Immortals, do you know that people die as ghosts, and ghosts die as deaf, so what is deaf death? Xie Bi'an asked.

Yang Zhuochao shook his head blankly, and said: "I won't tell you, it's the first time I've even heard of that "deafness"! I don't know what is behind.....

Xie Bi'an said: According to the record of "The Record of the Netherworld": "People die as ghosts, ghosts die as deaf, deaf death as "Xi", and death as "Yi". The word "Xiyi" here has appeared many times in Taoist classics! Xiyi has also been used as a metaphor for the meaning of artistic conception and realm in ancient China in the world.

For example, the Tao Te Ching once said: "Seeing it is not famous, and hearing it is not famous." "Legend has it that the name of "Chen Tuan Ancestor" who pit Song Taizu Huashan is Mr. Xiyi.

Chen Tuan, whose name is Tunan, and who calls himself Fuyaozi, is a hermit of the fifth generation in the late Tang Dynasty. The most widely circulated story of Chen Tuan is a game of chess between him and Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty. There is no record in the official history of this matter, but there are many accounts in the books and articles after the Ming Dynasty, and there are still relics of the two people playing chess in Huashan today~ "Chess Pavilion".

This story tells that when Zhao Kuangyin had not yet made his career, he once passed by Huashan and played three games of chess with Chen Kuan, who lived in seclusion in Huashan, and both had colorful heads. In the first two sets, two players each won one set, and each won the lottery.

Before the third game, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't get any color on him, so he said scoundrelly: "I bet on Huashan!"

Unexpectedly, Chen Kuangyin agreed very happily, and asked Zhao Kuangyin to write a word as evidence, and Zhao Kuangyin wrote down the word contract. As a result, Zhao Kuangyin lost the third game of chess, Chen Tuan pushed the chessboard, and said happily: "Huashan belongs to my Taoist, thank you Lord Longen!"

Zhao Kuangyin was stunned when he heard this, and Chen Jian solemnly said to him: "In the future, the strong man will be the honor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, remember not to violate today's agreement." ”

Later, Zhao Kuangyin really ascended the throne and became the emperor, so he gave Huashan to Chen Shu according to the agreement, and decreed that Huashan would be exempted from taxes forever. There is a saying among the people that "since ancient times, Huashan has not been taxed", which comes from this.

So what is the meaning of the word "Xiyi"? According to the "Tao Te Ching" annotated by the Emperor of the River, we can know: "Colorless is said Yi, and silent is Xi." "The color mentioned here is not lustful, and the Buddhists say that emptiness is not different from color, color is not different from emptiness, emptiness is color.

It means shape. There is no appearance, and there is no voice. In other words, the deaf will gradually lose its shape, and after that, there will be no sound.

This can also explain why so many people have died in history, and the problem that hell has not been stuffed! It can also explain why the ancients insisted on sacrificing their ancestors.

If the ghost does not get the incense sacrifice, it will first turn into a lonely ghost, and the lonely ghost will look for incense everywhere, and when the incense is not enough to maintain its form, it will attack other ghosts!

Therefore, the ancients said that ghosts were afraid of deafness, and the word deaf was also regarded as a word that could ward off evil spirits. After the incense sacrifice cannot be maintained completely, the deaf will lose its form, and slowly even lose its voice, and completely dissolve into nothingness.

According to the records of the "Seven Signatures of the Cloud Pipe", people have three souls, one is the heavenly soul, which is transformed by the pure qi of Taihe, and the name is the fetal light, and the light of the human stillbirth returns to Taihe; the other is the soul of the earth, which is the change of yin qi, and the name is Shuangling.

After death, people return to the underworld of the five mountains; one is a human soul, called the ghost, and after death, they return to the water mansion and then enter reincarnation. Therefore, the deaf, Xi, Yi and other categories are not in reincarnation!

Yang Zhuochao nodded and said: If Lord Impermanence explains like this, I will understand.

Xie Bi'an continued: The three souls and seven spirits of Taoism are: fetal light, refreshing spirit, and ghost spirit, corpse dog, Fu Ya, Sparrow Yin, swallowing thief, non-poisonous, defilement, and stinky lung. The three souls, the fetal light is the qi of yang and harmony, also known as the heavenly soul, the cool spirit is the qi of the five elements, also known as the soul of life, and the ghost spirit is the qi of yin and miscellaneous, also known as the soul of the earth.

Man is born with the yin and yang of heaven and earth, mixed with the qi of the five elements of red dust, the soul of heaven is born and dies, the soul of the earth is transformed, and the soul of life is wise; after the death of a person, a soul returns to the sky, a soul returns to the earth, and a soul is always there.

Sacrifice to ancestors and gods and ancestors, sacrifice is the heavenly soul, transcendence is the earth soul, or reincarnation or immortality is the life soul, the so-called reincarnation also refers to the life soul. From the Taoist concept, the so-called immortals are beyond the world, and the body is scattered, but the soul is immortal and transcends all things.

Yang Zhuochao asked: Lord Impermanence, I have heard in Huanyu Huaxia before that after a ghost dies, it will find a substitute to act as a ghost for itself, and it can get out! For example, it is like a "water ghost", that is, a person who drowns in the water. Is that so?

Xie Bi'andao: I remember a story about a blacksmith and a fisherman who helped each other and inspired each other. In "Raw Silk Scissors", he wrote: "I saw a senior man coming in the snow. How do you dress up?

Wearing a tattered felt scarf on his head and wearing an old straight jacket. They don't wear clogs, they don't hold umbrellas, they don't judge where they come from, they are hungry, they are cold, and they are difficult to inquire about for a while. Staggering like a lost dog, and like a rain-drenched chicken. ”

When the water ghost appeared, he looked miserable, looking like he was about to freeze to death, and this is why the water ghost went to the blacksmith, the blacksmith shop has a fire to roast!

After getting acquainted with Liu Rushan, the water ghost said frankly to Liu Rushan: "Whenever the wind and rain come, the water is desolate, the wind is like blowing, the rain is like nails, the fish are frightened and the turtles are bumping, all kinds of suffering, and it is difficult to describe a thousand words." Shuifu Dao I am a ghost with a background, and when it rains, let me go ashore to take shelter. ”

That is to say, whenever the wind and rain come, the water ghost will suffer all kinds of suffering, because this water ghost has the fame of the yang world, so the water house allows him to go ashore.

Later, the water ghost confessed that he had found a beggar as a stand-in, but found that although the beggar was born lowly, he was merciful and filial in his heart, and the description in the text was: "At dusk that day, the land of the party put the person's name and age enlightened, and the ghost sentenced him to escort the ghost and me.

I was waiting for him at the root of the tree at the mouth of the water, when I saw him coming. I blew him a few sips of the cold air first, and he shivered a few times. It turned out to be a beggar in his thirties. A bowl was pinched in his hand and shattered to the ground.

I was taken aback. Although he is a man of soul, he bends his waist and touches the broken bowl carefully in his hand. He muttered in his mouth: "There are many people who come and go here, and it is my sin that the bowl of porcelain has cut off the soles of my feet." ”

It was dark, and he touched and touched, refusing to be lazy and leave a piece. When he was done, he threw a handful of bowls into the water, and he thought, "Someone will go into the water in the future." It is my sin to cut off the soles of his feet. ”

When he wanted to throw it into the field, he thought again: "It is also my sin that if someone falls into the field in the future, the soles of his feet will be amputated." He thought about it, so he put the bowl in a rag bag and said, "Take it back and bury him in the mud at the foot of the wall tomorrow." ”

Then he said: "If A-Niang asks about the bowl, she only says that the guy will borrow it, so that he will not be happy." 'There is no bowl, just ask the neighbors for one.' ”

It was because of the beggar's kindness and filial piety that the water ghost felt that he couldn't bear to start, and this thought couldn't bear to reach the heavens, and the Jade Emperor ordered him to be the city god of Yanzhou Mansion.

From this story, we can know that the more miserable the traditional concept is, the heavier the grievance, and the more difficult it is for the soul to be reborn!

It's like a lot of people are in pain, but they actually ask for it. However, as soon as the water ghost thought of benevolence, he dissipated his resentment, and from then on he turned from yin to yang, and he no longer suffered!