The six ancestors Hui Neng thought of the lotus pond at home and prayed to the sky.

And all this has long been gone with the wind.

Let the lotus in your heart, in the rippling blue water, moisten the delicate face like jade, and in the corridor of time, and the Buddha!

"Yu Duai Lianzhi is out of the mud but not stained, and the water is clear and rippled but not demonic." It is the saying of lotus flowers;

"The lotus leaves are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers are different red." It is also the saying of lotus flowers;

"Tian Tian eight or nine leaves, scattered at the beginning of the green pond. The tender blue is only flat water, and the round yin has covered the fish. The duckweed does not fit together, and the weak thorn is still sparse. Half at the bottom of the spring waves, the heart is not comfortable. "It's still about lotuses.

Since ancient times, the lotus flower is the object of the literati and the noble people, people love the lotus, sing the praises of the lotus, not only the graceful posture of the lotus, the faint fragrance, but also her noble character out of the mud and not stained so that the world admires and deeply respects.

Huineng loves lotus flowers very much. Often worship the otherworldly temperament and fairy wind bones of the lotus flower in front of the Buddha.

In the Baolin Temple, Huineng suddenly found one day that in the big villages and small villages around Caoxi, pilgrims who came to worship the Buddha wore fashion printed with lotus patterns and became people's favorites; What made him even more delighted was that in the galleries of the streets and alleys of Shaozhou, a large portrait of the lotus flower appeared as a symbol in the gallery!

Ah, holy lotus, is it an epiphany for all sentient beings?

This Zen lotus, I hope your noble character is really recognized;

I hope that your unstained wind and bones out of the mud will really be appreciated by all living beings; May all the images that appear in your name really not insult you!

The Buddha said, "A thousand times of looking back in the past life is exchanged for a passing shoulder in this life." "Perhaps, the passing of Huineng and Li Xiaolan in this life is the result of looking back a thousand times in the previous life......

"The lotus flowers in the south of the Yangtze River bloom, and the red flowers cover the blue water. The color is the same, and the lotus root is the same. Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, wrote a Zen-like "Summer Song", which reminded Huineng once again of his quiet and beautiful memories hidden in his heart...... It made him cross the girder even more—

Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, was the founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty. His ancestor, the Lanling Xiao family, was originally a northern Shu clan, and his family background was relatively low. But his uncle Xiao Daocheng was a very strategic politician, he took advantage of the civil strife in the imperial court, seized power, and established the Qi Dynasty.

Xiao Yan inherited his uncle's courage and strategy, held a military position in the Southern Qi Dynasty, and fought many times with the Northern Wei army, and became famous.

In the second year of Qi Jianwu (495), the Northern Wei army attacked Xiao Dan, the assassin of Sizhou in Southern Qi, and Xiao Yan followed Wang Guangzhi, the assassin of Jiangzhou, to the rescue. In front of the two armies, the other generals saw that the Wei army was strong and fearful. Xiao Yan personally led the death squad as the vanguard and fought bravely, and the soldiers followed closely behind, breaking 100,000 Wei troops.

After the war, the enemy camp was searched, and the edict of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was found from the towel box left by a Wei general, which read: "I heard that Xiao Yan is good at using soldiers, don't fight easily, and wait for me to arrive and discuss countermeasures." If I can capture this person, then Jiangnan will be owned by me. ”

Xiao Yan was also a socialite in his early years. Xiao Ziliang, the king of Jingling in the Southern Qi Dynasty, opened the West Mansion, recruited literary scholars, Xiao Yan and celebrities Shen Yue, Wang Rong, Xiao Chen, Fan Yun, Ren Fang, Lu He, etc. traveled in the West Mansion, chanting poems and writings, known as "Jingling Eight Friends".

Before Xiao Yan became emperor, although he was busy with government affairs, he still read under the lamp until late at night every day, and wrote more than 600 volumes of "General History".

He also often personally drafted the edicts, praises, prefaces and other official documents of the imperial court, which together amounted to one hundred and twenty volumes; revise the "Hundred Family Trees" and reuse the scholars;

Xiao Yan is good at playing chess, and is good at other aspects such as yin and yang, divination, calligraphy, etc., which can be called versatile.

Such a civil and military all-round talent naturally refused to live under the people for a long time, so when Emperor Qi Wu died of illness and the palace was in turmoil, Xiao Yan assisted Xiao Zhaoye to seize power.

At that time, his wings were not yet full, but Xiao Zhaoye relied on him very much, causing his power to grow step by step.

After accumulating enough strength, Xiao Yan resolutely launched an uprising in Yongzhou, seized power, established the Liang Dynasty, and changed the Yuan Tianjian.

From then on, Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan no longer served as a think tank for others, and began to fully display his talents in politics.

Emperor Wu of Liang is a rare long-lived emperor in Chinese history, he lived to be eighty-five years old, reigned for more than 50 years, it can be said that before he believed in Buddhism, he was still very energetic, can be called a Ming monarch who cultivated both civil and military.

"Longevity without borders" is the wish of all emperors, in this case, whether to take romance or gamble on longevity, Xiao Yan chose the latter.

There is a view that from the precept of Buddhism to "remove the two obstacles", Xiao Yan "knows the direction of returning", eats vegetables and eats outside, and breaks off the room. In the final analysis, it is for health reasons, and the so-called "pedestrian's doer" is the way to seek longevity.

This point of view is quite reasonable, and the original reason for Xiao Yan's "forty years of not being close to women" should be here.

Sure enough, after not killing, his health problems were solved, and his brain was no longer faint. In Xiao Yan's own words, it is "neither the inner nor the inner realm, there is no evil obstacle of repetition, in addition to these two obstacles, the consciousness is slightly clearer, the internal and external scriptures, and the reading will be enlightened."

The emperor has the privilege of pampering beauties all over the world, Xiao Yan "has not been close to women for forty years", the truth is not to say that the civil and military officials of the court, even the imperial doctors of the court may not be able to tell.

However, there is also a view in the court that a large number of elderly people "break their rooms", which should not have been caused by the Buddha in the first place.

Xiao Yan also agrees with this.

But what exactly is the reason?

Xiao Yan knew that he couldn't do it anymore, so he simply "became a monk", became a clean emperor, and lived a long life, which is also an explanation for his sudden change of faith, abandonment of Taoism, and belief in Buddhism at the age of fifty.

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An autumn breeze blows, with the refreshing fragrance of flowers, bringing Huineng back to his eyes from the time tunnel.

The sixth ancestor Hui Neng looked at the lotus pond from afar and thought: people, since this is the case, but what about flowers? That's exactly what happened! thoughts, brought Huineng back to the years when he was studying with Xiaolan's classmates......

In the spring, when Xiaolan and Huineng were studying together in the school, they sometimes went to his house, and the two of them had no guesses, holding hands and strolling by the lotus pond next to his house......

"Master, the wind is strong on the tower, and the red sun is sinking in the west, let's go down and eat." Looking at the Sixth Ancestor Huineng standing on the tower, the Shenhui, who had been pondering for a long time by the railing, said with concern.

"Oh......" Sixth Ancestor Huineng woke up from his contemplation, blinked, looked at the red sun sinking in the west, suddenly realized, and said to the gods, "You will open the altar for the villagers in Guoen Temple tomorrow, and you should inform Xialu Village and the nearby Houliang Village and several other villages." Don't make the scope too large, so as not to have too many people and it will be difficult to entertain for a while. ”

"Okay." After the god finished speaking, he helped the six ancestors Huineng down the tower and looked at the hall.

Longshan Guoen Temple is located in the south of Xinzhou County, Chengcheng Town (now Liuzu Town), this ancient land, has a long history, the incense of the Qin and Han dynasties has been stretching for thousands of years.

The clear stream quietly surrounds the foothills of Longshan Mountain, runs through the Luxi River of the whole town from south to north, rippling and rippling, beautiful and bright, adding a bit of aura to the land on both sides of the river, pouring out the beautiful customs on both sides, the vast wilderness and the beautiful natural scenery of Longshan intersect and reflect each other, which is magnificent.