Chapter 112: The History of Maoshan Righteous Path (Additional 2)
Then, the biggest difference between our Maoshan Sect and other branches of Taoist organizations is that the Maoshan Sect no longer takes attaining the Tao and becoming an immortal as the highest pursuit, but takes it as its own responsibility to kill demons and demons, and subdue ghosts and catch monsters.
Although the ancestor returned to Maoshan Mountain, he still "knows the changes of fortune, looks down on people's hearts, and sympathizes with the suffering", so it inherits the essence of Taoism's founder Zhang Ling (Zhang Tianshi) preaching, and carries forward the use of talismans.
The talisman includes two parts, the talisman and the Jiao, the talisman is to use the rune spell water to heal people; Jiao is to set up a dojo, invite the gods of the fairy world, and bless people with disasters.
The ancestor learned from the use of the talisman, improved on the basis of the talisman, created his own yellow paper talismans, spells, hand duels, footwork, etc., and pioneered the Maoshan technique, specifically for slaying demons and demons, subduing ghosts and catching monsters.
Therefore, among all the Taoist organizations, only our Maoshan Sect is the only sect that specializes in killing demons and eliminating demons, subduing ghosts and catching monsters, and dealing with the underworld.
It is precisely because of this that our Maoshan Sect has many differences from other sects, for example, after our Maoshan Taoist priests have succeeded in cultivating Maoshan techniques, they will not stay in the Taoist temple of the church for a lifetime like the Taoist priests of other sects, but will go down the mountain and go to all parts of the country to subdue demons and subdue demons, that is to say, where there is a need, where there are ghosts, there are Maoshan Taoist priests.
This also caused Maoshan Taoist priests to have a very special place, that is, they could marry wives and have children.
We know that other sects, such as the Taoist monks of the Quanzhen School, became monks, lived a jungle life in the palace, did not eat meat, emphasized the cultivation of the inner pill, did not practice the talismans, advocated the dual cultivation of life, and took the cultivation of truth and nature as the right path.
However, our Maoshan Sect has a positive attitude towards marriage issues.
Originally, things between heaven and earth are made up of the combination of yin and yang, male yang**, mutual cooperation and harmony, in order to reflect the way of heaven.
In fact, this is a canon made by the ancestor who was sympathetic to the hard work of the Maoshan Taoist priests who went down the mountain to kill demons and catch ghosts on the way, and dared to risk the disapproval of the world.
Most of the Maoshan Taoist priests are a person, fighting with demons, often no one takes care of food and clothing, plus Maoshan Taoist priests only pay attention to the cultivation of Maoshan since childhood, and know little about the common sense of life, so they can only live a life of eating and sleeping, and live a life of hunger, and even more, fighting with ghosts, there are many dangers, sometimes they are killed by demons, and the corpses are in the wilderness, no one knows, and it is extremely sad.
Therefore, under the order of the ancestor master, the Taoist priest of Maoshan can marry a wife and have children.
Not only can you marry a wife and have children, but you can also eat big fish and meat, after all, fighting demons requires sufficient physical strength, and if you only rely on vegetarianism, you can't have a strong physique at all.
At the beginning of the implementation of this regulation, it did have a very good effect, and the Taoist priests of Maoshan did not have to worry about food and clothing, and could concentrate more on fighting against demons and monsters, and maintain the order of the two worlds of yin and yang.
However, after a long time, the negative effects began to breed.
Marrying a wife and having children, big fish and big meat, these material things all need money.
And once people are involved with money, they will have desires.
Everyone wants to marry a beautiful daughter-in-law, everyone wants to eat better,
These can often stimulate people's desires, once people's desires swell, they will get bigger and bigger, and finally they can't be satisfied, and at that time they will go astray, and even collude with demons and monsters to do some illegal things that hurt nature and reason, which is not allowed by Maoshan Sect in any case.
Although some did not do anything out of the ordinary, because of excessive indulgence, their bodies were hollowed out, and they could no longer bear the heavy responsibility of slaying demons and demons, and became veritable wasters. Another situation is that after marrying a wife and having children, Maoshan Taoist priests will have worries, worried about retribution, and their wives and children will be killed, after all, they are facing demons and monsters without any humanity, and they can do everything, so some Maoshan Taoist priests will often turn a blind eye when they encounter demons and monsters, so that they can stay in the world and continue to harm the world.
As mentioned before, there was a deal between the Maoshan Sect and the Difu, and the Maoshan Taoist priest caught the ghosts who escaped from the Difu for the underworld, and the Difu would give some compensation accordingly, and there was an additional condition, that is, to increase the longevity of the Yang world.
However, this condition also requires Maoshan Taoist priests to pay some price.
This price is "poor, wanted, and lonely", and you must receive a word.
This is also a method of "choosing one's life" in order to curb the above situations from becoming more and more intense.
Therefore, our Maoshan Taoist priests, generally have a family, do not taboo meat, walk the world with Maoshan technique, draw talismans and chant spells, exorcise ghosts and demons, pray for blessings and disasters, and so on. ]
It can be said that in the history of Taoism in China, our Maoshan Sect has an important position, after our ancestors, Maoshan Sect is also a large number of talents, it not only became the mainstream of Taoism in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but also made great contributions to Taoist theory and cultivation methods, and the organizational system is also relatively sound, so we Maoshan Sect.
Therefore, at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the Tianshi Dao and the Maoshan Sect and the Lingbao Sect in Taoism respectively took Longhu Mountain, Maoshan Mountain and Gesoap Mountain as the center of their activities, forming the famous "Three Mountains Fu Gong", called the Three Sects of Fu Zong, forming the momentum of the three sects and leading the Taoism in the entire Jiangnan region.
But in the Southern Song Dynasty, during the dying period of Lizong, the situation changed subtly.
Because of the Heavenly Master's meritorious service to Zhang Tianshi's disaster, the emperor named Zhang Tianshi as the official business of raising the Three Mountains Fu Gong and the Imperial Palace's Guanjiao Gate". That is to say, as early as the time of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, the altitude of Longhu Mountain has been artificially mentioned to Maoshan Mountain and Gesoap Mountain.
Since then, our Maoshan Sect has begun to decline.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court ordered Zhang Tianshi to take charge of the "Three Mountains Fugong", namely Longhu Mountain, Hesoap Mountain and Maoshan Mountain. From then on, all the Fu Gong faction was classified into the Zhang Tianshi line, which was called the Zhengyi faction.
However, although it was merged by the Heavenly Master Dao, it was not annexed, and the Three Mountains were still an independent sect organization, and after the merger, it was passed down to modern times in the mode of separate inheritance of small sects.
However, at this time, the Maoshan Sect, whether it is strength or influence, is much worse than before.
With the fading of agricultural civilization and the development of human society, the natural environment has been seriously damaged, more and more evil, and there are fewer and fewer monsters that become animal spirits, and the progress of science and technology has also made the feudal superstition untenable, so there are fewer and fewer Taoist priests in Maoshan.
But just because these things don't appear doesn't mean they don't exist.
Anne Bai told us that there are various devastating disasters in history, and as for what disasters are, we will talk about this in detail in the future.
These disasters appear to be natural disasters and natural disasters, but in fact, they are all demons and monsters trying to turn over, wanting to subvert the world, every time they appear, a group of Maoshan Taoist priests will emerge, or eliminate, or seal, support justice, in order to maintain peace in the world, sacrifice themselves to save the world.
Therefore, the Maoshan technique is not extinct, but it is only passed down from generation to generation among a small number of people, and in the process of teaching, many ancestors and Maoshan Taoist priests have developed and created the spell technique lost, which is extremely regrettable.
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