Chapter 103: The Netherworld
Heaven and earth are lacking, in Datang, they are definitely not righteous people.
Because both of them are very murderous, when they were young, they were taught a lesson by the real people of Yanyang. At that time, the sky was broken, and he was still a young man, so he was very unconvinced. Later, he made trouble outside and was brought back to Wudang Mountain by his master Xu Yangzhi.
Later, the two broke the mirror and fled with the real martial sword.
In short, these two people are definitely not good people in the hearts of the people.
Master Fukui and Xu Yangzhi were chatting happily, when a little monk came over and whispered something in his ear. Master Fukui sighed and waved him out.
When he said it, he naturally couldn't hide it from Xu Yangzhi, and he smiled: "What, the Pagoda Sect is not honest again?"
Master Fukui nodded: "I have repeatedly put up with their affairs. But they didn't seem to think it was enough, so this time, they asked me to attend the wedding of the son of the He family. ”
Xu Yangzhi snorted coldly, What went to the wedding, it was clear that he was going to be humiliated.
Today's Jiuchan Temple, at this time, is like an old man in the twilight. Apart from the Fukui priest, there is no second monk. The wedding of the He family is a big event for Bodhi Prefecture.
It is also not appropriate to send ordinary disciples.
If the Fukui priest goes, it will be even more inappropriate.
What is the identity of the Fukui monk? He is the same generation as Xu Yangzhi, and he can be regarded as a master of the generation of Yanyang Zhenren. The Pagoda Sect has only recently risen to prominence, and it has no qualifications. If they go to the He family's wedding, I'm afraid they will also send an ordinary monk.
Not to mention an ordinary monk, even if the ancestor goes, the identity is not enough.
Xu Yangzhi asked, "How about it, do you want to go?"
Master Fukui smiled: "Go, why don't you go, everyone else has come to invite you, how can you not go?"
When Xu Yangzhi saw this old friend's smile, he knew that he must have an idea.
Monk Fukui drank the tea in the cup, stood up and walked out, and found Yu Zhenyi and his party beside the wishing well. He looked at Yu Zhenyi and the colorful clouds beside him, and asked with a smile: "I don't know this girl, but you are willing to become a disciple of my Nine Chan Temple?"
Yu Zhenyi was stunned for a moment, and Caiyun also had the same expression. None of them knew why the master would suddenly say such a thing.
Yu Zhenyi smiled and said: "Master, according to the routine of general romance, shouldn't you accept me as a disciple at this time?"
Monk Fukui shook his head: "I know, your ambition is not here, and the girl next to you has Buddhist qualifications." Can you ask her if she would like to worship under my Nine Zen Temple. ”
Turning around, Yu Zhenyi asked, "Caiyun, are you willing?"
Caiyun was a little shy: "Listen to the son." ”
Yu Zhenyi knew her thoughts, and said to the Fukui monk: "Master, she is willing. ”
Caiyun still had some worries in her heart, she looked at the master, and said with some doubts: "Master, I am a woman, and I am also a ghost, become a disciple of the Nine Zen Temple, will the people of the world agree?"
Female disciples, ghosts, are all taboos in Buddhism.
The monk Fukui shook his head: "Others don't agree, what are you doing with my Jiuchan Temple? Besides, there are not no female disciples in the Buddhist sect." ”
is worthy of being a monk of Jiuchan Temple, Master Fukui gave Yu Zhenyi a piece of Buddhism to them on the spot. The empress of the Tang Dynasty was a student of Buddhism.
Nowadays, when people turn to Buddhism
The classics will see a verse, which was presented to the empress when the eighty-volume "Huayan Sutra" was translated successfully.
The empress's inscription of these four sentences of "opening scriptures", until now no one has been able to make a better opening verse than it, so the opening verse that people read is the "Huayan Sutra" translation is complete, Wu Zetian because of the experience of the mystery of the scriptures, very happy, and feel and write down the opening scriptures.
It is the so-called supreme and profound subtle method, and millions of calamities are encountered. I have seen and heard it now, and I am willing to interpret it as it comes.
The origin of this poem is said to be when Wu Zetian was the emperor. Since Wu Zetian is a devout Buddhist, she is very fond of the Huayan Sutra. I always feel that Jin Yi's sixty Huayan lacks too much and is incomplete, and I feel very regretful.
So I sent an envoy to the Buddha country to ask for this scripture, to see if there is a complete book, at this time in Khotan's Sanzang master got this book, she even the master invited to the Tang Dynasty, this master is the real fork Nanda, after inviting him to come, presided over the translation of the Huayan Sutra.
Master Shicha Nanda is very prestigious in the Western Regions, a well-known mage, some great masters of the Tang Dynasty, and even emperors, are very admired by him.
When Master Shicha Nanda came, he brought the Huayan Sutra, which was also incomplete. However, there are 9,000 verses more than the Jin translation, so there are 45,000 verses in total, and the righteousness of the great scriptures can already be seen.
The scale of the translation field is also very large, and Wu Zetian himself often participates. After the translation, when Wu Zetian first read the "Huayan Sutra", he was very happy because he experienced the subtlety and rarity of Buddhism, so he felt it and inscribed a poem on this great scripture.
Therefore, women can also learn Buddhism.
Especially when the empress was in the past, she was serious about studying Buddhism.
After saying these things, Caiyun's heart was a lot of peace, she was a lonely ghost, and she was already nervous in this thousand-year-old temple. Now I suddenly learned that I could worship under the door of Jiuchan Temple, and my heart was suddenly happy.
If so, who wants to be a lonely ghost all the time?
But Caiyun still has a point, she glanced at the few people present, and slowly flew into the air, revealing the blood-colored skeleton of the endless ghosts in her body. As soon as this skeleton came out, there was a sudden wind and sand.
High in the sky of Jiuchan Temple, the light of the Buddha spreads, as if to suppress the evil spirit of the infernal ghosts.
Infernal ghosts, in the underworld, are also the most powerful kind of ghosts.
Caiyun had been to the underworld and knew something.
After the person dies, he first captures the black and white impermanence from the underworld, takes away the three souls and six spirits, and hands them over to the bull head and horse noodles to take them to the ghost gate, which is also a must pass through the ghost country.
Yan Yun: The ghost gate is closed, ten people go, and nine people return.
There are sixteen big ghosts in front of the ghost gate, and legend has it that the king of Yama specially selected a group of evil ghosts to come to this town and mountain to check the gates, and they are extremely harsh and strict in investigating the undead ghosts and wild ghosts with bad deeds and malignant unreformed, so as not to let one pass the test in confusion.
Before his death, whether it was a high-ranking official or an ordinary person, whoever came here must be checked to see if he has a ghost country pass - Lu Yin, which is the basis for reporting to the ghost country after death.
Lu Yin is 300 meters long and 2 meters wide, it is printed on yellow soft paper, and the book is sent by Fengdu Tianyu to the Emperor Yama Luo to Lu Yin and the people of the whole world must have this introduction before he can go to the underworld to reincarnate and ascend to heaven. At the same time, the road guide is stamped with the three seals of Yin Si Chenghuang and Fengdu County Government. When a person is cremated after death, it is burned **, and the soul comes to the underworld.
Next is a long Huangquan Road. The soul of man goes to the yin
It takes a long way to pass through a lot of passes, so Huangquan Road can be a general term for these passes and distances, or it can refer to this road called Huangquan Road.
There are fiery red flowers on the Huangquan Road, which looks like a carpet paved with blood from a distance, and is also known as the fire road because of its red fire, which is also the only scenery and color on the long Huangquan Road, and people will step on the guidance of this flower to lead to the hell of the underworld.
In addition, there are many lonely souls and wild ghosts on the Huangquan Road, they are those who have not completed their yang life and are not normal deaths, they can not go to heaven, nor can they be reincarnated, let alone go to the underworld, they can only wander on the Huangquan Road, waiting for the arrival of Yangshou before they can report to the underworld, and listen to the fate of the king of Yama.
However, there is a piece of bluestone on the side of the bridge called Sansheng Stone, the words on the stone body are bright red as blood, and there are four big characters engraved on the top of the stone "early landing on the other side" to record everyone's past life, this life and the next life, the cause of the previous life, the fruit of this life, the reincarnation of fate, the origin and extinction, are heavily engraved on the Sansheng stone. For thousands of years, it has witnessed the pain and joy, sorrow and joy, laughter and tears of all living beings, the debts that should be paid, the love that should be repaid, and the three lives of the stone.
The Wangxiang Terrace, which is the earth platform where Meng Po and the stone are located, is in front of the bridge, not behind it. Wangxiangtai is also known as homesickness, here, you can take the stage to look at the situation in the Yang family, so it has become a window for ghosts to look at the sun and a holy place for the living and the dead to contact their feelings.
After a person dies, he does not eat the world's food for one day, crosses the yin and yang realm in two days, and arrives at Wangxiangtai in three days to see his relatives crying and mourning. Before the ghost went to report to the underworld, he was very concerned about his relatives in the Yang world, and although the ghost was severely urged and reprimanded, he still forcibly climbed the Wangxiang platform, and finally looked at his hometown from afar, crying loudly, and then went to the underworld with a dead heart. It is the ghost on the Wangxiang platform who is in a hurry, looking at the eyes and tears. Wives and children sit on the side of the coffin, and relatives and friends gather in the mourning hall.
Wangxiangtai is said to be the place where the deceased soul said goodbye to his relatives for the last time. The underworld lookout platform is built very strangely, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, the face is like a bow back, the back is like a bowstring flat column, see the truth except for a stone path, the rest is a sword mountain and a sword tree, very precipitous. Standing on it, you can see the five continents and four oceans. Originally, Wangxiangtai was set up in the first hall, because the old Yama King was in charge of the first hall, because he was too merciful, mercy to death, repeatedly released the sun and the snow, was demoted to the fifth hall, the head of the call to the big hell and the sixteen small hells.
There is a medicine in the world called dragon grass, which can make the dying immortal, but not the living.
Then it is the Lechuan River, also known as the Santu River, between the Huangquan Road and the Hades, the river water is black and blue, it is full of lonely souls and wild ghosts that cannot be reincarnated, insects and snakes are everywhere, and the fishy wind blows on the face.
Of course, in order to see the favorite of this life again in the next life, you can skip Meng Po soup, then you have to jump into the Lechuan River and wait for thousands of years before you can be reincarnated. In the millennium, you may see the person you love most in this life walking on the bridge, but words can't be communicated, you can see him, he can't see you.
In the millennium, you can see him walk across the Nai He Bridge over and over again, and drink bowl after bowl of Meng Po soup, although I hope that he will not drink Meng Po soup, but I am afraid that he will not be able to forget the suffering of thousands of years in the river; after a thousand years, if your mind is not reduced, you can still remember the events of the previous life, you can re-enter the world, and find the person you loved the most in the previous life.
Caiyun has seen too much, but she can't be reincarnated.
Can only be seen.
The infernal ghosts are in the underworld, and they are also ghosts that come and go at will.
What's more, the infernal ghost skeleton on Caiyun's body is stained with the blood of many Buddhist monks.
How can she worship under the door of the Nine Zen Temple?