Seeing that the interpretation was like this shape, Zhang Cambodia couldn't help but be difficult, and looked at a certain one and said: "Is the sixth ancestor Huineng, who has an important position in the ideological history of the Central Plains, really illiterate a word as the legend says?" If so, how could he have understood the Diamond Sutra, a great work of Buddhism? ”

"What the donor says is reasonable." Say yes by all means. "The Sixth Patriarch Huineng was deeply influenced by the Diamond Sutra throughout his life, and from an academic point of view, what specific changes did the Diamond Sutra have on the ideology and culture of the Central Plains people?" must have followed the topic of "Diamond Sutra", made a 360-degree turn, and took the test of Zhang Cambodia.

When Zhang Cambodia was the prime minister of the court, the "Diamond Sutra" was one of his favorite scriptures, and he studied it whenever he had time, and he got the essence of it. At this time, I must have thrown him the difficult topic of "what specific changes have the Diamond Sutra made to the ideology and culture of the Central Plains people" and wanted him to answer it.

Zhang Cambodia thought, why not see what Shi Ru thinks first. So he said to a certain one: "Abbot, don't mess up the priorities." When Zhang Cambodia said this, he glanced at Shi Ru who was sitting on the meditation hall, "The master is from India, the country of Buddhism, and he should be respected. ”

"The Central Plains is a state of etiquette, and courtesy comes first." Don't look at this Shi Ru sitting in the hall and always flipping through the book there, his heart can be sober, and when he heard Zhang Cambodia's name and surname come to him, he also called it "The Tang Dynasty is the State of Etiquette" to threaten him. Don't say it, Shi Ru is a Central Plains pass, traveling back and forth between the East and the West all the year round, full of old rivers and lakes. I saw him frowning and calculating.

"The Central Plains is a state of etiquette, courtesy is the first, and the donor is invited to talk about it." The interpretation is like a sentence of "courtesy first", and inadvertently threw back this difficult question.

What Zhang Cambodia wants is to explain this sentence, "Since the master insists on saying it first, it is better to be respectful than to obey his fate." When you are old, you should first look at the changes of the "Diamond Sutra" to the ideology and culture of the Central Plains people. ”

Shi Ruhe must have heard it at first glance, and he was a little confused, and he couldn't help but let out an "oh, oh" sound.

"Huineng defeated Shenxiu because he chose the right textbook." Zhang Cambodia didn't wait for the two of them to come back to their senses, and another sentence was amazing!

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Cambodia talked about it: Anyone who knows a little about the history of Zen Buddhism knows that according to the account of the "Six Ancestors Altar Sutra", Huineng and Shenxiu once inscribed two poems respectively, and their master Wuzu Hongren judged that Huineng was superior, so he secretly passed on the mantle to Huineng in the middle of the night to make him the sixth ancestor. This statement has been widely accepted.

But some argue that this is not the case. Shenxiu's poem goes like this: "The body is a Bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror." Always wipe diligently, don't make dust. He likened the "human heart" to a "Bodhi tree" and a "mirror platform", which needed to be "wiped diligently at all times" and erased the "dust", and his ideas originated from the Ranga Sutra.

In fact, the ancestors before Bodhidharma to the Five Patriarchs Hongren have always regarded the "Leng Sutra" as the most important classic inheritance. What Hongren awarded to Shenxiu is the "Ranga Sutra", and the "Ranga Sutra" emphasizes "brushing the mirror dust to show the light".

Huineng followed him as a teacher in the later period of Hongren, and was taught the "Diamond Sutra", so Huineng's verse poem is "Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform." The Buddha nature is always pure, where to stir up dust". Its ideological origin is the "Diamond Sutra", which is the "emptiness" in the "Diamond Sutra".

At this point, we can clearly see the two differences between Shenxiu and Huineng's verses: the ideological origins are different—the former comes from the Ranga Sutra, and the latter comes from the Diamond Sutra; The themes are different – the former talks about "practice" and the latter talks about "Buddha nature". Therefore, there is no comparison between their verses, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior.