Chapter 39: The Wind Shadow Beggars (1)
When I heard the old man say "Buddha clothes", I couldn't help but be surprised, because I have known this for as long as I can remember
What is this "Buddha Clothes"......
I've read the Persona book at least three or five times, and one of the stories mentions the clothes and gives a brief explanation of the provenance of these treasures.
Buddha clothes are also called Buddha clothes, is a magic in Buddhism, or magic weapons, some similar to Maoshan paper vest, its fundamental difference is that the paper vest is simply as a light body weapon, as long as it is worn, you can travel thousands of miles a day.
Dai Zong, one of the well-known Water Margin heroes, wore a paper vest to make his light body exercises unmatched, thus gaining the reputation of "Shenxing Taibao", which made him famous in the rivers and lakes.
This Buddha robe is a cloak with embroidered shoes, which looks like a human being, but the magic lies in the fact that with the blessing of the spell, these magic objects can be integrated into people's minds, and they can go wherever they want to go, and they are not subject to any restrictions.
According to legend, this Buddha is the twenty-eighth generation of Buddha disciples of Sakyamuni, Bodhidharma Patriarch created, Bodhidharma Patriarch has been in a natural stone cave in Songshan Wuru Peak, practice "Meditation Gong", this practice is nine years, during which he has not left the stone cave half a step.
In these nine years, although the body cannot go out of the cave, the Buddha's heart still does not forget to purify all sentient beings, in order to save all the evil sources in the world, the only way is to let the soul leave the body and go out of the mountain, free shuttle through yin and yang.
Therefore, he meditated for a long time, tried all means, and finally sewed two pieces of clothes called "Yin Wedding Dress" by hand, one is to wear a yin wedding dress, and the other is to return the yang wedding dress.
These two clothes can lead his soul to avoid persecution in the yin and yang worlds, and he can freely shuttle between yin and yang, leaving when he wants, and returning when he wants.
After these two clothes were made, Patriarch Bodhidharma cultivated them with Buddhism, and worshiped them for 9981 days, and finally blessed the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, making them two magic weapons that can carry the soul between yin and yang, so that his soul can also promote the Dharma in the yin and yang worlds and purify sentient beings......
In order to commemorate the patriarch, the disciples renamed these two "soul-attracting wedding clothes" as "Buddha clothes", also known as "Buddha clothes", which means that the Buddha is free, the past and the future are free to return, the Buddha is unrepresented, and there is no obstacle to return......
It's just that in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, there were many wars, and Buddhism could not escape the disaster.
However, there are many legends about the whereabouts of Buddha clothes......
Among them, there is a legend that during the Tang Dynasty, Master Xuanzang went to the west to worship the Buddha on the way, he had brought these two Buddha clothes, but when passing through the Tarim Basin, the road and robbers were robbed by him, and his whereabouts are unknown.
There is also a legend that after the Yuan people just entered the Central Plains, they carried out a large-scale burn robbery of the Shaolin Temple, and changed the Shaolin monks to the law monks of the Yuan Dynasty.
There are even rumors that during the Jiaqing period, the White Lotus Sect got the Buddha's clothes from nowhere, and used the magic of the Buddha's clothes to float in the air, and trumpeted the White Lotus Sect as the Heavenly God Religion, so as to confuse the people, absorb a large number of believers, and finally launched a large-scale uprising against the Qing government.
At that time, the Qing government adopted the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, suppressing and appeasing both, and finally annihilated it in the Maoshan area, so that the White Lotus Sect collapsed.
At that time, the leader of the White Lotus Sect had no way out, and finally jumped off the cliff with the Buddha's clothes and died......
There are still a lot of miraculous sayings about the Buddha's clothes in the Persona book, so I won't repeat them here, but I said that the moment I heard the old man say that the two headless ghosts who had been following me were actually the long-disappeared Buddha's clothes, I immediately thought of all the legends about the Buddha's clothes in the book, so I couldn't help but show a look of surprise at the moment.
However, there are more doubts in my heart, and I can't help but think in my heart: such magical objects as Buddha Laiyi have long been lost in the rivers and lakes, for hundreds of years, whether it is the government or the people of the rivers and lakes, almost all kinds of means have been exhausted, looking for the whereabouts of this thing, but in the end there is still no news, how can it fall into the hands of this inconspicuous old man in front of him, is he a monk in a temple? But looking at him like this, how can he look like a half-point monk, but more like a flower child.
When the old man saw that my expression had changed greatly, he knew that I knew something about the Buddha's clothes, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, but he soon calmed down again.
He waved his hand, signaling me to be calm, and then coughed twice and said to me: "Boy, I didn't expect that your knowledge is not small, and you actually know the name of this Buddha clothes, it seems that you are not a simple person, it's just that!" That's it! My old man has read countless people in his life, and he can distinguish the good from the bad at a glance, judging from your appearance, he doesn't look like a bad person, although you have something to hide from me, but this is also reasonable, I might as well tell you, how I got this Buddha clothes. ”
As soon as the old man said this, I immediately became a disgrace to myself, but I did not expect that he knew from the beginning that I had lied to him, and I thought that the story I had made up was seamless, and it seemed that he was really a master.
I hurriedly arched my hand and said: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, please don't blame the old man, there is really something unspeakable to hide, so I will hide it." ”
"It's okay, it's okay, when it's time to say it, you will naturally say, I'll tell you, I got the experience of this Buddha cloth."
Next, the old man told me his story, and I was amazed to hear it, I never expected that this seemingly ordinary old man in front of me turned out to be a famous big man in the rivers and lakes.
The old man in front of him is called Shi Buyong, and his name is nothing special, but he has a well-known nickname on the rivers and lakes, called "Wind Shadow God Beggar".
The Wind Shadow God Beggars is the former leader of the Beggar Gang, it is said that he has become famous in the Republic of China, and his name is much higher than the five masters today, that is to say, the old man in front of him who looks like he is seventy or eighty years old, but in fact he is an old birthday star who is one or twenty years old.
At the beginning of the last century, that is, before the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Shi Buyong relied on his diligence and intelligence, and at a young age, he had already integrated all the peerless martial arts of the beggar gang, and he could be regarded as a martial arts genius, and in terms of kung fu, he had surpassed many elders of the beggar gang, and it can be said that he had stepped into the ranks of the masters of the rivers and lakes.
In addition, he has a very high level of comprehension, and he has created a kind of light body exercises, which can be said to be unique in the world, and even his master, that is, the leader of the beggar gang at that time, is not as good as him......