Chapter 59 Seven, verses

A few days ago, during a trip to Vietnam, I saw a picture album in the hotel, which contained verses by eminent Vietnamese monks.An eminent monk Dharma-named Daoxing, four verses of verses with the subject of emptiness, said: "There is dust and sand, and all emptiness is emptiness. Emptyness is like the moon in water. Don't dwell on emptiness and emptiness." Most of the verses of eminent monks can be comprehended, but cannot be conveyed in words: those who want to listen can comprehend them by themselves, sometimes even without saying a word, and those who can comprehend will naturally comprehend. Sakyamuni is the most famous example. .

In ancient times, Vietnam had a deep degree of Sinicization, and Buddhism was naturally deeply influenced by Buddhism in China.I once read books describing the words and deeds of the eminent monks of Zen, and read the four sentences of the eminent monk Hui Ji, and felt that they coincided with the meaning of the gatha of Taoism.Hui Ji survived from 807 to 883 A.D., and Dao Xing passed away in 1117. It can be inferred that Dao Xing was influenced by Hui Ji. (The year of existence of the Zen eminent monks is in AD, which is very funny, and I stopped writing and laughed for a long time.) Huiji's words are: If you want to have a heart, you can have no heart, and the heart without a heart is called true.

Most of the words of Zen masters are inscrutable. When I was reading "Zhiyuelu", I felt like I didn't know where I was.And the one who answered was Zhaozhou who was a big carrot.Calling the founding father Bodhidharma a certain Jia is even more a stroke of genius. These are said to be full of wisdom, of course, they are not understood by ordinary people of my generation. If you ask an expert, you are afraid that you will be beaten with a stick, so you can only feel puzzled.But the words of monk Huiji and Taoxing are not incomprehensible, as long as you read them a few times, you can always understand.

Don't think of emptiness and emptiness, it's true, and it's very interesting.What have you experienced?What I have realized is that only those who do not have emptiness and emptiness in their hearts, and do not put it in their mouths and put it in their hearts, will reach the state of emptiness and emptiness. However, since everything does not exist, how can there be a state of emptiness and completeness? Think for yourself slowly, it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, if you don’t understand, you understand!