Chapter 206: "Watching the Sky"
Last time, I talked about urging my brother to tell Emperor Chongzhen and everyone about various "true cultivation methods", and those who follow the fate can practice "true drops", so there are "Shinto" and "Buddhism".
"Joy Zen? Really? Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen looked at each other and were embarrassed, and suddenly remembered that there were several huge "Happy Buddha" golden statues in the Lama Temple, guarded by brocade guards, so that after the emperors of the past dynasties ascended the throne, they recruited "show girls" to enrich the "harem" for "sex education" in front of the "harem".
Those who "observe emptiness" also observe the emptiness of the Dharma. "Nioh Sutra" (1) has a view of emptiness, and the "Tiantai Sect" of the "Nioh Sutra" says: "Those who say and observe emptiness are said to have no phase and wonderful wisdom and no phase, and the inside and outside are silent, and the fate is empty." In fact, in Tibetan Buddhism, "contemplation of emptiness" mostly refers to "joyful meditation".
In fact, in another time and space, the Ming Dynasty royal family liked to worship the "Happy Buddha" very much, perhaps because the Ming Dynasty attached more importance to the Tibetan region and specially set up the "Wusi Tibetan Capital Division" to manage the Tibetan area, or it may be that the Ming Dynasty rulers deliberately elevated the status of "Tibetan Buddhism" in order to show respect for "Tibetan Buddhism".
However, "Guankong" is to "Joy Zen", in fact, what is emphasized is a "Wukong", that is, after the love between men and women, once both parties get the peak pleasure at the same time, it will make the consciousness in a vague state, as if at the beginning of chaos, everything is empty, so that people can see through the red dust, and there is nothing to love, which is for Wukong.
Therefore, before mentioning "Wukong", it has to be a cliché, that is, there is a story of "Heavenly Demon Rao Buddha" in Buddhism. Legend has it that during the long practice before the Buddha became a Buddha, there was a heavenly demon who wanted to destroy the Buddha's Taoism, so he offered the Buddha three "jade girls", that is, flawless beauties like beautiful jade.
The move of the "Heavenly Demon" is to make the Buddha have desires, so as to destroy the Buddha's will and make the Buddha go mad, but the Buddha said: "What is the reason for the defilement? Go! I don't. "What the Buddha means is that these three jade girls are not only good on the outside, but they are all filthy on the inside.
Therefore, the story of "Heavenly Demon Rao Buddha" is about the Buddha's view of women as "flood beasts". Therefore, in later generations, there were often people in the mortal world who hummed such a song: "The little monk went down the mountain to fast, and the old monk explained: 'The woman under the mountain is a tiger, and you must avoid the ...... when you encounter it."
This shows that the Buddha is solemn and pure in the eyes of the world, but there is a "special Buddha", which is completely different from many Buddhas, he is the "Buddha of Joy".
Unlike many pure and solemn Buddhas, the Buddha of Joy generally presents a two-body "double posture", in which the male body sits cross-legged, and the female body faces the male body and sits on top of the male body, even riding across the waist. In the past, this "Buddha of Joy" was enshrined in most lamas, especially in Tibetan areas.
Not only is the "Buddha of Joy" enshrined in the temple, but even the harem of the Ming and Qing dynasties is also enshrined in the "Buddha of Joy". In the Qing Dynasty, more than 300 "Happy Buddhas" were enshrined in the "Lama Temple" alone! In the "Baoxiang Building" next to Cining Palace, there are also many "Happy Buddhas" who are enshrined by the royal family.
The reason why the "Joy Buddha" was worshiped on a large scale by the royal family of the Ming and Qing dynasties was because it conveyed a "mysterious message" to the rulers, which made him have to pay attention to it.
First of all, the "Forbidden City" was a symbol of imperial power in ancient times, and the "Buddha of Joy" was one of the deities enshrined in "Tibetan Buddhism", which should not have been casually out of Tibet, but the "Buddha statue" of "Tibetan Buddhism" was enshrined in the "Forbidden City", which showed the importance that the rulers of the dynasty attached to "Tibetan Buddhism".
Especially in the Qing Dynasty, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty also served as the "Great Khan of Mongolia", and the previous "Mengyuan Empire" also established "Tibetan Buddhism" as the "state religion". Therefore, the Qing emperor was also considered by "Tibetan Buddhism" to be the embodiment of "Manjushri" and actively supported the Qing Dynasty to rule the world.
From these strange phenomena, it is not difficult to see that the public worship of the "Happy Buddha" by the rulers of the Ming and Qing dynasties may be a transaction with "Tibetan Buddhism".
Secondly, there is a wild history record, the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty has many enshrinement of the "Joy Buddha", but also has a mechanism, once opened, the "Joy Buddha" in the male body, the female body will move, the effect is self-evident, such as the later mortal "small movie", so that the royal nobles, the prince and the grandson can not stop.
Through this operation, the emperors of the past dynasties were able to observe the "Joy Dharma" up close before the wedding, which had a deep-rooted effect in their minds!
In addition, no matter which dynasty, almost all emperors were very interested in the pursuit of "immortality", and even "asked for immortals" and "refined elixir" at any cost. The "Buddha of Joy" in Tibet and the Taoist "Technique in the Room" are strikingly similar in effect, so it is not surprising that the emperors offered Buddha in the harem!
But at that time, there were many people, especially Confucian scholars, who believed that the "Happy Buddha" was an "evil Buddha", and its existence was really absurd! At the same time, Confucian scholars also wondered why Buddhism, which preached that "color is emptiness", would offer this "evil Buddha" who was dressed in rags and embraced naked? In fact, this starts with the prototype of the "Happy Buddha".
There have always been many theories about the prototype of the "Joy Buddha": one is the male body in the "Joy Buddha", which is also known as the "Male Heaven", the eldest son of the "Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord", who has a tyrannical temperament. The female statue is the incarnation of "Guanyin Bodhisattva", using the method of embracing and intersecting to resolve the "male" nature!
Second, the "male body" of the "Joyful Buddha" is the king "Vinayaka" who advocates "Brahmanism", because of the wisps of mutilation of Buddhists, so the Buddha Shakyamuni sent the "Vajra Selfless Buddha Mother" (also said to be "Guanyin Bodhisattva") to give beauty tricks to influence, so that the "Vinayaka" immersed in it, and finally was crossed into the Buddha's door!
It is said that after "Vinayaka" became the "protector of Buddhism", his mana increased greatly because of his practice of "Joy Zen Method", and he became the leader of the "Vajra Buddha who subdues demons and destroys demons".
Third, according to the folk saying in Tibetan areas, because the local people's descendants are not prosperous, they worship the "Happy Buddha" to pray for the reproduction of children and grandchildren, and the prosperity of the people.
Fourth, some people say that the "Buddha of Joy" is the "Buddha father" and the "Buddha mother", that is, the "parent Buddha". The Tibetan language calls the "Twin Buddha" as "Yabu Youm", and "Yabu" means "father", and "Yum" means "mother", which shows that the Tibetan people have a high degree of recognition of the "Happy Buddha", which is equivalent to the ancestor worship of the Han people!
It can be seen from this that the "happy Buddha" enshrined in "Buddhist Tantra" is not to obtain the so-called "joy" and desire, but to teach people to abandon evil and follow good.
The ragged clothes of the "Happy Buddha", from the perspective of practicing Buddhism, also represent "spotless", symbolizing freedom from the many troubles of rolling red dust, that is, freedom from the "mortal realm of dirt", and the embrace of the two represents the combination of "wisdom" and "method", that is, the "enlightenment" through the love of men and women.
Although "Confucianism" believes that "Joy Buddha" belongs to "obscene and evil things" and "evil Buddhism", it is in line with the "Yin and Yang Double Cultivation" method of "Xuanmen Taoism".
Therefore, the "enlightenment" represented by the "Buddha of Joy" is a kind of "cultivation method", not the words of the "Confucian Confucianism" that is only satisfied with secular rule. Of course, if a monk kills a woman from a good family for the purpose of "collecting yin and supplementing yang", especially raping an underage girl, then he will become a real "evil Buddha"!
In fact, for mortals, perhaps the most fundamental aspect of the emergence of the "Happy Buddha" is people's need for their own reproduction, because the purpose of people's belief in certain things is nothing more than to pray for peace and prosperity. Since ancient times, human beings have existed for two things, namely survival and reproduction.
For example, the ancients, especially the Chinese, created "gods" to protect themselves in order to survive in the harsh natural environment; In order to reproduce, the ancestral tablets were enshrined as "religious beliefs", and the original meaning of the word "ancestor" and the "tablet" symbolized male genitalia.
It can be seen that the fundamental reason for the emergence of "Happy Buddha" is the spiritual sustenance and instinctive choice of the ancients in pursuit of a happy life, which is also in line with the purpose of "cultivating the truth", that is, "the road is one" and "returning to the basics"! Therefore, if you want to cultivate the "Joyful Infinite Reversal of the Great Law", you must first be able to "enlighten".
However, there is an important concept in the Sutra of Tranquility, which says about "contemplating emptiness": "Contemplating emptiness is also emptiness, emptiness is nothing." That is to say, "the outside does not know what it is, the inside does not know its heart, only a vacuum exists, and when it comes, there is not even a vacuum." This is the supreme state of cultivating the "Dharma", "Silence."
"There is nothing in the emptiness, and there is nothing in nothing." It is said that there is no vacuum, no space, no desire, no color, no thought, no thought, and shattering the void is "silence". "Silence is always lonely, and there is no loneliness." It is said that it is decided, no one has no self, chaos, a faction is innate, how can desire be born? Perfect silence.
If the practitioner "completes his practice", he will "pass away", which is actually "reborn from the fire". Confucianism said: "People want to be pure, and heavenly principles are popular." The Buddha said, "There is no ignorance, and there is no end to ignorance." The Tao said: "Empty its heart, solid its belly." It is all the way of contemplating emptiness, although it is said to be the way of contemplating emptiness, it is not stubborn and empty, but it is just a distracting thought. ”
When the people heard this, they were still in the clouds. Although everyone continued to ask, Brother Zhu said with a smile: "The Buddha said: 'Don't say, don't say!'" It can only be understood but not spoken. As soon as the words fell, he released ten "spell clones" in a flash, and flashed to Zhu Youzhen and his concubines to start teaching the law.
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