Chapter Forty-Eight: The Human Heart Is Hell, Who Sorrows the Sufferings of All Beings?
Out of the Reward Division, Wang Xianjun led Shi Zixuan out.
The clouds rose, the fog was driven, and all the way along. After a short time, he passed by a river, and he didn't know where it came from or where it flowed. The water is red and yellow, but it is as bright as a mirror.
"Immortal Monarch, what kind of place is this?" Shi Zixuan suddenly asked.
"It's a shaded mirror. The true spirits of all living beings are drawn by karma, and in this they reflect the good and evil results of a lifetime, and everything is in it, innocent and true. ”
Wang Xianjun said: "This yin mirror, some people also call it the Lechuan River, people who have stepped in it will wash away the memory of the soul consciousness of a lifetime, and return to the true spirit seed, only when the cultivator reaches a certain realm and can know the original face, can the divine consciousness be immortalized." ”
At this moment, two true spirits happened to be drawn by karma. Falling straight on the Lethe River, rolling into it, and disappearing.
Shi Zixuan asked: "Immortal Monarch, when the true spirit enters the Netherworld, shouldn't it be to judge the good and the evil first?
Wang Xianjun said: "Good and evil are not judged by people, not by gods, and not by immortals and Buddhas. but in the true Spirit, seeing and knowing. ”
Wang Xianjun: What does this mean?
To put it simply, as soon as the true spirit enters the Lethe River, the good and evil deeds seen will be reflected in this Lethe River. It was black and white impermanence that was arrested and escorted, it was the black-faced judge who convicted, and it was the Yama Heavenly Son who was sealed.
Some people, who have entered this, are invited to come to Xianjun, who has set a blessing and longevity, and then ask you, whether you want to go to the heavenly street to enjoy happiness, or stay in the netherworld street to meditate, or to die as you wish, and go to other shijie.
Everyone sees and hears differently.
At this moment, the two true spirit seeds rolled out of the Lethe River and turned into two men.
I only heard the older man say in surprise: "Butcher Zhang, you are also here." Where have we been?"
The butcher Zhang next to him shouted: "Mr. Ding, it turned out to be you." Hurry up and save my life, it's terrible here, there are little ghosts who fork me and say they want to take me to Hades...... Oh, there are all evil spirits in this water, and they want to catch me to share the food!"
Mr. Ding said with a blank face: "Butcher Zhang, what are you talking about? What are the ghosts and ghosts of Hades? I am so good to sleep at home, somehow, I came here." Just now, a man in a green robe said to me that he was the local god of the land, and that there was still a lack of a bookkeeper, and asked me if I wanted to do it. Didn't you see that?"
Zhang Butcher screamed there: "Help, help...... There are chickens and ducks pecking at my head, and there are cows and sheep trying to eat my meat. Sir, help......"
The more Mr. Ding listened, the more dazed he became.
Shi Zixuan watched from the sidelines, where is there a butcher Zhang, Mr. Ding. It's just two true spirit seeds, one blooming clear and consuming light, and the other blooming dark and turbid consuming light, and there is no wonder in their mouths.
"What you see in the Netherworld, what you see, what karma does. Those with good roots see heaven as heaven, and those with evil roots see hell. ”
Wang Xianjun saw Shi Zixuan's doubts, took the initiative to explain, waved his hand, and said, "Fellow Daoist, it seems." ”
Xianjun cast a spell, so that Shi Zixuan temporarily had the ability to view yin and yang shijie.
Shi Zixuan fixed his eyes and saw that this butcher and Mr. Ding were both right about each other.
Mr. Na Ding, who is in a shrine, is resplendent in the middle, the holy scenery of the Jade Palace, and sitting next to him is a land god wearing a green robe, wearing a jade crown, and holding a jade seal, smiling on the side, respectfully inviting him to be a land official.
And the butcher, the situation is very terrible. The place where he stood was dark and dim, and there was blood and flesh everywhere, and white bones and stumps were everywhere. Beside the butcher, followed by two little imps with a fork, shouting five and drinking six, and walking forward with the fork.
There are countless chickens and ducks on the side, flying on his head, it is a fierce peck, really pecking blood and brains splashing. There were also cows, sheep, pigs, and dogs that came out of the pool of blood, biting their limbs, and no matter how much this butcher struggled, it was useless, and he wanted to retreat, and many evil spirits were born in the Lechuan River, and they pounced on him.
Shi Zixuan said incredulously: "Mr. Na Ding is okay to say, it is good deeds to get good blessings, but what is the matter with this butcher? Weishenme has seen such a terrible thing? So many evil ghosts are tearing the ghosts here, and the King of the Earth Bodhisattva doesn't care?"
Wang Xianjun said: "Fellow Daoist, do you know the grand wish of the King of the Earth?"
"Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha. All sentient beings are exhausted, and Bodhi is proven. ”
Shi Zixuan said: "The Bodhisattva's wish, known to the world, is immeasurable merit, how can I not know?"
Wang Xianjun said again: "Daoyou knows. What hell is that?"
Shi Zixuan thought for a while and said, "The human heart is hell. ”
Wang Xianjun nodded and said, "That's right." The true spirit seed knows cause and effect, and returns to the void to see the truth. The human heart is hell. Look at this butcher, why is there a lot of bones, why is there a river of blood, why are there chickens, ducks, cows and sheep, competing to eat him?
Because in the Yang world, he slaughtered these livestock every day, and when he stabbed down, the blood fell to the ground, which was to send away a true spirit. When this true spirit leaves, how can it be without resentment? Knowing God cannot be seen, but the true spirit of the primordial god can see clearly, and once the fate is returned to heaven and into the void, all of them will be reflected back. ”
Shi Zixuan thought about it, how many chickens, ducks, cows, sheep, pigs, and dogs would be slaughtered by this butcher in his lifetime, and all the creatures who were stabbed by him would be viewed by his own primordial gods. Once his fate is over, all of this will be reflected by him.
How terrible is it that he has to suffer as many knives as he cuts when he kills chickens, ducks, cows, sheep, pigs and dogs?
Wang Xianjun sighed and said: "The world is afraid of hell, but there are also people who say that hell has faith, and if you don't believe it, you don't have it, what does this have to do with believing or not believing?
Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha. What the Jizo King Bodhisattva wants to transcend is not the hell in the netherworld, but the hell in the true spirit seed, the hell in the hearts of all beings. Eliminate karma and return to goodness, regain innocence, and be happy from suffering. ”
Wang Xianjun said: "The Bodhisattva has become a Buddha long before the immeasurable calamity, but for the sake of purifying sentient beings, he still appears as a Bodhisattva, and has evolved this ghostly yin light shijie with the Buddha's merits, so that after the death of sentient beings, they can have the opportunity to enter this place to suffer sins and eliminate karma, and then cultivate good roots." In this way, 'I don't go to hell, who will go to hell', that is, to enter the hell in the hearts of all beings, not the hell in the Netherworld. ”
Although it is not the first time that Shi Zixuan has heard the great wish of this Bodhisattva, it is the first time that he has deeply understood the great compassion and immeasurable merits of the Bodhisattva. Praise to the Great Wish Jizo King Bodhisattva. ”
Wang Xianjun laughed and said: "There are many immortal Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who are as compassionate as the King Bodhisattva of the Earth, and there are many immortal Buddhas and Bodhisattvas with great wishes, hell is not one place, and the Netherworld is not the only one, such as the Dongyue Pangu Emperor in Yan Futi Shijie, who also uses the true immortal fruit position to evolve the netherworld. It's just a casual extradition, and it's no different. ”
Shi Zixuan was quite curious: "Immortal Monarch, if the true spirit is returned to the void, no one will lead it, and there will be no chance to enter the Netherworld, where will it go?"
Wang Xianjun said: "You can't go up to the Dharma Realm, and you can't enter the Netherworld. There is no way to heaven and no door to the earth. Or in the immortal void, they admit that they have suffered the evil of endless hell and will never be liberated. Or return to the yang world, be a lonely soul and a wild ghost, without divine sense, without feeling, without consciousness, without consciousness, and never return. ”
Shi Zixuan listened to the creepiness, compared to it, to be able to suffer the punishment of the period in the Netherworld, and there is a thought, if it is really that lonely soul and wild ghost, no one extradited, it is really better to be wiped out in the void once and become that flying ash, a hundred.
This is also weishenme, a Taoist who walks in the yang world, a monk who has attained the Tao, casts spells and recites mantras, and transcends the evil ghosts and ghosts, and will have so much merit.
The two of them talked as they walked, and they saw a city.
In this city, it is: the streets and avenues, cars and horses, people come and go non-stop. Walking in this center in a trance, mistaking the yin world for the yang world.
Shi Zixuan looked at this in a daze, one city after another, the streets in the inner middle of the city extend in all directions, the houses are uneven, scattered, there are Qiong Palace, there are temples, there are courtyards, there are rubble buildings.
The people of this city are merchantmen, horserunners, firewood, fishermen, sewing needles and threads to make a living, and some carrying burdens and selling, and so on. But where there is nothing in the yang world, there is no shortage of it.
Shi Zixuan asked, "Immortal Monarch, this Netherworld Mansion Yin Street does not seem to be any different from the Yang Realm. Who are the people in this city? Why don't you go on a rotation?"
Wang Xianjun said: "These are people with deep roots in goodness, and some people are people who have gone to hell to eliminate their bad karma and do not want to be reincarnated. All live in it. Most of these people have accumulated yin virtue over the years, but they have no merit. And I don't want to suffer from reincarnation anymore, so I live in this netherworld. ”
Master Xuanqi said: "Is this okay?"
Shi Zixuan secretly wondered, if this is the case, wouldn't those who are not willing to practice get a advantage? Many people in the Yang world who are not willing to practice have been thinking about it for a long time, praying for immortality, and looking for the method that is not bad, but they can't ask for it. To be able to come out of this Netherworld, and to be no different from the Yang World, isn't it a kind of alternative "immortality"?
Wang Xianjun didn't know what Shi Zixuan was puzzled about, so he explained with a smile: "Fellow Daoist, you don't know, although living in the Yin Street will no longer suffer from reincarnation, this is also to eliminate Yin Virtue. Just want to enjoy, don't do good, just wait for the yin virtue to be exhausted, and go to the next life. ”
Shi Zixuan suddenly realized and said with a smile: "I see. ”
Entering the city, a plaque was hung on the city gate, and the Yin world text written on it was not recognized by Shi Zixuan, but from the perspective of contemplation, it should be divided according to the Yangshi region, and this city should be called "Fengdu City".
Passing by the city gate, there was no one to guard, the two entered the Yin Street, and they didn't go far, when suddenly someone behind them shouted: "Wang Zhangshu, I've been looking for you for a long time, and I finally saw you." ”
Shi Zixuan looked back and saw a white-haired old woman, hunched over, blind in one eye, and walking over with a smile.
What's even more strange is that Shi Zixuan saw this Wang Xianjun's body tremble, and turned into an immortal official, wearing a black veil on his head, hanging an iron pen around his waist, holding a book in his left hand, and his right hand was empty.
Interestingly, this old woman didn't seem to be able to see Shizi Xuan and Wang Xianjun at all, she lowered her eyebrows, walked to the immortal official with a smile, and said: "Wang Zhangshu, I'm bothering again, I made a good fate in the Yang world, but that person has a short life." I want to give some money and buy some life to go back. ”
Shi Zixuan listened on the sidelines, only to feel unbelievable.
The lifespan of this yang world, can it still be bought and sold with money?