1, this sentence comes from a poem by Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism. Original text: "Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not a stage. There's nothing. Where is it?
Make dust. "
2. About the author: Huineng (638-7 13), a monk in the Tang Dynasty. The common surname is Lu. He lost his father at the age of three and his family was poor. It took him a little longer to cut wood.
Adopt a mother to live. At the age of twenty-four, he left his mother to become a monk, and went to visit Master Hong Ren, the fifth ancestor of qi zhou. As a beginner, you should work with others.
Serve, step on rice. Later, because he wrote a poem about Buddhism, he was praised by Hong Ren and instructed him to pay for clothes, becoming the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism. Because Buddhism at that time
The internal competition for ancestral status is fierce. Huineng was in distress many times, and finally hid among hunters and lived in seclusion for fifteen years.
After forbearance, Huineng began to preach the law and receive the precepts.
3. Interpretation of poetry: "Bodhi has no trees": Bodhi is a kind of consciousness. What trees are there? If there is a tree, then Bodhi becomes something, not something.
Insist. Bodhi had nothing. You said you realized it, but what does it look like? Is it cyan? Yellow? Red? White? you
Tell me. Bodhi has no trees. Look at it. It is invisible. Huineng means "a mirror is not a stage": you say your heart is like a mirror.
Taiwan Province, there is no Taiwan Province. If there is Taiwan Province, it will be persistent. As the saying goes,' You have to have no home, but you have to have a heart'. How can there be Taiwan Province?
And then what? "There was nothing": there was nothing, no appearance, no picture, no form, so there was nothing at all.
It's nothing. "Where does the dust come from?" Since there is nothing, where does the dust come from? There is no place to live.