no soul

Chapter 054

Shan Dao was very worried about Yin Guang's injury, so he took the people away.

Lin Hong and Wan Guchuan became two tourists wandering around aimlessly again.

"Does it hurt?" Wan Guchuan pointed to his shoulder to signal him.

"Huh? No." Lin Hong looked at him, "What's the matter, last time I was treated as a delicate flower, but this time I was treated as a porcelain vase, am I that weak?"

Wan Guchuan said, "It looks quite fragile."

Lin Hong: Tsk.

"At that moment, it felt very cruel."

Lin Hong smiled, "It hurts even if he bumps into me."

Wan Guchuan didn't speak.I'm in pain too.

After being silent for a while, Wan Guchuan changed the subject and said, "I didn't expect you to help Yin Guang. I thought you hated him."

"Not really," Lin Hong thought for a while, "It's just that he said 'unlucky' when we met, and then he felt more or less instinctive when he saw him feeding ghosts."

"You think," Lin Hong continued, "that needle-mouthed ghost was originally a villain in life, and after death, he was punished and turned into a hungry ghost to suffer from hunger. He deserved it, but Yin Guang fed it blood. Keeping it, I disagree."

"I don't think he is feeding ghosts, but he wants to save it, so that he will feel remorse, be kind, and get rid of bad karma as soon as possible." Wan Guchuan said, "Just now that person didn't look very easy to provoke, but Yin Guang To warn him, it doesn't look like he wants to cause trouble for himself on purpose, he should have no bad intentions, and he is not lying."

"No, it sounds like what you said. You thought that he said 'unlucky' at sunrise that day, because he saw me as easy to provoke and had a bad intention." Lin Hong couldn't laugh or cry.

Wan Guchuan raised his eyebrows, "I don't think so, you expand yourself too much."

"But if you want to save it, how can you feed it with blood?" Lin Hong said, "The reason why it becomes a hungry ghost after death is to make it repent in pain."

Lin Hong continued, "I've heard a story: A man who raped a woman went to hell after death. After many tortures, he saw a beautiful woman in front of him. He still went up and hugged her without regret. As a result, the beautiful woman It turned into a hot iron pillar."

"It's still like this during torture, not to mention that there are people helping it. The needle-mouth ghost hired people to kill before he was alive. He was quite bloodthirsty. If he turned into a ghost and fed him blood, wouldn't that fuel his arrogance even more? support it?"

Lin Hong looked at Wan Guchuan, "What do you think?"

Wan Guchuan said: "I think what you think."

"Tsk, just because you said it, you didn't say it." Lin Hong looked forward.

"Why didn't you say it? I've said everything that needs to be said." Wan Guchuan glanced at him sideways, "I really think the same as you. Feeding blood can only temporarily relieve him of the sea of ​​suffering, and he still doesn't know how to repent."

"Let's not talk about feeding ghosts," Lin Hong said, "If you think Yin Guang is not lying, then I'm quite curious about what he saw to say that the man has a catastrophe, and what catastrophe it is."

"Find an opportunity to ask."

"I have another question." Lin Hong was thinking, touching his chin with his fingers, "Isn't it a serious crime for Yin Guang to steal the Buddha's flower garland? Why wasn't he kicked out of Miaoguang Temple? The abbot just talked about him, didn't think so. Is it weird?"

He continued: "After the Buddha statue wept blood, it was the abbot who did not give him a precept, and it was the abbot who protected him after he stole the garland. What role does the abbot play?"

"I don't know what happened to the abbot. But I don't think Yinguang ate the flower garland." Wan Guchuan said, "The Ksitigarbha Temple, where the flower garland was missing last night, is in the opposite direction from where Yinguang left."

Lin Hong was startled, but he didn't pay attention to this. He thought for a while, "You mean someone else ate the flower garland? But Master Shandao said he saw it with his own eyes."

"Seeing is not necessarily believing, or—" Wan Guchuan said, "Yinguang moves fast?" Even if he walked in the opposite direction, he could quickly reach the Ksitigarbha Palace.

Lin Hong was startled, "Speed ​​ghost? You mean Yin Guang is a speed ghost?"

"Just guessing."

The more Lin Hong thought about it, the more frightened he became. "Last night, he looked at the hungry ghost and said, 'There is still a chance'. What does it mean? What chance?"

"I don't know." Wan Guchuan frowned.

Lin Hong was frantic, "We still don't have a clue,"

"Don't worry, take your time." Wan Guchuan said, "Follow what you said first, and go visit the abbot."

Then, the two paid a lonely visit, and the sweeping monk said that the abbot had gone wandering.

The two stood at the door in silence for a long time.

"I can't go back, I can't go back—Amitabha Buddha." Lin Hong clasped his hands together, "What are you going to do, I have seen through the red dust, and decided to stay here and become a monk."

Wan Guchuan laughed at him.

Near noon, there are more and more worshipers, crowded with people, waving their sleeves like clouds.

Submerged in the secular world, Miaoguang Temple still has a sense of being hidden in the city.

The two passed by the Daxiong Palace.

"Yin Guang." Lin Hong signaled Wan Guchuan to look over.

The monk wearing a snow-white cassock with gauze on the corner of his mouth stepped into the main hall.

"If you can't find the abbot, ask the right master." Wan Guchuan walked over there.

In a quiet corner of the spacious hall, Yin Guang sat at a long wooden table, copying scriptures while holding a brush.

This side is the standing Buddha statue, and the believers who come and go devoutly worshiping on the futon, he looks out of place in the corner.

Lin Hong sat next to him, and Wan Guchuan sat opposite him.

Yin Guang still copied the scriptures without raising his head.

Seeing him being so serious, Lin Hong felt a little guilty for speaking, "I would like to ask you something."

Yin Guang didn't look up until he finished the sentence he was writing, put down his pen, and didn't look at him, his expression was still cold, "What's the matter?"

Lin Hong felt that he had become accustomed to his attitude, and didn't want to be polite, so he cut to the chase and said, "What did you see? What catastrophe will that man have?"

Yin Guang was silent for a while, "I saw a corner of his destiny - he slipped into the mountain road during the rainstorm."

"Accident?"

Yin Guang shook his head: "He killed some people in order to get rich. When I saw him this morning, there were many phantoms behind him. It was these phantoms that pushed him down the mountain path."

Lin Hong was a little surprised, "Since this is the case, you deserve what you deserve, why tell him?"

Yin Guang said: "There are villains among the people he killed, how do you decide?"

Lin Hong frowned.

"It's his nature to hit me when he's angry; it's my nature to save him, and his nature can't change my nature." Yin Guang counted the prayer beads in his hand, one hundred and eight prayer beads had counted how many times of reincarnation .

It's like Zen master saving the scorpion, but the scorpion actually stung him, but he still wanted to save the scorpion. (Note 1)

Yin Guang continued: "I want to persuade him to only do good deeds in the future to atone for his sins, karma and retribution. The six cycles of reincarnation will make him a hungry ghost. Only doing good deeds can reduce the punishment. I hope he can stop doing evil and do good deeds to get out of it as soon as possible." sea ​​of ​​bitterness."

He can't change the law that good will be rewarded for good and evil will be rewarded for evil. He hopes that all living beings will do good deeds and get good results.

"Do you have to save both good and evil?"

"Yes. They are all sentient beings."

"So you feed hungry ghosts with blood?" Lin Hong raised his eyebrows.

The Buddha gave up his life to feed the tiger, and cut his flesh to feed the eagle.

He feeds ghosts with blood.

"Yes." Yin Guang finally looked at him, "What's the matter? The benefactor thinks I'm hopeless, so he wants to save me?"

He made it clear that he "don't care about your business".

Because it is not understood by ordinary people, it is outside common sense.

It's a pity because ordinary people can't do it.

Just different beliefs.

Lin Hong choked, losing his temper, "I don't think I can save you. I just like to collect stories, so I can enrich my experience by asking."

There are ten thousand kinds of "normal" in the world.

Yin Guang actually smiled, "You ask."

Now that he said that, Lin Hong asked, "Why do you want to eat the flower garland of the Buddha?"

"I didn't eat it." Yin Guang said.

"Is that what your twin brother ate?" Lin Hong asked.

Yin Guang was speechless for a while, "I don't have twin brothers."

"Who is that?"

Yin Guang looked down at the prayer beads in his hand, "I have raised more than one hungry ghost."

"The garland-eating ghost." Wan Guchuan said from the opposite side.

"Yeah." Yin Guang admitted.

The garland-eating ghost is also one of the 36 hungry ghosts recorded in "The Sutra of Mindfulness of the Right Way Hungry Ghosts".Born in a temple can give people who pray to the gods nightmares, and they can only eat flower garlands when they are tortured by hunger.

So the black shadow that Lin Hong saw crawling behind the Buddha statue last night was actually a garland-eating ghost.

Lin Hong couldn't believe it, "Can hungry ghosts be sold for money?"

Yin Guang: "... Amitabha."

"People who come here to worship Buddha often have nightmares." Yin Guang said, "So I feed it. Those flower garlands are given to it by me, not to the Buddha. It is also true that few believers say that they will have nightmares when they go back after worship. "

"Then how did Master Shandao see you squatting on the table eating flower garlands?" Lin Hong asked.

Yin Guang frowned, "I don't know. It won't show up if I'm here, so I leave every time I put a garland."

Shandao lied?

why?

Lin Hong looked at him, "Then do you know that there is a speeding ghost here?"

"I know." Yin Guang said, "When he was alive, he was a monk who broke the precepts and cheated for money. After death, he became a hungry ghost, killed wicked people, and ate food uncleanly."

To become a monk and break the precepts.

Lin Hong was still looking at him.

Yin Guang also looked at him with a scrutiny, "Has he come to look for you?"

"Yes." Lin Hong said.

"You have bad luck, and..." Yin Guang's expression was still cold, "Buddha Qi. Why?"

"Let me see what it is..." He raised his hand and pointed to Lin Hong's forehead with two fingers.

However, his finger touched a black scabbard halfway.

As the scabbard looked over, Wan Guchuan leaned back on the chair, looking at him with a pair of deep eyes, and the scabbard held in his hand accurately blocked his fingers before they touched Lin Hong's forehead.

Yin Guang smiled, and withdrew his finger, "I am afraid of life, and my life is in danger of morning dew."

Yin Guang raised his eyes to look at Wan Guchuan, "Sorrow arises from love, and fear arises from love." (Note 2)

Fear arises out of love - Fear arises out of love, fear of losing what one loves.

Wan Guchuan looked back at Yin Guang.

So the speeding ghost entangled Lin Hong, and it was still aimed at him.

To frighten the wicked.

To intimidate him.

"If you are away from your lover, you will have no worries and no fears." Yin Guang closed his eyes.

Wan Guchuan withdrew the sheathed sword and raised his eyebrows at him, "Then are you obsessed with sentient beings with love or without love?"

Love all beings, without partiality, can be loveless or great love, intentional or unintentional.

The Buddha has no self, no human, no sentient beings, and no life.

The upper and lower sides of the four directions are "Yu", which has been called "Zhou" throughout the ages.

Time and space are for the world.

Three thousand great thousand worlds, all living beings live in one small thousand worlds, there are six realms and three realms.

Buddha is outside the three realms.

Attaching to the body is "I", every thought is "I", selfishness is "I".The Buddha has no "self-image".

Contrary to "I", all sentient beings are "persons".The Buddha has no "human appearance".

All phenomena and environments in the universe are "sentient beings", and all conditions are born in harmony.Buddha has no "sentient beings".

Clinging to the past, present, and future, guarding an immortal body, and sticking to time is the "phase of longevity".The Buddha has no "life appearance". (Note 3)

There is no obsession in the heart, no attachment to the appearance of self, no attachment to the appearance of people, no attachment to the appearance of sentient beings, and no attachment to the appearance of life.

"All appearances are illusory. If you see all appearances and non-appearances, you will see the Tathagata." (Note 3)

All dharmas are empty, there is no obsession, the dharma looks like it, and it is separated from the lover.It is Buddha.

But Yinguang has obsession with all living beings, and there are countless and boundless sentient beings waiting for extinction.

"You are right in reminding me. I can't break my attachment to self, I can't prove selflessness," Yin Guang smiled, "I can't become a Buddha."

The author has something to say:

Note 1: A Zen master went to save a scorpion, but the scorpion actually stung him, but he still went to save the scorpion. Later, someone was puzzled and asked him: Why did you save the scorpion when the scorpion stung you? The Zen master replied: : It is his nature to sting people, it is my nature to save him, and my nature will not change because of his nature.

Note 2: "King of Wonderful Color Seeking the Dharma" simply and crudely says: because of love, there will be worry and fear

Note 3: "Diamond Sutra" and Master Jingkong's explanation

I will carefully consider every comment from you.

Because a little cutie mentioned it, I will talk about it and give a more comprehensive answer.

First of all, I also like the kind of Su Shuangwen with revenge, like "The Count of Monte Cristo", I love it~

Lin Hong is also like us

After all, we are not Buddhas, and we have not jumped out of the Three Realms (this is at the personal level. From the perspective of selfishness, we have selfishness. If others treat me badly, I will treat him badly)

But this copy has some Buddhist background, because I like "Journey to the West" very much, and I also think about it. Among the many novels involving Buddhism, the most powerful is not the stick of Shaolin Temple, but the wisdom of Buddhism

Regarding repaying grievances with virtue, Lao Tzu also advocates (how big or small, repay grievances with virtue. —— "Lao Tzu" Chapter 63), it is also a commendatory word in the idiom dictionary, and there is no problem with it itself. Let's not talk about whether we want it or not. Practice, of course, it is completely ok to learn from Confucius to "report grievances directly", these are all personal things

As for how to repay virtue, of course, repay virtue with virtue,

Virtue and resentment are at the individual level, while the corresponding retribution of good and evil is at the large level, which is cause and effect

Buddhism itself promotes goodness, the so-called "Practice all goodness, and refrain from doing evil", the so-called evil is rewarded with evil, and goodness is rewarded with good

The Buddha cannot be viewed outside of the Buddhist worldview. The Buddhist view of good and evil is not much different from what we practice now.

Needless to say Yang Shan, there must be

Regarding the punishment of evil, Buddhism is very powerful. Hell is specially set up for the wicked. After suffering all kinds of torture, it will be difficult to reincarnate in the next life.

To explain, Yinguang saving sentient beings is not to condone the wicked, but to educate the wicked after they have suffered all the evil karma. Stop doing evil, persuade them to be kind, and completely eliminate evil, so that they can repent from their hearts (it is not contrary to our current concept of good and evil, this is a big level, good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil , if you don’t do evil, you will not be rewarded)

Lin Hong's point of view cannot be ignored. It depends on whether everyone thinks that the wicked should be educated or not, and whether they should be persuaded to correct their evil ways. We should treat it dialectically.

To be fair, Buddhism’s concept of cause and effect, the idea of ​​harmony between man and nature, the idea of ​​getting rid of troubles, and the concept of equality of all living beings all have their own reasons. It is really a very wise religion (not superstitious, let alone preaching faith Buddha, it reflects some of their spiritual and moral things, like appealing to a hundred schools of thought, of course, I am not good at speaking, and I need the tolerance of the little cuties.)

I don't want to stand on the moral high ground to create an image like Yin Guang, but I want to use him to reflect some Buddhist thoughts, so that everyone can get a general understanding of some Buddhist knowledge. I am not an eminent monk, it is impossible to be comprehensive, but I also refer to it. Buddhist classics, it can be said that every point is supported, you can comment freely, maybe I didn’t write well, cuties, forgive me, thank you again for your tolerance

It should also be explained that real Buddhism supports this article, but on the other hand, the views in this article do not promote the view of real Buddhism. This is a sufficient and unnecessary logic, and I hereby explain

Because I can't do it, so I hope to have an image like Yinguang, of course, no problem, you don't have to like it, there is absolutely no meaning of moral kidnapping, and it is not to encourage little cuties to become monks (love hair

All in all, this dungeon is probably to promote goodness and persuade people not to do evil. The purpose is to hope that the world will be more cute and less unlovable

Of course, these are secondary, the main thing is to write about love~

Finally, I wish all of you cuties feel that life is bright and everything is lovely every day~ My little cuties are pampered by me, I love you~