Chapter 23: Seven Hardships in Life
"Is this pagoda a so-called miracle? It doesn't look amazing!"
The girl in green walked towards Wanfo Pagoda. Although she was shocked by the majesty of Wanfo Pagoda, she still said words that didn't care.
"Xiao Cui! You're too much!".
The girl in white had never really scolded Xiao Cui before, but this time, Huo Yuanzhen, who was walking behind, heard her dissatisfaction.
"This is a temple, in front of the Buddha, and this pagoda is a miracle. It is a disappointment for me to say something that does not respect the Buddha here. You can stay here and don't have to accompany me in."
The girl in white shook Xiao Cui's hand and walked towards the pagoda alone.
Xiao Cui stood there alone, tears rolling in her eyes, but she didn't dare to say anything.
Huo Yuanzhen glanced at Xiao Cui and felt relieved. Although his abbot might not be very pious to the Buddha, he could not listen to others' disrespect for his temple.
Huo Yuanzhen rushed in front of the girl in white and took the lead in front of the pagoda and opened the pagoda gate.
Because it was almost dark and the pagoda was very dark. After Huo Yuanzhen entered, he lit up some oil lamps in the pagoda.
The first floor of the pagoda is a Guanyin.
In his previous life, Guanyin Bodhisattva's popularity in Buddhism was almost comparable to that of Buddha. He was known as great compassion, saving suffering and suffering, and had hundreds of millions of believers.
Although Buddhism in this world is not as prosperous as in previous lives, Guanyin Bodhisattva is still very well-known.
There are three types of Guanyin, namely the most common Guanyin, holding willow branches and jade bottles. The second type is Qianye Guanyin, and the third type is Guanyin for giving birth to children.
The main Buddha on the first floor of the Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda is Qingshui Guanyin.
Originally, Huo Yuanzhen thought that the woman in white was going to worship Guanyin, but unexpectedly, after a few prayers, the woman in white did not stop and went straight to the second floor.
Huo Yuanzhen had no choice but to follow her to continue to go to the second floor and lit up the oil lamp on the second floor.
The second floor is Lingji Bodhisattva. Unexpectedly, the woman also went to the third floor after a few prayers.
The third level is Amitabha Buddha, and there is a couplet next to it. The first couplet says: A big belly can accommodate things that are difficult to tolerate in the world. The second couplet says, "I always smile and laugh at the ridiculous people in the world."
Amitabha Buddha, also known as the Buddha of Donglai, is also very popular.
But the woman still bowed a few times and then went to the fourth floor.
Later there were Manjushri Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, Lantern Buddha, Medicine Buddha, and Tathagata Buddha.
However, on these eight floors, the women visited one by one and finally arrived at the ninth floor of the pagoda.
The ninth floor is the last floor, and the main Buddha here is Namo Amitabha.
Huo Yuanzhen followed him all the way here, lit up the oil lamp, and there was no look of displeasure on his face.
The woman in white saw Huo Yuanzhen's performance and was secretly surprised, thinking that this young abbot was so well-educated, and was completely different from when she was yelling at the mountain gate just now.
In fact, Huo Yuanzhen had his own plans in his heart. This is like the service industry in later generations. As long as I provide services well, I will not be afraid that your customers will not bleed. Especially when this woman can tell at a glance that she is a rich financial backer, I guess she will give you a lot of money in a while.
While there was a random thought, the woman in white knelt in front of the Buddha.
Although I knelt down a few times before, this time it was different. The woman in white lifted her veil.
First, he glanced at Huo Yuanzhen and the woman in white said, "Today, the abbot accompanied me into the tower. I hope the abbot keeps my secret about the little woman's situation and what she said."
Although Huo Yuanzhen was silent on his face, his inner shock was indeed beyond words.
Although I imagined that the woman in white must be beautiful, it was just imagination after all, and there was no intuitive impact. Now that the woman lifted the veil, she was indeed a stunning charming person who was fascinating to the whole country.
Compared with the ladies of the world in later generations, except for their slightly lower height, the rest are still far from that.
But Huo Yuanzhen has experienced a lot of things after all, and a woman is beautiful, but it is impossible to make Huo Yuanzhen lose his composure.
He nodded slightly and agreed, Huo Yuanzhen retreated a little further.
The woman secretly admired her again. Although this abbot was a monk, she was still a young man after all. She was unmoved when she saw her appearance. She was the first one in these years.
The woman in white turned around, first picked up the incense beside the desk and lit it, solemnly bowed three times, then burned the incense, folded her hands together, closed her eyes slightly, and prayed for something piously there.
It was quiet inside the pagoda, and only the sound of wind chimes outside and the burning of oil lamps faintly came.
Huo Yuanzhen stood quietly aside, waiting for the woman to finish.
The woman spoke slowly.
"I believe in the daughter Ning Wanjun, I sincerely pray for the Buddha's blessing and pray for my father to recover soon. I know that my father's injury is already very serious, but he still insists on not letting people see his injury. He feels very bitter, but he must persist. I don't think his persistence is right. It seems meaningless to me to be nostalgic for that position, but he can't do it. He has forgotten how his mother died at the beginning."
The woman's words were heard in my ears, and Huo Yuan really listened to them. It seemed that this woman was still a miserable person. In her previous life, she was a single-parent family.
"Dad always thought that his injury would improve after his magical skills were achieved. He believed in the words of villains and even began to practice evil skills. When I saw him a few days ago, his hair was already white, and he was also,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"Cultivate evil skills?".
Huo Yuanzhen secretly speculated, who was this woman talking about?
The woman Ning Wanjun on the other side seemed to have moved her feelings. Two lines of clear tears slid down her beautiful face, and her thin shoulders were twitching gently, which was adorable.
"The faithful girl is very scared. I can't persuade my father. He can't listen to different opinions at all. What should I do? Hearing that the Buddha's miracle appeared here, the faithful girl came here and asked the Buddha for guidance. The Buddha has supreme wisdom. Please give me some advice, wuwu,,,."
Ning Wanjun was talking, and she couldn't cry. The more she cried, the louder she felt. Finally, she lay on the cushion, her delicate body shrank into a ball, and she kept sobbing there, and the person who heard it was sad.
Huo Yuanzhen stood aside, a little helpless, and was willing to go over to help her, but it was inconvenient. However, if she didn't help her, it would be a solution to make her cry like this.
After thinking about it, Huo Yuanzhen gritted her teeth and came to the woman, but did not support her. Instead, she used a little lion roar and said, "Crazy!Crazy!"
Although it was just a little internal force, the sound in this quiet pagoda was also stirring back and forth, which made Ning Wanjun stop crying.
He raised his head with tears in his eyes, and Ning Wanjun looked at Huo Yuanzhen with pear blossoms in the rain: "Abbot, what did you say?"
"Amitabha, if the female donor is willing to listen to my monk's words, please get up and speak."
Ning Wanjun also felt her loss of composure at this time, so she hurriedly stood up, wiped her red eyes, and followed Huo Yuanzhen to the chair at the corner of the wall to sit down.
Huo Yuanzhen pondered for a moment: "There are seven sufferings in life, including all kinds of hardships in human beings. Now the female donor is in the seven sufferings."
"If you ask the abbot to give me some advice on what is the seven sufferings?"
"The pain of life refers to the fact that a person is in the womb, narrow and unsatisfied, and his breath is not smooth, and after making a sound, he will be cold-wind clothes, stabbing his skin, etc. The pain of old age increases, mental failure, and increasingly weak. The pain of illness causes pain throughout the body to be in peace. The pain of death may cause aging and vitality, or death may occur accidentally."
Ning Wanjun was attracted by Huo Yuanzhen's words and asked, "Abbot, what you said makes sense, are there three kinds of suffering?"
"If you hate and hate, you will be jealous and have resentment. If you cannot get what you want, you will hurt yourself."
Ning Wanjun nodded, "Yes, jealousy is a heart-eating poisonous snake, and the believer has received teachings."
"If you can't get what you want, you will be disappointed in life. People are often too persistent and fall into a cage, unable to be content with it, which will add to the pain."
After Huo Yuanzhen finished speaking, Ning Wanjun felt something and didn't speak for a while. Her current situation was just not enough.
His expression was a little sad, and after a while, Ning Wanjun said quietly: "The master is right. Many places where trusting women are too persistent, but many things are too important, trusting women cannot help themselves."
Huo Yuanzhen smiled and said nothing.
"Please give me the last suffering."
"The last suffering is the pain of separation. The pain of life is nothing more than love and separation. When the relatives leave, they are powerless. If the love is not around, there is also the pain of longing. I think the girl is not old. Although she may not experience the pain of love being around her, she must have experienced it with her own experience of the departure of her relatives."
After Huo Yuanzhen finished speaking, Ning Wanjun's tears rustled down again, her jade hand gently covered her mouth, and refused to cry loudly.
When this woman cried, Huo Yuan was really hard to deal with. If it was in her previous life, of course she could choose to lend her shoulders to her, but now she has this identity constraint and can't do this.
But I have just talked for a long time and it must be effective.
Sure enough, after a while, Ning Wanjun stopped his sad voice, Yingying stood up, and bowed deeply to Huo Yuanzhen: "Gentlemen and hate meeting, no seeking, birth, old age and death, love and separation are indeed the most profound saying. The trusted woman has received teachings. The abbot, everyone outside said that you are someone who can communicate with the Buddha. The trusted woman can only ask you. Please teach the trusted woman what to do now?"
Huo Yuanzhen was suddenly a little overwhelmed. He read a Buddhist scripture himself and could still say a little about the Buddhist theory, but he was really unsure of solving other people's actual difficulties.
Besides, this should have been the Buddha's life, why did it fall on me?
Huo Yuanzhen looked helplessly at the beautiful girl in front of her with anticipation, and didn't know how to speak.;
Chapter completed!