Chapter 438: White Lotus Sect
After the morning class on the second day, I found Su Wen when I was in trouble: "Abbot, I also want to learn that impure view and temper my mind." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Then come with them. Su Wen nodded and said.
As if it was an appointment, after the difficulty, Xingyuan and Xingquan also found Su Wen respectively, and if you want to learn the impure view, Su Q should come down one by one.
But after that, the monks told them the next time.
This is because after studying impure meditation for a period of time, this group of monks tends to feel disgusted with themselves and the human bodies of others. So Suwen is not going to let too many people learn together.
Think about it, if there are a few people like this, Su Wen can also let them concentrate on their cultivation and get through this pass. If there are too many people, it will not be easy.
As soon as I entered the temple, most of the dozens of monks were bored when they saw people, and their eyes were full of disgust.
Even though they are only tired of the human body because they have practiced impure meditation to a certain level, they think of the things they are visualizing when they see people. But those outsiders don't know.
And even if they knew, it would be hard to understand. There is no difference between being tired of their bodies and hating them as a person.
Therefore, Su Wen is going to take a look at the situation of this group of monks first.
A day later, Dao Ji and Xinghui returned.
They went to see the condition of the two old men, and it was indeed not very good. Both of them are very seriously ill, they can't do heavy work at all, and they are still saving money in various ways for their son.
When they heard Daoji say that he was entrusted by their son in prison, the two old men kept asking about their son's condition. If it weren't for the fact that their financial conditions and health did not allow them to go out often, I am afraid they would have visited the prison a long time ago.
Dao Ji gave the two of them a lower pulse, their illness was too long and too serious. It is impossible to cure. At most, use medicinal materials to recuperate for the two, and it must be gradual. After recuperation, although the symptoms are still there, the situation will be much better, at least it will not be too difficult to do some ordinary work, and the usual physical condition will be better.
And Xinghui helped the two old people do the heavy work of chopping wood and carrying water in the past two days, and their situation was worry-free for at least half a month.
After listening to Xinghui's story, Su Wen said, "Then I will ask Senior Brother Daoji to prescribe medicine, you can take it and send it over." If they need help, try to help. Leave your phone number to them. ”
"Yes, Abbot. "Xinghui took the order. He had witnessed the situation of that family with his own eyes, and he was very willing to help them and do what he could.
In this regard, he is extremely new and never disappoints him.
Every time he sees some monasteries on the Internet collecting money and some monks not abiding by the rules, he will rise from a sense of pride in his heart. None of this will happen at the Pure Heart Temple.
Soon after Xinghui left, Dao Ji came to Su Wen's room, threw a pamphlet in front of Su Wen, and said casually, "I saw it in a temple. ”
Many monasteries will put some Buddhist scriptures or pamphlets in the main hall, and pilgrims can take them by themselves. The purpose is to promote the Dharma.
That's what it is.
Su Wen picked up the pamphlet and flipped through it, he knew that if it was a normal day, Dao Ji would not bother with such a trivial matter.
Just after flipping through a few pages, Su Wen's gaze was fixed.
The booklet looks not much different from the general Buddhist booklet, which believes in Maitreya Buddha, but what makes him care is that the word "childless grandmother" appears many times in the booklet.
As soon as this word appeared in front of Su Wen's eyes, a word immediately came to his mind: "no mother"
At the same time, there is another word that is associated with it: White Lotus Sect.
After flipping through the entire booklet, Su Wen was sure that this booklet was definitely a pamphlet of the White Lotus Sect, dressed in Buddhist skin, but in fact it had other contents.
The White Lotus Sect is not too famous in this world, and it is far less famous than in other worlds.
As another cult with the largest number of people, the most widespread and the most influential in the history of the world, the White Lotus Sect has an inseparable relationship with Buddhism.
According to legend, the ancestor of the Pure Land Sect, Shi Huiyuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, recited Buddha with Liu Zhimin and others in the Lushan Lin Temple, and later generations of believers thought it was a model. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Pure Land Buddha Association was popular, and it was mostly called the White Lotus Society or the Lotus Society.
During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Mao Ziyuan, a monk from Kunshan in Wu County, founded a new sect on the basis of the popular Pure Land Association, called the White Lotus Sect, that is, the White Lotus Sect.
In the early days, the White Lotus Sect worshiped Amitabha Buddha, advocated chanting Buddha and keeping precepts, and stipulated that believers should not kill, steal, commit adultery, lie or drink alcohol. It calls on believers to worship their ancestors and is a secret society that is half-monk and half-layman.
Its doctrine is simple, and the Scriptures are relatively easy to understand. It was accepted by the lower classes of the people, and it spread more widely.
Later, the White Lotus Sect merged Manichaeism, Taoism, and Confucianism to develop and grow. Later, it absorbed many scattered sects of the folk religion, and even the martial arts sect, and the White Lotus Sect was even more numerous sects with many side branches.
Moreover, due to the ambitions of some sect leaders of the White Lotus Sect, the White Lotus Sect revolted many times, and after the Ming Dynasty, it became a strictly forbidden cult.
With the crackdown and prohibition of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the White Lotus Sect still appears in history from time to time.
The Boxers in the history books when Su Wen was in school had the shadow of the White Lotus Sect in them.
With the later founding of the People's Republic of China and that movement, the White Lotus Sect was finally almost cut off on the mainland, but it has always existed on Taiwan Island. However, it has changed its name, and it is called **** and still has a legal status.
From this, we can see the complexity of the White Lotus Sect and the vitality of weeds.
In this world, Su Wen, the founding emperor of the two dynasties, suspected that he was a traverser, so the blow to the White Lotus Sect was particularly serious, so the White Lotus Sect never had too much turmoil, and had long fled abroad, and it was still secretly circulated in many countries in Southeast Asia, which was relatively rare in China.
But after Su Wen saw this booklet, he still cared a lot.
After all, a cult like the White Lotus Sect, which takes rebellion as its own responsibility, cannot be tolerated by all dynasties and dynasties.
Now that it has appeared in the country, it will definitely be severely cracked down on by the state.
But I don't know which temple is linked to this White Lotus Sect, and I don't know if it's a temple, or if there are still others secretly. When the state strikes, I am afraid that it will have a certain impact on Buddhism.
But this matter must be handed over to the state to deal with, and Su Wen now only hopes that there will be fewer monasteries involved and less impact.
"Senior Brother Daoji, you know what's going on with this booklet, right?" asked Daoji first. The rise of the White Lotus Sect was still after Daoji, especially from the Yuan Dynasty.
But since Daoji gave this booklet to himself, it seems that he knows at least a little.