It is too late to read the book in this life, and the story of Huang Tingjian and Su Dongpo's past and present lives
It's too late to read the book in this life", this sentence comes from the Qing Dynasty poet Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Poems", which is about a public case of the reincarnation of Huang Tingjian, a great genius of the Song Dynasty.
Huang Tingjian, the word valley, a native of Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province, a famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, has good poetry, calligraphy and painting, known as the "Three Uniques", and Su Dongpo is equally famous, and is known as "Su Huang". He is the author of "The Inner and Outer Collections of the Ancient Mountains and the Collections of the Valleys". His poetry and writings have been widely circulated in Japan and are highly respected, and have had a great influence on Japanese Chinese literature.
The story of Huang Tingjian's reincarnation is recorded in the Xiushui County Chronicles and many notes. After he obtained the Zhongjin Shi, he was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Huangzhou-Wuhu, and was only 26 years old when he took office. One day he was taking a nap in the state yamen, and in a dream, he walked out of the yamen and came to a village, where he saw an old woman with white hair, standing in front of the incense table outside the house and praying, shouting a person's name, and offering a bowl of celery noodles on the table. The valley approached, and saw that the bowl of noodles was still steaming and seemed to be delicious, so he unconsciously picked it up and ate it, and returned to the yaya after eating. When I woke up, the dream was very clear, and there was the smell of celery in my mouth. But he didn't care, thinking it was just a dream.
Take a nap the next day, dream again like yesterday, the food is fragrant and quiet, and the dream is vivid. Huang Tingjian felt incredible, so he got up and walked out of the state office, following the road in his dream, wanting to find out. Walking to a village, the scenery is vague, as if returning to the hometown. He went straight to a house, knocked on the door and entered, it was the old woman he saw in the dream, so he asked her if she had called for someone to eat noodles outside the door. The old man replied, "Yesterday was my daughter's death day, because she liked to eat celery noodles when she was alive, so I called her outside the door to come back and eat noodles, and I do this every year." ”
Huang Tingjian was surprised and asked, "How long has your daughter been dead?" The old man replied, "It's been 26 years." Huang Tingjian suddenly thought that he was 26 years old this year, and yesterday was his birthday. Then he asked her about her daughter's life and how the family was doing. The old man said: "I only have one daughter, she liked to read before her death, believed in Buddhism and was a vegetarian, and was very filial, but she refused to marry. and vowed to turn into a man in the next life and become a writer. When I was 26 years old, I fell ill and died, and when I died, she said she would come back to see me. ”
Huang Tingjian was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Where is her boudoir?" Can I take a look? ”
The old woman pointed to an old room and said, "This is it." Go in and see for yourself, and I'll pour you some tea." ”
Huang Tingjian walked into the room, looked around, and felt very cordial on the bed, table and chair. I saw a large cabinet against the wall, still locked. He asked the old man, "What's in there?" The old man replied, "All the books she has read." "Can you open it and take a look?" ”
The old man said: "I don't know that my daughter has put the key, so I haven't been able to open it." ”
Huang Tingjian pondered in his heart for a while, and actually found the key, opened the bookcase, and found many manuscripts inside. After reading it carefully, he found that the articles in each of his test papers were all here, and they were word-for-word!
Huang Tingjian pondered for a long time, and suddenly realized that he knew that he was a daughter in his previous life, this place was his hometown in his previous life, and the old woman was his mother in his previous life. Now there is only one mother left in this family. So he knelt on the ground and tearfully called his mother, saying that he was the reincarnation of her daughter. Subsequently, Huang Tingjian returned to the state government to bring people to welcome his mother and support him for life.
Huang Tingjian planted a cluster of bamboos in the back garden of the state ya, built a pavilion, and named it "Dicuixuan". There is a stone carving statue of the valley in the pavilion, and the self-titled image praises: "It seems that the monk has hair, it is vulgar and dustless, and the dream is in the dream, and the body is outside the body." This praise also proves that the story of the valley's reincarnation is true.
Coincidentally, Su Dongpo, who is as famous as Huang Tingjian, also has a record of his past life.
In April of the seventh year of Yuanfeng, before Su Dongpo arrived in Yunzhou, the monk of Yun'an dreamed that he went out of the city to meet the monk of Wujie with Su Zhe and the Cong monk of Shengshou Temple, and felt very strange after waking up, so he told Su Zhe about this dream, Su Zhe had not yet spoken, and Monk Cong came, Su Zhe said to him: "I talked about dreams with Yun'an just now, do you want to talk about dreams together?" Monk Cong said, "I dreamed last night that the three of us went together to greet the monk of the Five Precepts. Su Zhe stroked his palms and laughed: "It's really strange that there are really three people in the world who have the same dream!" ”
Soon, Su Dongpo's letter arrived, saying that he had now arrived in Fengxin and would be able to meet everyone soon. The three of them were very happy, and trotted all the way to Jianshan Temple twenty miles outside the city and other Su Dongpo. After Su Dongpo arrived, everyone talked to him about the three of them having the same dream, Su Dongpo said thoughtfully: "When I was ** years old, I also dreamed that I was a monk in my previous life, going back and forth between Shaanxi and the right. Also, when my mother was just pregnant, she dreamed that a monk came to stay in the dormitory, and the monk was very beautiful and blind in one eye. Yun'an exclaimed: "The monk of Wujie is a native of Shaanxi, blind in one eye, and traveled to Gao'an in his later years, and died in Dayu. "Everyone counts that fifty years have passed since this incident, and Su Dongpo is now exactly forty-nine years old. Judging from the time, place, and similar dreams of many people, there is no objection that Su Dongpo is the reincarnation of the Wujie monk.
Su Dongpo always likes to wear monk's clothes, which may be caused by karma in his previous life. Song Zhezong once asked his chamberlain Chen Yan: "What kind of clothes is Su Dongpo wearing under his court clothes?" Chen Yan said: "It's a monk's robe." Zhezong laughed.
When Su Dongpo was in Hangzhou, he had traveled to the Shouxing Temple on the edge of the West Lake with his friend Shen Liao, Su Dongpo looked around and said to Shen Liao: "I have never been here in my life, but what I see in front of me seems to have personally experienced this, from here to the confession hall, there should be ninety-two steps." After calling the number, it was exactly as he said. Su Dongpo said to Shen Yu: "I was a monk in the mountains in my previous life, and I used to be in this monastery. Since then, Su Dongpo has often gone to this Buddhist temple to take a rest.
Who are these monks of the five precepts? It is said that he was blind, and there was a senior brother named Mingwu, because of the difference in one thought, the five precepts had a reluctance with the woman Red Lotus, and committed the precept of adultery, but the matter was seen through by the enlightened monk who already had supernatural powers, and the five precepts were ashamed and embarrassed, so they sat down and reincarnated. Mingwu had already foreseen that the five precepts might slander the Buddha and the monks in the next life, so that there might never be a day to come out, so he also hurriedly sat down and chased after the five precepts and reincarnated. In this life, Wujie was reincarnated as Su Dongpo, and Mingwu was Su Dongpo's good friend Buddha Yin Monk. Su Dongpo really didn't believe in Buddhism at the beginning, and was obsessed with fame, but the Buddha Yin has always followed him unabandoningly, painstakingly persuading him to become enlightened. His own personal experience, coupled with the continuous persuasion and enlightenment of the Buddha Yin, Su Dongpo finally woke up, not only believing in the theory of reincarnation of cause and effect, but also believing in Buddhism and concentrating on cultivation.
One year, Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian went to meet an old man, and as soon as the old man met, he said that Su Dongpo was a monk with five precepts in his previous life, and Huang Tingjian was a woman in his previous life. Su Dongpo nodded silently, but Huang Tingjian didn't believe it at all. The old man said to him, "When you go to Fuling, someone will tell you." Huang Tingjian thinks that Fuling is a place that can only be degraded to go, how can he go?
Later, he was really demoted to Fuling. Here, several times, he dreamed of a woman who told him about his previous experiences. She claimed that she often recited the Lotus Sutra and that she only wanted to be reborn as a man, and that she wanted to become a man who became famous all over the world. Apparently, her wish came true. She also pointed out a secret of Huang Tingjian, an unknown privacy - "fox smell". According to this woman, Ting Jian has this problem, and there is cause and effect. The woman said, "A certain burial coffin is rotten, because the anthill dwells under the armpits, so there is this suffering." "It turned out to be this nest of ants. It is not difficult to get rid of this problem. As long as the woman's tomb is found, the tomb is opened, and the ant gathering is removed, and the unspeakable "hidden" can be eliminated immediately. Ting Jian did as he was told, and sure enough, "the armpit qi is removed without medicine".
In fact, whether it is folk transmission or historical records, there are many such stories, but we have always read them as legends and stories, and we laughed at them after reading them, and we didn't think so. is like "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" and "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", in the eyes of people, they are two strange things**. The official positioning of them has always been: the works make a powerful critique of the corruption and darkness of the society at that time through the technique of talking about foxes and ghosts, exposing social contradictions to a certain extent, and expressing the aspirations of the people, but they are also mixed with some feudal ethical concepts and fatalistic ideas of karma. -- It not only affirmed the achievements, but also pointed out the "dross". In short, as long as it involves gods and ghosts, it is "superstition" and "feudalism", which has been an indisputable "truth" for many years.
So, is it true that Buddhism speaks of the "six realms of reincarnation"? Do we really have a past life? For the current generation who have been brainwashed by "atheism" from birth, this is indeed an incredible and unbelievable thing.
Some people say that the masses are mediocre. The truth has always been in the hands of a few.
From a Buddhist point of view, geniuses are the accumulation of good roots from previous lives and the fulfillment of them in this life. However, this does not negate the efforts of this life, because the cultivation of this life determines the harvest of the next life, the so-called "cause and effect of the third life" (past life, present life, and future life). This is an infinite cycle of natural law, not superstition. As for what Yuan Mei said, "It's too late to read the book in this life", he is only half right, and he should add a sentence "benefit the next life at this time". - Since last year's harvest has become a "fixed number" this year, then this year's hard work determines next year's harvest, and today's efforts are tomorrow's "fixed number". Destiny is in your own hands – this is "cause and effect", this is "reincarnation", this is Buddhism!
The existence of the soul has long been the consensus of Western scientists, and foreign theories on the study of souls, spirits, and near-death experiences are in the ascendant. The human body is a tangible body formed by the combination of the four false beings of earth, water, fire, and wind, but the soul is the master of the body, which is formless, and is called the seventh consciousness in Buddhism, also known as the last consciousness. Huang Tingjian took a nap in the state government, and his mother in his previous life was calling, and his soul would still return to his hometown to receive his mother's sacrifice, thus facilitating the rendezvous in this life. When it (referring to the divine consciousness of a woman in the previous life) leaves the countryside and flies to Xiushui Huang's house, it will arrive in an instant. The flight is fast and not to mention, how did it find the Huang family? Buddhism says that this is due to "karma" traction. But does karma itself have the ability to choose? Again, this is puzzling.
Later, after reading the "Dizo Sutra", I realized that it was really "a god with a head three feet up", and there were many ghosts and gods in the void, inspecting good and evil, everything in the world, no matter how secret things, they all knew it well. "If you don't know, you can't do it unless you do! The "Dizang Sutra" cloud: "Nan Fu mentions sentient beings, and when they move their hearts, all of them are karma and all sins. It can be seen that not only the sins of behavior cannot be concealed, but even the first thoughts of the mind will be perceived by the ghosts and gods! But the world doesn't notice it, and thinks that what is in their hearts, who can know? The scope of visible karma should include both visible actions and intangible thoughts. The power generated by karma determines the fate of the person; And the ghosts and gods are matched from it, and this is where Huang Tingjian was born. In addition, ghosts and gods should also have their standards, otherwise ghosts and gods are in charge, and the standard is the cause and effect of Buddhism, and the complete point is karma and karma, and Buddhism says that cause and effect pass through three lifetimes, or more than three lifetimes, and for many lifetimes. In this way, Huang Tingjian's birth must have its cause, and it is no coincidence that it is by chance.
Huang Tingjian finally converted to Buddhism. Because of the high Zen style at that time, many people at that time were driven to Xi Zen, and he was also close to many senior monks, devoted himself to research, and obtained the Dharma from Huanglong Zen Master. In his later years, he built a fine house on the shore of Fushui in Shehong County, Sichuan, called himself "Fu Weng", inhabited the pure land, chanted Buddha and never stopped, and was reborn in the Western Elysium when he was dying, and since then he has terminated the reincarnation of the world, and has been eternal.
As for Su Dongpo, perhaps as he said, he is a master in Buddhism, and he has achieved nothing in learning Buddhism. Therefore, when he was dying, he was not able to reincarnate in Western Elysium. In fact, it is an exaggeration to say that he "achieved nothing". The Buddha said that being a monk is a lifelong person, and practicing is a matter of many lives and many eons. It is said that Su Dongpo was later reincarnated as the Ming Dynasty writer Yuan Hongdao. After Yuan Hongdao wrote the book "Western Theory", he was reborn in the Western Elysium. Later, he also took his brother Yuan Zhongdao to sleepwalk in Elysium. (This article ** Internet, the original author is unknown).