[蓮花化身]
我在紀錄片「看不見的台灣」所看到的一種道教超渡儀式。
傳統觀念認為，「身體髮膚，受之父母，不敢毀傷，孝之始也。」即便人死亡了也要留下全屍；而蓮花化身的儀式，是用來超渡沒有身體的孤魂、或是死無全屍的亡者，以蓮花代替缺損的身軀。
儀式由來取自中國神話中，哪吒因為打死海龍王三太子，被海龍王找上門尋仇，哪吒怕連累父母，所以削骨還父削肉還母，當場自殺，最後師父太乙真人用蓮花為哪吒造了一個身體使其復生。
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［Lotus Incarnation ］
I once saw this Taoist soul releasing ceremony on “A Journey with Invisible Friends”, a documentary movie here in Taiwan.
In the traditional idea of filial piety, our bodies- to every hair and bit of skins- are received by us from our parents, and we must not presume to injure or harm them. This is the beginning of filial piety. This means that even when someone has passed away, the body needs to be kept intact. When a lost soul or damned spirit, or the dead without the body intact; the lotus incarnation ceremony is preformed to help release it from purgatory. The ceremony uses lotus to substitute either the missing body or the missing body parts.
It’s origin came from Chinese mythology. When Nezha had beaten the third prince of the sea and the sea dragon king came for revenge; he was afraid to get his parents involved, so he cut his bones and trimmed his meat off to give them back to his parents and committed suicide. Later his master the lord Tai Yi of Salvation used lotus to create a body for Nezha’s incarnation and resurrected him.
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