The persistent Emperor Wu of Liang had repeatedly renounced his family, did he really see through the red dust?

Everyone has something to stand up to in their hearts, to show themselves the direction, to fight for it, and not to be confused anymore.

What happened in history, posterity is not easy to judge, everyone will have their own opinions. Emperor Wu of Liang, an emperor during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, he repeatedly became a monk and saw through the red dust.

Emperor Wu of Liang

In 502, Xiao Yan forced Xiao Baorong to take the throne and became emperor himself, with the state name Liang, known as Emperor Wu of Liang.

He was a very frugal and vegetarian, and he got up to mark official documents, selected officials who were honest and honest, lived a simple life so that they ate only one meal a day, and all of them lived on vegetarian food. Behind this is because he is a very devout Buddhist, neither eating meat, nor approaching women, but also built a Tongtai temple, which is large in scale and consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. He went to the temple every morning and evening to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and under his influence, the whole court, including his son, embraced Buddhism, which also prompted the Buddhism of the Southern Dynasty to enter its heyday.

Once, a senior monk named Dharma came to the South China Sea from India, and Xiao Yan was very happy and took Dharma monk to his side. He asked Dharma himself that he had done a lot of things for the Buddha, and that the monk should be able to gain a lot of merit by writing a sutra and building a temple without falling down, right?

Xiao Yan was puzzled and asked why, and Dharma explained, "Although you have done a lot of things for the Buddha, those are all superficial kung fu, which is far from the actual merit."

Xiao Yan was very disappointed, and he was not reconciled, and continued to ask what the true meaning of Dharma Buddhism was, and Dharma replied that the so-called absolute truth did not exist at all, and if you had a Buddha in your heart, then your heart is a Buddha. Xiao Yan didn't understand much, and was a little upset, Dharma saw that Xiao Yan didn't understand Buddhism at all, and he didn't bother to continue talking to him, so he turned away.

Later, Xiao Yan informed his master Zhigong Zen Master of this matter, and Zhigong heard Dharma's name, complained that Xiao Yan did not keep Dharma, and told Xiao Yan that Dharma could say what ordinary people did not dare to say, could not say, and also told the true meaning of Buddhism, Xiao Yan should not neglect him.

Xiao Yan admired the Buddhist scholars very much, regretted it too much, and immediately sent someone to chase after him, but it was too late.

When Xiao Yan was old, in order to show his devotion to Buddhism, he personally ran to Tongtai Temple to become a monk. But the officials of the imperial court were anxious, and there were still many things waiting for the emperor to deal with it, so after repeated dissuasion, Xiao Yan was picked up by the ministers after being a monk for three days, and soon, he thought that if ordinary people became monks and wanted to pay back the customs, they needed to pay the ransom fee, they sacrificed themselves, and they did not pay the redemption fee, so they went to the Tongtai Temple again to become a monk, and after the minister knew, he ran to the Tongtai Temple to ask him to return to the palace to deal with the government, but Xiao Yan said that he was not willing to go back. The minister knew that the emperor had sacrificed his life to redeem himself, so he used 100 million yuan to redeem himself, and only then did he take him back to the palace.

A few years later, Xiao Yan gave up his life again, and in order to show his devotion to Buddhism, he not only gave up his body, but also gave up the palace and the land of the whole country. The minister cried and laughed, but he had to find a way to persuade him to return, and finally spent two hundred million dollars to redeem him.

The following year, Xiao Yan once again ran to Dharma Tongtai Temple to become a monk, and this was already his fourth time as a monk. The persistence was infuriating and ridiculous, and the minister spent a lot of money to redeem him.

Seeing this, is it very incomprehensible to everyone, a person is obsessed to this extent, Xiao Yan believes in Buddhism is beyond reproach, but as the head of a country, he has greater responsibilities, the imperial court and the people of the world need him, but he has repeatedly ignored the government and politics, internal and external troubles, resulting in the outbreak of Hou Jing's rebellion, and eventually ended up starving to death.

Therefore, if a person's attachment to this point is not excessively stubborn? Hopefully, he really grasped the true meaning of Buddhism.