What is a spiritual relic?

"Ruins" are quite mysterious to ordinary people. Usually, after human remains are incinerated, only a pile of ashes remains, while Buddhist monk Dade can leave all kinds of relics. Buddhist relics are often regarded as a symbol of monks and nuns' spiritual achievements. The Buddhist relics left by the monk Dade after his relocation can often enhance the belief of believers.

What exactly is a relic? It should be said that this can be measured by extraordinary feelings. Some people have conducted so-called scientific research, saying that the relic is a "stone" in the human body, because monks are vegetarian all the year round and eat too many bean products, which is caused by calcium precipitation and accumulation. There are also some heretics who think that the relic is a "Dan" made of essence, qi and spirit in sex, body and mind. These statements are ridiculous. They don't know that the Buddhist "relic" has all kinds of incredible things, and the relic is not just a product in the body.

"Saria" is a transliteration of Sanskrit, which means "body bone", also known as "spiritual bone" or "strong son", but this is only as far as most relics come from human body. Because most of the relics were obtained from the incineration of human remains. The earliest is that after the teacher Sakyamuni showed silence, he burned himself into a relic with eight hooves and four fights. So the relic is also called "body bone". But there are also relics that are not bones. For example, in the Song Dynasty, Lu Jushi carved the pure land of the dragon tree, and when he carved the wish, the relic burst out in the edition three times. In ancient times, there were also incredible deeds such as good women embroidering sutras, blocking needles, seeking relics, chanting Buddha or getting relics from their mouths when learning scriptures. There are also monks who wipe their backs while taking a bath, and there are Buddhist relics. When Master Xue Yanqin shaved his head, his hair turned into a string of relics. What's even more incredible is that when Jackson Song Changqing died and incinerated, there was a strong wind, which blew the smoke forty miles away. Wherever the smoke went, there were relics on the house, trees and grass, and four stones were collected. Can modern science or pagans guess this?

Modern people also have such intangible cultural relics. If you burn Yi Deng for the Buddha, you will feel sincere, and you will get a relic in snuff. This is the so-called "good news with snuff" phenomenon in Buddhism. Yang Peizhi (Qian Hui), a converted disciple of Master Yin Guang, once got a relic on snuff. 1947, Lingyanshan Temple in Suzhou published "The Great Trend to Buddha chanting Tong Yuan"? Printing an open book? Gong Jing's lecture notes coincided with the general trend of Bodhisattva's birthday. When the lamp dropped the relic, a large relic was found in the lamp board, as pure as crystal beads. This phenomenon of cultural relics falling from lamps usually happens. From April to July, four relics and five relics were obtained in the lamp tray (see the book "karma for publishing books"). Master Yin Guang said that this is because "sincerity is extremely great, and the kindness of the Buddha is added to it." ("Printing master's banknote three series? After yang peiwen's "the book of laymen"), it can be seen that this is not measurable under any circumstances.

Usually, the relic mainly refers to the crystal burned by monks after rape. This kind of crystal is as solid as diamond, sparkling and different in shape, such as relic beads, relic flowers, relic blocks, relic teeth and so on. Its colors are also different, and it is often called "five-color relic". For example, Master Jingru of Wutai Mountain, a director of the Chinese Buddhist Association who died recently, found more than 5,000 relics of various colors, mainly black, but also white, red, silver and blue. According to the teachings of American Xuanhua people, the white one is the bone relic; Black is a relic; The red one is the remains of meat. There are two kinds of relics: one is the whole body relic, such as the Duobao Buddha relic. The second is the broken relics, such as those of Sakyamuni Buddha. There are also two kinds of living relics and fa relics. Living relics are definitely smoked and cultivated. Relic relics are all scriptures. "("Master Xuanhua talks about three volumes of Hokkekyo ",p. 334). What we generally call relics only refers to the living relics.