Emperor Wu of Liang was too much of a Buddhist, and he became a monk three times, and he was also a legendary emperor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Emperor Wu of Liang was a side branch of the Xiao clan in Lanling, he was thrifty, diligent and loved the people, so that the early Liang Dynasty created a prosperous era, and the national strength was better than the gradually chaotic Northern Wei Dynasty. In view of the massacre of the Song and Qi clans, Emperor Wu of Liang was very tolerant of his clan, and even if he committed a crime, he would not pursue it.

He was knowledgeable and advocated academic development, which led to the development of education in the Southern Dynasties and the development of the culture of the Southern Dynasties to the extreme. However, in the later period of Emperor Wu of Liang, he liked to listen to flattery, and was superstitious about Buddhism, so he sacrificed himself to Tongtai Temple three times. Since monks and Taoists did not have to pay taxes, nearly half of the household registration was recorded under them, which caused the state to suffer heavy financial losses. At that time, the clan and officials were greedy for money and luxury, and they were drunk on money and could not extricate themselves.

Du Mu's poem in the Tang Dynasty: "Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain." Literally, there are many Buddhist temples left over from the Southern Dynasty, looming in the drizzle. But behind this beautiful, quiet, hazy and blurry picture is the displaced people, scolding the faint monarch who is dedicated to Buddha, and the person referred to is Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang.

In the third year of Emperor Wu of Liang's ascension, he led 20,000 people to convert to Buddhism, and since then, his actions have shocked the world. In the twenty-sixth year of his reign, at the age of sixty-four, he went to Tongtai Temple for the first time to become a monk, and returned to the palace three days later to grant amnesty to the world.

After two years, the minister donated 100 million yuan to redeem him when he went to Tongtai Monastery for the second time; when he was 83 years old, he became a monk for the third time, and the minister donated 200 million yuan to ransom him; at the age of 84, he became a monk for the fourth time and stayed in Tongtai Monastery for 37 days, and the minister donated 100 million yuan to ransom him. Where did all this money come from, in fact, it was all taxpayers' money, and it was all filled into the temple's wallet.

He himself does not eat fish and meat, only vegetables, and asks the monks of the world to learn from him, be compassionate, and abide by the rules and precepts of Buddhism. Since then, the monks have lived a hard life and no longer eat meat.

The word meat now usually refers to meat, in fact, meat is the prefix of grass, the original meaning is a plant, similar to garlic, onions, leeks, eating in the mouth will have a peculiar smell. Ancient monks, Taoists, and scholars did not advocate eating meat, because it would damage the elegance. In ancient times, the word for meat was fishy, because Emperor Wu of Liang forbade monks to eat meat, so fishy and meat gradually juxtaposed, and they became taboo foods for monks.

Baozhi Zen Master, also known as Zhigong and Baogong. He was born in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after the Song, Qi, Liang dynasties, he often wore long hair, bare feet, holding a staff in his hand, hanging scissors, fans, mirrors and other things, walking in the streets and alleys, saying inexplicable words, the people did not understand at the time, but many years later it worked.

Xiao Yan admired him very much, but his wife Xi did not believe in Buddhism. Legend has it that once, Xi asked Xiao Yan to invite Baozhi and his disciples to do things, and secretly prepared a lot of meat buns. Xi means that if they eat meat buns, they are breaking the vows.

When the monks came, they picked it up and ate it in large gulps. Xi was overjoyed, and when the ceremony was over, he just wanted to ask them about his sin, but he didn't know that the monks poured out the meat buns from their sleeves one by one. It turned out that Baozhi had already guessed Xi's trick, he took care of each monk to hide two steamed buns in the wide sleeves, sewed and fastened the cuffs, and then secretly took out the steamed buns and replaced them with meat buns.

There are many kinds of costumes worn by monks, and the sea green robe is one of the main garments. Sea blue is the name of a bird, and it flies like long sleeves, so it was borrowed as the name of the robe. Unlike other monks' robes, the wide cuffs are sewn, which is said to be because of Baozhi's move.

Once, Emperor Wu of Liang asked Baozhi: "Is the love between men and women congenital or acquired, can you control your delusions?"

Bao Zhi said, "You call a few prisoners. ”

When several people arrived, Bao Zhi asked them to go around the court with a cup full of water, and stipulated that if the water overflowed, they would be immediately executed. Then in front of them, let a group of beautiful women dance to the sound of music, and as a result of these prisoners turn around, and the water does not overflow.

Bao Zhi said to Emperor Wu of Liang: "Because they are afraid of death, no matter what beauty they are in front of, they will turn a blind eye." How can people control their delusions? As long as they are always in the mood of fear of death, they will naturally no longer covet beauty. ”

Emperor Wu of Liang stopped touching women after he was fifty years old, and it is said that he was inspired by Baozhi.

Master Yunguang, legend has it that when he first gave a lecture, there were not many listeners. One evening, as he sat on the side of the road and sighed, he met an old woman who was begging for food, and the mage saw pity for her and gave her his own dry food. The old woman took out a pair of bast shoes and gave them to Yunguang, saying, "You wear these shoes to teach the Fa, and where the shoes are rotten, you will open an altar there to give lectures." ”

When she had finished speaking, the old woman disappeared. Master Yunguang has been wearing these shoes all the way to Jiankang's Shizigang, and the bast shoes suddenly rotted, and since then he has been sitting on the Shizigang to preach and chant Buddha. Gradually, more and more people listened to the scriptures, and Emperor Wu of Liang also became his fan. Once Master Yunguang spoke very beautifully, the flowers in the sky fell like rain, which is the origin of the allusion to the sky.

These flowers fall to the ground, into a crystal round small stone, there are colorful patterns on it, this is Nanjing's special product Yuhua stone, the place where Master Yunguang preaches is called Yuhuatai.

Master Bodhidharma, he is an Indian, claims to be the twenty-eighth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, and is the ancestor of Chinese Zen Buddhism, so Chinese Zen Buddhism is also known as Bodhidharma Buddhism.

He heard that Emperor Wu of Liang was a good Buddha and crossed east to the South China Sea, and Emperor Wu of Liang admired him very much and sent someone to the South China Sea to pick him up in Jiankang. As soon as they met, Emperor Wu of Liang asked: "Since I ascended the throne, I have built a lot of Buddhist temples and sorted out a large number of Buddhist scriptures, is this considered merit?"

Bodhidharma replied: "It's not merit, it's just deliberate, it is superficial, but in fact it is not." ”

"Then what does it mean to be meritorious?"

"To do good deeds without considering utilitarianism, and to do everything from the heart, is meritorious. ”

"What is the highest state that a saint seeks?"

"Empty, there is no saint who is not a saint. ”

"Who's across from me?"

"I don't know. ”

The two did not speculate and parted unhappily. Bodhidharma means that doing good deeds is not done with a purpose, not with a single desire for returns, and putting the merit book in front of everyone, but should be done without delusion and without seeking results. As long as you are sincere to the Buddha, you can't talk about whether you are a saint or not, and you have reached the state of selflessness.

Bodhidharma propagated Buddhism to let the people of the world live a good life, but he saw that the people of the Liang Dynasty were working day and night to build Buddhist temples, and there were corrupt officials everywhere, and the people were struggling to make a living. Then Emperor Wu of Liang's pursuit of Buddha and the core teachings of Buddhism are completely incompatible.

Bodhidharma then went north, and when Emperor Wu of Liang heard about it, he was very remorseful and sent people to chase after him on mules. Chasing to the middle of the Shogunate Mountain, the peaks on both sides suddenly closed, and the pursuers were sandwiched between the two peaks. Bodhidharma was walking to the river, saw someone coming, broke a reed into the river, turned into a flat boat, floated across the river, this is the legend of a reed crossing the river. Later, this peak was called Jiamu Peak, and the cave where he rested at the northern foot of the mountain was called Dharma Cave.

Bodhidharma first stayed in the Changlu Temple in Jiangbei, and then practiced in Dingshan Temple, and later went to the Northern Wei Dynasty, saw the Yongning Temple built by the Empress Dowager Hu, and finally arrived at the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, facing the wall for nine years, and the first transmission of Zen Buddhism. It is said that after his death, Emperor Wu of Liang was sad and personally wrote the inscription, which is now in the Shaolin Temple of Songshan, Henan, and the first sentence of the inscription is: "I can't see it, I don't meet it, I don't meet it, I don't meet it, I don't see it, I don't see it, I don't see it, I don't see it, I don't see it, I don't see it, I don't meet it, I don't see it, I don't see it, I don't meet it, I don't see it, I don't see it, "Express the regret in his heart.

It's a pity that he can't really understand the meaning of Bodhidharma, he wants to purify sentient beings, but in fact he poisons living beings. The number of Buddhist temples and monks and nuns in Nanliang has increased greatly, with 1,768 Buddhist temples in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, 1,913 Buddhist temples in Liu Song Dynasty, 2,015 Buddhist temples in Nanqi and 2,846 in Xiaoliang, more than 500 in Jiankang alone, and more than 100,000 monks and nuns.

Every time he donated tens of millions of money to the monastery, the common people could not survive, in order to escape from labor, they became monks one after another, the number of people who paid taxes in the world was almost half, the burden of the people was heavier, and their lives were more miserable.