Chapter 52: The Truth
"Don't worry about your business, I saw that this thing was very peculiar and looked at it with my divine sense, the two items are nothing special, but the buttons on the box are very special, although they are made of dark iron, but the things wrapped inside are out-and-out relics"
The relics refer to the bones and bead-like gem-like products left behind by the Buddhist patriarch Shakyamuni Buddha after his death and cremation. It is rumored that 2,500 years ago, when Shakyamuni was in Nirvana, his disciples received a parietal skull, two bones, four teeth, a middle finger phalanx relic, and 84,000 bead-shaped real body relics from the ashes when they cremated his body. These relics of the Buddha are regarded as sacred relics by the devotees and compete to be worshipped.
The relics are called Bundu in Indian, also called Shililuo, and translated into Chinese as Lingbone, Body Bone, and Body. It is a crystalline body left behind by a person's death and cremation. However, relics are completely different from the bones of ordinary dead people. Its shape is ever-changing, some are round, oval, some are lotus-shaped, and some are Buddha-like or bodhisattva-shaped; Its colors are white, black, green, red, and there are also various colors; Some of the relics are like pearls, some like agate, and some are like crystals; Some are transparent, others are bright, like diamonds.
The scriptures say that relics are obtained by a person through the practice of precepts, concentration, and wisdom, as well as his own great wishes, and they are very rare and precious. Like the Buddha Nirvana, the relics burned out have as many as one stone and six buckets, at that time there were eight kings competing for the Buddha's relics, each got a share of the relics, they brought the Buddha's relics back to their own country, and built pagodas, so that the people can admire, worship. In addition, eminent monks and lay believers who have attained spiritual attainment can also receive relics after their deaths. For example, the six ancestors of China, Huineng, and the masters of modern times, such as Hongyi, Yinguang, Taixu, and Zhangjia, all left a considerable number of relics.
Relics are not entirely obtained through cremation.
The types of relics are generally divided into whole-body relics and broken body relics. The whole body relics do not need to be cremated, and the whole body will not decay, this is called the whole body relics, also called the physical bodhisattva; The broken body relics are the bones after cremation, the white relics are bones, the black relics belong to the hair, the red relics are muscles, and there are also green or five-color relics. But there are also some relics that are not transformed by the human body, such as running out of the heavens or the earth, or from oil lamps, or from flowers, and there are also some relics that are sincerely offered and prayed, and the relics are reborn from the relics. In the "Bathing Buddha Merit Sutra", the relics are divided into: 1. Birth relics, also known as body bone relics, are the bones of the Buddha; Second, it is the Dharma body relics, also known as the Dharma Song relics, which refer to the teachings and precepts left by the Buddha.
Some relics are so hard that they sink when struck with an iron hammer without any damage. It is not a perennial fasting monk who only has it, only a year of refuge, intensive practice, and the deceased lay monk, after incineration, there are also relics on the bones. And Kiki didn't know what to do with the relics, but she only knew that she really needed it, and the madman didn't want to go back to the house and sit cross-legged directly, and began to wrap the buttons with Buddha power, and the buttons cracked as the two increased, and after a while, they crackled and cracked, revealing the snow-white relics, and when the moment the cracks opened, a ball of golden light came out, and Qiqi felt her body shake after seeing it, and immediately sat down cross-legged at random, and began to read the scriptures that she didn't know what to do. Slowly floated in front of Kiki, the relics directly emitted a golden light and flew to the top of Kiki's head in a circle to cover this Kiki, she began to change her hands, pinching all kinds of spiritual decisions, and after a while, the relics got into her body, after a struggle, Kiki floated into the air, and the madman saw this and directly made a problem with the enchantment province around him, and the madman looked at her quietly, and after a while, Kiki began to transform into a form, from a human form to a person who has been nursing the head of the body, and after falling slowly, the golden light also disappeared from the side.