It's like a clear-eyed person leading a group of temporarily blind people to treat their eyes. Their journey to medical treatment was bumpy, full of rocks and pits. In order to avoid the obstacles one by one, the discerning man commanded his team to the left for a while, and for a moment to the right. In this way, some people can't help but wonder: left and right, exactly the opposite, are you asking us to go left or right?

In fact, the discerning man does not tell them to the right or to the left, but to move forward; In fact, moving forward is not the goal, but so that they can be healed and see again!

Under the moisture of the spring breeze and rain of the six ancestors, Zhang Xingchang suddenly realized! A song like a bubbling spring, flowing out of his heart:

Because of the impermanence of the mind, the Buddha said that there is permanence. Those who don't know the convenience, Juchun Pond picks up gravel. I don't do it now, but the Buddha nature is present. If I don't teach it to me, I won't get anything.

Hui Neng was very happy when he heard his enlightenment, and said to him: "You have become enlightened today, and your Dharma name is 'Zhiche'." ”

Since then, Zhang Xingchang's name has been Zhiche, and he has followed his master for many years. This reckless killer, once he put down the butcher knife, not only understood the true meaning of life in the universe, but also became one of the top ten disciples of the sixth ancestor Huineng in his later years.

Besides, after Xuan Ce left Caoxi, he followed the route that the master had taken back then to the north over the Great Yuling Mountains and came to Nankang, Ganzhou. He observed with his discerning eyes and found that the purple qi came from the east here, and the Buddha was extremely prosperous, and in a few decades, there would be great bodhisattvas from the east to establish the supreme Dharma here.

Zen Buddhism will be like a river out of the Three Gorges, a thousand miles; The river flows out of Tongguan, and it is beneficial to see the rushing. Zen Buddhism in the world is like the wind and grass, dominating the rivers and lakes; Jungles have sprung up all over the country.

Sure enough, during the subsequent Tang Tianbao years, Matsu Daoyi came to Gong Gongshan here from Jianyang, Jianzhou, in the east, and Dahong Zen for 20 years.

He has cultivated hundreds of famous Zen masters here, all over the north and south of the river, for a time, the lion roars in the wilderness, the tiger roars on the peaks, the dragon swims in the sky, and the elephant dances in the jungle...... It can be said that there are many talents, each leading the way, and it has set off a magnificent and magnificent Zen sea frenzy on the land of China, which is a later story.

Xuan Ce was drinking tea at a tea stall on the side of the road. Ying Xing hurried over, panting and said, "Senior brother, I can catch up with you!" ”

Xuan Ce was taken aback: "Aren't you going to go to Qingyuan Mountain with Senior Brother to practice?" How did you get here? ”

Ying Xing sat on the stool, rubbed his feet vigorously, and said, "Didn't Master tell you that you can read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles. I will travel thousands of miles with you first, and then I will read ten thousand scriptures with Senior Brother Xingsi. ”

Xuan Ce was helpless: "You, you ......"

In ancient times, Zen monks walked on their feet, which was a compulsory lesson for everyone. Not to mention the battle in the Quartet jungle of the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger, watching the wind and training, just the nature that contains endless Zen opportunities can make every practitioner with a clear Zen mind full of emotion:

The sound of the wind, the rain, the sound of the pine, the sound is free; The mountains are watery, smoky, and empty. The mountains are still and the water is long, and the time is Zen in this; The sky is high and the clouds are flying, where do you ask Hui Ri......

With a bald head and a robe, the end of the world and the end of the sea. In the wind and frost copper bowl, there is a wonderful lotus.

From then on, Ying Xing had a pair of straw sandals, a hat, a clay bowl, and a Zen staff, and followed his senior brother Xuan Ce to start his wandering career. Although the straw sandals are small, they wear the thousands of miles of road under their feet; The hat is not big, and the blue sky is worn on the top of the head; Although the tile bowl is shallow, it is filled with the water of rivers, lakes and seas; With a Zen stick in hand, inspect the jungle in the world.

Their feet are stained with the mud of northern Guangdong, the leggings are stored in the soil of southern Jiangxi, and the head is over the middle moon of Fujian, and now they come to smell the east wind of Zhejiang.

Line after line, they went through the autumn, winter, spring and summer, and came to Yongjia, Zhejiang.

On this day, Xuan Ce and the baby walked on the rugged mountain road of Xianyan Mountain in Ruian County, and the sun at noon was like a fire, roasting the mountain road straight to smoke.

The baby walked extremely hard, but he looked at Xuan Ce, but he never proposed to rest.

"You deserve it, who made you die and beg to come with you!" As long as he complained slightly, Xuan Ce would definitely say so.

Xuan Ce was secretly happy. He pointed to the pavilion halfway up the mountain in front of him and said, "Let's go to that pavilion and rest for a while." ”

In the pavilion, there was already a man resting on a bench, his face covered with a hat. Xuan Ce and Ying Xing sat down.

The baby took off his straw sandals, looked at his red and swollen feet, and exhaled cool air. Xuan Ce deliberately asked him, "What are we doing here?" ”

The baby didn't even think about it: "Walking." ”

Xuan Ce asked again: "Do you know what it means to walk feet?" ”

"I don't know." Infant replied crisply.

"I don't know what's best." Xuan Ce said it unfathomably.

Master Confucius once said: "What you know is what you know, and what you don't know is what you don't know." ”

Master Sangzhao said in "Prajna Ignorance": "If you know, you must know something, and if you don't know anything, you will know everything." ”

"The sage is ignorant, and all things are in order; The Dharmakaya has no image, but the special form corresponds. The Preface to the Vimala Sutra says.

The baby suddenly realized! He shouted in regret, "Oh, I've fallen for the master again!" ”

"Who did you fall for?"

"Our master, that bad old man!"

Xuan Ce smiled: "Master, his old man didn't ask you to come with me, you came secretly with you willingly!" ”

Ying Xing said with a sad face: "It is precisely because the old monk knows that the more he doesn't let me come, the more I will try to follow you, so ...... Bitter - wow- there is no place to complain about suffering, this is really bitter! ”

"You deserve it, this is called being smart but being mistaken by being smart! However, this is the Master's transformation of you. Now that you have come, do not live in vain. If you travel to the county, you can play at will in the mountains and rivers; Winter here, summer there, migratory birds, that's just a bucket of rice, lose half a year's grain! There is no benefit. ”

Xuan Ce's big reasoning made Ying Xing very impatient, and he said angrily: "Yes, yes, yes!" Don't nag you, okay? I remember it all! Master once said, 'The Three Realms are idealistic, and the Ten Thousand Laws are only knowledge.'" ”

Xuan Ce suddenly shook out a cold edge: "Really? Since 'the Three Realms are idealistic, and the Ten Thousand Laws are only knowledge', is the big stone outside the pavilion in your heart, or outside your heart? ”

Ying Xing said without thinking: "The Three Realms Idealism, of course, is in the heart!" ”

Xuan Ce laughed: "How can you put such a big stone in your heart? Don't you feel heavy when you walk? ”

Ying Xing obviously felt the wit of Zen from Xuan Ce's words, but because he didn't work hard enough and didn't get home, he couldn't really grasp it, let alone respond to it randomly, so he was speechless.

It's like a hen hatching an egg. At some point, the old hen is afraid that her baby will suffocate in the hard eggshell, and will often tentatively peck the eggshell gently with her beak. If the chicks inside are just hatched and mature, they will suck with their mouths, which is called chick. At this time, the hen pecks from the outside, and the chick spews inside—the eggshell shatters open, and a new life is born. Zen Buddhism refers to this kind of convergence between the Zen master and the scholar as 'pecking at the same time'. The opportunity to peck can only be penetrated when the inside and outside correspond and there is no gap. If it is a "stupid" or "rotten egg", there is no reaction inside, and no matter how merciful the old hen is, she can't peck it out.

The current baby is just like a "stupid egg" that has not hatched and matured.

Looking at his embarrassed appearance, Xuan Ce persuaded earnestly: "Little junior brother, when we study Buddhism and practice Zen, we can't memorize the classics, let alone take the Zen quotations of the ancestors as our own words. The Zen words spoken by the patriarch are people's experience, not ours. Zen, like drinking water, knows its own warmth and coldness. It's up to you to understand everything! ”

The man who was lying down and sleeping suddenly lifted the hat from his face and sat up. It turned out that he was also a bald monk. He asked thoughtlessly, "Who is your master?" ”

Ying Xingzheng was not angry, and said, "Our master, of course, is our master!" You're also here to join in the fun? ”

"I'm asking, which monk is your master?"

The infant asked rhetorically, "Who are you?" ”

The Zen monk slapped his head: "Oh, it's me who is abrupt." He stood up, folded his salute and said, "Poor monk Xuanjue, I just listened to the words of this master, and every sentence is in line with the Buddha's Zen machine, and I want to ask for a word or two." ”

Ying Xing suddenly laughed: "Xuan Jue, Xuan Ce, you two are destined." The Dharma numbers are all lined up. ”

Xuan Ce glared at him and replied, "My name is Xuan Ce, and this is my little junior brother Yingxing." Senior brother, where is your treasure temple? ”

Xuan Jue pointed to the reckless mountains: "I live in this Xianyan Mountain, and I don't have any dojo attached to it. However, I majored in the Tendai sect's method of meditation. The scriptures I have heard have their own relationship between teachers and teachers. Later, I read the Vimala Sutra and realized the Dharma Heart Sect, but no one has verified it for me, so I don't know if I am really enlightened. ”

Xuan Ce said solemnly: "Before the Weiyin King Buddha, there was no Buddha in the world, and he could pass through without a teacher and become a Buddha of Enlightenment. After the Weiyin King Buddha, there is no teacher to learn by himself, of course, it is a foreign way. ”

Xuan Jue bowed deeply and said: "Senior brother, the head is the Tao, and every sentence is Zen, especially the words just now with stones as a metaphor, it is even more Zen unlimited. So, I hope you can confirm it for me. ”

Xuan Ce said modestly and sincerely: "I am still knowledgeable, and I can't confirm it for you. Huineng, the sixth-generation patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Cao Xi, is our master. Now, seekers from far and wide gather around him to hear him preach the Dharma. Why don't you go and ask him for advice? ”

Xuan Jue said, "Senior Brother Xie instructs. Please come to my hermitage and talk about it. Xuan Jue took Xuan Ce and Ying Xing and walked towards the other side of the mountain.

This Xuan Jue was born a Zen man. He was born in the second year of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (665 AD), with the common surname Dai and the word Daoming. The Dai family is a famous family in Yongjia and has been worshipping Buddhism for generations, so Xuanjue became a monk on the same day as his brother Daoyi at a very young age and became a monk.

Xianyan Mountain stands next to the sea, the mountain is high and separates the dust, the road is dangerous and obstructs the vulgar guests, the forest hides the shadow of birds, and the grass is high to hide the traces of beasts. Xuan Jue built a thatched hut in the west rock with the mountains and the sea in the background, learned the teachings of the Tiantai religion, practiced the Mahabharata, practiced meditation, and recited the Huayan Sutra and the Vimala Sutra. Ahead, the mighty sea cleanses his chest; Behind it, the majestic mountains are strong; Overhead, the white clouds are leisurely playing Zen; At the feet, the clear spring bubbles and preaches love. The sun rises and sets, the tide comes and goes, the aura of Xianyan Mountain nourishes Xuanjue into a handsome young monk, and the Buddha's scriptures and teachings have cultivated him into a chic Zen guest.