"Jade Calendar Treasures" is a book with Taoism as its theme. A legend of Meng Po-tang was made up in "Jade Calendar Treasures" to explain why people can't remember past lives. At the same time, a figure similar to Meng Po was invented, saying that Meng Po belonged to the Han Dynasty. But please think about it. Who will finish this task before Meng Po? In fact, Buddhism has long had an objective explanation for these. When people die, they part. After a deep coma between life and death, the superficial consciousness has already dissipated, but Araille's knowledge is still there, and the Yin body is reincarnated to the corresponding realm under the impetus of karma. Reincarnated people can't recall past lives, because ordinary people's consciousness can't go deep into Araille's consciousness, and only a few people who go deep into meditation can see the images of past lives in meditation. There are also very few people who have pure thoughts and little paranoia in their last lives and still have memories of their last lives. Such people generally appear in mountainous areas and rural areas.
According to Buddhist classics, people who commit serious crimes will feel the consequences of hell, while some minor crimes will be rewarded accordingly, but they will not go to hell. In the jade calendar, many seemingly insignificant mistakes will go to hell and suffer all kinds of tragic punishment. People can't help asking: Why didn't Yan Luowang even grasp this importance?
Others, seemingly innocent, are going to hell. For example, "a woman who has given birth to a child for less than 20 days goes near a well or stove, washes clothes, hangs blood-stained clothes on a high place, and blasphemes the gods", which is attributed to her husband's family for three points; Women have seven deadly sins. For example, "The clothes are embroidered with dragons and phoenixes, and the clothes are carved with Tai Chi, the moon, Beidou, the birthday girl, the Queen Mother and the Second Immortal, and they urinate and cry in the northern sky, so they are called the deities and buddhas casually ..." and so on.
Generally speaking, there are eighteen layers of hell in Buddhist scriptures, while the notes in the jade calendar say that hell is eight layers.
It is also against what Buddhism says not to call the Buddha by his name. Buddhism not only does not object to calling Buddha and Bodhisattva by their names, but also advocates chanting Buddha loudly, walking, living, sitting and lying down. It is common to blurt out a sentence in daily life.
Look carefully, there are many flaws, so I won't list them here.
It is good for a layman to spend his own money to print books to publicize Buddhism, but the content of publicity should be carefully considered.
"Yulibao" and "Taiwanese businessmen's induction" are not Buddhism. Some people say that although these books are not Buddhism, they also advise people to do good and talk about cause and effect. What happened to them? Yes, they advise people to do good, but their standards of good and evil are open to question. They also advocate causality, but the causality they advocate is fundamentally different from the belief in Buddhism!
Cause and effect in Buddhism is a scientific and simple truth, which emphasizes self-blame. All kinds of good and bad results a person gets are because his thoughts, words and actions create "karma" for good or evil, not the judgment and punishment of ghosts and gods. Although Buddhism recognizes the existence of ghosts and gods, ghosts and gods are also dominated by karma. Buddhism's "karma" refers to "nature" and can also be interpreted as a kind of "behavior" and a kind of power. A person's obsession with himself and external things produces all kinds of greedy, angry and stupid thoughts and creates all kinds of languages and behaviors, and each kind of thought, language and behavior will produce a kind of power, which will not disappear or mature when encountering fate.
Master Taixu once pointed out that secular people usually have two incorrect understandings of cause and effect: one is the theory of destruction without cause and fruit; One is the causal view of Shinto: that is, if people do good, God will bless them; Evil will be punished by heaven (for details, please refer to Cause and Effect in the Third World in Master Taixu's Encyclopedia II).
However, The Jade Calendar and The Book of the Return to the Classic on Tai Shang are typical books with Shinto as their teachings, and the causal relationship they talk about is the concept of causal relationship criticized by Master Tai Xu. The standard of good and evil advocated by them is the standard of good and evil established by Shinto, with obvious superstitious thoughts. People who believe in Buddhism should take what the Buddha said as the standard and what the Buddha and Bodhisattva said as the measure. Therefore, in the Eight Righteousnesses of the Buddha, mindfulness is emphasized first, followed by mindfulness.
There are several places in jade calendar notes that should arouse everyone's vigilance:
1, all punishments come from outside. It is inconsistent with the Buddhist view of cause and effect.
2. Missed words in chanting can only be reincarnated in hell, which makes many people afraid to recite the scriptures. This orientation has ulterior motives.
There must be some words at the end of the book. If you print my book, you will get great blessings and turn the corner. What happens if you don't print? Threaten and entice people to print in large quantities. This practice should arouse our suspicion and vigilance. When people print this book, many of them print it greedily. This is the same as how many letters you wrote and forwarded, and what will happen if you don't write. I think this kind of speech is very bad. Then, if this incentive is put into the jade calendar, won't it arouse everyone's vigilance?