Chapter 41 The first Su Dongpo, the first monk of the first generation.
My good dear, I Zhong Zheng finally remembered my grandmother's Dharma name, and Zhong Zheng said to the young monk and the white-clothed Dharma protector Tan Linchang: "My grandmother's Dharma name is Nanhai Shenni.
So Tan Linchang took Zhong Zheng to the Mahavira Treasure Hall, and the young monk went to the Dizang Hall to recite the Dizang Sutra to surpass sentient beings.
Zhong Zheng saw his grandmother, and there was a mage beside her grandmother, who had a high nose, dignified facial features, and large earlobes, looking very dignified. This mage is Master Miao Xiang.
Master Miao Xiang said to Zhong Zheng, you can take out the Quasi-Ti Dharma Mirror, as long as you recite the Quasi-Ti Shen Mantra 7 times, you can see your past and present lives with your grandmother and female ghosts.
Zhong Zheng didn't know how to recite the quasi-refreshment mantra, and if he didn't recite it, there was no way to use the quasi-refreshment mirror, and Master Miaoxiang already knew Zhong Zheng's thoughts.
Master Miao Xiang said: Master Zhong, how to make the seal accurately, how to recite the mantra.
Gen-la Miao Xiang: The index finger should be on the joint of the first section of the middle finger, and the little finger should be at the base of the thumb.
Zhong Zheng learned the quasi-seal taught by Master Miao Xiang.
Master Miao Xiang recited the quasi-refreshing mantra: Ji Shou took refuge in Emperor Su Xi, and bowed to the seven juju. I commend the great Zhun Ti today, and I wish mercy and protection. Nan Wu sass. The three bodhisattvas. Murmuring. Nephew him. Hmmm. Twist the subject. Quasi-mention. Su Po He.
Zhong Zheng also read along.
Gen-la went on to teach that anyone of the faith (whether a monk is at home, a vegetarian or not) can recite the mantra.
At this time, the quasi-reference mirror shows Zhong Zheng's previous life, and then introduces Zhong Zheng's previous life to the person who sees the mirror at the scene as Su Shi, the word Zizhan, and the number Dongpo layman, now many people only know that he is a great writer and calligrapher and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was a bachelor of Hanlin, and the official is a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, but he does not know that his previous life is a practicing monk, in fact, he himself has mentioned his past life many times in the poems, such as: "I am a practitioner, and I have accumulated refinement in three lifetimes." If you lose your thoughts in the middle, you will be punished for a hundred years.
Nanhua Temple
Su Shi (Song)
When Yun He sees the ancestor, he must know the true face.
The people in the pavilion asked me what I saw.
Poor Ming sat down, and ten thousand laws were electric.
Drinking water is self-aware, and it means that there is no dizziness in the moon.
I am a cultivator, and I have accumulated and refined in three lifetimes.
If you lose your thoughts in the middle, you will be punished for a hundred years.
In April of the seventh year of Yuanfeng, before Su Zhe arrived in Yunzhou, the monk Yun'an dreamed that he and Su Zhe, the Cong monk of Shengshou Temple went out of the city to meet the monk of the five precepts, and felt very strange after waking up, so he told Su Zhe about the dream, Su Zhe had not yet spoken, the Cong monk came, Su Zhe said to him: "I talked about the dream with Yun'an just now, do you want to talk about the dream together?" Cong monk said: "I dreamed last night that the three of us went together to meet the monk of the five precepts. Su Zhe stroked his palms and laughed: "It's really strange that there are really three people in the world who have the same dream!"
Soon, Su Dongpo's letter arrived, saying that he had now arrived in Fengxin and would be able to meet everyone soon. The three of them were very happy, and trotted all the way to Jianshan Temple twenty miles outside the city and other Su Dongpo. After Su Dongpo arrived, everyone talked to him about the three of them having the same dream, Su Dongpo said thoughtfully: "When I was eight or nine years old, I also dreamed that I was a monk in my previous life, going back and forth between Shaanxi and the right. Also, when my mother was just pregnant, she dreamed that a monk came to stay with her, and the monk was very beautiful and blind in one eye. Yun'an exclaimed: "The monk of Wujie is a native of Shaanxi, blind in one eye, and traveled to Gao'an in his later years, and passed away in Dayu. "Everyone counts that fifty years have passed since this incident, and Su Dongpo is now exactly forty-nine years old. Judging from the time, place, and similar dreams of many people, there is no objection that Su Dongpo is the reincarnation of the Wujie monk.
Su Dongpo later wrote to Yun'an: "The monk is not afraid of people's jokes, and he is cheeky and comes out again, which is really ridiculous! But since it is a chance for Buddhism, I have sharpened my strength, hoping that I can return to the original place in the future, which is a great honor."
Su Dongpo always likes to wear monk's clothes, which may be caused by karma in his previous life. Song Zhezong once asked Chen Yan, an attendant: "What kind of clothes is Su Dongpo wearing under his court clothes?" Chen Yan said: "It's a monk's robe." Zhezong laughed.
When Su Dongpo was in Hangzhou, he and his friend Shen Liao traveled to the Shouxing Temple on the edge of the West Lake, Su Dongpo looked around and said to Shen Liao: "I have never been here in my life, but what I see in front of me seems to have personally experienced this, from here to the confession hall, there should be ninety-two steps." After calling the number, it was exactly as he said. Su Dongpo said to Shen Yu: "I was a monk in the mountains in my previous life, and I used to be in this monastery. Since then, Su Dongpo has often gone to this Buddhist temple to take a rest.
Who is this monk of the five precepts? He is blind, and there is a senior brother called Mingwu, the five precepts because of a thought, forced the woman Red Lotus to have a relationship, the red lotus has no face to face the beloved, every day is depressed, and finally dies of shame, the five precepts committed the evil yin ring, and the result is that the matter is already seen through by the enlightened monk who already has supernatural powers, the five precepts are ashamed and embarrassed, so they sit down and reincarnate. Mingwu had already foreseen that the five precepts might slander the Buddha and the monks in the next life, and he would also be retaliated by the red lotus who died in shame and turned into a powerful ghost, so he also hurriedly sat down and chased after the five precepts and reincarnated. In this life, Wujie was reincarnated as Su Dongpo, and Mingwu was Su Dongpo's good friend Buddha Yin monk. Su Dongpo really didn't believe in Buddhism at the beginning, he was obsessed with fame, and later Su Dongpo almost reincarnated as a pig in a dream.
The story goes like this: One day at noon, Su Dongpo was a little sleepy, and he wanted to sleep for a while in the study. After falling asleep, I started dreaming. I felt that I was on the road, and I saw a carriage running over in front of me, and when I passed by Su Dongpo's side, it seemed that a gust of wind lifted the curtain. Su Dongpo looked inside, heh, there was a car of beauties sitting in the car, in fact, this was the ploy of the female ghost Red Lotus, the female ghost of the Red Lotus planned to trick Su Dongpo into casting a pig fetus, using a ghost to cover his eyes, so that Su Dongpo mistakenly thought that there was a beautiful woman in the car, in fact, this was not a car, nor a beauty, but a pigsty, and the little pigs, the Red Lotus ghost girl silently recited the spell Demacia, making Su Dongpo think that there was a group of beauties laughing in front of him , In fact, a group of pigs are eating, the Red Lotus Ghost Girl continues to curse Demacia, my heart's desire, steal the day, drink, the pork leg becomes a human hand, at this time Su Dongpo has been confused by the Red Lotus Ghost Girl's spell, and sees the pork leg as the hand of a beautiful woman, only to see a group of beauties waving vigorously, shouting: Come up, play with us. As soon as Su Dongpo was confused, he jumped into the car and sat among the beauties. The car continued to go on, ran into a house, went straight to the backyard, and when it came to the outside of the pigsty, just as a sow was about to give birth, the coachman poured the cartload into the pigsty.
When Su Dongpo came to his senses, he found that he was already a little pig waiting to be fed. The Red Lotus Ghost Girl's plan succeeded, and I thought that I had finally taken revenge, Master of the Five Commandments, you defiled me in your previous life, making me die of shame, and you were reincarnated as a pig in this life, which is really refreshing.
The family here waited for Su Dongpo to not get up, and when they went in, they were already out of gas, and suddenly the family was in a mess, and the old lady hurriedly sent someone to ask the Buddha Yin Zen Master to inquire about the cause. Master Foyin made observations and understood Su Dongpo's confusion. According to Dingzhong's instructions, Master Foyin found the family, entered the pigsty, and shouted at a group of piglets: Su Dongpo, Su Dongpo, come out! After returning to the temple, the master took Su Dongpo out of the piglet, and it didn't take long for Su Dongpo to relieve himself at home.
A few days later, Master Foyin sent someone to invite Su Dongpo to eat, the meal was in full swing, Master Foyin asked people to serve a dish, the master smiled and said to everyone, come, come, everyone taste Dongpo meat.
Dongpo understood his foolish things, and almost reincarnated as a pig, but Buddha Yin has always followed him unabandoningly, painstakingly persuading him to realize something. His own personal experience, coupled with the continuous persuasion and enlightenment of the Buddha Yin, Su Dongpo finally woke up, not only believing in the theory of reincarnation of cause and effect, but also believing in Buddhism and concentrating on cultivation.
Later, the Buddha seal master gave Su Dongpo a Buddha bead blessed by the Diamond Sutra, and the red lotus was bounced away as soon as it approached Su Dongpo, and the red lotus female ghost was angry, so she looked for the Buddha seal to take revenge, but as soon as she approached the Buddha seal master, she was also bounced away by the Buddha light, and the red lotus had to give up, and said hatefully, I will find you to take revenge when you turn around in the next life, the red lotus is too resentful and has not been reincarnated, and has been looking for an opportunity to take revenge.
Buddha Yin said to Su Dongpo, we have karmic debts that have not been repaid, and the sentient beings who should be in this degree have not yet been repaid, and we must continue to practice reincarnation, and when we wait until the next life, we will end the dust and turn into a red lotus female ghost, and the display content of the quasi-Dharma mirror will be here.
Master Miao Xiang taught: Zhong Zheng, in your previous life, Master Wujie hurt the red lotus because of the greed for women's sexual translucency, and the red lotus died in shame and turned into a ghost, and you were discovered by Master Mingwu about your crime, you were ashamed to sit down, and then Mingwu calculated that you may slander the Three Jewels in your next life, or you may be reincarnated as a pig, and Mingwu also followed the meditation to save you, and in this life, you are Su Dongpo, and Mingwu is the Buddha seal, and what you have to do now is to transform the female ghost Houlian.