What is the legend of the Three Lives Stone in the River of Forgetfulness?

"Three Lives" originated from the Buddhist doctrine of karma and reincarnation, and later became a symbol of lifelong love in Chinese history. The "three lives" of the Three Lives Stone represent "past lives," "this life," and "the next life," and many people's love begins with a sense of déjà vu. Many people's love begins with a sense of déjà vu, and after falling in love, people will surely look forward to the "destiny of three lifetimes".

The three lifetimes of the Three Lives Stone represent the "past life", "this life" and "the next life", on which there is the entanglement of the past lives! Many people's love is from a sense of déjà vu began, and after love we will certainly look forward to being able to have a love again in the next life. In the love of déjà vu touched, I believe that the marriage of this life is actually predestined in a previous life ......

1, the legend of the Three Lives Stone

People die, walk through the Yellow Springs Road, to the Naiho Bridge, you will see the Three Lives Stone. It has been standing on the side of the Naiho Bridge, looking at the red dust of those who are ready to drink Mengbo soup, reincarnation of reincarnation.

Legend has it that the Three Lives Stone can shine a light on a person's past life. The cause of the past life, the fruit of this life, the destiny of reincarnation, karmic destiny, are all heavily engraved on the Three Lives 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 settled, the love that should be returned, in front of the Three Lives Stone, a sum of money is canceled.

2, the reality of the three stone

The three stone is a shape of the odd Chin Lei Luolu boulder, in the east foot of the Lotus Peak connected with the Feilai Peak, is the "West Lake sixteen relics," one. The stone is about 10 meters high, more than 2 meters wide, craggy and exquisite. On the stone, there are three bowl-sized seal scripts of "Three Lives Stone" and the inscription of "Tang - Monk Yuan Ze - Three Lives Stone", which describes the origin of "Three Lives Stone". There are many inscriptions on the stone from the Tang and Song dynasties, most of which are no longer recognizable, but only the inscriptions by Yang Yu, the historian, and Zhang Zhu, the Hanlin scholar, are still clearly visible in the autumn and September of the first year of the Yuan's reign in the first year of the Yuan's reign in the first year of the Yuan's reign in the first year of the Yuan's reign.

The Story of the Three Lives

The master's name was Yuan Ze, and he lived in Huilin, where he was friends with the governor of Luoging, Li Yuan, who was going to Emei in Mount Shushan to pay homage to Pratyekabuddhism. He wanted to go to Emei in Shushan Mountain to pay homage to the great master of Puxian. He was not allowed to do so, but the source forced him to do so, and he went on his way. Boat Nanpu, see the woman Jin crotch negative baby to draw water, the division see and weeping said: "I do not want to do this road, for is also, he is pregnant with me has been three years, now see can not escape carry on, three days when the bath child, Gu Gong Linmen, I smile as a letter. Twelve years later, outside the Tianzhu Temple in Qiantang, I will meet you." Words and melt. The woman was breastfeeding the child, the source to see, the fruit of the smile, looking back to the boat. As scheduled to the Tianzhu, when the moon in the mid-autumn, heard Ge Hong wells with herdsmen buckle horns and sang: "Three lifetimes on the stone of the old souls, enjoy the moon and wind do not have to talk about the shame of the old man far away from the visit, some of the body, although the sex of the different long existed." The source of knowledge is the teacher, is converging on the front said: "Zephyr health?" The child said: "Li Gong really believe that Shi also, I and Jun different paths, do not be close, only to diligently repair and encourage it." And the song said: "The things before and after me are boundless, I want to talk about the cause of fear of breaking my heart, Wu and Yue rivers and mountains have been searched all over, I want to go back to the Qutang on the smoke and anchorage." I want to go back to Qutang." He then went away, and did nothing as he had done.

This is really a touching story. It is written about the true love of friends, the nature of people, and the soul of life, which has lasted for two lifetimes and has not changed, and it is touching to read about it.

Li Yuan, the son of a rich family, realized the impermanence of life because his father died in the turmoil, vowed not to become 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 waterway from Hubei along the river, but the round of Ze advocated by land to take Chang'an oblique valley into Sichuan. Li Yuan did not agree. Yuan Ze had to rely on him, sighing: "a person's fate really can not be by themselves ah!" So together by water, to Nanpu, the boat docked at the shore, see a woman wearing satin clothes and pants is to the river to get water, Yuan Ze looked at the tears, said to Li Yuan: "I do not want to go by water is afraid to see her ah!" Li Yuan was surprised and asked him the reason, he said, "Her name is Wang, I am destined to be her son, because I refused to come, so she is pregnant for three years and still can't give birth, now since I met her, I can't run away anymore. Now please use the charm to help me go to the next life quickly. When I take a bath three days later, please come to Wang's house to see me, and I'll use a smile as a proof. Thirteen years later, 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, while grieving and regretting, bathed and dressed him, and by dusk Yuan Ze was dead, and the woman he saw 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. Li Yuan then told Wang's family everything, and Wang's family took the money to bury Yuan Ze at the bottom of the mountain. Li Yuan no longer want to go to the mountain, so he went back to the Huilin Temple, the temple disciples to tell Yuan Ze has written a suicide note.

Thirteen years later, Li Yuan from Luoyang to Hangzhou, West Lake Tianzhu Temple, to go to the round Ze's appointment to the outside of the temple suddenly heard the Gehong River, the herdboy tapped the horn of the song:

I am the soul of the past three generations of the past, enjoy the moon and the wind of the past has long since become a thing of the past; ashamed of letting you come all the way to visit me, although my body has changed the nature of the heart but long in.

Li Yuan heard, know that it is the old man, can not help but to ask: "Ze Gong, are you okay?" The shepherd boy said: "Li Gong really keep the promise, but unfortunately my mundane destiny has not yet been fulfilled, can not and you again close

Close, we can only work hard to cultivate not to fall, there will be days in the future will meet." Then he sang another song:

The things before and after my body 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 again and go to Qutang!

The shepherd boy turned his head and went away, and from then on I did not know where he went.

After three more years, the minister Li Deyu sent a letter to the emperor, recommending Li Yuan as the son of a loyal minister and a filial son, and requesting that he be given an official position. So the emperor appointed Li Yuan as an advisor, but by this time Li Yuan had long been enlightened, saw through the world, refused to take up the post, and later died in the temple, living to the age of eighty.

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This story glorifies the most precious thing in life - love and righteousness. The story of Zen Master Yuan Ze and Li Yuan has been widely circulated, and to this day, a large stone is left outside the Tianzhu Temple in Hangzhou's West Lake, said to be the place where they met across the world back then, known as the "Stone of Three Lives."

The Three Lives Stone is also known as the Marriage Stone.

Legend has it that: there is a road, called the Yellow Springs Road ,

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 ,

by the Lookout Terrace, there is an old woman selling Mangbao Soup ,

there is a stone by the River of Forgetfulness called the Stone of the Three Lives ,

Mengbo soup makes you and me forget everything,

The Three Lives Stone records the past lives of you and me,

We walk across the Naiho Bridge,

write our names on the Three Lives Stone,

In the next life and in this life I'll remember you, and you will be with me forever!

Let me repay everything I owe you from my first three lives.

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 about 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 those words. 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 all the time, but she's not sure how long all the time is, I think all the time may be a lifetime.

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. Below 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 days later, there were 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 of the mountain?"

Mother was silent for a while and sighed softly, "Nai'er, back then when you were born I went to the Nuwa Temple to ask for an autograph for you, and the Elder 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's eyes dimmed as she said this, "You know that your father is a loyal official, how could he let the demon scourge the world? If not when I begged him to lock you up 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 red edge, but also coiled a dragon ... ... All the way to blowing, the sedan chair stopped, the sedan chair curtain was lifted. I stared outward with wide eyes, opposite was actually 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 surprise, delight, respect and adoration. And about the curse that came from my destiny, along with the bloodstone that came with my life, I hid it 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 stay in love; because of my existence the world has been in chaos; because I am a woman, a woman who will cause chaos in the world, a woman who will bring disaster, a woman who is ominous ...... and I, just because I fell in love with a not free! 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 say: I forget. The Buddha said: sinful fate. I said: I just love him, is love also sinful? The Buddha said: You are not destined to have good results. This life is just to end the grudge of his bitter love for you in his previous life, tears dripping blood into stone. I said: please let us go, you are a high god, omnipotent, please guide us a clear path. Buddha said: In this life you are destined for each other. The red face is a scourge to the nation and the people. Come to 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 straight through the thick palace walls and stabbed me in the 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: "Nai'er, no one can hurt you, no one, I'll always keep you like this ......" The gloomy and cool Inside the temple, the wind noiselessly traveled through the empty eaves. I lifted my head, which was buried in his chest, and met his deep eyes, "Yui, give up your kingdom, stay away from those fights for supremacy, and let's get out of here." He cupped my face and kissed it delicately, finally crying until he broke into a choked sob, "Nai'er, how can I be told to protect you if I don't have the right to do so? 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 lord 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 bloodstone on my chest and seeped in. He shrieked, "Blood, blood, blood-colored tears ......" My blood-seeping lips smiled and trembled calmly, "Psi, this is my destiny, I'm here to pay back the grudge of my past life, and I hope to start over in the afterlife ......"

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 temple, there was a large stone tablet inscribed with the words "Early Ascent 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, making "creaking" "creaking" sound. The overgrown ground has been mottled ...... He looked around, there is no one, and was about to turn around and leave, the offering 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 already collapsed into a handful of yellow sand ......

The first thing I said to him when I woke up was: my name is Nai Shi.

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 suddenly stop and say, "Yui, 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 cooking 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. 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 with stormy red eyes and pointed at Yui with a trembling voice: This is an ominous woman, she will bring disaster to our whole 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, this 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 as he walked toward the temple. The matriarch's hoarse voice sounded behind him: you are cursed, you are destined to be punished. Yui embraced me in his arms more tightly and took a big step away ......

He brought me to the temple where we met. Infinitely gentle, 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, said: do not think nonsense, I will soon come back. 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 no time at all 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 have to repent. I said: refuse to repent. The Buddha said: you must forget. I said: refuse to forget. Buddha said: sinful fate. I said: I just love him, is love also sinful? Buddha said: You are not destined for good. This life is just to settle the grudge of your bitter love for him in your previous life, tears dripping blood into stone. I said: You are a high god, omnipotent, why can't you 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 rolling round and round, 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 be determined, I would like to change into a green stone, forever and ever to guard the side of 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 bright red, such 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. The three life stone has been standing on the side of the Naiho Bridge, looking at the red dust of those reincarnated people, looking for the crowd that white clothes like snow, face like a knife, eyes like electricity, neck tied with a piece of prune-sized body bright red stone man ......

The three life stone on the old souls, enjoying the moon and chanting the wind don't want to talk about it, ashamed of the lover far away from visiting, this body, although the opposite sex will always be there, the body will be there. The body is not the same as the sex of the long survive

Before and after the body of things are not clear, want to talk about the cause of the original broken intestines, Wu Yue mountains and rivers to find has been all over, but back to the smoke on the Qu Tang

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