Chapter 58: The Handprint
In the house of the three masters, the people of Qilian Village gathered together.
Cai Hongming, Eighth Prince, Third Master, Fifth Master, and Uncle Fu all looked curiously at the Buddha's hand picked up by the Third Master on the table.
The Buddha's hand is very large, about half a meter long and about 30 centimeters wide, and the seal in the Buddha's hand is at least 15 centimeters, accounting for more than half of the palm, lining the huge palm seal.
"According to you, this thing should be weird." Hachiko heard Cai Hongming's analysis of the Buddha's hand and nodded.
Although the third master also felt this way, he looked left and right, but he couldn't see half of the reason. As for the fifth master and the stupid uncle, they all belong to the type of soy sauce, and it doesn't matter if they understand it or not.
The Buddha's hand was wiped after being picked up by the third master, and it looked smooth, but there was still dust, so Cai Hongming went to get a roll of paper and wiped it carefully. Rubbing, rubbing, he suddenly appeared, the seal on the palm of the Buddha's hand was not connected to the Buddha's hand, there was a gap in the middle, obviously put it in.
Cai Hongming grabbed the seal and dragged it, not moving at all, thinking of the mechanism button on the King Kong Demon Descending Pestle just now, and wondering if there was also one on it, so he looked for it.
It's a pity that he was disappointed.
He looked for it carefully, pressed his fingers all over the palm, and even shook the finger of the handprint vigorously, but there was still no movement, and he didn't feel a little depressed.
When the silly uncle saw him pressing back and forth on the Buddha's hand, he was also interested, and stretched out his hand to press the seal on the palm of the Buddha's hand. Suddenly, there was a "click" sound, and the seal of the Buddha's palm floated up from the palm.
Cai Hongming looked at the stupid uncle blankly, and didn't speak for a long time. It is said that fools have foolish blessings, and this sentence is really true.
Picking up the seal that floated in the palm of his hand, he appeared, and the seal was still covered with a layer of white jade. How extravagant this must be to use white jade as a lid to cover the seal. After taking a look, I picked up the white jade cover on it, and suddenly there was a miniature thousand-armed Buddha carved on the seal. The face of this thousand-armed Buddha is like that in the Buddha hall in the desert, holding all kinds of magic weapons in his thousand hands, closing his eyes and looking down, lifelike. It takes a lot of exquisite craftsmanship to carve such a thousand-armed Buddha. At this moment, Cai Hongming was stunned by the exquisite craftsmanship of the ancients.
"Good stuff." Hachiko couldn't help but shout when he saw it.
Cai Hongming couldn't cry or laugh, what about good things, and they couldn't be eaten as food.
There must be something wrong with this hand seal that has been painstakingly brought out of the lama's temple. In religion, this seal is also called the Dharma seal. The earliest use of the Dharma seal should be Taoism. Because this is the seal engraved by the Taoist ancestors of the past dynasties because of the needs of religious and legal activities, in accordance with the names of the gods of the Three Qing Dynasties, the title of the ghost god and the content of the important Taoist scriptures, imitating the jade seal of the emperor and the official seal of the human emperor, symbolizing the power and majesty of the gods and true spirits in the heavens, earths and underworlds.
According to research, long before the formation of Taoism, Qin and Han monks and sorcerers had used the seal of the government like the seal of the government in activities such as healing, relieving misfortune, warding off evil spirits, channeling spirits, and attaining spirits.
Later generations called this type of seal "Fang Shi Yin", also known as "Taoist Seal".
According to the records of the "Ancient Seal Notes", the use of seals by monks in the Qin and Han dynasties was extremely popular, and the seals such as "Yellow God Yue Zhang" and "Messenger of the Emperor of Heaven" were worn around their waists; And cite the "Historical Records, Xiaowu Benji" and "Feng Zen Book" as evidence, collectively referred to as "Fang Shiyin". For example, "Filial Piety and Wu Benji" contains Luan Dajin to see Emperor Wu, and Emperor Wu worships him as General Wuli, "Get four golden seals, General Pei Tianshi, General Dishi, General Datong, and General Tiandao." This shows that Emperor Wu granted Luan the Great Power Seal, recognizing his power and status to communicate with heaven, earth, ghosts and gods.
In the view of Taoism, the Dharma seal represents the authority of the gods and spirits of the Three Realms, so the Dharma seal is like the palace seal that must be used in the administration of the world.
Southern Song Dynasty Ning Quanzhen's "Shangqing Lingbao**" volume 27 said: "The sealer, the letter also; The user is sealed with each other. It is also the faith of those who govern.
"Han Guanyi" cloud: The prince said the seal, the prince to the middle two dry stone said the chapter, the rest are all sealed, and the seal of this world is also. When Longgu was in its prime, people and ghosts had their own place, and yin and yang were not mixed, so the use of the Tao was only seen in the cultivation of the true practice, so that it soared lightly. Since the Middle Ages, the slow truth is increasing, the righteous way is obscure, the evil and the false are crossed, and the up and down are repeated, so the law is out to save it, the table seal is to reach its heart, and the seal is paid to believe in the will. Therefore, the meaning of the seal is close to the same world, and it is also the way of fortune due to the time of profit and loss. ”
The first volume of "Lingbao Jade Jian" also says: "The law is righteous and evil." There is also a political punishment for the German rites, and the Tao is also in unison. Therefore, the chapter plays the Shen Guan Fu Symbol, and it will fake the seal of heaven to show the letter. Each of the seals has a teacher and a successor, and they want the gods and ghosts of heaven and earth to know the law they are doing, and they can also receive it. ”
Therefore, the Dharma seal not only represents the supreme majesty and sacredness of the gods and true spirits, but also the token of the orderly inheritance of various Taoist schools.
In other words, the Dharma seal in Cai Hongming's hand is very likely to be a token of the inheritance of a sect in Tibetan Buddhism. In this way, it can also explain why there are so many good things in the Buddha hall, but someone broke this Buddha's hand with a seal on the palm of the hand.
Since it is a matter of inheritance, and there are records in relevant classics, then this exquisite seal carved with a thousand-handed Buddha statue cannot be shot, otherwise it will be found by someone at that time, but it will not be able to eat and walk around.
Things that are related to religious sects, if they are sold, they will cause a lot of trouble, there is no absolute right, no one dares to provoke them, let alone ordinary people like Cai Hongming.
Therefore, this kind of good thing can only be put away and appreciated slowly.
Suddenly, Cai Hongming was a little distracted, spending so much energy and not earning half a dime, it was really meaningless.
So, he put the seal back and told the third master to hide it well. Who knew that the third master didn't want it, although he didn't believe in Buddhism, but he felt that his diaphragm should be panicked when he put such a hand at home, so he gave it to him. Helpless, he could only put it away.
A few days later, the workers used cement pillars and barbed wire to fence off the 1,000 acres of land that Cai Hongming had bought.
Seeing that the weather was okay, Cai Hongming asked the busy forklift to dig a big lake near Qilian Village to store water. Although there is no water now, when the snow melts the next year, the water will flow down from the mountains, and then there will be water in the lake. At that time, he will take the spring water flowing down from the mountain to this side, believing that even when the weather is hot, it will not dry up so easily.
With this lake water for irrigation and watering, there should be no need to worry about water shortages in the short term.
Under his instructions, several excavators dug non-stop in the sand.
It was getting colder day by day, and now it was snowing intermittently, and they planned to dig out the lake before the snow came, so that they would not be able to do anything in the cold.
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