This article was originally posted on the post bar "Daomen Law Novel Bar", and was compiled as an extra at the author's invitation.
In Volume 11, Chapter 84 "Regrets or Not", the Confucianism cultivator revealed his plans for the future through Shui Yunshan's mouth, which reversed the image of adultery in the past and became a bit interesting.
The excerpt is as follows:
Shui Yunshan said: "Senior Brother Jiang, you should have heard of it, why did spiritual treasures disappear after the Wei and Jin Dynasties? Why did few immortals come to the world after the Mid-Tang Dynasty?"
Shui Yunshan continued: "Rumors say that this is the age of the end of the Dharma, but why does the age of the end of the Dharma come about? Of course, I can't explain these questions, but is there such a possibility? Because the emperor's authority is no longer there? The emperor is the son of heaven, but he cannot take orders for heaven. Could it be that this is against heaven? Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, the authority of the emperor has been lost. He is called the lord of the world, but he is actually a puppet. Acting on Taoism¡¯s will, especially after the Ming Dynasty was established, is even more untrue.¡±
Shui Yunshan said: "I have never denied that this is a guess. I also said just now that this is just a possibility. But since it is possible, do we need to try it? And I think this possibility It is not false. Xuanyuan, Fuxi, Shennong, Shaohao, Zhuanyu, the five emperors became saints. Did they ever use the power of faith? Moving on, before the founder of the Celestial Master established the religion, which immortal god relied on the power of faith to ascend to the throne? What is the power of faith? What is it? Why does Heaven need the lower world to pay trust? What do they use trust to do? Senior Brother Jiang, have you thought about these questions? "
??Excluding the method given by Confucianism cultivators later, that is, restoring the emperor's authority, based on Shui Yunshan's question, this article, other online articles, history, and politics. Try to give a guess.
Where does the end of Dharma come from:
In "The Fairy Gourd" written by Wandering Toad, the end of the Dharma comes from the severance of the great avenues. The great avenues in the universe are either occupied and taken away by the ancestors of other universes, or taken away by the ancestors of this universe to create a new world. The great avenue only leaves behind seeds, which are not enough to support the collapse of the universe. In reality, it is similar to "class solidification", such as the "uselessness theory" formed because it is difficult to find a job.
In "Douluo Dalu" written by the third master of the Tang family, although it does not mention the end of the law, according to the upgrade of Douluo, soul rings are needed - the hundred thousand year old soul beasts in the forest and sea are killed and the soul rings can be taken. It is speculated that in a few years, there will no longer be soul rings that are ten thousand years old or even more than a thousand years old in Douluo Continent, and soul masters will no longer be able to upgrade.
According to the author¡¯s reading records, the sources of the end of the Dharma world are nothing more than ¡°class solidification¡± and ¡°entropy increase¡±. If there are other ways, fellow Taoists are welcome to add.
Shui Yunshan¡¯s first question: Lingbao is extinct. Based on this, we can guess that before the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the main method of cultivating immortals was resource-based cultivation. The monks before the Wei and Jin Dynasties exhausted all the resources. Today's powerful magic weapons are basically all created before. However, as too many resources are needed to cultivate immortality, the resources on the earth are exhausted. It is no longer possible to create powerful magic weapons, let alone use magic weapons to cultivate immortality.
Xuanyuan, Fuxi, Shennong, Shaohao, and Zhuanyu were the five emperors who became saints. Did they ever use their faith?
This description is even more interesting. The Five Emperors' Sainthood is limited by the author's limitations, and not all of them can write about their contributions. Emperor Xuanyuan's main contribution was to eliminate demons and unify them. Other contributions include his subordinates Cangjie making characters and Luozu making silk. Fuxi performed the Eight Diagrams, and Shennong tasted the herbs. These are all matters of great merit. Based on this, we can guess that in the beginning, the most important thing to cultivate in immortality was merit. There is also a corresponding description in "Baopuzi": "If a person wants to be an immortal on earth, he should do three hundred good deeds; if he wants to be an immortal in heaven, he should do one thousand two hundred good deeds" (from Chapter 5 of Volume 7 of this book)
"Baopuzi" was written in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Based on this, we can guess that before the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the main way to cultivate immortality was to cultivate merits and magic weapons. Initially, it was to cultivate merits.
If you want to know what the age of Dharma is, you need to first know what the age of Dharma is. If the time when the Dharma was established is clear, then the Dharma can be inferred based on this.
The author believes that the world is understandable. The author believes that all the gods in the book were ascended by people on the earth. Based on this, the author makes the following speculations.
??In the beginning, human heroes did all kinds of things to benefit the people, such as making fire, building houses, and making characters. A large amount of merit power was generated, and the ancestors of the human race, in their ignorance, learned how to cultivate immortality with the help of merit power.
With the further development of the number of cultivators, the human race has learned how to use various spiritual stones, spiritual herbs, and magic weapons to cultivate immortality, which reached its peak before the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
With the depletion of spiritual stones, the decline of cultivating immortals is inevitable. But at that time, it was still feasible to cultivate the power of merit, so the writing method of cultivating merit in Baopuzi came into being.
A problem with cultivating merit is that the merit will be concentrated on the person who did it first.
" By analogy with hybrid rice, which is beneficial to the country and the people, if immortality can be cultivated in this world, then there is no doubt that Yuan Longping can become an immortal through this. But then there are problemsThen they can gain the power of merit, regardless of whether they did the good deeds or not.
The above is the contribution of Tieba friend: liuzhimin9602
Diver, merit and trust may be interdependent, and how much trust (Buddha door is willing), how much merit will produce at the same time. There are exercises that can be practiced with merit and at the same time generate faith in heaven.
On the other hand, it also consumes a lot of faith for gods to come down to earth to show their holiness.
Since a certain time, the monks have changed their merits to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth more conveniently. This has led to a de facto reduction in trust, which is now required for ordination and ascension. This may be a rule that was later enforced by Heaven in order to ensure the survival of a minimum level of trust.
In this case, it means that there is actually no power to be sanctified in the lower bounds of the fairy.
I tend to think that the Sutra of Innate Merit and Virtue and Green Suo are a test, a regular test from heaven to the lower world. Because the Holy Spirit cannot be directly revealed, Green Suo is used to let go of this set of long-lost exercises. I think the ending will be that Zhao Ran's faith will become abundant again after his ascension, and he himself will appear in the lower world to teach the practice of merit and virtue, making merit cultivation the mainstream of this world again.
The above is the contribution of Tieba friend: Kuroyu hime
I feel that faith and merit are not the same thing. Faith is the heart of belief, it is worshiping gods as if they are there, and its essence is idealism. Only when believers believe from the heart can faith be born. If you have the Jiuzhou Pavilion statue, you can store it, otherwise it should disappear out of thin air. Of course, like the red In the original battle, the faith of the soldiers can be used directly on the spot like the Buddha. But the power of merit is not like that. It is more like the effect in the elimination of cause and effect. As long as there is a cause (good deeds occur), there must be an effect (the power of merit), that is, it is an objective existence of materialism. Economic reform, scientific progress, and other direct correlations will generate merit. , helps to set the bones (to enter spiritual practice), to kill thieves (to stop fighting), to help to ascend (even if it is a monk), it also generates merits
??It is the attribution mechanism of merit power after it is generated. Whether it is to take the whole according to the involvement, to divide the big and small, or other things, I have not thought clearly The greed for heaven's merit mentioned above is quite open-minded.
In addition, the use of trust in heaven In fact, trust itself is (relatively) unimportant. The key point is that there are not so many establishments in heaven. Heaven has limited space, and everyone has a thousand years or eighty thousand years, so they have to use trust to limit it. Number of people ascending
The above is the contribution of Tieba Taoist friend: Niba is just an egg
Note: Since Taoist Babao¡¯s exploration of the world is still relatively shallow, this article does not represent Taoist Babao¡¯s views and has nothing to do with spoilers.
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