Folktale legend: Pearl, nectar, long wind, licorice

Do you know what we should cherish most in this world?

A long time ago, there was a temple full of incense, and there was a spider with Buddha nature. One day the Buddha was passing by from the sky. He saw this temple full of incense. So the Buddha came to this temple. He saw the spider. The Buddha asked the spider, "Do you know what we should cherish most in this world?" "The spider replied: "What is unobtainable and what has been lost." The Buddha said: "Okay, then I will ask this question after three thousand years." After speaking, the Buddha left.

Spiders still live in this temple, praying for people who come to make wishes every day, and are moved by their stories every day. The days passed without knowing it.

Three thousand years later, the Buddha came to this temple again, and he asked the spider: "Do you know what is most cherished in this world?" The spider still replied: "What is not obtained and what has been lost." The Buddha said: "Okay, then I will ask this question again after three thousand years." After speaking, the Buddha left again.

The spider still lives in this temple. One day a gust of wind blows a drop of nectar on the spider web. The spider likes this drop of nectar. Every time it looks at him, it feels very happy. I feel that time goes by very fast every day, but one day the gust of wind blew again and also blew away the nectar. The spider lost the nectar, it was very sad, and time passed day by day in the spider's sorrow.

Three thousand years later, the Buddha came to this temple again, and he asked the spider: "Do you know what we should cherish the most in this world?" The spider still replied: "What is unreachable and what has been lost." Buddha Said: "Okay, then you and I will take a trip to the world. The spider came to the world with the Buddha. The Buddha helped the spider to be reincarnated. Eighteen years later, the spider was reborn as a lady in the family of officials and ministers. Pearl. In the same year, Gan Lu was also reborn and became the champion of the Jinke. They met again at a royal banquet. Gan Lu was elegant and elegant, he became the focus of everyone's attention, and naturally also won the emperor's daughter Changfeng The princess’s favor, Pearl is not in a hurry, because she knows that her fate with the nectar is destined.

One day Pearl went to the temple to burn incense, he happened to accompany his mother to burn the nectar, she walked over, nectar Gentlely said: "Miss,What are you doing? "Pearl instantly turned pale when she heard it: "Don't you know me anymore?" I am Pearl, the spider from more than two thousand years ago. Gan Lu replied incomprehensibly: "I'm sorry, Miss, I think you are the wrong person, I don't know you, and I don't know what you are talking about." "After talking about the nectar, she helped her mother to go.

Zhuer entered an incomparable grief. She didn't understand why the destined fate is so difficult. A few days later, when Pearl was still immersed in pain, she got Two pieces of news were received. One was that the emperor had betrothed his daughter, Princess Changfeng, to the Jinke champion nectar, and the second was that the emperor had betrothed her to his son, Licorice. After hearing this news, Pearl finally could not hold on.

When Pearl and Licorice were about to get married, he was very sad to learn that Pearl could not afford the licorice. He came to Pearl’s bed and held it. In the coma, Pearl's hand said, "Pearl, do you know? Ever since I saw you at my father’s feast, I have fallen in love with you deeply, so I asked my father to marry you to me. If you die, the rest of my life..." Pearl could no longer hear her, because her soul had slowly left her body. She looked at the licorice that was crying silently beside her, feeling like she had a knife. Inserted in my heart.

At this time the Buddha appeared again, and he asked Pearl: "Can you tell me now what should be cherished the most in the world? "Pearl said with tears in her eyes: "What can't be obtained, and what has been lost." "The Buddha said: "Don't you understand?" Ganlu is just a passer-by in your life. He was brought by Changfeng and taken away by Changfeng, so he belongs to Princess Changfeng. And during the time you lived in this temple, a licorice plant under your net kept watching you silently and admiring you, but he didn’t have the courage to tell you, and you never lowered your noble head. .

Speaking of Pearl already with tears in her eyes, she nodded and looked at the licorice around her and said: "The most cherished thing in this world is what people have around me now." ”


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