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Chapter 25 Chapter 1 The Heartbroken Heartbreak——The Kingdom of Wuji

The king of the Wuji Kingdom had an unfavorable time, and encountered Manjusri Bodhisattva in his lifetime, so he began to live a life of neither human nor ghost. Who is Manjusri Bodhisattva? I don't know the geometry of mana, and I don't know the geometry of wisdom, but in terms of character, the author thinks that among the twelve Bodhisattvas, Manjushri Bodhisattva can be said to be the Bodhisattva with the worst character. The first appearance of Manjusri Bodhisattva was in Wuji Kingdom. Manjusri Bodhisattva has one of the most special mounts in the world. Avalokitesvara's mount Golden Retriever is very stupid, but at least the body organs are complete, but Manjusri Bodhisattva's mount is an eunuch.

Wu Chengen's intentions are vicious, the author just laughed at this and said nothing. Chapter Thirty-ninth——The great sage, Zong Xiangguang, stood up in the sky, and was about to cut his hand, when he saw that on the northeast, inside a colorful cloud, he shouted sharply: "Sun Wukong, stop!" The traveler looked back at the place It turned out that Manjusri Bodhisattva, quickly received his stick, stepped forward to salute and said, "Bodhisattva, where are you going?" Manjusri said, "I will collect this monster for you." Looking at the demon mirror, it illuminated the monster's original body... The traveler said: "Bodhisattva, this is a green-haired lion you sat down on, but how come you will become a spirit in the future, and you won't subdue him?" The Bodhisattva said: "Wukong, he never Let's go, he was sent by the Buddha's decree." The traveler said: "This beast has become a spirit, invaded the throne, and he was sent by the Buddha's decree. Like the old sun who protects Tang monks from suffering, he should receive several imperial orders!" The Bodhisattva said: "You I don’t know. At the beginning, the black chicken king was good at fasting monks. The Buddha sent me to save him. I can't agree with a few words. He didn't know that I was a good person, so he tied me up with a rope and sent me to the Yushui River, where I was immersed for three days and three nights. Thanks to Liujia Jinshen, who rescued me and returned to the west, he played with Tathagata and Tathagata This strange order came here to push him down the well and soak him for three years, in order to repay my hatred for the three-day flood. One drink and one peck, could it be pre-determined... The traveler said: "That's true, but only the empress of the third palace, with him Waking up at the same time, stained his body, broke how many principles of ethics, still called never harming others? The Bodhisattva said: "You can't smear him, he is a raging lion." "

In this passage, let us completely admire the character of Tathagata and Manjusri. This style of vengeance and making a fuss is really worthy of our admiration. From the original text of the novel, we can know that the king of Wuji Kingdom is a good man, and he is a good man who worships the Buddha. That is why the Tathagata Buddha sent Manjushri Bodhisattva to save him and return to the west to become a righteous fruit. But even if the king of the Wuji Kingdom is very good and very respectful to Buddha, but he is just an ordinary person, why did the Tathagata Buddha send a big Bodhisattva to save an ordinary person?

There should be a deeper reason for this as well.The author has already said in the previous article that Buddhism is not as powerful as Taoism. Most countries on the way to learn Buddhist scriptures worship Taoism and do not respect Buddha, even Xiniu Hezhou, where the Tathagata Buddha is located. It is not easy to have a king who respects Buddha. The author speculates that the Tathagata Buddha must have stepped up his publicity efforts to let the people all over the world see the benefits of worshiping the Buddha, so he did not hesitate to condescend to let Manjushri Bodhisattva go to save the king of the Wuji Kingdom.

Who is Manjushri?Manjusri Bodhisattva is one of the highest-ranked Bodhisattvas among the Twelve Great Bodhisattvas. In Manjusri Bodhisattva's view, it would really hurt my face to let a Bodhisattva with status and status like me save an ordinary person. Therefore, with Manjusri Bodhisattva's small belly, it is inevitable that he will feel a little unhappy, so Manjusri Bodhisattva decided to put on airs first and tease this mortal king. Thus, Manjusri Bodhisattva became a disheveled beggar monk who went to meet the king, and the story began. The author speculates that the situation at that time was like this.Manjusri Bodhisattva thought to himself, don't you claim to worship the Buddha?Then let this Bodhisattva see how profound your Dharma is.

Therefore, Manjusri Bodhisattva started a heated debate with the king of Wuji Kingdom. Although Manjusri Bodhisattva is not good in character, he is still a great Bodhisattva. The Dharma is absolutely profound. But paying homage to the Buddha may be just a hobby, and the Dharma may not be studied thoroughly, let alone compared to Manjusri Bodhisattva. It's a tragedy. In fact, the anger of the king of the black-bone chicken country is reasonable and reasonable. Think about it, how can I, a king of the black-bone chicken country, be defeated by a stinky monk like you? ! As soon as the king of the Wuji Kingdom could not get over his face, he became angry in his heart, and when he was angry in his heart, his temper came up. But at this time, Manjushri satirized him a few words triumphantly.

The king of the Wuji Kingdom suddenly became furious and shouted, "Where is the Imperial Forest Army? Arrest this stinky monk who talks so much!" Manjusri was startled, thought it was bad, and had finished playing, so he immediately said: "Come on slowly! In fact, I was transformed by Manjushri, and I came to save you to the west." The king of Wuji Kingdom was startled when he heard this, and then he looked at the appearance of this brother, and he was even more annoyed immediately: "As long as your face is like Manjusri Bodhisattva, I am still Buddha! If you dare to go out, you will be punished now, go and throw him into the Yushui River for three days!"

In fact, the author couldn't figure it out, how could he be tied up by mortals with the mana of Manjushri Bodhisattva, and still throw him into the Yushui River for three days by those mortals? Could it be that Manjusri Bodhisattva has entered the drama too deeply, and has already determined that he is a crazy monk psychologically, and has forgotten that he is a Bodhisattva? surely not! The only explanation is that Manjusri Bodhisattva deliberately wanted the king to humiliate himself so as to leave evidence so that he could go back to Lingshan to sue. Manjusri Bodhisattva returned to Lingshan in a state of distress. The Tathagata Buddha was shocked when he saw it, and asked with concern: "Little Manjusri, don't cry, tell me what's wrong? Who bullied us?"

Manjusri Bodhisattva recounted the whole process with snot and tears, and at the end he did not forget to say: "That guy still said he is the Tathagata Buddha!" The Tathagata Buddha was furious, and immediately issued an order: "Bold! Treat my angel like this, Buddha, I will kill him, go and throw him in the well for three years!" So the king of Wuji Kingdom was in tragedy. From a common sense point of view, although the king of Wuji Kingdom is a small country, he is a king anyway, and he is not mentally retarded. Manjusri turned into a dirty and smelly vulgar monk, ran to the royal palace, and kept saying that he wanted to send the king back to the west. I think anyone who is insane will think that Manjusri is sick, and Manjusri is also trying to show off, but even if the king of Wuji Kingdom pays homage to Buddha, his understanding of Buddhist scriptures is not as good as that of the one who listens to the Tathagata all day long. Manjusri, what's more, some scriptures may have been written by Manjusri himself. Of course, the king can't speak against him.And everyone knows that the king has a bad temper. Once he loses face, he will be furious on the spot. It is understandable that he only soaked in Manjusri for three days. Who asked Manjusri to entertain him?

However, as a Bodhisattva, Manjusri is not sunny at all, not magnanimous at all. In order to become a righteous person, he has to care about a mortal, not only going to the Tathagata to complain, but also to take revenge.Revenge is revenge, if the retribution is reasonable, Manjusri is ruthless. The king of Wuji Kingdom tied Manjusri to soak in the Yushui River for three days, Manjusri threw him directly into the well and drowned him for three years. His own eunuch lion came to do his best. The author would like to ask Manjusri, are you really a Bodhisattva? Manjusri Bodhisattva compares with Zhenyuan Daxian's bearing, is he going to die of shame?

If people cut off the spiritual root of Manjushri, the author estimates that Manjushri will have to cut off his children and grandchildren. Also, the author is very curious about why Manjusri Bodhisattva's mount is a eunuch lion, and I still can't figure it out. But in Wu Chengen's way of writing, things are like their masters, the lion is a eunuch, and the master is not much better. To make a digression, Manjushri let a eunuch lion become king and slept with a beautiful queen for three years. How painful the lion must be. Does Manjushri teach the way of animals? Speaking of Manjusri Bodhisattva's bad manners, I have to talk about this lion. It was still in the seventy-seventh chapter-the two Bodhisattvas worshiped the Buddha, and the Tathagata said: "How long has it been since the Bodhisattva's beast went down the mountain?" Manjusri said: "It has been seven days." Years. I don’t know how many souls were injured there, so follow me and take him away.” (A few words are omitted in the middle) This devil didn’t know how to stand up and down, and he raised his knife and slashed at him, but Manjusri, Puxian, and others read He moved the mantra and shouted: "This evil animal has not been converted, let alone be born!" The old monster and the second monster dared not support, threw away their weapons, rolled around, and revealed their true colors.The second Bodhisattva threw the lotus platform on the monster's back, flew to sit astride, and then the two monsters lost their ears and took refuge.The two Bodhisattvas accepted the green lion and the white elephant. Have you seen it?It was that blue lion again. To be honest, I doubt if this lion is the original one. If it is, the time is wrong. The lion in Wuji Kingdom has only been doing evil for three years, while the lion in Shituoling has been endangering thousands of years. The time is very different. But if not, the master is the same, and the real body is the same. They are all blue lions, and their positions are also ridden. Manjusri Bodhisattva is not so extravagant as to ride two lions, right? Therefore, the author speculates that the lion in Shituoling is still the castrated lion in Wuji Kingdom. Let it go, and then release it to Shituoling to continue to be a monster. The mounts of other gods, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas came out to do evil once, but Manjusri set a lion twice to make fun of it!Harm the common people of the two places!It's outrageous! This has to make people feel the poor character of Manjusri Bodhisattva. Gossip aside, let's continue the topic of Manjushri Bodhisattva and the king of Wuji Kingdom. In fact, it is wrong to remove Manjusri Bodhisattva, and the tragedy of the king of Wuji Kingdom also has its own reasons. If you look at the king of Wuji Kingdom himself, his tragedy is not that he didn't recognize the mad monk as Manjusri, nor that he offended Manjusri, but his character defect - impetuousness. If he wasn't impetuous, based on his habit of worshiping Buddha, how could he throw Manjusri into the Yu River to soak for three days in a fit of anger before he found out Manjusri's true identity? Originally, he was a person who could be saved to the west, but ended up buried at the bottom of the well, so impetuousness is often a bad thing, and those who want to achieve great things must be patient. Perhaps, the king of Wuji Kingdom, who has been at the bottom of the well for three years, will sharpen his mind when he sees the light of day again.
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