Chapter 253, Where did you come, where you go, where you are
The love Ksitigarbha still wants to use stimulation therapy to help Shi Zi, but Shi Zi thought about it and it seems that he is really fine for the time being.
If you want to leave now, you will have to release the Jade-faced Princess, Xingxian and the others. Shi Zi is not mentally prepared to deal with it yet, so he can only drag it back first.
So I might as well take this time to go with him to see the cycle of reincarnation. Maybe as he said, you can "get sentiment" in this moment.
"Reincarnation is originally born in response to heaven. After death, a person becomes a ghost, and then reincarnates through reincarnation and lives a life again. The Yin Si just standardizes all this.
"Since you need to reincarnate, you cannot remember the past world, so there is Mengpo soup on the Naihe Bridge; but the sins and good deeds you commit in this life must be repaid in the next life, so there are the six realms of reincarnation, which divides the two ends of good and evil."
This is the concept of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in governing the underworld. His "hell is not empty, and he will not become a Buddha." Naturally, it is not that he really wants to empty the underworld, but that he hopes that more and more good ghosts will become fewer and fewer evil ghosts, until there is no evil punishment in the underworld, and the existence of those hells will lose its meaning.
Of course, Ksitigarbha's idea must have been idealized. Perhaps he had regretted it before, but he is still persisting now.
Shi Zi still has respect for such a person.
At this time, Shi Zi suddenly thought of a question and said, "Dare you ask the Bodhisattva, if you want people to believe that they have a next life, why do you want them to drink Mengpo soup and forget the past?"
Ksitigarbha said: "Because the past cannot be pursued and irreversible, the suffering of ordinary people is caused by the mind. Buddhism says that the next life is to let them start over again and not be burdened by the previous life, so they naturally need to forget the past to start over."
Shi Zi asked again: "I dare to ask the Bodhisattva again, since a person has forgotten his past life after he has reincarnated, he will forget any evil he has done before and any good deeds he has done. After reincarnation, they will not think that it was their previous life that affected this life. What is the meaning of such a six realm of reincarnation?"
Ksitigarbha smiled but said nothing, but Shi Zi suddenly understood. The Buddhist sect had actually given an answer to what he asked.
Their response is very simple, preaching.
The natural side of the Buddhist teachings is enough to convince and convince most people of this.
Although there are still many evil people in the world, there are still some more standard restrictions, so they will eventually become more restrained.
Those who do good deeds and accumulate blessings will feel that they will be able to get a good life in the next life.
Shi Zi sighed, "It seems that there are many reasons in this underworld."
Ksitigarbha said: "There are great principles everywhere in the world, and reincarnation is the biggest principle. What are the gains after watching for a while?"
Shi Zi thought for a while and said, "Some regulations of the underworld still seem to be some problems. For example, what method is the conviction and sentencing? For example, this maid just now was bullied at home, so she started to kill people.
"But because she killed a well-known good man, she went to the sentence again, but how unfair to her? Can a good person make a mistake? If a good person makes a mistake, he can cause good deeds and be pardoned?
"As for saying that because she met a good man, even if she didn't want to, she should let him bully him. At least she wouldn't have to be punished after her death."
Ksitigarbha smiled and said, "The worldly rules cannot be perfect, and there are always some shortcomings. Let's take the case you mentioned -
"After this maid killed the Junwai, she fled in a hurry. However, her family was sued by the Junwai family and tortured in all kinds of ways. Her father and brother all hanged themselves to prove their innocence, and her sister-in-law could not bear the torture and robbed the ground with her head and died.
"The real crime of this maid is because of one thing, which is to deceive the master with slaves and destroy the rules, which is to be unfaithful; to escape by the woman who is unfilial and implicate her family, which is to be unfilial. If her friend wants to seek justice for her, she kills her friend because of her temporary retreat, and flees again, which is to be unrighteous.
"Then I went into the tiger's belly in the wild... and also calculated the cause and effect of this life. I just didn't say that these were included in it when I listed the sins. Do you know why?"
“Why?”
"This is cause and effect. She committed the cause and effect of the official's wife, and then there will be the cause and effect. These things constitute her sin. But the reason for her sin itself is that she killed the official's wife."
Shi Zi was even more confused, "As a result, she shouldn't have killed him. Could it be that she should have let him bully him?"
Ksitigarbha said: "What is this maid?"
"The maid is a maid... the Bodhisattva means that she is a family?"
Ksitigarbha said: "What should the relationship between the maid of the house and the official? If it were you, the official, would you think that this maid was rejecting him?"
Shi Zi was stunned immediately, and he was really hard to answer.
He looked at this era from the perspective of later generations and made empiricist mistakes, but he did not know that many things cannot be determined by the "common reason" he knew.
It’s like everyone is equal. No matter how much Buddhism advocates everyone’s equality, it doesn’t mean they agree to the true equality of everyone.
The life and death book of the underworld is naturally divided into various levels. Although there will be jumps between levels, it is a minority after all. In many cases, the levels destined by heaven will not change from the beginning to the end. This is the reality and this is the status quo.
Ksitigarbha smiled again at this time, pointed to the cycle of reincarnation and asked, "Look at that person again, do you know why he fell into the animal realm?"
Shi Zi looked at it for a while, and the Yin Chai and the judge who had sealed the reincarnation were reading out the man's crime.
After hearing this, he was a little stunned, "Save people without restraint... This..."
It turns out that people usually take the offerings from the City God Temple and the Land Temple to help the poor, so they have been punished with disrespect for the gods and are considered to be a violation of the rules to save people.
"What is 'system'? Without rules, you cannot achieve a square or round. Although this person's behavior is a good deed, on the one hand, he is generous to others, but in fact he never gave half of his share of his efforts, but he still gained fame and fortune afterwards; on the other hand, he stole the offerings from the temple, which resulted in the consequences..."
If there are fewer offerings found, the temple Zhu will naturally be investigated and held accountable. If you can't tell the source, you might take the blame for him. This causal relationship will be a big deal.
Shi Zi nodded silently, and then heard Ksitigarbha laugh and said, "So you know that the key to reincarnation is actually the system. Only with the 'system' can there be the order of reincarnation, the balance of yin and yang, and the harmony of the six paths."
Shi Zi didn't say anything, but it was a little strange. He suddenly remembered that he wanted to see the cycle of reincarnation because he wanted to touch his memory, but after watching it for a long time, he didn't get anything. Instead, he let Ksitigarbha preach it.
Looking back at Ksitigarbha, he seemed to have not realized anything, and he was still saying: "With this cycle of reincarnation, everyone knows where they come from, where they will go, and why they are going. These six realms of reincarnation are like this, the intercourse between the meridians and the great disasters of heaven and earth, are the same.
"But let me ask, the world is silent, and the various forms of creatures in it, what sins do you have to be punished and eliminated together?"
Chapter completed!