Rebirth: Out of Demons and Into Buddhas 2

All the monks and monks sitting in the lotus pond turned their faces away, looking solemnly at their superiors.

"Then, let's start the ceremony."

Master Avalokitesvara did not talk nonsense, he first bowed to the holy places of the Buddhas of the ten directions, such as the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, Lingshan Shengjing, etc., and praised all the Buddhas of the three times and ten directions.

Surrounded by auspicious clouds above the lotus pond, illuminated by bright clouds, the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, and Vajras who suppressed the heavens, and all the people in the lotus ponds under their seats are as solemn as Avalokitesvara, and praise the three generations and ten generations. Fang all Buddhas.

Master Avalokitesvara turned around again, bowed to his four directions one by one, "Nanwu Putuo Mountain will meet Buddhas and Bodhisattvas."

Jingfu was hidden among the group of monks, and at this moment, together with other monks and monks, he bowed to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who surrounded the great master Avalokitesvara, "Nanwu Putuo Mountain will meet the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas."

After such one-by-one salutes, on the lotus pond, apart from the gentle wind caressing the water surface, there are only subtle sounds of the Dharma falling faintly.

Master Avalokitesvara looked down again, and smiled slightly, "I listened to the Dharma under the seat of the World Honored Sakyamuni in the Daoli Heavenly Palace in the past. Suffering beings, and these thousands of billions of worlds, transforming thousands of billions of Dharma bodies, have inconceivable power. The World Honored One and the immeasurable Buddhas of the ten directions praised Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in unison, and made the past, present and future Buddhas and sentient beings preach Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's merits and virtues, but even so, the merits and virtues of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mahasattva cannot be exhausted..."

Master Guan Zizai only gave an introduction, and the monk on Putuo Mountain already knew it in his heart.

The opening chapter of this Mount Putuo Dharma Assembly is "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vows and Merit Sutra".

Not only Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, monks, and bhikshus who are familiar with various Buddhist scriptures understand it, but even Taoists, immortals, demon cultivators, demons, priests, gods, and even their spiritual beasts outside Buddhism understand it. , are also general appearance.

But no matter what other people were thinking, Jing Fu himself listened very seriously.

Perhaps it was Jingfu who fell into the gods, and it was probably caused by the supernatural powers of the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha. When Master Avalokitesvara and everyone preached the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Fundamental Vows and Merit Sutra" at the Dharma Assembly, Jingfu's eyes flickered, and he didn't know No matter where I am, and a cloud of light spreads in front of my eyes, the world has changed.

Between the heaven and the earth, there was the Holy Maiden of Bright Eyes who made offerings to the Buddhas in all the worlds, and in front of the seats of the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats, she asked where her mother was born. With the power of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, he went to hell to see his mother in person, and from his mother’s encounter, he thought of countless sinful and suffering beings in all worlds, and made great vows in heaven and earth...

Jing Fu looked at it silently for a long time, and for some reason, suddenly felt something in his heart, and asked in a low voice, "There are as many sinful and suffering beings in the world as the sands of the Ganges River. Kalpa, set up expedient methods for the sinful and suffering sentient beings of the six realms, so that they can be liberated, and I myself can become a Buddha. Since you made your vow at that time, how many years have passed, and you still have countless incarnations in that hell. You don’t know when you will be able to become a Buddha because you are too busy, do you regret it?”

The venerable who is still guarding in the hell and wants to save every sinful creature who recites his Buddha's name is still busy and uncertain, just smiled slightly, "No."

Jing Fu was silent for a while, but said again, "In the past you prayed to save your mother, but now your mother has become a Buddha. In the past, you sought help from the ghost king, and now the ghost king has also achieved Bodhisattva status. In the past, you disagreed with your friends. Now you My friends have also become Buddhas..."

He counted the people close to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, "They have all gone away, but you seem to stay where you are, have you ever regretted it?"

The person in front still didn't look back, and was not even moved. He just replied, "No."

Jing Fu asked again, "You save sentient beings who suffer innumerable sins in the six realms, but sentient beings often get rid of the sins and sufferings of the hells, and when they are reincarnated in various worlds and return to the six realms, they will fall into the hells of sins and sufferings again. They seem to never know anything. It’s called reform. You rescued them, but their karma gathered on you, and every time they went to the world of the heavens, the sins on your body became heavier and heavier. Have you ever regretted it?”

"No."

Jing Fu paused and breathed a sigh of relief, "In the past, the World Venerable Sakyamuni asked you when he taught the Dharma in the Taoli Heavenly Palace, and you never had any regrets. Now that so much time has passed, you still... ..wasn't shaken?"

The man seemed to smile again, "No."

Jing Fu was stunned for a moment, before asking again, "How...how did you do it?"

Whether it was Huangfucheng, who was the Heavenly Sage and Devil Lord of Jinghao Realm in the past, or the current monk Jingfu, he had once been in charge of the origin of the dark earth world in Jinghao Realm.And it is precisely because of this that he knows the details of the dark earth world.

It was... a world with no life at all, only endless resentment, remorse, hatred and other dark emotions.

The dark soil in the world of Jinghao Realm still looks like this. Even if Jing Fu has never seen it with his own eyes, he can probably imagine what it would look like as the underworld where the dark soil in the world of the heavens and universes is located.

There are eighteen levels of hell in the underworld, and each hell has an endless number of big hells, small hells, and endless hells.Every living being will return to the underworld after its life is exhausted, and its destination will be determined according to its merits and karma when it was alive in the past.

Those with meritorious deeds will be reborn in the heavens and all walks of life, enjoying the joy of life; those who bear karma will go to various hells to atone for their sins.That is to say, hell is not only the place where the wicked go, but also the place of punishment.

After living in such a world for so many years, repeating this seemingly futile rescue day after day, the endless karma accumulated on my body...

Such a day, such a life, he left without regret at all, it seemed that he would spend a longer time and a longer life in this kind of life.

Ksitigarbha...

The person at the end of his line of sight also seemed to pause for a moment, not because he felt that Jing Fu was offended or even overstepped, but more as if he was bothering to think about the answer, and also as if he was going back to that long memory to ask himself at that time.

After a while, he replied, "Because of joy."

He kept moving his hands, but another identical figure walked out of him, and sat cross-legged in front of Jing Fu, as if he wanted to have a good talk with Jing Fu, to explain and guide Jing Fu to walk. The monk who came to him.

"At the beginning..." He seemed to think for a while, "I was close to my mother. Even though what my mother did in this world was not in line with my temperament, I still couldn't bear to see her suffer. So I pray Buddha, I wish to save her with my merits and virtues."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva briefly told Jing Fu about his own life, his tone was very flat, it can be seen that the past has become the past, and it has long since left no traces in his heart.

"My mother escaped from the suffering hell and was reborn in another world, but she committed the same sin again and fell into the endless hell again. I became a mother and son again with her. Seeing her suffering, I still couldn't bear it, so I rescued her again. For her..."

"At the beginning," he seemed to chuckle again, "I was also very annoyed. Every time I tried to guide my mother and try to make her change her mind, but it usually failed."

"Speaking of which, I really don't know whether my mother and my offspring have a deep affinity, or whether my mother and the evil way have a deeper affinity."

"However, I can't bear her to suffer in hell, so every time, I want to save her..."

"In the end, I won." He raised the corners of his lips and chuckled silently. "My mother has achieved the fruit of her cultivation, and she is now practicing in a state of victory."

Jing Fu also seemed to relax a lot, and didn't really take the identity of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to heart, but only regarded him as a highly respected elder.

At this moment, he had doubts in his heart, so he didn't hesitate much, and directly asked the righteous master in front of him, "Honorable One, the Bodhisattva of Liberation has been deluded by wrong views all his life... How can you be sure that it is not the Bodhisattva of Liberation who is concerned about this place in his own heart?" What about the cognition of the world? How can you be so sure that what Bodhisattva Liberation did before did not come from her heart?"

The Liberation Bodhisattva mentioned by Jing Fu is none other than Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's mother in every life.

The Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva sitting in front of Jing Fu was silent for a moment, then shook his head slightly, "I'm not sure."

Jing Fu looked at him in surprise, "Then why do you..."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said, "I'm not sure what my mother did is not from her heart, and I don't know when she is willing to repent, or even if she will repent at all. I just... .”

"I can't just watch her perish in the endless hell."

"I have merit in me," he said, "and it only takes merit to save her from the endless hell, so what if I give it to her?"

Jing Fu asked, "What about the karma on Liberation Bodhisattva?"

For these sentient beings, it is indeed a matter of great merit for Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to save the suffering beings in the endless hell.But don't forget that all the creatures who are sent to the endless hell to suffer have a certain degree of karma on their bodies.These karma are the result of their evil deeds during their lifetime, and they hurt other living beings and the evil karma that heaven and earth must bear.

If sentient beings do evil without retribution, then how innocent are those who live peacefully and peacefully but are brutally persecuted?

Therefore, if those sinful beings redeem their sins completely in hell, that’s fine, but if they escape the punishment halfway and are reborn in another realm, then the karma of these sinful beings will not fall on the person who rescued them, It means chasing the sinful and suffering sentient beings and suffering all kinds of suffering in the heavens and worlds in order to repay.

Even the Bodhisattva of Liberation who has sons such as Ksitigarbha is no exception.

But it is obvious that Bodhisattva Bodhisattva Earth Store is taking the first path - collecting the karma of the birth mother he rescued from life to life on himself, and shouldering this almost continuous karma with his own body.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's expression was still calm, "My mother did evil and sins when she was alive. Although I disagree with her, I can't stop her. Therefore, my mother's karma should have my part, and my mother To raise me up, all the needles and thread and 1.1 meters of grain I used were obtained from my mother, and my mother collected them from the people she killed, so I am not innocent in any way.”

"Yes, it's only natural for me to take over the karma from my mother."

"Isn't it better for one person to bear the karma of sins than both of them? At least after I bear the karma of these sins, my mother can be reborn in another world and leave that endless hell."

Jing Fu was silent for a moment, then asked again, "Your Honor thinks so?"

Jizo nodded.

Jing Fu then asked, "Does Liberation Bodhisattva know?"

Dizang laughed, "What do you call my mother?"

Liberation Bodhisattva...

As a child, Ksitigarbha is willing to bear the sins of the mother, so that the mother can escape from the endless hell and be reborn in the world; as a mother, the Bodhisattva of Liberation is willing to restrain his behavior for the sake of the child, turn to the right path, accumulate virtue and do good, sincerely practice, and finally cultivate. True fruit, no longer falling into inexhaustibility, and truly escape from the sea of ​​suffering.

Jing Fu was silent for a moment, as if thinking of Shen Jingru, his eyes softened subtly.

But after a while, he asked again, "My lord, you only intended to save sentient beings from sin and suffering for the sake of Liberation Bodhisattva, but why are you still stranded in hell after Liberation Bodhisattva has attained fruition?"

Jing Fu is like a child who is new to the world. When he sees Dizang, he asks him questions again and again.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva seemed to think about it for a while, and then seriously said to Jing Fu, "In the past, I really went to hell just for my mother, but after I entered hell and rescued my mother from the endless hell, I saw my mother's smile. "

As if relieved by the amnesty, it is the bitterness of asking my own child to take the blame for what is clearly wrong...

"I also felt my own joy."

The joy of freeing his mother so that she would not continue to suffer, that joy even overwhelmed the little thing he had lost.

"But my mother is gone, and there are still many souls left in this endless hell. My mother has me to liberate her from her. How about them? I don't know how long they will have to suffer in the endless punishment."

Ksitigarbha was not perfunctory at all, and explained his feelings to Jing Fu in detail.

"Although these creatures fell into the Infernal Hell due to their crimes during their lifetime, many of the creatures in the Infernal Hell did not know that they would hurt other creatures when they first committed crimes, because no one ever told them Pass them; some have gone far on the road of committing crimes, and when they suddenly wake up, they can't turn back..."

"There are indeed a lot of sinful creatures who really know that they have done wrong, have hurt other people, and even take pleasure in it. But apart from them, many of them want to turn back No head..."

"I'd like to be the one who can bring them back."

Jing Fu looked at the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in front of him, and asked, "Even if you bear the sins of those people?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva replied calmly, "Even if they bear their sins."

"However, those who have turned back entered the world, and most of them repeated the same mistakes. There are very few people who can really repent and never repent again..."

What Jing Fu said was the truth, Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha also nodded and admitted, but he still said, "As long as they are willing to repent, I will give them this chance."

Whether it is only for a moment of their repentance, or they can really be firm for a long time, whether these sinful creatures want to escape from the punishment of crimes in the region because they are too painful, or because they really feel the pain they hurt in the past. Those living beings who are suffering and want to repent, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is willing to give them this opportunity to lead them out of hell and let them be reborn in other realms.

Jing Fu asked again, "Just recite your Buddha's name?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva nodded, "Just recite my Buddha's name."

Jing Fu was silent for a while, then Fang asked: "Your Majesty. But I still want to ask, what about those creatures who have been harmed?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva thought for a while and said, "There was a farmer in Dongsheng Shenzhou who had a cow at home. The cow was old and the farmer wanted to slaughter it. So he sold the cow to the butcher and took the money back home."

After he finished speaking, he asked Jing Fu, "Since the farmer's cattle have been brought home by the farmer, they have been pulling plows to plow the fields, pulling carts to load grain in busy farming hours, and pulling carts and people in their spare time. They are so busy all day long. For many years, when you are old, you will be sent to the butcher to kill and eat meat in exchange for money. The cow is worthy of the farmer, and the farmer is worthy of the cow?"

Jing Fu shook his head silently.

"The cow has never harmed the farmer, but has the farmer treated the cow well?"

Jing Fu still shook his head.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said, "Nowadays farmers are people and cattle are animals, and farmers treat cattle poorly. How do you know that in the future, cattle will not be people and farmers will be animals, working hard for cattle and working hard all their lives?"

Jing Fu was speechless.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva did not look at Jingfu at this time, but put his eyes on a more distant place, "Sins have rewards, and karma has fruits. But besides the retribution of sins and karma, there is also reincarnation. I can liberate sinful and suffering beings from hell. Reborn in other worlds, they can also collect their karma and earn it into their own bodies, but when those sinful beings leave hell, they will be born in another world, what kind of identity they will have, and what kind of life start they have, in fact, they are still in their own bodies. In terms of cause and effect..."

"I can escape their suffering in the Yin world, but I cannot overcome their suffering in the Yang world."

Jing Fu was silent for a long time, then stood up suddenly, put his palms together and bowed to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, "Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mahasattva with great compassion and great wishes."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva returned a salute, but asked, "I see that you seem to have doubts in your heart, do you?"

Jing Fu seemed to have just remembered one of the purposes of his trip, so he told Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva about the current situation of Jinghao Realm and his plan to prepare for the Underworld in Jinghao Realm.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva nodded, "I was a little aware of the matter in the Jinghao Realm when you sent some of the souls of the living and dead in the Linglong Bone Pagoda to the underworld. But at the time, I didn't expect that Wuzhi boy to be so bold. Didn't really care."

When Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva spoke, Jing Fu knew which time he was referring to.

That was the time when Jing Fu went out of the monastery after becoming a monk, and received the sealed Bone and Linglong Pagoda from the Cheng family.At that time, Jing Fu had indeed recited the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Vows and Virtue Sutra", and with the help of the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's divine power, he sent some of the still relatively complete souls in the exquisite bone pagoda to the underworld for reincarnation.

After Jingfu remembered this incident, he bowed to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva again, "I haven't thanked the Venerable for his help in the past."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva waved his hand, and said, "I only found out about the chaotic law of reincarnation and rebirth in Jinghao Realm not long ago. Speaking of it, I was negligent in noticing it, which delayed the souls of Jinghao Realm. .”

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva apologized to Jingfu instead.

Jing Fu didn't dare to accept this gift, so he hurriedly backed away, accepting the offer.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva did not forcefully purify Fu, he just said, "Before I come here, all the kings of Hades in the Underworld asked me to ask your opinions and see what you think in Jinghao Realm."

"Now it seems," he said with a smile, "you really have an arrangement."

Jing Fu lowered his head, and reached out to touch the bag on his body, and sure enough, he found a thin book in the bag.

"This is the plan for Jinghao Realm's Underworld that I first drew up in Miaoyin Temple. Please have a look at it, Your Honor."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has only just received the thin book, and he knows the foundation of this thin book.But since Jing Fu brought up the thin booklet, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva didn't hesitate, and opened it carefully to read it again.

He deduced it silently, nodded slightly, and handed the booklet back to Jing Fu.

"It fits the situation of Jinghaojie very well, very good."

Although the plan recorded in this thin booklet is not very good in terms of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's eyesight, it is quite suitable for Jinghao Realm and meets the situation of Jing Hao Realm, which is enough for Jing Hao Realm.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva thought about it for a while, and then said, "You can send this plan to the underworld, and wait for the response from the underworld, and then you can act according to the plan, and you will be safe."

Jing Fu is respectful and educated.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva took another look at Jingfu, smiled, put his hands together silently, and disappeared in front of Jingfu.

"The World Venerable Sakyamuni taught me that Earth Store Bodhisattva has a great karma in Jambudvipa. If we can proclaim the merits and compassion of Earth Store Bodhisattva to all living beings in Jambudvipa..."

When Jing Fu returned to his body, Master Guan Zizai was still proclaiming the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Fundamental Vows and Virtue Sutra".Jing Fu touched the thin booklet planning the Hades of Jinghao Realm in his hand, flipped the booklet back into the bag, and listened carefully to the preaching of Master Guan Zizai.

Jing Fu himself didn't realize that when he regained his mind, a few gazes from the group of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas beside Guan Zizai on the lotus pond turned towards him.

Jing Fu listened attentively to the verses of the World Honored One narrated by Guru Guan Zizai.

"I see the mighty divine power of the Earth Store, and the sands of the Ganges River are hard to describe. In a single thought of seeing, hearing, worshiping, there are immeasurable things that benefit heaven and man. If you are male, female, or dragon god, you should fall into the evil way if you can do this. After returning to the Dharma Realm, after all, becoming a Buddha transcends life and death, so Guanyin, you should know it and tell it to all the lands of Hengsha."

While listening to this gatha, Jing Fu recalled that the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva he saw just now, together with other monks and monks, joined hands and bowed to the superior master Guan Zizai.

"Namo Bodhisattva of Great Mercy and Great Compassion."

"Namo Earth Store Bodhisattva Mahasattva with Great Compassion and Great Wishes."

The author has something to say: Well, good night, everyone.