【原创】道场微小说之299：孔明的“色空”之计（双语）

Mini-story of the Way-place 299 Kongming’s Tactic of Open Castle and Buddhism

Longmawx·Wangyongqiang

龙马吾行·王永强

2022-4-30

一个修道者，从《三国演义》的故事中获得了关于高深佛法的妙理。

孔明无奈设空城，智退司马十万军的故事，其未删版应是这样的：

北伐中原时，因一个战略要塞-街亭失守，孔明来不及撤退，遭魏帅司马懿封城围剿。

那时，司马懿引十万魏军乘胜追击，直逼西城，诸葛亮无兵迎敌，无奈中，突然受到了佛法的启发。

书中没表，行者补上：

孔明当时一想，这下完了，马谡大意失街亭，害我三军无粮草，三十六计无计可施了，难道要束手待擒吗？这时有一种声音在意识中回荡：

“孔明，你不是懂佛法吗？这会儿，为何不用？”

“什么法？”

“色-不异空”呀！

诸葛亮恍然大悟。

“不错！兵将是色，但也是空。今天我就来个空不异色-摆个空城给司马大帅看看。”

接着就是小说里的情节了。空城门楼上“瑶琴三尺胜雄师”。

却说司马大帅，一看，孔明怎么这样欢迎我呢？这不符合科学和兵法常识呀。再看孔明神色依旧，琴声不乱，但城中无一兵卒值守。是进是退，他一时拿不定主意了。

此时佛法对他也起用了。

他意识中，有声音告诉他，

“司马大帅，空城里，不是真的空，诸葛亮一生不弄险，你不可冒险。这是‘空-不异色（军）’啊！”

“嗯，不错。我听他的琴声似有十万伏兵在其中（有色在另一处）。还是撤了去安全？”

他又想，

“好，他孔明今天玩三十六计的第三十二计—空城计，我就玩最后一计—走为上计！”

如此，孔明在生死存亡之际，以佛法战胜了司马懿！

这就叫做：

诸葛亮的“色-不异空”对司马懿的“空-不异色”！

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A practitioner of Tao understood the unsurpassed wonderful meaning of Buddhism from a Chinese novel called Three Kingdoms.

The story of Kongming’ opened city to beat back enemy of Wei (a country name)was originally as follows:

At that time, General Sima led his hundreds of thousands regiment to chase kongming to the western city after kongming lost his fortress Jieting. But he had no any soldier to defend his position, for that moment, Buddhism sent him a message:

This tip was not in the novel but here was added by the practitioner.

“Bad, there isn’t any one for fighting and I have none of the 36 tactics to use,” Kongming said to himself then.

“Kongming, did you know Buddhism?  Why don’t’ you use it?”

“What’s that?”

“Form does not differ from emptiness.”

Kongming got enlightenment after hearing the message.

 “Yes, it is. Soldier is indeed a form but also an emptiness. Today I will make a ‘emptiness differ from form ’to show General Sima.”

The following plot was as the novel, Kongming’s musical instrument of 3 feet in length defeated the powerful regiment of Sima.

For General Sima, who saw the scene of that opened city and kongming’s performing on the high terrain of the city with a musical instrument, surprised by that,

“Why did Kongming welcome me by this?  And it’s abnormal but Kongming’s looks seem to be as usual without chaos in the sound of the musical instrument,” General Sima thought and hesitated for advancing or retreating.

For that moment, Buddhism also works to him and told his consciousness:

 “General Sima, the opened city isn’t really empty and Kongming has never taken risks in wars. You do not take risks at this time and that is so called ‘emptiness does not differ from form’.”

“Well, yes, I felt that the sound of the music has hidden hundreds of thousands of soldiers so it’s better for me to retreat,” He thought.

“Ok, what Kongming played is opened city. On the contrary, I today play the last tactic from art of 36 wars called ‘first go’.”

So Kongming defeated General Sima at the critical point by Buddhism and this story called:

Kongming’s ‘Form doesn’t differ from emptiness confronts Sima’s ‘emptiness dose not differ from form.’

（空（城），不异色（兵）呀，司马懿不敢造次，赶紧撤退）