When all the evidence pointed to the fact that the seemingly righteous monk who appeared at the Thousand Buddha Cave at the last moment was Ksitigarbha, my mother said it was not certain. I was immediately confused again and asked: If not Ksitigarbha, then who is Ksitigarbha?
who?
My mother smiled and asked me: Mistress, when do you think shaving your head started? In other words, have you always thought that only Buddhist monks can shave their heads?
In front of my mother, I can always hide my ignorance without any scruples. First, I feel that our IQs are not at the same level at all. Pretending to be smart with her is self-destructive. Secondly, isn't this my mother?
? There is no need to pretend. He shook his head and said: Mom, please stop teasing me. You don’t know the virtues of your own son? Tell me quickly. Tell me quickly.
She once again pulled out a piece of paper from the paper pile. On it was a black and white painting printed with ink. The painting was still a monk. She didn't ask me this time, but said: If I asked you to guess, I would definitely think that this monk is
People in Buddhism are actually not like that.
This monk was the ruling class of ancient India before Buddhism - Brahmins. Let's put it this way. In fact, history has clearly stated that there were four classes in ancient India: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras.
Brahmins are superior to all classes, but Brahmins are priests and monks. Therefore, the earliest gradient bald heads did not originate from Buddhism.
And the most important point is that the Brahmin god is the protector of Buddhism.
The reason why you say this is because you said that you are at the bottom of the Thousand Buddha Cave. Among the murals, the monks in the murals are kneeling and worshiping a woman. The two of them should have a subordinate relationship.
It was this that made the identity of the monk blurry. Buddhism began to flourish in the hands of Sakyamuni. When Sakyamuni was alive, the rule of Brahman had been broken. If that monk was Ksitigarbha,
, then he has no reason to kneel down and worship someone.
At this point, my mother looked suspicious, slapped herself on the forehead, and shouted: Oh, that's it, that monk is indeed Ksitigarbha, and the woman he is kneeling to is probably a Brahmin.
God!
I have always thought that Buddhism during the Ksitigarbha period did not need to be so respectful to any force, but I forgot that before Buddhism completely replaced Brahman, it was subordinate to Brahmin.
That's right, and your other question is easily solved.
Do you still remember that you said in your letter that you didn't understand that the monk wanted to kneel down and worship the woman, but the place where they were buried together was named Thousand Buddha Cave? In this way, the dignity is reversed.
I nodded and said: My dear, I have never understood this. Which boss can tolerate his younger brother being more famous than himself?
My mother smiled and said: Now let’s sort it out from the beginning, starting from the murals, step by step.
The monk belongs to women, and he is introducing a method to rejuvenate women. According to the mural, we can understand that the monk said to the woman, look at this Taoist priest, he can change from an old man to a child. Why can he change his age?
What? Because this Taoist priest waded through a coffin on a mountain.
This mountain is the mountain with the two mysterious ancient characters in the mural.
After witnessing the Taoist priest's rejuvenation process, the woman was so moved that she led her soldiers to attack the mountain and obtained the iron coffin.
After getting the iron coffin, the woman built the so-called Thousand Buddha Cave underground, with the goal of burying herself in the iron coffin and rejuvenating her youth.
Here is an important point. When a woman was building this underground tomb, the tomb might not be called Thousand Buddha Cave.
After the woman buried herself, she did not actually rejuvenate, and something huge happened - she was deceived by the monk and the Taoist priest. Therefore, the woman possessed your friend and always wanted to take revenge on the monk.
After the woman buried herself, Buddhism rose and took the opportunity to replace Brahman's position.
Therefore, the so-called iron coffin that can rejuvenate youth is just a conspiracy of the monk to kill this woman.
You said in your letter that the monk, at the last moment, said to the "ghost" with the slender face who possessed your friend: He was floating in the world of mortals just to save you today.
This sentence is very interesting. It shows that the monk has always expected that one day a woman will come to seek revenge on her. In other words, the monk knows what will happen if a woman is buried in an iron coffin, so he has a backup plan.
The monk came to Thousand Buddha Cave after the woman buried herself in the iron coffin, occupied the magpie's nest, and changed the name of the tomb that originally belonged to the woman.
That's why there was a change in hierarchy. In your words, the eldest brother and his younger brother were buried together, but they were named after the younger brother. Just because the name was given by the younger brother after the eldest brother was sealed.
This can better explain the structure of the entire Thousand Buddha Cave, why there is an empty sarcophagus on the second floor, and why there is a bodhi tree on the second floor.
This is an arrangement for women. According to the concept of dignity, the second floor is the position of the monk.
But later, he went to the fourth floor and made arrangements.
If your father went to the Thousand Buddha Cave because of eternal life, then what attracted them should also be the Taoist priest's rejuvenation. Like that woman, they were deceived by the Taoist priest.
Therefore, the girl named Bai will tell you: everything is fake and everyone is wrong.
Yes, from the very beginning, the so-called rejuvenation was a trap set up by monks and Taoist priests, which deceived everyone. Wasn’t it just what the little girl said, “Everything is fake and everyone is wrong?”
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But one thing that needs to be said in particular is that even if the iron coffin cannot rejuvenate itself and will mutate, it will not be too bad, because if it is too obviously fake, it will not be able to deceive the woman. After all, the most powerful person can
The god-like existence of Brahmanism is definitely not that easy to deceive.
I interjected: Mom, you mean like the Sunflower Book, you can practice magic skills that are invincible in the world, but you have to stay in the palace? That iron coffin must have the effect of immortality or rejuvenation, but the side effects are even greater?
My mother nodded and said: That's how you can deceive people. Just like a sentence, if it's all lies, you won't be able to deceive people. Only if it's 30% true and 70% false can it be easily believed.
Your father may have learned some secret from that iron coffin, so he continues to pursue it. Maybe they want to perfect the iron coffin and eliminate the side effects.
At this point, I was extremely shocked, because in the end, all of my mother's speculations coincided with Zheng Bishan's words.
The purpose of my father and others is to perfect the method of immortality, to accumulate the experience of predecessors step by step, and to learn from their strong points to make up for their shortcomings. (To be continued)