This is a very obvious thing.
It’s just that everyone is accustomed to it.
For example, when watching a movie or some novels.
Generally, when Taoist priests exorcise ghosts, they need to recite a few incantations.
What is the nine-character mantra? Lin, Bing, Du, Zhe, all, formation, row, advance and line.
Let’s take another example as the most common.
Tai Shang Laojun, listen to my orders.
Urgent as a rule.
Why do we have to read out such things?
Can’t you recite it silently in your heart?
Also, why do monks chant sutras?
In both Buddhism and Taoism, there is the concept of doing homework.
Every morning when I wake up, I have to chant sutras.
This is true whether it is a Taoist or a Buddhist.
If you are in such an environment, you will be affected by the environment.
Just like in the Western world, on Sunday when they worship.
There will also be singing of hymns.
If you are in it, you will be affected to some extent.
“Have you ever thought about why these special bytes are there?
The special pronunciation has a unique effect?
Why these words?
Just like what Taoism and Buddhism say.
Whether it is a nine-character mantra or a six-character mantra.
Both have the effect of exorcising evil spirits and purifying the mind.
It can calm your mind.
But here’s the interesting thing.
There is a saying in Buddhism that if you recite the six-character mantra enough times.
You can transcend reincarnation and escape from the sea of suffering directly.
If it were in a novel, this would be a shortcut to cultivation.
After all, you don’t have to do anything, just say a few words to transcend reincarnation.
This kind of transaction is too cost-effective.
But even if you keep talking every day, you will talk for a lifetime.
Maybe just a few times.
Some people thought, can we use other methods?
Then the prayer wheels appeared. ”
A beautifully decorated prayer wheel appeared behind Ye Zhen.
Everyone should have seen such a prayer wheel.
Some lamas often hold something similar to a "grenade" in their hands.
It’s just that this thing often has two ropes on the outside.
As your hands shake, the two ropes will fly in the air.
"What is the function of a prayer wheel?
On the wheels of the prayer wheel, the six-character mantra in Buddhism is written.
Dozens of lines were written.
< br>They believe that turning it around in this way is equivalent to the six-character mantra that you have recited dozens of times.
Turning the sutra is equivalent to chanting the sutra.
You can repent of the past, eliminate disasters and seek refuge, and accumulate merit.
So you can see some lamas holding prayer wheels and spinning them all the time.
In fact, they are the same as our WeChat number of steps.
This is actually just a little clever.
Later, they felt that this small prayer wheel was not exciting enough and not satisfying enough.
So later a huge prayer wheel appeared in the temple.
It is as tall as several people.
It is directly a huge pillar.
So we went to some temples.
You can see many people turning the huge prayer wheel with their hands.
It is equivalent to praying for blessings, avoiding disasters, and accumulating merit.
The efficiency of the evolved prayer pillars has directly made a qualitative leap.
One turn is equivalent to decades of chanting. "Ye Zhen was smiling while explaining.
This is the first time for some viewers to learn about these things.
But they also laughed.
“Hahaha, it turns out that everyone wants to take shortcuts.”
“Isn’t this self-deception? Just use Zhuan instead of recitation.”
“It’s so funny. , Will the Buddha recognize your merits?”
“I don’t think this is a bug?” Obviously everyone has thought that this is tantamount to cheating.
It has no effect at all.
But someone thought of some other points.
“It shows that these people know that these six-character mantra really has some mysterious power.”
“It can be recited hundreds of millions of times, and it can really be honored after death. The Pure Land of Western Bliss ”
"Otherwise they wouldn't be opportunistic and try their best to increase the number of times they chant sutras."
Similar things include life release.
They believe that releasing animals is also a way to help themselves accumulate merit.
This method is more advanced than chanting sutras and is more capable of accumulating merit.
Why do they think so?
Because of a sentence that everyone is familiar with.
Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda.
But human lives don’t always need to be saved by you.
You are not a doctor.
So some people’s smart little minds thought of it.
Saving people is saving, and saving small animals is also saving.
They are all lives. Buddhism does not advocate the equality of all living beings.
The Buddha cut his flesh to feed the eagle and his body to feed the tiger.
So they think that releasing animals is also saving lives?
One life is equivalent to a seven-level pagoda.
Those ten lives are the seventy-level pagoda!
So now everyone is letting go.
In the beginning it was just a simple release.
Release some fish, turtles, snakes and the like.
Usually bought in the vegetable market.
Originally, these fish were meant to enter human stomachs.
You bought it from the merchant and released it.
It’s like saving the fish’s life.
But later someone discovered that this was too expensive.
And the quantity is too small.
Someone thought of a way.
Tie the fish to the propeller.
When a fish enters the water, it is equivalent to being released.
Coming out of the water is equivalent to being caught.
This way as long as the propeller keeps turning.
It means you are constantly letting go.
This is equivalent to unlimited merit.
If you get dozens of propellers like this, you only need dozens of fish.
You can create hundreds of millions of pagodas in one day.
Beyond reincarnation directly, you can sit in the Buddha's seat.
Therefore, human beings have always wanted to take shortcuts and be clever.
But whether this actually works, no one knows.
But this still has limitations.
Modern technology has advanced to a level that the ancients could not imagine.
Your prayer wheel is only powered by human power.
Try to think about it if it is a motor equipped with a brushless motor.
One hundred thousand revolutions per second, this efficiency has increased by several orders of magnitude.
If this can really accumulate merit.
Isn’t it possible to become a Buddha immediately and ascend directly in the daytime?
In fact, the prayer wheels originally appeared to help those illiterate religious people.
Because on the Xizang side, many herdsmen were illiterate at that time.
So they cannot recite those scriptures.
But they also want to accumulate merit and escape from the sea of suffering.
What should I do?
So the prayer wheels appeared to make up for their inability to recite sutras.
So if there were divinely ordained singers at that time.
It will shock everyone, thinking that this must be the will of King Gesar.
At this point, the audience has some idea of the nine-character mantra.
But they still didn't understand how this was related to the thunder and lightning content that Ye Zhen talked about not long ago.
These two are unrelated things and do not seem to have any connection. (End of chapter)