Suzaku

Grave (Part 1)

The wandering soul dreamed that he was looking at a tombstone. The tombstone seems to be made of sand and stone, with a lot of peeling off, and overgrown with moss, only a limited number of sentences are left in the middle of the frantic song; I can see the abyss in the sky. To see nothing in all eyes; to be saved in hope of nothing.

Then he woke up suddenly and remembered this article. The next sentence in the article was that the man surnamed Lu was reading the inscription on the tombstone: There was a wandering spirit who turned into a long snake with fangs in its mouth. Don’t bite people, bite yourself, and end up perishing. leave

The last two words are leave, leave, what kind of sign is this screaming to leave

Wandering Soul opened his mouth wide, gasping for breath, sitting on the listening beast, his empty body floating, thinking that this sign is urging him to leave, it seems that some people or things that he was deeply attached to before his death are facing with some kind of danger.

But before he had time to think about it, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had already turned around and looked into his eyes and asked, “Do you understand?”

Youhun glanced at the yellow book in his hand, looked at the words Maitreya’s Second Life Sutra on the cover, and shook his head. This scripture says that Kasyapa was good at cultivating the Brahma and the Twelve-Headed Buddhas during the time of the Buddhas in the past, so Maitreya was able to persuade everyone. If he is Maitreya, who is the Da Kasyapa?

Dajiaye is the great disciple of the Tathagata Buddha. It is said that he lived to be more than a hundred years old and taught the Dharma to Ananda. Then he went to Jizu Mountain, which is more than eight miles southwest of Wangshe City. There are three peaks standing like chicken feet. In the basin, I sat on the ground and swore: I have used supernatural powers to prevent my body from breaking down, and covered it with dung. After 6.7 billion years, when Maitreya is born into a Buddha, he will come here to visit, that is, to dedicate the mantle of Sakyamuni Buddha to him, and help him to educate all living beings.

This story is recorded in the biography of Fu Fazang’s karma: “After the Buddha passed away, all the Dharma treasures were paid to Kasyapa. Later, when he married Sanzang, he went to Jizu Mountain and entered parinirvana, and his whole body did not disperse. Go out, make eighteen changes among the masses, save countless people, and then destroy the body, and become a Buddha in the future, called the light.”

Youhun thought for a while, pointed to the sky, and said, “Jizu Mountain is in Yunnan.”

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva shook his head: “Five Fingers Mountain is in Hainan.”

A question and an answer, naturally understand the meaning. If today’s Jizu Mountain in Yunnan is the place where Buddha’s first disciple Da Kassapa’s body has not rotted for thousands of years, then why did Wuzhi Mountain, which was pressing down on monkeys, go to Hainan? The theory of later generations is not thousands of years ago The place where the story takes place.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said again: “It has been said in the scriptures that Venerable Kasyapa will not enter Nirvana, and his body will not rot. He will wait for Maitreya with the Buddha’s tooth relics and Buddha’s own cassock, and pass on the mantle of Maitreya Buddha.”

Youhun didn’t show any expression, and said in a daze, “But where is Kasyapa?”

“Among the Buddha’s disciples, there are many named Kasyapa, but there is no great Kasyapa. You should bear this in mind.” Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said slowly like a teacher.

Youhun nodded, thinking that you said that you wrote something, since you said that there is no Kassapa, then there is no Kassapa, and I won’t argue with you. After a while, he suddenly said: “But There are relics and cassocks.”

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva smiled.

“Let’s go”

“where to go”

Wandering Soul suddenly felt that these two lines of dialogue were familiar and vulgar, so he curled his lips, floated down from Di Ting’s body, followed Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, stopped asking, and went down the mountain.

The tombstone he saw in his dream just now had the word “leave” written on it. This ominous omen made him leave the top of Dahei Mountain with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, but he did not leave the underworld. Wandering Soul was also at a loss as to why Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva took him away from the Pagoda of White Bone.

Wandering Soul himself suddenly had the idea of ​​leaving the underworld, because he always felt that those people or things close to him in his original world were extremely dangerous at this time.

In Guiyuan Temple, in the hut in the back garden, the monkey looked up at the moon in the sky, a blue circle loomed faintly, a little blue lion was whining feebly beside the monkey, Zou Leilei was calm and floating as if she was dead Beside, there is no trace of breath.

outside, blindDi Binku was sitting on the ground, holding a sandalwood rosary in his hand, and the disciples of Hesi were chanting the name of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

Outside the temple, Qin Zier and Chen Shuping were sitting and drinking tea, the cup was tasteless.

Outside the city, the remnants of the six forces gathered around the provincial capital. Although they knew that the power of the world would not affect anything at all, they still persisted.

Beyond the sky, the flesh and blood of the two blood Bodhisattvas were all broken, and Manjushri was so close to each other, like two noble ice sculptures, it seemed that they might break at any time and return to silence.

That person didn’t come back, that little fat man didn’t come back, no one came back, who is going to leave

“Who are we hiding?” Wandering Soul asked the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva beside him, holding the Maitreya Sutra in his hand.

After coming down from Dahei Mountain, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva led him to walk among thousands of bones and carrion corpses. I don’t know how many wildernesses and dead places he passed, and those dead spirits did not avoid them, but deliberately covered them up. their breath. It’s a pity that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva can integrate his aura with this underworld, but the wandering soul’s overly powerful consciousness and life-jumping aura that are incompatible with this underworld have pointed out a clear path for those who come later .

The person behind is getting closer to Wandering Soul and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. Wandering Soul is a little strange. According to what Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said, he is a person who has attained the fruit status of the Great Bodhisattva, and the state of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is even more terrifying. Became a Buddha. He thought to himself, with two such powerful powers of his own, why should he hide from that person?

“Hide from the person who killed you.” Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva walked forward, with one foot covering five hundred miles, and the white jade-like soles of his feet stepped on the rotten mud, which looked very clear.

The wandering soul flitted beside him, and there was no emotion in his voice: “Since you have already killed me, what are you doing to kill me?”

“Although you are dead, but you have not been reincarnated, he will naturally be able to detect it.”

Youhun sighed: “Since you were able to kill me before, you can definitely kill me again this time, Bodhisattva, let’s run faster.” Now that you know that the person chasing you is a powerful character, wandering soul instinct Then he was a little scared, and asked the Bodhisattva to take him to escape without hesitation, “I remember that I used to fly much faster than now, Bodhisattva, you can take me to fly.”

“Not good.” Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is really like a teacher, “The Buddha controls space, so speed is meaningless to a Buddha. We just look for some gaps in the space he controls that he didn’t notice. .”

“Since he can control the space, how could there be gaps in this space that he wouldn’t notice.”

“Because he is not familiar with the space we are in.” Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said, “The underworld is my home, so it is difficult for him to fully control this space.”

“clear.”

After fleeing for more than ten days, when the wandering soul was tired of this kind of life, the two came to a wasteland with a mountain on top of the wasteland. The mountains in the underworld are all black, so this mountain looks a bit like a miniature version of the big black mountain under the seat of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, but the top of this small black mountain is slightly cracked and scattered in all directions , like a lotus flower carved from black jade, very beautiful.

Seeing Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva coming to the front of the mountain, if there is a response from the Black Lotus Mountain, the lotus blossoms and a small opening is opened.

“Man-eating lotus.” That was Wandering Soul’s first thought, and he turned his head to see that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva didn’t go in, and didn’t say a word, so he couldn’t help being a little surprised. After waiting for a long time, the wandering soul had no choice but to float into the black hole on the top of the peak like a black lotus devouring people.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had already sat down in front of the mountain. After the wandering soul entered the mountain, the space in the underworld was distorted.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva looked at his face and said coldly, “Guan Zizai, why is your injury still not healed?”

Guanyin Bodhisattva didn’t know how to answer, so he didn’t answer.

While talking, a monk came from a distance, surrounded by a big light, so bright that the ghosts in the underworld were uneasy, and the ghosts cried bitterly, howling again and again, as if the countless dead souls in the underworld were about to cry because of this monk come out.

The monk walked to the foot of the Black Lotus Mountain, glanced at the mountain, and asked, “This is the place where Kassapa guards the mantle and bowl.”

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva glanced at him, said without respect or emotion, “You can’t go in.”

The monk raised his steps, and the light came back.

But he couldn’t go in because Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva both sat down.

So the monk glanced at his son and sat down too.

The wandering soul drifted into the Black Lotus Mountain for a while, and then landed under the cave. For some reason, everything in the cave was clearly visible, and a slightly protruding mound suddenly appeared in the cave. It was a very scary grave.

There is no stele in front of the grave that makes wandering souls palpitate.

Wandering Soul walked around to the back of the grave, and found that there was not a trace of vegetation on the earthen tomb, it was already decayed, and there was even a big gap in the rear. Wandering Soul cautiously looked around, and found a dead body lying in the grave without any surprise.

Since it is a tomb, there will naturally be corpses, which is a very natural thing.

wandering soulA strong sense of unnaturalness surged up, the most common thing in this underworld is those white bones with carrion hanging on them, carrion with bones exposed, corpses, the underworld is full of corpses. But precisely because there are corpses everywhere, no one is too bored to build a grave to bury them.

Therefore, Youhun concluded that the tomb in front of him must be the only one in the underworld.

Who is the corpse in the grave?

In the dark cave, the dark grave, and the dark hole behind the grave, the corpse just lay there quietly. The wandering soul floated in, circled around the corpse, and found that the chest and abdomen of the corpse were all broken, and all the organs in the middle were gone, like an empty sac.

Only a gray heart was exposed between the chest and abdomen of the corpse.

There was no trace of sorrow or joy on the corpse’s face, it was misty, but its facial features were handsome but ordinary, and Youhun looked familiar.

When he saw this black lotus-like mountain, he couldn’t help but think of Venerable Kassapa, because it was rumored that Kassapa was waiting for Maitreya in such a mountain. So after seeing this corpse, the first thought was that this is Kasyapa’s incorruptible body.

But Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said that there was no Da Kassapa in the world, so he also accepted this statement. After seeing these familiar corpses, Wandering Soul was even more sure that the one lying in the grave was not Da Kassapa. , but a guy who has some connection with him, and that connection must be deep, otherwise the wandering soul would not feel a little sad at this time, and would not sit beside the corpse and watch silently.

Although Wandering Soul has no memory, and his concept of this world has just been completed, this does not affect his logical judgment. After coming down from Daheishan, he has been thinking about the question about Da Kassapa in the scriptures. It is Maitreya, in the future whoever will give you cassock will give you the tooth relic

Let it go, let’s not think about these trivial matters, the Bodhisattva let himself get into this grave, I don’t know what it means. Although he vaguely knew that the monks like to play these nonsense and nonsensical things, the more powerful the monk, the more he likes to play dumb fans, but Wandering Soul still didn’t like it, and he hummed:

“What a corpse, what a corpse.”

Sitting beside the grave admiring the corpse for a long time, wandering soul finally understood the reason behind it.

It seems that during this process, he slowly regained many emotions that life should have. It was not irritability, anger and suspicion, but a simple trace of pity and sadness. He didn’t know why, sadness came from it, tears fell down his cheeks, a little bit of clear light fell from his soul body, penetrated into the corpse, patted the face of the corpse, and muttered: “Why, seeing you lying here, brother, I feel It hurts so much to be so sad.”

The wandering soul was heartbroken, and the lonely heart in the chest and abdomen of the corpse in the grave also mourned. Countless cracks suddenly appeared on the gray lifeless heart, which seemed to be cracked at any time.

There was a soft rattle, and the heart valves in the corpse split, like a blooming lotus.

To be continued: