Poem of transplanting rice [Five Dynasties Liang] First Edition: The hand of transplanting rice fills the field and looks down at the water.
A pure heart is the way, and retrogression is the progress.
Version 2: The rice transplant singer pinched the young crop Futian and looked down at the water in the sky.
Six clean roots make rice, backward is forward.
Extension: 1, version 1 Translation: When you look down when transplanting rice seedlings, you can see the blue sky and white clouds reflected in the rice fields.
When our body and mind are no longer polluted by external material desires, we can be in harmony with the Tao. On the surface, when transplanting rice, it is inserted backwards at the same time, but it has always been forward.
2. Version 2 Note: (1) Young crops: refers to rice seedlings.
(2) dog days: it is said that good deeds can be rewarded, such as sowing fields can be harvested.
(3) Six elements: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. Only by cleaning six roots can we learn to practice Buddhism, that is to say, cleaning the roots of seedlings is conducive to the growth of seedlings.
When you plant green seedlings in the ground with your hands, you can see the sky reflected in the water as soon as you lower your head.
Only when the roots of seedlings are intact can they grow into rice. When transplanting rice, I feel that I am retreating, but I am actually moving forward.
3. Brief analysis: This poem expounds the realm of meditation with the situation of retrogressive transplantation in real labor.
Water is like a mirror. People should consciously make their own nature clear and obvious from the moment of enlightenment, so that they can "be the six ways to be clean", so that their eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and heart will not be polluted by the six dusts of color, sound, fragrance, taste, touch and law, and they can always keep themselves clean, that is, the way and the way.
4. About the author: This is also called "Bao Monk". From the late Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties Hou Liang period, there was a monk named Changtingzi in Fenghua, Mingzhou (now Fenghua District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province), who was a monk in Hou Liang in the Five Dynasties. This is the incarnation of Maitreya Buddha or Maitreya Buddha. He is obese, frowning, paunchy, incoherent and sleeping everywhere. In his early years, he became a monk in Lin Yue Temple in Fenghua. He liked swimming in Xuedou Temple and preaching Buddhism there. Xuedou Mountain is therefore honored as "Maitreya Holy Land".
The monk in the cloth bag shows his chest and belly all day long and often laughs heartily. Moreover, they are humorous, intelligent, kind, optimistic and tolerant, and are deeply respected and loved by people. It is also called "this kind of behavior" because it is "the principle of all buddhas and the opportunity of all beings".
According to legend, Liang died on a rock in the East Temple Corridor on March 3rd, three years ago. Before he died, he Xie Shiyun said:
"Maitreya Buddha is really Maitreya Buddha, incarnating tens of billions, always showing people, but people don't know."
In some temples of Han Buddhism, Maitreya with a big belly (or a big belly bhikkhu) is based on this. In Buddhism, as a kind of expressive education, it means "a large quantity is a blessing", reminding the world to learn tolerance.
Because the image of such deeds is usually smiling, holding a cloth bag, with the intention of making money and gathering money, it is regarded as a god of wealth by folk believers.
The Biography of Song Monks first recorded Qi's life, saying that he was "cut in shape, wrinkled in abdomen, incoherent, sleeping everywhere." I often carry a cloth bag and bring a stick into the market. Begging for food in the market, all the fish in the sauce are imported, and a little food is put into a cloth bag. It's amazing to lie in the snow without snow.