The Way of Heaven (14)
There are nine heavens in the heavens and nine earths in the earth. "Nine" is the largest singular number, which means the limit, not the meaning of the word. The nine-fold land is actually the "nine secludeds", and below it is the underworld.
There are thirteen stations in the Netherworld. The first stop, in front of the Land Temple, this life is gone. The so-called death of a person is nothing but a removal from the mortal body, and the primordial god will accept the judgment of hell with the good and evil he did in his previous life. The soul of the deceased who has just passed away is called the living soul, and according to legend, it takes about six hours to separate from the physical body, which carries the energy of life information, and is commonly known as the soul. It is quite easy for the soul to leave the body, and it is quite easy to get rid of the cold, heat, sickness and other pains caused by the human body. However, because people are too obsessed to let go of the fame, fortune, affection, and wealth of the world, the soul always suffers great pain for no reason in the process of getting out of the body.
There are nine layers in the sky, and the space is infinite. In another high-latitude space-time separated from the human world, in the time and space where the gods are located, there are land temples in every place, not whether there are land temples in that area of the human world. The decoration of the temple is similar to that of the Yamen of the prefecture and county, and it is antique. There is a brown-red desk in the middle, on which there is a local "household register", which records the local mountains and rivers, people, livestock, personnel information and so on. The so-called "one side of the water and soil to support one side of the people, one side of the land to protect the other side of the people" is this meaning, and the life and death of a soul mostly have to pass through the local land temple, and only a very small number of cultivators will directly skip the death report. Part of it is due to the completion of the Great Dao, and some of it is due to the wish of re-cultivation in the next life at the end of life, so the Guru arranges the path to the next life. Therefore, when the sun is at the end of its life, the Yin soldiers will mostly take the soul hook card and the approval ticket to the land temple to report, and the land god will open the local "household register" for information verification. Whether the deceased belonged to a local person, whether he died in his life, whether he worshiped the gods and Buddhas, and how good and evil were good? After verifying one by one, the land god will stamp the local land seal on the approval ticket.
There is a road on each side of this land god case, on the left is the road to the Western Elysium and the various layers of the gods, which is full of light, and on the right is the Huangquan Road to the Netherworld, which is extremely dark. After the Yin soldiers received the approval tickets stamped by the land god, they would take the souls of the dead to turn into the yin wind and set foot on the Huangquan Road.
In front of the land temple, it is difficult to distinguish the gods.
The night of the moxibustion, Chen Yu and his entourage passed through the "Qingxu Taoist Temple" is the land temple in this area, but everyone is not a living soul, and not a person made of the Great Dao, so they are confused, and the temple is mistaken for the Taoist temple. In addition, all the way to the right, this night of moxibustion is also heart-saving, and I don't know when I enter the Yellow Spring.
It is said that although this yellow spring is under the nine shades, it is actually the center of all dimensions, and all turbid and bad things sink here, so it is jokingly called "garbage terminal" by the gods. The four sides of the human world are heavens, and there is earth in all directions, and between heaven and earth are "layers".
The soul has the same weight as the human body, but this weight is not determined by the thinness of the physical body, the height of the body, the moisture, and the fat before death, but according to the good and evil, true faith, and cultivation of the person before death. The weight of the soul is generally between 18 grams and 21 grams, and the heavier the soul of a person who has done a lot of evil in life. On the contrary, the lighter the good. This principle follows the "Pangu Open Heaven and Earth", where light and clear things rise to the sky, and heavy and turbid things descend to the earth. Therefore, it is the eternal principle of the universe that the wicked go to hell and the good go to heaven.
Shen Moxibustion Night, Chen Yu and his party should not have entered this Huangquan Road because of the Yuan Shen Qing, although they walked this road because of saving people, but the Huangquan Road they walked was different from the common Huangquan Road.
There are three avenues on this Huangquan Road, the most common avenue is a wide and straight asphalt road, but looking up, you can't see the sun, moon and stars, looking down, you can't see the dust of the land, looking forward, you can't see Yangguan Avenue, and looking back, you can't see relatives and friends. The fog is vast all around, there is only a little starlight in front of them, the voices of relatives are calling in the ears, the undead will get lost once they turn back, and they will wander forever on the Huangquan Road, and they can no longer enter the ghost city of the drunken capital, so they have to become lonely ghosts.
The second avenue of this Huangquan Road is a tomb mountain, and the dead, those who die in the deep mountains or those who do evil will walk through this Yellow Spring. There are many ghosts and lonely souls on this Huangquan Road, which is extremely dangerous. The undead will encounter people who were harmed by themselves before their lives to collect debts, and the methods used to harm others during their lives will suffer a hundred times the corresponding damage here. Therefore, most of the undead who went from this Yellow Spring to Xudu became wild ghosts with incomplete limbs, and most of the dead became lonely souls. The only way is that there is no accident in the world, and those who do not believe in God accumulate great karma and suddenly suffer disasters. Huangquan Road became a lonely soul, and the grave was forested.
The third avenue of this Huangquan Road does not have a specific road, it can be a sheep intestine path, or it can be Yangguan Avenue, which is formed by the Dharma of the level where the cultivator is located.
Chen Yu, Ziyi, and Jingyan did not notice for a while, and when black and white impermanence appeared, they knew that the road from "Qingxuguan" to this temple was the third Huangquan Avenue. This seemingly magnificent temple, where is the temple, is actually the wall of the ghost city of Xudu. Chen Yu hesitated for a while, seeing the ghost door closed, black and white impermanence penetrating the wall into the city, and suddenly felt a gust of yin wind, and the ghosts were fierce. As far as the eye could see, there was a vast fog all around, but I saw a platform in front of me, about three feet high, as black as ink, and a group of ghosts rushed to go up. The ghosts around looked envious, while the ghosts on the platform looked into the distance, crying and crying. It turns out that this ink-black platform is the so-called Wangxiang Terrace.
Looking at the platform, I can't go back to my hometown from afar. Yin and yang are separated, the underworld and the yang, two worlds, two "layers" of heaven.
After the Wangxiang Terrace, go straight to the ghost town of Xudu. On the gate of the ghost town, there is a sheep's skull, and the eyes of the skull are dark green fire. The gate is not high, and when you look up, you can't see the end. It's just that the yin qi outside the city of this capital (yin) is too heavy, blocking the view. However, a couplet at the gate of the city is particularly conspicuous, completely unobstructed by this yin energy. Chen Yu raised his eyes and looked at it, only to see that it was written, "The third world of the yang world, it is up to you to hurt the heavens and harm; "You're coming."
Chen Yu said in his heart: "This retribution is all about people, those who have a good fate must follow the principles of heaven, and those who have an apologetic life must not hurt the principles of heaven again." "I wanted to enter the capital city with purple clothes and quiet words, but I didn't expect to be allowed to enter. A bull-headed man holds a drumstick and wears blue armor. A horse-faced man holds a steel fork and wears green armor. They both came out of the city, blocking the path of the three of them.
Niu Tou said: "This is not the place where the three immortals should come, please return quickly." ”
Ma Mian said: "Among the three immortals, there are ghost messengers, who practice the virtues of educating the world. Entering my underworld today is also the destiny of heaven, and I ask the messenger to see the hell as a mortal retribution. In particular, the idea of greed for money warns the world not to have it. If you are greedy, you will pay back, and a penny is also a disaster. ”
Niu Tou said: "The three immortals must not know the edge. There is a truth in this universe, and it cannot be lost. There is also a reason in the mortal world, and it is common sense to borrow and repay. If a person is greedy for someone else's things, it is inevitable that he will repay them, and he will accumulate negative karma himself. If you are greedy for others too much, you will be reborn in the next life to repay the debts of others. One life is not over, and another life will come back until the debt is paid off. Speaking of this, the bull head paused, sighed helplessly, and continued: "But for the sake of their own interests, the people of the world ignore the principle of this karmic retribution. In the last days, he was exploited by evil spirits and became a slave of 'money'. How many people cheat openly and unknowingly in order to make money. ”
Ma Mian continued: "In the last days, some of the so-called workmanship theories are high-sounding, but they are just dressed in beautiful clothes. Introducing jobs to people depends on whether there are many 'asking for directions'. This wealth has gone layer by layer, and I don't know how much money or taels it falls on the real officer. And some of the 'asking for directions' are just groundless, just to squeeze the hard-earned money of those who want to live. The work is not good, you have to be grateful to Dade, even if you realize that it is wrong, there is no way to complain, who calls someone above others, it is really ironic.
A job that was supposed to be for the public and the people was changed by the evil demon and became a place that destroys human nature. Greedy for public fat and private, the world openly and honestly uses public money to enrich their own pockets, which is called 'development'. How sad and ridiculous, harming people's interests is already the original sin, and this crime is still harming the interests of the public, and the crime is added to the first degree. The Buddha said that public finances should not be taken from them. Tell me how many of these people are going to hell because of this damn work. Hell is not empty, and all living beings will suffer from unjustified calamities forever. The world does not even know what is wrong with it, and how can it correct itself. Therefore, I would like to ask you to see the world know when you go back. ”
Chen Yu, Ziyi, and Jingyan suddenly felt drowsy, and in an instant, they felt that the sun was dazzling, and everyone had returned to the yang world unconsciously. Thinking about the trip to the Difu, on the Huangquan Road, everything I saw and heard leading to the ghost city of Xudu is vivid, but only the dialogue with the bull head and the horse face have forgotten a lot.
Chen Yu said in his heart: "I'm afraid that some of the things reported by this underworld will not be known to the world, so as not to leak too much of the heavenly secrets, so we will forget most of the content." Then, he picked up a pen and ink inkstone and wrote on the paper: "Public finances, don't take it." Seeing this, he held the pen and wrote below: "If there are sentient beings who steal the permanent wealth and rice, food, clothing, and even those who do not take anything, they should fall into the infernal hell, hundreds of billions of eons, and seek an indefinite period." "Quietly stop writing, pick up the pen in purple clothes, and then bet on it with a small seal, "Privately taking public property without permission, even if it is very small, constitutes the crime of stealing without taking, and will not only incur the retribution of poverty, but also fall into the 'infernal hell'." I advise the people of the world not to be greedy for things that are not your own. Don't be crooked, greedy for the public and enrich yourself, and break your conscience, which will lead to the boundless bitter consequences in the future. ”