Chapter 20: The Strange Nightmare
The person who sent me the private message was Han Hongwen, male, less than 40, returnee, graduated from MIT, and worked in many American high-tech companies such as Facebook and Google.
A few years ago, he was invited back to China by the richest man in H City, one of the largest Internet giants in the country, specializing in big data analysis, not counting the dividends of stocks, and the fixed annual salary alone is several million.
Knowing that he was in H City, I made an appointment with him, and in the afternoon, I met at Gu Mingyi's café.
When the time came, he showed up outside the café on time.
He wore a black suit and a pair of glasses, and he looked sven.
However, his face was ugly, and anyone who glanced at him could know that he had something in his heart.
I asked him to sit down and asked for two cups of coffee, and since it was a treat, I ordered a slightly more expensive latte.
When the coffee came, I exchanged a few casual words with him and went straight to the point, asking him what had happened.
He said his hometown was rural.
Half a month ago, in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he took his wife and six-year-old son back to his hometown for the New Year, and after the New Year, on the first day of the new year, the family of three went to Thailand for tourism.
As soon as they arrived in Thailand, his son began to have nightmares about an old man choking him by the neck and asking for his life.
He said his son loved to hear ghost stories.
Therefore, he didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking that it was just a child's imagination after hearing too many ghost stories.
But then things turned out completely beyond his expectations.
His son began to dream the same dream every day.
The same old man!
The same choke-neck!
Same life!
They were in Thailand, they took their son to the hospital, to the temple, but neither technology nor Buddhism could expel his son's nightmare.
In the end, they were originally planned to take a half-month vacation, and they came back after less than a week.
Before returning to China, he contacted the most famous psychiatrist in H City, and also asked his parents in his hometown to find the most famous Bodhisattva in his hometown.
The so-called Bodhisattva, naturally not a real Bodhisattva, is actually a horse immortal, worshipping all kinds of goblins and ghosts, and at the same time using the ability of goblins and ghosts to see things, but the names are different in different places.
Eight days ago, the day after they returned home.
He and his wife got up early, packed their things, made breakfast, and asked his wife to wake up his son.
He planned to take his son to the hospital in the morning to see a doctor, and in the afternoon to return to his hometown to see the Bodhisattva.
Once again, however, things did not meet his expectations.
Not long after his wife entered his son's bedroom, he heard his wife's heart-rending screams.
He rushed over to look,
His son is dead!
He called the police, and the forensic doctor examined his son, but finally found no cause of death, so he could only be called "mental asphyxia".
It's dead, and it seems like it's going to be over here.
But no!
He said that on the very night of his son's death, he had the same dream as his son.
After taking care of his son's funeral, he no longer went to any hospital, but went directly back to his hometown and found the Bodhisattva.
But the Bodhisattva refused to see him.
As soon as he walked to the door of the Bodhisattva's house, the Bodhisattva walked from behind.
After three days of this, he did not see the bodhisattva.
Later, he made a relationship and met several famous masters in H City.
However, the masters were helpless in his affairs.
Until yesterday, that is, the first seven of his sons.
At night, he dreamed of the old man again.
The old man was still holding him by the neck and wanted his life.
At this time, his son appeared.
His son chased the old man away and told him to come to me.
So, this morning, he sent me a private message.
I suddenly thought of the little boy from last night.
I seemed to understand the meaning of the phrase "troublesome uncle" when he left.
At this time, Gu Mingyi brought me and Han Hongwen two cups of coffee.
He and I looked at each other.
Obviously, he also heard Han Hongwen's words just now.
I originally wanted to invite him to sit down and listen to his opinion on Gu Mingyi's matter, after all, he is also from the Xuanmen, and his ability is not weak.
But he put down his coffee, turned and left.
Is this a special trip to remind me?
I took a sip of my coffee and sorted out my thoughts.
"Mr. Han, when you went back to your hometown this time, did you meet any strange people or things?" I asked Han Hongwen.
Han Hongwen thought about it, shook his head, and said no.
"What about when you go to Thailand?" I asked him again.
He thought about it again, but shook his head.
"Is there really nothing at all?" I asked him to think again.
It was only after four or five minutes that he said:
"The day we first arrived in Thailand, my wife bought a amulet. But a lot of other people bought it, and nothing happened to them. ”
Thai amulet?
It's a very strange thing that has been circulated on the Internet.
Honestly, though, I'm not familiar with this thing.
I don't know what ordinary people or experts and scholars think of Thai Buddhism, or Southeast Asian Buddhism.
In our Xuanmen, Southeast Asian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism are generally grouped together.
In terms of scripture and meaning, Southeast Asian Buddhism basically belongs to Hinayana and Tibetan Buddhism belongs to Mahayana, and they certainly do not belong to the same category.
However, we do not look at the meaning of the scriptures, but at the arts.
Magically, the two are very similar.
Their spells have that primitive shamanic flavor.
Thai Buddhism, I don't know.
Tibetan Buddhism, I still know a little bit.
There are many strange and strange things in Tibetan Buddhism, and even, in the eyes of outsiders, bodhisattvas and arhats that violate the teachings of Buddhism, such as the Buddha of Joy.
Why is this happening?
That's because, when Buddhism was first introduced to Tibet, Buddhism and Bon Buddhism were integrated with Tibet's native religion.
Bon is a very primitive form of shamanism.
Before the introduction of Buddhism, the tribes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau basically believed in Bon.
Every tribe that believes in Bon has an object of worship that belongs only to their tribe.
Not every one of these objects of worship is Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves suffering, and some are even man-eating devils.
In order to facilitate the mission, Buddhism absorbed all these objects of worship into Buddhism, thus forming a Buddhist deity system with the local color of Tibet.
In the process, Tibetan Buddhism not only absorbed the objects of worship of Bon, but also absorbed many of the spells of Bon.
Before liberation, there were many ritual instruments made of bones and human skins in Tibetan Buddhism.
There's a pretty famous song called Sister Drum - that's what it says.
This method of using human skin and human bones to make tools has a strong color of primitive shamanism.
Thai Buddhism, I think it's pretty much the same.
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