After Hui Neng stayed in the Fa Sex Temple, he sent someone back to Xinzhou to check the news of his mother's relatives Li, and learned that his mother died in the year when Yingyin and his party set fire to the mountain, and was buried next to the grave of his father's Xingyi, and the two became one.

Huineng knew that his mother had already passed away, and he had no worries from then on. On the eighth day of the second month of the first year of Tang Gaozong Yifeng (676 AD), Master Yinzong came forward and invited Zhufang Shuode to confer full precepts on Huineng.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or an incredible opportunity, at that time, a group of famous Chinese and foreign lawyers gathered in Guangzhou. Therefore, the lawyer Zhiguang of Xijing (Chang'an) Temple was invited to be the ordination teacher, the lawyer Huijing of Suzhou Lingguang Temple was the karma teacher, the Jingzhou Emperor Temple Tongying lawyer was the professor, the Zhongtianzhu (Central India) Jain Luo lawyer was the ordination, and the West Tianzhu (West India) Mitara Sanzang was the ordination.

In this way, Huineng officially became a monk. A wandering soul finally has a home, so far, the hidden career is finally over, and the six ancestors have finally returned to their places!

The news of the appearance of the six ancestors in the south of the country quickly spread throughout the land of China, and the Zen monks from all over the world moved when they heard the wind and looked at the shadows. The Dharma Temple is located in the downtown area and cannot be expanded to accommodate the many Zen monks who flock to it. So, in the spring of the second year, Huineng bid farewell to Master Yinzong, and took a few young disciples such as Fakong and Yingxing to march to Cao Xi for the third time.

After a day, they arrived in the vast mountains of northern Guangdong.

The baby blistered on his feet and walked with a limp. After climbing a steep climb, he sat on a stone beside the road, snorting and panting. Fakong asked him, "What's wrong with you?" ”

The infant ignored him, simply lay down and closed his eyes. A young Zen monk gave Fakong a look and quietly stretched a mountain vine into the neck of the baby.

The baby walker screamed, "Oh, snake, snake!" The baby got up on his feet, and everyone laughed.

The baby said angrily: "Laugh, laugh, be careful to laugh and drop your chin and smash the surface of your foot." ”

Sixth Ancestor Hui Neng said: "If you are tired, let's go to the front to find a place to rest." ”

The baby said with a sad face: "I'm not only tired, my bones are about to fall apart!" If I go day and night like this, I'll just replace this clay bowl with a plate! ”

The young man, who had not yet grasped his witty words, asked, "What are you doing with the plates?" Small and shallow, can you eat enough? ”

Ying Xing said: "It doesn't matter if I am small, because I don't need to enjoy the fireworks of the world anymore, so I will go to the Western Elysium with my plate (Nirvana)." ”

Fakong smiled: "You, you! I'm afraid to walk, who told you to follow? Originally, our group of people went to Cao Xi to fight the front station. When we're ready, you can follow the crowd behind. ”

The baby pouted and said, "You guy wants to be beautiful!" Yin Zong didn't come, I'm the senior brother! If I don't come with me, won't you become Master's great disciple? ”

Fakong couldn't cry or laugh: "Okay, senior brother, do you want me to carry you away as a junior brother?" ”

Ying Xing straightened up his thin little chest: "you, there is only a senior brother in the world who takes care of the junior brother, how can there be a junior brother who takes care of the senior brother?" Walk! ”

Ying Xing gritted his teeth and walked to the front of the team, and Huineng pointed to the peaks and said, "After this mountain, it is Caohou Village." More than ten years ago, I went to Huangmei Dongchan Temple to seek the Dharma, and this is the way I walked. ”

Ying Xing said, "Master, you took this path more than ten years ago to study the Fa. Now you are the sixth ancestor, preaching in the Dharma Temple, the Zen wind in Guangzhou is open, and good men and women are offering you as a living Bodhisattva, why do you have to ask for hardship, what Cao Xi to go? ”

"It is precisely because the Zen style in Guangzhou has flourished and the Dharma is broadcasting that I am leaving."

Confused, the baby asked, "Why is that?" Could it be that monk, you will only suffer sin, not happiness? ”

Huineng actually nodded: "You can say so." Monks study the Dharma and take it as their responsibility to benefit all sentient beings. If you look at the Buddha Shakyamuni, does he have a fixed ashram? Isn't it true that his old man's life has been dusty and dusty, and he has traveled around the world, isn't it precisely to plant good roots and have affection? Besides, the Dharma Temple is too noisy in the bustling metropolis. ”

The infant said, "Are you used to running away?" Light likes to drill deep into the mountains and old forests. ”

Fakong said: "There are handsome birds in the high mountains, and there are many hares in the plains. You see, you don't have a quiet time all day long, like a hare that can't lie down! ”

How was the baby willing to suffer, forgot that his legs were sore and his feet were sore, and he forgot that he was tired, so he pounced and chased him...... With laughter and laughter, they climbed the last hill. Cao Xi, which is as shining as a streamer under the mountain, is in sight. Huineng muttered to himself: "Eighteen years, it's been a full eighteen years......"

Huineng's tears clouded his vision.

At the entrance of Caohou Village, there is a square table in front of a house on the side of the road. There was half a basket of glutinous rice and cold tea on the table, but no one cared for it. Huineng and his party were hungry and thirsty. Infant Xing's eyes were sharp, and he first found the glutinous rice and herbal tea on the table, and exclaimed excitedly: "It's still the Bodhisattva's heartache for me, a Buddhist disciple, knowing that Infant Xing's stomach is rumbling and his throat is about to smoke, so someone has brought food and drink." ”

Fakong said: "You think beautifully, don't you see that people are doing business? ”

Huineng looked at the salivating baby and said, "Fakong, you go and call the store." ”

Fakong walked to the door and shouted, "Shopkeeper, buy glutinous rice cakes!" ”

An old woman in the house replied: "Guest officer, take it yourself, two dollars each, and the tea is for nothing." ”

Huineng and the others walked to the square table and sat down, and Huineng said, "One person is enough, and we will go to Baolin Temple immediately." ”

The old woman in the house shouted, "Is the guest officer here at Baoling Temple?" ”

Fakong said, "Yes! ”

The old woman said, "If you are going to Baolin Temple to greet the pilgrims of the Sixth Patriarch Master, you don't need to give money, just eat as you like." ”

Ying Xing asked curiously: "Why is it to welcome the six ancestors, you can eat for nothing?" ”

"Because ......" The old woman came out of the house, and when she saw that it was several old and young monks, she hurriedly saluted and said: "It turned out to be a few mages, the old woman is slow, sin, sin!" In the past few days, many people have passed by here, and I thought it was a pilgrim to Baoling Temple. ”

Huineng Heshi asked: "Old woman, the village is quiet, where have all the people gone?" ”

"Let's all go to Baolin Temple to greet the Sixth Patriarch Master."

The baby asked, "Why didn't you go?" ”

The old woman deliberately teased the baby: "If I go even to the old woman, who will give you glutinous rice to eat here?" ”

The baby didn't buy it, thought about it, and said: "You see that there are many people passing by these days, and you can sell more glutinous rice cakes without delaying the money!" ”

The old woman shook her head and said with a smile: "Little Master, you are wrong about this. The old woman deliberately stayed at the entrance of the village. ”

Huineng was a little curious and asked, "Oh? Why? ”

The old woman said, "You think, people from other places, who come all the way to worship the Sixth Patriarch Master, must be thirsty and hungry when they come to this unfamiliar place. My old woman gave them some food and drink, and I could show them the way. ”

Huineng said happily: "You are really meritorious! ”

The old woman was also very excited: "I'm a lot old, what merit do I want!" If I have some merit, I want to dedicate it to the suffering beings in the world. ”

Huineng stood up and saluted the old woman, "Mother-in-law, you really understand the Dharma!" ”

"Great monk, you are joking, I am an old woman's family, what kind of Buddhism do you know?"

Huineng said, "Buddhism teaches people to stay away from greed and attachment. Even if it is the merit of doing good, or the desire to become a Buddha and attain enlightenment, you should not be greedy and attached. If you do good deeds without being known and without asking for anything in return, you are the bodhisattva's generosity, which is the highest wisdom! ”

The old woman glanced at Hui Neng: "Master, your words are like what the Sixth Ancestor said." ”

The baby is fast-talking: "He was originally ...... Oops! ”

Fakon kicked him under the table. He had no choice but to change his words: "Old woman, you are from Caohou Village, why don't you know the Sixth Ancestor Master?" He's been with you for nine months! ”

The old woman sighed, and while refilling the water for the monks, she said, "I don't have that blessing. Alas, speaking of which, my old life was given by the Sixth Patriarch Master! ”

Ying Xing looked at Hui Neng, then at the old woman, and asked curiously: "He saved your life, but you don't know him?" ……”

The old woman said, "Little Master, more than ten years ago, when the Sixth Patriarch was preaching the Dharma in Baolin Temple, my old woman was sick and bedridden. Three points of soul, two points are held in the palm of the hand by Lord Yama. It was my children who asked the master to do a Dafa service for me. The master also personally recited the "Dizang Sutra" for the old body for 7749 days, and the old body was picked up with this small life. Before I could go to the temple to thank me, the Sixth Patriarch suddenly left. More than ten years have passed......"

The old woman's eyes were filled with tears. Ying Xing wanted to say something, but Hui Neng glanced at him, stood up, and gave a salute to the old woman: "It's getting late, we should be on our way." All the monks gave a salute and said, "Thank you for the old woman's glutinous rice and tea." ”

In front of the gate of Baolin Temple, Cao Shuliang, Liu Zhiluo, the endless Tibetan master and apprentice and many believers are waiting for them. It was already dusk, and everyone was waiting a little restlessly, and several figures appeared in the distance.

Liu Zhiluo shouted: "Look, it's coming, it's coming!" ”

Cao Shuliang hesitated and said, "No, right? The sixth ancestor is the head of Buddhism in the south, and if he doesn't sit in a sedan chair, he has to take a two-person sedan chair, right? How can you walk like a walking monk! Besides, there are hundreds of the six ancestors' attendants. And that's only seven or eight people......"

Huineng: They are getting closer and closer. Liu Zhiluo finally recognized it, and he shouted: "Sixth Ancestor Master! ”

Liu Zhiluo ran to Huineng and was about to take his hand, when he suddenly felt that it was inappropriate, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed. Cao Shuliang and the Endless Tibetan Nun also led the believers to kneel down hurriedly, and the sound of gongs and drums shook the sky, and strings of firecrackers crackled and exploded...... Huineng walked quickly, helped Liu Zhiluo and Cao Shuliang one by one, and asked the endless Tibetan master and apprentice to return the salute.

Liu Zhiluo's voice was a little choked: "Huineng ...... Master Huineng, I haven't seen you for eighteen years! ”

"Yes! In the past 18 years, how many times have I dreamed of returning to Caoxi, and today I finally came back! Huineng was also very emotional and did not hide his tears.

Cao Shuliang waved his hand, and eight large lanterns were hung on the temple gate. He pointed to the lantern and said to Huineng, "Master, look! ”

On the lantern is written the eight characters "Nan Wu Six Ancestors Master Hui Neng". Under the lamp, four southern lions squatted happily. Suddenly, a gong sounded, the lions danced a cheerful and festive dance, the gongs and drums were like a burst, the lion danced more vigorously than a while, everyone couldn't help but applaud, and the joy was thunderous......

On the second day of Huineng staying at Baoling Temple, a grand lecture ceremony was held. Accompanied by the melodious Buddhist music, the monks and laymen sang together:

Self-refuge in the Buddha, should wish all sentient beings, understand the Dao, and have a supreme mind; Self-conversion to the law, should wish sentient beings, go deep into the scriptures, wisdom like the sea;

Self-refuge in the Sangha, should wish all sentient beings, rule the masses, everything is unhindered, and the southern saints.

Huineng sat on the altar and shouted:

Good knowledge, you have just recited the three refuges. What I would like to advise you is that I hope you will take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha of your own nature. Among them, the Buddha is enlightenment, the Dharma is the correct Dharma, and the Sangha is pure. If you take refuge in enlightenment with your own heart, you will not be evil, you will be content with few desires, and you will get rid of your attachment to wealth, which is called abundance of blessings and wisdom. When one's mind takes refuge in the Fa-rectification, there will be no wrong views, no wrong views, no distinction between people and me, no arrogance, and no attachment to greed, love and hatred, and this is called turning away from greed. When one's mind is converted to purity, all external circumstances such as troubles and desires are not contaminated with one's pure mind, and in this way sentient beings become noble enlightened beings.

To practice in this way is to take refuge in oneself and to take refuge in one's own Buddha nature. Buddha nature is like the sky is always clear, the sun and the moon are always bright; Because of the temporary obscuration of floating clouds, it became gloomy and dim. Suddenly a light breeze blows away the clouds, and it will immediately become clear. The nature of the world's hearts is always changing, like the clouds in the sky.

Wise people are as wise as the sun, as wise as the moon, and as bright as the sun and the moon forever. If you are attached to external things, you will be covered by the clouds of your own delusions, and your Buddha nature will not be clear and clear. If you meet a great monk who has practiced, hear the true Dharma, and eradicate delusion by yourself, you will be clear inside and out, and your mind will be clear......