Huineng: "Ah, it turns out that this is the knot in the master's heart. ”

Zen Master Yide expressed his personal feelings after many years of practice: "It is not difficult for a person to succeed in doing something, but it is not easy to achieve success in life. Within the Buddha's door, so is the Tao. ”

Hui Neng looked at it, many of those scriptures had been yellowed and rolled up, oozing sweat stains, and some of the spines were dilapidated and tattered, and said: "When you enter the empty door, of course, reciting scriptures is an essential lesson. I see that these scriptures have been tattered to such a state that I can assume that the master has read them at least hundreds of times. But just burrowing around in these piles of old papers all day long, tossing and turning, is just silverfish in the book, how much benefit does it really gain from Dharma meditation and purifying the mind? ”

Zen Master Yide couldn't imagine that this young benefactor would speak Buddhism, and asked: "Listening to what the donor said, isn't the Buddhist classics the supreme criterion for learning Buddhism and practicing Zen?" ”

Huineng's face was serious: "The Buddhas are wonderful, not about words." Trapped in Buddhism, immersed in the scriptures, is just a corner of life's practice. I look at the world, walking, sitting, living, and lying in the dojo. ”

Zen Master Yide's heartstrings were plucked by Huineng's words, and he shook violently, and said sincerely: "Donor, you go on." ”

Huineng pointed to the large pile of scriptures on the bookshelf in the corner of the wall and said, "Master, even if you have escaped into the empty door, if you are still trapped by dogma and contaminated by the hustle and bustle, you will be ignorant and ignorant, and it will be difficult to reach the realm of purity of mind and self-forgetfulness. How can we get the essence of Zen?! ”

Yide Zen Master vaguely felt that the benefactor did not show the true meaning of these words, so he gave a Buddha salute and said, "Amitabha." Donor, listening to your words is a sound outside the strings, you might as well directly pick out the words in front of the poor monks, so that the poor monks can lead and understand, I am grateful. ”

Neng humbly: "Master, you are the abbot of Buddhism, I am a woodcutter in the mountains, how dare you come to talk about the scriptures and the scrolls in front of you, I just feel it, and I speak from the bottom of my heart." ”

Yide Zen Master is still frowning: "Time flies, time is like water." The poor monk has been practicing penance for many years, but he has not been able to break through himself. The poor monk is struggling with not being able to take a step further down the meditation path. ”

"This ......" Huineng pondered the other party's words, suddenly, heard the sound of "buzz, buzz", a bee vibrated its wings, trying to break out of the meditation hall but couldn't get out, now flying around in front of him, his heart suddenly came, pointing to the flying elf and said to Yide Zen Master: "Master, what do you think this is?" ”

Inside and outside Tianlu Temple, peach red and willow green, a hundred flowers compete for beauty. When the flowers bloom, the fragrance is overflowing, and bees fly in flocks from all directions to compete with butterflies for pollen. Every year is true, and so is every year. For Zen Master Yide, this is a commonplace scene, and Imaimi Huineng pointed to the bee and asked him, and replied bluntly: "This is a bee, it has a head, eyes, wings and needles, and it is no different from the bees picking flowers in the flower garden outside!" ”

Seeing that his answer was very shallow, Hui Neng continued to ask, "Master, I didn't ask about the shape of this bee. I'm asking you, what is it doing? ”

Zen Master Yide's eyes were wandering, staring at the bees flying around, thinking for a while, but still replied calmly: "It's flapping its wings and flying." These bees not only collect pollen in the flower garden outside our temple, but also often fly into the meditation hall, flying around, which is strange and annoying. ”

Seeing that he still hadn't realized the true meaning, Hui Neng said, "Master, you only see the world by seeing things and saying things, and you can't go straight to the source of your heart. No wonder you have been chanting for more than 20 years and are still trapped in the pile of old papers, and you can't go up a step in meditation and enlightenment. There is no doubt that there is a dense Zen machine hidden in Huineng's words.

Yide Zen Master frowned, his eyes were fixed, and he carefully pondered what Huineng was referring to: "You say that the poor monk only sees the world and talks about things, and fails to go straight to the source of his heart? ”

Hui Nengyang pointed to the bee that was still touching the transparent gauze paper on the window, and his words were full of wit: "This bee, just like those of us who practice in the monastery, how do you think it can go to the vast world of freedom without being trapped in this meditation hall surrounded by four walls?" ”

Zen Master Yide followed Huineng's finger and saw that the bee was flying "buzzing and buzzing" in the meditation hall, wanting to fly to the outside world where a hundred flowers are competing for beauty, but he always bumped into the layer of transparent gauze paste on the window. Undeterred, the bee flapped its wings and flew to the window on the other side, and slammed into the gauze again. It whirls left and right, trying many times, but it hits a wall back and forth, in vain, and cannot fly out to get close to the vast world outside, to get close to the lovely nature......

Seeing Master Yide's attentive demeanor, Huineng pointed to the bee, and then to the layer of window paper, and raised his voice: "You see how diligent and busy this bee is, but it can't find a way out. It's just a thin layer of window paper from the world outside. ”

Zen Master Yide playfully: "It's just a thin layer of window paper from the outside world? ”

Huineng walked to the window and gently poked the window paper with his index finger, and the window paper was pierced with a small hole.

"What do you mean by that?" Zen Master Yide looked at it inexplicably, only to see the bee flying out of the hole in the window paper and going to the flowers to collect honey.

Huineng raised his voice: "You see, once this thin layer of window paper is pierced, it will be a new world for bees. In life, good and evil, good and bad, high and low, that is, the difference between a thought. Isn't the path of our meditation cultivation just like what we are looking for?! ”

Although Huineng's words were short, they were as deafening as the thunder of Hong Zhong Da Lu and the heavenly drum, which caused a strong resonance in the heartstrings of Yide Zen Master.

He was so stunned that his mouth opened wide and he couldn't close it for a long time. A spiritual light flashed in his mind, and he suddenly felt that his eyes lit up, he took the trouble to look at the green light and yellow scroll in this temple, and how much time and energy he spent to study and practice diligently, and to memorize and memorize, but he had never been so clear and clear now, and the realm in front of him was so open, and he suddenly felt that the whole meditation hall became bright.

Huineng continued: "If you practice only by delving into the vast scriptures, interpreting those profound teachings, and abiding by those immutable practice norms, you can only become a bookworm. If you combine meditation with the present moment, this will activate the wisdom of life. When you are confused, you are carried by the Buddhist scriptures, and you can turn the Buddhist scriptures after you realize it! ”

Yide Zen Master pondered the meaning of Huineng's words, and the more he pondered, the more he tasted the connotation: "When you are fascinated, you are carried by the Buddhist scriptures, and after you realize the mind, you can turn the Buddhist scriptures?" ”

Hui Neng said loudly: "Why work hard to keep the precepts with a peaceful heart, and why do you practice meditation if you are straight?!" One thought of practice, Dharma body and other Buddhas. If one thought is realized, all beings are Buddhas. ”

Zen Master Yide heard Huineng's direct teaching, and was deeply touched: "Amitabha, the poor monk thinks that after becoming a monk, he has let go of all delusions, and he is already free of worries and the six roots are pure. In the temple, I have been reciting scriptures day and night, and I believe that by this way, I will be able to achieve positive results in the future and attain Bodhi, but in fact I am in prison. Today, the benefactor made the poor monks seem to see the glow of the lamp of meditation, illuminating the lost path; Let me brush away the clouds and fog barriers in front of me, and my confusion will be wide open, and I will see the past and the present. ”

Huineng said humbly: "Master, don't hold me up so high, you must know that it is uncomfortable to fall from a high place!" ”

Yide Zen Master knew that he had met a master, and said sincerely: "Donor, in this Tianlu Temple, those little monks have returned to the meditation room to rest, and now they are silent, only you and me. We might as well talk about the matter of entering the WTO and leaving the world, and it doesn't hurt to talk about it directly. ”

Huineng: "A lamp can remove a thousand years of darkness, and a wisdom can extinguish a thousand years of foolishness." The best way for a person's life to break off the suffering is not to be polluted by the hustle and bustle, and to cultivate the mind and nature. Buddhism is in the world, not leaving the world, and leaving the world to find Bodhi is just like seeking the horns of a rabbit. The path to enlightenment is both physical and mental. The nature of oneself is pure, and one can become a Buddha when you see nature. ”