CHAPTER 9

Stay with the golden  gem

According to the history of the Chinese, the burning of gold began in the Han Dynasty. The reason  that the king wanted to  practice  his teaching  Confucius :  "The death as a birth, death, such as the existence" , ie worshiping the dead as church of the living church who took as church people there and that people Living in the realms of life,  there are  still living needs such as money, housing, food ,   etc. So when the king died, he had to put real money into  his coffin  for the king  to consume. 

Then the king imitate the king and then people imitate. Everyone bury the real money according to the dead. Thieves know so dig the grave theft wealthy people, as King Emperor Wen of Han tomb was excavated thieves took all  the gold and silver treasures . Later, from the perspective of the people, it is too expensive to bury money so   that new paper can be used to make counterfeit money, instead of gold. Gradually people imitate and  become customary. Kaiyuan till 26th (DL 738), Tang  Xuan Zong , the king to decree  that allows use of paper money instead of real money in sacrifice requiem attributed to economic  self Wang  Du  charge . 

Soon, people loathed because they saw the burning votive not  effective , they burned everything  needed  to person  deceased  consumers  that do not see in a dream or a  phenomenon of  what  proved  the deceased are entitled to use, Especially for the poor can not afford the code shop so they told each other not to burn anymore, so the code making industry is sluggish. Book Online Language  Warning  of China recalled that Wang Luan are  descendants  of Wang Du, because do not want careers  traditional  votive being  eroded , should  try  our best  to  revive  career as votive objects, he conspired  with a  friend , to  plan  secret  dead author, by letting people  close friends  that  pretend  sick for  people  to know, a few days after Wang Luan reported people  close friend  died, then admiration Shed into the coffin waiting for  funeral . But  the truth  is that Wang's friend is still alive, although in the coffin,  there are  holes in the bottom to breathe and  feed  . By day funeral procession, while the music festival  ghost family ,  condolence  crowding, Wang Luan brought votive paper money and paper items such as housing, Dresses and pictures of  life, personal sacrifice ceremony to  pray  for  close friends . Then he burned votive paper money and form  the human world  network. 

When finished, the coffin burning  natural  vibrations ,  everyone  will  witness  clear , rushed together to open the coffin lid. People  close friend  of Wang Lun indeed  live again , to  before  Wang Luan prostrate to the ground  thanks  and recounted for  everyone  to hear that you god subsonic received votive and formation  personnel that  the network should drop soul him  Return to  the mundane , so he is newly  resurrected . 

Everyone  believed the truth and the  news  spread  widely  among the people, so the code of Wang Luan was again flourishing as before. As a result, the merchants of the codebook quickly enriched and  disseminated  to the vassal states for  consumption ,  including the old Vietnam . Later, due to the  competitive  profession, so the  friend has  revealed ruse  cunning  Wang Lun and so today  we  know this background. 

This custom of burning votive  influence  deep into our country, from kings to  things citizens . The largest burning gold  in Vietnam  in the early 20th century was in the funeral of Khai Dinh King, who died on November 25, 1925. The king's belongings, such as lame, long-haired, despicable, etc., were to be burned in accordance with the king. 

Today, in the light  of civilization , everyone knows the dead can not spend the amount of gold and these  need  buried under it. There are people in Hanoi   who sacrificed to die with both handheld Nokia phones, Honda Dream paper and paper computers. When living dead do you understand the  use  of computers, cell phones or Honda cars? Please send us your report of  the last  Vu Lan day in Hanoi: 

" At Hang Ma points" distributed "votive for the peddlers on the streets are always crowded shoppers, worshiping the  gods  cheapest is 15,000 dong, worshiping  beings  prices  similar . We  intermittently asked for the purchase price of "popular" was not  the owner of the  goods. I  saw  a  woman  middle-aged daughter with her to buy the stairs, cars, phones,  mobile , television, motorcycle, clothing, cash US dollars. They also bought a girl with paper dolls, high heels, short skirts, a blouse. When the mother holding "girl" in hand, the girl immediately took a small pair of scissors stabbed furiously  at the picture  's world  network. Explain  to people  curious  around  the  work  odd daughter, who  women  middle said: "My father made general manager, far below he must send him her secretary , but must Make it ugly to not become  your father . " (End quote) The middle-aged woman said, "My father is the general manager, and he has to send his secretary down here , but make him ugly so he can not become your father . " (End quote) The middle-aged woman said, "My father is the general manager, and he has to send his secretary down  here , but it must make him  ugly to not  become his father . " (End quote)

We  never saw the burning votive ritual deaths recorded in  the Tripitaka  of Buddhism. Buddhism  totally  rejects  the practice  of superstition  is. Conceptions  of life and death  for  Buddhism  just two links in a chain of  life and death  long  endless, from  without beginning , until the day  of liberation  ultimately ,  humans  reached  the realm  of immortality . Therefore,  Buddhism has  no concept of a place reserved for the dead, Which folk often  referred to as the realm of the earth or  hell .  Maybe these are the  words  of   folk beliefs . 

Venerable  Thich  Thanh Nghiem , in a Dharma lecture  , said, 

" It is regrettable that at present,  the majority of  monks and nuns  nor the  moral that, even  Buddhists  in mainland China to  Taiwan  also invented paper money  special  called" banknotes reborn ", ie Is on a yellow paper, using red ink printed  reclassification  in Sanskrit. In fact ,  use to recite  and  effective  burning paper money are two things  fundamentally  different ... "Moreover, the  monks  chanting ,  ceremony of repentance ,  bridge island  etc ... are write. Read it and burn it. It is imitating the teacher to read the demon gods  , that is  superstition ,  absolutely  no basis in  the Buddhist teachings at  all. In  all things ,  Buddhism  advocates a sincere mind  to have touch . Have reached the place the mind into  and touch  , then, is to have spiritual experience , and not need to  burn a number. "   (End of quote) Buddhism advocates taking the glass into the touch . Have reached the place the mind into and touch , then, is to have spiritual experience , and not need to burn a number. " (End of quote) Buddhism advocates taking  the glass into the  touch . Have reached the place  the mind into and  touch , then, is to have  spiritual experience , and not  need to burn a number. "  (End of quote)

Given that the burning of votive do people live  feel  in my heart  at peace  than  peace and  more, it's just a way of speaking, a way  to fool  the mind , if anything just  peace  temporary as people using drugs. Want attention  disengaged  peace , there is nothing better than being in everyday life we  perform  Buddhist teachings :  Do not do evil. Work hard to do good. Self  purity mind  . 

As a  myth  as burning yellow code, in addition to  the damage to resources, also contradictory  in the mind . While  we pray  for relatives  deceased  was  reborn into the realm  of peace , as being  heaven  or  the human realm  or the  realm of the Western Paradise  or a  realm of pure  somehow went burning votive paper money And the paper supplies go  down to the abyss  for relatives  spent  in funerals, then so must we  pray for loved ones forever in  the realm of murky darkness, there to spend money magic, ghosts or whatever belongings. Even some people, when the burning is finished  worry  whether the relatives are receiving it? END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH GIAC TAM.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.17/4/2017.