Chapter 377: The Buddha Is Here (Ask for Points, Push and Receive Reviews)
At this time, the birthday star completely lost the appearance of the old dragon clock.
The current birthday star also has a blue nose and swollen face.
Even the inseparable crutches in the birthday star's hand have disappeared for the first time.
The blessing of the star is completed by sending the blessing map, Lu Xing is the left hand official seal and the right hand gold ingot, and the birthday star is carried out by relying on the crutches in the hand.
It is said that the crutches in the birthday star's hand are not ordinary, but are made of evergreen trees, that is, evergreen trees.
It is said that as long as the birthday star hits a mortal with the cane, it means that the life span can be increased by thirty years. However, the maximum limit of mortals is the three crutches of the birthday star.
After all, the birthday star's three crutches are ninety years, plus the original decades, more than a hundred years old is already the so-called birthday star in the mortal world.
Therefore, like the blessing map in Fuxing's heart and the official seal and gold ingots in Lu Xing's hand, the birthday star's crutches are also considered to be one of the treasures of the heavenly realm.
Looking at the embarrassed appearance of the birthday star, the anger in the Jade Emperor's heart was about to explode
As the saying goes, "beating a dog looks at the master", Fuxing is the lackey of the Jade Emperor, Luxing is also the lackey of the Jade Emperor, and Shouxing is also the lackey of the Jade Emperor.
Therefore, it is reasonable that the Jade Emperor's anger is close to exploding.
Therefore, the Jade Emperor asked, "Who is it?"
Before the birthday star could answer the Jade Emperor's question, the Buddha rushed in angrily.
Shakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit name S/a^kya-muni, Pali name Sakya-muni), ancient Indian. It means a saint from the Shakya clan. Also made: Shakyamuni, Gauja Yamuni, Shakyamuni, Shakyamuni. Abbreviated as Shakya, Muni, Vinni. It is also translated as: Nengren, Nengforbearance, Nenglone, Silence, Nengman, Duwojiao, or Sanskrit and Chinese translation, called Sakya silence. Also known as: Shakyamuni Shizun, Shakyamuni. That is, the ancestor of Buddhism. The reason for its title can be found in the 20 volumes of the Buddha's Sutras, the 20th volume of the Miscellaneous Acts of the Sarvastivada Vinaya, and the 30th volume of the Abhidhama Gandharva. Shakyamuni was the crown prince of King Johan (Brahmana S/uddhodana) of the Acropolis of Kapila-vastu, North India. The city was located near present-day Tilori-Kot in southern Nepal, northeast of the Rapti River. It covers an area of about 320 square miles and is a vassal state of the Kingdom of Kosala^. At that time, North India was an aristocratic republic, which was divided into ten small city-states, and the most powerful city lord was elected as the leader of the ten cities, and King Johan was the leader of the republic at that time. The mother Mahaya (Brahma^ya^) is the daughter of the lord of the neighboring tribe of Ghuri Devadaha. Before Mrs. Maya will give birth, she will return to her mother's home in Tianjian City according to custom to give birth. On the way, stop at the Lumbini Garden (Van Lumbini^). That is, to give birth to a child under the Sanssouci tree (Brahmania as/oka), that is, Shakyamuni. According to the Sutra of the Beginning of the Practice, when Shakyamuni was born, he performed seven steps. Raise your hand (junior?463b): 'Heaven and heaven.' The three worlds are all suffering. I should be at peace. In addition, in the Sutras of the Eight Dharmas of the Eight Books of the Central Aham, the Thirty-two Ruipins of the Puyao Sutra of the Second Book of the Birth, the Sutra of the Origin of the Bodhisattva, the Sutra of Past and Present Cause and Effect Volume 1, the Sutra of the Maharadi, the Sutra of the Buddha's Writings of the Eight Trees, the Miscellaneous Matters of the Arivastivada Vinaya Volume 20, and the Mahabhasha Treatise Volume 70, there are also various aspects of the birth of Shakyamuni. In the southern foothills of the Himalayas, there is a tributary of the Ganges. The name of the Ropoti River. In ancient India, there were ten small city-states of the Shakya tribe scattered on both sides of the river valley, among which the Acropolis of Kapila, located in the east of the river, was the most powerful due to its political cultivation and became the leader of their alliance. Because the social class system in ancient India was very strict, and the Shakyas belonged to one of the noble Kshatriyas, the Shakyas of the Acropolis of Kapila and the neighboring city of Kuli married each other to maintain the purity of the bloodline. The Buddha was born on the 8th day of the fourth month of the fourth month of 623 B.C. (equivalent to the 30th year of King Xiang of Zhou in China) to his father as King Johan, the lord of the Acropolis of Kapila, and his mother, Lady Maya, as the princess of Kuli. When the lady was about to give birth, it was customary to return to her mother's home, Kuli City. On the way, passing by the Lumbini Garden, she saw a carefree tree with blooming flowers, and she was about to reach out to pick them, and the prince was born. Later, Shakyamuni's birth was deified, born from the right rib of Lady Maya, in fact, Shakyamuni was also a human, and his birth was not much different from ordinary people. Lady Maya was in her forties and was in weak health, and died seven days after giving birth to the Prince. From then on, her sister Bojapotev took on the responsibility of raising the crown prince. The king of Johan was very happy to have a son in his old age, and he was very happy with the virtuous brahmins, so he took the name of Siddhartha Gautama for the crown prince. At that time, there was a reclusive monk, Ashita, who came to occupy the prince and prophesied that in the future, the prince would become the king of the wheel if he was at home, and if he was a monk, he would become an enlightened one. When the King of Pure Rice heard this, he couldn't help but feel sad, and he was afraid that his son would become a monk one day. From the age of seven, the prince had to study the classics every day, and when he was older, he had to learn martial arts such as riding, archery, and fencing. Although he gradually attained high attainments in both literature and martial arts, what he liked most was to ponder the mysteries of life: where does life come from? What is the true purpose of life? Is there a destination at the end of life? These questions of life are not easy for even philosophers to answer, and the young Prince Siddhartha will naturally become confused. One day, King Johan took the prince on a tour of the suburbs. The prince saw that the peasants were working hard in the fields, covered with mud and scorching their backs, that the oxen were whipping their heavy ploughs and rakes so that their skin was torn and bleeding, and that some of the little insects were wounded in the open soil, and the birds flew down to peck at them. In nature, the law of the jungle eats the strong. The worm dies, but the bird survives. Life and death, dependent on each other. Every life is extremely short, and death is inevitable at the end of the day. Prince Siddhartha sat in meditation in the shade of a green tree, and his heart was suddenly compassionate and the thought of disgust with the world was deeply imprinted in his mind. As the years passed, the king of Johan hoped that the prince would inherit the throne due to his old age and weakness, and was worried that the prophecy of Azida would come true, so when the prince was nineteen years old, he married him to the wise and virtuous princess of Kuli City, Yasendhara, as his concubine. His father built a palace and a beautiful garden for the prince in the cold, summer and warm seasons, and selected many palace ladies to serve him. I hope that through the luxurious enjoyment of life, he will not have the idea of becoming a monk. Happy days pass like a cloud. But this is not the ideal lifestyle that the prince is pursuing. Later, with his father's permission, the prince went out with his attendants, and saw the poor old man with his back at the east gate, the sick man groaning in pain at the south gate, and the dead man at the funeral at the west gate. It is to get rid of the pain of old age, sickness, and death. I couldn't help but praise it repeatedly. From then on, the prince aspired to become a monk. At the age of twenty-nine, his son, Rahula, was born. One midnight he took his attendants with him. Step on a white horse. Quietly out of the palace. Gallop out of the city, then into a forest, and cut off your long hair. He took off his clothes, put on his robes, and sent his attendants away. Prince Siddhartha became a monk from then on.
The prince left the forest and continued southeast, visiting the monk Bhagava near the city of Vaishali. In the ascetic forest, he saw many ascetic practitioners torturing their bodies in all kinds of strange ways. They thought that if they did this, they would be born and happy in the next life. But how can we get a reasonable "happy fruit" with unreasonable "suffering causes"? The prince thought that this method would never free him from life and death, so he stayed for one night and left. When King Johan heard the news that the prince had become a monk, he was very sad and immediately sent his palace cronies and ministers to persuade the prince, and they saw the prince sitting under a tree from afar, so they went up to persuade him to return to the palace, and the prince replied, "I am a monk to relieve the pain of birth, old age, sickness, and death. Determined to be firm and never return to the palace. The courtiers had no choice but to leave five people including Chen Ru to accompany the prince to learn the Tao. The prince continued southward, crossed the rapids of the Ganges, and came to Magadha, where he took charge of the city of Magadha. The residents were amazed when they saw his demeanor. When the king knew what he was doing, he invited him to the palace to meet him. When the king saw his solemn countenance, and heard of his profound philosophy, he was greatly impressed, and earnestly asked him to stay and educate the people, and was willing to give up the throne. But the crown prince was bent on seeking a way out of life and death, and resolutely rejected the king's good intentions. The prince traveled to a forest valley near the city of Wangsha to visit two famous religious masters, Aro and Udra, who believed that the way to monastic was to become a monk, live as an almsgiving, and practice meditation. The prince stayed here for several months, and his meditation realm was very high, but he still had nothing to gain from the way of liberation from life and death, so he had to leave. After saying goodbye, the prince came to the Nirenchan River, south of Mount Gaya, and met with five people, including Chenru, and where they practiced asceticism and meditated in meditation. The prince ate one hemp and one rice every day or every other day, and later only once every seven days, and this hard life made him emaciated and his skin and bones were connected, and he spent six years. After six years of austerity, he still could not be liberated from life and death. The prince had no choice but to give up this practice, go into the Nilian Zen River to bathe, wash the dirt on his body, and accept the offering of chyle from the cowherdsman, so that his physical and mental health gradually recovered. The five people who accompanied him, such as Chen Ru, misunderstood that his Tao was not strong, and quietly left him and went to Sarnath in the country of Polonai to continue their asceticism. The prince came alone to Mount Gaya, sat down on grass under a birtha tree, and vowed, "If I don't attain supreme enlightenment, I'd rather let this body shatter than never get here." He meditated under the tree on the way to liberation from life and death, and one night before his enlightenment, he manifested a disturbance in the demon realm in meditation, and the demon king sent a witch to tempt him, and the demon soldier demon threatened him in the future. Fortunately, the prince's Taoist thoughts were firm, and he was never shaken by the demon realm, but as a result, the demon king was defeated and disappeared. After subduing the demons, the prince got rid of all distracting thoughts, used the highest wisdom to think and explore, and at dawn on the eighth day of the twelfth month, when the stars shone on the earth, he finally suddenly realized the truth of life in the universe and completed supreme enlightenment. Since then, the world has known him as "Buddha".
From the time he became a Buddha at the age of 35 under the Bodhi tree until he entered Nirvana at the age of 80, he never stopped speaking the Dharma for all sentient beings, and traveled all over the banks of the Ganges River. The Buddha's policy of transforming is to first enlighten ordinary people with small wisdom, and then to transform people with great wisdom, so that the Dharma is shallow and profound, so that many sentient beings are free from suffering and happy. When the Buddha left Mount Gaya, he prepared to go to the monasteries of Bhagava Arora and Udra to guide them on the right path, but the three had already passed away, so they had to go to Sarnath in the country of Puranai to find the five old companions. These five ascetics thought that the Buddha had given up his asceticism because he was not determined to do so, so they agreed not to welcome him. But when they saw the Buddha, they were inspired by his virtue and immediately went forward to worship and listen to the Buddha say, "The Four Noble Truths, and finally became the famous five bhikshus. This is the first time that the Buddha said it, so it is called the "first turning of the wheel of Dharma". It was also at this time that a rudimentary Buddhist sangha was formed, which possessed the Three Jewels. Along the way to Magadha, many of the Buddha's teachings were converted by his teachings, including the three brothers of the Zoroastrian leader, the eldest brother Yurupinrakya, with 500 disciples, and the second brother Natikya and the third brother Gayagyal, each with 250 disciples, a total of 1,000 people, all of whom took refuge in the Buddha. By this time, the Buddha was already revered from near and far. When the king of Pimpasara, he knew the Tao, and with his courtiers, respectfully welcomed the Buddha and took refuge sincerely. He also built a bamboo ashram dedicated to the Buddha and his disciples, the first person the king converted to the Buddha and the beginning of the Buddhist ownership of monasteries. The Buddha said the Dharma in the Bamboo Forest Monastery, and after hearing the truth of the origin of the Buddha in the famous foreign masters of Wangsha City, Sariputta and Moggallan, after hearing the truth of the origin of the origin of the monk Ma Sheng, he gave up his original belief and took 200 disciples to become a monk with the Buddha, and later became the Buddha's right and left hands. Among the ten disciples, Sariputta was known as the first in wisdom, and Moggallian was regarded as the first in supernatural powers. In the country of Nissalo, there is a giant businessman named Sudatta, who likes to help the poor on weekdays, and is very admired by the countrymen, and is respectfully called "for the lonely elderly". He came to the castle and received the teachings of the Buddha and benefited greatly, so he begged the Buddha to come to his country, and spent a lot of money to buy a beautiful garden from the prince of Gion, and built the Gion Monastery and dedicated it to the Buddha as a dharma center. King Bosnian also led hundreds of officials and ministers to the ashram to listen to the Buddha's teachings and take refuge sincerely. A few years later, the Buddha returned to his homeland at the Acropolis of Kapila to visit his father and speak for his relatives. Many people took refuge, and he was followed by his half-brother Nanda, his cousin Ananda, and his son Rahula. Ananda later served the Buddha for a long time and was known as the first to hear more. The Buddha's aunt, Varjapati, also took refuge in the Buddha and became the first female disciple to become a monk. In Buddhism, the monks are called bhikshus, the women are called bhikshunis, the lay men are called upasaks, and the women are called upasa, and together they are called the four groups of disciples. Later, the Buddha was eighty years old. He left the city of the royal house and traveled north to the city of Vishali, and in time of famine, he had to dismiss the people, leaving Ananda alone to spend the rainy season with. At this time, the Buddha was already ill, and his illness worsened after receiving food from the blacksmith Chunda. He came to a river in the city of Kushna, bathed, and went ashore in the middle of the two saras, where Ananda laid a bed, and the Buddha lay on his side with his right hand on his pillow. On this night, a monk named Subhadra asked for an audience, and the Buddha told him the Eightfold Path and accepted him as his most descendant disciple. At this time, when the Buddha was dying, all the disciples came to visit him, and they felt very sad in their hearts, and the Buddha gave them the last last instruction: "Do not think that if you lose me, you will have no teacher. After I have extinguished, the words and precepts that I have spoken of in the past are your teachers!" After the Buddha finished his instructions, in the middle of the night of the 15th day of the second month of 543 BC, he lay down on his right flank and entered the Great Nirvana. The lord of the city of Kushna and the disciples of the Buddha held a cremation for him with the most solemn ceremony, and the relics were invited by the eight lords of Magadha and Shakya to build a pagoda to worship. To this day, the stupa is still shining on the world. (To be continued......)