very happy in his heart, maybe it was that all mortals in this world were willing to regard Guanyin Master as a compassionate and holy existence.

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The five great bodhisattvas, the one who is the most famous of the great trend.

According to the legend of believers in the world, the Bodhisattva of Great Trend and Guanyin Bodhisattva are the attendant bodhisattvas beside the Supreme Pure Land Amitabha Buddha. If the Buddha is the master of Buddhism in our world, and Shu and Fuxian will be the successors in order to succeed the Buddha in the future, then Amitabha Buddha is the master of Buddhism in the future world, and the Bodhisattva of the Great Trend and Guanyin Bodhisattva are the second generation of successors of Amitabha Buddha.

The general trend has a deep relationship with the two saints of Mida and Guanyin. Before he became a Buddha, he was a servant of the Buddha together with Avalokiteshvara. In the future life, he will also become a Buddha after Guanyin Bodhisattva, and he will be called the King Buddha of Good Dwelling Merit.

The Great Trend to the Bodhisattva can also be called the Great Trend Bodhisattva. Every time this bodhisattva takes a step, the whole three thousand worlds are shaken, which is why he is called the Bodhisattva of Great Potential.

His position is so revered, his supernatural powers are so extraordinary, sneaking up on the Fuxian Bodhisattva who is walking in the world, no wonder he can succeed in one blow and seriously injure the Fuxian Bodhisattva.

Yi Tianxing thought in his heart, no wonder this great bodhisattva is not famous in the mortal world, it turns out that he is the top killer of the Buddhist family, and he must be walking in the dark.

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Fuxian Bodhisattva seemed to know what he was thinking, and said quietly: "The general trend is that the Bodhisattva enters the lifeless forbearance with the mind of the Buddha, so now the Buddha sentient beings in the world of Suva are classified into the Pure Land, and live the world with wisdom, but not with brute force, and he is also a compassionate person with great practice." Thou shalt not blasphemy thy young knowledge. ”

Yi Tianxing touched his nose, thinking that this person had been beaten so miserably by the Bodhisattva of the Great Trend that he couldn't afford to be resentful, but he was merciful, but he couldn't solve the problem, and then he looked at Ye Xiang's xìngzi It seemed that he was so gentle, no wonder the Buddha's line was so miserable now.

Fuxian smiled slightly, Yi Tianxing remembered that the Bodhisattva's magical powers in front of him were countless thousands of times stronger than Ye Xiang, who was still a mortal now, and he could refer to his own thoughts, so he quickly lowered his head and smiled embarrassedly.

Fuxian then told the long-ago story: "I was seriously injured, and after a thousand years of cultivation, I escaped under the snow before I escaped from the pursuit of the Great Trend Zhibo. Although the injury is not light, but also understand some things, it seems that the departure of the Buddha must be related to the Pure Land, otherwise the general trend to the Bodhisattva a wise mind, how can it do this to me, take it for granted, whether I can find the whereabouts of the Buddha in the human world, for the Pure Land, and even for the Buddha world has a great impact. ”

"The thought of this strengthened my determination to find the whereabouts of the Buddha in the world. ”

"But my injuries are indeed too serious, and it is extremely difficult to protect this physical body, let alone walk in the human world...... So I chose to keep this body and hid here. ”

The Bodhisattva said indifferently, this hiding is hundreds of years, but Yi Tianxing, the audience, is indifferent.

"I hid in the snow for a long time, like a zombie, and at this moment, an ascetic lama on this plateau dug me out in the snow. Fuxian Bodhisattva looked at Ye Xiangseng and smiled slightly: "It turned out to be your disciple left in this world." This disciple had great wisdom, and at a glance he saw my true form, and he bowed to the ground, and built a great temple here. ”

Ye Xiangsheng smiled slightly, knowing that that disciple must be the apprentice he accepted when he was incarnated as Master Tsongkhapa in Tibet, and he may also be an important figure in the Yellow Sect now.

"The name of the temple is Lashhunpo Temple, for fear of disturbing the gods above, or rather, I am worried about attracting the general trend to the Bodhisattva again, so the temple is dedicated to the Qiangba Buddha. ”

Qiangba Buddha is Maitreya Buddha, the same Pure Land Buddha, and the Bodhisattva will not take a serious look at it if he wants to come to the general trend.

Yi Tianxing nodded slightly, Tashilhunpo Temple was repaired in 1447, not long after his old monkey master went down to earth, I think it was at that time, the noble figure of the Yellow Sect dug up the body of Fuxian Bodhisattva in the snow.

Thinking that the Lashhunpo Temple, one of the great temples of the Yellow Sect, was built for the white-clothed wounded man in front of him, Yi Tianxing's heart was in a trance.

Later, Lashhunpo Monastery became the residence of the Panchen Lama in the human world, and the general trend was that the Bodhisattva had to maintain the necessary respect for the great figures in the mortal world, so I hid in the monastery all these years and lived very luckily for many years. ”

Fuxian Bodhisattva looked at the direction of the front hall and sighed leisurely: "Several Panchens have been respectful to me, and I have been troubled by them for many years. Let's just say that Sekarma Rinpoche, who brought you here, is also a hereditary guru who serves me, and every guru who comes to serve me has to make a great vow to practice the meditation of closing the mouth and severing the tongue and setting the mind. This is the rule set by the first Panchen Lama in this monastery, and I think I am afraid that these teachers who serve me will inadvertently reveal the news of my place, and provoke the pursuit of the Bodhisattva. ”

Fuxian shook his head and said sadly: "I have been advised several times, but these lamas have never listened, and they have not known words since then, which makes me very sad. ”

Yi Tianxing thought of Sekarma Rinpoche's terrifying half-cut tongue, and he also felt sad, and he had great respect for these lamas in his heart.

"Why doesn't the Bodhisattva give up this body and re-enter reincarnation?" Ye Xiangsheng thought about Fuxian's secluded life for hundreds of years, and in order to avoid the general trend to chase and kill, he didn't dare to see the sky for a while, and he was very sad.

A smile flashed in the eyes of Fuxian Bodhisattva, but the stiff flesh on his face did not move at all: "After I was seriously injured in the world, I thought that you would come down to look for me, and at the same time to find the whereabouts of the Buddha." Shu, you ask me why I don't give up this physical body, but I ask you, you gave up your physical body and re-entered samsara, have you ever been willing to do it now?"

Ye Xiangsheng said: "I don't want to, as soon as I hear about the past, all of them will be annihilated." ”

"Exactly. Fuxian Bodhisattva said lightly: "You haven't woken up yet, you already know this." If I dissipate my supernatural powers and re-enter reincarnation, I will naturally regain my sweetness, but this memory will be annihilated, and who will I say to go? The Buddha disappeared in this land, and who are we going to look for?"

Ye Xiang clasped his hands together and looked sad.

Yi Tianxing didn't listen too clearly, thinking that if the physical body is destroyed, then reincarnated and reincarnated to practice again, these two Bodhisattvas are people who have achieved positive results, and the Buddha is immortal and immortal, if he is worried about losing his memory, then it is not difficult to keep his physical body, why does Ye Xiangseng seem to admire and respect Fuxian's actions at this time?

He saw a clay pot next to the butter lamp, and with a move of his mind, he summoned the clay pot into his hand, took down the earthen bowl covering the mouth of the can, poured a bowl of water, and sent it to the Bodhisattva of Fuxian, and said earnestly: "The Bodhisattva said that he is tired, drink saliva." ”

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Fuxian Bodhisattva looked at him with a smile: "Do you really want me to drink?"

Yi Tianxing said with concern: "The Bodhisattva is not in good health, drink some water to moisten his throat." Suddenly I thought that the Bodhisattvas didn't need to drink water, and whether they were making sycophants in vain?

Fuxian glanced at him, stretched out his dry hand to catch the water bowl, Yi Tianxing was overjoyed, and hurriedly brought the water bowl to his lips and slowly sent it in.

The water entered the lips and made a slight noise.

The sound is endless.

Water enters the throat from the lips, from the throat to the chest, and from the chest to the abdomen...... And then it flowed out.

A trace of surprise flashed in Yi Tianxing's eyes, and he watched as the bowl of water he poured into the Bodhisattva's mouth flowed out of his chest and abdomen, wetting the white coarse cloth clothes!

He shot like lightning, lifted the Bodhisattva's white robe, and suddenly, a terrifying scar appeared in front of his eyes!

Fuxian Bodhisattva chest and abdomen do not know what kind of magical power, hit a big hole alive, the hole is as bloody as paint, the organs are sparse, the back bone has been broken into several sections, and a faint and dull flesh mass is faintly beating slightly, that is the heart?

- What a horrible injury!

Yi Tianxing's heart was shocked, he was so frightened, his fingers were loosened, and the water bowl in his hand fell to the ground, shattering!

Fuxian Bodhisattva smiled in his eyes and said softly: "It's been like this for hundreds of years, it can't be good, but it can't be bad." ”

Yi Tianxing's mind turned quickly, and he said in a low voice: "Ye Xiang, go and call Lei Lei." ”

Ye Xiangsheng shook his head and said in a low voice: "The general trend is coming, the destruction is coming, the Bodhisattva can keep this body and rely on that supreme bodhicitta heart, but it can be cured by external forces." ”

Yi Tianxing panicked: "Ah?" Only then did he understand why Ye Xiang was full of sadness as soon as he entered Rì Kaze, it turned out that Fuxian Bodhisattva had suffered such suffering for hundreds of years, and when he thought of this section, he couldn't help but feel sad.

Fuxian Bodhisattva shook his head and said softly: "The suffering of the flesh is not extremely bitter. He slowly unbuttoned his shirt with his withered hands, exposing the lower half of his body.

I saw that all of his waist and below were shocked into a twisted tree trunk by some kind of supernatural power, and he looked extremely miserable.

Yi Tianxing's eyes flashed with hatred, and he asked in a low voice: "Bodhisattva, this physical body, you can't drink water, you can't eat, what's the use of keeping it? ”

"The body is broken, the pain is endless, and the mind is not strong at all, and the illusion is born, and this end is a suffering. ”

"Hungry and hungry and don't know how to eat, thirsty and have no way to drink, three thousand worlds, but only one bed, this end is a bitterness. ”

"I hid in this temple, and I didn't dare to think about it, and I didn't dare to touch the world, because when I feel others, they will definitely feel me, and if I feel that place, the Bodhisattva will come and destroy my memory...... Therefore, I cover the five senses and do not come into contact with the people in the world, so being lonely is also a suffering. ”

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"But if there is no suffering in life, what happiness is there to go?"

Fuxian Bodhisattva looked at Yi Tianxing and said quietly: "In the past five hundred years, in order to protect this physical body, I have been struggling with the temptation of reincarnation all the time, and this struggle is the real suffering. ”

If Yi Tianxing is a bodhisattva, knowing that his soul is immortal, he can still slowly retrieve his memory after reincarnation, and if he is injured so seriously that he can never be healed, then he will definitely commit suicide in the first place.

But the Bodhisattva is not Yi Tianxing after all, and the Bodhisattva has the belief of the Bodhisattva.

"Although this physical body is broken, it is the first body of a bodhisattva, and it can absorb the cultivation of my whole body, so that the heavenly arhats cannot know where I am. If I destroy this physical body, I will start from scratch in the next life, and if I gain a little, I will have a spiritual light, and then the great Bodhisattva will come to reward me again, and I will have to start from scratch. ”

Fuxian Bodhisattva saw that the atmosphere in the room was a little sad, and his speech was a little naughty.

"And who will tell the story of my physical body?"

Seeing the Bodhisattva looking at him, Yi Tianxing was scared, knowing that this story was naturally meant to be told to himself.