Ancient India Journey Through Time (1) – Witnessing the birth of the Buddha

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The energetic Diyan reporter set off again, where to go this time? Haha, I have spoiled it last time, so I will explain it thoroughly today, today I am going to India, yes, there is no doubt, it is the country ----where the Buddha lived in ancient India. Xiaoyan, I've taken my wandering bag and I'm ready to go, are you ready?Let's shout the slogan "GO GO GO"~~~

Passing through time, I came to a luxurious palace, and before my eyes appeared a very beautiful woman, she was different from the local women, her skin was fairer in comparison, her eyes were large and round, her black curly hair was waist-length, she wore a beautiful hair ornament on her head, and she was dressed in exquisite and luxurious Indian clothes, a standard Indian aristocratic beauty, but there was a trace of sadness in her eyes, and the maids on the side also looked helpless. I asked the Dharma Protector, "Who is this?" and the Dharma Protector said, "This is the Buddha's mother, Lady Maya, but now she is not pregnant, so she is a little sad." "Wow, this is the legendary Maya Lady, the Buddha's mother, no matter what else, Xiaoyan, I'll secretly bow first, hehe. Actually, Xiaoyan really wanted to run to the Buddha Mother and say, "You must be sad, you will soon be pregnant with a great sage." But it's just a thought, Xiaoyan, I don't dare to do this.

Fast forward a little, Xiaoyan came to the first day after the dream of the Buddha Mother, I saw that the Buddha's face today is obviously much better than before, joy replaced sadness in her expression, I followed her all the way through the courtyard, the garden, to the Buddha's father King Pure Rice to deal with official business, King Pure Rice is a very kingly king, he has a beard, hair slightly curly, length to the neck, he saw Mrs. Maya come here, his eyes flashed with tenderness, Mrs. Maya was very happy to take the hand of the King of Pure Rice and said: " Yesterday, I had a very special dream, and I don't know what it means. ”

King Jingfan patted his wife's hand with pity, and asked, "Oh, how special, let's listen to this king." ”

Mrs. Maya: "Yesterday I slept as usual, but soon I had a dream that there was a great mountain and a river with a crystal clear bottom, and I was so happy that I wanted to bathe in it, and then a white elephant came towards me, and when I tried to see it clearly, the elephant suddenly turned into a white light and entered my body. When I woke up, I felt like I had something more in my belly, and my body felt very comfortable, which was incredible. ”

When King Jingfan heard this, he also thought it was incredible, but he wondered if it could be a hallucination caused by his wife's perennial infertileness, so he comforted: "Queen, this is indeed a very special dream, if we can, let's go and ask the immortals to come to the palace to interpret the dream for us." ”

When Mrs. Maya heard this, she smiled and shook her head and said, "No need, king, if there is really a good dream foreshadowed, there will be an answer at that time." ”

After some time, Mrs. Maya really had a pregnancy reaction, and Madame immediately told the king of pure rice, which made the king very happy, and invited the most famous doctor to diagnose the lady, and when the doctor told the queen that she was really pregnant, the king's face was already full of irrepressible smiles, and every day from then on, every day in the kingdom of Kapila was a day of joy. Seeing this, Xiaoyan and I are also very happy, because the great Buddha is about to be born in this world from now on, so happy!

It is said that the lady is really different with the saint, on weekdays, the lady not only does not have a special sense of discomfort, but becomes more loving, and even the temper has become very gentle, one day, the king took the team and the queen, the slaves and maids played in the back mountain, at this time the lady has obvious lower abdomen protrusion, and the lady sits in a room consisting of 4 people Carrying the same as the Chinese shoulder, quietly looking at everyone, then I saw a deer in the distance, the king just wanted to lift the bow and arrow to shoot, the lady suddenly vomited and felt uncomfortable, the king saw this and put down the bow and arrow, when the king put down the bow and arrow, the lady returned to normal, after a few times, the king was very surprised and asked the lady: "Queen, why do you vomit every time I lift the bow and arrow?" Mrs. Maya said innocently, "I don't know, It's just that every time you lift the bow and arrow, I feel a strong sense of discomfort, and after I put it down, it recovers. Wang, let's not shoot these animals, I think maybe this kid doesn't like that. After hearing this, King Pure Rice felt that this child was incredible, so he announced that he would return to the palace.

At this time, I asked the Dharma Protector: "Is this the Buddha's mercy on sentient beings, and at the same time preventing the King of Pure Rice from creating the karma of killing?" ”

Wow, the Buddha is so great, he was already so compassionate when he was a little fetus.

Xiao Yanmu has a way to share the ups and downs of pregnancy with Mrs. Maya, so Xiao Yan came to the time when the Buddha was about to be born, at this time Mrs. got off the car carried by the elephant with a big belly, and went to a garden, at this time the Buddha mother may be very tired because of the fatigue of the boat, she held on to a tree, wanted to take a break, suddenly, a white light, from the right rib of the Buddha mother, only to see a white and tender in the light The little boy smiled, seeing this, Xiaoyan was also stunned, it turned out that the Buddha was born from the right rib of the lady in a ball of white light, it was amazing. (If I had told the obstetrician-gynecologist, I would have been transferred directly to the psychiatric department.) At this time, the Buddha was sitting in a strange white lotus, and there were nine great dragon kings in the sky, spewing cool and pure water to wash the Buddha's body. At this time, what is more amazing is that the earth in the whole garden has already become a crystal glazed ground, all kinds of flowers that are not in the world are scattered from the air, the fragrance is fragrant, the fairy music that can not be heard in the world is also filled with the whole sky, the heavenly dragon, ghosts and gods, heavenly people and goddesses and so on in the sky have come to congratulate, at this time the Buddha took a step, every step forward, a white lotus flower bloomed under his feet.

Wow, seeing the Buddha from the womb to the birth with my own eyes, really shocked Xiaoyan, it's incredible, it's too unexplained by science, I really want people all over the world to know that the Buddha is really incredible, the Dharma is really incredible, this way of birth of the Buddha is something that we think is absolutely impossible with modern education, but it really happened.

After seeing such an exciting and special event as the birth of the Buddha, Xiaoyan and I decided to go for a walk by the Ganges River to calm down. "Whoosh~~~" I came to the Ganges, the Ganges is a very long river, is the mother river of ancient India is also a river that people believe to be the Holy Spirit, in the scriptures also see that the Buddha often uses the number of Ganges sand to describe the number of too many to count, from ancient times to the present Indians are very important to this river and worship.

At this time, the sky was just dawning, and I saw a group of people around one side of the river, and I walked over to take a look, wow, it turned out that the outer way was holding a funeral, and after various rituals, they pushed the dead people to the middle of the river, hoping that the deceased would go to heaven or be reborn in a beautiful place as soon as possible, and now India has also retained this practice, so it is not surprising that there are often floating corpses in the river. I remember one year, when I went to the Ganges River in New Delhi, India, I saw with my own eyes that there were countless spirits on both sides of the Ganges River, densely packed, and now Buddhism is not prevalent in India, and few people use Buddhist methods to transcend the dead, so some of the dead have not actually gone to a beautiful place as people hope, and many have been wandering on the shore, nostalgic for the Ganges water that they think is extremely magical. There were not as many dead on the banks of the Ganges River in the time of the Buddha as there are now, the water is cleaner, and the air and atmosphere are much better than in modern times. At this time, I saw two old men in another place chanting words while pouring the water of the Ganges River on the top of their heads and pouring them into their whole bodies, in order to get rid of physical health and diseases, oops, but Xiaoyan I am a girl paper, or it is better to leave without hindering people, hehe.

After swimming the ancient Ganges, the next place to go is the Vulture Mountain in the Wangsha City, haha, this is a famous holy place where the Buddha said the Dharma, Xiaoyan I am very greedy, even if Xiaoyan is not qualified to listen to the Buddha's teachings, I also want to go to the scene to experience the beauty of the Buddha's teachings here. Xiaoyan came to Vulture Mountain, although Vulture Mountain is not a very tall mountain, but the mountain is full of positive energy, maybe this is because of the magnetic field. When I arrived here, the Buddha happened to be here to give a lecture on the Dharma, looking up at the sky, there were countless Heavenly Dragon Medicine Fork generals and so on supporting the Dharma, and there were also countless Dharma Protector generals on the ground who were supporting the Buddha's teachings, and the lineup was very powerful. I then asked the General Protector for his approval.

Xiaoyan: "Dharma protector, please let me enter the lecture site to feel it, I want everyone to know what the Buddha was like when he preached the Dharma, and go back and tell everyone." ”

The Dharma Protector General at the scene stared into my sincere eyes and said, "I already know your intentions, but the Buddha said that not everyone can enter, if I let you in today, then everyone will be able to disobey the rules in the future." Then he didn't look at me again.

When Xiao Yan heard such a direct refusal, she felt so sad in her heart, thinking that not only did she not have the qualifications to listen to the Fa, but she also had no qualifications to go in and feel it, and tears flowed down her eyes suddenly, at this time, my lovely, beautiful, generous and mighty Dharma Protector Brother said, "Xiao Yan, have you forgotten that you have a pass?"

I quickly turned my brain and tried to recall, ah, I finally remembered, it was many years ago, when I went to Bodh Gaya Dajue Temple to meet the Buddha, the Buddha gave it, it was not used back then, and today it can finally be useful, but I don't know if there is an expiration date, the Dharma Protector Brother was completely defeated by my thoughts, and said: "Don't think about it anymore, show your pass, go to the small place to visit, go quickly." ”

I wiped away my tears, came to the protector general who was protecting the scene, raised my head, and a white light emitted from my forehead and eyebrows, this is my pass, after the protector general saw it, he let me enter the scene, haha, it turns out that the protector generals are certified and don't recognize people, and it is absolutely useless to sell cuteness and tears.

I entered the lecture site, oops, my little heart, I nervously held my breath, the atmosphere did not dare to make a sound, standing far away, at this time the Buddha was wearing brown and yellow monk clothes sitting on the top seat, below there were various bodhisattvas, arhats, monks and other dense listeners, everyone concentrated, listened very carefully, really envious of the people of that era, so happy~~

It's very strange here, even if you are far away, you can see the Buddha clearly, so I quickly observed the Buddha, and found that there are many portraits of the Buddha who will be much taller than ordinary people, in fact, that's true, the Buddha's height is really tall, I roughly look at it should be more than 2.50 meters, the Buddha's hair is curly very thick, so the Buddha's hair on the Buddha statue is like a bun one by one, and the Buddha's eyes are big eyes, blazing, very, very ** 's appearance, wow, I really want to call the Buddha a handsome guy~~, okay, don't scold me for being a brainless fan, hehe. In such a special environment, it was absolutely inappropriate to speak, but I didn't know what the Buddha was talking about, so I asked the lovely, beautiful, generous and mighty Dharma Protector with my heart: "Dharma Protector, which sutra is the Buddha talking about?"

The lovely, beautiful, generous and mighty Dharma Protector Brother: "At this time, I am talking about the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra.

It turned out to be the Heart Sutra, and I think the first classic I could recite back then was this, which was both short and special. Because of the movement of the mind, the Buddha and the great Bodhisattva monks present can sense, Xiaoyan I tremble, for fear of some bad gossip thoughts, so the small visit is really a small visit, I came out of the festival scene in the entanglement and returned to reality, what a pity, I hope that I will have the opportunity to do a little longer stay in the future, listen to the Buddha's scriptures, haha, the wish is beautiful, the reality is cruel, Xiaoyan I still have to practice hard to have the face to see the Buddha for a longer time.

Well, Ben Yan announced: This trip to India will be honorably completed ~ ~ ~ However, Xiao Yan has to add: To be continued. Hee-hee!

Note: The above dialogue is all fictional

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