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《"The Bible of Sakyamuni Buddha": 3. Gifts 27. Golden King's Alms and Food

Merits of giving 2024-10-11

Preface:

《The Wide Lotus Treatise on Shakyamuni Buddha is written by the omniscient Mipham Rinpoche and translated by Sodakhi Khenpo.Mipham Rinpoche is very profoundwisdomThe crystallization is an unprecedented and complete work in the history of Buddhism that preaches the life and deeds of Sakyamuni Buddha.With his extraordinary wisdom and sincere admiration, the omniscient Venerable Mipham left a glorious treatise for later generations that recorded the Buddha's conduct.The following briefly describes the biography of Buddha Shakyamuni.

This collection is a collection of the 3rd edition of Sakyamuni Buddha.GiveProduct 27. Golden King's Alms Food

A long time ago, when the life of 84,000 years was 84,000 years, the master Wushu Shakyamuni Buddha appeared as a golden king at that time, with a solemn appearance, prominent power, and complete wealth.The king always gives full charityAll living beingsAs I wish, I will exempt the Chinese people from taxes.

At that time, there was a Brahmin named Hei Siba. After reading and divination, he learned about the future fortune of the country and predicted that: "There will be no drops of rain in the next twelve years, so there will be a great famine."The king felt uneasy after hearing this. He thought: If this is true, the rich can certainly survive the famine, and how can the poor live? Thinking of this, the Golden King came up with a plan. He ordered all the people in the country to accumulate wealth, and at the same time, he also ordered people who were good at arithmetic to carefully calculate so much wealth. If people from all over the country distributed equally, how much would everyone get in the twelve years.These people first count the national population, and then calculate the per capita share.The king arranged for the people to safely survive the eleven years of severe drought, and none of his subjects starved to death.

The twelve years of hardship are about to be completed, and it has been eleven years and eleven months since the national middle school began to starve, because the entire country had eaten up all the food, but the golden king still had a small bucket of food left in his hand.

At this time, a person who has practiced forty kalpas came here.Saha world。He witnessed that his son was doing impure behavior to his mother in a forest.Seeing this scene, he sighed very sadly: "Ahhh! All sentient beings in the Saha world are reallytroubleHeavy, his son lives in the mother's fetus for nine months, and he sucks breast milk before he can grow up, but now he still has to do this impure behavior.If I do this illegal act with greed, how can I practice the Bodhisattva path for such sentient beings? It seems that I should do liberation first."Thinking of this, this person retreated without realizing itBodhi。After he came to a tree, he watched himselfFive aggregatesThe method of birth and death, and finally attaining the fruit of Pratyekabuddha.At this time, the Pratyekabuddha thought to himself: Although I have practiced many asceticisms for sentient beings, I have never benefited sentient beings.Now, if I feel compassion for any sentient being, I will come to him to beg for alms.After thinking about it, Pratyekabuddha began to use the eyes of the skyObservationThe whole world, he found that the food in the world had been consumed, and only the golden king still had a small bucket of food.The Pratyekabuddha thought to himself: It seems that I feel compassion for him and beg for him.

Thinking of this, Pratyekabuddha showed a magical change, flying in the air like a swan, and finally landed on the top floor of the Golden King Palace.The golden king was gathering with five thousand ministers on the top floor, and Pratyekabuddha saw it and said, “I came here to beg for alms."The golden king felt pain after hearing this. He thought: Although I have the whole world, I can't even offer it to the Pratyekabuddha who came to beg for alms.The more the golden king thought about it, the more sad he felt, but he still called the person who managed the property and said to him: "If there is still food in the palace, please give it to this Pratyekabuddha."The person who manages the property said in embarrassment: "Great King, you should know that except for you having a small dou of ration, the national treasury is empty.”

After hearing this, the king thought to himself: If I enjoy this ration, I should be able to survive today; if I give up, I will definitely die.But the king thought again: Even if I swallow this small bucket of food, I will never be able to escape death in the future. It is better to offer this food to the Pratyekabuddha in front of me, so that the special field of blessings can be planted so that this food can be valued and meaningful.

The king then gathered all his relatives and said, "Ah! This is my last charity for the golden king, and you all shouldRejoice。I use this to offer to the good roots of PratyekabuddhaDedicationIn the whole world, I hope that all sentient beings can eliminate all poverty."After saying that, he poured his food into the bowl held by Pratyekabuddha with his right hand.After receiving the food, the Pratyekabuddha flew away immediately. The king kept his hands closed and looked at the void. It was not until the Pratyekabuddha flew away. The king ordered his family to disperse: "No need to starve to death here, everyone should go home."The family members said affectionately: "Great King, when you are prosperous, everyone gathers here."Now that the country's destiny is in decline, how can we bear to leave you?"The golden king was deeply moved after hearing this, but he still cried and asked them to disperse themselves.Everyone kept bowing respectfully at his feet and said, "We may meet the king this time for the last time. I pray that the king will forgive us for our past violations of your teachings.”

After returning, the Pratyekabuddha enjoyed the food donated by the king. In an instant, dark clouds were densely covered with cold winds, and strong winds swept away all impurities on the earth. Then food came from the sky, such as rice, flour, cakes, meat, and radish, as well as sesame oil, grain, etc.The golden king was overjoyed and called all his relatives and said, "It's really rare! Please see, just a small dou of grain, there are so many seedlings now, and the real flowers and fruits of donations will surely flourish in the future.”

From the second day to the seventh day, wealth, food, rain and porridge were dropped in the void; ghee was dropped in the next seven days; sesame oil was dropped in the next seven days; satin and cloth were dropped in the next seven days; food was dropped in the next seven days; and then various treasures such as gold, silver, crystal, sapphire, red pearls, stone essence treasures, ice bead stones and other treasures were dropped in the next seven days.All sentient beings are completely destroyed by the power of the golden king's donation.

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