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Guiping, Guangxi, on a slightly muddy river, men and women wearing life jackets are singing Buddhist scriptures religiously, while splashing the boxed pure milk in their hands in a not beautiful arc.
You may have seen this news on social networks last month-a milk release campaign.
The boxed milk with a shelf life of up to half a year is definitely not expected. After undergoing ultra-high temperature sterilization, even the microorganisms in it can die, and one day, it will be released.
The so-called “capitalist pouring milk” contains basic macroeconomics knowledge behind it. Then what is the picture for Buddhist believers to release milk?
Starting from the clue of “releasing raw milk” and tracing the source, it is not difficult to find that the earliest recorded act of releasing raw milk came from Nantun District, Taichung. It was April this year, and several aunts carried canned fresh food. Milk Guru Guru poured into the river, and there was a golden Buddha statue with a blue background hanging beside it.
According to local news reports, such a “release” event will be held about once every two weeks.Milk and catfish are the main ones, and the reason they want to do this is mainly to pray for the epidemic in Taiwan.
After this secret “pray” was exposed to public view, the Taichung government finally brought three “surprises” to the believers who were concerned about the epidemic:
The first is the “Taichung City’s Autonomous Regulations on Release and Conservation”, which can be fined 20,000 to 100,000 yuan for failing to apply for a release permit.
The second is the Wildlife Conservation Law. Because the release may cause threats and impacts to the ecology, a fine of up to 2.5 million yuan can be imposed.
The third is the “Water Pollution Law.” For dumping milk into the water for suspected pollution of water sources, a fine of 30,000 yuan up to 3 million yuan can be imposed.
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On the release of life, it is no longer a day or two for the mainland to “steal teachers and learn arts” from Taiwan.
We all know that the development of things is gradual, and the evolutionary trajectory of release is the same. For example, Long before the release of raw milk, the released mineral water has been commercialized.
In 2018, beside the Yongle Bridge in Tianjin, boxes and boxes of mineral water were neatly arranged, accompanied by the sing of “Nan Wu Drink La Da Na Duo La Ye Ye”, “The Great Compassionate Curse” “It sounded, and people in yellow vests unscrewed the caps of the bottles and poured water into the river.
The idols hanging by the river reveal the identity of these people. They believe in the “China International Great Compassion Mantra Water Merit Society” originating in Taiwan. The master in the picture is the president of the Merit Society, Kan as a Master.
There are many explanations for the release of mineral water. For example, “Pini Daily Use” mentioned that “a bowl of water in Buddhism has 84,000 insects”. In terms of quantity, the efficiency of pouring a bottle of water to earn merit I don’t know how much it is taller than any bird or fish released.
But for the organization “China International Great Compassion Mantra Water Merit Association”, the more important reason for releasing mineral water is that they release mineral water not ordinary mineral water, but mineral water blessed with “Great Compassion Mantra”.
I have to mention the founder of the Merit Society, Kuan Ru Master.
Open Baidu Baike, and according to the text description, you will find that Master Kuan Ru is a Buddhist with many reputations.
But this is just the appearance presented to ordinary people. Only those who have really read the master’s works and received the guidance of the master understand that the master is actually the “savior” appointed by the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, and it is a bodhisattva to hold the great compassion mantra to save all living beings. Personally told.
As for this Great Compassion Mantra, it cures all diseases, eliminates disasters, and evenIt is of course not necessary to mention Xitian Bliss after death.
It is said that it is a relic that fell from the sky when Master Kuan Ru was teaching the Fa in Hegang, Northeast China
It stands to reason that this so-called “China International Great Compassion Mantra Water Merit Association” loves to talk about strange power and chaos, and it also boasts that the chairman is guided by Guanshiyin. It is a typical “attachment to Buddhism” in Buddhist terminology, that is, attachment to Buddhism. A non-mainstream sect under the guise of a Buddha.
But as the saying goes, everything is most afraid of the word “persistence”. This great compassion curse water was released from 2008 to 2018. After all, Master Kuan Ru from Taiwan has taken a step by step and gained a firm foothold in the mainland.
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Being attached to Buddhism, I love to use letting go as a gimmick. It does not mean that Taiwan’s authentic Buddhism will not let go. In fact, the reason why these messy sects like to play “releasing life” is precisely because the Buddhists in Taiwan really love releasing life.
In 2009, the Taiwan Society of Animal Society conducted a survey on 2544 religious teams across Taiwan (the number of valid interviews is 2007), and finally found Actually organized release activitiesThe team has a total of 483 companies(24%). The release activities are held more than 750 times each year, and the release amount is more than 200 million yuan. The number of animals reached 200 million, including smuggled alien species.
And they not only love to release animals, they also love to release animals outside the island. Not only the mainland, but even Southeast Asia, India, and even the United States have left the footprints of the Taiwanese believers.
Of course, the popularity of release activities is not necessarily a good thing, and Taiwan has long understood this.
As early as the 1990s, Taiwan TV once broadcasted a program called “Between Life and Death: Taiwan’s Myth of Free Life”, which mentioned many examples.
Taiwanese abony is endemic to Taiwan, China, mainly living in southern Taiwan. In contrast, Pasqueflower is distributed in most of the southern part of the Yangtze River in China, and mainly in the north and west of Taiwan.
Taiwan Bulbul, also known as Wutou Weng, is endemic to Taiwan, China
However, due to the popularity of release activities, a large number of pasqueflowers were captured and then taken to southern Taiwan to be released. Eventually, pasqueflowers and aconites were widely interbred, and the pasqueflowers were also on the verge of extinction.
Another example is the Sun Moon Lake where the primary school texts have been learned. The local fishermen originally cultivated Kili fish for a living, but as the release activities of “more than five or six times a month” began to prevail, the living environment of Kili fish in the lake changed. It got sinister.
Glassfish is an exotic species of double-sided fish from Taiwan. It was originally introduced as an ornamental fish, but after it was released into Sun Moon Lake by religious figures, it reproduced rapidly and had no natural enemies, so it quickly seized the native species The niche of the fish, let alone feed on the eggs of Kili fish.
At that time, according to the fishermen’s description, almost 50 to 60% of the Internet came from glass fish.
Of course, this is the news more than ten years ago after all. As of today, according to a report by the United Daily on June 15, Today’s Sun Moon Lake, “For every three fish caught, two are Alien species”.
Facts have proved that the stupidity of human beings in releasing life does not seem to decrease with the passage of time.
As a recent example, it was also in June this year that a Taiwanese religious team released crabs near the Xinbei Pingxi. This was not a problem—the only thing wrong was that they forgot to untie the ropes of the crabs.
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The crabs who were unable to move and were “released”
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As for why we should “release life”, the 20th article of the 48 light precepts in the Buddhist classic “Vatican Net Sutra” mentions:
If the son of Buddha, with “kindness”, he should release his karma, he should be mindful: all men are my father, all women are my mother, and I am born and born by everything, so the six realms are all beings My parents; and those who kill and eat are killing my parents and killing me. All earth and water are my forerunner, all fire and wind are my main body, so I often release karma and regenerate. If you see the world killing a beast, you should “convenient rescue” to relieve its suffering.
The two keywords in this paragraph, “kindness” and “convenient for first aid“, have caused conflicts between the religious teams in Taiwan on the concept of release.
In terms of “kindness”, some groups believe that releasing life should come from the original heart, and that utilitarian releasing for merit is meaningless, while some groups believe that utilitarian releasing can also guide sentient beings step by step and achieve good results. Do not release.
In terms of “convenience to rescue”, some teams only agree to “releasing life at random”, emphasizing individual behavior; some teams believe that other things can be done at random, but life and death cannot be followed. Instead, they specialize in promoting large-scale collective release of life; there are also teams that take a compromise The way is to release animals only in small teams and oppose large-scale collective release.
Actually, whether it is “from the heart” or “convenient for it”, focusing on one point, these religious groups are actually facing the same problem-how to prevent the release while promoting the release An industry.
You must know that according to the statistics of the International Humane Association, the world releases billions of animals every year, and the small island of Taiwan accounts for 200 million. This is enough to form a huge industry that repeats “capture-release-capture”. chain.
In this industry chain, “putThe “living”, “hunters”, “breeders” and “flower and bird market” form a stable closed loop of mutual benefit and symbiosis. Only the released animals are reduced to unnecessary but necessary consumables.
Some birds even die in cages for funny reasons such as “the release ceremony is too long”
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Finally, let’s talk about the progress of the “freeing concept”.
Chen Jialun, an associate professor at the School of General Studies, Hongguang University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, once made a paper dedicated to the issue of release. The title is “Release and Non-release of Taiwanese Buddhism: Religious Beliefs, Animal Risks and Ecological Risk Considerations.” It mentioned that “the media reports on the issue of release are almost always negative views, focusing on the ills of release.”
This is easy to understand, just like this article, you must also put those ridiculously stupid things to the front so that you can read it all the way.
But while gaining attention, Chen Jialun believes that “the media has also ignored the various improvements and efforts of some release teams. This is one of the reasons why the release activities have not disappeared due to media reports and opposition from all walks of life.”
For example, “National Taiwan University Morning Light Club”, in order to ensure the survival of released animals, apart from consulting relevant experts to provide relevant knowledge of fish populations, selecting appropriate release species, locations and seasons, it also develops a set of rigorous standardized release methods And process. For example, making live fish bags, monitoring and controlling the water temperature, salinity, oxygen concentration in the bags, etc., to provide a living environment for released fish.
For example, “Fuzhi Buddhist Foundation”, in order to avoid damage to the ecological environment due to release, activities are held every two or three months, and only small-scale earthworms are made.(Indigenous species) release, the release site is located in the organic farm run by believers,The number of participants is about 20 to 30 each time.
Another example is “Lingjiu Mountain”. As one of the most famous Buddhist organizations in Taiwan, after being accused of “long rituals causing a large number of deaths of animals released”, it has been changed to “release first, then release video “The system. After that, they even learned from Sri Lanka the coup of “purchasing healthy cows from the slaughterhouse and giving them to farmers for farming”.
These improvements are naturally excellent, but personally, I prefer a dialogue between Master Yinneng and Master Yanshen in the Buddhist talk show “Two Monks Qiang Qiang”.
This article is from WeChat official account: Earth report (ID: diqiuren005) , author: you Alien aunt