"From the above examples, it shows that regarding 'the six ancestors Hui Neng is illiterate', 'illiterate', etc., the old man thinks that it is biased and very inappropriate."

When Zhang Cambodia said this, he deliberately paused, looked at Zen Ru with a surprised expression, and then said: "Take 10,000 steps back, even if the 'Sixth Ancestor Hui Neng is illiterate', you, especially the Cantonese people, can't treat these sensitive words as "old boys" regardless of the occasion?!" Just imagine, wouldn't saying this damage the impression of the Sixth Ancestor Huineng? Moreover, the phrase 'Huineng is illiterate' comes from a humble sentence that Huineng said when he asked Zhang Beijia, a great genius in Jiangzhou, to write verses for him in the south corridor of Dongchan Temple. ”

"That's right! The donor was right. The Zen master must have clapped his hands with his hands and echoed and said.

Zhang Cambodia recounted: At that time, the monk Ying Yin in the temple found that the fifth ancestor Hongren had passed on the mantle of Zen Buddhism to Huineng, and with ulterior motives instigated the monks and said: "Our master, we don't think about us at all!" If we get an illiterate Southern Barbarian like Huineng to be our ancestor, what will we do in the future? Is it impossible for all of us to follow him? "Look at it, this sentence seems to be for the sake of the great cause of Zen Buddhism, but in fact it deliberately belittles Huineng to achieve its ulterior purpose, this shadow is hidden, and it also instigated 200 monks to chase and kill Huineng all the way.

Zen master: When Poor Dao sorted out the Buddhist scriptures in the temple in the previous paragraph, he found from the history books and scriptures of the life of the six ancestors Huineng: The six ancestors Huineng were literate.

Then, the Zen master must have analyzed reasonably: from the perspective of Huineng's growth environment, Xinzhou at that time had considerable popularity and strategic importance, and Hepu County, which was adjacent to Xinzhou, was an important landing port on the Maritime Silk Road, with frequent exchanges between merchants and merchants, and a very developed commodity economy. A lot of information shows that Xinzhou, where Huineng grew up in his childhood, has a deep historical and cultural accumulation, and Huineng should be familiar with it. Huineng's father was the prefect of Fanyang before his father was demoted, and his mother was also the daughter of Li Hexiang's family, a local big family, and she was well-read, so Huineng should have a good literacy environment.

The Zen master must have further analyzed: although Huineng lost his father when he was three years old, when his father was alive, he still taught Huineng to read and write, and Huineng's mother, Li, also often taught Huineng to read and write at home and read the "Diamond Sutra". Therefore, to say that "the Sixth Patriarch Huineng is illiterate", as the donor said just now, is biased and damages the image of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng.

Zhang Cambodia picked up the topic: When it comes to image, many people will always question it, mistakenly thinking that the image is a show, a surface, a trick, and an ethereal image. In fact, the image is a representative, a window, a monument, and a witness of history and reality!

Zen Master Certainly: It is undoubtedly a benchmark and a role model that can establish an image!

Zhang Cambodia: In other words, what can you use to build a tree if you have a bad image? By what tree? What is the eligibility tree? On a small scale, you are a beauty, but the pockmarks on your face are still crooked, can such an image be a tree? Will you accept it? On a large scale, the reason why the Yellow River has become the mother river is because it has nurtured the splendor and civilization of the Chinese nation for more than 3,000 years; The reason why the Great Wall has become the backbone of the nation is because it shows the steely determination and tenacity of the sons and daughters of China!

A certain Zen master: The arduous life of the sixth patriarch Hui Neng to enlighten and seek Buddha fully demonstrates the character of a generation of monks with Chinese Zen characteristics. In contemporary times, he was not only admired and invited by Emperor Wu Zetian and Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, but also issued an edict calling it "thought that the law is faithful, the epiphany is superior, the Buddha nature is clearly seen, and the teachings are passed down from generation to generation, and it is still endless, and it is admired by tens of thousands of people."

The three great writers of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei, Liu Zongyuan, and Liu Yuxi, also wrote inscriptions for the six ancestors Huineng, praising the six ancestors Huineng's creation of Buddhism in the world, establishing a generation of Zen style, and making significant contributions to the Tang Dynasty's ideology, culture and philosophy.