Chapter 4 The fourth time I can't sit still

But he said that Ji followed the prison temple to the cloud hall, and saw that the whole hall was full of Zen beds, and many people were sitting in it.Jiansi pointed to an empty space and said, "Daoji!"There is no one here, so you can sit down! Daoji was about to climb up on the Zen bed, but he didn't know whether it should be horizontal or vertical, so he said to the prison temple: "I'm new to Dharma, and I don't know how to sit. I beg my brother to teach me." "Jiansi Dao, you don't know, let me tell you to listen: 'Neither stand nor sleep.The waist is straight behind and the knees are bent forward.The wall is vertical in the center, not on both sides.Lowering his eyebrows and lowering his eyes, handing over his hands and receiving his fists.The mind is clear and refreshing, the mind is calm and peaceful, the breath in the mouth does not come out, and the breath in the nose is broken and continuous.Spotless, all thoughts donated.Hugh is lazy, so as not to attract mistakes.If you do not violate this meaning, it is called zazen! '

Daoji was in a trance after hearing these words, but now that he had come here, he had no choice but to reluctantly climb onto the Zen bed and sit according to the rules prescribed by the prison temple.At the beginning, I still had the energy to support myself, but after sitting in the middle of the night, I was exhausted.Suddenly he became dizzy and fell off the Zen bed, and couldn't stop crying out for suffering.When the prison temple heard it, he hurried in and said, "Sitting in meditation is the first skill of entering the Tao. Why don't you pay attention, but you are so greedy for sleep that you fall down."When it comes to the rules of Zen, I should have blamed you, Gu Nian is the first offender, and I forgive you this time!If this is the case again, I will definitely not forgive. After finishing speaking, the prison temple went away.

Daoji touched his head with his hand, and there was a big bump. He had no choice but to get up and sit up again. At the end of the sitting, he felt drowsy and fell down again unconsciously.Jiansi heard that he came in again and reprimanded him, but Daoji sat still and struggled more and more, and fell down twice in a row, resulting in seven or eight yuan bruises on his head.The prison temple said angrily: "If you repeatedly violate the Zen rules, if you are spared again, you will become more lazy!" ’ So he raised the bamboo board and said: ‘Newly shaved head, just try it! ’ Then he hit him on the head, and Daoji hugged his head and screamed: “There are many bumps on the head, and this bamboo board is added, and bumps are added to the bumps, how can I bear it?”I will tell Master! The prison temple said: "You fell three or four times, and I had to hit you once, but you have to tell the master, and I will hit you a few more times, lest the master say that I sell the law!" Daoji said in a panic when he raised the bamboo board and was about to call again: "Brother, is it me? Please spare me!" ' Jian Sifang sneered and went.

Gradually dawn, Daoji walked up, touched his head, there were countless bumps of seven or eight yuan, and said repeatedly: "Distressed!"distressed!After sitting for one night, my head is already full of pimples. If I sit for a few nights, there will be so many pimples on this head, it is really distressing! 'It's just that it's not easy to regret after entering the Zen school, and after going on for another two months, I feel that there are thousands of troubles in the Zen school, and there is no fun at all.Because I thought: "I come here to really hope to see my mind and see my nature, and some will be enlightened."Sitting deaf, hearing and blind, how is it different from Tumu?When I was at home in the past, I enjoyed the mellow wine and crispy delicacies.Come here, yellow vegetables and light rice, even if you have to eat half a bowl more, how can you live a good life.It's better to resign from the elders and return to the common life, so as not to suffer here. 'Fixed his thoughts, jumped off the meditation bed hastily, and walked outside.Walking to the door of Yuntang, a prison temple stopped him and said, "You just relieved yourself, why do you want to go out again?" Daoji said: "Sinners in the prison should also be released. This is a meditation hall. How can it be so tightly controlled?" The prison temple couldn't do anything, so he said, "You need to come quickly when you go out." Daoji didn't agree, so he left the Yuntang and walked straight to the abbot's room.Elder Yuan was entering meditation, God Jialan had already told him why, so he hurried out of the hall and saw Daoji standing in front of him.Then he asked Ji: "You don't go to sit in meditation, what are you doing here?" Daoji said: "I told my master that my disciples are really not used to sitting meditation, so please let me go back to the vulgar world." The elder said: "I said in Japan the day before that it is easy to become a monk but difficult to return to the secular life."Since you have become a monk, is there any reason for you to return to the vulgar?Kuang sitting in meditation is the first righteousness of monks, why are you not used to it? Daoji said: "The teacher only talks about the merits of sitting meditation, but don't you know the suffering of sitting meditation?" 'Wait for the disciple to elaborate and listen to the teacher:

Sitting in meditation is originally to clarify the mind, but after a long time, the mind becomes more and more unclear.Jinggong expects to see the sex, and in those few days I feel drowsy, and it becomes harder to see the sex.You are not allowed to sleep when you are sleeping, and you are forced to bend your back; you cannot stand up immediately, so you are exhausted.When Xiangwan came, he couldn't stretch his knees; when it was late at night, he couldn't open his eyelids.Unbiased and unbiased, wearing a woodless shackle on the top of the neck; hard to turn and hard to move, the body can't sit in a prison.When I fell down, my face was swollen and my head was blue; when I got up, I was in a hurry.The suffering was unbearable, and the prison temple added bamboo boards a few more times; the Buddha's kindness is great, and the teacher saved my life!

The elder laughed and said, "How can you say sitting meditation is so painful."It's not that sitting meditation is not good, it's all because you don't know the magic of sitting meditation, go and sit again, and you will know the magic when you sit until it is good.From now on, if you can't sit still, I'll go and ask the prison temple not to beat you, what's your heart? Daoji said: "It's okay to take a few beatings, but it's really unbearable to not see each other for wine and meat."Disciple thinks that the Dharma is the most lenient, so why bother with others one by one.Today, I made up two Buddhist sayings, chatting to explain the ridicule, and begging my teacher to learn from me. The elder said: "What Buddha's words can you read to me?" Daoji said: "The disciple is not greedy. He only thinks one or two yuan, and the Buddha is not to blame."One fishy and two fishy, ​​the Buddha is not angry.One bowl or two bowls, the Buddha doesn't care, I don't know if it is true or not? The elder said: "The Buddha doesn't blame you for letting you go. Wouldn't you be ashamed of yourself?"The skin is limited, but the life is infinite, so don't lose your mind! Daoji dare not say any more.While talking, I heard the hall knocking on the cloud board, the waiter brought the meal, the elder asked Daoji to eat with him, while Daoji was eating, he saw that in the elder's bowl, there were only some rough gluten, yellow sour leeks, no good food , I am very grateful, so I took four sentences and said:

A few stars of bran in the small yellow bowl, half sour chives and half gourd; Swear not to be born against Buddhism, there will be nothing in the bowl after birth. After hearing this, the elder said, "Excellent!"Good!Since you know this kind of truth, why do you think otherwise? Daoji said: "I will tell my teacher that I know it, but I just can't get through it." 'The elder said, when have you been here?How long have you been sitting?How long have you comprehended?So anxious, don't you hear: How about a bright night with a white moon and a clear wind?Thoughts and thoughts in silence;

The reed on the top of the snow-capped mountain nest pierces the knees, and the iron pestle becomes a needle and grinds on the stone. After hearing this, Daoji said: "My disciples are still young and their vows are not deep. How dare they get bored and not practice hard work."But the disciple has never been taught by my master for a single huatou or half a sentence of gatha since he became a teacher, so that the disciple sits in the bucket of confusion every day, wouldn't it be suffocating to death! The elder said: "Although you are brave in entering the way, you feel that you are too impatient."No matter!No matter!You can come closer. Daoji only said that he had some instructions, and hurriedly walked to the front, but the elder slapped his face, and he fell down and said, "I haven't realized where I came from, so I turned to the old monk to find the way out, and I will beat you." I have no memory! Daoji was on the ground, opened his eyes twice, and nodded his head twice.Suddenly he got up, without opening his mouth, he slammed headfirst into the elder's chest, knocked him over, fell off the meditation chair, and ran away.The elder shouted that there are thieves, there are thieves.When all the monks heard the elder's shout, they rushed over together and asked, "Where is the thief?"I don't know what was stolen? The elder said: "It's not money or objects stolen, it's the great treasure of Zen!" The monks said, "What treasure did you steal?"who met? The elder said: "It was the old monk who saw it with his own eyes. It was either someone else or Daoji." The monks said: "Since it is Daoji, what's the difficulty? Wait for me to catch it and ask the elders for it!" The elder said, "Let's rest today, and I will ask him for it tomorrow." ’ The monks didn’t know what the rationale was, so they dispersed in a daze.

But it is said that this Daoji was drunk by the elders, awakened the antecedents, unknowingly carefree, took off the root, suddenly surpassed the best.After walking out of the abbot's room, he went straight into the cloud hall and shouted, "Miao Miao Miao!"Sitting in meditation turns out to be fun! Then he climbed onto the Zen bed, bumped headlong at the monk above him, and said, "Is it wonderful to sit in meditation like this?" The monk said in a panic, "What kind of rule is this?" Daoji said, "Why don't you sit impatiently and play around?" ’ Then he looked at the monk who was the first one to bump his head, and said: ‘Is this kind of sitting meditation wonderful? ’ The monk got up and said, ‘What’s the point? Daoji said: "I'm tired of sitting, why not play?" Seeing Daoji's appearance, all the monks in the hall said, "Daoji, are you crazy?" Daoji laughed and said, "I'm not crazy, but I'm afraid you are." Daoji couldn't speak or move his hands on the Zen bed, so he made a fuss all night. The prison temple could restrain him, and the next day all the monks came to tell the elders in threes and fives.The elder thought to himself: "I saw how distressed Daoji was when he came to see me. After being enlightened by me, he suddenly became so happy. He must have comprehended the previous cause, so he used games to spit out ideas."If not, how can it be so lively once I go to research him and I will know everything. ’ So he ordered the waiter to ring the bell and beat the drum to gather the monks.The elder ascended to the Dharma hall, and first ordered the public to recite the [Pure Land Mantra]. Seeing the elder, Fang announced: I have a verse, and the public listen:

Last night, the moon was very bright at three o'clock, and some people knew how to nod their lamps; Suddenly remembering the past, the avenue was flattened. After the elder read it, he said: "Since there is this life in life, there are naturally past lives and future lives."In the future of future generations, I don't know what state to be in, let alone.The previous life is the scenery of the past, which has already been experienced, so why not know?Although all of you have different roots, none of them came from the previous life. I don’t know that there are also some spiritual lights among you. Do you still remember the original face at that time? The public was silent, and no one could answer.

At this time, Daoji was taking a bath in the bathroom. Hearing the sound of bells and drums, he quickly tied up his bath pants, put on his cassock, and rushed into the Dharma hall.At the time when the elders were asking questions, but no one answered, Daoji immediately stepped forward and knelt down and said, "My master, don't be suspicious. The disciple was sleeping in a dream. When he was awakened by Master Ci, he already remembered what happened at that time." The elder said: "Since you remember, why don't you reveal the bottom before you are in the crowd." Daoji said: "It's not difficult to show off, but the teacher shouldn't think I'm rude." ’ That Daoji was right in front of the Dharma seat, with his head on the ground and his feet facing the sky. Suddenly, he made a somersault, revealing what was in front of him.The crowd all covered their mouths and laughed, but the elder said happily: "This is really the seed of Buddhism." ’ Actually got off the throne and went back to the abbot’s room. What do these people know? Seeing Daoji's insanity, making such an ugly behavior, the elders didn't punish them, but they were envious and sighed, and they were all injustice.The prison temple and the monks in charge came to the abbot's room to report to the elders: "There are clear rules in the temple, and the public is ordered to abide by them."Today, Daoji is disrespectful in front of the Buddha and goes mad in front of the teacher's seat, which has violated the orthodox law of Buddhism.If you forgive him now, why punish others later?I hope my teacher will not tolerate it! The elder said: "Since that's the case, where is the list?" The first seat hurriedly submitted the list and asked the elders for instructions.The elder took the list and said to the monks, "The law was originally set up by ordinary people. How can it be applied uniformly!" 'So he wrote ten words on the back of the list: 'The Zen sect is so vast, how can it not tolerate a monk. ' After the elder approved it, he gave it to the first seat, and after receiving the first seat, he watched it with all the monks, and they all retreated silently, and no one complained privately.Since then, it has been called "Daoji" and "Jidian".exactly: Calabash is not easy to distinguish between true and false, and games should be difficult to distinguish right from wrong. After all, I don't know what Ji Dian has done since then, let's listen to the next chapter. Comments: 1. When sitting on the Zen bed for the first time, the hands and feet are numb, and the wooden board is stiff. Seeing him sitting blankly like a wooden idol, what is so strange?Once you fall, you can't climb up by yourself, how can you save yourself?If you don't bounce around, come and be happier! 2. The new bald head, just hit it, the head is easy to stand out, and the bumps look like a Shakya Buddha.Maybe at the beginning I liked to expose people's scars, break the bottom of the urn, and let out all the dregs, but now the Buddha's head has to keep a few Sakyas!Today, people are battered and beaten, and their heads are battered, and they can't grow a buddha fruit, but because of a 'concussion', they are reborn in the West! 3. Studying the Tao is hard, and there is no wine or meat to fill the stomach, and there is no delicious taste. Thinking of this, it is better to return to the vulgar, to be an ordinary person, to drink, sex and wealth, everything is normal, no one interferes, who will ask?Want to practice Taoism, people criticize, he ridiculed!What are you talking about? They are not up to date with the times, and they are not fashionable, and their food and clothing are all old-fashioned!Fellow!Don't learn Daoji and get confused for a while, and almost fall down! 4. Fortunately, the ancestors were virtuous, and the Bodhisattva blessed them, and finally kept their Dao Xin.One day, unfortunately, he was slapped by the elder, fell down, and said: "I haven't realized where I came from, so I turned to the old monk to find the way out, and I beat you without memory!" 'This dozen suddenly made me wake up in shock, knowing where I came from, and how to go there!Hitting his head so that the elder threw himself on all fours and called his parents, haha!This kind of worship is the true way, and parents are born to be kind and hard to repay, and now they finally realize their true colors.There is a thief in the elder's way. It turns out that I have obtained the true magic weapon of my mentor's mantle. Fortunately, he fell, otherwise I don't know when I will realize the Tao! 5. The elder asked the public, who remembers the original face at that time?Everyone is speechless, I have won the treasure, and I lifted the hole card, it turned out to be "this magic weapon"!Ha ha!Don't blame Daoji for not being decent. Everyone used their life roots before, just because my parents gave birth to me. If I don't show this Dao root and tell the true seeds of Buddhism, I will make the world do evil and turn this good root into an evil root.Life is also from this, death is also from this, realize the original channel, water rushes to Lingshan, my Buddha descends to earth! (This sentence must be understood, not read in vain.) Sixth, Daoji is rude, and the monks are ignorant, so they don't know that I have hidden the 'root of wisdom'.Zhang Er King Kong touched his bald head, but he couldn't find any tricks!Fortunately, the elders knew me and commented: "Buddhism is so vast, how can it not tolerate a monk?" ’ I said: ‘Life and death are important matters, we must cut the weeds and get rid of the roots! '———Break the root of evil, and there will be no birth and death.