2015-07-10 Buddhist stories
Editor's note: Today's story comes from the "Miscellaneous Metaphor Sutra" (translated by Zhi Lou Jiachen, an eminent monk in the Eastern Han Dynasty)."Master Hanshan's Encouragement of the World" says: "Glory is always dreaming of the third update, and wealth is still the same as the frost in September.Who can replace old age, sickness, death, life and death? I will bear the ups and downs."Wealth and honor are like clouds, fame and fortune are like empty flowers, love will deteriorate, and the physical body will eventually decline.Without breathing, everything will be empty.Only by listening to the Dharma and thinking about the mind is eternal. Only by possessing infinite merits and wisdom, and understanding the mind and nature, can one become the richest and most noble person.
My brother escaped into a monk and focused on spreading the Dharma and seeking merits and wealth.
I am working hard and accumulating endless worldly wealth.
I will never believe in the Three Jewels, and I will eventually fall into the realm of animals.
In the past, there was a pair of brothers who had a wealth of wealth. Unfortunately, both parents died, and the two brothers had no support and depended on each other for their own lives.However, although they are brothers, their ambitions are different.My brother likes to practice Taoism and follow the Dharma, while my younger brother sticks to his family business and likes to manage the official titles and salaries of the world.
Near their home, there is a rooster crowing temple, and my brother loves to go to the temple to learn Buddhism.Seeing that my brother was not happy to do business and finance, and made friends with powerful people, he only knew how to go to the temple to get close to monks, and he was very unhappy.
One day, the younger brother said to his brother: "We are brothers, and our parents die early, so we should run the family plan together, but you abandon your family business and follow the monks all day long to listen to Buddhist scriptures.Can those monks provide you with treasures?We have not actively expanded and increased our property. I am afraid that others will laugh at us for wasting our family business and exterminate our homes.People say that for children, one should inherit the inheritance of his parents and carry forward it. This is a filial son!”
After hearing this, the elder brother told his younger brother: "Abide by the five precepts, practice the ten virtues, offer offerings to the three treasures, practice the six paramitas, practice meditation and practice meditation, and save parents with the laws of the world. This is the true great filial piety.The opposite of Taoist concepts is natural.What the monks like, and secular people feel disgusted;What secular people cherish is despised by practitioners.The ways of wisdom and foolishness are very different, just like the difference between light and dark. Therefore, a wise person will go to dark and will eventually realize the supreme truth.The happiness you pursue today is the suffering I am afraid of.Everything in the world is false and unreal, but you are obsessed with being real. Chasing these short-term happiness will bring infinite pain to future generations!”
My younger brother didn't believe what his brother said, and he was dissatisfied and bowed his head and said nothing.Seeing him like this, my brother continued, "Since you are greedy for family business and regard wealth as your value, while I love Buddhism and regard wisdom as the best treasure. Why don't you let me sacrifice my family to practice and give my life to the Three Jewels!Human life is like flying dust, floating in the world.Once impermanence arrives, sins and karma are entangled and will be punished.Therefore, I want to leave everything in the world and avoid the dangers of lust, so as to achieve ultimate happiness.”
Seeing that his brother was so determined to be in Tao, he didn't say much, but his brother left home to be a monk.My brother, who became a monk, worked diligently day and night, recited scriptures and meditated, recited the Tao with all his heart, and thought about Buddhism without laziness. He soon realized the thirty-seven levels of the Tao and attained enlightenment.The monk who attained the holy fruit went to the place where his younger brother lived again, hoping to persuade him to follow the Dharma, so he told his younger brother: "The Five Precepts and Ten Virtues are the foundation of the birth of heaven;Giving and studying scriptures are the foundation of the Tao."The younger brother became even more angry after hearing these words, refuting the monk and said, "That's all you need to abandon your family business, you don't have to teach me a lesson again.Please go out quickly and leave my business alone."When the monk saw his younger brother like this, he had to leave.
My younger brother is greedy for family business and is eager to manage his family plans, and he is always unwilling to contact Buddhism.Soon, his life ended and he fell into the body of a cow, growing fat and strong.After the merchant bought it, he asked it to carry salt to sell it everywhere.After several years, the cow gradually became weaker and his strength was not as strong as before.
Once, on an uphill road, the old cow was so tired that he couldn't walk and fell to the ground.The merchant waved his whip and whipped hard. While half-dragging and half-pushing, the old cow still couldn't move forward, and just lay on the ground and moaned in pain.At this time, the monk who had attained the holy fruit flew in the air with his magical power and saw from afar, and said to the old Niu: "Brother!Where are the houses and fields you have sought to pursue in the past?I never thought you would be reborn as a cow, alas!"So the monk used his supernatural power to let Lao Niu see his predecessor. Lao Niu realized his cause and effect fate, and cried without realizing his tears. He regretted that he had not practiced good deeds before, was stingy and jealous, did not believe in Buddhism, was disrespectful to the saints, did his own things, and did not listen to his brother's words. He fell into the body of a cow today, was tired and troubled, and suffered so much that he really regretted it!
The monk knew that the old cow was guilty and felt sad for it, so he told the owner of the cow: "This cow was originally my younger brother. Because he did not believe in the Three Jewels, was greedy and jealous, and was greedy for worldly treasures and did not give, he fell into the animal realm.You see, it is old and thin now, and has no strength to do things for you. Please pity it and give it to me and let me save its life, okay?”
After hearing the story of Lao Niu, the merchant felt compassion and gave the cow to the monk.The monk took the old cow back to the temple and advised it to concentrate on reciting the Three Jewels. Soon, the cow died and was reborn in the Trayastrimsa Heaven.
The merchant told his friends who were engaged in business and business. Everyone woke up and sighed: "We are diligent in making money for life, but we are not tired at all. We do not know how to give and do not follow the Dharma. After our death in the future, we may fall into the animal realm!"So these merchants decided to let go of everything and seek to be monks.After becoming a monk, he made continuous efforts and finally achieved enlightenment and attained enlightenment.
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