Chapter 17. World Events
Master, you are so good? The master waved his hand to me without looking back. He had said hello. It seemed that he had sensed my arrival long ago.
The master said while feeding Huazi, "Why are you free today? Don't you have to work in the world?" I said, "Master, you are free and forget the time. Today is Qingming Festival, we have a holiday, of course we have time to see you." When the master heard this, he turned around and said, "Qingming Festival, it turns out that today is Qingming Festival?"
I grinned and said, "I think you are the most idle in the underworld during the Qingming Festival every year. The rest of the people are very busy. When I came here just now, I went to Fengdu with Aunt Meng, so she rushed to the meeting. The master didn't care either, so he drove away Hua Xi and stood up and said, "Qingming Festival is the affairs of the underworld personnel, and it has nothing to do with being a master. My flower fields are far away from the underworld area, and it's not my turn to do anything. It's rare to come back and go into the house to chat first."
When the two entered the wooden house, I quickly made a pot of tea for the master, and the master and apprentice started chatting. I said, "Master, you really don't have any taste or fashion at all. You are useless in the clothes, furniture, appliances, and luxury villas that you cooked for you. You see, Aunt Meng's Huangquan community is of high quality, and many places in the underworld are becoming more and more advanced and modern. Our flower fields are still in the primitive world. The master drank all the tea and said to me. Don't bother with your things. The sleeves of your clothes are too small and short.
, It's really uncomfortable to wear for the master. Also, the wooden house of Master has been living in for tens of thousands of years and is still firm. What kind of villas are you? Living in it is like a maze! As for the so-called electrical appliances, I don't have electricity in the flower field, and the underworld doesn't need electricity, so it's naturally useless. The master's cultivation is profound, and everything you need can be transformed into objects with qi. It's just a short time to reach it. Nothing or phone is needed, and you will only make some boring things. But has your spiritual cultivation improved and consolidated?
I said helplessly: "Anyway, just do whatever you want, you are just an old antique. I am not lazy in the world. Although I am not as troubled as before, I have to practice well. I also have a hundred-year-old evil spirit a few days ago. You don't know, Master, the hundred-year-old evil spirit is an ant under the help of my disciple. The disciple beat it to death without any effort.
The master nodded and laughed when he heard this, and said, "Well, it's good, it's good to have no laziness." You can basically use the Eight Prisons of Senluo. You can't fall behind the Taoist methods you practice in the world, and your mind and understanding must also be improved. You must remember that the absorption of spiritual energy and a firm mind are important foundations for practicing soul art, and neither side can ignore it.
Yes, yes, master, you have said it many times, and the disciple has known it a long time ago. By the way, the physical practice is indeed not as fast as the soul body. The natural world in the world has been destroyed too seriously. The spiritual energy is not as thin as in ancient times. Now it is so thin that it is hard to accumulate spiritual energy. The range of my Senluo Eight Prisons in the world can only be controlled within ten meters, which is really not as powerful as it is used in the underworld.
After listening to it, the master continued to say, "It's natural that your soul body has gained an innate advantage by consecrating the spirit of your master. The underworld is full of spiritual energy, so it's best to use soul or ghost skills. Take your time, practice cannot be completed in one or two days. It's rare to come back, Xiao Lingzi, tell me what happened in this period of time in the world. I haven't heard you tell stories for a long time. Last time you talked about what the American man became emperor, and the Korean queen was arrested, and the new story you promised to tell your master has not been told yet. This time you have enough time, so tell me a good story for your master.
I said to the master with a blank look, "Master, I told you that now people call them the president and the chairman, not the emperor and queen. When the master heard this, his face became serious and said, "Aren't you just saying the emperor and queen? What's wrong with the teacher?
OK OK OK OK OK Master, you just want to ask you, what I told you last Qingming Festival was that Trump became the president of the United States. South Korea's female president Park Geun-hye was impeached and arrested for taking bribes for her power. The master was too lazy to argue with me after hearing this, and continued to ask questions in gossip. Then, what fun things happened in the world later? Tell me about it.
I thought about it and continued, "I don't know so much about the major issues of the world's national affairs. I only know that after Park Geun-hye stepped down, Moon Jae-in became the president. Later, there was a little friction between China and India, which you mentioned by Master Gumoto, and the two sides almost started to do it. Ah San just owed the information that she had caused a lot of trouble during that period. You really thought it would start a fight, but fortunately, Ah San admitted his mistake and apologized and retreated, so we, President Xi, gave us face and just passed it.
When the master heard this, he started to make trouble and said, "Asan, is this person very famous in Modho Kingdom? You Chinese talented people won't punish you?"
I was so fainted. A San is not a human being, no, A San is what we call Indians. You don’t know anyway. Now it’s a society ruled by law. How can you beat me just like you said?
The master couldn't understand and turned to smile and said, "Yes, the true body of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva came from the territory of Modha. Since Ah San was his fellow villager, it would be fine if he hadn't done too much."
I gave my master a blank look. I was too lazy to argue with him. Where do you say this? When it comes to India, the history is also very long. The first Chinese record mentioned in the Indian name is "Shendu". We gradually became aware of it after Buddhism was introduced from India to China during the Western Han Dynasty. In addition to "Shendu", some other names appeared. Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty mentioned "Tianzhu" in the scriptures and "Xiandou". Among them, "Tianzhu" was first seen in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" and was used the most before the Tang Dynasty. It is still used occasionally until today. Similar to "Tianzhu" and "Xiandou", but Xuanzang did not mention some, such as "Tiandu", "Tiandu" and "Zhidu".
The Indians are Tang Yanyue. There are many names in Yue, and this is the first name.
Tang Xuanzang once said that the name India means the moon, and the moon has many names, which is one of them. If this is used as a basis, the Indian one mentioned by Xuanzang is reduced to Sanskrit, which is indu. In Sanskrit, the word indu does mean the moon. In fact, the earliest Indians, for example, in the era of Ashoka in ancient times, used the name "Zhanbu Continent" to refer to India. But "Zhanbu Continent" means to represent the entire world, or as one of the "four major continents", it at least represents a considerable part of the world.
At that time, Indians seemed to think that India's land basically represented the land under the world. Later, Indians had a more accurate understanding of the scope of India, and a new name "Baratavarsa" appeared. The original text of Sanskrit was bharatavarsa. Bharata is the name of a king in ancient Indian legends. "Barata" means this "country ruled by King Bharata. Until today, in the traditional language of India, the Indians still mentioned India with this Sanskrit name.
Let me say that India's culture is far from China. In addition to the ancient times, India experienced the early Vedic culture of the Harapa period, the Sixteen Kingdoms era, the great Mauryan era, the Kushan era, the Gupta era, the Rachiput era, the Islamic Delhi Sultan era, the Mughal Empire era, and later the colonial period of Britain, France and Portugal. In addition, India is one of the most influenced countries in the world, and the influence of religion penetrates into every part of its society and culture. Religion plays a decisive role in the lives of this country and its vast majority of people.
Qualitative role. India is called a "religious museum". The most important religion is Hinduism. About 83% of the population in India believes in Hinduism. Hinduism can be traced back to the Brahmanism founded by the Aryans in the 16th century BC. Around the 8th century AD, Shangkara absorbed some Buddhist and Jain teachings and developed into Hinduism. The religion combines multiple beliefs and is very complex. During the Delhi Sultanate period, Islam was introduced to India. After the British colonization, British India was divided into two autonomous regions of India, mainly Hinduism and Pakistan, mainly Islam.
India is also a country with a serious caste system. Hinduism divides people into four castes: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Shudra. Brahmins have the highest status, and the social status of the rest of the castes has been reduced in turn. Various castes have their own moral laws and customs, and generally cannot intermarry with each other. In addition to these four castes, there is also a kind of untouchable person excluded from the caste, namely the so-called "untouchable person". The great Gandhi called the untouchable person "Harizhen" (meaning the son of God), and after India's independence, it was collectively called "Dalit"
(meaning oppressed people). They have the lowest social status, the most discriminated, and are often excluded from society. Women under the Hindu caste system have a low status and support child marriage. The widows are in a miserable situation. The caste system divides Hindu society into several social groups, and there are differences between groups, and the difference between high and low, which has had a very bad impact on Indian society. Although India has experienced economic modernization and the formulation of laws on prohibiting discrimination and ending class structure, the status of the caste system in Indian society is still very important.
To sum up, the difference between India's culture and ours is not a little bit worse, but it is better for me, China's great country!
I adjusted my emotions and continued to say; there were not many major things later, but Taiwan started to make noise and call for independence. Last time, I came here for the New Year and went back to Shenzhen City to start working. In addition, I had to deal with a ghost before, and the matter was like this.
After hearing this, the master said, "You don't understand the things in the world and can't control them, but then again, you have grown up so early, and you have plans for men and women? What's going on with the little girl in the Ye family you mentioned last time? Are you still hiding from her?"
I said, Master, you are too gossipy? I really don’t open any pot and I have a headache when I think of her. Anyway, I don’t want to see her now, and she and I are not the same type of person after all. The master is not asking questions. We, the master, were chatting with some home-cooked messages while drinking tea. After drinking the tea, the master went into the inner room to meditate and rest. This is his habit. Every day, we either wander around the Wangjie Mountains, feed the flower flowers and bubble the spiritual spring, and then meditate and rest.
Chapter completed!