Li Shimin Yang Huan Road, why stare at the carp in the water and refuse to go?

Li Shimin Yang Huan Road, why are you staring at the carp in the water? Tathagata: If you leave, you will be miserable.

During the journey to the west in the Tang Dynasty, he once crossed the underworld and was sent back to Yang with the help of "expensive (ghost) people". On the way back to Yang, I was attracted by two golden carp in the Weihe River and refused to go forward. Zhu Taiwei, who was in charge of escorting him back to Yang, was impatient and pushed him into the Weihe River, so he returned to Yang. Do you want to know why Li Shimin stared at two goldfish and refused to leave? After reading the novel carefully, I think that if I don't notice these two golden carp, he will not be able to repay Yang, because all this is arranged by the Tathagata!

Why do you say that? This has to start with The Journey to the West's ninth "Yuan Shoucheng's selfless song". At that time, in Chang 'an, there was a fortune-teller Yuan Shoucheng who knew everything in the world and could figure out where to catch fish. Seeing that the Shui people were "dominated" by a mortal, King Jinghe was both curious and angry. So King Jinghe changed into a human form. Let's see. After some communication, it became even angrier, so it made a bet with Yuan Shoucheng when it would rain.

King Jinghe changed the hours and points of rainfall privately in order to win, which eventually led to his winning in gambling, but he was killed. Wei Zhi, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was responsible for executing the death penalty. In order to save his life, King Jinghe turned to Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty for help. Li Shimin promised King Jinghe that he would be responsible for delaying Wei Zhi's beheading, so that King Jinghe could save his life.

Unfortunately, Wei Zhi fell asleep while playing chess with Li Shimin and killed King Jinghe in his dream. Therefore, the soul of King Jinghe often "harassed" Li Shimin, scaring Li Shimin to hell. So the king of a country died in vain? That will be a day!

In hell, Li Shimin met Cui Jue, who was in charge of the book of life and death in hell. He was a civil servant awarded by Li Shimin's father before his death, and he and Wei Zhi are still very good friends. After seeing him, Li Shimin gave him a letter from Wei Zhi. After Cui Jue saw it, he privately extended Li Shimin's birthday for 20 years, so Li Shimin was ordered to return to Sun.

On the way to Yang Huan, Li Shimin passed by the "city of death in vain" and saw the scene of ghosts crying and wolves howling, which made his face bloodless. Cui Jue comforted him that these are ghosts who died in vain. "Your Majesty needs some money and paper money for him." . Later, Li Shimin came to the Weishui River and saw two golden carp.

Pay attention to the three details in the above article, that is, "Yuan Shoucheng", "the city that caused the death" and "two golden carp", which are actually arranged in advance by the Tathagata!

First of all, Yuan Shoucheng wrote in his novel that the Tathagata had confessed that the Buddhist scriptures could not be easily spread abroad, and people from the East were needed to "learn from the scriptures". So Guanyin came to the Tang Dynasty in the east to find someone to learn from, and told people in Chang 'an: "You can't miss a word. I came here on the orders of the Buddha to find someone to learn from. I'll borrow your temple and have the right to stay for a few days until I meet a real monk. " Soon after, a fortune teller appeared in Chang 'an, namely Yuan Shoucheng. Have you ever wondered why Yuan Shoucheng is so powerful? Actually, it's because he was changed by Guanyin. This is a big chess game on the road of "learning from the scriptures", aiming at letting Li Shimin go to hell.

After that, Li Shimin passed the "city of death in vain" in the underworld and learned about the terrible murder that no one crossed over. Finally, when we arrived at the Weishui River, the appearance of two golden carp proved the above statement, because the golden carp is one of the eight treasures of Buddhism. The so-called eight treasures of Buddhism are: Falun, White Conch, Treasure Umbrella, Victory Tower, Lotus, Aquarius, Goldfish and Lucky Knot. Among them, goldfish refers to goldfish, and a pair of goldfish means rebirth in Buddhism.

Why do you think there are golden carp in the dark and horrible hell? Why did Cui Panguan have the courage to change the book of life and death? Why did Yuan Shoucheng calculate so much? What is the purpose of Li Shimin's crossing the "city of death in vain"? All this is precisely because the Tathagata wants Li Shimin to attach importance to Buddhism. Only when the monarch of a country attaches importance to Buddhism can Buddhism be popularized smoothly and the scriptures will not be "idle". Li Shimin, who went to hell once, really sent Tang Sanzang to the Western Heaven to learn from the Buddhist scriptures. Just imagine, if Li Shimin didn't have the Buddha's heart, he wouldn't have seen the golden carp. If he didn't, the Tathagata wouldn't have brought him back to life. what do you think?