Is there really a hell?

Once upon a time, there was a monk whose most interesting sermon topic was "Heaven and Hell". A convert is tired of the monk's repeated words. So, one day he stood up and said, "Tell me where heaven and hell are. If you can't answer me, then you are lying! " "The monk has always been a simple man, and at this time he seems to be quite scared. Not only did he not answer, but he kept silent. His silence made the audience more angry. He shouted, "tell me, or I'll hit you!" "The monk soon came to his senses and replied," Hell is all around you, with your anger. "When the man learned the truth, he calmed down and began to laugh. Then he asked, "So, where is heaven?" The monk replied, "Everyone is by your side, with your smile." The difference between heaven and hell lies in how to live. As long as there are creatures in the corner of the universe, there must be heaven and hell.

The story of hell

Input: Master Heng Yan | Source: Source of Wisdom | Release Date: September 7, 2007 | [Double-click to scroll] Collected in zihoo.

During the Japanese invasion of China, Japanese planes bombed my hometown in Sun Yicheng County, Hubei Province. I am 22 years old, and my parents take our brothers and sisters, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and so on. Arrive at Heshengqiao Station and take the train to Chongqing. But my mother died on the road because of shock and overwork! My father is separated, and my brother and sister-in-law are hiding in Taurus, thinking about my parents every day, and I don't know where they are. So, I look at the moon every night and worship the sky, thinking about how to know where my parents are!

One sunny afternoon three days later, I was dizzy and sad because I missed my parents! Suddenly I saw a solemn monk with dust in his hand and said to me, "Go!" " ""where are you going? " The monk said, "Don't you want to meet your parents? I'll take you! "Tell me to go forward again. I tell my elders to go forward, but they will tell me to go first, so I can't go forward against their wishes. I saw the green grass on both sides of the road, clean and fresh, and soon a city appeared. The gate is so big and high that I have to look up. There are several bowls of nails arranged on its iron gate. I walked in with my elders, and there was a house with big glass windows behind the door. My elders told me to wait for a while. He went to register. I asked, "Why do you want to register?" He said, "You have to go back! "When he registered, I saw a young man in a white poplin blue striped double-breasted open-necked coat and trousers register for him. Isn't that my cousin I am happy to call "Cousin! Cousin! "Strange! Why did he seem to be invisible and unconscious, as if nothing had happened, and the elders did a good job and later took me away?

Not far away, I saw a large grassland where there were four-legged animals such as cows, horses, pigs, sheep and deer, which I couldn't count. The cows on the roadside stared at me, and I was too scared to leave. As soon as the elders brushed the dust, all the cows turned inside. I thought, these animals are alive! Further on, I saw a big jungle. There were many beautiful birds in various colors on the trees, and there were many bipedal birds such as chickens, ducks and geese under the trees. Not long after walking forward, I saw my cousin naked, only wearing a piece of white cloth around her waist and ass, sitting on the stone floor, holding a baby in her arms, spreading out behind her waist, her face as if she had not washed when she woke up, and there was gum in her eyes. My name is cousin! "She doesn't know, cousin also don't lift.

I walked on helplessly, and the old man was still behind. Not far away, I saw a hot iron smoke, and someone grabbed it like a plaster. I see. Isn't this our neighbor Master Jijia? Why is he suffering here? The elder replied, "He corrupted other people's girls (that is, seduced them), so he was punished for it." Ah! In the world, his family is in the business of "wooden signing" and is very rich. It is said that the whole warehouse is full of silver dollars and often helps the poor. The young master's poetry and prose are all good, and he is free and easy to do things, but he still has to accept the consequences of his ignorance of lust and evil deeds. Can you be sloppy?

Look again, alas! The green-faced ghost picked up a big iron fork and threw it at Daoshan. His head is broken and his stomach is broken. There are also people who smash people's stomachs, dig their hearts and eyes, hook their tongues with iron hooks, fry people with large oil pans, cut people in half with iron saws, and plant people upside down in a big stone mill until plasma overflows. There are cries, wails and bitter sounds, which make my eyes hard to open, my ears hard to hear and my heart trembling. I didn't ask the elder, thinking it was a bad karma! Alas! All beings! All beings! That's pathetic!

I really don't want to see these. There happened to be a road next to it, so I naturally turned around, walked, walked, took a road, followed the guidance of my elders and walked into a house. Ah! I saw my mother sitting on the bed and my sister sitting next to her. I like perverts, call me mom, run to my mom and want to sit next to my mom. But always fail, don't post, and my mother is also as if nothing had happened, unconsciously. I was very sad, thinking that my mother only loved my sister, as if she didn't have my daughter and didn't know what I thought.

At this time, my elders told me to go forward again, so I had no choice but to go! The elder said to me, "Go and see your brother." I asked, "Isn't he in jail?" The elder said, "He is innocent, but he failed to teach his wife to be unfilial and lost his duty as a husband." Soon we arrived at an office, which was a building. Knowing that my brother was upstairs, I went upstairs and saw my brother sitting at the table and dialing the abacus. I let out a cry of joy: "Brother, brother". And my brother, as I saw before: cousin, cousin, mother and sister, are unconscious, invisible and inaccessible!

My elders also told me to go, go, go. It seems that after a short walk, I feel the environment is quiet and peaceful. I feel at ease myself. When I arrived at a big yellow house surrounded by transparent doors and windows, I saw my father sitting there thinking. Seeing me coming, he said, "What are you doing here?" Before answering, the elder nodded to his father. Father also nodded to show that he understood its meaning. I said to my father, "I'm not leaving!" " "Then he sat happily on his father's right. Although my father said nothing, he seemed to know where I was going. After a while, the elder motioned me to go again and came out helplessly.

Soon I came to a bridge, which was about four or five inches wide. My feet shrank back as soon as I stepped on it. I was so scared! Afraid! The elder gently brushed away the dust and said, "Don't be afraid!" So I set foot on it again. It seems that the bridge is very strong. I will go straight ahead without shaking. Looking down, alas, there are many heads in the red blood that can't tell whether they are male or female. Everyone was naked and snakes were crawling around them. I asked the elder, "What's going on!" The elder replied, "This is a pool of lust, childbirth and blood!" . "Then what should I do?" The elder said, "Repair!" I asked, "How to fix it?" Elder: "Don't have children! Do not do all evil, and pursue all good! " I seem to understand "Oh". Go further, soon, and look down, yeah! Blue, is it water? Is it a day? Look up! Water and sky are the same, just like summer in the holy city of ten thousand buddhas. Wan Li is clear, blue and transparent. I was fascinated by it and the elder gave me a push. I'm scared like a ball. Roll, roll, roll! When I opened my eyes, I found myself leaning on the bed, and my clothes were soaked with sweat. My heart is still pounding! It turned out to be a dream, remember the dream! As vivid as reality!

1945, in the thirty-fourth year of the Republic of China, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and China won and the world was at peace. I went back to my former residence and entered the third living room. As expected, there are three pieces, which are for my cousin, cousin and brother. My aunt and sister-in-law took my hand and cried goodbye after the war! First, I comforted them. When they stopped crying, I asked my cousin if he died wearing white poplin and blue striped double-breasted shorts and trousers. My aunt shook my hand nervously and said, "Son, you won't die!" " ! How did you know? "I said," I see them! Why don't you dress your cousin? " My aunt said over and over again, "You can't die, you won't die, God bless this child!" " "I told them I went to the underworld to see what happened to them! "That was more than two years ago! Why don't I come back now? " My aunt was a little relieved and told me that my cousin was wearing a blue striped white poplin coat and trousers when he died. "Cousin ten days after delivery, the weather is very hot, want me to give her a shampoo. Just washed my hair. I combed my hair and was about to wash my body when I found something was wrong. I quickly found a cloth to cover her nakedness. At this time, I gave up breathing. A few days later, the child died. But before loading the coffin, I put the shroud on them, and the coffin was well placed! They all died in the same month! "

Cousins used to be husband and wife and my aunt's daughter-in-law. Although they have money at home, their clothes and bedding after death are no longer of any benefit to the deceased! Although they were husband and wife before their death, because of different karma, they lived in different places and didn't know each other! Mother and sister seem to live in the underworld. Only the father read the Diamond Sutra, meditated and educated his daughter in the spirit of Confucianism-"Don't say anything if you are indecent, see no evil, don't listen if you are indecent, don't move if you are indecent"; "Better be negative than negative"; There are many words like "forgive others with your own heart and blame yourself with your own heart", which have become a habit because of being taught by your parents. Although I didn't get anything from studying Buddhism today, all these reasons made me feel very comfortable and useful. Because my father studied Buddhism before his death, he was very different from others in meeting me.

After studying Buddhism again, I realized that water and sky were originally a sea of alkaline water, and the monk who took me to visit my parents in the underworld was called the Bodhisattva.

(Excerpted from the Source of Wisdom)

Everyone in life is a passer-by, and it is also a dream to get together for a hundred years.

Nothing in the world can bring an empty-handed Yamaraja.

Save your strength and win a scene in a hundred years.

I don't know where my hometown is.

People often fall when a nose hell comes out.

When you go to hell and suffer for a long time, you will remember the good knowledge on earth.

All the time, I remember that hell began to add to my past life.

In this world, one person recites the name of Buddha, and there are lotus flowers in the west.

But I have never retired from this country in my life, and I am still here to meet you.