Interesting Facts about Foyin

1. Su Shi was a great talent, and Foyin was an eminent monk. They often practiced Zen and meditated together. Foyin was honest and always bullied by Su Shi. Su Shi was sometimes very happy when he took advantage. When he got home, he liked to talk to his talented sister Su Xiaomei.

One day, the two of them meditated together again. Su Shi asked: "What do you think I look like?" Foyin said: "I think you look like a Buddha." Su Shi laughed and said to Foyin: "You know what I think you look like sitting there? Just live. Like a pile of cow dung." This time, Foyin suffered the loss of being dumb again.

Su Shi showed off this matter in front of Su Xiaomei when he got home.

Su Xiaomei sneered and said to her brother: "With your understanding, you still practice Zen. Do you know what is the most important thing for people who practice Zen? It is to see the heart and nature. If you have something in your heart, you will have it in your eyes. Buddha. If the seal says that you look like a Buddha, that means he has a Buddha in his heart; if you say that the Buddha's seal looks like cow dung, think about what you have in mind!"

2. Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian lived in Jinshan Temple. One day, they made bread to eat.

The two of them agreed not to tell the monk Foyin in the temple about making cakes this time. After a while, the cake was cooked. After counting the number, they first presented the cake to the seat of Guanyin Bodhisattva, bowed diligently, and prayed.

Unexpectedly, the Buddha's seal had been hidden in the divine tent in advance. While the two were kneeling to pray, they reached out and stole two pieces of bread.

After Su Shi paid his respects, he stood up and saw that two pieces of cake were missing. He knelt down and prayed again: "Guanyin Bodhisattva has such magical powers and ate two pieces of cake. Why didn't he come out to meet him?

Foyin replied in Zhang Zhong: "If I have noodles, I will cook a few pieces with you. How dare you bother me?"

3. Su Dongpo was in Hangzhou and liked to meet the monks of the West Lake Temple. Make friends. He is the best friend with Monk Foyin of Jinshan Temple. They often joke around while drinking and reciting poems.

Monk Foyin is delicious. Whenever Su Dongpo entertains guests, he always comes uninvited. .

One night, Su Dongpo invited Huang Tingjian to go on a tour of the West Lake. There were many drinks and food on the boat.

As the boat disembarked, Su Dongpo smiled and said to Huang Tingjian: "Foyin always attends gatherings." We have to get there. We will take a boat to the lake tonight to drink, recite poems, and have a good time, but he won’t be able to come anyway. ”

Unexpectedly, Monk Foyin had long ago heard that Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian were going to swim on the lake, so he hid under the ship’s plank before the two of them got on the boat.

< p>The bright moon was in the sky, the cool breeze was refreshing, and the fragrance of lotus filled the lake. The cruise ship slowly came to the Three Pagodas of the West Lake. Su Dongpo held the wine glass, twirled his beard, and happily said to Huang Tingjian:

"Nothing today." Buddha's Seal, let's be quiet. Let's start with a drinking order. The first two sentences should use "Ji Jing", and the last two sentences should end with the word "哉". "

Huang Tingjian said: "Okay!" Su Dongpo said first: "The clouds part and the bright moon comes out, what can the sky say? What can the sky say?"

Huang Tingjian looked at the lotus flowers all over the lake, and then Said: "Pull the lotus seeds away, let the swimming fish come out, you have found it! You have found it!"

At this time, Foyin could no longer bear it under the cabin board. After hearing Huang Tingjian's words, he pushed the cabin board away , climbed out and said: "The planks of the ship were pushed aside, and the Buddha's seal came out. It's so embarrassing! It's so embarrassing!"

Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian saw a man suddenly crawling out from under the planks of the ship. I was shocked, and when I looked carefully, I saw that it was Foyin. When I heard him utter these four lines of poetry, I couldn't help laughing.

Su Dongpo pulled Foyin to sit down and said: "You hid it well and you were right, but you caught it again today!" So the three of them watched the moon and went to the lake, chatting and laughing.

4. One night, Dongpo went boating on the river with his friend, the monk Foyin. It's late autumn, the golden wind is blowing, the water is sparkling, and the scenery on both sides of the river is charming. Drinking wine and asking, Foyin asked Dongpo for a sentence. Su Dongpo looked towards the shore, pointed with his hand, and said nothing with a smile. Foyin looked around and saw a big yellow dog on the bank, eating tiger bones. Foyin knew that Su Dongpo was joking, so he laughed and threw the folding fan with Su Dongpo's poem in it into the water. The two of them are inseparable. Touch Na and laugh. It turns out that they made a pun on the Asian League.

The first couplet of Dongpo is: Dog gnaws (monk's) bones on the river: the second couplet of Buddha's seal is: The poem of Dongpo (corpse) on the water flow

5. In Huangzhou, I often meet with Jinshan Temple In charge of the visits of Zen master Foyin, one day Su wrote a poem and presented it to Foyin: "In the middle of the sky, the sun shines brightly on the universe, unable to be blown by the eight winds, sitting upright on a purple golden lotus."

The Zen master immediately criticized the word "fart" and asked the boy to take it back. Dongpo was furious when he saw it, and immediately crossed the river to question the Zen master. The Zen master laughed: "Bachelor, bachelor, aren't you "unable to be blown by the eight winds"? How could you cross the river with just a "fart"?

"Eight winds cannot move" can be found in Volume 5 of "Buddha Earth Sutra", and this sentence is also found in Shi Zunshan Poetry. The eight winds are Buddhist terms.