After Du Wei successively told Du Fu and Zhang Cambodia several other stories and legends about the Six Ancestors Huineng in different plates, he originally wanted to stop here and stop here. Unexpectedly, Zhang Cambodia was very interested in listening, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about the local Fengtu people, stories and legends.

After a while, Zhang Cambodia didn't see Du Wei make a sound, looked up at the night sky, and then looked at Du Wei and said: "Tonight is destined to be in the hometown of the six ancestors, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, the breeze is coming, such a wonderful night, the old man is listening to the fun, why don't the virtuous nephews continue to talk?" ”

Du Fu also sighed: "This trip to Lingnan has broadened my horizons, I just arrived in Xinzhou I entered the state, the six ancestors have more or less heard of some before, but after coming to Lingnan, I was still shocked when I went to Xinzhou to worship the six ancestors!" Once, when I was discussing in the court, there was a sentence in Tang Zhongzong that left a particularly deep impression on me: 'A nation without a story is a nation without hope.' That's a very interesting and fresh statement. We are all dancing and writing, Uncle and Master Zhang feel the same way, listening to the fun, you can tell a few more stories. ”

Du Wei said: "Okay." Du Wei told another story of "Six Ancestors Hui Neng Turning Enemies into Disciples":

In addition, since the six ancestors of Huineng in Hubei Dongshan Huangmei Temple inherited the five ancestors Hongren master clothes, he followed the teacher's instructions of "stopping when you are in Huai, and hiding when you meet", avoiding the pursuit of evildoers, and living in seclusion in Huaiji, Sihui and other places for more than ten years, and there is no news for the time being.

The fifth ancestor Hongren has inherited someone from behind, and passed on the clothes to the sixth ancestor Huineng, and soon passed away and returned to the west. At that time, these monks promoted Shenxiu as their teacher, called the Six Ancestors, and denied that Huineng was the Sixth Ancestor.

Later, Shenxiu was summoned into the palace by the Empress Dowager Wu Zetian and was named a national teacher.

In 676 A.D., the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng thought that he had been hiding for more than ten years, and he decided to come out to preach the Dharma. When he went to the Faxing Temple in Guangzhou, he said that "it is not the wind moving, it is not the banner moving, but the benevolent heart is moving", which won the respect of the abbot of the temple, Master Yin Zong, and asked the six ancestors to answer the classic .......

In 677 A.D., the Sixth Patriarch Master left the Dharma Temple and went straight to the Shaoguan Baolin Temple, raised funds to expand the Dharma and benefit the Sheng, and Daxing the Baolin Dojo, which was famous in all directions. Since then, he has been divided into two major sects: South and North Xiu.

Although Master Shenxiu admired the six ancestors Hui Neng to teach the five ancestors the clothing method, and had the wisdom of no teacher, he could understand the superiority and had no conflict, but his disciples wanted to destroy the six ancestors Hui Neng in order to compete for the ancestral position, and only served Shenxiu as the six ancestors, and later he was able to pass on the seven ancestors, and often had evil thoughts.

When they heard that the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng was in the Daxing Baolin Dojo in Shaozhou, the Dharma Propagation Prosperity immediately became angry, and they immediately found someone to kill the Sixth Ancestor Hui Neng.

There is a famous chivalrous man in Jiangxi Province named Zhang Xingchang, he is chivalrous and righteous, light and sharp, and superb in martial arts, people call him a flying cat, saying that his whereabouts are strange, and he is evil and evil. The people of the Northern Sect asked him to kill the Sixth Ancestor Huineng.

Because Zhang Xingchang mistakenly believed the slander, he agreed to it, rushed to Shaozhou Baolin Temple overnight, flew over the wall, and went straight to the six ancestors' residences. The Sixth Patriarch had already foreseen that someone would come to assassinate him, so he prepared ten taels of gold and placed it in front of his zazen.

That Zhang Xingchang entered the living room of the six ancestors and saw that the six ancestors Huineng was sitting in meditation, so he slashed at him three times, only to hear the sound properly, followed by the voice of "the righteous sword is not evil, the evil sword is not right, only bear your gold, do not live up to your life".

That Zhang Xingchang was immediately frightened and fainted to the ground. Soon Zhang Xingchang woke up and thought: "I slashed the master three times in a row, but he didn't move at all, and he was not damaged at all, he must be a high-ranking monk."

So he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and said to the sixth ancestor: "Master, I really regret that I mistrusted the people of the Northern Sect, they said that you are a bad person, pretending to be the sixth ancestor, please let me kill you, it turns out that you are a master, I regret believing the slander by mistake, I will change my way in the future, please forgive me!" I want to worship you as a teacher, so take me in as a disciple."

The Sixth Patriarch Master picked up the ten taels of gold in front of him and handed it to Xingchang and said to him: "You have to leave here quickly, if my apprentices know that you are sent by the Northern Sect to kill me, they will not let you live, you leave now, you can go elsewhere to shave your ordination after a while, and then come to see me, I will definitely accept you as an apprentice." After hearing this, Xingchang immediately thanked the six ancestors and fled over the wall.

Soon after Zhang Xingchang left Baolin Temple, he joined the temple to become a monk, learned Buddhist scriptures, and became conscious and diligent.

One day, when he remembered the scene when he was deceived into murdering the Sixth Ancestor, he felt deeply guilty, remembered the magnanimity of the Sixth Patriarch to him, and asked him to change his appearance and accept him as an apprentice in the future, so he decided to go to Baoling Temple to take refuge in the Sixth Ancestor.

When he entered the Baoling Temple and saw the Sixth Patriarch Master, the Sixth Patriarch said to Xingchang very happily: "I miss you all the time, why did you come to see me for so long?" ”

Xingchang said: "I used to be very sorry for you, thank you for your teaching and guidance to me, since I left you, I went back to the temple to become a monk, study Buddhist scriptures, often read the Nirvana Sutra, but I don't understand the truth of 'constant and impermanence', please Master for your advice, so that I understand." ”

The Sixth Patriarch said, "The impermanence is the Buddha nature, and the impermanence is the mind that separates all good and evil laws."

Xingchang said: "In the Nirvana Sutra, it is said that the Buddha nature is constant, you say impermanence, and all the good and evil dharmas are impermanent, but you say that it is constant, and I don't understand the meaning of it. That doesn't seem to be in the scriptures. ”

The Sixth Patriarch said, "The Buddha said that Buddha nature is constant, and he said it to all those who are persistent and impermanent. If the Buddha nature is constant, then what good and evil dharma can be said, and all sentient beings can already become Buddhas, so why bother to say the Dharma to save them? Why didn't anyone develop bodhichitta when they had exhausted all the eons? If Buddha-nature is constant, everyone should develop bodhichitta and everyone can become a Buddha without having to practice. That's why I say that the impermanence of Buddha nature is exactly what the Buddha said about the truth of imperishability. ”

Then, the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng further explained: If all dharmas are impermanent, then everything has its own nature, and all are subject to reincarnation and birth and death, and the true nature of permanence cannot pervade everywhere, that is, self-nature is not everywhere. That's why I say that the mind that separates all good and evil dharmas is constant, which is the Buddha's principle of impermanence. Actually, Buddha-nature is very, non-impermanent, and that's because people who have different understandings say it. In the case of the wicked, the Buddha nature is impermanence, put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground, it can be said that the Buddha nature is permanent. Because ordinary people are attached to evil and evil, he takes suffering as pleasure, is very normal, non-pure is pure, non-self is me. The two-vehicle people regard happiness as suffering, always as impermanence, pure as impure, and selfless as selfless, a total of eight kinds of reversal. Therefore, in the Nirvana Sutra, it is to break the confusion and enlightenment, that is, the prejudice of ordinary people and the two-vehicle people, and to say what is the truth of normality, happiness, self, and purity, and you just interpret the teachings in the sutra according to what is said in the sutra, and you do not interpret the teachings in the sutra by destroying the impermanence and rigidity, even if you read the Nirvana Sutra a thousand times, you will not understand it.

After listening to the explanation of the Sixth Patriarch, Xingchang immediately became enlightened and said: "Because I am guarding the mind of impermanence, I don't understand the Buddha's impermanence, and I don't understand what the Buddha said is a convenient method, if it weren't for Master's teachings, I wouldn't have understood." Now I understand. ”

The Sixth Patriarch said, "Now that you are enlightened, I will change your name to Zhi Che." Then Zhang Xingchang happily thanked the master. Since then, he has studied scriptures with the Six Patriarchs.

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