In fact, Yi Xiuge has a real prototype in Japanese history, that is, Yi Xiuzong Chun, a strange monk in Muromachi era in Japan. If you know the life experience of this Zen master, it is not difficult to see that there are some shadows of his life experience in the comics. Brother Yixiuge in the cartoon is a handsome and perfect image, but Yixiuzongchun in history made many crazy moves in his later years.
Monk genius
Zen master Yi Xiuzong Chunyu 1394 was born in Kyoto, Japan. His original name was Qianjuwan. The name Yixiu was given to him by his master, because he realized in his practice that "life is just a rest from a troubled world to a paradise".
He is not only a monk, but also a famous poet, calligrapher and painter. It is worth mentioning that he has always loved China culture, and his poems are all written in Chinese characters, which is also a major feature of him.
In fact, Yixiu was born in a prominent family. His father is Emperor Komatsu, and his mother is Fujiwara Zhao Zi from the Fujiwara family in the Southern Dynasties. Zhao Zi is very popular with the emperor, but she is an undercover sent by Fujiwara family, thinking about how to assassinate the emperor with hatred every day. When this motive was discovered by the emperor, Fujiwara escaped from the palace and hid in Sagano. At that time, she was pregnant.
On New Year's Day the following year, I took a rest according to my son. He is both a royal aristocrat and the son of a sinner. At that time, the generals in power sent him to ankokuji to become a monk in order not to make a break a scourge. He has never been treated as a prince, nor has he ever claimed to be a prince.
I have never seen my mother since I was a child, and I don't know my life experience. He has been very clever since he was a child. At the age of six, he became an assistant to the elders in the temple and was often taught Zen by the elders. At the age of twelve, he began to study Vimalakīrti Jing and poetry.
At the age of fifteen, he officially became a monk after a break. When he was a teenager, he was already interested in helping the poor and uneducated. That is, in this year, he sang, "The guest sleeves are deeply in love, flowers bloom and flowers fall, and the world is clear?" A touching poem, "The wind blows on the pillow, the dream of spring is unknown", became famous in one fell swoop, and everyone knows that Yi Xiuzong Chun is a rare great talent.
When I was sixteen, I entered Jianning Temple in Kyoto. This is a prestigious temple. Many people come here to pray and make wishes, and the incense in the temple is strong. However, in the eyes of a break, the monks in the temple blindly pursue fame and fortune, flatter the high facade and forget the real practice. This kind of atmosphere makes Yixiu very disgusted. He only concentrates on studying Buddhism and Taoism and learning Chinese poetry, and has no intention of clinging to dignitaries as their agents.
He likes the quiet and elegant feeling in Tao Yuanming's poems, and his own poems also reflect his pure faith everywhere. The scene mentioned in the poem makes people feel like a breeze. The combination of poetry and Zen is to tell the truth of the world.
A few years later, after taking a break from Jianning Temple, Muming went to the depths of the forest to find the famous monk Hua Chui. After many tests, he entered the gate of Hua Zuo and lived a hard life to experience his heart and understand Zen.
During that time, he sat on a boat in the lake, studied Buddhism in the sunset, and gradually realized the ultimate goal of meditation-returning to the true self. Later, when Hua Zuo died, my brother who had a short rest began to build a magnificent meditation hall, and claimed to be the heir to Master's mantle.
This makes Yixiu very dissatisfied. He thought it was against the nature of monks. It was also from this time that Yixiu gradually broke away from the group of other disciples. At the age of thirty-four, the great genius of Buddhism began to travel around the world and began his free career.
Crazy in old age
Zen master Yi Xiuzong was crazy in his middle-aged and old age, and his behavior was surprising. He devoted himself to practice in his early years, but in his later years, he was addicted to wine and meat and frequented brothels, which was inconsistent with the image of a Taoist Zen.
At that time, Japanese Zen did not stipulate that women should not approach, but stipulated that they should not drink alcohol and eat meat. Besides poetry and Zen, I also dabbled in fair-weather women and gave myself a nickname "Dream Girl" to show my pleasure. When others are talking, he is unmoved, and he often makes wild remarks in public, which makes many people think that this monk is really crazy.
When he was in his forties, he once openly took a famous prostitute to his room in the temple and talked and laughed until dawn. The other monks were surprised and kept asking questions. After a short rest, he simply said, "A famous prostitute talks about love, and a monk talks about Zen, which has the same effect." On weekdays, he admits that he is obscene in poetry, wine and sex. These performances, in the eyes of many people, really obliterate the good memories of childhood animation.
There were countless women in his later years, and what people talked about was his love affair with a blind girl. According to legend, Yixiu met a blind girl at the age of 78. She fell in love with Sen at first sight and fell in love with a bang.
As a poet, he also wrote many erotic poems for Sen, so bold and explicit that even secular poets dare not write like that. But his "madness" is not really madness, but out of frankness, out of a dissatisfaction and criticism of bad habits in the world. He just showed this dissatisfaction to the fullest and explained the true meaning of innocence.
Once, a man with a lot of debts came to him for help. He insisted that the man marry his little daughter first, and then he would help. The man had no choice but to agree to his request. He held a grand wedding and received a lot of money with gifts. Afterwards, he gave all the money to the man to pay his debts.
In his later years, he witnessed the general's disregard for the sufferings of the people, building great projects, drinking and having fun with his wives and concubines, and writing many poems to insinuate and reprimand the general; When he saw that the monks attached themselves to powerful people and cared only about fame and fortune, he criticized them in public. These are not all his candor.
At the age of eighty-one, Yi Xiu received an order from the emperor to preside over the Dade Temple and rebuild the temple destroyed by the war. After a period of rest, he had no intention of taking over such things, but he devoted himself to directing the renovation of Dade Temple. Eventually, he broke down from overwork and died in buddhist nun at the age of 88. His life as a Buddha and a demon ended.
Erase childhood memories?
It is more appropriate to describe Yi Xiuzong Chun with the phrase "no madness, no existence". He himself said that it is easy to enter the Buddhist world but difficult to enter the demon world. There seems to be only a thin line between Buddha and demon. Entering Buddhism is practice, and entering the demon world is countless sufferings. From Buddha to demon, from demon to Buddha, in a sense, it is a kind of enlightenment.
Chuancheng, a famous Japanese writer, said that the practice of rest was actually a spiritual resistance to Japan at that time. Indeed, a spirit of breaking has leapt above the secular world, mocking the evil of this world and sympathizing with the suffering of this world with a mentality of love and freedom.
Yixiu is one of the most easily criticized monks in Japan. Many people also said that after learning what happened to this monk, they simply erased their childhood memories of the cartoon "A Smart Rest", but is this really the case?
Looking back on the ending of the film, I chose to leave the temple to travel, be an ascetic and say goodbye to everyone before I left. At that time, I felt that the ending was very sad. Now I feel that it is not a bad thing to leave for a while. A real master of breaking up is a spiritual yearning for freedom, and ultimately it can't escape this ending.
Since the beginning and end of life can't be decided, why not decide the middle road for yourself? Taking a break in a temple is like being locked in a cage and living an ascetic life, which is bound to be much more natural and unrestrained. The ending of the cartoon is just a spiritual mapping of Yi Xiuzong Chun.
A broken madness may be that he sees the world too thoroughly. In any case, his extraordinary personal charm will remain in people's memory forever, and "a clever rest" is just a deep memory.