The story of the nine tailed cat, the story of the eight tailed cat

When I heard the story of the eight-tailed cat for the first time last night, I burst into tears.

The story of the eight-tailed cat comes from Wang Yuchen's story collection "Persona", and some comments say that the work is a "modern version of Liaozhai", which is naturally a gimmick for merchants, because there are many such works, and almost all of them are such evaluations. The effect is good, firstly, it is convenient for readers to understand the type of content of the book, and secondly, Pu Songling has indeed influenced the thrillers of all China, and this kind of praise is also the best encouragement for the author.

Tell the story, if a cat wants to cultivate into an immortal, it needs to meet the wishes of mortals, and every time a wish is satisfied, it will grow a tail, and when it grows to nine tails, it will cultivate to the realm. It's just that when the cultivation reaches the eighth tail, fulfilling a wish will consume one tail, and it seems that the ninth tail will never grow.

Until a certain year and month, Yao met a boy and he habitually asked the boy what he wanted. The boy was at a loss for a moment, and finally asked Yao to go home with him for a few days so that he could think about it. The Eight-Tails agreed, the boy was very happy, and he wanted to play with the Eight-Tails, but the Eight-Tails only wanted to fulfill the boy's wishes, ignoring the boy's love and refusing all intimate contact with the boy.

In the eyes of the Eight Tails, who have practiced for hundreds of years, the boy is too naïve.

Finally, the boy slowly learns the story of the Eight Tails, and he mutters to the Eight Ones.

My wish is that you grow a ninth tail. ”

Yao was stunned, and he took the initiative to lick the boy's hand. The boy wanted to touch Eightoo's head, but this time Eight-Tails did not refuse, and at this moment Eight-Tails looked like a child.

A heartwarming little story comes to mind.

The mother took her daughter to worship the Buddha, and the daughter knelt down and said.

Bodhisattva, I wish you good health! ”

The six ancestors can have words, they want to save all sentient beings, but they are saved by sentient beings.

At lunchtime.

Mommy will tell you a story about the nine-tailed cat. ”

Okay," the daughter was delighted. She is often prone to wandering, and when she writes homework, she will think of a story and a joke, and she wants to share it with me, which often causes her homework to be particularly slow, and maybe I have the reason for it.

The story goes, once upon a time there was a cat who met the Buddha in a temple, and the Buddha asked the cat, "Do you want to become an immortal?" to avoid the suffering of samsara. "The cat is very willing.

The Buddha told it, then you go and help others to fulfill their wishes, and every time you help someone, you can grow a tail, and when you grow nine tails, then you can become an immortal. So cats start helping others fulfill their wishes.

In a ruined temple, the cat meets a dying scholar. The cat decides to help him, and it revives the scholar and asks him what he wants. The scholar said:

I hope that my health will get better, and then I will become a good official and benefit the people. "The cat really made the scholar fulfill his wish.

Mom, how did the cat fulfill the scholar's wish? Is it to tell him the answer during the exam and let him cheat? The son asked seriously.

That's a really good question, how do you think cats do it? "Actually, I was very surprised to hear my son's question, all the stories can tell us some truth, but how do you do it? It doesn't say it in the story.

Just like Snow White and Prince Charming lived happily together in the end, how did they manage to be happy? Cinderella ended up marrying the prince successfully, and then she lived happily?

The mother thought that the cat would help the scholar find a doctor, cure the scholar's illness, and then provide food for the scholar, so that he could study and study with peace of mind, and finally gain fame. "Mom, I can only arrange the plot according to our current approximation.

My sister urged me to continue the story.

The cat is constantly helping others, and it does grow a tail for every person it helps, but when it grows the eighth tail, it helps the ninth, and the tenth ......But it didn't grow a ninth tail, and the cat wondered. After two hundred years, the cat came to a ruined temple again, and saw a scholar who seemed to be familiar, and the cat was a little depressed and asked, "Do you need help?"

I can grant you anything. The scholar saw the cat, excited, "Finally waiting for you, you are the cat that helped my ancestors two hundred years ago, my ancestors left ancestral teachings, if you meet this cat, you must thank the cat for his wishes back then, and help the cat once." The scholar continued to ask the cat

Do you have any wishes? The cat told the scholar that he couldn't get the ninth tail. The scholar said happily, "Then my wish is that you get the ninth tail."

What does this story tell us? There is no need to deliberately explain any reasoning, let the children understand for themselves, they understand.

"We're going to see you again".

Well, be a good fairy."

Saying that, the nine-tailed cat used its ninth tail to deeply embrace the little boy into his arms, rubbed the little boy's face very gently, and whispered thank you, in the quiet night, the cat gradually disappeared, and only fireflies were left around the little boy.

A long, long time ago, it was said that every living being would become an immortal as long as they practiced quietly.

There is a cat who is trying very hard to become a god, and the Buddha told him that as long as you fulfill one of the wishes of others, a tail will grow, and when you grow a ninth tail, you will have completed your merits.

So the cat, painstakingly cultivated, fulfilled the wishes of many people, big and small, but it was very distressed, because after growing the eighth tail, every time a tail was added, the previous tail would drop another one, and in this way, the cat entered a dead loop.

One day, the cat standing on the hill saw a pack of wolves besieging a little boy, and the cat came forward to fight the wolves and saved the little boy.

The cat asked him, "Hey, what do you want, I'll grant you anything."

The little boy said, "I don't have a wish now, why don't you come home with me and wait for me to think about it?" ”

The cat had no choice but to go home with the little boy, but after several days, the little boy still did not think of his wish.

The little boy was a little depressed when he saw the cat, so he caught a firefly and gave it to the cat, asking him why he was sad.

So the cat told the little boy about his troubles, he had been practicing for a long time, but he still didn't grow the ninth tail, and he gradually felt that the road to immortality was fake, and the Buddha was deceiving.

When the little boy heard this, he smiled at the cat and said

I have a wish now".

Speak up, talk fast! What is it, I will definitely satisfy you" The cat's crystal clear eyes flashed with a light of hope.

My wish is that you will grow a ninth tail."

The cat was stunned, it couldn't imagine why the little boy's wish was not for himself but for it, a stupid and hard-working cat, it watched the little boy touch the back of his head and smile innocently, at that moment, it seemed to be the closest moment to the Buddha.

Just like the content shared in this morning's reading "Win-Win", the little boy and the cat have fulfilled their wishes because of each other.

It's instructive to see that each of us pursues success, both in a secular sense and based on personal values, and that each path to achieving it is different, but one thing is the same:

You will only be truly successful when others are willing to genuinely want you to succeed.

As long as you know this, the meaning of win-win is self-evident, and whenever you make a move that is relevant to others, just ask yourself.

Did I pay before I got it?

Is the current contradiction important, or is the future cooperation more important?

While benefiting yourself, do you also achieve others?

Treat others with these three questions in mind and concentrate on the practice, and in this way, you will be able to complete your merits.

"Silk-" The nine-tailed civet screamed with a tricky blow, it really deserves to be the lord of a country, when it encounters its own natural enemies, not only is it not afraid, but also rises to the challenge, and the leopard cat fights, and actually has the upper hand.

At this time, the nine-tailed civet cat also had a few more bloody wounds, but the ocelot was not comfortable, and it was about to become a "bald cat", with a thick layer of cat hair on the ground, and the cat hair was shining with colorful light under the sun.

The more the leopard cat fought, the more frightened he became, knowing that if he continued like this, he would be crippled if he didn't die, so he hurriedly raised his hand in surrender, and said with a flattering face: "Brother Cat, Brother Cat, I was wrong, this cave was given to you, you are really powerful, I did my best to solve the trick and didn't hurt you a single hair, my admiration for you is like a river that is endless, and like a ......."”

Don't say it, be careful, there are poachers. Before the ocelot could finish speaking, the nine-tailed civet interrupted him, its nose fluttering slightly, easily catching the faint smell of blood in the air, and the familiar breath.

Its brow furrowed tightly, and it thought to itself: how could he still find this, could it be the ocelot? No, it could never lure a wolf into the house, or it would harm itself.

Whatever the reason, find a place to hide, or I'll have to avenge my people!"

After making a secret decision in his heart, the nine-tailed civet pulled the ocelot and ran into the cave quickly, and shuttled quickly in the cave, trying to find a place to hide. Suddenly, a yellow Desaijin paw grabbed his front foot and dragged him in. The nine-tailed civet is trying to strike.

The figure said, "That poacher won't be able to find this place for a while." ”

The nine-tailed civet asked vigilantly, "Who are you?" Why help us? ”

The figure slowly spoke: "I am a thin lion, I used to live in a happy family, and one day, a cruel poacher hunted and killed my parents, and my parents sacrificed themselves to protect me, and I survived in this way, and I now smell the smell of blood and my enemies." ”

The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and you will be my friend of the nine-tailed civet in the future. The nine-tailed civet said cheerfully.

Well! "The lion had only one word, and there were tears in his eyes.

Little prey, have you talked enough? An eerie voice came. "It's him! The faces of the nine-tailed civet and the lion changed as they exclaimed at the same time.

The story of the nine-tailed cat comes from a Chinese folk tale and has no specific source.

The story is probably:

It is said that there is a folk legend that anyone who has seven tricks in the world can cultivate into immortals. This cat is one of them. A cultivated cat can grow an extra tail every twenty years, and when this tail grows to the ninth, it will truly become an immortal.

Sakuraiwa: However, this ninth tail is not very long. When a cat has eight tails, the Buddha told it that in order to become an immortal, one must fulfill a person's wishes, but after it fulfills a person's wishes, it will lose one tail. It's almost an endless loop.

Therefore, although the cat is very devout in completing this cycle, its tail is always only eight, and it once complained to the Buddha, saying how can it be cultivated into an immortal? The Buddha smiled but did not answer.

Until one day it met a teenager in the Song Troupe, and the boy brought it home, but he couldn't think of any of his urgent desires. This made the cat feel very frustrated, and at the moment when the boy and the cat looked at each other, the boy suddenly understood Tangerine, and he said softly, I know my wish, which is to let you grow a ninth tail. The cat was stunned for a moment, its black agate-like eyes moistened.

Suddenly, a light emanated from its surroundings, enveloping it and slowly rising into the sky. That kind of beauty deeply shocked the boy.

It understood the smile of the Buddha. It can only become an immortal if it finds someone who loves it and is willing to use its only wishes for it instead of satisfying its own desires.

This cat became an immortal and flew away, and later the boy got married and had children, and lived as usual. By the time he died, the nine-tailed cat came to his body in the middle of the night, licked his hand with its tongue, and shed tears like a human.

Meaning of the story:

All along, whether it is Aladdin's magic lamp or Jacobs's monkey paw, when people are favored by fate, all the wishes they make are for themselves. For the pie that falls from the sky, people always take it for granted.

And spending one's own rare luck to fulfill the perfection of others may be the greatest generosity and the most sincere reward in the world. The nine-tailed cat is the Buddha's sentence, the original desire to save sentient beings, but it is the best interpretation of sentient beings.