Song Siyuan noticed this, walked to the Buddha statue and guessed: "Could it be that the Buddha statue is fixed by something and can only rotate along something in the body?"
"impossible."
Sun Daqiao stepped forward and carefully observed the physical Buddha statue: "After taking out the internal organs of the physical Buddha, the body will be restored with clay sculptures. After that, in order to show respect for the relics, no knife can be used on the physical Buddha body. The Buddha statue cannot be fixed on the lotus platform. What you mean is that if he is really fixed on the lotus platform, the physical Buddha will probably have incisions on his body."
Sun Daqiao's words reminded everyone, and Yue Qingshan glanced at the Buddha statue: "Maybe this thing is not a Buddha statue at all, but just a dead man painted with gold paint. It can't move left and right, but it can always move up and down. "
Yue Guanchao understood the idea and raised the physical Buddha together with several guards. As the Buddha statue was lifted into the air, a bronze pointed pillar as thick as a wrist appeared under the Buddha, like a bamboo shoot standing upward, about half a meter long. This was also It means that the physical Buddha is pierced by the bronze pointed pillar in front of him.
After the physical Buddha was lifted up, Yue Guanchao and the others placed the seated Buddha statue on the ground. Without the restraints of the bronze pointed pillars, the Buddha statue began to stagger, and the wound at the root of the tail vertebra was clearly visible.
"I told you, it turned out that someone was stringing him along."
Yue Guanchao looked around the wound, and saw that the inside was completely dry, not like Sun Daqiao said, it was a complete shell.
Sun Daqiao walked to the Buddha's body and carefully observed the wound behind the tail vertebra. He saw that the wound was obviously torn, and his clothes were stained with thousands of years of blood due to traces of struggle. He suddenly realized in his heart: "It seems that I am still old and mistaken. I saw blood stains from struggling on the clothes, probably because they were fixed on them before death."
"In life?"
When everyone mentioned this, they took a deep breath. If the physical Buddha was created after death, he might not suffer any pain. After all, he was playing with a corpse. It was a living person during his lifetime, which is equivalent to giving a person to the body. Crucified alive on the lotus platform, this alone is enough to give people goosebumps.
Sun Daqiao continued: "Yes, if he was shaped into a physical Buddha after death, there would be no traces of struggle. There are blood stains on the wounds, doesn't it mean that he struggled before his death? This cannot be concealed."
"Then, will Buddhism also use living people to become physical Buddhas?"
Yue Erpao asked.
Sun Daqiao shook his head and said: "How is that possible? Buddhism makes a physical Buddha in order to preserve the remains of the eminent monk so that his remains can benefit more people. It is not to torture the eminent monk. Most of them will start to do it after the eminent monk passes away. How come? It’s impossible to kill someone while the monk is still alive.”
He paused and his tone became mysterious: "To put it in layman's terms, letting an eminent monk become a relic is actually the final treatment of his corpse. It is a conventional rule. It is like putting a coffin into a coffin and sealing it with earth after a person dies. It’s basically another form of funeral custom.”
"A person is made into a fleshly Buddha while he is still alive. This is the same as being sealed in a coffin while a person is still alive. It belongs to burying alive and killing, and it cannot be said to be a good deed. If you say this, then this thing is nothing. The Buddha in the flesh is just the deceased who was turned into a Buddha in the flesh and buried with him."
After Sun Daqiao said his guess, Song Siyuan continued to add: "Since these are not physical Buddhas, there is a high probability that they are just ordinary burials as he said, but why do they do this? They also have to be covered with gold paint. This kind of treatment The method should at least make sense."
"Could it be that these people did not voluntarily become Buddhas in the flesh, but were monks selected by the people of Jin?"
Xu Xiake interrupted.
"Is this possible?"
Everyone said in doubt.
"Indeed, something like this happened in the Fayuan Temple in Xijing. Xijing used to be the capital of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Both sides of Fanchuan, not far from Xijing, are dotted with ancient temples from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It would be better if some temples had strong incense, and believers would donate incense to add oil. But these monks are not We can still live well, if the incense in the temple is not good..."
If the incense in the temple is not good, the monks in the temple will have to think of a solution. Since they are a sitting class, they are already out of production. They cannot carry their shoulders and lift their hands. Even if some of them can farm, the food will grow when spring and autumn come. It can’t grow long enough, and who can grow enough food for several people?
Buddhist temples are no better than Taoist temples. Taoist sects do not like believers to give alms or donate incense. Most of them cultivate fields and grow vegetables to be self-sufficient. Their original intention is not to trouble anyone, and they will never have any contact with the world. If a Buddhist temple does not have donations from the people or believers, it will not be able to survive. It would be a very miserable life. It would be good to go hungry for three days and nine meals. It was very likely that he would starve to death in the temple. 33
In order to attract believers to offer incense, some monks will deliberately create many auspicious things related to Buddha, such as lotuses blooming overnight, lotuses suddenly growing in a water tank, or the Buddha crying, the Buddha statue shining, or digging in the backyard. The stone Buddha statue appears, and the golden light shines from the eaves... In short, you must make your temple a little auspicious, so as to cause the Buddha statue to appear and attract believers to visit it.
As long as people come, they will give more or less alms, and after a few old monks eliminate disasters, scaremongering and deception, and the peace talisman seals and disaster-removing magic tools are sold, then there is food to eat. For pilgrims, If you come in to pray to gods and pray to Buddha but still don't come up with anything, it's like offering incense in vain. If you come to a Buddhist temple and don't donate incense or oil, who will bless you if the sky is filled with gods and Buddhas.
Although the words are powerful, they are solid truths. For them, they worship whoever is useful, whoever is famous, and whoever is efficacious. As for the gods and Buddhas who are unknown, useless, and yet efficacious, they will not grow up in the temple. Even if the grass is good, even the table can be ripped off.
If the people are willing to worship you, even a puddle of mud can reach a high platform. If the people don't worship you, no matter how beautiful the golden body is, it will be overgrown with weeds and cobwebs. In the countryside, many houses have no eaves and their houses have collapsed. Most of these temples were abandoned because they were ineffective. Of course, these statues that were placed high on the altar were exposed to wind and rain and turned into a puddle of mud.
That is to say, these Buddha statues are gods, and the monks are not gods. They are living people. Since they need food, clothing, shelter and transportation, they know that what the common people worship is just their own desires and delusions. As long as they satisfy their desires With these spiritual sustenance, the temple will remain popular.
The common people like the appearance of gods and Buddhas, so temples are naturally willing to create all kinds of auspicious signs to cater to the world's greed and anger.
In any case, doing kung fu on dead objects is still childish. The most terrifying thing is to create a Buddha in the flesh.
The origin of the physical Buddha is the eminent monks. Generally speaking, such monks are eminent monks who have attained the correct Dharma. They spend all their time practicing Buddhism, studying scriptures, holding Dharma meetings, and preaching about Buddhism and Taoism. Ordinary temples cannot afford to set up a monastery. We cannot afford to support such a distinguished monk.
This also means that it is completely impossible for ordinary temples to have any incorruptible golden relic Buddha. In other words, which Buddhist temple has a golden Buddha, it means that this temple has produced eminent monks and great virtues who have achieved enlightenment. Go to such a temple It is more useful to come and worship than to go to some rural temple.
In order to get incense, the temple will artificially create a physical Buddha. As long as the golden body can be indestructible, it is considered a real relic of the living body. Even if he was a gluttonous and amassing monster monk during his lifetime, after he is molded into a golden body, he will become a universal salvation for all sentient beings. "True Buddha".
In any case, the people did not come to worship his Buddhist mind and talents, but to worship their inner desires through the Golden Buddha!
If they want to artificially create a golden Buddha, it means that someone must die. These monks are all mortals and cannot even see through eating, drinking and enjoying. How can they be willing to forget life and death? Most of them are not willing to sacrifice their bodies to be made into Buddha statues.
then what should we do?
A Buddhist temple needs a gold and flesh Buddha to decorate its facade, but these monks are unwilling to do so, so they can only look to other people. Temples often use food and porridge as bait to lure beggars who are begging along the street into the temple.
These beggars are poor, have short ambitions, and are weak in spirit. They can't walk when they see food. After being fooled, they thought it was the temple's kindness. Little did they know that the temple had ulterior motives and was interested in his body and bones. After the food and wine were served, the beggar was gone. He became dazed, and when he heard that the monk wanted to give him clothes, he immediately jumped into the bathtub to wash away the dirt on his body.
These food and drinks have been poisoned, and when the poison takes effect, the beggar will die.
After the beggar dies, the monks in the temple will clean his body, shave his hair and burn the scars, then hollow out his internal organs and sew them up. They only need to paste a layer of yellow mud to shape the Buddha statue, and then apply gold paint. A physical golden Buddha.
There is a saying that a man relies on his clothes and his horse relies on his saddle. Even though the old beggar is wretched, he was ordained and became a monk and put on cassocks and robes. He is almost the same as the relics of a real eminent monk. In other words, no matter how mediocre a person is, if he is covered with gold, he will sooner or later have problems. Buddha statue.
Relying on these means, Fayuan Temple built countless golden Buddhas, and used this to make the neglected temple prosperous and attract tens of millions of believers.
At the most beautiful time, as long as you enter the Mahavira Hall, you can see a row of golden Buddhas with flesh and treasures arranged solemnly on the lotus platform. When they are hit by candlelight, the believers cry for father and mother, kneel down and worship, just asking to be blessed by the Buddha.
These believers don’t know that what they are worshiping are just beggars that no one pays attention to!
In the past, when they knelt at the feet of the master and his wife, they might not be able to get any benefits. Now that they have died and turned into corpses, they have been subjected to countless kind words, prayers, and pious kowtows. If there is a spirit in the sky, they don't know how they feel in their hearts.
Fake goods cannot be genuine, and genuine goods cannot be faked. Since the physical Buddha is a fake, sooner or later the incident will come to light.
On this day, the believers saw another fat Buddha with a fat head and big ears appearing on the shrine. They immediately worshiped devoutly and offered sesame oil. Unexpectedly, the hot air in the temple melted the fat on the corpse, and the skin of the corpse expanded, and the Buddha's body was It broke on the spot.
When the clay statue fell away, blood and water flowed out from the corpse, covering the whole hall with a rotten stench. Since the golden Buddha had a filthy smell, the temple's evil plan was defeated without any attack.
Some people died, but not completely...
