In April of the seventh year of Yuanfeng, before Su Shi arrived in Yunzhou, monk Yunan dreamed that he would go out of the city with Su Zhe and Cong monks of Shengshou Temple to meet the five precepts monk. He felt very strange when he woke up, so he told Su Zhe the dream. Before Su Zhe could speak, Monk Cong came. Su Zhe said to him, "I talked to Yun An just now. Do you want to talk about dreams together? Monk Cong said, "Last night, I dreamed that the three of us went to see the five precepts monk together." . "Su Zhe clapped his hands and laughed." It's strange that three people in the world really dream of the same thing! "
Soon, Su Dongpo's letter arrived, saying that he has arrived in Fengxin now and will be able to meet you soon. The three men were very happy and trotted to the Jianshan Temple in Su Dongpo, 20 miles outside the city. When Su Dongpo arrived, everyone told him that three people had the same dream. Su Dongpo said thoughtfully, "I dreamed that I was a monk in my previous life and traveled back and forth between Shaanxi and Right. Also, when my mother was just pregnant, she dreamed that a monk came to live. The monk was beautiful and blind in one eye. " Yun An exclaimed, "The Five Commandments monk is right-handed in Shaanxi. He is blind in one eye. In his later years, he traveled to Gao 'an and died in Dayu. "It's been 50 years, and Su Dongpo is just 49 years old now. Judging from the time and place and many people's similar dreams, Su Dongpo has no objection to being reincarnated as a monk with five precepts.
Su Dongpo later wrote to Yun 'an and said, "It's ridiculous that monks are not afraid of jokes and have the cheek to come out! However, since it is a Buddhist opportunity, I will work hard and hope to return to my original place in the future. This is a great honor. "
Su Dongpo always likes to wear monk's clothes, which may be caused by previous life. On one occasion, Song Zhezong asked Chen Yan, the chamberlain, "What is Su Dongpo wearing under his royal robes?" Chen Yan said, "This is the monk's clothes." Zhezong laughed.
When Su Dongpo was in Hangzhou, he once traveled to Shouxing Temple near the West Lake with his friends. Su Dongpo looked around and said to Can Liao, "I have never been here in my life, but everything I saw before seems to have been experienced by myself. From here to Qiantang, there should be 92 steps. " After dialing the number, it was as he said. Su Dongpo said to Shen Liao, "I was a monk in the mountains in my last life and used to be in this temple." Since then, Su Dongpo has often come to this Buddhist temple to rest.
About the early years of Yuan You, Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian went to visit an old man together. As soon as the old man met, he said that Su Dongpo was a monk with five precepts in his previous life, and Huang Tingjian was a woman in his previous life. Su Dongpo nodded silently, but Huang Tingjian didn't believe it at all. The old man said to him, "Someone will tell you when you get to Fuling." Huang Tingjian thinks Fuling is a place where relegated officials can go. How can he leave? Later, he was demoted to Fuling. He dreamed several times that a woman told him her past life in her dream, and he had to believe what the old man had said before.
Who is this five precepts monk? It is said that he is blind in one eye and has a brother named Wu Ming. The five precepts are due to different ideas. As a result, the monk who had been able to see through things was ashamed of the five precepts and went to reincarnate. Knowing that the Five Commandments may slander Buddhas and monks in the next life, Ming Wu may never get ahead, so he quickly sat down to be reborn after the Five Commandments. In this world, the Five Rings are reincarnated as Su Dongpo, and Mingzhu is Su Dongpo's good friend and monk Fo Yin. Su Dongpo really didn't believe in Buddhism at first, and he was obsessed with fame, but Fo Yin always followed around and tried to persuade him to change his mind. With his own personal experience and Fo Yin's constant persuasion, Su Dongpo finally came to his senses. He not only believed in the theory of causal reincarnation, but also believed in Buddhism and devoted himself to practice.
When Su Dongpo died on July 28th, the year of Jianzhongjing in Song Huizong, he said to his three sons at the bedside, "I have never done anything bad in my life. I believe I won't fall into hell. Don't be too sad. " He also warned people that the pure land world really existed, but he regretted that he had never been able to recover. He said: "There seems to be a paradise in the west, but I don't need my strength now." You can look at Confucian classics, such as the Four Books and Five Classics. There are many Buddhist classics, such as Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Bodhisattva Sakyamuni Sutra, Buddhist Sutra on the Cause of the World, Theory of Abandoning Everything, Theory of the Man of Practice and so on. There are many Taoist classics, but the first one is the Book of Changes, the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi, and there are many others like Bao Puzi, Zhou Yi's participation in the same contract and mystery.