Chapter 10 Lecture 21

content summary. Buddhism is in the world. Zen directly refers to the cause and condition of major events. Xue Yanqin case. Gao Feng Miao Gongan. The skill of meditation. "Buddhism is in the world, and you can't leave the world to realize it. Seeking Bodhi outside the world is just like asking for the horn of a rabbit." These words of the Sixth Patriarch refer to "action", the part of behavior.The Dharma is in the world, and the Buddha said so.In the scriptures, someone asked the Buddha, why did the World Honored One become a Buddha in the dirty place of the Saha world?The Buddha said: You see that the Saha world is dirty, but you only see one side. It has another side, which is as bright and clean as the Western Paradise and all pure lands.So the Buddha immediately manifested supernatural powers and pressed his toes on the ground, and at that time the bright side of this world appeared.Here is a Huatou, this world has a very pure and bright side, the same as the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss, and the same pure and bright side as other Buddha worlds.

Secondly, the Buddha said that before becoming a Buddha, all Buddhas must come here to become a Buddha, and it is not easy to become a Buddha in other worlds. For example, it is difficult for heaven and man to become a Buddha, and it is difficult for people in Luzhou, Beiju, to become a Buddha, because the blessings are so good, pure happiness and no suffering.Just because there is no stimulation of pain, people there will not feel disgusted with renunciation, so if all sentient beings want to become Buddhas, they must come to this world.This Saha world is a mixture of good and evil, of bitterness and happiness, of everything, and there is a lot of pain.It is because of suffering that it is easy to cultivate the Tao. Why do you need to become a Buddha if there are no sentient beings?If there are no sentient beings, there is no need for Buddhas, because everyone is a Buddha!Why come another Buddha!Because there are sentient beings and suffering, there is Bodhi and Buddhahood.

"Buddhism is in the world" is a view and a vow.Because the world is an evil world with five turbidities, it is necessary to give alms and keep the precepts; because the world is very painful and very bad, so only by saving yourself and others here can you complete your merits and virtues. This is in the second sense. In terms of metaphysics, there is no difference between worldly and non-worldly. The Sixth Patriarch's Altar Sutra tells us, "Buddhism is in the world, and it doesn't care about the world's enlightenment." If you leave the world, you can't seek enlightenment; if you don't have pain, you don't know the comfort of happiness;So affliction is Bodhi, and it can also be developed from this level. "Leave this world to seek Bodhi." If you really jump out of the world and the three realms, you are already a Buddha, and you don't need to seek Bodhi anymore. There is no reason to become two Buddhas.Therefore, when Mahayana Buddhism says that the Dharma is in the world, it refers to the "door of practice".

Meditation and cultivating the Tao are only one ten-thousandth of the disciplines. Other behaviors and activities are all the disciplines of Buddhism. Therefore, it is the principle that Buddhism should not be separated from the world.Don't think that Buddhism is inseparable from the world. While you are cultivating the Tao, you also think that you need all kinds of fame, wealth, wine, sex and wealth. If you think this way, you are wrong. According to the Vimalakirti Sutra, the lotus will not grow on the clean mud or the clean place on the top of the mountain. Only in the dirtiest, turbid, and lowest place, the lotus will grow more luxuriantly and more fragrant. , The purer the flower, the bigger the flower, and it is spotless.The lotus flower is the spirit of learning Buddhism, so the lotus flower represents Buddhism, which is achieved in the dirtiest and most difficult place in the evil world of five turbidities. This is the principle of Buddhism in the world.Don't think that since Buddhism is in the world, it doesn't have to be born. If there is no such thing, it still has to be born.However, there is a difference between being born in the world and becoming a monk. To become a monk in the secular world is just to leave this home and go to another home.To be born is to leave this life and enter another life.

It has not reached beyond the Three Realms, but is still within this world.Jumping out of the Three Realms and not being in the Five Elements is the real birth. This basic truth must be clarified. There is a book called "Zen Direct Pointing--Great Events and Predestined Relationships", the author Shi Chengjin was a Jinshi in the Qing Dynasty. He was an official and studied Zen in his later years.The front of this book is his personal experience and insight in studying Buddhism, which is also a very good way of studying Zen for a Neo Confucianist. According to this practice, the fruit of human beings and heaven will never fall.The following section of "Great Events and Predestined Relationships" has too much to do with each other, which is great.Li Wen said that scholars in Europe and the United States think that Zen Buddhism in China is fundamentally opposed to Buddhism. This concept is too wrong, and now Europe and the United States are pursuing Zen.In fact, on the contrary, Zen talks about Buddhism everywhere.Zen Buddhism began to decline in the Yuan Dynasty. Some koans contained in this book are very good, and other books do not include them so completely.Among these major events, Yuan Wuqin, Da Huigao, Gao Gaomiao, Xue Yanqin and other gongan were collected, all of which are top-notch gongan.A few things to know about this book:

1. The real meditation halls in mainland China are just like the ones in the book. Second, look at how those people practice hard, they are the role models of the real meditation hall. Third, I also saw the decline of Zen Buddhism. Fourth, we can refer to it as a reference for personal learning. 5. There are many people who can't practice the girdle and don't sleep. They think this is learning Zen, and they can understand it after reading this book. Now let's study the Koan of Zen Master Xueyanqin first. Xue Yanqin's name is Yangshanqin in the continuation of Zhiyuelu.Xueyan and Yangshan are both the names of temples.

This text is very simple, some people benefit from the simple text, and some people benefit from the advanced text, because the degree is different.When speaking in general, you can't just speak for someone. Those who have already understood may wish to learn patience here, which is also one of the disciplines.It is a merit to go back from being brilliant to humble. However, a brilliant person cannot do without being simple. You must not have a concept that you are superior. You must get rid of this concept in order to become enlightened. "Master Pu said that the mountain monk became a monk at the age of five. He was served by the Master (the Master refers to the master), and he listened to the conversation with the guests. He knew that there was a cover (this), and he believed it." The small characters in the book are stones. Into a golden comment.

"I just learned to sit in meditation. I was dull all my life, I suffered a lot of hard work, and became a monk at the age of sixteen." After receiving the precepts, I officially became a monk.Ordination refers to accepting the precepts of a bhikkhu. "At the age of eighteen, Ruizhi wanted to come out to investigate this matter. Under the meeting of the monk Tiezhuyuan in Shuanglin, he beat ten directions (strictly seven), from dawn to dusk, only in the monastery hall (all day long, only meditation, Xingxiang.), without going out of the courtyard, enter the dormitories to the back frame (that is, the toilet), with arms folded, walking slowly, not to look left and right (observe the precepts at all times), what you see so far is only three feet, Venerable Master Dongxia (an old senior under Cao Dongzong), who wants to teach people to see that Gouzi has no Buddha-nature (Cao Dongzong at the time of Yuan Dynasty), only when miscellaneous thoughts arise, he gently lifts the word "no" on the tip of his nose, and then he sees the word "no". Rest, but let it go for a while, just sit silently, wait for him to become proficient, and agree with him for a long time."

When Cao Dongzong came to the Yuan Dynasty, participating in this Huatou was his method.At that time, as early as 70 or 80 years ago, Da Huigao called it silently illuminating evil Zen, and many later generations took this wrong path. "The door of the cave is densely packed and impoverished. It takes ten or twenty years to get it, so it is difficult to continue." This is what Cao Dongzong does. The sect works intensively and intensively. As long as there is a false thought, wrap it with Huatou. When there is no more Huatou, let it go.People who practiced Caodong sect often have been practicing for ten or twenty years without any trace. They have kung fu, but they are not enlightened, so the method of Caodong sect was broken later, and few people really understand Caodong's practice.

"At that time, I suddenly looked back at the place where the thought came from, and covered the thought at the place of the back-view. The moment was cold, and it was clear and clear, unmoving." Xue Yanqin’s method of working hard at that time was that when a thought came up, he immediately turned around to find the thought. Once he returned to contemplate, the thought was empty at the moment, there was no thought, and his state of mind was clear and clean, without any distracting thoughts. don't shake. "Sitting for a day is like snapping your fingers, you don't hear the sound of bells and drums, and you don't know if you put ginseng after lunch." People used to work hard like this, but now it's difficult.

"The elder heard that I was sitting well, so he came down to the monastery hall to see me, and once praised me from the throne." At that time, I was only eighteen years old. "On the 19th, go to Lingyin to hang the apron", go to Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou to hang the apron. "See Shan Miao Feng, Miao Feng dies, and Ishida succeeds." Shi Tian succeeded as the abbot. "Yingdongsou is in Kesi", the famous Zen monk Yingdongsou was working as an intellectual at that time. "I'm in Zhikeliao, and I met the secretary from Chuzhou." A monk came from Chuzhou to be the secretary, and he is now the secretary general. Said: "Brother Daoqin, you are stagnant water to cover up your kung fu. It will not help you. The two phases of movement and stillness will inevitably interfere with each other." Just sitting cross-legged in meditation is called Zen, and movement is not enough. Then movement and stillness will be divided into two ends. The ancients mentioned it in the same way, and the whole body is sweaty.When I practiced Zen, I thought I was great.Once a Taoist friend asked: People say that you have enlightened, do you realize the sameness in waking up and dreaming?I kept silent, I knew in my heart that it was different, so I came back by myself, and when I woke up like a dream, I met a young monk and asked me: When there is no dream and no dream, where is the protagonist, do you know?I was asked again, and I started again.So when people mention it, a good horse will gallop away at the sight of the whip, which is not like everyone being beaten by a virtuous teacher without knowing it.At this time, Xue Yanqin was beaten by a good teacher, he knew it was serious. "I was told by him. It's really just sitting in front of the covered realm, and I can't see the place where I walk on the ground and put the chopsticks." He said, yes!When I meditate, I am very pure. This state is only there. As soon as I put my legs down, or when I drink soup with a spoon or eat with chopsticks, this state disappears.No!The young monk from Chuzhou was superior to him, so he said to him: "To practice Zen, you must have doubts, great doubts and great enlightenment, small doubts and small enlightenments, no doubts and no enlightenment, you must start with doubts. Although he does not do much work, he will come down from the nunnery (monk not nunnery), not nunnery is The son of Songyuan, (Monk Bu'an is very famous in Zen Buddhism and a descendant of the old monk Songyuan of Linji sect.) His speech is always correct." What he said must be the right way, and he can't be wrong.He believed it.According to people nowadays, they must think, I meditate better than you, but you don’t meditate, how old are you! "I immediately changed the huatou, and raised a dry peg, blindly doubting, looking horizontally and vertically. Because I changed the huatou, my life in the future was disrupted." These are the spoken and vernacular of Yuan and Ming, " Although it is covered by a quilt and the mat is not touched, from day to night, wherever you go and sit, you are just drowsy and scattered, disturbed by glue, and you can't get clean even for a moment." Some people think that if you have an inverted girdle, you can just meditate without sleeping.Since Yuan and Ming Dynasties, there have been a lot of these strange tricks. They have been meditating, practicing Huatou, and using kung fu all day long, but people are confused, or else they are scattered and troubled. "I heard that Monk Tianmu has served Songyuan for a long time, he is Songyuan's son, he must have Songyuan speak, and transfer the order to pass the Jingci hanging bag." Monk Tianmu is a famous great Zen master who happened to be the abbot of Jingci Temple, so Xue Yanqin went to Jingci to hang up his purse. "Huaixiang asks for benefit from the abbot", according to Zen rules, take three sticks of incense and ask the waiter to inform the old monk. "Nine worships in the main hall", there are rules here, if you hear the words correctly, light three incense sticks and kowtow; "He asked me: how to do kung fu. So I said it straight from the beginning. He said: Don't you see that Linji asked Huangbo the general idea of ​​Buddhism three times, was beaten three times, and finally punched Dayu three times. Said: Yuan Lai Huangbo Dharma has not many sons. How do you see it?" He reported to the old monk Tianmu about his practice of kung fu, and the old monk told the story of Linji's pursuit of the Tao and his enlightenment. "When Hunyuan lived in this mountain, I did [cut the upper and lower feet], and when he entered the room, he said that he had a ready-made case, and before he came in, he would be 30 times better than you. But what do you think?" He said Hunyuan's old man When the monk came here to be the abbot, I had just arrived. When someone entered his room and asked about the Dharma, he said: "There is a ready-made koan, what are you asking?"It's time to fight, and before you come in, you should be given 30 sticks. You have to look at these places. "Tianmu monk hides his words, and he will support them upwards." The first-class method, "My illness is in a drowsy and scattered place. I don't like it if he doesn't give medicine." What Tianmu talks is the first-class method. But my problem is that when I meditate, I am either drowsy or scattered. "I can't help but say in my heart, you have never done kung fu, you are just clever Zen." The thought in his heart is the same as when we go to see a virtuous teacher. If someone’s answer is not to my liking, I feel that he has no skill and no way. "For ordinary prayers, there is a stick of incense at the end. I bow three times, which is called thanking the cause. I will cover up one stick of incense and not burn it." The rule of the meditation hall is that ordinary people come to ask for advice, hold three sticks of incense in their hands, and if they are right, light three sticks of incense. Zhixiang, kneel down and worship three times, and monk Xie welcomes you, this is the rule of monks.Xueyan only took the incense and came back with the incense. "Still relying on myself, I often sit in meditation", he still meditates and meditates, does not sleep, and does not lean on the mat. "At that time, there were seven brothers from the two prefectures of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou who joined me in meditation and sat in meditation for two years in Jingci. Look at me, I look at you, everyone dare not lie down. "Outside there is Xiu Shangzuo, who is also from Zhangzhou, not counting him here. He just walks and sits alone. He looks like an iron prong on the futon every day. When walking on the ground, he straightens his spine, hangs his arms, and opens his arms. The eye is like an iron prong, like this in the morning and day, every day. I want to get close to him and talk to him every day. When I see me coming from the east, he goes to the west; when I see me coming from the west, he goes to the east Go. If you want to get close in two years, it's even more impossible. During the past two years, I was so sleepy because I couldn’t reach my head. The day was like night, and the night was like day. A piece of mud is similar, and it cannot be cleaned even for a moment. "It's very pitiful. This ordinary person doesn't have high blood pressure. It's not bad! He's in the dark all day long, and he can't even think about a pure state. On the surface, he doesn't know how respectful people are, but he knows it in his heart, like It was like a lump of mud. "I suddenly thought about it one day, and I couldn't get started (I didn't cultivate the Tao), my clothes were broken (I worked hard in the meditation hall, and I didn't make offerings), my skin and flesh disappeared, and I didn't feel tears. I started to miss my hometown, and asked for leave to return to my hometown. Once I let it go, I let it go. (Now I feel comfortable when I go home, and I put away all my efforts.) Two months later, I came back to take part in the vacation (later called the cancellation of vacation), but it was reorganized from the beginning, but it was covered and released, and I was ten times more energetic. " This is the key. When he got home, his mother gave him delicious food. This time when he came back, he felt refreshed and comfortable when he meditated.So pay attention to nutrition. "Yuan Lai wants to find out this matter, so he can't sleep. You have to sleep in the middle of the night to be energetic." To learn the Tao, you must have good nutrition and enough rest to work hard. People asked me why I did retreat!sleep. As soon as you enter the closed room, sleep for seven or eight days first, and then don't sleep anymore, and work hard when you sit down.Especially after eleven o'clock at night, you must go to bed, and you will be refreshed after a good night's sleep. "One day I was walking eastward and westward in the verandah, and suddenly bumped into Brother Xiu. Looking at him from a distance, he felt leisurely, happy and content. When I approached him, but he talked to me, I knew he had gained something. But he asked him what he wanted to talk to you last year. How about you just avoid me? He said: Brother Zun, a real Taoist has no work to cut his claws, let alone talk to you. It’s a waste, how can I have time to talk to you. So you came to me, and I avoided it.) He then asked me how I was doing? I told him from the beginning, and finally said: I’m just being beaten by a dazed mess and I don’t go (Complaining to him), he said: What is the difficulty! Since you are not violent, you must stand tall on the futon and erect your spine. Teach him to lean on each other, with three hundred and sixty joints and eighty-four thousand hair openings. And make a word of no words, what to mention, what to ask for drowsiness." He scolded me, because I didn't make up my mind, I made up my mind, made up the futon, straightened my back, and had three hundred and sixty joints in my body, Forget it if you risk your life, at best you will die!Asked, martyrdom!After sitting up and down, Wan Yuan put it down, and only mentioned the word "no". If this continues, no matter what it is drowsy or scattered, you will continue like this. "I followed what he said, looking for a thick futon, put it on the unit, erected the spine, and taught him to lean on each other, from the top to the bottom, with three hundred and sixty joints. When I mentioned it, it was a person who was like an enemy of thousands of people. , mentioning it hard, then seeing it and then scattered, I tried my best to mention it here, suddenly I forget my body and mind (it’s coming, I don’t know the body and mind), but I see that the present is like a silver mountain and an iron wall. (There is nothing in front of the eyes. , untied, it is Bodhidharma said: "The heart is like a wall", empty and white.) Since then, it has been the same for walking and sitting, and it has been clear for three days and nights. In the afternoon of the third day, I walked freely under the three gates, and suddenly ran into Brother Xiu, who asked me: What are you doing here? I told him: Do the Tao. He said: What do you call the Tao? I can't be right, (I can't answer this question) I became more and more confused, I wanted to go back to the hall to sit in meditation, but when I got to the back door, I didn't realize that I was in the back hall (this stick from a fellow from Fujian beat him very hard. Miserable), the chief asked me: "Brother Qin, how are you doing? I told him, I don't agree with asking too many people, and I can't plan the land. (Oops, the more I listen, the less I use my kung fu on the road, and I know too much Yes.) He said again: You have opened your eyes wide, what is the reason for seeing? (The eyes mentioned here, of course, do not refer to his two eyes. His eyes have been able to sleep for three days and three nights.) I was raptured Covering a sentence, he got out and sat in the hall, just turned up the futon, the front suddenly opened, like a sinking, it seemed that people couldn't do it at that time, and it seemed like people couldn't do it, it can't be compared with anything in the world." This time, one stick to the east, one stick to the west, two hit him, got angry, ran to the meditation hall, crossed his legs, and as soon as he sat on the seat, it was empty in an instant, the front was as flat as the earth, and the empty land disappeared. , that state cannot be compared to any phenomenon in the world. Practicing Zen and cultivating the Tao, without going through these hardships, kung fu is unreliable. "At that time, I had no place to be happy, so I went down to the ground to find brother Xiu. He was on the scripture table (reading the scriptures, not meditating), and when he saw me, he put his hands together and said: "Happy, happy (as soon as an expert reaches that state) I know that before the time comes, the words will not overwhelm the crowd, and the appearance will not be amazing. Once the time comes, the weather will change.) I shook hands with him, went up the willow embankment in front of the door, looked up at the sky and the earth, full of everything, Seeing and hearing, things that have always been hated and discarded, and ignorance and afflictions are drowsy and scattered, all of which flow out from the true nature of wonderful light." At this time, you will know what the Shurangama Sutra says: "I don't know the body, and the mountains, rivers, void, and earth are outside, and salt is the thing in the heart of Miaoming." Everything is naturally flowing out of the heart of Miaoming.Bodhi and afflictions are equal and equal. Only then can we talk about "afflictions are Bodhi". Ordinary afflictions are afflictions, and it is a lie to say that afflictions are Bodhi. This is what Chan Master Xueyanqin told his disciples about his practice back then.This passage is so honest, it’s great, so I rushed to print it, and use the Dharma to support the public. This is the fulfillment of the vow, and everyone should cherish it. "Since then, it has been exposed and quietly, and there has been no movement for more than half a month." It has been motionless in this state for half a month.It is equal to Master Hanshan of the Ming Dynasty, because of the theory of non-movement mentioned in the theory of Shenzhao, and the purpose of turning the haze and Yanyue, and then became enlightened.One night he felt urgent to urinate, got up to urinate, urinated, and made a sad sound. At that moment, he realized, what did he realize?Master Zhao said in the Zhao Lun: "Swirling haze engulfs the mountains and is always quiet, while rivers and rivers compete to pour in but do not flow." Xuanzang is a typhoon, and it is the same as this principle, which has reached the state where there is no movement.Pay attention to participate here, the moving phase does not appear, is it the static phase?There are still problems. "It's a pity that Xu Buyu has big eyes and big means Venerable Master fought for me. (It's a pity that I didn't meet a great teacher at that time. Give me a "mouth" at this level. If I break it, I will be enlightened. I have to say that I am unlucky .) If you don’t agree, just sit here. (You shouldn’t be in this realm, you’ll definitely settle down.) It’s called seeing and seeing. Tell him to run away from the virtuous teacher, what will the virtuous teacher do to him? He thinks he is the right way at this time, and uses the dead mouse as a treasure, so what can he do! He has harmed himself, and he will not let go of his opinion.) (It should be noted here that there will be no virtuous teacher by your side in the future, and this book is a virtuous teacher. At this time, only keep the static image, which is what the Lotus Sutra says: "Great Wisdom and Supreme Buddha, sitting for ten kalpas Daochang, if the Dharma is not present, you cannot become a Buddha.” That’s the truth. Many people who study Tantric Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen have reached this state and are buried alive here. Besides, we have not yet reached this point. Chan Master Daoqin I regretted it only at this time, but he is a great master after all.) Every time I fall asleep in the middle of the night, I have no dreams, no thoughts, no news, no sight, but I have two prongs (this state is good, when I fall asleep, there will be nothing) Aren’t these two prongs? Where is the protagonist who has no dreams and no thoughts? Why is this realm gone?), the ancients had a saying of “Wu Mei Ru”, but they couldn’t understand it (he said The ancients were the same when waking up and sleeping, but I can't do it. Sleeping is sleeping, and waking up will have this state.), if the eyes are not sleeping, all dreams will be eliminated, if the heart is not different, all dharmas are the same (this is the saying The four sentences inscribed on the faith inscription by the third Zen patriarch) were all misunderstood. (He said, I used the principles of these four sentences to practice kung fu, insisted on staying awake, and misinterpreted the words of the ancient patriarchs That’s it.) Anyone who has a path of righteousness in the ancient koan can understand it, (I understand all the ancient gongan that has a reason and explanation.) Those who have no righteous path like a silver mountain and an iron wall will fail (Referring to Yuelu, Jingde Biography of Lanterns, etc., looking at those official cases that don’t make sense, I don’t understand at all, how can it be called enlightenment! He has great wisdom, so he was alert first. He said: Enlightenment Dao should be all-encompassing, why don’t you understand these things?) Although I have been in Wuzhun Master’s Association for many years, whenever he gives a lecture, and the protagonist is raised, I can do a boi jump, and I don’t teach you to hold up the monk’s nose. The minion of the Buddha, let alone your mouth. Sometimes in the Dharma seat, you talk here and there, but nothing hits my heart. (He said, I practiced Zen in Wuzhunhui for many years at that time, and whenever I met He seemed to understand when he mentioned the protagonist’s case. The old monk said: If you understand this, you will go one step further—playing a boo. I can’t understand, I can’t understand. Sometimes the old monk talks on the Dharma seat, but nothing can reach my heart.) Then I searched the Buddhist scriptures and ancient sayings from the beginning, (I had no choice but to find the Dharma text, Buddhist scriptures.) There is no sentence that can solve my disease, (neither can solve my own problems, where is the protagonist when there is no dream and no dream? Now some people are very good at answering. At that time, there was no dream and no dream. It's that simple! At that timeIf you can't find the protagonist, you can't do it. It's not enlightenment. ) is only ten years if it is in the chest. "This problem is in my heart, but I can't solve it. I still specialize in it, and I only participate in this matter there. After another ten years, it has been stuck in my heart. "Later, because Zhong Shiliang and Zhong Shiliang passed through the east of Zhejiang Province, they lived in the two mountains of Tianmu (the two lived in Tianmu Mountain). One day, walking around in front of the Buddhist temple, thinking from east to west, suddenly raised his eyes and saw an ancient cypress, touching it. The state I have always obtained is like the bottom is lifted for a moment, and the obstructed objects are scattered away, just like going out in a dark room under the daylight, and walking around." At this moment, he realized it.I have been involved in this problem for ten years, and I went to Tianmu Mountain with a fellow practitioner to hang a purse. One day, I was walking in front of the Buddhist temple, and suddenly I raised my eyes and saw a cypress tree. Putting it down for a while, the stuffy feeling in his chest suddenly opened, as if he had been stuffed in a dark room for ten years, and suddenly opened the door, and saw the sky. This is his enlightenment state. "From then on, you don't doubt life, you don't doubt death, you don't doubt Buddha, you don't doubt ancestors, you can see old man Jingshan standing there." Only then did I know.) It’s exactly thirty sticks. If it’s a person with great strength and great ability, there will be many twists and turns. (He said that he is too stupid, and he only realized the Tao after practicing for thirty years. Such a bitter experience!) Deshan saw Longtan at the place where he blew out the paper candles, (Monk Deshan saw Longtan, monk Longtan took a candle at night and blew on it, and he realized it, how quickly!) Then he said: Poor people Xuanbian, if a drop is placed in the void; the cardinal of the world, it is like a drop thrown into a huge gully (the words of Deshan Wudao). From then on, pick up a white stick and shake the sky and the earth, where is you near! (Deshan After enlightenment, beat people with a stick, where are you close!) Monk Shui Liao was stepped on by Ma Zu, and said: "Hundreds of Dharma Doors, infinite wonderful meanings, all of which can be found on the root of a hair. See Gao Ting Deshan beckons, it is a trend, if you want to consult and participate in something, step by step, you must have this standard and this spirit to get it." These are all ancient cases. Monk Gaoting came to see Deshan and asked. Deshan was standing at the door. It was getting dark. When he saw a monk coming from far away, he waved with his hand. Monk Gaoting turned around and ran away. Yes, as soon as Deshan waved, he realized it and left.The ancients were so clever, if you young people of the younger generation want to learn the Tao, you must have the style and aptitude of the ancients. "If I don't remember a single character, I will waste your life if you remember it. (If you listen to what I said, if you remember it, you will be poisoned, and you will miss your life. However, I have passed my experience of becoming a monk, I will explain the whole thing to you.) Therefore, all the great venerables, if you don’t talk about the practice and enlightenment, you can’t get rid of those who say that they are bound by the real law. (Why did the ancient sages not want to talk about their own practice? I told you today, it’s not right for you to follow my method to cultivate in the future, I only report my stupid way to you, you don’t follow it!) Yes, it’s true, there are great powers and seeds , do not come from the place of doing, there is no way to talk about it. There are also those who have never worked hard to say nothing, and there are also half-green and half-yellow people who are not confident enough to speak. (People's talents are different. Some people have good talents and have never studied Buddhism. You can understand it as soon as you listen to it; there are also some people who have not worked hard at all, but they understand it and cannot promote it; Just like a person travels, he only speaks words for one mile or two when he travels one mile or two mile. Only when he travels thousands of miles can he speak words for thousands of miles. You must have discerning eyes, and you must choose green and yellow before you get it. Otherwise, it is useless to come from the belly of the Buddha." From this section, we can see that after the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the gongan of Zen practice kung fu, the koan chosen by Shi Chengjin is worth looking at, it is not brilliant, but very plain. The next paragraph is about Zen master Gao Fengmiao’s koan. It was the Yuan Dynasty, when Lamaism entered China, and the era of Zen Buddhism came to an end.Gao Fengmiao knew that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty would ask him to come out, so he slipped away long ago, went to Tianmu Mountain in Hangzhou, and announced that he was "closed to death", and would not go down the mountain except to die.He also couldn't learn how to lose weight, and even though he couldn't lose weight, he died of a stomach problem in the end.The highest point of Zen is to know the dharmakaya, but whether the two bodies of retribution and transformation are achieved is a big question.But without the achievement of the dharma body, the view will not be clear, and it is impossible to talk about practice.That is why the Fifth Patriarch said to the Sixth Patriarch, "If you don't see your true nature, it will be useless to practice the Dharma." Because they all saw their true nature.Xue Yanqin's section is about the principle of seeing the dharma body, and it is thorough, and the principle of practicing death kung fu is also explained thoroughly, but the two bodies of retribution and transformation are not included. Koan of Zen Master Gaofengmiao: "The teacher changed clothes and entered Jingcili for three years to learn Zen. One day, his father and brother looked for him, but he ignored him. (When he became a monk at the age of 20, he worked hard to learn Zen, but his father and brother came to ignore him.) On the 22nd, please help me to break the relationship between bridges and order See where life comes from, and where does death come from. So you can’t get to the table, forget your words and body, or go to the toilet but come out alone, or send a letter and forget to put oranges [left is next to the 钅] and go. (Visiting Chan Master Duanqiaolun at the age of 22, and asked him to participate in Huatou, that is, he worked tirelessly day and night, sleepless and restless.) At the same time, the monk Xian said with emotion: I have already done the work of Foke, and if I can help it, I will be able to protect it day and night. Sincerely. (Fellow Taoist Shi Tong was moved by his spirit of hard work and volunteered to protect him.) Shi Xueyan lived in the Pagoda of Beijian [left is the stone next to it], and he happily held the incense in his hand. Fang asked about it and opened the closed gate. Get close again and again to the beginning, so that you can read words without words, and you will have nothing to do with them since then. (Visiting Xue Yanqin, he was kicked out as soon as he opened his mouth. After several times, he was taught to read Wuzihuatou.) Qinhu asked who dragged a dead body with you?Hit as soon as the sound has not ceased. (Chan Master Qin suddenly asked him who was dragging the dead body, and beat him before he could answer. Every time he did this, he became more sincere.) Nanming, who was on duty to visit, the master went to the double path to visit the hall for half a month. (Go to the meditation hall to meditate for half a month.) Occasionally, in a dream, I suddenly recalled what was said in the Broken Bridge Room: All dharmas return to one, where does one return to?Suspicion suddenly arises, and I can't sleep for three days and nights.One day Shaolin Ji (Dharma Patriarch's birthday), he went with the crowd to satirize the Three Pagodas, looked up and suddenly saw the Fifth Patriarch Yan Monk Zhen Zan said: "One hundred years and 36,000 dynasties, this is the Han Dynasty from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty (repeatedly, it turned out to be the Han Dynasty) This guy).Suddenly breaking the suspicion of dragging the dead body. (Enlightened!) He is twenty-four years old!Xie Xiayi Nanming (go to see Monk Xueyanqin).As soon as Qin saw it, he asked, who dragged a dead body here with you?The teacher drank it, and picked up the stick (the old monk saw him drink, grabbed the stick in his hand, and was about to hit him.) The teacher stopped and said, "I can't beat a certain Jia today." (You can't hit me today, you will hit the wrong person!) Qin said: Why can't you hit me?The teacher walked out with a flick of his sleeves. (That's how Xue Yanqin replied, in other words, it means that he has enlightened.) The next day, Qin asked: "Where does one return to if all dharmas return to one?"Shi Yun: The dog licks the hot oil pan. (This question is like a dog licking hot oil. The tongue sticks out, and the saliva is dripping. It’s too hot! Don’t lick it, it’s so delicious! I can’t bear to leave.) Qin said: Where did you learn this trick?Shi Yun: I just want the monk to be suspicious (swearing at Master, I just want you to be suspicious of me). Qinxiu went (the old monk ignored him), so he refused to let go. " "The next year, Jiangxin spent the summer (to Jiangxin Temple). One day, Qin asked: Is it still in charge when the day is so vast? Shi Yun: It is up to the master.Ask again: Are you the master in your sleep?Shi Yun: It is up to the master.Ask again: When you are asleep, you have no dreams, no thoughts, no seeing, no hearing, where is the Lord?The teacher was speechless. (It's over, I'm bored, I can't be the master. When I'm awake during the day, I know how to think about my heart. When it's time to lose my temper, alas! No, anger, get rid of it. Although it's painful to suppress, I can finally be the master. When dreaming, It’s amazing. But what about when you have no dreams and no thoughts? The master asked this question. Gao Fengmiao thought he had enlightened himself, so the master beat him with a stick. He grabbed the master’s stick and tilted his head Yes, so self-confident, I have nothing to say now.) Qin asked: From now on, I don’t want you to study Buddhism and Dharma, and I don’t want you to be poor in the past and the present, but only come to eat when you are hungry, and sleep when you are sleepy. When I came, I cheered up, and I felt that where the protagonist lived and lived. (The old monk is merciful, knowing that what he said to him before is useless, now he talks to him softly.) Bing Yindong then made up his mind, entered Lin'an Longxu, and swore to himself: "I will spend my whole life as a fool, and I will never forget it." To understand this move. " You haven’t realized this place, well, when you arrive at the Veterans General Hospital, once the oxygen is removed and you can’t breathe your last breath, where will you settle down?And you haven't?This place has not enlightened, Bai Xue!Recite Amitabha during the day, touch you once, Amitabha, it’s okay; push you, Amitabha, I haven’t lost my temper yet; when dreaming at night, I hate it!There is no Amitabha Buddha, and I still lose my temper in my dreams, and greed, hatred and ignorance come.Even if you can be the master in your dreams, where are you when you have no dreams and no dreams?Can't be the master anymore, the Buddha has learned in vain.A passage from the old monk, soft-spoken, how merciful, he himself has experienced it, we need to study, how did I fall asleep? How did you wake up?You said: I know how to fall asleep, you must have not slept at that time.You said you knew how to wake up, then you woke up early!This is a matter of science.Once this paragraph is clarified, we can start with "Where does life come from, and where does death go", then the six realms of reincarnation can come and go freely, the three realms and six realms can enter and exit at will, and hell can also play, it doesn't matter, as long as you have this ability.Therefore, Gao Feng made up his mind, made up his mind, and decided to understand this matter. "Because my roommate pushed the pillow and fell to the ground, it made a loud noise." The pillow fell to the ground, touch it!With a sound, he came to a complete understanding, and only then did he know where the protagonist was when he had no dreams and no dreams.Is the main character in the pillow?You go back and have a look. "I claim to be like seeing the great sage in Sizhou, and returning to my hometown from afar. It turns out that I'm just a person from the old days, not a place to act in the old days. (I'm still me, but I'm not what I used to be. It's completely different. My thoughts, behaviors, and actions are all different. .) In the ninth year of Longxu, firewood was tied up as a niche, (with a thatched tent) the wind pierced through the sun for moxibustion, in winter and summer, there was no fan, no furnace, thumping and milling every day, just to prolong the rest, when the snow accumulated no niche, ten days The rest of the road is cut off from fireworks, Xian said that he is dead, and when Ji can enter, the master is sitting at the banquet [left and next to you].” Sitting at the banquet [left and next to you] is entering meditation. These are some koans of Chan Master Gao Fengmiao.Those who learn Zen and do kung fu, pay attention to the five points mentioned above, which are related to learning Zen and doing kung fu. It is very important, especially now that many people like to talk about Zen. Zen is not about talking, but Zen is about cultivation. They all come from here.Although Matsu had an epiphany in his words, it was still based on his many years of meditation in the southern mountain Hengshan.Today's people can't subdue their legs, so why talk about subduing their hearts!这就是参禅、做功夫修定的真正榜样。但我坦白地下结论：就算能了法身，报、化二身还有问题。所以，中国有些学者讲，禅宗容易走入小乘的路线，这个小乘并不是说“行”上之小，连见地、修证、行门，都容易走上小乘路子。报、化二身要想圆满成就，可不容易。像高峰妙这种苦行、这种坚贞，尤其了不起的是同明朝许多高僧一样，都是在国破家亡之后，替中华民族保留了正气。他晓得以他当时的名气，元朝一定会来请他的，他赶快就跑。他的徒弟，很有名的中峰禅师，也听他的命令，不准出来做元朝的国师，皇帝来请都不去，连中峰禅师也躲掉了。 到了明朝以后，这个系统的大师才出来，这又是历史、文化、佛教史上的另一段公案。但看其精神，视其品格，都是不得了的人，我们现在望尘莫及。他们住破茅篷，平日捣点糜粉，能不死就算了。乃至大雪天，被雪封龛，十来天，路既不通，也不能举炊，人人以为他死了，结果过了十多天，雪停了，跑去一看，他还在入定，坐得正好呢！所以说，言下顿悟，那是古人，不是我们。 现在让我们继续瑜伽师地论卷第十三，本地分中三摩四呬多地第六之三。 讲修定：“复次，如世尊言，修静虑者，或有等持善巧，非等至善巧。”这是弥勒菩萨说的话，当然是无着菩萨的记录。 修定的人，定慧等持双修，以现在人的修法来讲，如禅密双修，或禅净双修，或止观、念佛双修等，是等持善巧。非等至善巧，是走专门一点的路子。 “广说如经，温（左为口旁）柁南颂：云何等持善巧？谓于空等三三摩地，得善巧故。”所谓等持，就是真正证到空，证到真正的性空境界。有些是真空，有些是假空。如道钦禅师所云，硬把念头压下去，看起来也觉得空，但那是假空，第六意识硬压下去，不是真的。 “云何非等至善巧？谓于胜处，遍处，灭尽等至不善巧故。”胜处，指最好的境界；遍处，空的境界有偏，不圆满；善巧是方便的意思。这是说，要进入那个境界就立刻进入，不似我们瞎猫撞到死老鼠，是碰上的。 “云何等至善巧？非等持善巧？谓于十种遍处等至，及无想等至。 “云何为住？谓善取能入诸三摩地，诸行状相，善取彼故，随其所欲，能住于定。于三摩地无复退失，如是若住于定，若不退失，二俱名住。” 什么叫住的境界？什么叫入定、住定、出定？前一段讲如何进入定的境界，进入定境后，如何能住在定的境界中。这要靠我们在知识理论上认识清楚，进入定的行（心理行为）状（定境的现状）。 “善取彼故，”入定、住定不是不着相，硬是有点着相，可是不是凡夫的着相，是住在那个定上的着相。你一定，当然是住相了。这个住相要“善取彼故，随其所欲，能住于定。”看你对哪一种定境喜欢，就住在哪个定境上，这个喜欢不是烦恼妄想的喜欢，是看我们现在的需要。 比方，如果今天上座，妄想杂念特别多，像道钦禅师讲的，又散乱，又昏沉，这个时候就要懂得用什么善巧，用什么方法，才能去掉散乱、昏沉。这里头，以中国文化讲，就有三种了，精、气、神三样不同，要检查出来，晓得今天散乱多、烦恼大，是否由生理来的？比如女人都有周期性的现象，要用什么方法才能使自己除去烦恼，进入安详的境界。其实男人同样有周期。可是不容易知道。 又比如肠胃吃了某一种东西，吃坏了，或是今天气脉引导不好，会烦躁得不得了，火大得很，恨不得连自己都杀掉。所以有人打坐会走入魔，像这种情形也差不多了。 用一种方法善巧调治，使能住进定境，就叫做对治法门。所以修行不是一味药，不是像八卦丹、万金油之类，样样毛病都可以用的，这是讲生理部分。有时候，是“精”的问题，也包括生理上的营养过多、或不足所引发的毛病。有时候是“气”的问题，所谓气脉对与不对，中行气、上行气、下行气、左右行气，种种等，因调节不好，影响到心肝脾肺肾，发生了问题。有时候是心理问题，就是“神”，因为受了打击，心境非常低沉，低沉是大烦恼。这一切都要晓得调剂，如果不知道调剂，每天做功夫，步步都是荆棘，都没有用，都是开倒车。