Chapter 4 The third one is Matsu's sun-faced Buddha and moon-faced Buddha

The third one is Matsu's sun-faced Buddha and moon-faced Buddha Example: Master Ma is uneasy.The head of the hospital asked the monk how he is looking forward to in the near future.The master said: The sun faces the Buddha and the moon faces the Buddha. When a person is temporarily ill, sometimes he becomes very gentle, like a child.When the child had a rash, the adults forbade him to go out, but he didn't take it seriously, so he was obedient, drawing and playing on the low table.A two-year-old child can only draw a circle on a piece of paper with a color pen, and one stroke is a circle. The adult asked him, what is he painting?He said, "This, Dad." Then he circled again, "It's Mom." At this time, if it was morning, there was still the moon in the west of the sky, and the sun was already high in the east, and the circle drawn by the child sitting in front of the window would be the same. He would say, "This is the Sun-faced Buddha." Then draw a circle, "This is the Moon-faced Buddha." The child is called Sun-faced Father-in-law and Moon-faced Mother-in-law.

Two hundred and fifty years after Mazu’s answer, when Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty arrived, the monk Chongxian of Fenghua Xuedou Temple was still amazed at this scenery, and said: "The sun-faced Buddha, the moon-faced Buddha, the five emperors and three What is the emperor!" It turns out that although the history of human beings, such as the five emperors and three emperors, are only created for the fun of children. Among the ancient Zen monks, only Mazu knew how to play, and he could compete with Zhuangzi.And only Xue Dou knows it, and Huan Wu has been compared here.But Mazu once had a Danxia monk who went to see him, and the intellectual told him to wait. He went to the Buddhist temple and rode on the shoulders of Manjusri Bodhisattva. Mazu came out to look at him and said, "My son is natural." play.But then no one could follow.