Chapter 60 Chapter 60 Xiao Xi Liao's verses become a holy ancestor, the big news bluntly welcomes the prosperous age

Shenxiu was aggrieved... Duifang, Huineng, children. The child recites the Shenxiu gatha. Huineng asked curiously, "Master, whose gatha is this?" The child proudly said: "You are ignorant. Master Hongren said that life and death are important matters. If you want to teach the method of clothing, you should ask your disciples to write a gatha. If you write it well, you will pass it on as the sixth generation ancestor. Venerable Shenxiu wrote these lines on the South Corridor, and the master asked everyone to recite them, and also asked us to practice according to this verse, so as not to fall into the evil realm. He also said that it is very beneficial to do as others say! "

Huineng: "Master! I also want to recite this verse, so that I can have a future life. I have been chopping firewood and stepping on the wheel for more than eight months, and I have never been to the hall. Master, can you take me there? Look before the verse!" Child: "Let's go!" On the wall, there are verses, believers and monks are whispering Shenxiu verses. Huineng looked at the person standing next to him looking at the wall in embarrassment, "Master... Huineng, Huineng is illiterate, can you read it for Huineng?" Jiangzhou Biejia (only a little lower than the prefect of the state) Zhang Riyong: "There are four sentences, the Tao is 'The body is a bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror stand. Always wipe it diligently, so as not to stir up dust.'"

Huineng: "That's right, Huineng also has a verse, I want Biejia to write it down for me!" Everyone: "You can also write gatha, this is rare!" Huineng: "If you want to learn the true meaning of the Supreme Bodhi, you should not underestimate us beginners. The inferior people have the upper and upper wisdom, and the superior have the wisdom of innocence. If you underestimate others, you will commit immeasurable and boundless crimes." Everyone was amazed, Tsk tut was amazed, Zhang Riyong saw the strange language of this liaozi, so he said with a smile: "You just speak your gatha, and I will write it for you. If you really get the law, you have to save me first, don't forget Already!"

Under the eyes of everyone, Huineng recited the true meaning of this sensational and famous verse: No Bodhi tree, nor stand mirror. There is nothing, where is the dust. Empty and empty, it is for the original nature, originally without the nature of mind, where can the dust be aroused? After reading it, everyone turned pale with shock, and said to each other, "It's amazing!" "Wonderful!" There was a commotion, Huineng was afraid that someone would murder him for his clothes, so he immediately took off his shoes and wiped the handwriting with the soles of the shoes.However, the gatha has already come out, and everyone is scrambling to pass it on.The Fifth Patriarch learned that he came to Duifang to see him and saw him pounding rice, so he suddenly pulled out his staff and hit him on the back.

One hit is three hits. Others didn't show any special care for the Liaozi, but gloated over it.Huineng didn't dodge either, and continued with his work. The third watch, Huineng, the Fifth Patriarch, and the meditation room. The Fifth Patriarch understood and passed on the mantle to Huineng, who told Huineng to run away quickly.In order to escape, Huineng boarded a boat from Jiujiang Station (Hubei Huangmei Waterway Station) and escaped, and was hunted down all the way.Three years later, Huiming fled to Mengshan, Yuanzhou, where he settled down and became legalized.Later, when Huineng arrived in the territory of Caoxi, Guangdong, a group of villains followed closely. Fortunately, the monks were also brave enough to fight, so they mixed with a group of hunters.

The fifth patriarch, Master Hongren, passed away as early as the first year of Emperor Gaozong's Shangyuan (674 AD), but the sixth patriarch has no whereabouts, but the mantle is there, and there is nothing he can do about it. Fifteen years later, Huineng suddenly realized that I should not escape here to survive, but should live to spread the Dharma.So, he packed his luggage and went to Faxing Temple in Guangzhou.The disciples of Faxing Temple are listening carefully to the lecture. The speaker is the famous Master Yinzong. In Faxing Temple, the wind blows and the flag moves. A monk pointed to the flag fluttering in the wind and said, "The wind moves."

A monk pointed to the place where the flag was flying and said, "The flag is moving." For a while, the monks were arguing endlessly. At this time, an unattractive man stood up and said with a Lingnan accent: "It's not the wind, it's not the banner, the heart of the benevolent is moved." After saying that, the crowd was astonished, and Master Yinzong was even more frightened. He immediately realized that this person was extraordinary, and invited him to the upper seat.Huineng went up with the burden. In order to test his wisdom, Yinzong repeatedly challenged him, but Huineng resolved them one by one with simple and ingenious words.In the end, Master Yinzong asked: "The traveler must not be an ordinary person. I have heard for a long time that the Sixth Patriarch came from Huangmeinan. Could it be that the traveler is the same?"

Huineng nodded. The crowd was horrified, and thousands of people gathered in Faxing Temple to listen to the teaching of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng. In the second year of Yifeng (677 A.D.), a man named Wei Chu (the governor of Shaozhou) heard about this legend.He was overjoyed, and immediately led more than 30 officials and dozens of Confucian scholars to the mountains without stopping to invite Huineng to give lectures at the Dafan Temple in the city.Later, Huineng went to Baolin Temple (Nanhua Temple, Guangdong) in Caoxi to promote Buddhism, and he taught for thirty-seven years. At that time, Huineng's senior brother, Shenxiu, also became the master of a generation.

Shenxiu is the head of the Northern School, and the believers in Chang'an and Luoyang are all his disciples. Huineng presided over the Southern Sect, and the vast southern region was all Huineng's believers. However, these two people who are supposed to be incompatible with each other have always had tolerance and compassion that transcend the world.Shenxiu advocates "gradual enlightenment", while Huineng advocates "sudden enlightenment". Although the two paths are different, the ultimate nirvana is the same.Thirty years later, in the first year of Shenlong (AD 705), Wu Zetian, who has always loved Buddhism, wished very much that she could see the Sixth Patriarch and listen to the teachings of the Sixth Patriarch.

Shenxiu recommended Huineng. Shenxiu is already ninety years old. He is famous as a teacher in the capital, and he is known as "the master of the two capitals and the master of the three emperors". Wu Zetian sent an invitation letter to Huineng, but Huineng refused to go. Shenxiu saw that her junior brother would not come, so she personally wrote a letter to invite her, with sincere words.The messenger who sent the letter went with the old man's letter. When he saw Huineng, Huineng still insisted on going.He told the envoy: "I am ugly. If people in the north see it, I am afraid it will be very bad for our Dharma. Moreover, the teacher asked me to teach the Dharma here because I have a predestined relationship with the south. I cannot resist it." .” Wu Zetian had no chance to see Huineng, and in this year, at the age of eighty-two, she ordered:

Go to the title of Emperor, and call him the Great Sage Queen of Zetian. The Wang and Xiao clans and the relatives of Chu Suiliang, Han Yuan and Liu Xun all pardoned him. After Li Xian was restored, he changed his name to Baolin Temple as Zhongxing Temple. It was rebuilt by Wei Chu, the governor of Shaozhou, and given to Faquan Temple. One day, Huineng suddenly said: "I'm leaving (I'm going to go)." After saying that, he passed away, and the whole room seemed to be filled with a strange fragrance for a moment, and a white flying line fell from the sky and landed in the forest next to the temple. The whole forest is reflected in white.The singing of birds and the howling of animals are vivid.On the second day, monks from all over the world gathered together.Huineng's shrine and mantle were transported to Caoxi together. Originally, this was just a passing away. But today, Huineng is still there, and people can still see his true face with their own eyes. People discovered that the real body of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng was neither bad nor rotten. The real body was preserved in a fixed frame. After more than a thousand years, the real body is still lifelike.Today's Sixth Ancestor Hall is full of incense.The inheritance of civilization is like incense, endless.The avatar of the Sixth Patriarch has never suffered any catastrophe for thousands of years, even during the Japanese invasion of China. The Japanese were extremely suspicious of the falsification and wanted to dissect it with a bayonet, but they were afraid of the Buddha.Therefore, the Japanese only dug a small hole behind them with a scalpel, and when they saw internal organs, they were shocked, immediately sewed it up, and worshiped. Unfortunately, the "Cultural Revolution" came. During the "Cultural Revolution", the Red Guards pulled out the Sixth Patriarch's body and paraded through the streets.They built an iron pot on the sixth patriarch's head, with the word "bad guy" written on it, and dug out all the stomachs and intestines of the sixth patriarch, and kicked his ribs and backbone.All that remained of the Sixth Patriarch was a tattered shell and a head. Some people began to shout slogans, saying that the bones in the ground were pig bones and dog bones, and vowed to eradicate all feudal superstitions. Master Shengyi in Hong Kong made people risk their lives to take pictures.People buried the real body of the Sixth Patriarch in the soil and preserved it until the "Cultural Revolution" passed. Monk Foyuan said: "When the Sixth Patriarch's spiritual bone was taken out, because it had been buried in the soil for more than ten years, and the south was humid, the ribs had become mildewed, but they were still in a block shape. The spine was more damp, and it was not as good as it was when it was buried. Dantian The spiritual bones of the patriarchs were even worse than before. I took the spiritual bones of the two patriarchs back to my house, dried them with charcoal and wiped them clean, and connected the spine and ribs with a whole piece of sandalwood. After sticking it on the sandalwood, put it into the real body in the same way. Seal it with silk cloth and lacquer outside, and engrave it on the sandalwood to record the cause and effect. Sandalwood powder was mixed with sandalwood powder and placed in the chest of the Sixth Patriarch. At that time, I cried loudly and vowed to protect the real body of the Sixth Patriarch for life. His spiritual bones were buried in the back mountain, and they were damaged by this. I have not done my duty of protection in this matter, and I feel extremely uncomfortable. I can only take care of the permanent residence more carefully in the future, and protect the Sixth Patriarch even if I sacrifice my life." The Sri Lankan has gone, and what is left to us, we should cherish it. Mr. Qian Mu once said that the citizens of a country, especially those who claim to have knowledge above the level, should know a little about the past history of their country. Moreover, in this little knowledge, there is also a kind of warmth and respect for the past history of the country.He will not hold a kind of extreme nihilism towards history, and will not feel that we are standing at the highest apex of previous history, and will blame all our own sins and weaknesses on the ancients. We should believe that every country can hope to develop only when its citizens meet more and more of the above-mentioned conditions. In the year before the sixth patriarch passed away, that is, in AD 712, many things worth talking about happened. First, Song Zhiwen, the emperor with bad breath, died of depression. Before he died, he visited Du Shenyan on the sickbed. Du Shenyan saw a large number of writers who came to visit him, and said to everyone with compassion: "I am really for you." I’m sad, I’m not dead, your articles will never have a bright future, I’m dead, I guess you’ll die happy. But, I, Du Shenyan, is so handsome and talented, I’m afraid there will be no successors after I die!” But Du Shen Wrong words. Second, Comrade Du Shenyan, who claimed to push forward three hundred years and backward three hundred years, had a grandson, but Comrade Shenyan could not be overjoyed (deceased), his son Du Xian was overjoyed , thinking that his son should have a nice name, so he named it Du Fu.The so-called Fu refers to the handsome guy.Then, Du Xian was so uncomfortable that he even chose a word for his son, saying "Zi Mei", do you know what "Zi Mei" is?May as well tell you, that still means a handsome guy! Third, in Meizhou, Sichuan, a young man skipped school and came to the foot of Elephant Ear Mountain, where he saw an old woman grinding a pestle.The boy asked strangely: "What are you doing?" The old woman said: "Make needles!" The boy said: "Is it possible?" Rolling, howling, and gnashing teeth, I went back to study.The old woman's surname was Wu, and later the young man became a celebrity. His name was Li Bai. Fourth, Tang Ruizong Li Dan abdicated to his son Li Longji, and since then began China's greatest era - Kaiyuan prosperity.Poetry Tang Dynasty is coming, please don't get too excited. From Li Xian's enthronement to Huineng's death, there was only seven years in between. What made things happen so quickly?What is it that made Li Dan willingly give way to Li Longji?Is it a trick of God, or a coincidence of fate?Why did the prosperous Kaiyuan become a fond memory of the entire Eastern world?Now, why are the Chinese still called Tang people?Is it a coincidence of fate, or a trick of God?