A small act of kindness turned out to be a life-saving straw for a great thief in Jiangyang. From hell to heaven, in just a thought, and vice versa...
"No, no, although the spider is small, it is also a life in the end." Unprovoked killing, no matter what, is always blamed for the poor. Gandhara did not step on it after all, and let the spider have a way to live.
This is a scene depicted in the japanese writer Ryunosuke Wasagawa's short story "Spider Silk".
Ryunosuke Wasagawa is known as the "ghost talent" of short stories, good at portraying human nature with sharp pen and ink, and with a few strokes, good and evil jump on the paper.
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In the novel "Spider Silk", Gandhartha is a murderous, arsonist and evil thief of Jiangyang. According to common sense, after such a person dies, he should be beaten into the eighteenth layer of hell.
But on this morning, the Buddha strolled idly by the Po Lotus Pond in the Pure Land of Bliss. In the pool, lotus flowers bloom and dark incense floats.
Suddenly, the Buddha's gaze, through the clear water of the lotus leaves, saw the scene under the pool through the gap in the lotus leaves.
Beneath the lotus pond is the lowest level of the eighteen layers of hell. There are mountains of swords and fires, pools of oil and blood, and the people who were once sinners are struggling in pain.
At this time, a man named Gandhartha came into view of the Buddha. The Buddha remembered that although this man was unforgiving, he also had a good deed.
Once, this man was walking in the dense forest, and when he saw a spider on the side of the road, he raised his foot and tried to stomp it to death.
You can think about it for a moment, "No, no, although the spider is small, it is also a life." Unprovoked killing, no matter what, is always blamed for the poor. "After all, I didn't step on it and let the spider live."
The Buddha felt that although this matter was small, it should also be rewarded with kindness, so he wanted to save him from hell. Just then, there was a spider next to him spitting silk, so he reached out and grabbed a wisp of silver wire and threw it into the dark hell.
In hell, Gandhara struggled in the boundless sea of suffering. When he inadvertently looked up, he found a silver spider silk hanging down on his head, so he was secretly happy in his heart, and he used his hands and feet together, climbing up, bent on leaving this damn place.
Ganda took a lot of effort to climb a short distance, but when he looked back, the sword mountain and the sea of fire had disappeared into the darkness. While he was happy, he suddenly found that under his feet, there were countless people like him, climbing up along the spider silk.
Gandharata was shocked and afraid, only afraid that this thin spider silk would break the thread, making it impossible for him to get out of the sea of suffering.
So he shouted, "Hey, you sinners, spider silk is mine, who let you climb up, roll down, roll down!" ”
As soon as the words fell out, the silk suddenly broke off from the place where Gandhartha was hanging, and Gandhartha fell into hell.
In the Pure Land of Bliss, by the Lotus Pond, the Buddha looked at everything that had happened with a look of compassion on his face.
Yes, Gandhartha could have been freed from the sea of suffering, but for the sake of selfish gain, there was no compassion, and evil had evil retribution, and he returned to hell.
Although "Spider Silk" is only a story, it tells people: do not do it with evil and small, and do not do it with good.
A person, even if his good deeds are small and insignificant, can warm people's hearts and will be remembered. And once the evil thoughts are opened, even if they are small, they can bring about disaster. #读书 #
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