The fourth Lingshan sought the law to open the entrance, but the entrance was in the foggy mountains

It is said that the next day the patriarch finished washing and sat in the meditation hall in the morning. When the sun was on the third pole, someone came to report that a Confucian student came down the mountain and wanted to worship the ancestor as a teacher. The patriarch said, let him wait in the living room first.

When the Confucian scholar came to the living room, he saw a plaque on the side wall of the living room, on which was a poem written by the patriarch.

"The Book of Dust"

Life is a life, grass and trees are autumn. Life does not bring it, death does not bring it. Only knowledge and heart cannot be understood.

Therefore, it is necessary to seek up and down, and to gain insight before and after. Fa Hong is willing to move Ciyun with a clear heart, compassion. Delusion is based on the order of success, and the study of birth and death transcends the Three Realms.

Beginning to know, the eternal beings, only this awakening mind. Feel the light always shines, in line with nature. Although life and death are faint, this awakening heart exists alone. Consciousness can produce knowledge, and it can also turn knowledge. Knowing the mind is confused, covered in dust. The heart shines brightly, and the dust melts away. If you move like Tai Chi, you will never return. Those who are lost in returning, know the Lord. Those who are aware of the heart do not follow the knowledge. Return to the source, never be destroyed.

Yes, there is no place to live and the heart is complete, and the hole is six dusty and the Pudu is endless. The compassion for all living beings is excessive, and the hard work is the blue moon white. Only this is the same as the reverse lead, so that those who see this month and are not obsessed with the moon are Pudu.

After reading it, Confucianism said to the patriarch that "the one who follows the reverse and leads to it, so that those who see this month and are not obsessed with the moon are Pudu." This sentence spontaneously gave rise to admiration.

The patriarch came to the living room, but when he saw this Confucian student, he gave birth to one:

It is white and clean, and it is refreshing and refreshing.

The eyebrows are like distant mountains, the eyes are like lacquer, and the black and white are clear.

The seven-foot body is facing the arms, and the three-inch nose bridge is garlic-shaped.

The male and female bodies are gentle, like virgins stunned.

When the Confucian saw the patriarch coming in, his head was full of silver threads, and he felt a powerful magnetic force. He quickly stepped forward and fell to the ground, begging the patriarch to take him as a disciple.

The patriarch asked the Confucian students to get up and sit down, and said to the Confucian students, "My Dharma lineage is only passed on to those who have a fate, those who have a heart get it, and those who have no heart keep it." The matter of apprenticeship is not important, as long as you can fit into my law, you are a fairy in this spiritual mountain.

Then he asked the Confucian students three questions: Where did you come from, what method do you want, and what is the purpose of studying the law?

But seeing that the Confucian had a good brain, he replied loudly, I came from the south, and I wanted to open the entrance, just to get rid of things, and life and death were not confused.

When the patriarch heard this, he said, very good, very good. Since it is for liberation, have you made arrangements at home, and what are your plans for the future?

The Confucian replied that he had graduated from college twenty-three years ago, and he was puzzled in his heart. If there is no life and death in life, it is inevitable to be lost in this life. Therefore, I have discussed with my parents at home, and I plan to devote myself to the practice of precepts for three years, so as to solve the doubts in my heart, so that I can let go of my ambitions and serve the country.

When the patriarch heard this, he said, at a young age, he has this ambition, which is rare. If you want to open the entrance, you must first know where the entrance is before it can be opened, and if you can't find it, how can you open it? This entrance is neither inside nor outside the body. The entrance is only in the foggy mountain, if you want to open the entrance, you must first enter the trance, and then enter the foggy mountain in the trance, you can open the entrance. In this way, I will first teach you some convenient methods to stop leakage, purify and enter the flow and stop thoughts, and help you enter the foggy mountain first.

So the patriarch passed on his "four-character formula" and the method of entering the flow of the heart, and asked this Confucian student to go down to practice the precepts and self-practice, and come back to see him in a hundred days, and no longer answer any questions to him within a hundred days.