Chapter 21: The Conflict between Buddhism and Taoism
"Do you have anything to eat?" the fourth senior brother swayed in.
The fourth senior brother Lin Yunmi is 18 years old, two years younger than me, but the entry is first-come, first-served, so he is my senior brother, and he is the most unstable among the senior brothers.
Before I got on the train, I bought a lot of food in the supermarket, and brought him spicy strips and melon seeds, and he was so happy: "Oh, I'll go, you don't know, there is not even a commissary on this mountain, and the birds are fading out of my mouth." ”
The fourth senior brother is very easy-going, and he told me a lot of customs on Totoro Mountain.
I said, "What is the origin of that fat monk, and how can he exorcise evil spirits and come to the master?
The fourth senior brother said disdainfully: "He has a fart Tao."
Fat Qiao's name is Qiao Ruiyuan, and his ancestral home is Dongbai Jilin.
When his grandfather Qiao Laoxue was young, he dug ginseng, dug gold, hunted and logged, and even robbed tombs, in short, his family had nothing to do with Buddhism.
Qiao Laoxue organized a group of people to go to Changbai Mountain to rob a tomb, I don't know what I encountered, except for his grandfather, everyone else died, his grandfather came out of the tomb after his temperament changed greatly, and he directly found a monk temple to become a monk.
His grandfather is smart, he has experienced a lot of things, he dares to think and do, his brain is alive, and the abbot likes his grandfather very much, so he teaches a lot of things to Qiao Laoxue, and plans to pass on that temple to him after he dies.
Qiao Laoxue has been in the temple for more than ten years, and found that the profit rate of religion is 500%, and there is no risk.
For example, he drew a talisman for the donor, and the donor had an accident not long after wearing it, so he came to the temple with his family to make trouble, and the abbot said at the time: "Sincerity is spiritual." You don't believe it, how can the Buddha bless you?"
The donor said, "Why don't I believe it, don't I believe that I can come to the temple to ask for charms?"
The abbot also said, "When the Buddha closes this door, he will surely open another door for you." Everything in the world has its cause and effect, including what happened to you, and instead of reflecting on your sins, you came to the temple to make trouble, do you think it's funny?"
A few words made the family's face red, leaving a large sum of money, and the abbot sold him a bunch of hand-strung Buddhist beads, and his family kowtowed one after another in thanksgiving, and then went down the mountain to concentrate on repentance.
Because religion belongs to a seller's market, what do you say, how do the donors believe it, even if you expose the stuffing, the donors question you, don't panic, and say calmly: "Donor, I see that you are not sincere." And then there was a bunch of big truths, and no one dared to disagree at this time.
Therefore, there is no risk in religious profits, and there is no risk in drought and flood!
More than ten years later, the old abbot passed away, and Qiao Laoxue was originally asked to take over, but the original eldest disciple was not convinced, and united others to beat him out.
Lost the backer, and lost the place to stay, Qiao Laoxue all the way to the food all the way forward, suddenly a flash of inspiration, since there is no temple, I will build one myself, so the rhetoric of the fate was changed, saying that he is a monk of Daoming Temple, Daoming Temple was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, vowing to rebuild the temple, hoping that the donor will donate.
The common people feel that donating to the temple is a matter of great merit, so they are treated well by everyone everywhere along the way, of course, there are robbed and beaten because of too much money, but the more miserable he is, the more insistent it shows that this person has wisdom and perseverance, and the more people who donate, and finally arrived in Jiangxi, when walking at night, he found that a mountain was purple and sky-high, which was an excellent place for feng shui, so he came to Totoro Mountain.
A few years later, with the help of several major families, he invited Hong Kong feng shui masters to go everywhere, and finally chose Totoro Hill to build the temple.
But there is already our Taoist temple on the mountain, Qiao Laoxue is very bad, and the big families who help him are not good, they want to drive the Taoist temple away, and even dispatched the underworld to smash it, but they were overturned by the master.
Hahaha, these fools, thinking that Taoist priests are easy to bully if there are few people, and the master's Five Thunder Rectification Law is superb, and these so-called underworld only have the share of running.
Later, they were damaged and built the temple at the foot of the mountain.
My Neighbor Totoro Mountain is shaped like a cat lying on its stomach, and there are three feng shui treasures on the mountain, which are the head, back and butt from high to low.
The place of the dragon head has the best feng shui, but it is too troublesome, you have to build the road all the way from the foot of the mountain, the back, is the location of our Taoist temple, there is no head so troublesome, and there is no worldly atmosphere at the foot of the mountain, this is the best location of Totoro Mountain.
The location of Daoming Temple is at the foot of the mountain, and the road up the mountain was deliberately blocked when it was repaired.
Do you have to go through the temple and then the back door to go up the mountain?
This is what this Qiao Lao Wang Ba deliberately cultivated, and this trick is called truncation in feng shui.
The advantage of this is to cut off the popularity, the Daoming Temple is blocked at the foot of the mountain, and the back door is not open, and the people can only come to the temple if they have something, so our Taoist temple is gradually forgotten.
However, the feng shui master who built the site of the temple also knew what he couldn't do, so after the temple was completed, he came to the Taoist temple to ask for sin, saying that he had to do it because he received money from others.
However, the feng shui he designed left a ray of life for the Taoist temple, and after 50 years, the Taoist temple will be full of vitality after the feng shui changes.
The master stayed in the Taoist temple alone for 20 years, accepted the master who was still a child as an apprentice, and later accepted the third uncle who came to the mountain to escape the catastrophe, so far there are no new recruits in the Taoist temple.
The master has a long life, and before he died, he told the master about it, so that he and his uncle could keep the Taoist temple no matter what, and persist until the feng shui changes, and the Taoist temple will be very good.
Three years ago the earthquake, the stone tripod incense burner in the Daoming Temple was cracked, so the Daoming Temple was replaced with a new one, who knew that the purpose of the stone tripod incense burner was to suppress feng shui, it changed, the temple no longer blocked the feng shui, and the popularity will pass through the temple to our Taoist temple.
Now it is 50 years later, so it has only been three years of hard work, and Master has successively accepted a few of us, and there will be more in the future. ”
I was dumbfounded, I didn't expect that there was such a history of Buddhism and Taoism on this small Totoro Mountain, and I asked: "Then I think the great monk and we are very good now." ”
The fourth senior brother said: "The great monk is the third generation abbot of the Qiao family.
His grandfather's temple was full of incense, so he secretly married his daughter-in-law and gave birth to several brothers of his Qiao family. Later, the second eldest of the Qiao family took charge of the temple, and the temple made money quickly, and after a few years of making old nose money, he didn't want to do it, but his brothers and children didn't want to take over.
Qiao Lao Er prefers the eldest brother's child Qiao Ruiyuan, this kid was born fat until now, born with a Buddha face, Qiao Ruiyuan said what is inappropriate, said that he can't marry a daughter-in-law if he becomes a monk, Qiao Lao Er said angrily: "The special monk has nothing to do with marriage, you should marry, you should be a monk and be a monk, there is no conflict at all."
Later, Qiao Ruiyuan committed an accident, and his second uncle's well-connected affairs were asked to take over the Taoist temple.
Such a fat Joe became the abbot. ”
The fourth senior brother stuffed a few more spicy strips in his mouth, chewed them and said: "When Qiao Ruiyuan became the abbot, it was when the Shiding incense burner was destroyed, and his grandfather and his second uncle were still studying Buddhism at that time.
That is, two years ago, there was an evil one in the temple, let the monks exorcise evil spirits, where would Qiao Ruiyuan do this, but the donor gave a lot of money, so a few monks pretended to chant the scriptures, and as a result, the girl who possessed her suddenly went berserk, and Qiao Ruiyuan, who was slapped by a big slap, spit blood, and several monks were stunned that they were beaten by a girl and couldn't find the north.
It happened that the master came back from going down the mountain to buy vegetables, and when he saw the crazy girl, he directly took out the treasure of the Taoist master.
There was no need to draw talismans, so the girl knelt on the ground and trembled, and went back to the Taoist temple to get the magic weapon and drove the things away.
From that day on, when the master entered and exited from Daoming Temple, the monks were respectful. ”
I had a question: "Before that, Daoming Temple blocked the way up the mountain, how did Master and Master get in and out?"
Fourth Senior Brother: "Knock on the door directly, smash the door if you don't open it, do it when you should do it, many old monks in the temple have been beaten by the master and master, and they don't dare not open it, who asked him to repair the temple here."
So you see, it didn't take long for us to get along with the fat monk.
However, the fat monk has a conscience than his grandfather and uncle, and the old man who exorcises evil spirits comes to the master, and the master does not charge money, and the fat Qiao conscience can't get by, and he sees that our Taoist temple is very broken, and he built an antique small white building for us next to it, and he originally wanted us to live in the building, and the master said that the old view is a little old, and it can still live in people, so the small white building was changed into a library building.
Fat Joe found someone to bring thousands of books to the library.
There is nothing interesting on this mountain, usually except for copying and reciting scriptures, we go inside to read books. ”