Chapter 88 Section 1

The second exam was about to begin. As usual, Guru Qiuze Lama came to the Venerable Master Vaj Gongga in the Mandala Hall of the Potala Palace to ask for guidance.The Great Living Buddha Vajgongga closed his eyes and ignored him. The place on his forehead that was injured by himself with a three-foot tin rod had already scarred, and it was throbbing, expressing the resentment in the Great Living Buddha's heart.Guru Qiu Ze stood with his head hooked in front of the honored master for two full hours, regretting his obsession with the "Seven Tara Gate", and knowing that he could not give up, so he knelt down and kowtowed three times as if punishing , quietly left.

Just when Lama Guru Qiuze stepped over the threshold of the mandala hall with one foot, he suddenly heard the hoarse and penetrating voice of his master from behind: "There is only one situation where the Lhasa River will change its direction. That's drying up." Guru Qiu Ze was stunned and thought: I am not dry, I don't have to change the direction of the flow.Is that right, Master? The Great Living Buddha Vajgongga also said: "Among the nine examiners, there are still four who support you in practicing the 'Gate of the Seven Tara'. You must not lose sight of it, and vigilance is a must."

Guru Qiu Ze trembled, Master said "four", and he won the first exam with five votes, one of the votes was voted for him by Master.Would the respected master support him in practicing the "Seven Tara Gate"? Lama Guru Qiu Ze retreated to the mandala hall, waiting for more advice from his venerable master, but the venerable master had no more words, and a huge silence permeated the hall.After a while, the revered master disappeared, and he disappeared too. When Guru Qiu Ze saw the revered master in front of him again, the second exam had already started. Still in the Chiming Buddha Hall, between the eight pagodas and the eight gods of Guru Rinpoche, there are nine examiners including the Great Living Buddha Vajgongga.The two contenders still sat facing each other, with the three-foot tin rod representing majesty in the middle.The Geshe lamas surrounded the examiner and the two candidates, looking critically at this and that.

There was only one step in the second exam, that is, the contestants for the position of the Great Living Buddha on the peak of the Potala Palace asked each other questions, and then the examiners voted to select the winner.Guru Qiu Ze Lama was the winner of the last exam, so he should face the challenge of Benbojia Rinpoche first. The Living Buddha Benbojia held back his energy and swiftly slapped his palms three times. He took the rosary from his neck and waved it vigorously. Your younger brother committed suicide, and your concubine called you 'Brother Qiu Ze', why, why?" As soon as the younger brother was mentioned, Lama Guru Qiu Ze immediately fell into grief: the younger brother committed suicide, and the younger brother who was not a lama but had the feelings of a lama committed suicide.In silence, he stretched out his right hand, with the palm facing upwards, swaying crystal clear tears in a state of silence, and told the other party: "Great compassion becomes emptiness, great emptiness becomes existence, only with loving relatives can there be my Buddha, only with my Buddha can there be kindness, Tears are the lamp of kindness, let the lamp illuminate your dark and sinister heart."

The Living Buddha Benbojia asked again: "People who practice the Dharma have no desires, no thoughts, no attachments, and no worries, but you are tearful. Could it be that the 'Gate of the Seven Tara' is a vulgar place that is not Buddha, lawless, not obvious, and not secret?" Door?" Guru Qiu Ze Lama closed his eyes and did not answer, his mind was full of his younger brother and his suicide. The younger brother is a student of the Central University for Nationalities, and after graduation he applied to return to his hometown.My hometown used to be the famous grassland at the source of the Yellow River. The Animaqing Snow Mountain towers in the north, and the Bayan Hara Snow Mountain stands tall in the south.But now, the snow-capped mountains are no longer white, the grasslands are no longer green, the river is thinner, and the prayer wheel on the river bed can no longer rotate with the flow.There are only Obo and Mani stone scripture piles standing tall with their inherent posture, and the colorful prayer flags are spread from the height to all directions, and the colors are so bright that they seem to have just been painted and dyed.

The younger brother felt that his hometown needed him, and needed a son of a herdsman, a young Tibetan who was inspired by his innate national pride to display his talents.He excitedly called his elder brother Guru Qiuze Lama: "I am the head of the village now, the head of Danmuzhen Township, and in a few years I will be the head of Danmuzhen County. An unrealistic ideal." But two years later, when he relied on bank loans to build a large herdsman settlement on the township government, thinking that the herdsmen would be able to live a better life from then on, he committed suicide.

During the days when the settlement was built, my younger brother said to everyone: "Protecting the environment is a major trend. Within two years, all the herdsmen on the grasslands at the source of the Yellow River will have to evacuate to the settlements. You should sell your cattle and sheep as soon as possible. If we move, as long as we move into settlements, the government promises to provide living allowances and environmental protection fees. With these funds, we can build animal product production bases, develop tourism, and repay loans.” No one responded, even my father and The mother also looked at her son in surprise: "Son, that's not what the lamas in the monastery said." The younger brother said: "Dad, my family has too many cattle and sheep, and they eat so much that the grassland turns up the soil." Well, the soil is less than two inches thick, and there are sand and rocks underneath. If the sand and rocks show up and the wind blows, it will be a desert in two or three years. The government has come up with a method for us, called "animal husbandry, breeding, farming and breeding", " Breeding in the west and breeding in the east' means selling lean sheep and weaned lambs to farmers in the east, letting them raise them in captivity, feeding them with fodder to fatten them up, and then killing them for meat." Dad responded angrily: "The sheep on the prairie They are the children of the mountain god, how can they be enclosed? Can they eat feed? Without the permission of the mountain god, without our chanting sutras, it is a crime to kill and sell meat."

My younger brother called Lama Guru Qiu Ze once, and wept bitterly when he talked about the old Tashi's family.He said that he mobilized old man Tashi to sell his excess cattle and sheep and move them to settlements. Old man Tashi knelt down to him and said: "Moving is killing the cattle and sheep. What do we have without cattle and sheep? Sheep will be born one after another, and money can give birth to children?" The younger brother said, "You are still thinking about having children, and now the grasslands have turned into black mud beaches, because the cattle and sheep have given birth to too many children." Tashi The old man's son sold a few sheep at home, and the old man was so angry that he suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in the tent, unable to walk.One day, there was no one at home, and the hungry flocks of sheep and cattle gathered around the tent to eat. They ate the tent of cow hair and the old man. When his son came back, old Tashi was left with only one Cattle and sheep can't chew on the skeleton.The white and bloody skeleton was witnessed by the younger brother. The younger brother said: "I really wish I could eat myself."

My mother started to walk around the mountain, and it was Danba Lama in her hometown who asked her to do so.Lama Danba said: "Turn around the mountain. When your devotion moves the gods and Buddhas, your son Guru Qiuze, who is a great lama in Lhasa, will come back. As soon as he comes back, the snow-capped mountains will turn white and the grasslands will turn white." Lu, then you don’t need to sell your sheep and cattle, and go to the township government to build houses.” Zhuanshan means to circle around the Bayan Holy Mountain in the Bayan Har Mountains.Mother kowtowed and waited for her body to grow and her head to turn around the mountain, and it took seven days to turn around.She wore thick wooden gloves and a cowhide apron, and every time she knocked down, she had to recite the six-character mantra, saying: "My son, come back soon, the snow-capped mountains will turn white, and the grassland will turn green." After the grassland was completely deserted , the younger brother stood in the way of his mother kowtowing and turned around the mountain and said, "Let's go, mother, I beg you." My mother said, "This is the place blessed by the Bayan Har Mountain God. Our ancestors have been here for generations. Why should we go? Your brother I’m coming back soon, the snow-capped mountains will turn white, and the grasslands will turn green. If I don’t leave, you don’t have to either.” The younger brother said, “Mom, when the snow-capped mountains turn white and the grasslands turn green, we’ll come back with my brother.” Mom Said: "If you don't turn around the mountains and don't pray, how can your brother come back, how can the snow-capped mountains turn white, and how can the grasslands turn green?" The younger brother looked at the rocky Gengen mountain peak, knelt down suddenly, kowtowed and said, "Goodbye!" We have to go, please bless us in the future, life in the settlement will be better than here." Then he stood up and hugged his mother.But when he put his mother on the horse and rode up to leave by himself, he saw many people kowtowing to turn around the mountain on the mountain road not far away, and those shepherds who had been mobilized by him to the settlement were all came back.Mother took the opportunity to slip off the horse, and walked over to join the ranks of the Zhuanshan people.The younger brother cried and said: "Mom, can you stop doing this, kowtow, kowtow, you will be poor all your life, still kowtow, kowtow..."

The younger brother called him: "Brother, come back quickly and tell mom not to do this again." Guru Qiu Ze did not go back.Two months later, my mother died. The mother died on the way to the mountain, praying for her son to come back, praying for the snow-capped mountains to turn white and the grasslands to turn green.The snow-capped mountains are still not white, and the grasslands are still not green.Guru Qiu Ze could imagine the future. Someone carried his mother to the celestial burial ground. The lamas from his hometown surrounded her and chanted sutras, and then the celestial burial master unwrapped the pulu from the body.The lamas retreated to a higher ground and lit the mulberry smoke that summoned the eagle. There was a crackling sound, and the pine branches and cypresses caught fire.The lamas kept adding ghee, tsampa and qula.The smoke rose high and drifted away with the wind.The celestial burial master shouted: "Woo-woo--" The lamas shouted in unison: "Woo-woo--" The crow appeared and landed on the corpse first.Then hundreds of vultures came from all directions, circled lower and lower, and then came down and drove the crows away.The calls of crows and vultures were especially forlorn.The process of pecking at the corpse is the process of the sun rising.The corpses on the celestial burial ground turned into skeletons in an instant.The celestial burial master walked over, chased away the vultures, chopped open the skeleton with a shining axe, smashed it to pieces, then mixed fried noodles and broken bones with blood water, kneaded strips of food, and arranged swastikas one by one. .The vultures waited patiently, and as soon as the celestial burial master left, they rushed over and ate up the strips of food.

The younger brother said that his father did not see the process of the sky burial. He hid behind the hill, knelt on the ground and whispered the mantra to save the dead.The younger brother didn't recite the scriptures, and he cried and said some secular words: "Mom, you just left. You haven't had a good day, so you just left." Dad corrected him seriously: "Don't say that, you My mother lived a good life, herding sheep and cattle on the grasslands is a good life, and turning mountains is a good life. She was taken away by the gods and Buddhas, and she may have escaped reincarnation." After my mother died, my father continued to kowtow and turn around.The younger brother said: "Father, can you not do this, kowtow, kowtow, you will be poor for the rest of your life, or kowtow, kowtow..." My younger brother never persuaded my father and the people in my hometown to leave the grassland. When the uninhabited houses in the settlements were quickly dilapidated in the wild wind, the planned livestock product production base and tourism development could not be realized because of the indifference of the herdsmen. When the younger brother of the head of the township was unable to repay the bank loan for the construction of the settlement, he chose to commit suicide.The last words he said before committing suicide were: "My parents, folks, you can't kowtow, kowtow, kowtow all your life, and then willingly endure the poverty and backwardness that others can't bear. Life should be over." The younger brother committed suicide, and Feibao called out "Brother Qiu Ze". Feibao was a classmate of my younger brother when he was in middle school in the county.I don’t know what their relationship is. Since Feibao came to Lhasa and became the practice partner of Guru Qiuze Lama, she said more than once: “One day I will leave you, I will live a secular life, and I will have children. , the child’s father should be your younger brother, I have a crush on your younger brother.” Guru Qiu Ze never expresses his opinion, and if he doesn’t express his opinion, he just doesn’t want to: Why, why did you fall in love with my brother and not me?Just because I am a lama?But I am a lama who practices the "Seven Tara Gate" and is qualified to explore the origin of Buddha nature through women. Now that her younger brother is dead, she can no longer say "I want to leave you, I have a crush on your younger brother".Instead of calling him "King Ming" and "Lama", she called him "Brother Qiu Ze". The living Buddha Benbojia clapped his hands three times again, waving his prayer beads vigorously and asked: "Isn't it the cause of the past that caused today's result? Suicide is better than killing, and the present cause will form the future result. This is a universal cause and effect." How to explain the truth of the 'Gate of the Seven Tara'?" Guru Qiu Ze Lama gave a jolt, as if waking up from a dream, suddenly raised his head, made an arrogant gesture that debaters often have, grunted and said: "The second door of the 'Gate of Seven Tara' The door is: Is there any karma? Who will get the karma? Is it fate, or a god? Or is destiny a god?" Living Buddha Benbojia forced him to ask: "Is there any? Make it clear." Guru Qiu Ze Lama clapped his hands and said: "Buddha said that doing good will prosper, if doing good does not prosper, there will be remnants for himself or his ancestors, and the disaster will be prosperous; if doing evil, there will be disaster. One's own body or one's ancestors must have more prosperity, and the end of prosperity will be a calamity." Someone from Lama Geshe said hello.The Great Living Buddha Vajgongga nodded. Ben Bojia said: "What is good does not prosper and evil does not cause disaster? Could it be that the 'Seven Tara Gate' is a gate of confusion, and even the cause and effect that monks and children can understand should be re-emphasized? In Tibet, wealth is respected. , Poverty is despised by people, because being rich means that good people get blessings, and being poor means that bad people get punished. Therefore, the wealth and poverty in this life are the karma of the previous life. .” Guru Chiu Tse said: "According to your statement, it is only poor believers who accumulate virtue and do good deeds, not rich rich men and wealthy eminent monks?" Ben Bojia clapped the backs of his hands and roared, "No." Guru Qiu Ze also clapped his hands with the back of his hands: "No, I agree with you. What the 'Gate of the Seven Tara' reminds us is that monks do not do good, Buddhas do not do anything, it is not benevolent to be rich, and not to give alms if you have wealth." Ben Bojia said: "Guru Qiuze Lama, you believe in Buddhism and demote Buddha, and practice law is illegal. Is your 'Seven Tara Gate' used to fight against Buddhism?" Guru Qiu Ze said: "There have been two kinds of Buddhism in Tibet since ancient times: the Buddhism of the nobles and the Buddhism of the poor. The Buddhism of the nobles is for the purpose of obtaining political power, territory, subjects, and property. The war between regiments and sects has never ceased. Once it started, the Buddha Sakyamuni, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Dazhi Manjusri, and Dayuan Jizang were all abandoned. Black swords, white blades, life and death. Poor Buddhism focuses on cultivating the afterlife. The purpose is to endure the pain of this life in order to obtain happiness in the next life, so there is infinite worship, restraint of desires, benevolence of life, joy of poverty and humbleness, and patience in suffering.” Ben Bojia said angrily: "Whether you are noble or poor, what you do is determined by your previous life. War has its origin, and patience has its origin. Your younger brother committed suicide, and your concubine called you 'Brother Qiu Ze'." 'Yes, why?" All the people present turned their attention to Lama Guru Qiu Ze.Everyone knows that Buddhists are selfless, and this question cannot be avoided.As a contender for the position of the Great Living Buddha on the peak of the Potala Palace, Guru Qiu Ze must face every exam naked and naked like taking a bath.The Great Living Buddha Vajgongga closed his eyes nervously. Guru Qiu Ze said: "The earliest Buddhist discovery, nothing can reduce people's fear of death, the destruction of the body has always been the last thing we want to face. Our predecessors of Tantra tried to achieve immortality through hard practice , the spiritual consciousness is eternal, that is, let the spiritual consciousness move from this body to another, just like moving house, from the old house to the new house, from the dilapidated house to the good house. So there is "relocation of consciousness", reincarnation of living Buddha, and instant Become a Buddha in the body, become a Buddha in this world, and have a life that will last forever, without birth and death." Ben Bojia said: "You still haven't explained why your younger brother committed suicide, and why your concubine called you 'Brother Qiu Ze'." Guru Qiu Ze said: "Many people in the holy religion oppose the practice of Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism, because if a person does not die, it denies the law of karma, and he will not go to hell if he does evil deeds, and he will not go to heaven if he does good deeds. The door of the mother tells us that the prerequisite for the reincarnation of a living Buddha is the awakening of the soul, and the prerequisite for becoming a Buddha in the body and in the world is the purity of the soul and flesh, the premise of eternal life, immortality and immortality It is the continuation of spirituality. The perfect combination of soul, body, and spirit can ensure that a person will live forever on the line of goodness and retribution. A person can be immortal, which is under the wisdom of the Buddha and the cause and effect within the palm of the Buddha. The inevitable result and endless retribution." Ben Bojia said: "The Buddha said that life is impermanent, but you say that a person can not die, which is a fallacy against the Buddha." Guru Qiu Ze said: "Among the thousands of Buddhist teachings, there is really a way of immortality, and that is the 'Gate of the Seven Tara'. The only achiever of the 'Gate of the Seven Tara' is the symbol of immortality." Ben Bojia asked vigilantly: "Who? Who is the only achiever?" Guru Qiu Ze said word by word: "Cangyang Gyatso." Ben Bojia let out an "ah" and didn't know what to say in view of his admiration for Tsangyang Gyatso. Guru Qiu Ze said enthusiastically: "The spiritual consciousness of Cangyang Gyatso has been reincarnated in thousands of bodies. My brother is one of the reincarnations of Cangyang Gyatso. My brother is not dead. His spiritual consciousness has passed through the earth. From the soles of the feet into my abdominal cavity, I am Guru Chiu Tse Lama, and at the same time my brother Danmuzhen the head of the village." The Great Living Buddha Vajgongga shook his head in disappointment and thought: You are digging a trap for yourself by saying that. Ben Bojia asked fiercely: "Suicide also has inheritance, and it will also transfer spiritual consciousness. Your layman brother committed suicide. Do you want to recite Buddha and commit suicide?" Lama Guru Qiu Ze replied cursingly: "If you want me to commit suicide, you will be the next one to commit suicide. My brother's spiritual consciousness will enter your body tomorrow. Your suicide method is to jump into the frying pan." Ben Bojia trembled in fear, calmed himself with high-fives, and asked, "You said that your brother is not dead, but his spiritual consciousness has entered your body, is it because Feibao called you 'Brother Qiu Ze'?" The reason? When Feibao called you, she also called your younger brother, and when she called your younger brother, she also called you, right?" Guru Qiu Ze wanted to tell the truth, but his heart was blank, he didn't know what the truth was, so he put his hands on his chest, opened his mouth halfway, and once again pretended to be silent, despising the other party. Ben Bojia realized that silence was emptiness, and the other party had already been questioned by him, so he chased after him and said, "Don't you know the relationship between your concubine and your younger brother?" Seeing that the other party was speechless, he said, " When they were in middle school, Feibao and your brother had already had sexual intercourse, and they did everything vulgar men and women can do. Feibao left the county middle school with your brother's child in her arms, and went home to have a baby. Unfortunately, the child Died prematurely. When Feibao came to Lhasa and became your partner in practicing Dharma, she had predicted that your brother would become one with you. She swore to marry your brother, that is to say, she swore to marry you, That's why she called you 'Brother Qiu Ze'. Haha, am I right, Lama Guru Qiu Ze?" Guru Qiu Ze had never heard about Feibao and his younger brother, but he believed that Benbojia Rinpoche was not lying. This was the competition exam for the Great Rinpoche of the Potala Palace, and it was an extremely solemn occasion. No matter how despicable the opponent is, it is impossible to make it up.Is it because the Benbojia Living Buddha sent people to investigate everything about him carefully?No, it was the supernatural powers of practicing esoteric methods that made Ben Bojia know everything.He forced himself to believe the latter, forced himself to let the hate pass by, let a tinge of admiration come to him. The Great Living Buddha Vajgongga looked at his disciples without blinking, waiting. Guru Qiu Ze said nothing more. The Great Living Buddha Vajgongga said solemnly: "Let's vote." He looked at the other eight examiners headed by Nima examiner, and wondered among these four people who supported the practice in the first exam. Where is the guru Qiu Ze Lama of the "Gate of Seven Tara"?Will they still support this second exam?He thought, and cast his vote for Ben Bojia Living Buddha. The results of the vote are out.Everyone was taken aback. Benbojia Living Buddha knelt down uncontrollably, raised his head to the sky and shouted: "Buddha, Buddha." Lama Guru Chiu Tse sat in a daze, unable to get up for a long time.