Chapter Twenty-Five: Saving the Heart Ape at the Foot of the Five Elements Mountain
It is said that Xuanzang fell asleep at night, but he came to the purple bamboo forest, passed the trial of the Bodhisattva, and asked the Buddha to be sincere, so he gave him a brocade robe and a nine-ring tin staff
, ordered him to go to the west to take the Mahayana Buddhism Sanzang Sutra, in order to promote Buddhism, the breadth of the world, beyond the sea of suffering, Xuanzang readily agreed, and then turned away. Unexpectedly, just after taking a few steps, he stepped on the air and fell, gradually lost his senses, and fainted.
When Xuanzang opened his eyes again, he found that he was still lying on the bed in the side hall of the palace, the incense on the table was still wafting out wisps of faint smoke, and the faint sunlight shone in from the window, illuminating the things in the palace, everything was as before. Xuanzang sat up from the bed and looked around the hall, but saw the nine-ring tin staff leaning against the wall, and the brocade robe was stacked on the stool beside it. Xuanzang's eyes widened in shock, and he looked at the tin staff and robe in a daze, and after a while, he stood up, walked over and reached out to touch the two samples that should be illusory, but there is no doubt about the substance when they touch it. Xuanzang couldn't help but be suspicious in his heart, and muttered softly: "How can these two treasures be here, are they...... Last night's ...... That's not a dream?"
"Knock! knock!" Just when Xuanzang was full of doubts in his heart, he heard a knock on the door in his ears, Xuanzang settled down, walked over and opened the door, and saw a waiter respectfully saluting Xuanzang and said: "Master Xuanzang, His Majesty the Emperor invites Master Xuanzang to the main hall to speak." Xuanzang said: "Oh, please reply to Your Majesty, the poor monk will be there immediately." The attendant answered, and then turned around and reported to Li Shimin. Xuanzang turned around and closed the door, washed up, tidied up the monk's robe, and explained a few words to the waiter, then walked towards the Jinluan Hall with a puzzled look.
After a while, Xuanzang entered the main hall and bowed to Li Shimin and said: "Poor monk Xuanzang, see Your Majesty." Li Shimin smiled and said, "Mage doesn't have to be polite, get up." Xuanzang got up, Li Shimin glanced at him lightly, and asked: "Why is Master Xuanzang's face so ugly, didn't he sleep well last night?" Xuanzang hurriedly said: "Oh, the poor monk didn't dare, but he had a Bodhisattva dream last night, and he was puzzled, so he was rude, please forgive your majesty." Li Shimin asked: "I don't know what dream the Bodhisattva trusts?" Xuanzang said: "The Bodhisattva said in the dream of the poor monk, I have a fate with the Buddha, so I gave two treasures, and taught the poor monk to go to the West Tianling Mountain to see the Buddha, take the Mahayana Buddhism Sanzang Sutra, and transform sentient beings." ”
Li Shimin said with a smile: "There is such a strange thing, it's just an illusion in a dream, and the mage doesn't have to be confused about it." Xuanzang said: "Your Majesty, the poor monk thought it was just a dream of Nanke at first, but the two treasures given by the Bodhisattva, the brocade robe and the nine-ring tin staff, were really placed in the side hall where the poor monk stayed when he woke up, and the poor monk had bothered the palace attendants to fetch the general. Hearing Xuanzang say this, Li Shimin was also a little skeptical, and asked, "Really?" Xuanzang clasped his hands together and said: "The monks don't dare to talk nonsense." Li Shimin nodded and waited quietly.
Not long after, sure enough, two attendants entered the palace with treasures in hand to salute Li Shimin. Seeing this, Li Shimin was overjoyed, and asked the two attendants to hold the treasures and wait for the order, and the two attendants retreated to the side to wait. Li Shimin smiled at Xuanzang and said: "Master Xuanzang is really a person with deep fortune, but the Mahayana Sanzang Sutra has such benefits, I don't know if the Master is willing to go to the Tang Dynasty for me and the world."
Sentient beings get that Mahayana Sutra?" Xuanzang said: "The poor monk is willing to go!"
Li Shimin said with great joy: "Since the Master is willing to go, if he can save sentient beings in the future, it will be a great achievement, so, Zheng Qingyuan and the Master became brothers, one is Master Xie with a fearless spirit, for the people of the Tang Dynasty, for the people of the world to learn the great virtue, and the other is Master Xie to save the widow in the sea of suffering, and stabilize the great grace of my Tang Society!"
It turned out that since Xuanzang performed the Dharma in the city to surpass the soul, Li Shimin was sitting and lying healthy, his heart was calm, Li Shimin was overjoyed, and urgently summoned the Chinese teacher of the palace to watch the sky at night, and the national teacher obeyed the will to inspect it. Seeing that Li Shimin's imperial star is extremely stable, and it shines proudly. I knew in my heart that this was the meaning that the emperor's throne was stable and long-lasting, and the fortune of the Tang Dynasty was long-lasting, so I didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly returned to the palace and truthfully reported to Li Shimin that I knew. Therefore, he summoned Xuanzang early in the morning, and his original intention was to marry Jin Lan with him.
When Xuanzang heard Li Shimin say this, he couldn't help but feel frightened, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, how can the poor monk dare to be so favored by His Majesty, the poor monk is terrified!" Li Shimin feigned anger and said: "Hey, Master Xuanzang doesn't have to be like this, besides, the king, every word is true, how can there be jokes, if the master does not obey, it is a rebellion." When Xuanzang heard this, he hurriedly said: "The poor monk doesn't dare, the poor monk obeys the order." ”
Li Shimin laughed and said, "Hahaha! Yes, that's right." Come on, take the incense case, Zheng wants to marry Master Xuanzang with Jinlan. Immediately put on the incense case, Li Shimin and Xuanzang each held incense candles, bowed to the sky, kowtowed three threads each, got up, Li Shimin said: "Brother Yu, from today onwards, you and I will be brothers in life and death." Xuanzang smiled and nodded. Li Shimin asked again: "Does the royal brother have a nickname?" Xuanzang said: "The monk should be six pure, and the poor monk did not dare to be titled." Li Shimin said: "Guanyin Bodhisattva once said that the Western Buddha has the Mahayana Sanzang Sutra, and the royal brother will be called the Sanzang, which is also in line with the meaning of the Buddhist scriptures, I don't know what the royal brother wants?" Xuanzang smiled: "Brother Xie Huang gave him the elegant name." ”
Li Shimin also ordered people to set up a vegetarian banquet to celebrate. That's it, Li Shimin asked people to take 10,000 taels of gold and silver to Sanzang, but Sanzang was stunned and refused to accept it, helplessly, Li Shimin had to take a purple gold bowl and some dry food and a thousand-mile horse to give Sanzang, and returned the nine-ring tin staff and brocade robe, and asked: "When will the royal brother go west, and it is good to send it to the brother." Sanzang said: "Go back to the temple first and say goodbye to the brothers, and then go in two days, the imperial brother has every opportunity, and Sanzang does not dare to bother the imperial brother to send it off." Li Shimin said with a smile: "What's the harm in sending the royal brother for the brother." The two talked for a while, and Sanzang got up and left.
Sanzang returned to Jinshan Temple and told the master and his brothers about the whole thing one by one, and everyone was first happy, and then there was a burst of sadness, but it was the Bodhisattva's order, and it could not be violated. Sanzang took care of some affairs in the temple again, and after another day, Sanzang packed his luggage and wrapped it out of Jinshan Temple. All the monks in the temple came out of the temple, with tears in their eyes, and Li Shimin also went out of the palace to see him off. It was autumn, and the breeze was blowing slightly, and a withered yellow leaf slowly fell from the treetops to the ground, and was blown up by the wind and drifted to the distant horizon.
Guanyin drove the clouds in the sky and looked at it lightly, nodded, and said: "Amitabha! good!" Although this word is light, but it is swirling in the sky, every word clearly falls into everyone's ears, Sanzang has discussed the law with the Bodhisattva in a dream, and he knows the voice of the Bodhisattva, and hurriedly bows down, and says: "Disciple Xuanzang, see Guanyin Bodhisattva!" When everyone saw this, they also hurriedly bowed down, and shouted in their mouths: "See Guanyin Bodhisattva!" Guanyin had already driven the clouds to the western spiritual mountain to see Sakyamuni to give the decree. Sanzang bowed to the people again, then got up and rode his horse to the west.
Sanzang traveled all the way to the west, eating and sleeping in the open air. On this day, Sanzang traveled to the two borders of the Tang Kingdom, saw a mountain peak, if the palm of the hand, the five fingers towered, the grass and trees on the mountain wall withered yellow, dried down, exposed like a reef in the sea, scorched black mountain stones, although it was after the years of staggering, wind and rain, but still the same, Sanzang heart said: "Five fingers giant peak, could it be that this is where the Bodhisattva said the Five Elements Mountain?" thinking, he got off the horse, walked to the front of the mountain, stepped on the withered yellow fallen leaves, and made a "squeak" sound.
When Wukong heard the sound, he moved his fingers slightly, brushed aside the yellow grass, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a young monk looking dignified, looking at him with a smile, and said, "Donor, the poor monk Sanzang is polite." The corners of Wukong's mouth hooked up a sneer of disdain, and said: "If it is not as expected by my old grandson, you are the person who learned the scriptures according to Guanyin, right?" Sanzang smiled and said: "The poor monk is exactly, I don't know what the name of the donor is?" Wukong glanced at Sanzang with bad intentions and said, "Sun Wukong." After a pause, he shouted: "Where did you come from so much nonsense! Guanyin didn't ask you to save me out, hurry up the mountain and remove the talisman and let me out!"
Sanzang smiled bitterly in his heart: "This monkey is really stubborn, I'm afraid it will be difficult to control, alas!" So he said: "Master Sun, Guanyin Bodhisattva once said, you must worship my door, protect me to the west, Fang Nen get rid of the calamity, and return your free body, are you willing?" Wukong sighed: "That's it, that's it, just get rid of the calamity, and get started." But there was a cold light in his eyes that flashed away, and he said in his heart: "Hehe, you dare to threaten my grandson, kill yourself, and see how you can go to the west later!"
Sanzang nodded and said with a smile: "Good!" Then put the nine-ring tin staff aside, climbed up along the mountain wall, stepped on the mountain rocks, climbed the branches, and after about a stick of incense, finally arrived before the talisman, Sanzang stepped forward and lifted it. The talisman immediately turned into ashes and scattered. Wukong felt that most of the power of the Five Elements that suppressed his Yuan Shen for five hundred years had disappeared, but the rest was sucked clean by Wukong's Yuan Shen, and the Yuan Shen was suddenly unobstructed.
Wukong violently ran the true yuan, accompanied by a long roar, rising to the sky, the heavens and the earth trembled, the mountain stone shattered, the Five Elements Mountain, which had stood for five hundred years, collapsed at this moment, the gravel fell to the ground like a meteorite, the smoke and dust dispersed, Wukong's figure appeared, taking off the shackles of five hundred years, Wukong was naturally happy in his heart, but the next moment he was stunned, only to see the brocade robe on Sanzang's body released Buddha light to protect his whole body, and fell to the ground steadily. Wukong was busy looking at the fire with his eyes, but saw that it was not the Sanzang himself who was carrying the true yuan of the Buddha, but the robe was making trouble, and he couldn't help but be shocked and angry in his heart, thinking that he would let the mountain stone smash this person's bones to the ground, but unexpectedly he was protected by the robe and was unscathed, which was really a miscalculation!
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