Chapter 12 The Eleventh Chapter Huangbo Tang No Zen Master

The Eleventh Chapter Huangbo Tang No Zen Master Example: Zen master Huangbo said to the crowd: You and others are all drunkards, where is today? Do you know that there are no Zen masters in the Tang Dynasty?From time to time, a monk came out and said: I only know that the Kuang disciples from all directions lead the crowd, so what do they do?Bo Yun: There is no Tao without Zen, but there is no teacher. No teacher means that there was no teacher in the beginning.There was no mathematics in the beginning, who taught him mathematics?If there are no wheels and levers, who will teach him to make them?There is no teacher, all enlightenment comes out on your own.Fu Xi contemplated the heavens and the earth and the traces of birds and beasts, and no one taught him how to contemplate.All great discoveries in learning are realized by oneself.The Nine Heavens Profound Girl gave Song Jiang a heavenly book without words, and without words means without a teacher.

There are no Zen masters in the Tang Dynasty, but there is Zen.Zen is enlightenment. However, Zen Master Xuedou came out and turned it over, saying that he had a teacher.He said in a verse: "Aren't you, Huangbo, the great Zen master?"And you are also the teacher of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty! What Xuedou said is right, he really has a teacher.Schoolchildren need a teacher to learn to read, and the king who conquers the world also has a teacher. The so-called learning is the teacher of the emperor.However, when there is a teacher who wants to have no teacher, the teacher should not only impart experience, but also think about how to trigger students' enlightenment.The best teacher is to have a teacher when there is no teacher.The old masters taught very little, but they knew this truth very well.

Not only discoveries and inventions depend on enlightenment, but also experience, learning it also depends on enlightenment.For example, babies learn language by gaining a lot of understanding, and no language learning methods used in schools can learn language as quickly as babies.The same goes for text.When I was young, I heard my third sister talk about Zhao Yun, so I read Romance of the Three Kingdoms myself. I didn't look up those new words and sentences I didn't understand, and I rarely asked people. I didn't know when I knew them all.That is my starting point from the enlightenment of our ancestors who created words and sentences, so I know what I don’t know, and I know what I don’t know.

Huangbo has a teacher and does not have a teacher, so Xuedou praised him as "awe-inspiring and lonely without boasting", which is different from the face of a Taoist scholar who is a teacher.In history, the teacher of the king is Zhang Liang, not Shusun Tong.Zhang Liang and the King of Han connected with each other in wisdom granted by heaven, and Zhang Liang came up with the strategy because he was the King of Han, so Zhang Liang didn't feel that he was a teacher. The original four sentences of the song: Awe-inspiring and solitary, not boastful, dominating the universe The emperor of Dazhong once touched three times and was beaten by his minions

The second sentence is also good for fixing dragons and snakes.Song Confucianism never thought that Huangbo, the dragon and snake, was a dragon with its teeth and claws, and his disciples were not easy to touch him.This is the strictness of the teacher, but it is different from the strictness of the teacher in general. The third and fourth sentences say that before Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty came to the throne, he was a monk in Huangbo's temple. He asked Huangbo about Buddhism three times and was palmed three times. The drink, palm and staff of Zen monks are all Chinese, not Indian.The whisk of the Zen monk was originally the stag of the Jin people.The Buddha makes seals with his hands, and the whisk moves.Zen monks also used swords and guns, such as Yelu Chucai going out with Genghis Khan, and Yao Guangxiao saying that King Yan raised his troops.