"The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"? Author: Huang Yi?
The fingerprints used by the protagonist Xu Ziling in the book are derived from the nine-character mantra, which was created by the previous generation of Jingzhai Mountain Gate Dharma Protector Mantra Master Teaching?
Nine-character mantra?
Prerequisite knowledge:?
1. The secret name of the finger?
The secret name of the finger in the scriptures There are so many numbers. Now let’s show it as used in the travel notes. ?
The two hands are called Eryu, also called Full Moon. ?
The two arms are also called the two wings. ?
The ten fingers are also called the ten degrees, also known as the ten rounds and ten peaks. ?
The right hand is named Prajna. Also known as view, wisdom, wisdom, etc. The left hand is named Samadhi. Also named Zhi, Ding, Blessing, etc. ?
The tenth number. Starting from the left little finger and counting up, they are Tan, Jie, Ren, Jin, and Zen. Starting from the right little finger and counting in numbers, they are Hui, Fang, Gu, Li and Zhi. ?
The same goes for the five-round secret number. Counting upwards from the left and right little fingers, they are earth, water, fire, wind, and emptiness. ?
2. Tantric Mudra?
In Esoteric Buddhism, the left hand is always quiet, so it is called the hand of compassion, which can save stubborn and foolish sentient beings. The right hand is always moving, so it is called the hand of wisdom. , a sharp tool for crossing the root, which is called the "double luck of sorrow and wisdom" to cross over all ordinary people. Putting these hands together means breaking away from the troubles and obstacles of "greed, anger, stupidity, doubt and pride", which is the beginningless ignorance of body, speech and mind. The posture of joining the palms is called "seal", which means breaking away from the three evil karma of killing, stealing and sexual intercourse. , reciting the Buddha's name and other secret words, and observing the beautiful and solemn appearances of all the deities, then I will achieve the true state of Nirvana and be pure and happy. ?
Introduction to the Nine-Character Mantra?
The Nine-Character Mantra, also known as the Nine-Character Secret, are: Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe, Ji, Zhen, Lin, Zai, Qian Ji, and The corresponding nine mudras (it is said to be nine, but in fact it is just a false name, from which the number of mudras as many as the sands of the Ganges can be derived, also known as the nine-character secret of the secret, the different translations are in brackets) are:?
The immovable root seal (exclusive seal, Samantabhadra seal)?
Great Vajra Wheel Seal?
Outer Lion Seal?
Inner Lion Seal?< /p>
Outer binding seal?
Inner binding seal?
Zhiquan seal (knowledge seal)?
Sun wheel seal?
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Aquarius seal (invisible seal)?
Detailed explanation of the nine-character mantra?
The nine-character mantra comes from the inner volume of "Baopuzi" written by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Chapter, it is said: 'Zhu said: 'Those who are facing a battle should move forward in groups, always keep an eye on them, and avoid everything.' It means that if you recite these nine words often, you can get rid of all evil. Dongmi was influenced by Taoism in my country (using the spell-protecting method), but when copying these nine words, he mistakenly copied "array ahead" as "array ahead" or "array split ahead", which is still used today. The nine characters passed down in Japan actually come from the "Nine Meetings Mandala" of esoteric Buddhism, that is, "the spiritual bodyguard harmonizes and resolves the heart splitting and zen". Each of the nine characters has its own meaning:?
Lin (spirit)?< /p>
Stable physically and mentally?
It means being calm in the face of adversity, maintaining an unfailing will, and showing a strong body. ?
Combining the spiritual power of heaven and earth------The Samaya Association of the Three Worlds?
Handprint: Seal of the Immovable King?
Mantra: Vajrasattva Heart mantra?
Bing (dart)?
Energy?
It represents the vitality of longevity and rejuvenation. ?
Move as fast as a dart------Subjugate the Karma Society for the third time?
Mudra: Great Vajra Seal?
Spell: Subdue the Ming King for the third time Heart mantra?
Fighting (Unification)?
The sound of the universe?
Being brave and courageous, and showing fighting spirit when encountering difficulties. ?
Integrate all difficulties------Principal Interest Meeting?
Mudra: Outer Lion Seal?
Mantra: Vajrasattva Dharmakaya Mantra?< /p>
Zhe (harmony)?
Recovery?
Exhibits the power to freely control one’s own body and the bodies of others. ?
The spiritual power of all things, let me contact you------One Seal Society?
Handprint: Inner Lion Seal?
Spell: Vajrasattva Casting a magic spell?
All (solutions)?
Crisis sensing?
Exhibiting the ability to understand and manipulate people's hearts. ?
Resolve all troubles------Four Seal Association?
Mudra: Outer Binding Seal?
Mantra: Vajrasattva Samantabhadra Dharmakaya Mantra?
Array (Heart)?
Telepathy/Invisibility?
Represents the ability to combine wealth and love. ?
Perspective, insight into the enemy's psychology------Offering meeting?
Mudra: Inner binding seal?
Mantra: Padmasambhava Six Paths Vajra Curse?
Line (split)?
Time and space control?
It represents the heart of helping others. ?
Split all obstacles that hinder you - subtle society?
Mudra: Fist of Wisdom Seal?
Mantra: Mantra of the Great Sun Tathagata ?
In (Qi)?
Five-element control?
It means you can use super powers more freely.
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Make all things equal------Samaya Assembly?
Handprint: Sun Wheel Seal?
Mantra: Heart of the Great Sun Tathagata? Mantra?
Qian (Zen)?
Light/Buddha Heart?
Represents the Buddha state, that is, the state of superman. ?
My heart is Zen, and all things are in harmony - the fundamental attainment of enlightenment?
Handprint: Aquarius seal (or invisible seal)?
Spell: Mori Shiten Heart Mantra?
Detailed explanation of the nine-character mantra?
"Lin (りん), soldier (びょう), fight (とう), zhe (しゃ), All (けい), formation (じん), fierce (れつ), in (ざい), front (ぜん)”. I believe that anyone who is interested in ninjas will be familiar with these nine words. By the way, this is the nine-word mantra that has been passed down orally by ninjas for hundreds of years. ?
For ninjas, the correct pronunciation of the nine-character mantra of "Lin, Bing, Fight, All, Formation, Fierce, In, Front" is "りん, びょう, とう, しゃ, けい, "じん, れつ, ざい, ぜん", that is, pronounced according to the Japanese phonetic pronunciation, not "あ, き, さ, た, か, は, わ, や, え" mentioned in some articles, as confirmed by many relevant Japanese materials Jiuyin does not have the above-mentioned reading method, and all the orthodox nine-character mantras I have heard are read according to the first method. ?
PS. Those who are facing the enemy are all lined up in front of them (りん、びょう、とう、しゃ、かい、じん、れつ、ざい , ?ぜん), "all" means かい?, not けい! ?
As a ninja, it is an essential process to recite the Nine-Character Mantra before a battle while making various seals with both hands. The things they chant and hand-knot are what we often call the Nine-Character Mantra or Nine-character secret seal (nine seals). Since we are talking about the Nine-Character Mantra, we cannot but talk about Tantra. ?
As mentioned earlier, in ancient times, most ninjas were Eastern Tantra fanatics. Although many ninjas did not deliberately practice Tantric Buddhism, they were instilled with Tantric thoughts from birth. , in the future you will unconsciously indulge in it and be more or less affected. The so-called Tantric Buddhism is relative to the Exoteric Buddhism. It is a characteristic of Buddhism in the late period of ancient India and is the product of the combination of Buddhism and Hinduism. In terms of schools, it can be divided into Zatantra, which represents Tantra in India and Han China, Eastern Tantra, which was improved and evolved after the spread of Chinese Tantra to Japan, and Tibetan Tantra in Tibet. ?
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, three Indian tantric masters, Shan Wuwei, Vajra Zhi, and Fu Kong Tripitaka, came to China, and they passed down the tantric teachings. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Tantric Buddhism brought to Tibet by the Mongols was integrated with the local Lamaism to form Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court believed that Tantra was too weird and ordered its abolition. Therefore, the power of Tantric Buddhism gradually declined in the Central Plains. However, in the late Tang Dynasty, the Eastern Esoteric Shingon sect, which was brought to Japan by Master Kukai, became widely spread. Esoteric Buddhism regards Vairocana (the Great Sun Tathagata, the famous Kamakura Buddha is Vairocana) as the supreme commander and founder of the religion, and strongly promotes inheritance, mantras and secret mantras. Another major feature of Tantric Buddhism is that the human body has many mysteries and potentials. Through unremitting efforts in Tantric Buddhism, practitioners can develop their full potential, allowing the body to communicate with the universe and achieve the state of unity between heaven and man. This is consistent with Tantric Buddhism. The ultimate physical skills pursued by ninjas coincide with each other. ?
"Three Tantric Blessings" is an important part of Tantric practice. Including body secrets - making hand seals, verbal secrets - chanting mantras, and mental secrets - contemplating the Buddha in the heart. ?
The main practice of body secrets is "mudra formation". To put it simply, it is a practice of intersecting the fingers of both hands to form different shapes and combining them with imaginative thoughts. There are thousands of types of Tantric mudra, each with its own special meaning and function, such as: auspicious seal, Vajra Great Benefit Seal, Great Wheel Altar Seal, Destroy All Demons Seal, Crown Holding Treasure Seal, Light Flame Fire Realm Seal , Fusi and other immortal seals, quasi-nine-headed dragon seals, etc. Although some mudras have the same name, the shapes they produce are quite different. For example, the Vajra Armor Seal is a kind of demon-attracting body protection (in this case, think of the Ming Seal as armor, which spreads flames all over the body, and disgusting demons scatter in all directions). The nine ninja seals are: Exclusive Seal, Great Golden Steel Wheel Seal, Outer Lion Seal, Inner Lion Seal, Outer Bound Seal, Inner Bound Seal, Knowledge Seal, Sun Wheel Seal and Invisibility Seal. ?
For Dong Tan, through the ten fingers of the two hands of the human body, coupled with mental imagination, they match a certain practice and form different "mudras" to create a blessing and practice secret. The effectiveness of the law. Tantric theory holds that the ten fingers of both hands are externally connected to the Buddha nature of the Dharma Realm, and internally connected to the internal organs. Therefore, when practicing Tantric Dharma, forming "mudras" can mutually inspire the body secrets of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who have already been accomplished in the Dharma Realm, and increase the number of people. The quick effect is like gaining the magical power of Buddha. In addition to the mudra, there are various sitting postures in body secrets. They are as diverse as the mudra and have their own meanings. The "auspicious sitting" and "demon subduing sitting" in the full lotus posture are two types that ninjas often practice. Ninjas usually have to cooperate with the "Xiang" in the Five Paths of Ninja (more details in later chapters) to practice the auspicious sitting and the demon-subduing sitting to concentrate on practice. ?
Yu Mi, also known as mantra, is a method in which practitioners recite a string of mantras to create creations in their hearts and prompt them to mutate. This special note is used to vibrate the energy channels in the body, transforming them into Concentrating the mind on one point creates extraordinary potential and inspires supernatural powers and high wisdom.
The number of mantras in Tantra is as diverse as the mudra, such as: Fire True Mantra, Yama King Mantra, Four Heavenly Kings Mantra, Garuda King Mantra, Rakshasa Mantra, Rakshasa King Mantra, Blessing Mantra, Samaya Mantra, The Dynasty God Mantra, the Vajra Armor Mantra, etc., as well as the Five-Character Mantra, the Hidden Secret Six-Character Mantra (a very famous six-character mantra in China, don’t tell me you don’t know!), and the Manjushri Eight-Character Mantra. The words "Lin, Bing, Du, Zhe, Jie, Zhen, Li, in, in front" that Ninja chants are the mantras of the Nine Clubs Mandala in Eastern Esotericism. Most of the Dongmi mantras are pronounced according to the combination of sounds and rhymes of ancient Indian Sanskrit letters. However, the mantras uttered in places on Higashimi-dōri in Koyasan, Japan, have generally been changed into Sanskrit with Japanese pronunciation. ?
Nowadays, it is really a very complicated problem to study the phonology of tantric mantras in detail. But it is different from the six-character Tibetan Tantric Mantra that originated from ancient Indian Sanskrit. The nine characters "lin, soldier, fight, zhe, ji, formation, fierce, in, before" originally came from the Taoist classic "Baopuzi" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China. 》. Everyone knows that "Baopuzi" is a Taoist classic, divided into two parts: the inner chapter and the outer chapter. The inner part mainly introduces Taoist elixirs, forbidden arts and health preservation, while the outer part covers military strategy, political commentary and other related contents. The nine-character mantra comes from "Baopuzi·Neipian·Dengshe". There are many forbidden arts in Chinese Taoism, which are also called "forbidden methods". Taoism believes that ghosts, poisonous insects and beasts can be restrained by using them. The Forbidden Technique Gai was derived from early Qi Technique and Fu Technique, and first appeared at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It can be divided into two categories: "qi ban" and "curse ban". It involves a wide variety of contents, ranging from moving clouds to pray for rain, driving away insects and avoiding disasters, to inviting ghosts and gods to do anything. "Call wind and thunder and control ghosts and gods" that Tengu has been pursuing is one of them. ?
The article about the Nine-Character Mantra in "Baopuzi" belongs to the forbidden mantra. The original text is: "It is advisable to know the secret blessing of Liujia when entering the mountain. The blessing says: 'Those who are facing the battle, all march forward in formation.' "Every nine words should always be used as a secret blessing, and everything should be avoided." When crossing the river and crossing the sea, he prayed: "The wind is rolled up, the river god guides the dragon, and all disasters are wiped out." The Japanese slightly modified this and it became what we see now. If we look at the practice method of tantric chanting of mantras, it uses a special note to vibrate the energy veins inside the body, causing it to release its life potential and become a function that transcends the usual world of phenomena and enters the magical realm. , and can even inspire supernatural powers and a high degree of wisdom. Therefore, among the three Tantric dharma of Eastern Tantra, such as Vajra, Womb, and Lotus, there are different mantras to enable practitioners to achieve different effects for different purposes. From this point of view, the biggest focus of tantric mantra sound secrets is the relationship between sound and human body's energy meridians, which is purely a mysterious function that transcends physics. ?
The secret of the mind is the most important link in the "three secret blessings". In the entire process of tantric practice, the secret of the body and the secret of speech both rely on the secret of the mind to function. The inner meaning triggers the potential of consciousness through "contemplation" and reaches a transcendent realm. I said before that the nine-character mantra of ninjutsu is a secret technique of self-hypnosis. Just like in a modern magic show, the magician hypnotizes an assistant and says: "You are following the stick." At this time, even if someone is standing above the assistant's suspended Physically, he was completely unaware. Yimi uses the process of forming mudra and chanting mantras to concentrate his thoughts and self-paralysis. He makes the ninja's blood boil and become so excited that he can temporarily forget the pain during the battle and completely become a killing machine running at full power. ?
The most basic sutras of Eastern Buddhism are the Mahavairocana Sutra and the Vajra Sutra. Through the basic principles mentioned in these two scriptures, we can know that human beings have a natural instinct that transcends everything in the universe. As a warrior engaged in the special profession of ninja, every battle is a life-and-death battle. , since it is a life-and-death fight, of course I hope to use my full potential to fight for survival. At this time, I need a spiritual support that can inspire myself and a catalyst that allows my body to fully display its functions. The Nine-Character Mantra just satisfies this requirement. This kind of demand is therefore highly respected by ninjas. ?
After understanding the "Three Secret Blessings" of Tantra, I think everyone should have an understanding of the reason why ninjas must make mudras, recite mantras, and concentrate their thoughts before every battle.