there is a river called the River of Forgetfulness,
there is a bridge over the river called the Bridge of Naihe,
walking across the Bridge of Naihe there is an earthen platform called the Lookout Terrace,
there is an old woman selling Mengbo Soup by the side of the lookout terrace,
there is a stone by the side of the River of Forgetfulness called the Three Birthstones,
Mengbo Soup allows you to forget everything,
the three births represent "the previous life," "the present life," "the next life" respectively.
The three lifetimes of the Three Lives Stone represent "past life", "present life" and "future life",
Legend has it that the Three Lives Stone can reveal a person's appearance in his or her past life. The cause of the past life, the fruit of the present life, the destiny of reincarnation, karmic destiny, are all heavily engraved on the three life stone.
For thousands of years, it has witnessed the bitterness and happiness, sadness and joy, laughter and tears of all beings. The debt that should be paid, the love that should be returned, in front of the Three Lives Stone, a write-off.
Legend:
Li Yuan, the son of a rich family, realized the impermanence of life because of his father's death in the turmoil, swore
not to be an official, not to marry, not to eat meat, donated his home to build the Huilin Temple, and
lived in the temple to practice.
The abbot of the temple, Zen Master Yuan Ze, was very good at running the temple property and knew a lot about music. Li Yuan and
him became good friends and often sat and talked for a whole day, and no one knew
what they were talking about.
One day, they met **** tour of Sichuan's Mount Qingcheng and Mount Emei, Li Yuan wanted to take the water
from Hubei along the river, but Yuan Ze advocated by land to take the Chang'an oblique valley into Sichuan. Li Yuan did not agree
. Yuan Ze had to follow him, sighing, "A person's fate really can not be by themselves ah!"
So they took the waterway together, and when they arrived at Nanpu, the boat docked at the shore, and they saw a woman wearing a flowery satin dress and trousers
who was fetching water from the riverside, and Yuan Ze looked at her and burst into tears, and said to Li Yuan, "I don't want to
take the waterway because I am afraid of seeing her!" Li Yuan was surprised and asked him why, and he said, "Her name is Wang,
I am destined to be her son, and because I refused to come, she has been pregnant for three years and still can't give birth
Come on, and now that I've met her, I can't run away anymore. Now please use the charm to help me go to cast
birth quickly, three days later when you take a bath, please come to Wang's house to see me, and I will use a smile as a proof.
Thirteen years from now, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, you come to Hangzhou outside the Tianzhu Temple, and I will surely come to meet you."
Li Yuan grieved and regretted on the one hand, and bathed and dressed him on the other; and by dusk,
Yuan Ze was dead, and the woman he had seen by the river gave birth with him.
Three days later Li Yuan went to see the baby, and the baby really smiled when he saw Li Yuan, so Li Yuan told Wang's family everything
and Wang's family took the money and buried Yuan Ze under the mountain.
Li Yuan was no longer interested in traveling to the mountains, so he returned to the Huilin Temple, where his disciples told him that Yuan Ze
had already written a suicide note.
Thirteen years later, Li Yuan went from Luoyang to Hangzhou West Lake Tianzhu Temple, to go to the appointment of Yuan Ze,
To the outside of the temple suddenly heard the Gehong River, the shepherd boy tapping the horn of the cow sings:
I am the soul of the past three lives, the past of enjoying the moon and chanting in the wind has long since become a thing of the past;
Shame to let you come so far to visit me, although my body has changed the heart is long in the
This is the first time I've seen you in my life.
Li Yuan heard, know that it is the old man, can not help but to ask: "Zegong, how are you?"
The shepherd boy said: "Li Gong really keep the promise, but unfortunately my mundane destiny has not yet been fulfilled, can not be close to you again
Close, we can only work hard to cultivate not to fall, there will be a day when we will meet in the future." And then he
sang a song:
The things before and after me are very remote, I want to tell the karma but I am afraid of the sadness of my mood;
I have already traveled all the mountains and rivers of Wu-Yue, let's turn the bow of the boat around to Qutang again!
The shepherd boy turned his head and went away, and from then on I did not know where he went. Is there really a stone of three lives?
The story of Zen Master Yuan Ze and Li Yuan has spread so widely that to this day, a large stone remains outside the Tian
zhu Temple at West Lake in Hangzhou, said to be the place where they met across the world in those days,
known as the "Stone of Three Lives."
The Story
Listening to my nurse, I was born with this prune-sized, bright red stone in my mouth. There was a lot of talk in the family, not knowing whether it was lucky or bad. Mother went to the Nuwa temple in the mountains to ask for a sign, and when she came back, she didn't say a word, but stayed locked in her room with father for a day to discuss the matter. A few months later, a Buddhist temple was built on the hill behind the family home.
On that day, Mother herself cooked the meal. The first time I saw this, I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world. Late at night, I was sleeping soundly, and in a haze, I was rolled up with a blanket. Young me scared to cry and scream, when I finally broke free from the quilt, but found to have been in an unfamiliar place ...... dark and cool inside the temple, the wind noiselessly in the empty eaves through, a few wisps of smoke filled the air, the face of the lamp, a statue of the gods to reveal a smile staring at me, hideous look. I "ah" screamed, turned to run out, the door erected a large stone tablet blocking the way, written on it "early to the other shore". Mother's voice came from behind: "Nai'er, from now on, mother will accompany you to live here, devote yourself to Buddhism, in order to atone for your sins as soon as possible."
Niang looked strange when she said that. I always remember her eyes, bleak and helpless. After that she never mentioned the reason for bringing me up the back of the mountain again, but simply wove the stone that I held in my mouth when I was born in the next life with a green-colored silk thread and wore it on my chest. And so, from the time I understood, I never left this mountain again. I'm not sure how long I'm going to live in this Buddha Hall, my mother said it's always, but she's not sure how long it's always been, I think it's always been a lifetime perhaps.
The peach blossoms in the back of the mountain opened and lost, lost and opened again, eighteen years ......
One day, I sat on the edge of the cliff in the back of the mountain again to stare. Suddenly, a sound of hoofbeats that seemed tight and slow came. At the bottom of the cliff appeared a man riding a date-red horse, wearing a snow-white tunic, with a Xiao on his waist. He looked upward, his long hair was blown by the wind, his face was like a knife, and his eyes were like electric light. I just stayed stunned under his majesty, greedily retaining his face ...... that night, his face appeared again. In the dream he took her on a horseback ride on the vast grassland. Her face drunkenly as if the peach blossom that year. Suddenly dark clouds rolled over the sky, and with a thunderbolt, a bright red boulder fell from the sky to chop the horse into two. They fell down. A stone monument stood in their midst, inscribed with the words "Early to the other shore."......
A few days later, my father took my mother and me down the mountain. A few more days later, someone brought my father boxes of gold leaf and jade, hundreds of animals, and a red wedding dress.
Before we left, Mother slipped me a three-inch-long dagger with a gold sheath. She said:Nai'er, keep it, it will be useful later. Remember what Mother said to you, and atone for your sins soon. The sound of gongs and drums outside the door came from far and near. I suddenly turned my head back around:Mother, there is something I have never understood.
"Speak, child."
"Why did you and father leave me in the back hills?"
Mother was silent for a while and sighed softly: "Nai'er, back then when you were born I went to the Nuwa temple to help you seek an autograph, and the elders said that you were destined to be an ominous person who would wreak havoc on the country. When a country is about to fall, a demon will be born. For you to escape this great calamity, unless you don't see outsiders for the rest of your life." Mother said here eyes dimmed: "You know your father is a loyal official, how could he let the demon scourge the world? If not when I begged him to lock you in the back of the mountain, he would have already ended your life. But who knows in the end ...... alas, God's will, God's will ah ......"
Welcome the marriage sedan chair to the door, the golden top of the red rim, but also coiled a dragon ... ... All the way to blowing, the sedan chair stops, the sedan chair curtain is lifted. I looked out with wide eyes, opposite was the man with a face like a knife, eyes like electricity, he said in a domineering manner: "In the future you are my queen, they are your subjects!" In front of me were the prostrate subjects, and behind me was the magnificent and majestic chambers. He said it was the Heavenly Stone Palace. I became his favorite woman, and he was the only man in my life. Knowing that I grew up in the hills behind my home, he built a mountain of earth and stone in the palace. I told him I always remembered the first time I saw him on the mountain, like looking at a god, greeting the first man in my life who was truly mine with amazement, delight, respect and adoration. The curse of my destiny, and the bloodstone that came with my life, were hidden in the deepest recesses of my memory. I began to hope that I could have a normal body and stay by the side of my beloved. In fact, I just want to be an ordinary woman, do not want to be a good clothes, do not want to worship, do not want to supreme power and status, just need a completely belong to my love, and a belong to our children.
The rumors in the palace gradually rose in all directions, and those gossips drilled out from all corners of the city. The sound of anger and cursing surrounded the "Heavenly Stone Palace". Because I was born with a bright red blood stone in my mouth; because my appearance makes their supreme monarch to stay in love; because of my existence the world has been in chaos; because I am a woman, a woman who will mess up the world, a woman who will bring disaster, an ominous woman ...... and I, just because I fell in love with an unfree man! man! In front of the ancient Buddha's green lamp, I sincerely prayed, asking the gods to forgive my sins and not to bring disaster on him because of my love!
The Buddha said:You must repent. I said:I repent. The Buddha said:You must forget. I said:I forget. The Buddha said: sinful destiny. I said: I just love him, is love also guilty? The Buddha said: You are not destined to have good results. This life is just to end the previous life he loved you bitterly, tears dripping blood into stone grudge. I said: please let us go, you are a high God, omnipotent, please guide us a clear path. The Buddha said:In this life you have a destiny but not a destiny. The red face is a scourge to the nation and the people. In the next life.
The shouts and crusades outside the palace were as urgent as the beating of drums, and the angry and hideous faces of the soldiers and the people transformed into a sharp ligament that pierced through the thick palace wall straight to my heart. More and more clear hissing sound to close to the ear, everywhere is the blunt weapon penetrates the body and issued by the hollow dull sound. He tightly wrapped his arms around my trembling body, gently caressing my high-coiled hair and slender neck, then resting his hand on my moist face, rubbing it: "Nai'er, no one can hurt you, no one, I will always keep you like this ...... "The dark and cool Inside the temple, the wind noiselessly traveled through the empty eaves. I lifted my head that was buried in his chest and met his deep eyes: "Yui, give up your kingdom, stay away from all those fights for supremacy, and let's get out of here." He cupped my face and kissed it delicately, finally crying to the point of broken choking: "Nai'er, if there is no right, how can I be told to protect you? But now I am here, I am the supreme king, they dare not rush in, they dare not ......" I smiled miserably and looked at the man in front of me who I loved so much, the only master in my life, this cowardly man who has nothing but power, and then said quietly. "I want to dance for you."
I danced quietly in front of the ancient Buddha's green lamp, all dressed in green and plain. In front of me was this man who had given me happiness and was unable to protect it. The sound of mournful footsteps wandered inside the gloomy hall. His long hair was still there, his face was still there, as if he was the same when we first met, only the lightning in his eyes was missing. I openly pulled out the dagger that had been hidden in my sleeve ...... The flesh could not easily accept the invasion, and some brown blood sprayed out. It dripped down the lines of my palm, making a lonely sound. Stained the shirt red. He shrieked and embraced my limp body. A tear slipped from the corner of my eye and dripped onto the bloody stone on my chest and seeped in. He shrieked in shock: "Blood, blood, blood-colored tears ......" My oozing blood lips smiled and trembled calmly: "Yui, this is my destiny, I have come to pay back the grudge of my past life, and I hope that I can start anew in the next life ......"
The empty temple began to spin before her eyes. She saw her mother's bleak gaze as she said, "Nai'er, from now on, my mother will stay here with you in order to atone for your sins as soon as possible." ......
Yui said, "Nai'er, don't leave me behind.
I said, in the afterlife ......
The statue of the god behind me revealed a grinning, hideous face.
Yui's face began to blur, my eyes dimmed, and the hand that rested on his face dropped feebly. Like a dancing butterfly gently gathering its wings. Finally, there is no need to separate again, palm in the hand, hidden in the heart, of to the white bone.
771 B.C., King You was in power for 11 years, the Western Zhou died ......
He started to have that dream from a very young age. In the dream, a woman in green and plain clothes danced quietly in front of an ancient Buddha's green lamp. In front of the decrepit and deep temple stood a large stone monument, on which was engraved "Early Ascension to the Other Shore". Inside the dark and cool hall, the wind noiselessly traveled through the empty eaves. The girl turned around and smiled at him. Each time he wished to see her clearly, the only thing he remembered when he woke up was a reddish, reddish stone hanging from her chest.
He was a hunter on this mountain. From what his ancestors had told him, this area below the mountain was a palace hundreds of years ago, and then it perished because of an ominous woman. It is said that the woman was carrying a reddish stone the size of a prune in her mouth when she was born. "Iniquity ah ......" people sighed and said. He thought that he had that dream because he had heard the legend first.
He still went out early and came home late to make a living by hunting. Every evening on his way home he would pass by a temple. Because of years of disrepair, the temple had fallen into disrepair, and weeds grew on the walls and ground around it. He only remembers going inside to play when he was small, and when his parents found out, they brought him home by the ear. His parents said it was a cursed place. So he never went in there again. Now every time he comes back from hunting and walks here, he will put down his prey and sit on the steps to rest for a while. At the entrance of the temple there was a large stone tablet, the words on it were already blurred. It reminded him of the dream he often had and the stone tablet engraved with the words "early arrival on the other shore". It was snowing heavily that winter. He dug traps in the forest early. He got up early that morning and went out before dawn. He had a feeling that he would have a good catch today. As he passed by the crumbling temple, he saw a line of footprints at the entrance. The footprints were leading straight to the main hall. What kind of person had gone in? He wondered as he walked inside. The footprints were shallow, like windblown gravel that only lightly scratched the surface of the snow. Perhaps the person had been inside for a long time, and the footprints were covered in snow, so they wouldn't be so clear. He consoled himself.
The remnants of the wall hovered quietly across the place. The hall was eerie and filled with a compelling chill. The statue of the god on high looked down with a broken face. Hanging in the beams on the lamps by the wind swayed from side to side, emitting "creaking" "creaking" sound. The overgrown ground has been mottled ...... He looked around, there is no one, and was about to turn around and leave, when the table under the slight ringing sound. He sprinted over to the table and overturned it. Under the foot was a woman in white clothes with snow, like a waterfall of long hair scattered behind the shoulders, bare feet curled up, slender neck with a green thread wrapped around a stone, reddish red color. He didn't think twice, picked her up at the waist and turned to run outside. Behind him, there was a "click" sound of breaking. When I looked back, the Buddha statue in the hall had collapsed into a handful of yellow sand ......
The first thing I said to him when I woke up was: My name is Naishi.
I didn't tell him about where I came from. He didn't ask either. He still got up early every day at the crack of dawn to go hunting. I stayed quiet and would wait for him in front of the temple in the evening. I would sit with my legs swung out on the stone table where the idol used to be, and quietly listen to the crows and birds chirping outside the porch. Then I waited for him to carry me down. When I walked out of the temple, I would stop suddenly and say, "You, do you know what words are carved on this stone tablet? He shook his head. I laughed and said, "Maybe it's "Never rise above". Then we went home together.
Yu's house began to have smoke, Yu's bed began to warm up, Yu's clothes began to clean up, Yu began to smile, and he began to hunt more ...... Yu's house had a strange woman of unknown origin. The village began to talk. Soon, everyone knew that the woman had a blood-soaked, bright red stone hanging around her neck. So they began to panic.
There was a great drought that year, and even the beasts in the mountains fled. The village's oldest patriarch, on crutches, led a group of people to look for Yui. The villagers surrounded Yui's hut. Yui closed the door tightly and hugged me tightly, who was curled up in the corner. Outside the house, the villagers shouted angrily, "Burn this woman who brings disaster", "Kill her", "Kill this demon" ... ... Yui suddenly picked me up and kicked open the closed door. The crowd outside the house was stunned by the sudden scene and fell silent. The crowd outside the house was shocked by the sudden scene, and suddenly fell silent. Yui roared with grief and indignation, "As long as I'm here, you can't touch my woman. The villagers looked at each other in disbelief and all looked at the patriarch in unison. The patriarch stared at the red eyes, trembling, pointing at the ghost said: this is an ominous woman, she will bring disaster to our village. She is cursed. Yui hugged me tightly in his arms and said gently: Nai'er, don't be afraid, I'll take you out of here. My eyes moist, these thousands of years to wait is not this sentence? How many reincarnations to fulfill the wish of this life, is not hoping to get a moment of real together?
Phantom held me in his arms and walked toward the temple. The matriarch's hoarse voice sounded behind him:You are cursed, you are destined to be punished. Yui hugged me tighter in his arms and took a big step away ......
He took me to the temple where we met. Infinitely gentle, he said:Nai'er, don't worry, no one dares to hurt you with me. I nodded gently and leaned against him wearily. Yui stroked her long, disheveled hair and said comfortingly:Nai'er, I'll go get you some food, stay here and don't go out. They won't dare to come in. My eyes widened in fear, and I grabbed his hand and cried until I choked. He cupped my face and brushed away the tears from the corners of my eyes:Good girl, don't cry, I'll be back soon. When he walked to the temple door, I suddenly called out to him. I unraveled the blood stone from my neck that was wrapped with a green silk thread, and said softly:Yui, wear it, this is the stone that will follow me in the next life, and will bless you to find me ...... I helped him tie it. He comfortably patted my head and said:Don't be paranoid, I will be back soon. When he turned around, I suddenly saw the stone tablet erected in front of the temple door again. I clearly saw the words engraved on it were "never rise above"......
I stood quietly in the temple. The sound of the wind and the dust in the air. The lamps swaying in the wind made a "creaking" sound that resonated throughout the hall. Marble carved wall hall after hundreds of years of wind and rain, mottled walls. Outside the temple suddenly rang from far and near the sound of disorganized footsteps, the sound of tree branches breaking, the noise of the crowd ...... "quickly, quickly", "this side of the heap some" "More over there"...... Then in a short time the smoke came pouring in. The open fire flickered with a greenish-purple glow, revealing a secretive and hideous face devouring the weeds on the ground and walls. The majestic temple blazed up in flames. I knew that I would not be able to escape this predestination after all. I stood like a phantom in the hot temple, the fire wildly jumped to my side, rolled, licked my body greedily, burned my long hair, let out "sizzling" triumphant laughter. I laughed ......
By the light of the lamp, the Buddha said: you want to repent. I said: I refuse to repent. The Buddha said:You must forget. I said: Refuse to forget. The Buddha said: sinful destiny. I said: I just love him, is love a sin? Buddha said: You are not destined for good. This life is just to end the past life you love him bitterly, tears dripping blood into the stone enmity. I said: you are a high God, omnipotent, why can not guide us a clear path. Buddha said: you are destined to have a destiny, is born for the bitter lovers. In waiting for the next life it ...... I smiled miserably: the next life, the next life ...... hundreds of years of reincarnation, in the end still can not keep each other, to the next life and what is the use of it? I'd like to be a stone by the Naihe Bridge. As long as I can see him every reincarnation, I will be satisfied ...... Buddha said: you do not regret it? I said: I will have decided, I would like to change into a green stone, forever and ever to guard in the River of Forgetfulness ......
There is a road called the Yellow Springs Road, there is a river called the River of Forgetfulness, there is a bridge called the Bridge of Naiho, there is a piece of green stone near the bridge is called the Three Lives Stone, the Three Lives Stone records the past life of each person, the stone body is as bright red as blood, above the engraved four words "Early to the other side of the shore" ...... to reincarnation of people, have to walk across the bridge of Naho drink Mengbo soup, forget the three lives, re-transferred into the cycle of reincarnation. Three life stone has been standing in the side of the Naiho Bridge, looking at the red dust of those reincarnation reincarnation of people, looking for the crowd of that white as snow, face like a knife, eyes like electricity, neck tied a piece of prune-sized body bright red stone of the man ......