Matsu Daoyi and Shi Xiqian were equally divided in the world of Zen at that time, **** with the same to attract students from all over the world. Yakuzan was originally a student of Shi Xiqian, and one day Yakuzan asked Shi Xiqian, "I still understand a little bit of the Twelve Teachings of the Tripitaka in a rough way. But I really don't understand the tenet of Zen, which is 'pointing to the human heart and seeing the nature to become Buddha', so I would like to ask the master to enlighten me." Shi Shiqian: "This is not right, this is not right, this is not right, this is not right, this is always wrong, what do you do?" Yakusan was at a loss for words. Shi Shiqian: "Your karma is not here, it is better to go to Master Ma." Yakusan But Yan endorsed the teacher's order and respectfully went to worship Zen Master Mazu Daoyi. Still those questions were asked. Mazu Daoyi: "Sometimes I teach it to raise its eyebrows and wink, sometimes I don't teach it to raise its eyebrows and wink, sometimes what raises its eyebrows and winks is it, sometimes what raises its eyebrows and winks is not it. How exactly are you going to understand it?" When Yakushan heard this, he realized it, and he worshipped the Mazu. Mazu Daoyi: "What truth do you see, and then you perform worship?" Yakusan But Yan: "I am like a mosquito stinging an iron ox when I am at the stone, Teacher Hichien, and I cannot get to the door." Mazu Daoyi: "Having thus comprehended it, you must guard it well."
One day, Yakusan Weiyan was sitting in meditation, and when he saw him, Zen Master Shi asked, "What are you doing here?" But Yim replied, "Nothing." The stone said, "This is idle sitting." But Yan said, "If you are sitting idly, you are doing something." The stone asked again, "When you say you do nothing, what exactly do you not do?" But Yan replied, "A thousand saints do not know."
On one occasion, Zen Master But Yen was sitting in meditation when a monk asked him, "Master, what are you sitting in dull contemplation for?" The Zen master replied, "Contemplating this without contemplation." The monk was puzzled and asked, "How do you contemplate the non-contemplation?" But Yan said, "Non-contemplation."
One evening, but Yan Zen master hiking walk, suddenly the clouds and mist dispersed, the moon revealed itself, the Zen master could not help but laugh out loud. Laughter, spread to the surrounding more than ten miles away can still be heard. The next morning someone came to ask, the monks and disciples said, "Last night the monk laughed at the top of the mountain."
Li Ao, an assassin, heard about the incident and wrote a poem for Yakusan Weiyan:
The monk was chosen to live in a secluded house to cozy up to the wild feelings, and he did not send or welcome him all year round.
Sometimes I go up to the top of a lonely peak, and under the moonlight, I whistle in the clouds.
2 Zen Case: The First Noble Truth
When Dharma master came to China, the first thing he did was to visit Emperor Wu of Liang. Emperor Wu of Liang was the first emperor who believed in Buddhism in China, he was the 25th grandson of Xiao He (Xiao He was the prime minister of Liu Bang, the Gaozu of Han Dynasty), his name was Xiao Yan, and he sent many people to become monks, built pagodas, temples, and statues decorated with gold, and he himself wore a surplice and went up to the throne to preach the "Radiant Light Prajna Sutra", which was known as the Son of Heaven of the Heart of the Buddha. So Dharma was the first to visit him.
The emperor asked: How is the first meaning of the holy truth? Mo said: contour without holy!
As soon as Emperor Wu of Liang saw Dharma, he put forward the most subtle polar rule question under this teaching and asked: How is the first meaning of the holy truth? The test Dharma. Which knows that this world diamond monk can not jump out of the mortal, holy, true, common circle multi-color, to the hands of the great master, gently pinch, will be crushed without a trace. Dharma answered, "There is no saint in the outline!" If we are recommended under these words, we will go home and sit down, eat when we are hungry, sleep when we are tired, and enjoy ourselves, without having to distinguish between right and wrong and talk about the long and short of it here.
"Contouring" is as vast as the empty space, boundless, clear and bright, immovable and unshakeable. This is to imply that our mind is like the void, vast and clear, empty and clear. "There is no saint." Since there is nothing as clear as emptiness, there is certainly no saint, nor is there any mortal. But note that although there is nothing, who is it that knows there is nothing? Dharma masters this indescribable, incomparable wonderful bright true heart skillfully and dish out to Liang Wu Di see. It is a pity that the pretty winks do put the blind man to see. Emperor Wu was only aware of the doctrines and teachings, and he was not aware of the nature of the mind. He did not know who it was that said there was nothing, and who it was that said there was something, and he missed it to his face. The Zen master's family is like a skillful wielder of the Tai'a sword, gently swinging it to cut off the kudzu of the mortal and holy, the true and the common, and so on, in your heart, and pointing you straight down to the nature. All sentient beings have the wisdom and virtue of the Buddha, only because they are lost in the sound and color and do not know, the fruit can be put down everything, not with the sound and color and the flow of things, this wonderful bright true heart is like the vast emptiness of the sky, where there is a saint and a mortal?
Though there is nothing, it is not the same as wood and stone, but is clear. Who is the one who knows that there is nothing? It's the same wonderful clear heart that Dharma Master pointed out to Emperor Wu of Liang at that time that "there is no saint in the world"! If we are obsessed with the appearance of the mind, and have the view of the holy and the mortal in our mind, we cannot see the Way, and can only enter the Way when we are free from the appearance of the mind.
That's why Dharma Master said, "There is nothing holy in the world". But Liang Wu Di was a person who was obsessed with the appearance of ah, you said that the outline of no saint, not even a saint is not empty? But people say you are a saint! How can you say that there are no saints?
So the emperor then asked: to me who? Mo said: I do not know.
Liang Wu Di in the "holy" on the focus, and ignored the most important "outline" two words, so then asked: "to me who?" I thought I had captured the essence of the matter, you said, "There is no saint", then, who is standing opposite me?
This sentence has a two-fold meaning, one who is standing opposite me, and two who is conversing with me? Liang Wu Di's intention was only the first, who is it that stands opposite me? But in Zongxia it is not so, but takes the second meaning, asking who is this one who can talk to me? It's like when we ask in Zen now: who is the one who recites the Buddha's name? Who is the one who drags the dead body? Who is the one who speaks? Who is the one who listens? This "who" carries a lot of weight. It's like a question, but it's a direct instruction to realize your nature. This sentence is not so easy to answer. If you are not a person who has realized the nature of the Buddha, you will not be able to avoid fixing your eyes and moving your hands and feet, and you will not know where to land. But Dharma Master is a great master, he knew that you are the first question, dead horse right as a living horse, strong as the second question and answer: "Do not know." Dharma master this answer really doubt kill the world, you are enlightenment master, how to say do not know?
This "do not know" two words, from the surface, seems to be do not recognize, but in fact is a direct indication of sincere reward to him who is "who" word. This can ask and can answer things, there is a phase visible? Is there a relative between what can be and what can be? If there is no phase, there is no energy and there is no object, who knows who? When we open the original moment, there is no body, mind, or world, just a void of light, no color, no relative two, who knows who? This "do not know" is as heavy as a thousand pounds, such as will be able to, then instant enlightenment; such as rashly just as recognizing not to recognize the meeting, it is also over.
The emperor did not agree, Dharma then crossed the river to Wei.
The Emperor Wu of Liang believed in Buddhism, but the root of Prajna was very poor, so "the Emperor did not agree". Zen is to receive the upper root of the person, to realize the moment of enlightenment, not a muddy sermon. In two or three sentences of questions and answers, the language is not a good match, so Dharma stepped on a reed and crossed the river to Wei.
The emperor asked Zhigong, Zhigong said: Your Majesty still know this person? The emperor said: I do not know.
This Liang Wu Di returned to the harem to ask Bao Zhi Gong. Zhigong then asked Emperor Wu of Liang, "Do you still know Dharma? The emperor said, "I do not know."
The Zhi Gong said: this is the Goddess of Mercy, passing on the Buddha's heart seal.
The emperor repented, so he sent an envoy to invite.
Zhigong said: do not say that your majesty to send an envoy to invite, the whole country to go, he also does not return!
Bao Zhigong said, needless to say that your majesty sent an envoy to invite the Dharma master to come back, even if you mobilize the whole country to invite the Dharma, the Dharma master will not come back. Why is that? Because the Dharma Master is to pass on the Buddha's heart seal, the degree of sentient beings, not to receive your offerings, he does not need to honor, as long as a half-enlightened person can receive the law, Sholong Buddha is the seed.
The Dharma Master crossed the river to Wei, living in Songshan Shaolin Temple face wall for nine years, and got the Divine Light Master, realize the source of the heart and pass the law. The rest of the people under his name were many, but they only got the skin, flesh and bones of Zen, not the marrow.
So, if it is so difficult to learn Zen, then, in these last days of the Dharma, should we not cut off the seed of the Buddha? No! There are also people who have the root of the Dharma in the era of the end of the Dharma, and there are many people who have the root of the Dharma in the vast number of Buddhists. As long as there are people who have the heart to advocate and promote, the Zen sect will flourish. Because of the Buddha, the Bodhisattva's great power of compassion, as long as the conviction is not slack, every day, in this, in this, linger in this, in this, keep moving forward, there is a water to the day of success.
1 One day, the monk Tanshan was walking along a muddy path with a friend, when it was raining heavily. They both met a beautiful girl at a bend in the road, who was unable to cross that muddy path because she was dressed in a silk garment and silk sash. "Come on, girl," said Tenzan, and then he carried that girl across the muddy road, set her down, and went on his way. Along the way, the daoist kept his voice muffled, and finally pressed the issue and asked Tan Shan, "We monks don't get close to women, especially young, beautiful women, that's very dangerous, why did you do that?" "What? That woman?" Tenzan replied, "I put her down a long time ago, are you still holding on?" 2. Everything is Empty Yamaoka Tetsubo went around visiting famous teachers. One day, he met the monk Dokuan of Sangokuji Temple. To show his enlightenment, he said to Dok Yuen rather proudly, "Mind, Buddha, and all beings, all three are empty. The true nature of phenomena is empty. There is no enlightenment, no confusion, no saints, no mortals, no giving, no receiving." At that time Dok Yuen was smoking a cigarette and did not reply. But he suddenly raised his pipe and struck Yamaoka across the face, making the young Zen master furious. "Everything is empty," asked Dokuan, "where did you get such a temper?" 3. A man went to a temple to worship the Goddess of Mercy. After a few kowtows, this person suddenly realized that a person around him is also worshipping, and looks exactly the same as the Goddess of Mercy on the altar. Confused, the man asked softly, "Are you the Goddess of Mercy?" The man replied, "Yes." The man was even more perplexed and asked, "Then why do you worship yourself?" The Goddess of Mercy replied, "Because I know that it is better to ask for help than to ask for help." 4. Losing and Winning A samurai came to Zen Master Ichigo's room with a fish in his hand. He said, "Let's make a bet, Zen Master say this fish in my hand is dead or alive?" Ichigo knew that if he said it was dead, the samurai would surely let go of his hand; and if he said it was alive, then the samurai would surely squeeze the fish to death with a secret effort. So Ichabod said, "It is dead." The samurai immediately loosened his hand and laughed, "Haha, Zen Master, you have lost, you see the fish is alive." Ichigo smiled faintly and said, "Yes, I lost." Yixiu lost, but he saved a real fish. 5, you and look at him Cold Mountain asked Shide: "There are people in the world who slandered me, deceived me, insulted me, laughed at me, belittled me, belittled me, cheated me, how to deal with it?" Shide said: "bear with him, let him, avoid him, by him, patience, honor him, ignore him, and then a few years you and see him." 6, a cup of tea Nan Yin was a Zen master in the Meiji era in Japan. One day, a university professor came to ask him about Zen, and he only treated him with tea. He filled the visitor's cup with tea until it was full, and then continued to fill it. This professor watched as the tea overflowed the cup unceasingly until he could no longer remain silent, and finally said, "It's already overflowing, don't pour any more!" "You are like this cup," replied Nan Yin, "filled with your own opinions and ideas. How can you ask me to speak Zen to you without first emptying your own cup?" 7. Enlightenment is like light Read the sutra. ** Asked the Buddha, "How can I believe in the Elysium you speak of, when I cannot see it?" The Buddha takes ** into a dark room and tells him, "There is a hammer in the corner." **Whether he stared wide-eyed or squinted his eyes into small ones, he still couldn't see anything, so he had to say I can't see it. The Buddha lit a candle and there was indeed a hammer in the corner. What you can't see, doesn't exist?
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