Volume 2 Dusty Memory Chapter 62 Life and Death Circulation Figure 2
The center of the picture is divided into twelve pictures. The first picture shows a blind man walking; the second picture shows a potter making pottery; the third picture shows a monkey climbing a tree; the fourth picture shows a boat; and the fifth picture shows a monkey climbing a tree.
There is an empty house in the picture; the sixth picture shows a man and woman touching; the seventh picture shows a
A man's eye is bleeding from an arrow; the eighth picture shows a man drinking and having fun alone; the ninth picture shows a man picking fruits; the tenth picture shows a tent in which a man and a woman are having sex; and the eleventh picture shows a woman about to give birth.
Pregnant woman; Picture 12 is the ending, with only an old man and a dead body.
After the twelve pictures in the center, there is a circle of color pictures. These pictures are also divided, but this time there are six pictures. Grandpa knew these six pictures because he had seen them mentioned in a Tibetan scripture.
And, these six pictures symbolize the six paths of reincarnation, and they are drawn counterclockwise from top.
The first picture is the top, the heaven. In the middle is Mount Sumeru, at the bottom is the sea, and on the left are heavenly beings having fun. There is also a row of heavenly generals wearing armor and helmets holding bows and arrows, and the direction of the arrows points to the picture below. It is said that the lifespan of all living beings in the heavens is very long.
long, very rich, other
Religion regards ascension to heaven as the highest ultimate. But Buddhist theory says that gods and immortals also have troubles. They often fight with the asuras to compete for beauty and wealth. And when they die, or if they occasionally make mistakes, they will still be transferred to other five
Go.
The next picture is of humanity. It shows mountains and rivers, houses, farming, cattle and sheep, etc. However, human life is not perfect. People are born and die step by step. There are only a few decades in between. There is also birth, old age, illness and death, and death will come impermanently.
.All birth, old age, illness, and death are all sufferings. Add to this the sufferings of separation from love, meeting of resentments and hatreds, not being able to get what you want, and the overflowing of the five aggregates. It is really unspeakable suffering.
Immediately after the human path is the asura path, also known as the non-human, inhuman path. It is a kind of invisible non-human being who is very rich. Asura women are extremely beautiful, but they are jealous and like to fight. And asura men are strange
They are extremely ugly and strong. In the picture, there is a row of Asuras pointing their bows and arrows at the heaven. They often fight in a way that they want the heaven to drink, while the heaven is robbing their asura girls.
The next picture is the animal path. There are fish and dragons in the water, and elephants, deer, cattle, horses, sheep, etc. on the land. They are as big as whales and as small as ants. They are often killed or whipped and driven by humans in extremely small spaces.
But he had to endure incomparable pain, and he had words but could not speak.
After the animal realm is the hungry ghost realm. The main cause of being born in this realm is stinginess. Hungry ghosts are ugly, with an abdomen as big as a drum and a throat as thin as a needle. All food and drink turns into flames when it comes to the mouth. They are hungry and dripping when they are old.
Grain food is difficult to eat.
The last picture is the hell. In the middle of the picture, two ghost soldiers are boiling human heads in a big iron wok. In the upper middle, King Yama is interrogating the case. The lower left is the burning hell, and the lower right is the ice hell.
, the life span of sentient beings in hell is countless times that of human beings. One day in hell is equal to nine million years in human world, and there is no end to suffering.
After the completion of the Six Paths, the outermost layer is the clearest, and the picture is divided into three parts. One picture shows a bird, a snake and a pig; the other picture shows the bardo body with more good karma.
Colorful jade floats in the middle; the last picture shows the bardo body carrying bad karma, naked and being led by evil spirits to hell and other evil realms.
This is the picture. This picture is similar to the thangka paintings in Tibetan Buddhist temples. Unfortunately, the speaker went crazy before he could finish his words, which made my great-grandfather even more puzzled. So my great-grandfather read a lot
Information, he finally found the flow of life and death diagram in the trumpet mouth.
In this diagram of the flow of life and death, the center of the picture is a bird, a snake, and a pig, which represent greed, anger, and ignorance. And outside the central disk is a circle, divided into two parts, which is the depiction of the bardo body, which is the Taiyang.
The bardo of one good and one evil that my grandfather saw when he was young.
Further outward, there are six paths, which are completely indistinguishable, but the outermost round is divided into twelve pictures, which are no different from the previous twelve pictures, representing respectively: ignorance, formation, consciousness, name and form, six sense organs, and contact.
, receiving, loving, taking, being, birth, old age and death.
When Grandpa Grandpa saw the picture of the flow of life and death, he truly understood the words of the trumpet at that time: Those who act against life and death are evil spirits!
My great-grandfather didn't know this at the time. He only knew that a voice kept saying, put your hand up, put it up...
After the sound rang, my great-grandfather saw an extra picture in the upper right corner of the picture, a blue pattern. My great-grandfather had seen that pattern before, on Master Jiu's carriage, and on the black knife inlaid with gold.
There is a pair of blue runes with a square diagram made of straight lines. I don’t know what it means, but it makes people feel peaceful after reading it.
The great-grandfather heard his chest pounding, and he began to slowly raise his hand and put it on the blue rune. However, nothing happened, nothing appeared.
At this moment, Grandpa felt a pain in the back of his head and passed out. When he woke up again, he was sitting at the mouth of the gourd heading to the mountains, with a thick layer of fog in front of him. Grandpa was stunned.
He paused, wondering whether he had ever entered this deep mountain and whether he had encountered those things.
These are the versions that great-grandpa used to speak to the outside world. There is an extra sentence when speaking to grandpa.
"I clearly remember that someone gave me a sap behind me, and Li Yan, who should have been dead, slowly walked towards me."
After all, my great-grandfather slipped back to the village. He had been in the mountains for only half a month, but the village seemed to have experienced many years. After his death, his great-grandfather never mentioned the incident of being eaten by his son again, and his family also treated it as if it had not happened.
However, after returning home, my great-grandfather found that there was half a notebook in his arms, which was the other half of the notebook hidden by the Jiang family. However, my great-grandfather never found it again.
I couldn't find the notebook. Later, my great-grandfather tried to complete the notebook according to his memory. The completed notebook was hidden in the cellar of his home. It's strange to say that later there was a fire and the airless cellar burst into flames.
There was a fire. Only half of the manuscripts that my great-grandfather brought back were left. My great-grandfather wanted to recall the contents of the manuscripts, but he couldn't remember them.
Later, by chance, I found a record written by my great-grandfather about that time in half of the notebooks left behind. To be precise, it was not a record, but a paragraph, scattered here and there. My grandfather also asked my great-grandfather about this passage.
But my great-grandpa always said that he didn't remember that he had written it, but the handwriting was clearly his.
"Why is this happening?"
"Nothing happened, the bloodline is thin."
"What did you say? The blood is thin!"
"right."
"What about Master Jiu?"
"We can only wait for the arrival of the next bloodline."
The text stopped abruptly here, but I felt that this text seemed to be calling me from somewhere. (To be continued)