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A friend who was almost reincarnated as a pig

Buddhist stories 2013-08-18

Nan Huaijin: A friend who was almost reincarnated as a pig

When I was studying Buddhism in the mainland, a friend was meditating one day, and it was wonderful! There is a temple in Chengdu, and our students at the Chengdu Military Academy know that the Central Military Academy is located in the Chengdu North School. So we often finish classes in the military school, sometimes we have to sneak away, although as an official, sometimes I also sneak out to play, especially the place where I live is Wudan Mountain in the North School Field, which is the place where Liu Bei ascended the throne as the emperor. Then as soon as I slipped over, every monk saw, "Come here!" I can go to any monk's room. So all of us in our group gathered at the monk's place, and I was close to the school. This is also a good karma, how can there be such an environment? That's why I often sneak to Wenshu Monastery. Immediately, as soon as the military horn sounded here, I would arrive at it after a few steps of running, and there would be no problem, and I would definitely not be derelict in my duty.

There is a big garden behind this Wenshu Monastery - a big jungle, and the Nanmu tree in the back, that one grows tall, it doesn't matter if we wear a military hat, if you look up with a ni hat, that hat is going to fall off - the tree grows so tall. This kind of tree grows neatly, and its leaves see the kindness and humility of the tree, and every leaf grows so long, and when this leaf touches this leaf, it naturally avoids it, leaving a little crack in the middle. That's wonderful! It's a bodhisattva dojo, and there's nothing to say!

There is a place to raise pigs in the back, and people think that monks eat pork. It's not, there is a pig put there, the monk who grows vegetables, we think he is an Arhat, he is very dirty all day long, and he specializes in growing vegetables. Thousands of people's vegetables, he two of them planted and offered them to everyone. He picks up dung all day long, and does all these things; This is the Bodhisattva, this is the Arhat. Then this person took the leftovers from the kitchen and fed the released pigs, a pair, a male and a female. This pair of brothers, under the protection of two monks, is there "the Tao of life", so there are so many pigs born. He just encircled it there. We went to tell him a joke: "Master of the Garden!" The person in charge of the vegetable garden is called the head of the garden, "Hey, the head of the garden, okay?" Send two to our military academy?" No! If you are a soldier, you will kill and eat it, but you can't do it! Oh no!" He just closed the door so tightly that he wouldn't show us it!" Hey, Master Gardener, we won't eat it! Come and have fun. "He knew we were going, and he was relieved. He was still afraid that we would take it and eat it.

We have a friend who learns Zen and learns to meditate. One day, when I was sitting well, I suddenly felt that I was unconscious: hey, there was an acquaintance and an old lady in front of me: "Come on, come on, I'll invite you to tea." "In Sichuan, I like to drink tea. As soon as I drank tea, I took him to a place, ouch, the scenery is so good, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, everywhere is good, it is too good. The old lady said, "There is still a good place, I will take you, you come with me!" An old lady took him to a place that seemed to be familiar, as if he was not familiar, and he didn't know where he had seen it, so he went, and after he went, he saw a high-rise building, oh yo, this family, very rich, vermilion gate (because Chengdu still maintains the ancient style, rich and noble people, the door with meritorious status is still vermilion, and some ordinary ones are black or something; The vermilion gate, and the copper ring at the door, made a "click, click" sound. The old lady said, "Come here!" He went in with her, and as soon as he entered: "Hey, this is someone's house, and I don't know it, why did you bring me in?" It does not matter. "As soon as I entered, great, I saw the verandah and the street, like the garden on "Dream of Red Mansions".

As soon as he entered, suddenly there was a room and a boudoir, and the old lady called him: "Hey, you go in here and have a look!" He said this was someone's bedroom! Why did you tell me to come in?" Ah! If you love to go in, you can go in, and if you don't go in, I can't help you!" The old lady said, "I've brought you here." He thought: Alas! How annoying this old woman is! Why are you so unruly that you brought me to someone's bedroom? But he was not reconciled, why? This foot is ready to go, think about it unwillingly, just open that window to see what to do, look, oh! A woman gives birth there. "Ahh Unlucky! Why do you want me to come and see it here?" He turned around and ran.

 As soon as I ran back, I woke up from meditation. This woke up in a cold sweat! He wiped his sweat and felt strange to himself: I have never been drowsy, I was drowsy when I meditated today, this and this should not be! I was drowsy, although I didn't come out of the yin god, I entered the demon barrier, as if I had a dream, but I wasn't awake, this ignorance, no! So one ran to Wenshu Monastery. In this place of Wenshu Monastery, we Taoist friends, three, four or five people are very familiar with this monk. As soon as he turned around, he turned to the forest garden in the back. Just call him the one we call the living arhat, the gardener, the vegetable grower: "Hey......" "Ah, our old sow wow, it's born again." "Hah, how many have you given birth to?" Six were born, and one was born and died. He said, "Where is it?" Well, it's right there, you can go and see it. ”

When I looked at it, I saw a red stripe pasted at the door of the pigsty, this red stripe was what he saw at the door of the boudoir in his dream, and the words written were exactly the same, it was written by the head monk of the garden: "Stop here, the sow is about to give birth!" He saw in a dream at the time: "Stop here, my mother is about to give birth!" Not the word "pig" for sows. As soon as he saw it, "Oops! Oh my god!" He said that if I had gone in and had a look, I would have become that little pig. So one of the six little pigs is dead, and he is born dead, and he said that because I did not enter the bardo body; So after a little drowsiness, he went in. If you say it, listen to it (laughter).

What does this mean, what does it mean? Sometimes when people are reincarnated as animals, you don't feel like you've become animals, but you still feel like people are the same. Desire, or lust is very heavy. Attracted by this desire, that desire is a kind of attraction power, more powerful than magnetism, and it attracts you as soon as it comes. It's useless for you to stand far away, there is no space or time to hinder you, so love is terrible.

Consciousness and Madhyamaka

2024-02-05 18:04
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