So Su Huaren took Wu Yunqing to the "Buddhist Temple" in the northern suburb of Anyang. Anyang is the hometown of Yin Ruins and Oracle bones, and it has been outstanding since ancient times. Although the "Buddhist Temple" is small, it is very quiet. Wu Yunqing lived there at leisure for a month. At the end of August, the old man suddenly ignored food, only drank a little water and meditated cross-legged all day. Su Huaren knew that the master was dying when he saw that he was "eating", that is, he stopped eating. At noon on the seventh day, Wu Yunqing suddenly opened his eyes and said to Su Huaren, "There is an ancient temple in the west not far from Anyang, which is a good place." Su Huaren hurriedly asked around and finally found out that the ancient temple mentioned by the master was Lingquan Temple, and lived in Baoshan, five kilometers southwest of Tianxi Town, Anyang County. Su Huaren knew that the master had found a home.
Lingquan Temple, a national key cultural relic protection unit, was built in the Eastern Wei Dynasty 1400 years ago. It has been a famous Buddhist shrine in China since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and is known as "the first ancient temple near the river". Up to now, there are still more than 70 tombs of eminent monks since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Around Lingquan Temple, there are more than 200 Buddhist sculptures and cliff stone carvings in different dynasties since the Northern Qi Dynasty, which Anyang people call "the Valley of Ten Thousand Buddhas". Su Huaren knows that Lingquan Temple is not a person who can sit in it. He found Guo Yitian, the abbot of Lingquan Temple, and explained the master's life experience and last wish. Guo said that he can't make decisions, and he should report to his superiors for approval. On September 3rd, Guo Yitian and Deng, director of Anyang Cultural Bureau, visited the Buddhist Temple. When watching
When Wu Yunqing's thin face was still glowing with red light and his eyes were bright, Director Deng couldn't help but admire: "It's a miracle that such an old man can't see anything wrong." He agreed to his request, but said that Wu could not sit in Lingquan Temple, because the national key cultural relics protection units could not change their original appearance, so they could only sit outside the temple. Wu Yunqing smiled and thanked him, expressing his understanding.
Two days later, in the middle of the night, Su Huaren, who was asleep, was suddenly awakened by Master and said that she would go for a walk outside the temple. This day is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. Out of the small temple, I saw the bright moon with few stars, and all was silent. The wilderness in the suburbs is quiet and serene. Wu Yunqing was very interested in this, and talked about the Buddha for several hours. Unconsciously, the moon has set in the west, and the distant east has a slight fish-belly white. Wu Yunqing slowly picked a tender corn leaf in the field, brushed off the dew on it, chewed it carefully, and said quietly and lightly to Su Huaren, "When there is no moon at night, I will leave." And repeatedly told him that when he sat down, put him in a jar and open it three years later. If his regimen is effective, it should be meatless.
After returning to the temple, Wu Yunqing continued to retreat, not eating grain, and occasionally drinking water. Su Huaren was worried that the master was ill, so he called a doctor and the diagnosis was normal. Disciples from Shanxi and Shaanxi rushed to Anyang to meet Master and asked whether the destination was northern Shaanxi or Taiyuan. Wu Yunqing repeatedly shook his head, saying that he was not going anywhere, and he lived in Anyang and Lingquan Temple.
The sky in Wu Yun is getting thinner every day. A few days before his death, he meditated 12 hours and stayed in bed 12 hours, so he didn't even drink water. Su Huaren told the author that in the last days, when the master lay down for 12 hours, his face turned pale and his breathing was not so smooth, he motioned for him to get up and meditate. /kloc-In September of 0/8, Su Hua Renhe and several other disciples went to Lingquan Temple to choose the tower site for Master. They traveled all over the hills and hills around Lingquan Temple, and finally chose a small hill west of the burning tower of Daoping Master in the Eastern Wei Dynasty. It is commanding, surrounded by cypresses, and has a panoramic view of mountains, grass and wild flowers. This is really a good place to go.
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18 September night, 1 1, Wu Yunqing called his disciples to his side, looked at them in turn, then closed his eyes and meditated, without opening his eyes. 1998 15 at two o'clock in the morning on September 22nd, Wu Yunqing was meditating on a moonless night, and suddenly he even played the flute three times and stopped breathing.
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After Wu Yunqing's death, Renhe's other disciples in Su Hua decided to hold a wake for the master for three days to show their respect. It was very hot then. Three days after Wu Yunqing's death, his body was still elastic and his limbs were soft and lifelike.
On the morning of September 24th 10, the hearse carrying Wu Yunqing's body slowly drove to Lingquan Temple. The old man was put in the back seat of the car, wrapped in white cloth, and kept in a meditation posture, with disciples guarding him. Because the monk's funeral is not allowed to cry, the car is very quiet and only sad faces can be seen. Although the old man has many disciples at home and abroad, only a dozen disciples saw him off in order to prevent unnecessary confusion. Thousands of people had gathered nearby when the hearse arrived at Lingquan Temple because the craftsman responsible for building the tomb tower revealed the wind.
1 1, accompanied by soft and soothing Buddhist music and sutras, disciples helped Master up and walked to the restored tomb tower. Surprisingly, the old man's head trembled when his disciples walked. People saw it, and a child shouted, "Still alive! My head is still moving! "
The disciples kept Wu Yunqing in a sitting position, put his face southeast and his back northwest into a porcelain jar with a height of about 100 cm and a diameter of about 80 cm, and fastened a porcelain basin with a height of about 50 cm and a diameter of about 80 cm on it. After that, open a small hole in the porcelain basin, install a light bulb with wires from the opening, cover it with glass, seal it tightly, and seal the tower the next day. The tomb tower is about 180 cm high and is divided into 6 floors.
Made of bluestone. The purpose of installing the light bulb is to connect the power supply three years later and pay tribute to Wu Yunqing's body. Su Huaren said? Quot A man who reaches the Tao may live forever after his death. Whether it melts or not will be known in three years. "
However, there are still 272 days before the third anniversary of Wu Yunqing's sitting in the toilet. On February 24, 2000, 65438+, why did the experts open the jar of the old man sitting in the toilet ahead of time?
It turns out that since a series of false news about reporters' search for the elderly in Wu Yunqing and their age 1.60 were rated as 1.999, the leaders of Anyang Cultural Bureau began to doubt the last words that the elderly would not rot after three years. They think that if the cylinder is opened on the third anniversary, September 24, 200 1 year is August in the family calendar, and the weather is hot. In case the body rots and stinks, it will be difficult to deal with. So, on June 26, 2000, 165438+ they came to Jiuhuashan, where rotting corpses had been found, to consult anti-corrosion experts. Experts believe that Wu Yunqing has been sitting for nearly 800 days and can open the cylinder. It doesn't reach carrion, but it will take three years to reach it. And now it's winter, and the smell won't be too exciting. 2000 12? On the 3rd, Jiuhua came to Anyang Lingquan Temple by an anti-corrosion expert. 65438+At 5 pm on February 24th, traffic control was implemented around Lingquan Temple. Only tourists are allowed to go down the mountain, not up the mountain again.
At 9: 50 pm, only Deng, director of Anyang County Cultural Bureau, Zhao, deputy director, Guo Yitian, head of Lingquan Temple, Cai Yingdong and Feng invited from Jiuhuashan, three anti-corrosion experts and three masons were left in the temple. They came to Wu Yunqing's stone pagoda to make preparations before opening the bottle. At 9: 59 pm, the expert asked the masons to break the tower.
After the bluestones of the six-story bluestone tower were removed in turn, an inverted porcelain basin was exposed. Experts no longer let masons do it, but scrape off the cement stuck on the edge of the porcelain basin and remove it. Suddenly, a faint sweetness floated out of the jar.
Cai Yingdong squatted at the mouth of the cylinder, lit the electric light installed in the cylinder in advance, reached into the cylinder and touched it through the cassock.
Wu Yunqing came back without saying a word. People were frightened and eagerly asked what had happened. Cai said that Wu Lao's cassock is not rotten, and the muscles on his back are still elastic.
Everyone began to grasp the four corners of the old man's meditation cotton pad, hold the old man's back, invite him out and put him on a board. Under the fluorescent lamp, I saw that the old man's skin was rosy, and his flowing white hair and beard were still so free and easy.
Feng, an anti-corrosion expert in Jiuhuashan, uncovered the cassock and pressed his hip with his hand, forming a small pit, but it soon calmed down. Feng said in surprise: most people become stiff ten hours after death, and after 100 days, flesh and bones begin to rot. But after sitting for 823 days, the old man rarely came out of the jar, and his body was still so soft.
Cut off the white cloth cassock wrapped around the old man. When the old man sits still, his posture remains unchanged and his skin is intact. Because of walking barefoot all the year round, the calluses on the feet are still clearly visible, the thickness of the left arm is uniform, and the biceps brachii of the right arm protrudes. It is said that this is the result of his years of right-handed labor. The only regret is that due to the inexperience of Anyang County Cultural Education Bureau and the disciples of the elderly, I don't know how to put quicklime on the cotton mat for the elderly to meditate and fill the gap around the jar with charcoal, which not only ensures the posture of the elderly during meditation, but also absorbs the water inside. Because there was nothing around the old man, the upper body leaned forward due to gravity, which led to the subsidence of the sternum. The expert had to support it with two steel plates.
On February, 20065438+6 1 day, the author saw Wu Yunqing's virtual body in a room in Lingquan Temple, with a yellow cloth on his head and face (to show respect). After the remaining 5% water in the body is completely evaporated, it is smeared with gold powder, molded into a golden body, and permanently stored in Lingquan Temple.