The Buddhist system is vast and profound, and there are many schools and systems according to the sects. Each has its own benefits, each has its own characteristics, and the criteria for the world's selection are also different from person to person and from region to region. There are also many methods that can be learned, cultivated, and understood. As far as Zen Buddhism is concerned, there are many good ways and classic stories. The author of the Tanjing is a Chinese, and this classic is also the only one that has been included in the Buddhist classics by later generations. His author is a classic collected by the Buddhist Zen patriarch Huineng Shuo, disciple Fahai and others.

The "Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs" records the deeds of Huineng's lifelong Dharma transmission and the words and teachings of the disciples, which is rich in content and popular in writing, which is an important basis for studying the origin of Zen Buddhism.

Its central idea is the theory of Buddha nature of "seeing nature to become a Buddha", or "the mind is a Buddha", and the practice concept of "enlightenment and seeing nature". The so-called "only preaching the law of sexuality, born to break the evil sect". Sexuality refers to the inherent possibility of Buddhahood for all living beings. That is, "Bodhi's self-nature is originally pure, but with this mind, he becomes a Buddha directly" and "Although people have north and south, Buddha nature has no north and south". This idea is in line with the Nirvana Sutra's statement that "all sentient beings have Buddha nature".

The Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs also advocates the idea of the Pure Land of Idealism. It is believed that "the East man-made sins and thoughts of the Buddha survive in the West, and the West man-made sins and thoughts of the Buddha in order to survive in the West? He also said: "The heart is not good, and the West is not far away; If you have an unkind heart, it is difficult to recite the Buddha and pass away. Huineng opposes leaving the world to talk about Buddhism, advocating that "Buddhism is in the world, not leaving the world, and leaving the world to seek Bodhi is just like seeking the horns of a rabbit." He pointed out: "If you want to practice, you can get it at home, not at the temple." can do it at home, such as the kindness of the Oriental heart; If you don't cultivate in the temple, you will be evil in the hearts of Westerners."

The Altar of the Six Patriarchs is "China's first vernacular work".

The Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs is a work that has been collectively completed by Huineng's disciples and other monks and laymen over a period of more than 200 years. "The Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs" is a record of Huineng's life, and the ideological and cultural connotation of the culture of the Six Patriarchs is embodied in the "Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs" that he narrates. The central idea of the Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs emphasizes people's enlightenment and liberation in real life, and its core is to "point directly to the hearts of the people and become Buddhas by seeing nature".

One night, Hongren secretly preached the Dharma to Hui Neng, and when he said that "the mind should be born without dwelling", Hui Neng said that he had a great understanding, and he said, "All ten thousand dharmas are inseparable from their own nature." When the self-nature is self-purified; When the period of self-nature, the original does not give birth to and die; When the self-nature is self-sufficient; When the self-nature is not shaken; When the self-nature is in the future, it can give birth to ten thousand laws. It expounds the understanding of "self-nature".

The first characteristic of self-nature is "self-purity". If this mind is sincere, then it should be "pure." That is, the essence of "self-nature" must be pure and exist beyond reality.

"When the nature is self-natured, it does not give birth to and die", which means that there is no time limit on self-nature, and it is not a "promising law" with changes in birth and death. "When the self-nature is self-sufficient", it means that there is no limitation of space. These two characteristics emphasize that "self-nature" is infinitely encompassing in both time and space, because it is the basis for the emergence of all phenomena. Why not waver in the nature of oneself? Because it is a "vacuum," a universal existence that transcends everything and embraces everything. It is precisely because the "vacuum" is an unshakable, unchanging, eternal and sufficient existence that it can externalize endless things and become the ten thousand laws of "wonderful existence".

The Buddhist idea of "false emptiness" often becomes "wonderful emptiness" after arriving in China, and although it also talks about instability, it emphasizes a "wonderful", seeing that things are so abundant that they are derived or externalized from similar "supreme beings". This is Huineng's fundamental understanding of self-nature.

The more deeply rooted way of thinking of the "Six Ancestors Altar Sutra" is in line with the traditions of the Chinese, such as "What is the use of practicing meditation when the heart is peaceful? Let the humble and harmonious, and endure the evil. I heard that according to this practice, heaven is only in the present. "It's all about the close integration of the Dharma and real life.

Huineng has a very important idea called "self-refuge", "self-refuge in the Buddha, self-refuge in the law, and self-refuge in the Sangha". Huineng gave a new interpretation of the "three refuges" according to his understanding. "Self" is oneself, taking refuge in one's inner Buddha, which is Huineng's innovative thinking.

Therefore, Hui Neng combined the profound Dharma with traditional Chinese moral values, and broke the worship of the gods and spirits, and advocated the refuge of the Three Jewels of the Self, which was deafening and deafening, and his teachings were revered as classics.