Chapter 18 Postscript to "Introduction to Zen and Tao"

Yang Guanbei Twelve years ago, when I was on the way to Germany, I suffered from coronary heart disease suddenly and returned home.After reading a lot, those who don't understand the reason benefit the public, so I dabble in religious studies and read Buddhist scriptures.However, Buddhism is difficult to understand, especially in the world.Not only are the genres of translated rhetoric different, but the name and meaning are even more separated.As a friend of Houguo, I got to know Mr. Nan Shi Huaijin, and during the meeting, I felt like I had something to do with it.Since then, every Saturday afternoon, Mr. Dun has been invited to come to the dormitory to give lectures on Buddhism and the essentials of practicing enlightenment.At the beginning, from general Buddhism to the main points of various sects, even Sutra and Esoteric Buddhism, Zen and Taoism, all of them are comprehensive and comprehensive, and they are taught one by one.Every time Mr. randomly set up teachings and served as guides, so that Yu could get a glimpse of Xinzong and understand the original, which is very easy.Returning to the style of the Zen sect, which will cease to exist in the world, it is permissible to hold the Seven Zen Dharma Conferences at the beginning of every spring every year. There are quite a few people who benefit from it and know the way.

My old Mr. Chang is more than ten years old. People may wonder why he is respectful and honest in his deacon. Every time I quote Korean public teachers, it is against Confucianism.Kuang Shakya's disciples, such as Da Kasyapa, Subhuti, etc., are all older than Wen Buddha, sages and precepts, set an example and follow Kun, for learning and Taoism, they must first increase their pride, for fear of being ashamed of themselves.Kuang Wu has been studying the three teachings and studies for more than ten years since Mr. Kuang.Mr. Ran humbled himself as a herdsman and made friends with my generation. Although he has the benefit of Dharma milk, he usually treats himself as a friend and treats himself as a friend, and he is not a teacher.The profound knowledge of Mr. Wang is indeed worthy of being a contemporary man, which is admired by all knowledgeable people.Every time I ask him to make a comprehensive theory of the vast and boundless Buddhism, and to make a systematic discussion of the origin of China's five thousand years of culture and learning, I have failed to fulfill my wish due to the accumulation of dust in the world.From this spring to autumn, at the invitation of Liu Bairu's brother, Mr. Liu gave lectures on Buddhism, Taoism and Chinese culture at the Institute of Education, National Chengchi University.Part of the speech was also disclosed by the Dahua Evening News.Readers are eager to read the full text, so they post it.With joy in my heart, I donated 3,000 copies of the scriptures and printed them to promote the relationship between Chinese culture and Buddhism.Based on my long travels with Mr., Mr. Daoist thoughts, I can get a glimpse of one or two. The academic content of Buddhism and Taoism described in this book is only what he has learned in his life, and a small introduction is not enough to fully understand it. .However, the audio-visual of his orthodox academics, his thinking is in the right way, and his feelings of being kind to the world and benefiting people are vivid on the paper, so he dares not to be vulgar, and especially picks out the main points so that he can know the end of it.

In the turbulent times of the times, although the trend of Buddhist thought is expanding day by day, there are more and more reasoners, and fewer and fewer practitioners.Scholars do not tend to be fashionable, but regard it as the study of philosophical thoughts, that is, follow the line of late Buddhist scholars in Europe and America, and engage in textual research in Sanskrit and Pali, thinking that it is the right way to govern Buddhism.Who knows that the five-sealed Sanskrit is very different from the past to the present, not only the dialect transliteration and the inner meaning have changed greatly, but also the Sanskrit pods that have been translated for more than a thousand years in our country have disappeared. Inappropriate.Most of the Pali Buddhist classics of later generations are Theravada scriptures of Theravada, with gaps in time and errors in transmission. Although they can be used as references, they may not be sufficient evidence.What's more, the focus of Buddhism is to practice and hold evidence. The principles and interests mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures are all the bridges for proving the causes and conditions of major events.Mr. Jin talked about the part of Buddhism, explaining the profound in a simple way, randomly setting up teaching, focusing on the essentials of real cultivation and demonstration, extracting the essentials of Buddhism, and bringing it back to the heart of the method, aiming to be a ladder for beginners and a way to enter the Tao.As for the comparison of words and things, the language contains a wonderful purpose, but readers can understand the main idea if they are eager to learn and think deeply.

In the part about Taoism, tracing the origin of Chinese cultural and academic thoughts, there are many different views that are different from common views.For example, it repeatedly narrates the similarities and differences between the origin of the department of study and the department of "Book of Books".Refers to Chen Chunqiu, the Warring States Period, and the pre-Qin philosophers' academic thoughts, each due to the differences in the languages ​​of the regions, the traditional thoughts of the ancestors' clans, and the differences in the historical and geographical environments.Ming Yang's hermit thought and alchemist's academics are the origins of Taoist cultural thought.All of them have not been published by others, explaining the obscurity and obscurity of the past, and opening up the right thinking of later learning.If you lose the clear purpose of the alchemy, the mystery of the relationship between yin and yang and the physics of heaven and earth, those who are familiar with it may laugh and walk away, but there are only a few clues.Unfortunately, what is described in this book is limited by time, and the main points are not detailed, and it still does not fully satisfy our expectations.