Where are there no trees in Bodhi?

This poem can be found in the Tanjing written by Dunhuang. As for the origin of this poem, there is a clear record in the fourth to eighth sections of the Tanjing: Hongren, the fifth ancestor, "called all his disciples one day" and asked everyone to "write a poem". He also said, "If you get the gist", that is, "Fu Yi is as good as the law, which is an important thing for six generations." Shen Xiu, the last disciple of Hong Ren, wrote a poem in front of the door: "I am a bodhi tree, and my heart is like a mirror platform. Wipe it frequently to make it dust-free. " When Hong Ren learned of this, he "summoned the abbot" and said that "if you do this, you won't be in front of you" and "if you find the supreme bodhi, you won't be there", so he asked him to "write another poem". And "it's impossible to show off for a few days." Huineng's poems are directed at Shen Xiu's Five Fragrant Books. According to the altar sutra, Huineng couldn't read, so she first "asked someone to read" the beautiful melody, and then wrote this song "asked a scholar to write it at the Western Wall".

This poem, like that beautiful one, is different in principle in practice methods. Shen Xiu's song "No Love" made him lose the qualification of being a red man, but he became the founder of Beizong. Because Shen Xiu emphasized "being always clean", later generations called it "gradual revision school". Huineng's poetry is a complete denial of beauty, that is, subjective idealism is a complete denial of objective idealism, which directly grasps the key to "seeing nature as a Buddha" and is called "Epiphany School".

Huineng pointed out in the 20th section of the Tanjing: "Human nature is self-purification, and all laws are self-nature. To think of all evil things is to do evil; Think about all good deeds and cultivate them. " This is the basis of Huineng's epiphany theory. In his view, there is no insurmountable gap between "fools" and "wise men", "good people" and "wicked people", and between them and "Buddha". From "infatuation" to "enlightenment", it is only between one thought. This thought of "putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot" not only played a great role in the evolution of Buddhism in China, but also had a great influence on China's philosophical theory.