Chapter 312: Recalling the Underworld Q&A Book I Saw Before
The Shura Demon King led everyone all the way to the mountain, the mountain was unattainable, and the yin qi was swirling, and the sound of the gods crying and roaring was intermittent, and this huge mountain was the Yin Demon Tune Mountain.
After hearing this, the Demon King introduced to everyone: "This huge mountain is called Yin Demon Tune Mountain, this mountain is 12,000 zhang high, and there is a hole in it, and in the void is the place that links the Chaos Realm, and many Chaos Demon Gods have come out of these places. β
Zhang Xuanchu said: "How can there be space in these places?"
The Demon King glanced at Zhang Xuanchu and said, "This mountain Xuanyin, the world space inside is broken, and the demon god comes out of the crack!"
Hou Tu said: "Didn't you protect this place? How do you let the Chaos Demon God come out of it?" β
The demon king said: "Of course, there is the guardian Shura God of War, and fighting is the specialty of our Shura gods and demons, and they are always fighting with foreign chaos gods and demons. However, the entire Nine Shadows is very large, and there are countless spatial cracks, so it is impossible to stay in one place, and it is impossible to defend anywhere. β
Where is the underworld? Are ghosts married again, and have little ghosts?
Are there many ghosts or people? Where is the Netherworld?
What do ghosts eat, and how long do ghosts live?
Do ghosts eat offerings from the sun?
Zhang Xuanchu thought about a story he had seen before: there was once a dream of great law enforcement - the verdict
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there was a famous person named Li Shu in the legal field, when he was about 19 years old, he saw a person come to him in his sleep one night, saying that he had something to ask for, he seemed to be very polite and respectful, so he casually agreed, and then the person who came said goodbye. After four or five days, the person who had dreamed appeared again in Mr. Li's sleep, and took him to a public court (later learned that it was the underworld) and began to interrogate the criminals, and since then this Mr. Li has entered the underworld in his sleep every afternoon or night for four or five years (that is, the judge of the underworld, and Bao Qingtian, who is now being staged in the TV series, is also the reincarnation of the underworld, so Bao Gong can manage the yang on the day and break the yin at night). Later, in order to benefit the hearts of the people of the world, his friend asked him in detail about the underworld, and compiled it into the book "Questions and Answers of the Netherworld", in which Mr. Li gave a description of the underworld.
Question (Mr. Lai's friend): Who is your command in the underworld, what position do you hold, what is your jurisdiction, whether there are any staff, and why does the underworld ask you to be the judge?
A (Mr. Li): I am a subordinate of the Emperor Dongyue, serving as the president of the chamber, with jurisdiction over the five provinces of North China, and I am responsible for the good and evil events of the deceased within ten months of deathγ Question: Why have you only been a judge for four or five years? And if you have such a good opportunity to become an official in the underworld, can you avoid reincarnation in the next life?
Answer: Because I don't want to be a yin official for too long, I have been unable to resign several times, and then I recited the Sutra of Salvation 2,000 times before I was able to avoid it, as for how easy it is to go beyond reincarnation, even I am inevitable, according to my colleague's investigation, I will be reincarnated in Nanyang County, Henan Province in the next life, but now that it has been decades, maybe what I was destined to be in the underworld will change because of what I have done in the past few decades!
Question: What about food, clothing, shelter, and transportation in the underworld?
Answer: There is also food and drink in the underworld, but it is not as good as the diet in the yang world, and the people in the yang world cannot eat it, the ghosts and beings in the realm can be full for many days every time they eat, and they do not need three meals a day, and the ghosts and gods can only smell the food offered by the yang world, and the clothes they wear are the same as the clothes of the yang world; although there are beds, quilts, etc., they do not seem to be used, but they can only be seen ghosts leaning on everywhere, closing their eyes and resting, unlike the people in the yang world who have to sleep for seven or eight hours; in addition, there are small-scale street shops in the underworld, most of which sell some food and drink. Groceries (which can be purchased with paper money burned in the sun), and the demons walk very quickly, not as slowly as humans. Question: Do ghosts have festive seasons and family members, and what is the climate like there?
Answer: There are festivals in the ghost road, there are no weeks, there are also entertainment, marriage and childbirth, the object of their marriage does not have to be the original dependents of the yang world, the children born of their marriage are reincarnated after death, these children can not be reincarnated when they grow up, although there are days and nights in the underworld, but there is no sun, moon and stars, and all day long there is as dark as fog or yellow sand. In addition, although there are four seasons there, the summer is not as hot as the sun, and the winter is colder than the sun, and although there is no wind, rain, frost and snow, but when the wind and snow are blowing in the yang world, the underworld will feel the cold. Question: Is there a law in Hades, and how do you judge the sins of demons, and do you make mistakes in convicting them?
Answer: It seems that there is no law in the underworld, but when convicting, it is natural to make a decision without thinking, and the severity of the conviction is measured by the motive of the criminal and the consequences of the crime. For example, if the motive for stealing money is forced by life, and the person being stolen is a rich man, and the stolen money does not affect the rich man's livelihood, then the sin of stealing money is relatively light, and if he steals money from a sick or poor person to buy medicine or rice, and causes another person to die of illness or starvation, or even kills someone in order to steal money, then the sin of this sin is very serious. As for the verdict of the underworld, there will never be a mistake, because the netherworld has been carefully investigated and has solid evidence for the crimes of the ghosts, so the verdict is very fair, and there is never a mistake. Question: How many kinds of punishment are there in Hades?
Answer: There are many kinds of punishments in the underworld, and they are a hundred times more cruel than in the yang world, and I advise the people of the world that they would rather accept punishment in the human world than be punished in the underworld, because the punishment in the yang world is all right after the punishment is over, but the punishment in the underworld is punishment and punishment, and punishment and punishment. For example, if you kill ten lives in the yang world, you will be shot once if you are great, but you will be shot ten times in the underworld, and at the same time, you will be sentenced to be killed in ten lifetimes. In addition, there are ghosts and gods wearing masks such as bull heads and horse masks, which are specially designed to scare some fierce ghosts!
Question: How can ghosts and gods know the good and evil of man?
Answer: Ghosts and gods can hear and see things that people can't hear or see, and people's heads will glow red, yellow, white, and black according to the good and evil of their actions and thoughts (red, yellow, and white are the light emitted by good thoughts, and black is evil thoughts), and ghosts and gods can see clearly. If a person's thoughts rise and fall with him and his actions have little to do with his actions, although the netherworld will not record them, but if he never forgets something, although it has not been seen in action, it has already been recorded by ghosts and gods, and if he puts it into action, then the merits and sins will naturally be clearer. I've seen a lot of ghosts who have committed crimes trying to defend themselves, but usually when they are shown their criminal records, they tend to confess their crimes. If we encounter some extremely cunning ghost, for example, when he is about to be sentenced, and he suddenly recites the sutra, we will sentence him to be reincarnated several times, but it is very short-lived, and then we will punish him when he is reincarnated several times and forgets how to read the sutra. Question: What is the most respected virtue in the underworld, and what is the most hated sin?
Answer: The most respected virtue in the underworld is loyalty and filial piety for men and filial piety for women, and even if they have crimes, they will be punished lightly, and I have seen a Qing Dynasty admiral who sacrificed his life for the country when the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked our country and went directly to the heavenly realm; the most hated sin is killing and fornication, of which killing is more serious than the sin of fornication, if you kill for the sake of fornication, the sin is even more first, the ancients said: "All good and filial piety come first, and all evil and fornication are the first", which is not wrong at all. Question: Do great cultivators have to go to the underworld to wait for judgment after they die? There are many cults of cultivation in the world today, but what sect does the underworld attach more importance to?
Answer: If a great practitioner ascends to the heavenly realm immediately after death and does not pass through the underworld at all, even if his deeds are shallow and his ascension to heaven is a little slower, he must pass through the underworld, and the officials of the underworld will also stand up and get out of the way until his soul ascends to heaven as if he was going up a staircase. As for the respect of the underworld, there are sects such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Question: If a monk or Taoist priest asks a monk or Taoist priest to exceed, can it benefit the deceased?
Answer: The purpose of a monk or Taoist priest reciting sutras for the transcendence of the deceased is to increase his merit and alleviate his sinful karma, but this is only an aid, not an absolute main cause, and whether there is any benefit to transcendence must vary from person to person, for example, a person who was great good in life will go to the heavenly realm immediately after death, or a person who is very evil in life will fall into hell immediately after death, they do not need or cannot enjoy the merit of transcendence at all, only ordinary people who have not had great good and evil in their lifetime can obtain the merit of chanting excesses after death. In addition, the level of chanting people and the size of the merit of chanting also have a significant relationship, if it is a high monk or filial son and grandson chanting a volume, it can be worth ten times the merit of all monks, but all monks sincerely recite will also have considerable benefits, only people who have no Tao and are not sincere have few or even no benefits, but they will not be guilty of this. It is also best to recite sutras within 49 days of the deceased's death, after which the deceased may have already been reincarnated, and the transcendent merits will have to go through several rebirths before they can benefit them, and no immediate effect will be obtained. Question: If the merit of reciting the sutras is so great, why don't the ghosts of the underworld recite the sutras themselves in order to achieve liberation and transcendence?
Answer: As soon as he arrives in the underworld, there will naturally be the karma of the ghost itself that will hinder his cultivation, so he should do it as soon as his breath is still there.