Fang Zheng couldn't cry or laugh when he saw this, what is this? He has seen a lot of people who are settling on debts everywhere, and this is the first time he has seen this kind of liarity and gift-giving.

There was no way, Fang Zheng could only thank him, chose two bundles of yellow paper money, a few candles, and some nails, and then said goodbye and left.

The last stop is Wang Yougui's house, as soon as I entered the door, I saw Wang Yougui busy there, Song Ergou, Ma Cripple, accountant Yang Ping, Yang Ping's brother Yang Hua, secretary Tan Juguo, Jiang Zhou, Fan Qing, Qiu Xiaoye, Guan Xiangfeng are all in the yard, talking about something.

Seeing that Fang Zheng was coming, everyone hurriedly got up.

Wang Yougui said with a smile: "Abbot Fangzheng, you came just in time, we are discussing, you see, how big should this altar be? In previous years, our village was poor, and we were all fooled, but this year we have money, so we can't still be fooled, right? At the very least, we must make the most beautiful ten miles and eight villages." ”

Fang Zheng shook his head helplessly and said: "Ancestor worship doesn't need such a big pomp, ancestor worship is like worshipping Buddha, and the heart is better than anything else." To give you a simple example, Master Tan, do you want your grandson and granddaughter to buy you a mansion or a luxury car but never come back once a year?"

Tan Juguo shook his head decisively and said, "I'd rather those little cubs come back to see me if they're fine, chat, and let me scold." It's okay for me to give them money......"

Fang Zheng nodded and said: "The ancestors are similar, it is not easy for them to come back, what they want is to see sincere filial piety, not a bunch of food and a high platform." People are gone, what's the use of watching this?"

Wang Yougui said: "Make it bigger, and the ancestors will also be polished." ”

"That's what you think, what is it like down there, have you ever been there?" Fang Zheng asked rhetorically.

Wang Yougui was dumbfounded......

Fang Zheng continued: "The poor monk has never been there, what is going on below, the living people don't know, with the eyes of the living, the world of the deceased, is like you put yourself in comfortable shoes on the feet of an elephant, will he be comfortable? Whether it is the world of the living or the world of the deceased, there is one thing whose value remains the same, and that is true love. ”

Everyone suddenly realized......

Jiang Zhou said: "After living for so long, this is the first time I have heard of this kind of remarks. Some of the masters and wealthy families I met in the city were eager to burn real money to show their filial piety. Now that I think about it, they are not really filial, but just showmanship......"

Guan Xiangfeng said: "I have seen a local tyrant who burned ten Ferraris at a time...... Now that I think about it, it's stupid. ”

Fang Zheng smiled: "No matter how much you burn, it has no value except for polluting the air and promoting the idea of copper odor." Maybe it can show face to the living, but what about the ancestors? If you don't have a heart, no matter how much treasure you burn, it's useless, and it's still unfilial after all. If the ancestors knew underground, most of them would still be the one who was ridiculed......"

Speaking of this, Fang Zheng paused: "No one knows whether there is a soul in the world, but since ancient times, ancestor worship is a kind of filial piety inheritance, if ancestor worship becomes a simple show-off, without the inheritance of filial piety culture, a family will have no cultural heritage, no heritage, no matter how much money is left, if virtue does not carry things, sooner or later it will capsize and drown." ”

When everyone heard this, they nodded thoughtfully.

Jiang Zhou sighed: "Master Fangzheng, these words of yours should be taken to the classroom to say......

Fang Zheng shook his head and said: "The poor monk has this insight, how embarrassed to stand on the podium, those who understand understand better than me, and those who don't understand may not be useful if the poor monk says." ”

The crowd fell into deep thought.

The topic diverged, since the altar didn't need to be too luxurious, it was simple, everyone came to the entrance of the village with the materials and began to build the altar. Fang Zheng did it himself, Jiang Zhou cooperated, and everyone worked together, a simple, but simple altar full of simplicity and Buddha nature was built.

It is said to be an altar, in fact, this platform is called Shi Gu Tai, there is a mage seat on Shi Gu Tai, in front of the mage seat enshrines the statue of the Bodhisattva of the Jizo King of Chaodu, and under the statue there is a plate of rice, peaches and other items made of plates, and at the same time there are three spirit cards and spirit flags on Shi Gu Tai. Fang Zheng planted a pair of blue, red, green and other colors of penangular paper flags on each sacrifice, and wrote the words "Yu Lan Festival" and "Manna Door Open", so far Shi Gutai was built.

Looking at the Shi Gutai built in front of him, a picture flashed in Fang Zheng's mind, Yizhi Zen Master once said that Yizhi Village did not pay attention to these things in the early years, and it was all over with simple paper money. These exquisiteness came from the south, and who brought it specifically, Yizhi Zen Master did not say. There are only a few villages near Yizhi Mountain that celebrate Obon like this, and in these villages, Yizhi Zen Master will take Fangzheng all the way over every time. The villages that Zen Master Yizhi has never been to are basically not so particular...... Now it seems that most of this exquisite method was brought over by a one-finger Zen master.

After Shi Gutai is arranged, the altar will be opened, first of all, Fangzheng will perform clean, that is, face the Buddhist altar to recite the "Great Compassion Mantra", "Ten Little Mantras", "Heart Sutra" and other scriptures, fortunately, although Fangzheng will not before, but the network is developed, these scriptures he has seen and recited on the Internet, so he is not unfamiliar.

Then write a good essay and pray for the guidance of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the lower realm;

Then Fang Zheng performs the soul-attracting ceremony, recites the sparse text written on yellow paper, attracts the ghost into the altar, and then recites the Heart Sutra, the Mantra of Death, and the Three Mantras;

After the opening of the altar, the agenda is to worship and confess, which is generally carried out in accordance with the ritual of "Compassion Water Confession", but Founder's manpower is not enough to arrange such a large-scale ceremony, so it is simply chanted and recited "Confession" to end. In the middle, simple activities such as paying tribute and fasting monks are added, and the worship is over.

It's so simple, and there is another main reason, if it is really carried out according to "Mercy Water Confession", it would be good if Fang Zheng could finish Yizhi Village this night, and there would be no need to go to other villages. After all, the ceremony really has to go through the whole process, but it is very cumbersome and troublesome.

Of course, the lack of manpower is also a hard injury, and there is nothing Founder can do about it.

After arranging Shi Gutai, Wang Yougui took Fang Zheng and the monkeys to several other nearby villages on a motorcycle, helped them get Shi Gutai one by one, and when he returned to Yizhi Village, it was already evening. Due to the fact that there were too many villages to go and time was tight, when the sun set and it was dark, Fang Zheng and the monkey simply ate some fasting and shouted to the top of the mountain, and the next moment, the bell rang and the Obon practice began!

As the bell rings, every family has someone to go out of the house, and then at the door to insert a handful of incense, good family conditions will be a lot of incense, this is called Butian, symbolizing the harvest of the five grains. From a distance, the whole village is shrouded in this layer of green smoke, and the interior is dotted with stars, which is quite dreamy, as if the sky is upside down and falls in the village, as if the stars are lit up.

Then the offerings of large and small pots were brought out and placed on the offering table to worship the ancestors.

The monkey carried a large basket of tributes and followed Fang Zheng to Shi Gutai, and Fang Zheng took out these tributes and sprinkled them around, which is called the flame mouth, and the tribute that was sprinkled out was given to those lonely souls and wild ghosts, calming their grievances and sacrificing to the dead.

Then Fang Zheng took the stage and sat on the mage's seat, and some words were written on the spirit card in front of him, there are no longer many spirit cards, as long as there are them. And the flame mouth that Fang Zheng just cast, no matter how many ghosts, can be sacrificed together. Chant again......

After reading the scriptures and the flame mouth ended, Fang Zheng got up and got off the altar, nodded slightly to the many villagers, and everyone came to the river.

Everyone had a lotus lantern in their hand, lit the candle on it, put it into the river, and floated down the river, some of the lamps were quickly extinguished, but everyone was not angry, but a little happy.

When the monkey saw this, he didn't understand it again, and asked in a low voice, "Master, why are you still happy when their lights are out?"

"People have a way, ghosts have a ghost road, people take the yang road, ghosts take the yin road, the ancients thought that the water is obscure, dark and damp, like the hell in the underworld, so they think that this is the yin road, that is, the ghost road. Tonight, a hundred ghosts walk at night, but it is easy to lose their way, if they can't enter the underworld, they will become a lonely ghost and a wild ghost. So, put a water lantern to help them light the way and guide them to the underworld to report. In some places, there will also be spirit boats, spirit houses, spirit boats can carry ghosts directly to the underworld, and spirit houses allow them to have a place to live below. But we didn't have that condition, so we didn't get it......

As for why they were happy when the lamp went out, because when the lamp went out, it meant that a ghost had been sent away. Fang Zheng explained in a low voice.

The monkey suddenly realized, but there were still many doubts in his eyes.

After putting off the Krathong and sending away the souls of the dead, a grand Obon festival was over, Fang Zheng hurriedly took a motorcycle to other villages, walked down in a circle, and when Fang Zheng came back, the sky was already cloudy, and walking on the mountain road, the monkey finally asked the doubts in his heart: "Master, you said that the ghost is in the heart...... Actually, you don't believe that there are ghosts in this world at all, so why do you still make this Obon? Since there are no ghosts, why do you spend so much energy and waste so much manpower and material resources? I feel that it is useless work and a waste of food?"

Fang Zheng shook his head slightly: "As the teacher said a long time ago, don't look at the surface, you have to look at what he brings." It is true that the teacher does not believe in ghosts, but the teacher also said that everyone has a ghost in their hearts, and some ghosts need to be suppressed and sacrificed, otherwise they will come out and make trouble. ”

"I don't understand...... the monkey shook his head decisively and said bluntly.

Fang Zheng rolled his eyes and said: "Then to be blunt, in this world, money is easy to make, but if there is no conscience, there will be nothing! Without conscience, no matter how much money there is, it is only a big scourge! On the contrary, no matter how poor a person with a conscience is, there will be a lot less hatred and more warmth in this world." Whether it is a ceremony this time, or a sacrifice to ancestors on the Qingming Festival, it is to remind everyone not to forget to honor their parents. Filial piety comes first, if a person is filial, no matter how bad it is, it will not be bad. Perhaps the effect of this festival can not make the heinous people turn back, but it can prevent the slightest, give the children and some people who have new evil thoughts a wake-up, cultivate the filial piety in their hearts from an early age, and grow up, as long as the filial piety is still there, no matter how bad it is, it will not be hopeless. Do you understand it now?"

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PS: I set off for Shanghai in the evening, and I ended there, and I went on a business trip immediately, every day...... It feels like a rhythm to die for. It looks like we're going back to the era of 2,000...... Cardiac congestion.