Chapter 413: Buddha is the Tao?
After a while, a column of water suddenly shot out from the bottom of the water, and slapped Cha Wenbin in the face, Cha Wenbin was caught off guard and had to wipe it with his hand, and a toad suddenly came out of the water and swam happily.
The three-legged toad had originally broken a leg, and the fracture was perfectly restored at the moment, and there was no wound to be seen. It swam happily in the water, and from time to time it raised its neck and called at its master, and the toad had not been so happy since it had been brought back.
The three-legged toad was born from the essence of the sun and the moon, and legend has it that it can only be found in places where immortal treasures appear. Kunlun is at the top, the ancestor of the dragon vein, the fairyland of Yaochi, and the snow peak of ten thousand years. It has a strong healing ability, how can it not heal its own injured leg? That's because ordinary water, no matter how filtered and clean, it is always mixed with the dust of the world. The three-legged toad does not belong to the world, the immortals are not of the same quality, only the snow water of the nine days can be comparable to Kunlun, how can it be uncomfortable?
If he could, Cha Wenbin wanted to bring it back to Kunlun, where only it was truly home.
After the toad finished taking a bath, it regained its aura, and got into Cha Wenbin's pocket and continued to sleep, how can it have nothing to do with it here.
The bad mood was swept away by the naughtiness of this little thing, and everyone came to take a glass of water and wash away the dust from their bodies, like a pilgrim, with a heart of awe.
The right-hand swirling "swastika" mark all over the ground can easily make people mistakenly think that they have entered a large hall of Buddhism, because most people associate this symbol with Buddha. As one of the oldest religions, Bon is believed to be the first of the Bon doctrines and the second is the emblem of Bon, which originally meant solid and eternal.
However, this argument has become more and more untenable with the deepening of archaeology in recent years. There is no doubt that the swastika is an important symbol of Tibetan culture, especially its traditional religion. In the traditional Tibetan folk customs, white lime is used to paint this pattern outside the door during the New Year's festival to express good luck; When building a new house, this pattern is painted on the base of the house, which means that it is strong and durable; Painting this pattern on the door of the house can ward off evil and ward off disease.
Some Tibetan women will embroider this character on the back of their clothes in the year of their birth, hoping that the bodhisattva will bless them with a safe year. It is also often found in sashes, tapestries, thangkas, and even rituals. It is generally believed that "in Tibet, the swastika is everywhere, both as a pattern and as a symbol. In Tibetan, the swastika pronounced "Wan" in Chinese is called "Yongzhong"; In our Middle Earth, the only female emperor Wu Zetian issued a decree in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty to set the "swastika" as the right hand, the sound as "ten thousand", and the righteousness as the "collection of auspicious virtues".
In the Tibetan view, the swastika expresses the meaning of auspiciousness, which is the same as that of the Han people. We can call the 'swastika' the 'Yongzhong' auspicious charm. In Tibetan history, the swastika was closely associated with religion, whether it was the original Bon religion or later Tibetan Buddhism. In the primitive Bon, the swastika is an auspicious sign, Bon was founded as the "Yongzhong Ben", the text used is called the "Yongzhong" divine text, the place where the Bon religion is located is called the "Nine-level Yongzhong Mountain", "Yongzhong Dune", the Zen staff held by the ancestors of the Bon religion also has the auspicious pattern of "Yongzhong", and even the location of the Bon temple is mostly in the place with the natural "swastika" pattern. After Buddhism was introduced to Tibet, the swastika was also widely used. All the portraits of the Buddha must have auspicious charms on their chests. However, there is a certain difference between the use of the swastika in Bon and Tibetan Buddhism: the swastika in Bon rotates in a counterclockwise direction, and the swastika in Buddhism rotates in a clockwise direction. ”
But the word is not only found in the territory of China, but also in many different regions in the more ancient and distant era:
In the distant Neolithic Age, modern people found the swastika pattern in pottery fragments unearthed in the Iranian province of Khuzestan; At the beginning of the Bronze Age, pottery excavated from the Sindasnow Tower in the southern Ural Mountains of Russia also had a swastika pattern on it; This mark is also found in seals excavated in places such as Rosol in Gujarat in India and Harappa in Pakistan; In addition, artifacts from the north-central Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Scythians, and Sarmatians have appeared in the Bronze Age or Stone Age. This motif even appeared in Africa, where the swastika is found on pottery in the temple of Mount Borgol, which came from northeastern Africa in the 11th century BC.
In antiquity, thousands of years before the advent of the Age of Discovery, this symbol has spread all over the places where there is human civilization, and Buddhism has carried it forward, but no one is sure that it must have come from Buddhism, because it appeared much earlier than this religion.
And Cha Wenbin thinks it comes from Taoism!
This symbol is commonly used in Tibetan areas to rotate to the right, and here the ground is divided into two types, the right-hand is right-turned, and the right-hand is clockwise, and the left-hand ground is the "swastika" is counterclockwise. This left-to-right rotation is different, and a non-careful person will not notice it, because they are too similar.
"Zha Brown, do you have a swastika in Tibetan areas that rotates in the direction?"
"Nope." Za Brown's answer was crisp.
Because this character is not only used in Buddhism, but also in Taoism, but it is used more in Feng Shui.
The swastika shape is also known as the "natural Bagua top", and its feng shui pattern is that the west mountain is turned north to the eight tips, out of the Phoenix Mountain, and there is only one place in China that has this feng shui: there are two small mountains in the Shuangfeng Mountain, a famous mountain in eastern Hubei Province, and there are two small mountains with one tip and two tips, which is recognized as the Taoist natural Bagua top.
And Cha Wenbin is more related to the Book of Changes, "swastika" and "swastika" correspond to the yin and yang fish in this gossip diagram, are there many similarities? One left and one right, opposing each other and protecting each other, their trajectory is the same as a circle.
If we draw the swastika on a transparent film and hang it in the air. When viewed from the front, it is the symbol "swastika", and when viewed from the back, it is the symbol "swastika". From the front, when the swastika rotates counterclockwise, it happens to be the swastika that rotates clockwise from the reverse side. In other words, the swastika and the swastika are two congruent figures. If you draw them on two transparent sheets of paper and turn one of them on top of the other, the two symbols will be stacked on top of each other and become one. Doesn't this confirm the Taoist theory that yin and yang complement each other and are relatively the same?
"Where the sun is, there is eternal light; I'm going to a place with bright sun, where I live forever, where our requests and **!" The ancient Indian scripture, the Rig Veda, praises the sun; "When the first shiba was formed, yin and yang were mixed together, and separating yin and yang was the sun." The ancient Tibetan folk song "Shipa Q&A" also sings the same way.
More and more people believe that this symbol originally meant "sun", which is why it is so popular, and everything comes from the sun, which was the only way to obtain light and energy in ancient times.
Standing on top of the tower covered with sun markers, doesn't that mean that you have become an immortal?
Cha Wenbin suddenly laughed and said: "How can there be a sun in the world that never sets and does not set in the temple, I see!" ”
The high priest had told him that their ancestors were in a distant plateau, where the mountains reached to the heavens, and where the people lived in the clouds. Whether it is Taoism or witchcraft, with the help of the power of nature, the ancients took the sky as the largest, the closest to the sky is naturally the easiest to feather and ascend to the immortals, except for Tibet, where else in the world will be closer to the sky than here?
No matter how good Kunlun's feng shui is, it is also the ancestor of the dragon vein, and by borrowing the dragon's aura, you can transfer and change your life and even affect the world. The dragon is just a kind of divine object in the sky, what if people can also go to heaven to cultivate? How many famous Taoist mountains, the blessed land cave is selected as the peak of the mountain, just because the cultivators want to get close to the sky, if they open a mountain and preach here, then I don't know how much it will get twice the result with half the effort.
The author of the line-bound book, why did he come here, Cha Wenbin already had the answer in his mind. It's a pity that religion has been a mountain since ancient times, not to mention Tibet, where Bon Buddhism is unified, and the sacred snowy region will not accept civilizations from Middle-earth, even if there are so many similarities between the two.
Wash away the dust, then it's time to step into the main hall, and go up to the next level, it's time to crawl at the feet of the gods and wait for the summons. But is God so good? There are too many decapitated corpses in the passages, and the priests, a bloody event that has never gone away is about to take place......