Back then I went to a temple in Sichuan and saw a couplet:
The mountains are far apart, the water is gurgling, and the white clouds are urging the calf to return
The wind is raining The yellow leaves are fluttering and the children are crying
?The couplet is good and the words are well written. Who wrote this? It was written by Zen Master Poshan Haiming, and he also made the couplet. So I read calligraphy, and I read the calligraphy written by Patriarch Chen Tuan, "The horse opens to the sky, and the dragon is among the people of Qi Yi." . The characters of those immortals and Buddhas are really different! This couplet was good, but unfortunately it no longer exists.
?"The mountains are vastly different, the water is gurgling, and the white clouds urge the calf to return." This is the education of Buddhism. Each method is to guide you to return home and become a Buddha. The calf is running around. Pull the cow back, bring back this thought, and return to the original body, which is bright and pure. "The wind is blowing, the rain is falling, and the fluttering yellow leaves are still crying." The realm of the words is really good. The Patriarch of Poshan was a man of great enlightenment.
?Zhang Xianzhong went to Sichuan, but the Poshan Patriarch came to see Zhang Xianzhong. Among his disciples, the most protective one was Qin Liangyu, a famous female general in Sichuan. She fought against Zhang Xianzhong in eastern Sichuan, which is now Chongqing. aside. In eastern Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong killed too many people. Master Po Shanming said, "No, I want to see him." Qin Liangyu said, No, Master, you are a monk, he will kill you. Master Po Shanming said, even if he kills me, I will go to see him and tell him not to kill anyone. As a result, he went alone. When Zhang Xianzhong saw it, he said, "You're here! Very good! What's the matter, monk?" He said, "Stop killing people!" Zhang Xianzhong said, "Okay!" One condition, if you eat meat, I won't kill anyone. "Poshan Ming said, bring the meat! Eat it on the spot, Zhang Xianzhong said, I won't kill him.
? Poshan Haiming, a Zen master, when he was twenty-three years old, lived in Huangmei Potou Mountain for three years in order to realize Taoism. After three years of trying his best, he still didn't realize the truth. Finally, he decided to take a period of seven days to obtain the evidence. After four or five days, the energy in his legs became clearer and he felt as if he was floating in the clouds when he walked. , ignored him, but he had not yet understood. This time, he became cruel and stood on the cliff and said: "Whether you understand or not, your life depends on it." "If you don't realize it today, you may as well die! After that, he entered the realm where human and state are one and the same. He saw the flat land in front of him and there were no cliffs at all. He raised his feet to walk, which was walking incense. As a result, He lost his footing and fell to the bottom of a cliff. He broke his foot and became a cripple. After all, the cliff was still a cliff.
He later became enlightened and built Shuanggui Hall in what is now Chongqing. I went there. Passed. This couplet was written by him. After reading this couplet... we like literature, but the writing is so cool! This is an eminent monk, not what you are doing now! The calligrapher who painted graffiti.
? - Lecture 5 of Nan Huaijin's "The Beginning and End of Life"
After three years of trying, he still failed to achieve enlightenment. , regardless of life and death, entering the state of death, it is not the Tao. How did Zen Master Poshan Haiming finally achieve enlightenment?
Dare to make such a determination on the edge of the cliff: enlightenment or not, life depends on it today? . It will only happen sooner or later. This is not about sacrificing oneself to the Dharma. It is about making a great vow, and the Dharma protector will take care of it.