Volume 2 Dusty Memories Chapter 62 Life and Death Flow Chart (2)
The center of the diagram is divided into 12 figures, the first of which shows a blind man walking; The second picture shows a potter making pottery; The third picture shows a monkey climbing a tree; There is a ship in the fourth picture; There is an empty house on the fifth picture; The sixth picture shows a man and a woman in contact; In the seventh picture, a man has an arrow in his eye, and he is bloodied; The eighth picture shows a man drinking and having fun alone; The ninth picture shows a man picking fruit; There is a tent in the tenth picture, and in the tent there is a pair of men and women orthogonal. Happy; Figure 11 depicts a pregnant woman in labor; The twelve figures are the end, with only an old man and a dead body.
After the central twelve figures, there is a circle-shaped color map, which is also divided, but this time it is six. These six pictures are too much for my grandfather to know, because they were mentioned in a Tibetan scripture, and these six pictures symbolize the six reincarnations, which are drawn counterclockwise from above.
The first picture is the topmost point, the celestial realm. In the middle is Mt. Meru, in the lower part is the sea, and on the left is the celestial beings who make fun. There is also a row of generals wearing armor and helmets, holding bows and arrows, and the direction of the arrows points to the picture below. It is said that the beings of the heavenly realm live long and are wealthy, and other religions regard ascension to heaven as the highest and ultimate thing. But Buddhist theories say that the gods and immortals also have troubles, and they often fight against the asura path for beauty and wealth. And at the end of their lives, if they occasionally make mistakes, they will still flow to the other five realms.
The next picture is humanitarian, the picture of mountains and rivers, houses, farming, cattle and sheep, etc., but people's lives are not happy, birth is step by step towards death, only a few decades in between, there are birth, old age, sickness and death, death will also come impermanently. All birth, old age, sickness, and death are suffering, plus love and separation, and resentment will be. It is really unbearable to ask for it, and the five aggregates are blazing.
Humanity is followed by the Asura Path, also known as human non-human and inhuman. It is a non-human who has no visible body, and is very wealthy. The asura woman is extremely beautiful, but she is jealous and warlike. And the Asura man is extremely ugly and strong. In the picture is a row of asuras pointing at the heavenly realm with bows and arrows, they often fight in a way that wants the heavenly realm to drink, and the celestial realm robs their asura women.
The next picture is the animal road. There are fish and dragons in the water, elephants, deer, cows, horses, sheep, etc. on the land. They are as big as whales and as small as ants, and they are often killed, whipped, and driven by humans, but they have to endure incomparable pain in a very small space, and they have mouths but are difficult to speak.
After the animal path is the hungry ghost path, and the main karmic cause of being born in this path is stinginess. The image of the hungry ghost is ugly, the belly is as big as a drum, the throat is as thin as a needle, and all the food and drink are turned into flames when they reach the mouth.
The last picture is the hell road. In the middle of the picture, two ghost pawns are cooking human heads in a big iron wok, in the upper middle is the king of Yama is trying the case, the lower left side is the hot hell, and the lower right side is the cold ice hell, the life span of hellish beings is countless times that of the human world, and one day is equal to nine million years in the world, and there is no time for suffering.
After the six paths are completed, the outermost layer is the clearest, and the diagram is divided into three parts. One depicts a bird, a snake, and a pig; In the other picture, there is a bardo body with more good karma, floating in the middle of the colored jade; In the last picture, the bardo body bears negative karma, led naked by evil spirits to hell and other evil paths.
This is the picture, which is similar to the thangka painting in the Tibetan Buddhist temple, but unfortunately the horn went crazy before he finished speaking, which made my grandfather even more puzzled. So Grandpa Tai looked through a lot of information, and he finally found the life and death flow chart in the horn.
In the center of this diagram of life and death, there is a bird, a snake, and a pig, representing greed and hatred. Outside the central disc is a ring, divided into two parts, which is the depiction of the bardo body, which is the good and evil bardo body that my grandfather saw when he was young. Further out there are six paths, but there is no difference in the slightest, but the outermost round is divided into twelve figures, which are not different from the previous twelve pictures, which respectively represent: ignorance, action, knowledge, fame, six in, touch, receive, love, take, have, birth, old age and death.
When Grandpa Tai saw the diagram of life and death, he really understood the words of the loudspeaker at that time: Acting against life and death is an evil ghost!
At that time, my grandfather didn't know this, he just knew that there was a voice that kept saying, put your hand up, put it up...
After the voice sounded, my grandfather saw an extra picture in the upper right corner of the picture, a blue pattern. Grandpa Tai has seen the pattern, seen it in the carriage of the ninth master, seen it in the gold-inlaid black knife, a pair of blue runes, on which is a square figure composed of straight lines, I don't know what it means, but it makes people feel at peace after reading it.
Grandpa Tai heard his chest thump, and his hand began to slowly rise, resting on the blue rune. However, nothing happened, nothing appeared.
At this moment, my grandfather felt a pain in the back of his head and fainted. When he woke up again, he sat at the mouth of the gourd heading deep into the mountains, and in front of him was a thick layer of fog. Grandpa Tai was stunned, he was wondering if he had entered this deep mountain, whether he had encountered those things.
These are grandfather's versions to the outside world, and there is one more sentence when he speaks to his grandfather.
"I distinctly remember that someone gave me a stick, and Li Yan, who was supposed to be dead, slowly walked towards me."
After all, my grandfather slipped back to the village, and he was only half a month in the mountains, but the village seemed to have gone through many years. After his death, the grandfather who lived for the rest of his life no longer mentioned the incident of being eaten by Yi Zi, and his family treated it as if it had never happened. But after returning home, my grandfather found that he had half a codex in his arms, which was the other half of the codex that the Jiang family hid, but my grandfather couldn't find the codex anymore. After that, my grandfather tried to complete the codex according to his memory, and after the book, the codex was hidden in the cellar of the house, which is strange to say, and then a fire broke out, and a fire broke out in the cellar without air. Only half of the codex that was rescued was brought back by my grandfather, and my grandfather couldn't remember the contents of the codex if he wanted to recall the contents of the codex.
Later, by chance, I found a record of my grandfather's account of that time in the half of the manuscript I left, not a record to be exact, but a paragraph, scattered and scattered. My grandfather also asked my grandfather about this, but my grandfather always said that he didn't remember writing it, but the handwriting was obviously my grandfather's.
"Why is this happening?"
"Nothing happened, the blood was thinned."
"What do you say? The blood is thin! ”
"Yes."
"The Ninth Master?"
"We can only wait for the arrival of the next bloodline."
The text came to an abrupt halt here, but I felt that the text was calling me from the underworld.