Prison Dragon

Chapter 202 Extra Story: Wonderful Lotus Blossom

"This sutra can save all living beings. This sutra can save all living beings from suffering. This sutra can greatly benefit all living beings. Fill their wishes. It can satisfy all thirsts like a cool pool. It can satisfy all thirsts like a cold pool. The one who finds clothes is like a merchant who finds his master, like a son who finds his mother, like a boat who gets across, like a sick man who gets healed, like a lamp in darkness who gets a treasure, like a man who gets a king from a poor person, like a merchant who gets a king, like a merchant who gets a sea, like a torch that removes darkness. The same is true of the Lotus Sutra, which can free all living beings from all suffering and disease, and can release all shackles of life and death."

Yang Hu knelt on the futon and dozed off in a daze, the master saw that he was really sleepy, touched his bald head and said with a smile: "Lianhua, since that's the case, go back to sleep first."

It was at this time that Yang Hu realized that his name was no longer Yang Hu.

He shaved his head, took the precepts, and became a young monk Lianhua, guarding an ordinary temple with the old monk Miaotong.

There are actually very few things in the temple. There are only a few thin fields planted to make ends meet. Fortunately, the old monk has good merits, and many people often come to add incense, and many farmers send all kinds of firewood. lived a life of food and clothing.

The old monk likes to go outside to pick up orphans, and that's how Lianhua was picked up. Now, every morning after he reads scriptures with the old monk, he will walk around the streets with him, either for alms, or to see where there are poor children. Follow it back to the temple.

Soon there were more than ten children in the temple, and Lianhua became the boss of these little bean dings.He can read and knows a lot. The old monk loves him very much and always trains him as his successor.

But when asked about Lianhua's life experience, he refused to say anything. The old monk also knew that such a child with delicate skin and tender flesh who knew poetry and books must have come from a wealthy family and lived among the people. Bad things.

But what exactly is it, and how bad it is, the old monk doesn't want to get to the bottom of it. There are not many families who have suffered unexpected misfortunes because of their wealth. He entered Buddhism not because he wanted something from the child, so he didn't go into it, but also hoped that the child could forget the painful past.

Lianhua likes this kind of life very much. Although it is not as good as the days in the palace, at least she doesn't have to run for her life and worry about whether someone will chase her every day. She can also recite Buddhist scriptures and eat vegetarian food. Farming and herding sheep.

If the queen mother took him to flee back then, she hoped that he could live a good life, Lianhua thought, maybe such a day is exactly the peaceful life that the queen mother expected.

The old monk did not force each of them to become a monk. Many of them grew up slowly and went out to start their own families. Only a few children stayed with the monk. It is a pity that the old monk was old and passed away after not many years .

Protecting this temple and taking care of orphans are all Lianhua's promises to the old monk. It is his own choice to recite Buddhist scriptures every day in order to complete his merits and virtues, do good deeds, and overcome hardships.

After the old monk died, he handed over the temple to his younger brother and went to the capital alone.

His father once taught him that a gentleman must do what he says, and keep his word, so he rarely talks, but he must do what he says, and this time what he wants to do is the promise passed down from his parents.

A promise that even the person involved has forgotten. Lianhua spent days and nights in the temple, besides chanting scriptures, reviewing the spells that Lord Nanhua had taught him. He also hopes that he can use it in the future, so that he will not regret how little he has learned when it is critical.

He first found the Thanksgiving Temple and stayed in the Thanksgiving Temple. He asked someone he knew to help him find out if a man in black named Ao Chen appeared in the capital.He visited many places, and even sneaked around the guards at night to see the tomb of Emperor Gaozu, but found nothing. He felt very disappointed because he spent too much time in the temple, so it was too late to go to Beijing Rescue Ao Chen.

He had planned for a long time that he would fail, but he still hoped to fulfill his promise, so he gave the things he learned from Mr. Nan Hua to several apprentices in the Thanksgiving Temple.

Lianhua has practiced Buddhism all the year round, and he is very intelligent. He soon became the No. 1 debater in the Thanksgiving Temple, was appreciated by the emperor, and was called into the palace.

It was in the palace that he met the man he had to meet.

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Lianhua originally thought that she should be reincarnated after death.But he didn't expect that he came to the Buddha country.

Now he may be the Buddha in people's mouth, maybe Bodhisattva, monk...

Even he himself didn't know what his position was. He was fortunate to have met Venerable Kassapa and Layman Vimalakirti in the Buddhist kingdom. He was just a young monk with inexperienced qualifications. various precepts and good deeds,

How did he become a Buddha without doing anything?

He didn't know that layman Vimalakirti let him realize it by himself.

Venerable Kassapa said that to be able to do good deeds every day is already Buddha nature.What's more, he sacrificed his life to save others in the end, and he had an epiphany, so he became a Buddha.

But what makes him regret is that in the days of Xitian, he failed to hear the news of the return of a god named Ao Chen.He thought it was because he hadn't done enough, that's why Ao Chen didn't get free for a long time.

Just when he was about to rush about this matter, he came from the west that day and happened to meet Ao Chen.

The Heavenly Emperor is adjudicating the fate of the Yang family. In the tiny world, not to mention an individual, even a family that has lasted for a hundred years is nothing under the scale of the Dao of Heaven.

The news he knew was that his father, King Han, had lost his soul in the prisoner dragon formation long ago due to wear and tear. As for the remaining clansmen, he could only say that everything was a free choice. Ao Chen would not be punished so severely by the Dao of Heaven.

Ao Chen is still the same as Lianhua remembers, and there seems to be something different about his usual indifferent face. To be honest, Lianhua thinks that face used to be like a god, but now it is more like a person.

Lianhua called him Uncle Chen as before, and he also recalled the past with Lianhua with emotion.

Those memories and feelings that we have experienced together in the past come along with the narration. When Lianhua asked Ao Chen who let him go, Ao Chen just smiled and said softly said a word.

"A very good boy."

Then Ao Chen began to ask if he knew the way for mortals to cultivate immortals, or to become a Buddha. He said that according to that person's mind, maybe it is really possible to become a Buddha.

It's a pity that Lianhua didn't even know how she got to Xitian, let alone the method of heaven, Ao Chen just smiled disappointedly.

"Uncle Chen, do you want to help him?" Lianhua thought that since Ao Chen had escaped from the sea of ​​suffering, there was no need to look back. Everyone has their own cause and effect. Now that the cause and fate are understood, they should no longer be nostalgic. Taking medicine is a felony, and if you choose the wrong person, you will even be punished by heaven."

"I know," Ao Chen smiled, and said, "Sure enough, you are the most free and easy, but I can't tell whether he owes me or I owe him, but I always feel that from beginning to end, it's me I owe him so much, so I can't let go."

It has been said that since he can't persuade Ao Chen, he can only hope that his last obsession will get a good result.Personnel and affairs are intertwined, the cause of this is the effect of that, and the effect of this turns into the cause of that. No one knows what kind of ending the current choice will create.

All kinds of karma and chance meeting, just now there is a world.

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Lianhua always felt that she was ordinary and had no qualifications. Even if she had the title of being the number one debater in the Thanksgiving Temple back then, she was just showing off in front of the Bodhisattvas.Fortunately, the venerables have always treated him kindly.But since he has become a Buddha, he should naturally save sentient beings.

He followed the method of Vimalakirti layman, went to the mortal world with various incarnations, and showed the method of escape by entering the world.

He used to be a rich man who spent a lot of money in the city, a beggar who wandered around in the back alleys, a son of a family with a lot of bells and whistles, and an unknown ordinary scholar.He walked in the world for a long time, and he also forgot the time.

Before you know it, spring goes to winter again, and the glaciers melt. Although spring is here, it is still a bit chilly.

Lianhua is an ascetic monk in ragged clothes. He was begging for alms everywhere in Huainan City. When it rained heavily, he had to hide under the eaves of a rich family with a walking stick.

This body is already sixty years old, a little too thin, and the traces of bones can be easily seen under the skin. Lianhua sat under the eaves and drank some eaves water from a bowl.

A wet yellow-haired dog ran over and barked at Lianhua.

Lianhua took out the only piece of steamed bun, soaked it in water and put it in the bowl, stretched out her hand and made a dog-playing gesture, "Come and eat."

The yellow dog vigilantly held a large number of lotus flowers, its tail clamped tightly, and finally seemed to understand that this old and frail monk was incapable of harming him, so he came over.

Lianhua obediently put the bowl on the ground and watched the yellow dog swallow the steamed buns in a few strokes.

The steamed bun seemed to ease their relationship. When Lianhua tried to stroke the back of the yellow dog's neck, the yellow dog no longer refused, but leaned his shivering body against Lianhua's arms.

Lianhua took off her cassock and wrapped it around it, one person and one dog quietly waited for the heavy rain to stop under the eaves.

Suddenly there was a creak, the door opened, and a little girl in plain clothes walked out, beckoning to Lianhua, "My miss sees the master stopping here, please come in to shelter from the rain."

Lianhua stood up and clasped his hands together, walked into the mansion, the yellow dog followed him step by step, although the little girl looked displeased, she didn't say anything, and took the initiative to introduce the situation in the mansion

"My master's surname is Han, and she is only an only daughter. The young lady is not in good health, so the master has always done good deeds and begged for blessings. Every temple in the city has incense from my family. Seeing that the master looks like he has traveled far away, Dare to ask where the mage will go?"

Lianhua said: "Come from heaven and earth, and return to heaven and earth."

The yellow dog suddenly jumped up and pawed Lianhua twice with its paws.