Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Ghost Hornet and the Seventh Husband and Wife.
What is a ghost wasp, not a real wasp, but a hornet turned into a ghost, this kind of ghost becomes a hornet, just to facilitate eating something so it becomes a wasp mixed in the hornet colony to get food, and some bees are not real bees, but there are some ghosts that eat nectar, what does the ghost wasp look like, the same as the wasp, I still remember when I didn't study Buddhism before, when I didn't understand cause and effect, I liked to abuse and kill small animals, one day I caught a wasp, I pinched it to death, and then I saw a hornet fly out directly from behind the wasp's butt, it was a miniature version of the mini hornet, and then it flew away, I thought it was very strange at that time,This wasp is oviparous,It is at least two to three weeks to lay eggs and hatch adult worms before death,Why did I see such a strange phenomenon today,Directly now after studying Buddhism,This kind of ghost and god change,Naturally do not need to be hatched,The ghost god becomes a big hornet when he sees that I want to die,Immediately it becomes a small one and flies away,There are real wasps and bees,These are all karmic manifestations,Fallen to the animal path of sentient beings,Others are ghosts and gods of sentient beings are magically changed,Ghosts and gods change just to eat,There are also some are harmful,For example, my father told me that when I was in the countryside before,I saw a white rabbit at night,He didn't move,You go over,He movedWhen you are about to catch him, he always moves, just so that you can't catch him, when you are obsessed with catching him, he will lead you to the slope, my father was almost led by him to the cliff below the slope, this is the ghost turned into an animal to harm people, of course, it is also your unjust creditor in the world, if you did not hurt him in the previous life, there is no greed in this life, how can you follow his way.
In this life, you are a human being, you kill and eat meat, and in the next life you will be an animal, and the animal you kill will become a human again, and they will seek your debts and repay each other, so you must stop killing karma.
Whether people will become animals in the end, is there a real case, of course, when the Han Dynasty dedicated the emperor, Cao Cao was the prime minister, specializing in his authority, everything he did, nothing more than a weak monarchy, heavy on his own power, and wanted to make himself die, and the son would be the emperor. When he was dead, Cao Pi compiled, and the body was still unburied, so Pi immediately moved his concubine and took it into his own palace. After death, he will forever fall into the evil way. After more than 1,400 years, to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, someone in Suzhou killed Chu, out of his lungs and liver, there was the word 'Cao Cao', there was a person in the neighborhood who saw it, and then became a monk, the legal name was 'Fo'an', and he was recited as Buddha, so he had to die in the West. The Pure Land Sages are recorded. - "Yinguang Master Banknotes"
In "Pure Land Sage Records", Cao Cao was reincarnated as a pig and Master Fo'an became a monk and passed away:
Fo'an. The word vow, Suzhou people. When he was in his Chinese New Year's Eve, a neighbor killed a pig and took out its internal organs, and the pig's liver had the word "Cao Cao" on it.
Later, he lived in the Dawang Temple in Beihao, and took chanting Buddha as his homework every day. If someone makes an offering of money, they buy incense to make offerings to the Buddha and redeem fish and birds to release them.
In March of the 41st year of Qianlong (1776), Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty fell ill and sent his apprentices to Shilin Temple, asking the monks to worship the Pure Land for three days of confession, and cast an altar of yoga flames. After the three dates are completed, the next day a fasting feast is held to invite the guests to come and say goodbye to him, and recite the name of the Buddha, and his disciples sing harmony on the side. After reciting the three incense sticks, it was already noon, and Fo'an said, 'I'm leaving!' Then sit upright and die.
All greedy pleasures will eventually perish, and will have the transgression of degrading, and for the sake of that momentary pleasure, they will be tormented in hell for millions of eons.
No matter what kind of happiness you have, even the happiness of the Wheel King will be destroyed in the end. Dragon Fierce Bodhisattva Cloud: "All happiness in the world, only suffering is turned bad." The Ahama Sutra also says: "Accumulation will eventually fall apart, the sublime will fall, it will be separated from the end, and there will be no life and no death." "All happiness will turn into suffering, and the result of clinging to it will be for us to fall into the three evil realms and suffer at a long and bitter price.
What people think of as happiness has no reliability when it is really dissected on its essence, but the negative karma created for it causes us to suffer immeasurably in samsara. Whether it is the pleasure between the sexes, the happiness brought by wealth and fame, it is just the reversal of attachment for a moment, and the so-called enjoyment of happiness is only a slight reduction in pain, and there is no real happiness at all.
However, for the sake of a momentary illusion, many people do not hesitate to create great negative karma, and they cannot be liberated in the cycle of life and death, and even are unable to extricate themselves from the evil pleasures in millions of eons. Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period can be described as a treacherous one, but not long after his death, the throne was usurped, and his wife and concubine were taken away. And after 1400, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a butcher in Suzhou slaughtered a pig and took out the pig's liver, with the word "Cao Cao" on it. (Before that, there is a good chance that he will suffer in hell, in the hungry.) At that time, a young man was frightened of the impermanence of cause and effect, and immediately became a monk and practiced the Dharma name "Buddha An."
Why does the pig's liver have the name "Cao Cao" on it? In the Four Hundred Treatises on Madhyamaka, the Moon Commentator also gave an analogy to illustrate the origin of this uncommon cause, which is the inconceivable cause of the previous life, which is reflected in the body of this life. If it is explained by science, there is definitely no way, but after all, this is what people have seen with their own eyes, the pig's belly was not originally dissected, and after the dissection, it was found that there were words on it, and this mystery cannot be explained by any scientist. But in Buddhism, there is such a law of cause and effect, that even if you create negative karma for a moment, the retribution will be endless. Therefore, do not destroy the afterlife for the sake of temporary pleasures, otherwise the consequences will be quite terrible.
Greed is a very big enemy, and the harm it does to us is not trivial, so we must recognize its face and stop it once greed arises. In this way, through slow practice, there will definitely be changes in the self-continuity. The reason why so many monks in history have been able to deal with greed without much effort, while people in the world have not been able to face it easily, is because the former have understood the truth, while the latter have no knowledge of it.
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, because of their stupid thoughts turned into butterflies, they want to be together after death and even become butterflies, because they made foolish wishes to each other to be butterflies, so they become butterflies together after death, Lengyan Sutra says that you have mercy on my heart, I love Ruse, after hundreds of thousands of eons are often entangled, you love me, I also love you, so they love each other, so hundreds of thousands of eons are often entangled.
The first life
Meng Jiangnu and Wan Qiliang
Meng Jiangnu and Wan Qiliang (Wan Xiliang), the first of the seventh husband and wife, Meng Jiangnu was a woman in the Qin State, and on the wedding night, her husband Wan Xiliang was arrested to repair the Great Wall. It took a long time for Meng Jiangnu to send warm clothes to her husband, but in the end she was told that her husband was dead and his body was buried under the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu cried loudly, and finally cried down the Great Wall and found her husband's body.
II
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the second generation of the seventh husband and wife, there was a daughter Zhu Yingtai in Shangyu Zhu family in Zhejiang during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the woman disguised herself as a man to study in Hangzhou. has been a classmate for three years and has a deep relationship, but Liang Shanbo never knew that Zhu Yingtai was his daughter. Later, Zhu Yingtai interrupted his studies and returned to his hometown. When Liang Shanbo went to Shangyu to visit Zhu Yingtai, he learned that his friend who had been a classmate for three years was actually a woman with red makeup and wanted to propose to the Zhu family. Later, when Liang Shanbo was in Yindang County, he died due to excessive depression. When Zhu Yingtai got married, passing through Liang Shanbo's grave, the wind suddenly rose, hindering the advance of the welcoming team, Zhu Yingtai went to Liang Shanbo's tomb to worship, Liang Shanbo's tomb collapsed and cracked, Zhu Yingtai put into the grave, and then a pair of colorful butterflies appeared in the tomb, both flew away.
III
Guo Hualang and Wang Yueying
Guo Hualang and Wang Yueying, the third generation of the seventh husband and wife, Guo Hualang (Guo Jianzhong) in the Tang Dynasty was selling rouge, got acquainted with Wang Yueying, the shopkeeper of the Wang family's rouge shop, the two met at night in the land temple outside the city, Wang Yueying could not wait for anyone, thought that the lover was treacherous, had to take off his shoes and put them in front of the stage, and ran home with shame and hatred, and soon fainted in bed with a high fever, Guo Jianzhong was delayed that night because of the banquet at home, and after the banquet, Wang Yueying had left one step earlier when he arrived at the temple, only to see a pair of embroidered shoes, he knew that he had missed the appointment, and he was also seriously ill after returning home. In the end, both of them fell ill due to the wind and cold, and finally both returned to the yin.
Fourth
Wang Shipeng and Qian Yulian
Wang Shipeng and Qian Yulian, the seventh husband and wife, the fourth generation, describe the Song Dynasty Shanxi Wang Shipeng and Qian Yulian have been married by their parents according to custom since childhood. After the death of Yulian's mother, her father remarried, but the stepmother made Yulian begin a tragic fate; after the death of Qian's father, she was abused, and the stepmother actually teamed up with her husband to frame Yulian, and finally committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea, and waited until the ten friends won the top prize, ready to return to their hometowns to officially marry Yulian, on the way they found that the temple placed Yulian's engagement token and suicide note, ten friends were extremely sad, fell ill on the way, and finally ten friends also passed away. Wang Shipeng and Qian Yulian were originally characters in the southern drama "The Story of Jing Hai", but in "The Story of Jing Hai", the two ended in a reunion.
The fifth
Shang Lin and Qin Xuemei
Shang Lin and Qin Xuemei, the fifth generation of the seventh husband and wife. Qin Taishi of the Ming Dynasty was a friend of Mo Rebellion with the agreed state, and Qin Taishi married Qin Xuemei to Shang Lin in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. Later, the Qin Taishi saw that the merchant's family was in the middle of the road, and he had the intention of ruining the marriage, so he agreed to go to the Qin family to ask for relatives but was rejected by the Taishi, and Shang Lin fell ill because of this. In order to save Shang Lin, the merchant pretended to be a servant girl Aiyu and married Shang Lin as Xuemei, and gave birth to Shang Lin. Shang Lin later learned the details, and in anger, he returned to heaven. Xuemei is determined to be widowed for Shang Lin and take care of the son born to Shang Lin and Aiyu. The idiom "Xuemei's godson" refers to this
Wei Yanchun and Jia Yuzhen, the seventh husband and wife of the sixth generation, Wei Yanchun of the Ming Dynasty was born in the Xuande period, shortly after birth, his father died, and lived with his widowed mother in Zhang Yuanwai's house, studying in Baiyun Nunnery. When Yan Chun was seventeen years old, the cold food festival, Qingming school tour spring, thirsty very much, in the suburbs of the ancient well next to the meet Jia Yuzhen in the well to draw water, begging for drink, the two fell in love at first sight, is to exchange tokens with each other, private life, meet at the Blue Bridge on the same night. Yan Chun arrived first that night, unexpectedly the weather abruptly changed, thunderstorms, strong winds, Yan Chun in order to keep the promise, refused to leave suddenly, actually drowned in the water, when he died, his hand was still holding the bridge pillar. Later, Yuzhen hurried to the Blue Bridge, but found that Yan Chun was drowning under the bridge, and in mourning, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the water. The Hakka opera "Longjing Romance" is adapted from the opera "Seven Couples" of the "Blue Bridge Meeting".
VII
Li Kuiyuan and Liu Ruilian
Li Kuiyuan and Liu Ruilian, the last life of the seventh husband and wife, only the seventh life is a happy marriage, the plot is that when Li Zicheng died, his fellow Li Baixin picked up a baby on the way to his death and named Li Kuiyuan. When Li Kuiyuan grew up, he met an old man, gave him a picture, and agreed to open it after three years. Three years later, Kui Yuan opened the map, which recorded the tragic marriage of the first six generations.
In fact, there are more than seven lifetimes, and reincarnation has many lives.
The Lengyan Sutra says: Ananda Venerable begging for food, into the cave of prostitution, the modern woman wants to support Ananda, and like Ananda, but Ananda is a disciple of the Buddha, strictly hold the five precepts, the demon girl in order to get Ananda, begged his mother to help him, his mother is a layman, chanted a mantra, this mantra makes the man drowsy, and then let the daughter have a relationship with Ananda, when the Ananda vows are about to fail, the Buddha asked Manjushri to hold the strict mantra to save Ananda, as soon as the recitation of the strict mantra Ananda will be sober, and then the modern woman chased Ananda to see the Buddha together, the modern woman asked the Buddha to ask Ananda to marry herself, the Buddha said that if you want to follow Ananda, then please shave your head, the modern woman in order to be with Ananda, is to shave your headใ
The Buddha asked the Buddha, "What do you love about Ananda?" and the Buddha replied, "I love Ananda's bright eyes, I love Ananda's handsome nose, I love Ananda's charming ears, I love Ananda's sweet voice, I love Ananda's elegant steps, I love everything about Ananda." The Buddha asked, "Ananda has unclean tears in his eyes, phlegm in his nose, saliva in his mouth, earwax in his ears, and dirty urine and feces in his body." From this point of view, what is there about Ananda's body worthy of love, if he is unclean and filthy after marriage, and after giving birth to a child, he will be born, old, sick, and die."
In order to further guide the modern goddess to comprehend impure contemplation, the Buddha asked someone to bring out Ananda's bath water and asked her, "Since you love Ananda so much, this basin of water is Ananda's bath water, so drink it!"
The Buddha said, "Everyone's body is so dirty, and now when Ananda is healthy, you are already dirty, so what will you think when he dies of old age and decay?" Attaining the first fruits of arhats.
The ending of the 7th generation of couples is also good, and the final result is realized, and I hope that all loving couples can let go of their love as soon as possible, devote themselves to cultivation, and liberate themselves from the fruition.