Chapter 40: The First Sight of the Gandhar

It seems that Maitreya Buddha can no longer continue to chat, but fortunately, at this time, the stone monkey suddenly found a figure in the sky approaching quickly. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The stone monkey pointed to the figure and asked Maitreya Buddha, "Is the person who is coming now the Venerable Moggallus?"

Hearing the stone monkey's question, not only Maitreya Buddha looked up, but the rest of the people on the side also looked up.

As he spoke, the stone monkey saw the appearance of the person who was coming. I saw that he was slender, with a square face and big ears, and a resolute face. Of course, he was also a monk, a monk dressed like Sariputta, except that he was middle-aged.

Maitreya Buddha replied, "This is the Venerable Moggallus! Only his divine foot can control the clouds so fast!"

As soon as Maitreya Buddha's words fell, the Venerable Moggallian had already come to the crowd and was saluting them at this moment: "Thank you for being invited to come and help! ”

The stone monkey followed everyone and hurriedly returned the salute.

Seeing that Maitreya Buddha nodded, he turned his head to everyone and said, "Then this Bon Festival will officially begin!"

So Maitreya Buddha was responsible for arranging the rest of the people, and the Venerable Moggallian went to find the stone monkey alone.

The stone monkey looked at the Venerable Muggallian in front of him, and he had a special feeling in his heart. This time it's not a sense of intimacy, and I can't say what the specific stone monkey is for a while.

Instead, Venerable Muggallian spoke: "The first time I saw the stone monkey donor, I had a special feeling, although I had heard other people, even the Buddha, mention the stone monkey donor. But this feeling is indescribable. It seems that my supernatural powers have not been cultivated in place!"

The stone monkey is still a little interested in all kinds of supernatural powers, just now I heard Maitreya Buddha talk about the divine foot power of the Lord Muggallian, which is a kind of cloud method that is no less than the somersault cloud, so he asked: "I don't know what the Venerable Muganlian said about the supernatural power that has not been cultivated in place?"

Venerable Moggallian smiled at this: "I am most praised for the Heavenly Eye, the Heavenly Ear and the Divine Foot, but every time the Buddha mentions the past, he asks me to tell him about it, saying that I have great supernatural powers and can know the past and the future. But now it seems that the Buddha praised it. I only know the past but not the future!"

This is really a big breath! I can know the past and the future, and I don't even need to pinch my fingers.

Seeing the stone monkey's flickering eyes, Venerable Muggallian asked, "What does the stone monkey donor want to ask?"

The stone monkey replied, "I wonder how I can help with this Bon meeting?" ”

Venerable Muganlian turned to look at the ground and said, "At the beginning of the opening of the world by the Pangu Great God, the clear qi floated and the turbid qi sank. And in this hell is where the turbid qi of the Three Realms gathers, which can pollute all creatures in the Three Realms, and the gods and Buddhas will also sink into it and find it difficult to extricate themselves. Although the Dharma of the monks from all over the world was gathered to support it, it was still far from enough, so the monks of virtue in the Three Realms were invited. But he didn't expect the stone monkey donor to come, so the Buddha changed the previous arrangement and used the weak water of the Tianhe River to practice a nine-grade lotus. This time, I will also ask the stone monkey donor to harness this nine-rank lotus flower to carry my true spirit into hell. ”

After saying this, Venerable Muggallian raised his right hand, and saw a colorless nine-petal lotus flower emerge. The nine-petaled lotus flower slowly rotated, reflecting the colorful glow.

The stone monkey stretched out his hand to take the nine-rank lotus, looked at it and asked Venerable Muggallus, "Then how should I control this nine-rank lotus?"

Venerable Moggalla replied, "I will teach you the method of controlling this nine-rank lotus!

As he spoke, Venerable Muggallian passed the Dharma decision to the stone monkey.

The stone monkey asked curiously, "Why is this nine-grade lotus flower a pity?"

Venerable Moggallian replied, "In this world, except for the four monkeys of the mixed world who enter the hell without being polluted with turbidity, even the lightest thing in this world, weak water, will be polluted when it enters the hell. It's a pity that this nine-rank lotus has already developed self-consciousness in the process of refining the Buddha's land, and now it is about to be polluted by turbidity again, I don't know what will happen to it in the future, what kind of demon will it evolve into?"

The stone monkeys were a little confused, would the Nine Rank Lotus in their hands turn into a demon in the future?

Venerable Muggall said in a deep voice: "No! This is the cause I planted, and I will definitely pay it back in the future! I just don't know how many innocent beings will be affected by then!"

The stone monkey decided not to dwell on this question anymore, it seemed to be very profound, so he changed the subject and continued to ask, "Then how do I carry your true spirit into hell?"

Venerable Moggallian replied, "My true spirit will enter the body of the stone monkey donor, so that I can use the body of the stone monkey donor to avoid the pollution of the turbid energy of hell. As for going to hell? It's even simpler. Weak water is the lightest thing in the Three Realms, and as long as we enter this nine-rank lotus, the nine-rank lotus will naturally take us to hell. ”

Now that everything is clear, let's get ready to get started!

On the side, Maitreya Buddha seems to have arranged a formation, which is very huge, and countless mysterious lines form a complex pattern. The rest of the people also stood at the various feet of the formation at this time.

The stone monkey didn't see any 500 arhats?

As if seeing the stone monkey's doubts, the Venerable Moggallian opened his mouth to explain: "The five hundred Arhats did not come to Mount Meru, they scattered in the Four Divine Prefectures to gather the Dharma of the monks from all over the world, and then transmitted it to this great array of rebirth through the altar. ”

This is also the most puzzling place for the stone monkey, why bother to gather the Dharma of the monks of the eight directions? Could it be that the Dharma of the monks of the eight directions is as profound as the Dharma of the five hundred Arhats, or is the Dharma of the four Bodhisattvas profound?

Venerable Moggallian seemed to see the stone monkey's question, and then opened his mouth to explain: "This time I went to hell to save my mother, it is against the principles of heaven, and I will not be tolerated by the way of heaven. And there are a large number of monks from all directions, and it is still bearable to share with each other. I am ashamed of them for this, and I will pay it back later. ”

The stone monkey couldn't help but ask, "What about you, what will happen to you?"

Mu Ganlian smiled and said: "My mother is suffering in hell, how can I not save it! Although the Buddha said that the six roots are pure and do not read red dust, what exists exists, and the existence of every thing must have its truth. I need to repay it with the practice of the tenth generation to save my mother this time, but fortunately the Buddha gave me a golden cicada!"

The reincarnation of the golden cicada, the good man who practiced in the tenth generation, the Tang monk, could it be that the Venerable Muggallian is the Tang monk?

Thinking of this, the stone monkey's gaze couldn't help but become weird. In his heart, he still asked himself uncertainly: Could it be that the Venerable Moggallian is really Tang Seng? Tang Seng seems to be the second disciple of the Buddha. This Muggallian Venerable seems to be also a disciple of the Buddha, but I don't know how many disciples it is.

So the stone monkey asked, "I wonder how many disciples of the Buddha is the Moggallian?"

The stone monkey's sudden change of topic made Venerable Gandhara stunned for a moment, but he still replied: "When the Buddha first became a Buddha, there were only two disciples around him, me and Sariputta, strictly speaking, Sariputta is the eldest disciple, and I am the second disciple. Later, the Buddha accepted eight more disciples, making a total of ten disciples. But the Buddha didn't put us disciples in any order, and we all practiced and preached the Dharma separately. ”

Hearing that Venerable Muganlian said that he was the second disciple, the stone monkey's eyes were straight, this is really Tang Seng, his own master in the future! No wonder he had an inexplicable feeling when he saw him for the first time.

Seeing that the stone monkey had not spoken, and that the gaze that had become very strange when he looked at him, Venerable Muggallian couldn't help but feel strange, could it be that he had said something wrong just now?

So Venerable Muggallian asked, "Does the stone monkey donor think there is something wrong with me?"

The stone monkey shook his head again and again, "No! No, I just want to see what the golden cicada looks like?

Venerable Moggallian stretched out his right hand again, only to see a golden cicada appear. It is no different from the summer cicada chirping in a normal tree, except that it is golden.

Venerable Muggallian also said, "The golden cicada is out of its shell? This metaphor is really appropriate!"

The stone monkey here still wants to ask Venerable Moggallian some more questions, and the Maitreya Buddha over there is already ready. So the stone monkey had no choice but to follow Venerable Muggallian to the front of the Great Array of Death.

After thanking everyone present again, Venerable Muggall looked at the stone monkey, who nodded at him.

I saw that after the Venerable Muggallian was cross-legged, a golden light man stood up from his body. The light man dodged and entered the body of the stone monkey.

As soon as the light man entered his body, the stone monkey felt very weird, as if there was something more for some reason, not that there were any more parts in the body, but that there seemed to be an extra piece of his soul, and there was a feeling of being overwhelmed.

I could only hear the voice of Venerable Gandhara Lotus directly in my mind: "Stone Monkey Donor, now is not the time to be stunned, please quickly control the Nine Rank Lotus into hell, and do not delay for a minute or a second!"

Well, it seems that there is an extra Muggallian Venerable.

The stone monkey immediately cast a spell and turned into a puff of smoke into the Nine Rank Lotus, sat on the stamen, drove the Nine Rank Lotus into the Great Array of Death, and then advanced towards hell under the protection of the Great Array of Death.

If you don't go through the ghost gate to enter the underworld, then you can only enter the underworld from the six realms of reincarnation. At the beginning, the stone monkey left the underworld through the humane reincarnation passage in the six reincarnations. It didn't feel very good, like being born again from my mother's womb.

After a long dark night, Venerable Muggallian reminded in a loud voice: "After a while, after six reincarnations, the stone monkey donor will temporarily lose control of his body, please don't panic, this is normal." Also, if you will see everything in my life, please don't interfere, just watch from the sidelines, and no one will be able to find out about you. Look, that's the six realms of reincarnation!"

The last time I jumped directly from the cliff of rebirth, I only saw a sea of clouds that kept spinning like a funnel, and I didn't see what the six reincarnations looked like!

Hearing this, the stone monkey hurriedly looked at the six realms of reincarnation.

I saw six stone gates standing in the void, standing up to the sky and the earth, and there were all kinds of beings appearing on the stone gates, silent and silent. The shape of the stone gate is simple and rude, but also majestic and solemn. The light is hidden in the stone gate, and life and death are born together.

The stone monkey harnesses this nine-rank lotus flower like a grain of sand falling into the earth, and it seems to break the calm of the lake and ripple, and finally sinks into the swamp like a stone.

It's a wonderful feeling, you are like an outsider watching the ebb and flow of the world, the spring and autumn, no one can perceive your existence, you are not a physical being, you are just a consciousness.

His Holiness Moggalla was born in the village of Kuroda outside the city of Magadha, a family of fishermen who made a living from fishing, and his father was a fisherman, an old fisherman with dark skin and honest skin. His mother believed in Brahmanism, slandered Buddhism, and did not believe in karma.

When Venerable Moggalla grew up, he inherited his father's business and became a fisherman. Fishing, killing, and selling fish every day, living this life repeatedly. Until he got tired of it, or suddenly woke up.

Is this my life? Is this the life I want? No, but how do I get out of this life? So His Holiness Moggalla began to think and began to study.

Knowledge enriched his brain and broadened his horizons, and the world opened its arms to him.

But then came more confusion: Why do people live so hard, poverty, disease, old age, death, war, ...... And so on, all of this is going on? How can people live better?

Under the introduction of his mother, His Holiness Muggalla studied with the elder Brahmin Shujaya as his teacher. As a result, he got acquainted with his classmate Sariputta, and after the two talked, they became confidants and found that they had a common pursuit.

At this time, the two of them also realized that they could no longer learn anything useful from the teacher, so they decided to leave.

After leaving the teacher, the Venerable Moggalla and Sariputta decided to set up their own school to recruit disciples, and they proudly thought that there was no one wiser in the world than them, and no one was qualified to be their teacher anymore. But they still agreed that whoever found the truth first must tell each other.

Until one day, Sariputta came to look for the Venerable Moggalla with an excited face, and told him that he had found his true teacher. At this time, Venerable Moggallian also met the most important guide for him.

It was a Buddha who Venerable Muggallian met in the city of Wangshe, and he saw that the Buddha behaved serenely and had a majestic demeanor. His Holiness Muggallian respectfully invited the Buddha to his home to raise him and ask him for the truth.

However, the Buddha was not good at saying the Dharma, so he used his supernatural powers to leap into the air, left or right, up or down, back and forth. Spread the Dharma in supernatural powers.

His Holiness was overjoyed when he saw this, and vowed to learn great magical powers to educate the world.

Sariputta relayed to him the Buddha and the Dharma preached by the Asheva vow, and the Venerable Moggalla was so happy to hear it that he burst into tears. They decided to go to the Buddha the next day.

So the next day, Sariputta and the Venerable Moggalla led 200 disciples to the Bamboo Forest Monastery where the Buddha was, took refuge under the Buddha's throne, and learned the truth.