Chapter 102 10. Competition between monks and priests

Qiu Shiliang's proverbs have profoundly exposed the weakness of human nature.When he sadly retired, Tang Wuzong flew into the mud pit of human nature with lightning speed, and never climbed out again. There are many weaknesses in human nature, but in summary, there are only two, as the old Confucius said: food and sex, and sex - food and beauty, these are the two most primitive and stubborn instincts of human beings. In a sense, human beings are just the carriers of genes, the fragile protein shells that genes use to inherit themselves and protect themselves. Although there are five people and six human beings, in fact, all human behaviors are just following the genes. The will is just working for the gene.

The purpose of genes is also simple, one is to survive, and the other is to reproduce.To survive, you have to eat delicious food, and to reproduce, you have to go all over the world to catch beautiful women. The Chinese imperial power system is set up for these two fundamental purposes. Therefore, Chinese culture, one is food, and the other is sex. Only the emperor can fundamentally solve these two problems, so the imperial power will last forever. But once he walked on the emperor's throne like Wu Zong, the delicious food was delicious, and the beauties crowded in the harem in piles, the emperor's pursuit at this time was to live this beautiful life forever.So the desire for immortality became a problem that Emperor Wuzong urgently needed to solve.

If you want to live forever, it is really not difficult. Chinese Taoism has countless successful experiences in this regard.Looking through the Taoist classics, you can see that they are densely packed with ordinary people who have become immortals. For example, there is an idiom called Chicken and Dog Ascension to Heaven, which refers to Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Eastern Han Dynasty. So the day flew up into the sky. According to the book, due to the onset of the drug, when Liu An ascended to heaven, he took his family's house furniture, chickens, dogs and poultry all into space.

It is also recorded in the book that after Liu An became a fairy, he went to Tiangong and found that Tiangong was also in economic crisis and it was difficult to find a job.In the end, after many twists and turns, he finally got a job as a manure digger, and since then he has been squatting in the Tiangong to dig out toilets.Tiangong implements a lifelong system, and the gods will never die, so Liu An will dig out his toilet forever, and he will never be relieved. Chickens and dogs ascended to the sky, just to dig out the toilet, this joke is too big-in fact, this is a warning to those emperors who are full of dreams of immortality.Regardless of whether it is in the sky or underground, only the latrine is eternal, and the luck of the emperor was originally a coincidence.

However, as long as a person becomes an emperor, he will no longer be able to understand this truth.Therefore, Tang Wuzong embarked on the road of seeking immortality without hesitation. This pursuit of immortality has hurt Buddhist disciples. What's going on? It turned out that when Wu Zong sought immortality, he found a Taoist priest, Zhao Guizhen, and asked him to refine the elixir for him.But Zhao Gui really might have been angry with the monk, or it might be that the monk didn't like it, or it might be that the elixir could not be made, which diverted the focus of the conflict. .This incident is an eternal pain in the hearts of Buddhists, and it has been recorded in Buddhist classics since then, and it is called Huichang Fa Difficulty.

The law is difficult and the law is difficult, Wu Zong didn't take it seriously, he just expressed doubts about the elixir made by Zhao Guizhen.Because after taking that strange medicine, he felt uncomfortable all over his body.But Zhao Guizhen explained: It’s okay to be uncomfortable. The magic of the immortal family, also known as transformation, is to shed the external body of a person and replace it with a new one that will never wear out again.Therefore, Wu Zong's discomfort is actually changing his bones. Change bones?real or fake? So Wu Zong followed Zhao Guizhen's instructions, and since then hid in the small black room and did not come out to meet people, focusing on the bone replacement.Suddenly one day there was a strange noise.

Zhao Guizhen said: Long live, long live!The emperor's bone change was successful. When everyone heard Zhao Guizhen yelling so excitedly, they knew that something was wrong, they got into the small dark room, and soon came out carrying Wu Zong's corpse.Although everyone did not find out where Wu Zong's new body was after changing his shell, there is one more successful case of the Taoist master's technique of immortality. Empress Wang and Wu Zong are a loving couple. Now that her husband has ascended to immortality, they leave themselves alone to live a boring life.Wang was very depressed, so she hanged herself. From then on, she went to the underworld, ascended to heaven and earth, and went to find her beloved husband.