Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, Zhang Shaofei is in the rice room of Dongchan Temple, and he doesn't realize that it is autumn and spring. On this day, the monks of the mill received a notice: Songshan Hui'an Zen Master will return to the mountain to pay homage to the ancestors, asking the mill to specialize in processing good white rice, and at noon An Lao Zen Master will use this to support the public.

Hearing that Zen Master Hui'an was coming, the whole temple was both excited and nervous.

After three dynasties and six emperors, Songshan Hui'an Zen Master is a famous legend.

Hui'an Zen Master, also known as Lao An Zen Master, commonly known as Wei, is a native of Zhijiang, Jingzhou, Hubei, and one of the top ten disciples of the Five Ancestors.

Zen Master Hui'an's life has experienced three dynasties of Sui, Tang and Zhou (Wu Zetian changed the name of the country to Zhou in 690 AD, and the capital was Luoyang, known as Wu Zhou in history), and six emperors before and after, namely: Emperor Yang of Sui, Tang Gaozu, Tang Taizong, Tang Gaozong, Wu Zetian, and Tang Zhongzong.

He was the abbot of Songyue, and because he was old and virtuous, the world called him "An Lao". He was a monk at a young age, and he became famous all over the world.

During the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty (605-616), when he summoned millions of people from all over the world to dig canals, which damaged a large number of civilian laborers, resulting in famine and many people starving to death, Hui'an Zen Master went around begging for food from the rich to relieve poverty.

In the middle of the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (627-649), Zen Master Hui'an went to Huangmei to visit the five ancestors and was taught by the ancestors.

In the first year of Tang Gaozong Linde (664), he traveled to the end of Nanshan, dwelled in the stone wall cave to meditate, Gaozong heard his moral name, sent an edict, and Hui'an Zen Master politely declined. After swimming to Songshan, he sighed: "It is the place where I will end!" So he stayed and went back to it.

Soon after Hui'an Zen Master lived in Songshan, Zen people from all over the world came to visit......

After Wu Zetian became the emperor, he sent an envoy to welcome Hui'an Zen Master into the court to receive offerings, and the elderly Zen Master mercifully agreed. When they met, Empress Wu once asked the Zen master: "I don't know how much Zen master you have (referring to age)?" ”

Zen Master Hui'an replied, "I can't remember. ”

Empress Wu asked, "Why can't you remember?" ”

Zen Master Hui'an replied: "This body of life and death is like turning in circles, the cycle of life and death is endless, there is no end, what do you do with it!" What's more, in the subtle flow of this mind, the blister-like contemplative opinions that keep rising and disappearing are purely delusional. From the beginning of the separation of the heart, until the completion of a series of mental fluctuations, it is nothing more than that, the mind is the same, where are the years and months worth remembering. ”

When Wu Zetian heard this, he was deeply impressed, and he worshipped and accepted it.

In the third year of the Shenlong reign of Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty (707), Zen Master Hui'an bid farewell to the imperial court and returned to Songshan.

Hui'an Zen Master is a full 20 years older than the Fifth Patriarch Hongren, and his fame is much greater than Hongnin. However, he didn't care so much, knelt down in front of the Fifth Ancestor Hongren, and worshiped him as a teacher.

No, now he is an old man who is nearly ninety years old, and he still remembers his master, who is dozens of years younger than him, and he has traveled thousands of miles to come back to worship the mountain......

For such a living Bodhisattva's fasting rice, the governor monk did not dare to slack off, and specially told Zhang Shaofei to be extra attentive.

Zhang Shaofei was originally as careful as a hair, but now he is even more careful to select, and he doesn't even let go of a grain of rice with a little rice bran.

However, God knows how.

At noon that day, when the rice was served in the monks' bowls, people were surprised to find that there were many husked rice mixed in it!

How do you swallow such rice?

Among the monks was a mage named Hui Ming. Before he became a monk, he was the grandson of Emperor Chen Xuan and served as a high-ranking official in the Southern Dynasty. Born in the emperor's family, the diet is naturally very particular, he didn't think about it, so he picked out the unhulled rice in the rice and put it on the dining table.

When Ying Yin saw it, he scolded him loudly in public: "Pick it up and eat it!" ”

Hui Ming argued: "These shelled rice are hard to swallow. ”

Before he finished speaking, the incense board in Yingyin's hand had already fallen like lightning, making his bald head "thump".

Ying Yin said to the monks: "One grain of rice in Buddhism is as big as Mount Meru. For those who waste casually, the table hall beats the incense board. Please do what you want. ”

When the monks saw that Hui Ming was embarrassed, they were beaten severely, so they had to swallow their anger and swallow the husked rice......

had a good lunch, and everyone was full of anger, stuffiness, and grievances. After the meal, more than a dozen angry monks surrounded the extremely angry Hui Ming and came to the room to settle accounts with Zhang Shaofei.

Zhang Shaofei had a hard time arguing, so he had to wait for punishment obediently.

In accordance with the rules of the temple, the governor and monk treated Zhang Shaofei as a "slow crowd" - playing a thirty-incense board.

Hui Ming rolled up his sleeves and reached out to snatch the incense board in the hand of the governor monk.

The prefect monk couldn't help but shudder.

He knew that this Hui Ming had been a four-rank general, with excellent arm strength and a short temperament, he was humiliated during the meal, and now he came to seek revenge with anger, how could Zhang Shaofei stand it if he beat this board?

Oh my God, if someone dies, it's going to be a big deal, and everyone can't eat and walk around......

But he looked at the monks around him and didn't dare to say anything.

Two agile monks stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Shaofei and pressed him down on the stone mortar.

Hui Ming lifted the incense board and hit Zhang Shaofei's ass hard.

"Horn!" With a crisp sound, the wooden board folded into two parts.

Zhang Shaofei broke out in a cold sweat in pain, and almost bit his tongue.

Hui Ming threw down the half of the incense board in his hand and asked the governor monk to find a stronger bamboo incense board.

Zhang Shaofei knew that the weight of the bamboo incense board was heavier, and it would hurt more if it was hit.

In order to prevent him from crying out in pain because he couldn't bear it, he immediately stopped his mind and entered deep meditation - fortunately, he followed Zen Master Zhiyuan in the Shimen Cave of Lechang West Mountain for a long time, and he was soon able to enter a state of meditation.

The time he spent practicing in the Shimen Cave in Xishan has finally come in handy now......

Hui Ming hit more than a dozen boards in a row, and he was panting.

But Zhang Shaofei, who was beaten, never let out a cry of pain.

"Could it be that this guy has already lost his breath?" Hui Ming lowered his head, and actually saw a very quiet and happy expression on Zhang Shaofei's face (after entering the state of meditation, people's hearts are full of Zen joy, so their faces are happy).

Where did Hui Ming know this, he thought that Zhang Shaofei was laughing at himself, and he was even more resentful in his heart, and raised the incense board again......

At this moment, a child's voice came from the door of the house: "Lao An Zen Master and the elders are here!" ”

When Hui Ming heard this, he immediately put away the incense board and stepped aside.

Lao An, who is nearly 90 years old, has a crane shape in the pine wind and a fluttering silver hair, as if the spirit of heaven and earth has been transformed, just like a god who has descended to earth. At this time, I saw him and Elder Huaqing walking into the room one after the other.

All the monks joined together to give their respects.

Lao An Zen Master smiled and asked, "Today's lunch offered by the mountain monks, have you all tasted the Zen machine?" ”

"What? The rice mixed with the husk rice actually contains Zen machine? The monks looked dazed.