Chapter XXXVIII
The master's education level is not high, and he used to teach me the talisman, but also thought of where, taught there, encountered something, and taught me what talisman by the way.
But now with Qihui Taoist's "Fu Seal Collection", it is obviously different, this book systematically introduces Fu Seal, starting from the origin of Fu Seal.
In ancient times, people felt the mystery of nature and believed that there were gods in heaven and earth, so after working, they chose to communicate with heaven and earth for the rest of their time, and naturally, the position of "witch" was born.
The word "Wu" represents heaven and earth, the middle is two people, and the middle one means that the heaven reaches the earth, and the will of heaven is issued. In addition to praying, Wu Tongling Heaven and Earth also need to communicate with the gods, and at this time, Fu Seal comes in handy. It is said that the mysterious symbol on the talisman seal is the Book of Heaven, which was first written on the leaves or bark of trees, and the witch will upload his will to the gods by writing the talisman seal.
Later, Wu discovered that these talismans were not only useful to the gods, but also had some kind of implication with our own souls, and through different drawing methods, the talisman seals played different roles. Later, our Taoists followed this talisman and used it as a method of cultivating and exorcising evil spirits.
As for the implication between the seal and the soul, Hui Qi can't know, but only quotes the "Xuan Zhi Xuan" in the Tao Te Ching. Later, he gave an example, for example, our people's names, it looks like they are only two or three words, but when someone says these words in order, your first reaction must be that someone else is calling me, not someone else, and this name, which is just two or three words, binds you.
A few simple symbols on the sigil can bind the soul.
The drawing method and function of the rune seal are accumulated from generation to generation by the predecessors, and some of them have been lost during the period, and some new runes and paintings have also been produced.
There are two main points to draw talismans: the first is sincerity, which is very important for those who invite the rune seal, so sincerity is spiritual. The second is that you need luck, pay attention to cultivation, and the deeper the Tao, the more powerful the Fu Seal will be.
And the use of talismans and seals is even more varied, there are stickers to suppress the soul and drive away evil spirits, there are talismans to cure diseases, there are prayers for blessings and disasters, sometimes in order to strengthen the role of talismans, it is necessary to chant mantras (mostly in a hurry like a law to end in).
The master explained this and emphasized to me in particular: some talismans are also used for evil arts, such as borrowing corpses to return souls and removing disasters. But these harmful talismans will eventually backfire on themselves, so stay away.
The master continued: "You will also learn a lot of forbidden techniques from the Patriarch's Codex in the future, this is just to save you from the scourge of these talismans, you must not use any crooked brains. ”
I asked, "Master, when will I be able to read the Patriarch's Codex?" ”
The master said solemnly: "When it is time to pass it on to you, it will naturally be given to you." You still have to cultivate your mind first, you see that your curiosity is still so strong now, and one day you will be tired by it. ”
I stuck out my tongue and smiled awkwardly.
After that, the master began to explain to me the talismans along the book, starting from the basics.
I couldn't go to school, but I learned very quickly when I was interested. And when the master taught me, it was not like the school to learn one text at a time, because Taoism is mostly ancient books, which are full of traditional characters, so the master taught me literacy and explained the meaning of words to me at the same time. Moreover, his literacy method and understanding of the meaning of words are more comprehensive than those in school, because the meaning of some words is feudal superstition, and the teacher is not easy to explain, but my master does not have these evasions.
I suddenly thought that night, when I was besieged by the grass crawler, I was drawing a talisman on my body at that time, probably because I was in a hurry to draw the wrong one, which caused my soul to go out of my body, and then when Zhao Jie slapped the grass crawler, those corpse fluids made the talisman flower, so that my soul returned to the shell.
Slowly, I felt the mystery of the runes, these runes have been accumulated by the painstaking efforts of many generations, but I still can't peek into the mystery of the runes.
The master taught me the talisman and the Taoist art at the same time, and the time passed quickly.
Half a month later, the town's telecom finally helped us install the phone.
At the beginning, my master and I were very curious about this novelty, and we looked forward to someone calling us every day, which was easy to use, but it never worked, and after a few days, a call finally came in, but it was the town that advertised the deposit of phone bills.
When our curiosity subsided, one night, the phone came to mind.
I hurriedly ran up to pick it up and asked who it was.
But on the other end of the phone, there was no sound, and after a while, it became a busy tone, and the master also got up and asked who called. I shook my head, I don't know. At that time, most of the phones did not have caller ID, so there was no way to reverse the caller.
Later, when I went back to Songwan, I heard from others that there was a phone in the town, and this happened to me these nights, and some people rumored that it was a ghost calling.
I laughed in my heart: This ghost called our Taoist priest, didn't he send it to the door himself?
After I returned to Taoist Bay, that night, the phone rang again, I was about to fall asleep, a fire suddenly arose, I received a call, angrily yelled: "Hey, this is Taoist Bay, if you are a human, say quickly, if you are a ghost, don't mess with me, be careful that I kill you." ”
It was quiet for a while, and finally spoke: "Are you a Taoist priest?" ”
It was a woman's voice, I nodded, and at the same time realized that it was a phone call, and no one else could see it, and said, "I am a Taoist priest." ”
The woman suddenly said with a crying voice: "Mr. Taoist, come and save me." After saying that, he began to cry.
I was a little annoyed and asked, "Are you a human or a ghost?" ”
The woman cried, "I should be human, but there are so many ghosts here, my sister is pulling me, I can't get out, I'm so scared." ”
I felt that this woman had encountered a ghost, and hurriedly asked, "Where are you now?" I'm going to save you. ”
"I should be in the Qingtan Reservoir."
When I heard this, I blew up, and said that I was not a ghost, why was it in the Qingtan Reservoir.
Will a living person run into the Qingtan Reservoir in the middle of the night and dive?
"What kind of demon are you, do you think I'm young and don't read much, so I'm easy to deceive, right? I'm not stupid. ”
"Little Taoist, don't be angry, you listen to me slowly. I'm human, but I had a fight with my sister the other day and drove into the reservoir. ”
My head was a little big, and I said: "People fall into the water, don't say a few days, they will drown in a few minutes, do you think that I have watched too much "Journey to the West", and think that you fell into the reservoir, where there is just a dragon palace, the dragon king gave you a fixed face pearl, I will go to the reservoir to carry you, and then go ashore and give me the fixed face pearl." You see that's it, Sun Wukong didn't go down to carry it, but he still instigated Zhu Bajie to go into the water. ”
"Little Taoist, don't worry, listen to me, I feel that I should still be alive, because I feel that I am different from my sisters."
She was talking when the master came out and asked who it was.
I put the phone on my chest and said to the master, "It's a madman, she said she was in the reservoir and wanted us to save her." ”
When the master heard this, he hurriedly came over and took the phone, and I heard the female voice say, "Oh no, they found out that I was calling." Then it was busy.
I looked at the master, and the master explained, "Hung up." ”
Then the master asked me what the woman had said, and I answered truthfully, suspecting that she was either a madman or a prank. I said to the master by the way: "Many people in the town received calls at night, but they just didn't make a sound, and this time they heard that I was a Taoist priest, so they probably came to scare me." Maybe it's a woman in the city who is bored and relieved. ”
The master asked, "The woman said she was a little different from her sister?" ”
I nodded and said with a smile: "Master, don't you really believe that woman's words, I can't be deceived as a child, but you adults have been fooled." ”
The master didn't answer, but thought there very seriously, and suddenly said to me: "Let's go to Qingtan Town tomorrow to see if what the woman said is true?" ”
"Master, are we going to dive? We're all landlubbers and we can't swim. ”
The master smiled: "You usually boast that you are smart, let's go over there and ask if there is really this accident, I suspect that what the woman said may be true." ”
After speaking, the master asked me to go to bed, get up early tomorrow morning, and go to Qingtan Town.
I laughed in my heart: I know why the master was so easily deceived, because he hadn't watched "Journey to the West" at all. Can you believe this kind of thing? How can anyone in the reservoir still say that he is not dead, but he just doesn't realize that he is dead.