Chapter 12 Chapter 10 The Buddha's Opponents and Supporters

Like a solid rock, unshakable by the wind, Slander and praise, the wise are not moved. —— Dhamma Sutra For the well-being of mankind, the Buddha selflessly traveled all over the world, regardless of rich or poor, high or low, and his followers spread across the highest and lowest levels of society.People's love for him is spontaneous, and their respect for him is profound.Kings and nobles, rich and poor, pious populace or harlots, devout men and women of all ranks, vie with each other to serve him so that his noble mission may be accomplished.The rich paid generously for him to build monasteries with a pleasant environment, and the devout poor expressed their piety in a humble way.But he accepted the support of the rich and the poor equally without any partiality or prejudice.However, he showed more compassion to the poor or those of lower castes.Just as a bee gathers nectar from a field of flowers without harming any of them, He lives among believers and supporters without causing any inconvenience to anyone.All kinds of offerings came to him one after another, but he accepted them all completely without contamination.

Although his motive for serving mankind was absolute purity and utter selflessness, the Buddha had to contend with powerful opponents in preaching and disseminating his teachings.He was harshly criticized, publicly insulted, and relentlessly attacked personally.This is something no other religious leader has ever experienced.His main opponents are heretics and their followers.And their traditional teachings and blind rituals were justly attacked by the Buddha.Personally, his greatest enemy was his brother-in-law and early disciple Devadatta.He tried to murder Buddha. Buddha and Devadatta Devadatta is the son of Heaven Arm City King and Pramita, and Yasodhara is his sister.In this way, he was the Buddha's cousin and brother-in-law.In the early stage of the Buddha's teaching, he joined the Sangha together with Ananda and other princes of the Sakyamuni family.He failed to achieve any sagehood, but was known for worldly psychic powers (Pothujjanikaiddhi).One of his main supporters was King Ajatha, who had built his monastery.

In his early career, he lived a life of sanctity, which was exemplary, and Venerable Sariputta even made a special trip to Rajgaha to praise his practice.But later, worldly fame and fortune eroded his heart, and he became jealous of the Buddha. From this, his character deteriorated rapidly, and he finally became the biggest personal opponent of the Buddha.When he held a grudge against the Buddha, his supernatural powers naturally disappeared.Although his methods are bad and his life is depraved, he also has a large number of disciples and many admirers, and some even prefer him to Shariputra.

Once, he came to the Buddha and asked to give him the leadership of the Sangha because the Buddha was old.The Buddha categorically rejected him, saying: "I don't even hand over the Sangha to Shariputra and Mujianlian, how can I hand over to you?" He was furious at the Buddha's refusal and vowed revenge.In order to maintain and maintain the dignity of the Sangha Harmony, the Buddha announced in public: "Everything that Devadatta does in the name of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha must be taken responsibility by himself." Therefore, he conspired with King Ajashi to murder the Buddha.King Ajashi killed his father and usurped the throne under hastily instigated.But he himself wanted to murder the Buddha and lead the Sangha.The ungrateful King Ajatha killed his pious father.Devadatta hired a group of archers to assassinate the Buddha.However, contrary to what he expected, all the employees became Buddhists of the Buddha.His gambit failed.He decided to do it himself.When the Buddha was walking on the slope of Vulture Hill, he climbed to the top of the hill and cruelly threw a boulder at the Buddha.Fortunately, the stone hit another stone, and a piece of rubble slightly injured the Buddha's foot, which was bleeding profusely.Doctor Yousheng took care of and managed to heal his foot.

Devadatta attempted to kill Buddha again, but again without success.He drunk the national elephant Nalan Jili with strong wine, then untied the rope and let him run in the direction the Buddha came from.The crazy elephant ran towards the Buddha like a thunderbolt.Venerable Ananda took one step forward, protecting the Buddha with his own life.But the Buddha used infinite compassion and subdued the elephant. Due to this last act of evil, Devadatta lost the hearts of the people.He was strongly condemned by public discourse.King Ajashi had to cancel his support and sponsorship.He ended up in a disgraceful end.

Immediately afterwards, he racked his brains to make a living by cheating.His cunning brain devised another seemingly peaceful plan.With the help of Hokalik and other like-minded evil monks, he wanted to create a split in the Sangha. He asked the Buddha to enact the following five precepts in the bhikkhu sangha: 1. A monk should live in a forest. 2. A monk should live by begging for food. 3. Bhikshus should wear dung sweeping clothes (cassocks made of rags picked from garbage and cemeteries). 4. The bhikkhu should rest under the tree. 5. A bhikkhu is not allowed to eat fish in his life.

He knew very well that the Buddha would definitely not agree.But he hoped to use the Buddha's refusal as an excuse to wantonly belittle the Buddha, thereby winning the support of the ignorant masses. After he made these demands, the merciful and forgiving Buddha announced to his disciples that they were free to accept these precepts, but he would not force them to obey them. Devadatta took this as a reason for his refusal to create a split in the Sangha. He said to the monks: "Brothers, whose words are more noble, the Tathagata's or mine? Those who are willing to be freed from suffering, Follow me."

Some newly-ordained monks who didn't know much about Buddhism clearly agreed with his proposition and stood on his side.Surrounded by these congenial people, he went to Mount Gaya.However, under the guidance of the Buddha, Shariputra and Venerable Mujianlian traced all the way to the past, explained the Dharma to them, and successfully won theirs back. From then on, the days of evil finally fell on his head.When he was terminally ill and dying, he sincerely repented and hoped to see the Buddha.But due to his serious deterioration, he failed to meet the Buddha and died a miserable death.At this last moment, he took refuge in the arms of the Buddha.

Although he suffered in the lower realms due to his notorious bad karma, it is said that he would become a Pratyekabuddha, named Atisara, after countless kalpas because of his early life of pure holy conduct. for lonely elders Giving to the Lonely Elder is the Buddha's great protector. Among lay believers, he is considered the number one in giving. The Feeder of the Helpless, whose original name was Sudada, was later known by his new name because of his unparalleled generosity.He was born in Savatthi. One day, he went to the house of his brother-in-law in Rajagha to handle some business affairs.But the brother-in-law did not come out to greet him as usual.Sudatu found him busy preparing a family banquet in the backyard.Upon inquiring, he was delighted to know that all this was for entertaining the Buddha the next day.Just the word Buddha made him very interested, and he sincerely longed to see the Buddha.He was told that the Buddha lived nearby in the Siddharth Grove and that he could be seen the next day.Rest for the night.But his desire to visit the Buddha became stronger and stronger, and he couldn't close his eyes overnight.He got up before dawn the next morning and set out for the Siddharth grove.Because of his infinite trust in the Buddha, a beam of light radiated from him, illuminating him as he walked forward.It was pitch black outside, and when he passed through a cemetery, he couldn't help feeling frightened and wanted to go back.At this time, Yaksha Sivaha concealed himself and encouraged him:

"A hundred elephants and horses, a hundred mule carts, a hundred thousand beauties, jewelry and earrings, less than one-sixteenth, one step forward, one step forward, one step forward, not backward but forward ."(1) His sense of terror disappeared all of a sudden, resulting in an infinite dependence on the Buddha, and the light reappeared.He redoubled his courage and accelerated forward.This phenomenon happened two or three times in succession, and at last he came to Siddharth Grove.The Buddha was walking back and forth in an open place. He had known about his visit for a long time and called him by his first name to let him come.

When he heard the Buddha calling his name, he was very happy to be alone, bowed his head and saluted, and asked the Buddha respectfully. The Buddha replied: "If you want to destroy the arhat, you will be at ease in all moments. You will be free from color, dust and desire, and your whole body will be cool. You will cut off all seeds of life, remove all obstacles, stop suffering and obscuring your mind, and rest in peace and joy, just because your mind is peaceful." (2) Hearing this Dharma, he immediately proved the first holy fruit for the lonely elder, and then invited the Buddha to the city of Savatthi to spend the rainy season peacefully.The Buddha accepted his invitation and suggested that the Tathagatas come to take pleasure in silence.Go back to Savatthi for loneliness and spend huge sums of money to buy a garden.This garden originally belonged to Prince Jetuo, who purchased the garden at the cost of paving the ground with gold, and spent huge sums of money to build the famous Justuo Abode.Buddha spent 19 rainy seasons here.During the Buddha's life, he lived here most of the time and spoke many scriptures. Although the lonely elder never wanted to cause trouble to the Buddha, and tried his best to restrain himself from asking the Buddha questions, the Buddha still told him a few scriptures that laymen were particularly interested in. Once, the Buddha used the topic of giving as a gift, and told lonely people the great merit of supporting the Buddha and the Sangha, but the merits of building temples and supplying the Sangha are far greater than this, and taking refuge in Buddhism and Sangha is more meritorious than building temples, and compared with taking refuge in the Three Jewels Compared with keeping the five precepts, the merit of practicing compassion meditation for a while is greater, and the most merit of all is the ability to understand the impermanent nature of everything. (3) It can be clearly seen from this sutra that giving is the first step in a Buddhist's life. More important than giving is keeping the five precepts and regulating speech and behavior.More important and more beneficial than this is the cultivation of noble qualities such as self-directed compassion. (4): "When the time is ripe, a layman who enjoys material happiness for a long time can enjoy four types of pleasure: the joy of possession, the joy of wealth, the joy of being debt-free, and the joy of being free from blame." What is the joy of possession? Here, a good man, earn wealth through hard work, gather it with your own hands, and obtain legal and legitimate wealth through sweat, and think to yourself: This legal wealth obtained through hard work is mine.Happiness will come to me, satisfaction will come to me, this is the joy of having. What is the joy of wealth? Here, good man, based on the wealth obtained through hard work, whether to enjoy a rich life, or to do good deeds, think this way: I will enjoy the joy of being rich and do meritorious deeds extensively.Happiness will come to me, contentment will come to me, this is the joy of wealth. What is debt-free happiness? Here, good man, who has no debts, big or small, thinks to himself: I do not owe any debts, big or small.Happiness comes to me, satisfaction comes to me, this is called debt-free happiness. What is blameless happiness? Here, disciples of the sages, the three karmas of body, speech and mind are blameless, and they think to themselves: I am blameless in body, blameless in speech, and blameless in mind.Happiness comes to me, satisfaction comes to me, this is called happiness without blame. Debt-free and happy people, remembering to be rich and happy, when enjoying this wealth, see it with wisdom, see it and realize it, the double is the most wise.Compared with the joy of no blame, one sixteenth. Another time, when the Buddha was a guest at the lonely house, he heard a commotion coming from the back room, and asked what was going on. "World Honored One, my daughter-in-law Shu Jia Tuo lives with us. She is very rich and comes from a rich family. She never pays attention to her mother-in-law, father-in-law, or husband, and she is not respectful. She pays homage to the World Honored One." replied. The Buddha called her to him and told her an instructive scripture on the seven wives that existed in ancient and modern times. 1. Evil and not good, cruel and ruthless; like other men, alienate her husband, act like a prostitute, like to torture men, this name is troublesome wife. 2. If there is a slight profit, even if the letter is squandered, it is a waste of the husband's labor, business or farming wealth.This name is a thief-like wife. 3. Not good at making a living, lazy, lazy, vulgar and ruthless, fond of evil words, domineering towards hardworking people.This name is the noble wife. 4. Be kind and compassionate, love your husband, like a mother protects her son, and protect the wealth accumulated by her husband.The name mother wife. 5. Respect your husband like your brother, be humble, and live by your husband's preferences.This is a sister-like wife. 6. When you are happy to see your husband, it is like seeing you for a long time; born in a kind family, kind and loyal.This name is like a friend's wife. 7. When encountering harm or danger, be calm without anger; endure everything from your husband with a harmless heart, without anger, and live with your husband's preferences.This name is a maid-like wife. After talking about the seven characteristics of wives, the Buddha said that troublesome wives, thieves' wives, and noble wives are not good and ideal; but mother-like wives, sister-like wives, friend-like wives, and maid-like wives are good and should be greatly appreciated. "Shu Jia Tuo, these are the seven kinds of wives a man may have. Which one are you?" "World Honored One, I only hope that you will treat me as your maid wife from now on." To lonely often visit the Buddha during the day.He found that some people went to visit the Buddha, but were disappointed that the Buddha was not there, so he asked Ananda if there was any way for devout believers to show respect when the Buddha went out to teach.The Buddha was informed of this, and as a result, a living Ananda Bodhi tree was cut at the entrance of the temple. Panarokna is his virtuous wife, Mahasupata, Churasupata and Sumana are his three filial daughters, of which the two older ones attained the first fruit, and the youngest one attained the first fruit. The second fruit.His only son, Ka Luo, was not very interested in Buddhism at first, but later he became a sage under his convenient and skillful teaching. (5) Before he died, he sent an envoy to tell the Buddha that he was seriously ill and paid his last respects to the Buddha.He hoped that Shariputra would show mercy and lie down at home.After Shariputra was invited, accompanied by Venerable Ananda, he came to his home to check on his health.He said he was in so much pain that he saw no hope of getting better. The elder Shariputra explained to him the profound Dharma.When it was over, he was in tears.Seeing all this, the Venerable Ananda asked him if he was falling into the evil ways, and he replied to the lonely: "Not at all. Dear Sir, although I have been close to the Buddha and his disciples for a long time, I have never heard of such a thing. Extraordinary method." "Such broad and profound Dharma is only taught to disciples who have attained a certain degree of realization, not self-clothed laymen, because they cannot understand its meaning." Shariputra replied. However, I ask Venerable Sariputta to speak this profound Dharma to the lay people for the lonely elder, because maybe someone will understand it clearly. Not long after the two disciples left, the lonely elder passed away, and immediately passed away to Tushita Heaven. That night, heaven and man came to the Buddha alone.The entire Jeta forest was illuminated with light.After paying homage to the Buddha, he tried his best to praise the goodness of Venerable Shariputra.He said that when he saw the Buddha and his disciples living in the temple he built, he was very happy: "Goodness and wisdom, such as the training of the Dharma mind, the supreme karmic behavior, and the virtue as the basis, the mortals From this net, neither wealth nor power." (6) Visaha Visakha is the pious and generous daughter of the rich Danajana. Her mother is Mrs. Sujana, and her beloved grandfather is the rich Mendekar. As early as when she was seven years old, the Buddha came to her village, Bati of Aga.Hearing that the Buddha came, her grandfather said to her: "Baby girl, today is a day of great joy for you and me. Call all your five hundred maids and share them in five hundred carriages. Together with the five hundred maids, Go to meet the Buddha." She happily accepted the task.As she was told, she came to the Buddha, worshiped respectfully, and then sat down reverently aside.The Buddha was very satisfied with her elegant words and deeds, and he explained the Dharma to them.Although she is young, she has already made considerable achievements in terms of moral cultivation.Therefore, after listening to the Dharma, you will immediately attain the first holy fruit. According to classic records, when she was young, she had the power of a man and all the charms of a woman.Her hair was like a peacock's tail, and when it was fluffed up, it went down to the edge of her skirt.The ends of the hair are bent upwards, and the lips are bright and clean, red, smooth and soft.The teeth were white, straight and flat, like a row of shining gems.Without any makeup, her skin is golden, as radiant as a blue lotus.Even after having several children, she maintained her youthful beauty. Endowed with all the beauties of a woman, viz. hair, figure, features, complexion and youth, the young Visakha was distinguished both in wisdom and in the clarity of mind. When she was fifteen or sixteen years old, in a festival, she and the maids walked to the river to bathe with festive laughter.Suddenly, an unexpected heavy rain came in a hurry.Except for Vishakh, everyone else ran as hard as they could and slipped into a house.There, several Brahmins had been sheltering from the rain.They came out to find a suitable wife with the five beauties for their young master.The cultivated and elegant Vishahe did not hurry, but walked gracefully and gracefully into the house all the way.Her clothes and jewelry were soaked through.The nosy Brahmin criticized her for not running as fast as the others to avoid getting wet from the rain. Wisakha, who is both intelligent and intelligent, showed her ability to cope with things at this time.With her own insights, she impromptu explained a person's code of conduct.She said she could have run fast, but she restrained herself from doing so.She explained that a king wearing jewelry should not tighten his belt and run around the palace; an elephant in full armor should not run wildly, but should walk according to the natural majesty of an elephant; , he will be criticized by the public; similarly, it is not very dignified for a woman to run like a man. These instructive words of hers greatly pleased the Brahmins.They thought she was the ideal wife for their young master.Immediately afterwards, their wedding was ready.Her husband's name is Panavadna, the son of the rich Mijialuo.Michael is not a Buddhist follower.After many twists and turns, when she gave birth to a son, she called him Micah Luo. The wedding celebration is grand and grand.On the day of the wedding, in addition to numerous dowries and many exquisite and luxurious jewelry, her wise father gave her the following advice: 1. Don't spread the fire outside (7). 2. Don't spread the fire inside. 3. The giver of charity. 4. Do not give alms to those who do not give. 5. Giving to non-donators. 6. Be happy while sitting. 7. Eat happily. 8. Sleep happily. 9. Look after the fire. 10. Respect the house gods. They represent the following meanings: 1. A wife should not spread bad words about her husband and in-laws to outsiders, and should not gossip about their shortcomings and family discord. 2. The wife should not inquire about other people's chores, news and rumors. 3. Property should be lent to those who borrow and repay. 4. Don't lend anything to someone who has borrowed and never paid back. 5. Relatives and friends who are poor should be helped even if they have borrowed but not repaid. 6. The wife should have a sitting position, and when she sees her in-laws and her husband, she should stand up to greet her, instead of sitting still. 7. Before meals, the wife should check to see if her in-laws and husband are well served, and also to see if the servants are well cared for. 8. Before going to bed, the wife should check whether all the doors are closed, whether the family is safe, whether the servants are doing their duty, and whether the parents-in-law are resting.Generally speaking, the wife should get up early, and she should not sleep during the day unless she is ill. 9. Treat your parents-in-law and husband as if you were serving the fire, and serve them as carefully as you serve the fire. 10. Parents-in-law and husband should be respected as gods. It is worth noting that here the Buddha compares the parents-in-law to gods. On the day she arrived in Savatthi, the city where her husband lived, people from all walks of life presented her with various gifts according to their abilities and status.However, the kind and generous Veshaha politely declined and returned the gifts to everyone, telling everyone that she regarded all the citizens as her relatives.For these noble deeds, on the first day of her visit to her husband's house, she won the heartfelt love of the whole town. Among the trivial matters of her life, a small incident happened, which is enough to show her devotion and love to animals.Late one night, she heard that a mare she raised had given birth to a young horse in the stable. She immediately brought her maid to the stable with a lantern in her hand, and took good care of all the needs of the horse. Her father-in-law is a loyal believer of Nijantuo Yiruo Tizi (8), and he once invited many naked monks to visit his house.When they arrived, Visakha was called to come and salute these so-called arhats.When she heard about Arhat, she was overjoyed and hurried to the hall.However, what she saw was a group of naked ascetics who did not know etiquette.For a well-bred lady like Vishakh, the situation was intolerable.She blamed her father-in-law face to face, and went back to her room without entertaining them.The naked ascetics were greatly outraged, accused the rich man of bringing Gautama's female disciple into his house, and demanded that he expel her from the house immediately.The rich had no choice but to appease them. One day, sitting on an expensive chair, he began to eat sweet rice porridge from a golden bowl.At this moment, a monk came in to beg for food.Visakha, who was fanning her father-in-law to watch the wind, did not tell him that a monk was coming, but quietly moved away so that he could see the monk.Although he had spotted the monk, he still pretended not to see him and continued eating his meal. Visakha said politely to the bhikkhu, "Let's go, my lord, my father-in-law ate Puranam." The ignorant rich man misunderstood her words and became angry. He ordered the bowl to be removed and Visakha to be kicked out of the house. The whole family likes Visakha, and no one dares to touch her. Although Wei Shahe is very cultivated, she will not accept such treatment without resistance, even if it is her father-in-law.She said politely, "Father, that is not a good reason why I should leave your house. I am not a maid you bought from a stall. A daughter with living parents does not leave her husband's house like this. Before here, my father had summoned eight relatives, entrusted me to them, and said to them: "If my daughter has any shortcomings, you should investigate clearly." You go tell them and let them investigate whether I am at fault or not. fortunate." The rich man agreed with her reasonable advice, called them together, and said, "Once, when I sat eating sweet rice porridge in a golden bowl, this girl said that what I ate was unclean." To prove her misfortune, Vishaha stated: "What I said is not exactly like this. At that time, there was a monk standing at the door begging for food. My father-in-law ignored the justice and ate sweet milk and rice porridge alone. I think, my father-in-law I have not done good deeds in this life, but I only need to receive the blessings I received in the past, so I said to the bhikkhu, "Let's go, sir, my father-in-law is eating tasteless food. What is wrong with me?" Vishakh was relieved from the accusation, and her father-in-law himself admitted that she was not wrong. But the rich man with a grudge once again accused her of having gone behind the house in the middle of the night with his maids and maids. She explained that she did it to care for a mare in labor.Relatives remarked that their noble daughters had done honorable things that even the maids would not do.In this way, she was freed from accusations again. But the rich man with a strong vengeance will not let it go, and always racks his brains to find out her fault.This time, she discovered a flaw that wasn't her fault.He said her father gave her ten pieces of advice before she left home.He said, "The fire does not spread from the inside. Is it possible not to spread the fire to the left and right suburbs who are with us?" The rich asked forcefully. She took the opportunity to explain the ten pieces of advice in detail, to his great satisfaction. The rich man was speechless, and could no longer find anything to blame. Confirming her unhappiness, the self-respecting Visakha now wished to leave the house, just as she had been ordered to do. The rich have completely changed their attitude towards Visakha.He had to ask for forgiveness from his daughter-in-law, asking her to forgive him for everything he said out of ignorance. With the spirit of humiliation, Wei Shahe forgave him with the true Buddhist spirit, but the condition was that he would give her absolute freedom to live her religious life according to her own preferences.Her father-in-law readily accepted the request, promising to give her freedom to pursue her religious life. Without hesitation, Visakha immediately invited the Buddha to come to his home to make offerings.After the Buddha made offerings, he explained the Dharma. The rich man sat behind the door curtain and listened to what the Buddha said.At the end of the discourse, he attained the fruition of Siddhartha.His daughter-in-law had led him on the path to liberation, for which he was grateful to her, and said sincerely that he would treat Visakha as his own mother in the future. The next day, Buddha came to her house again.This time, after her mother-in-law heard the Dharma, she realized the first holy fruit. Thanks to her tact, wisdom and patience, she gradually succeeded in transforming her husband's family into a happy Buddhist family. During the day, Weishahe often set up a fast for the monks in his home.Around lunch, she usually comes to the monastery to meet the needs of the Sangha and listen to Buddhist teachings.Another pious lay woman, Supia, usually accompanied her to the monastery. The heart of Visakha's offering to the Sangha is so generous and thoughtful.Once, she came to the Buddha and begged him to grant the following eight graces: 1. Provide the cassocks of the monks who live in peace all their lives. 2. Provide meals to the monks who come to Sravasti City. 3. Provide meals to the monks who left Savatthi City. 4. Provide meals for sick monks. 5. Provide meals to those who take care of sick monks. 6. Provide medicine to sick monks. 7. Offer porridge to monks. 8. Provide bathing clothes for nuns. Buddha agreed to her request. One day, Vishaha put on the most expensive dowry clothes her father gave her and came to the temple.However, she thought again that it was inappropriate to wear such a gorgeous dress to meet the Buddha, so she took it off, handed it to her maid to keep it carefully, and put on another dress that her father-in-law gave her to listen to the Buddha. through.Later, she left the temple accompanied by a maid who forgot to take back the parcel of clothes that was in her custody.Venerable Ananda found the package, and according to the Buddha's intention, put the package in a safe place and returned it to the owner later.When Visakha heard that the maid had accidentally left the parcel at the temple, she told her to bring it back unless Venerable Ananda had touched it.When the maid reported what had happened to Visakha, she came to the Buddha again, expressing her wish to sell the garment and use the proceeds from the auction to do good deeds.The Buddha instructed her to build a monastery for the monks at the east gate.But no one could afford this expensive dress, so she bought it herself, spent a lot of money to build a temple, and named it Pupan Temple.The Buddha and his disciples, at the invitation of Visakha, spent their residency period in this brand-new and spacious monastery.The Buddha spent a total of six dwelling periods here.For this, Vesakha was very happy. According to the scriptures, instead of blaming her servant for her apparent negligence, the kind-hearted Vishaha dedicates part of the merits of building the temple to her, in order to thank the maid for creating an opportunity for her to do good deeds. The Buddha has preached the scriptures for Vishaha several times.In one of them, the Buddha tells the eight precepts that lay people should observe on the fasting day (9) (Uposatha).Until today, this tradition of observing the Eight Precepts has spread to almost all Asian Buddhist countries. Talking about the eight qualities that enable a woman to be reborn in a happy state, the Buddha said: A man who never neglects to bring joy to himself, Lively, alert, and swearing to love him forever, A wise and virtuous wife does not provoke her husband to anger with evil words, Homage to those whom her husband respects, Clever, dexterous, keen, not snooze, Gently instruct the family, when laboring, take care of the husband's wealth, follow the wishes of the husband, Such a wife will be reborn in the place where good-looking gods and humans live. (10) In another sutra, the Buddha speaks of eight qualities that lead a woman to happiness in this life and hereafter.He put it this way: "Here, Vishaha, a daughter who has the ability to handle affairs, manages the family well, wins the love of her husband, and protects her husband's wealth well." "Here, Vishākh, daughter of faithfulness (saddha), virtue (sila), generosity (caga), wisdom (panna)."(11) As a busy lady, she played a major role in Zeng Tuan's activities.Sometimes the Buddha would assign her to handle disputes in the bhikkhuni sangha.Some precepts of bhikkhunis were also formulated due to her intervention. Because of her generosity, she is considered the great patroness, the greatest female patron of the Buddha. Because of her noble behavior, elegant appearance, noble style, courteous speech, respect and obedience to her elders, sympathy for the unfortunate, kindness and friendliness, and zeal for religion, her virtue was well known and won everyone's love. . According to classic records, she was blessed with great blessings and became the happy mother of ten sons and ten daughters.She died at the advanced age of 120. (12) Yousheng doctor In life, he was a famous doctor who took care of the Buddha. His mother, who was a prostitute, put him in a basket shortly after he was born, and it was still in a heap of ashes by the roadside. King Bimbisara's son, Prince Wei Shengkuan, happened to be passing by and saw the lonely baby surrounded by a group of black evil spirits. When he was found to be alive (Jivati), he was brought back to be raised. Because, when he was discovered, he was still alive, so everyone called him alive.And because he was adopted by the prince, he was also called the adopted son (Komarabhacca). When he grew up, he became a skilled physician and surgeon.According to the scriptures, he has twice successfully performed head operations on wealthy elders suffering from headaches. He usually visits the Buddha three times a day. When the Buddha's foot was injured by the gravel thrown by Devadatta, Yusheng took care of the Buddha and healed his wound. Realizing that there would be many benefits in living near a monastery, he built a temple in his mango orchard.After the presentation ceremony, he becomes the pre-revelation saint. The Buddha once taught him the Sutra of Life and Life.This sutra touches on the issue of meat-eating. In another life, he persuaded King Ajashi to visit the Buddha after committing the crime of killing his father. At his request, the Buddha asked his disciples to perform physical exercises such as sweeping the floor. [Note] (1) English translation of "Responsive Ministry", first product, p. 272. (2) The English translation of "The Corresponding Department", the first product, p. 273. (3) See English "Additional Branches", Part Four, pp. 264-265. (4) English translation of "Zengzhibu", Part II, pp. 77-78; "Zengzhibu", Part II, pp. 67-68. (5) "Middle Part", third product, page 262; "Further Teachings of the Buddha".Vol. II, pp. 302-305. (6) "Responsive Ministry", first article, p. 80. (7) Here, fire refers to slander. (8) Nijian Tuo-Ruo Tizi is generally said to be Daxiong, the founder of Jainism, and a famous contemporary figure of Buddha.But there is no record of their encounter.His disciples are still to be found throughout India, although his teachings never reached India itself. (Editor's note). (9) Generally speaking, the first day, eighth day, fifteenth day, and twenty-third day of the lunar calendar are considered eight fasting days.On this day, lay people observe the eight precepts (atthasila), namely: abstaining from 1. killing, 2. stealing, 3. sexual misconduct, 4. forgetting far away, 5. drinking alcohol, 6. untimely eating, 7. singing, dancing, and music , unsuitable video, garland, perfume, body decoration, 8. Sitting and lying on a high and wide bed. (10) English translation of "Zengzhibu", the fourth chapter, pp. 178-179. (11) Ibid., Chapter 4, pp. 177-178. (12) "The Middle Part", the second article, the fifth.