Chapter 18 18. Lingnan

After Huineng left a poem outside Hongren's room, he climbed over the wall and left the Dongshan Temple wall. He set off at midnight and began his journey of escape. Before noon the next day, the widows, old people, children, disabled people, and criminals with a radius of hundreds of miles around Feng's Tomb Mountain all got the news: Huineng enlightened, got Hongren's approval, was persecuted by Shenxiu, brought Hongren's true Mantle, has escaped from Feng's Tomb Mountain.Some villages rely on pigeons for communication, some rely on little boys who can run fast on mountain roads, and some villages rely on the pain of a witch's breast to sense the message that a distant village wants to convey. Sometimes the spread of this kind of news is faster than the event. But also quickly.Before Huineng arrived in Jiujiang, some people said that they saw Hongren personally send Huineng to Jiujiang Station.The oldest old people collectively cursed that Hongren had no bones, and dared not admit that Huineng's poems reflected the greatest realization.The widows whose children have grown up seriously discussed, since there is nothing to worry about in the world, it is better to make an appointment to go to Chang'an, walk the Suzaku Avenue nine times, and then set themselves on fire at the gate of the palace, so that more people can know the truth.

At most, there were nearly a thousand people chasing and killing Huineng. They received very clear instructions to take back the mantle, send it back to Feng's Tomb Mountain, kill Huineng, and bury him on the spot.There are many theories about how Hui Neng escaped from hunting.One way of saying is that Hui Neng has been able to hide himself with the magic power of his mantle, and when Huineng passes by you, not only can you not see him, you can't even hear him, and you can't even smell him.The flaw of this statement is, after Huineng disappears, what will happen to the mantle?If the mantle cannot be invisible, then people should see the mantle running through the air held by an invisible hand.If the mantle can be invisible, what kind of mana can make the mantle invisible?Another theory is that Huineng taught the surrounding mountain people to make landmines, and the mountain people placed marks that Huineng could recognize on the landmines they made, and these marks could not be recognized by those who chased and killed Huineng.The most common saying is that after Huineng got the mantle, the Dharma became more refined to the highest level. When anyone caught up with him, he stopped, turned around, and signaled to his pursuers without saying a word. Take the mantle.Anyone who chased and killed Huineng saw Huineng's eyes and immediately realized his sin and the distance from the Buddha, and chose to turn around, disappear on the spot, go south with Huineng, or commit suicide. He found that the mantle was not moving at all, and it weighed more than a thousand pieces of gold. Huineng's body was invulnerable to swords and guns, and King Kong was indestructible.

Huineng fled to Caoxi in the south of the Lingnan, surrounded by the familiar childhood climate, the wind blowing through the body, without the chill.Hui Neng decided to hide himself among the mountains and rivers of Caoxi and the crowd.There were only five of the hundred Gaogouli monks who were around when they started fleeing. Of the ninety-five monks who died along the way, each of them killed an average of five and a half people who came to chase or intercept them. Seven years later, Tang Gaozong conquered Gao Gouli.At the turn of spring and summer, the Tang army advanced to Yaluzha, and the defenders in the cities of Kogouli either fled or surrendered.The Tang army entered the city of Pyongyang. On September 12, Gao Gouli's monk Xincheng opened the gate of the city. The Tang army rushed into the city, and Gao Gouli fell.

Sixteen years later, in the first year of Yifeng, Shenxiu, who was far away in Chang'an, heard the news of Huineng again.Hui Neng was promoted again to teach the Dharma, and slept with a widow surnamed Huang for the next three nights. After the Sixth Patriarch of Zen, there is no Seventh Patriarch because the mantle was never found.