Chapter 89 Section 42 Consensus between the Killer and the Killed

It is said that a long time ago, thousands of Sakyamuni relatives of the Buddha Sakyamuni were killed by the army of King Boliuli.The Sakya clan and their disciples begged the Buddha three times to save the Sakya clan from their catastrophe, but the Buddha did not agree.After the soldiers passed by, the disciples of the Buddha did not understand that the Buddha ignored the catastrophe of his relatives this time. The Buddha told everyone such a story: A long time ago, in a famine year, there was a villager who went to a big pond to catch fish.The weather is dry and the water is shallow, and fish are easy to catch. The fish, turtles, shrimps, crabs, snails, and mussels in the pond are all salvaged.

After several years of reincarnation, today, all the people in that village have turned into the royal family of Sakyamuni.do you know?The people of Boliuli Kingdom are the reincarnations of the fish, turtles, shrimps, crabs, snails, and mussels in the pond, so there is a resentment due to karma, and they come to destroy the seeds of release to repay the old grudge.This is the so-called "fixed karma cannot escape".Even the Buddha can't control fixed karma. For thousands of years, the Chinese have of course had a lot of painful reflections on the countless disasters they have suffered.

Ordinary people say: "People do too many bad things in ordinary times. God has sent people to take them in. Our area is being robbed." Scholars said it more elegantly. Ouyang Zhi, a scholar who had experienced chaos, wrote in the beginning of his article "Shu Chaos" in his later years: Since the end of Ming Dynasty, Sichuan "has become more and more treacherous, and people's hearts are getting worse and worse. Dangerous. Looking around the mountains and rivers, there are bad people everywhere. People in northern Sichuan are rough, people in western Sichuan are soft, and people in southern Sichuan are mixed. People in the provincial capital and eastern Sichuan are more cunning and mean than elsewhere.”

He said: "Heaven was angry, so it sent down a fierce demon, and it was swept away, and it turned into a catastrophe. It is the work of knowing the catastrophe, which is caused by the unkindness of people's hearts. The chaos in Sichuan is the only one, and the disaster is the only one. The people of Shu have a very bad heart, which is self-inflicted." He suggested that the way to avoid such tragedies is to call on everyone to reflect on themselves and improve their moral standards. "I hope that all the people of Shu, from now on, will try to improve their provinces and return to God's will."

The murderer Zhang Xianzhong and the victim reached a high degree of consensus here.