To understand a person, we should know his life experience+background of the times. Only in this way, he surpassed 95% of the general public. "He is an all-rounder once in a century. He is an immortal. He had everything before he was 39, and he gave up everything after he was 39." Ask yourself, can we ordinary people do it? As far as I know, there are only two things you can do, one is forced to do nothing, and the other is invincible in the world (very comprehensive and omnipotent)
Second, Master Hongyi is very real
The details are as follows: 1. Once, Xia Mianzun read an article about fasting in a Japanese magazine, saying that fasting is a "renewed" cultivation method of body and mind. Since ancient times, great religious figures such as Shi Ying, Ye Su. It is said that fasting can give birth to great spiritual strength, and the methods of implementation are listed. Li Shutong decided to practice it after listening to it, so he took advantage of the winter vacation in 1916 to go to the West Lake Tiger Run Dinghui Temple to practice it. After 17 days of fasting experience, it was good. He changed his name to Li Ying with the meaning of "being able to be a baby", and at the same time, he also had a good impression on the quiet life of the temple, which can be said to be the recent cause of his becoming a monk. After fasting, he wrote the word "Linghua" as a gift to his student Zhu Sudian; Give Shen Fu the diary of fasting, and give Xia Mianzun all kinds of inscriptions during fasting. Since then, although he still teaches at school, he has been studying the scriptures and offering Buddha statues. After the New Year, in 1917, he often went to Tiger Run Dinghui Temple to learn the listening method.
The details are as follows: Yu Pingbo once said: "Mr. Li did do the same thing: he was a childe when he was a teenager, like a handsome childe; Be a celebrity in middle age, like a romantic celebrity; Do drama, like an actor; Learn oil painting, like an artist; Learn the piano like a musician; Run a newspaper, like an editor; Be a teacher, like a teacher; Be a monk, like a monk. However, it is more than like? What he pursue all his life is a word "truth". Because of the truth, the son is graceful, and because of the truth, the monk is solemn.
Third, Master Hongyi is really enlightened and loves calligraphy.
Master Hongyi is versatile. After "from art to religion", he abandoned his talents, but his calligraphy did not waste. Most of the books written are Buddhist names or scriptures, and there are many warnings about life. He occasionally uses seal script to write Buddhist names, and often uses regular script to write Buddhist language and scripture collections. There are various forms of works, such as couplets, screens, vertical axes, horizontal drapes, and books for copying Buddhist classics.
His regular script "The Monument to Zhang Menglong" in the Northern Wei Dynasty opened; Lishu is also a thick road, but it is not often made; Seal script has visited Shi Guwen of Qin State, Carved Stone on Yishan Mountain of Qin Dynasty, and Tianfa Shenbei of Soochow in Three Kingdoms. He used seal script as a book, all of which were small seal scripts.
Xia Mianzun said that Master Hongyi "wrote every morning on weekdays" when he was a layman, and he stopped eating at Dinghui Temple on the annual leave of the solar calendar in the year when he became a monk. "Writing is still a regular course, and the words written in three weeks include Wei Bei, seal script and official script, and his writing ability is not weaker than usual" ("Master Hongyi became a monk"). Ye Shengtao said: "Master Hongyi has worked hard on calligraphy. In Mr. Xia Mianzun's place, he saw many achievements in calligraphy, and he copied all the inscriptions, writing like anything. This is probably because he has done western paintings. " (Ye Shengtao: "Master Hongyi's Calligraphy")
After 1931, Master Hongyi's practice became deeper and deeper, and his regular script bid farewell to the old portal, which changed thoroughly: the shape was slender, slightly Lian Bi, plain, ethereal, harmonious and quiet, and elegant. His later calligraphy, "sometimes a bit as naive as that written by children, but on the one hand it is primitive and on the other hand it is skillful", and "it is unpretentious, and the artistic conception is implicit outside the pen and ink, so the more you read it, the more interesting it becomes" (The Calligraphy of Master Hongyi).
Master Hongyi's understanding of calligraphy in his later years was confessed in his letter to the Buddhist monk Dong Han in 1941: "The words of a rotten person are plain, quiet and easy to escape." "The brushwork, brushwork, structure and verve of calligraphy and painting that ordinary people pay attention to, as well as the school of a tablet and a post, are all excluded, and they will never try to figure it out with their heart."
finally, five statements about "the intersection of sadness and joy".
1. Everyone is familiar with Master Hongyi's masterpiece, which is the famous word "the intersection of sadness and joy". What is "sadness"? Why "sad"? What is "Xin"? Why "Xin"? What is "the intersection of sadness and joy"? Why are there "mixed feelings of sadness and joy"? These problems eventually became unsolved.
Among all the explanations about the intersection of sadness and joy, Professor Qian Renkang of Shanghai Conservatory of Music is the most convincing: "Sadness is the distress of all sentient beings, and" joy "is the joy of being relieved". This is really in line with Master Hongyi's state of mind.
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I don't agree with this view. This view is only agreed by most people. In the previous paragraph, it was said that "these problems will eventually become unsolved"
2. Actually, Master Hongyi The most touching thing is the last full stop, which symbolizes the end and perfection of Master Hongyi's life.
"the intersection of sadness and joy" comes from volume 6 of the Shurangama Sutra at the top of the Giant Buddha: "Ananda adjusts her clothes. Clap your hands in the crowd. The mind is round and clear. Sadness and joy mingle. Want to benefit all beings in the future. "
In order to guide people to understand the true meaning of "the intersection of sadness and joy", Master Hongyi annotated the words "seeing the scriptures". That is to say, Master Hongyi realized at his deathbed that "seeing Buddha and hearing Dharma, testifying without life" described in Guan Jing reached the highest realm of life beyond life and death.
3. Master Hongyi's "intersection of sadness and joy" before his death is beyond the reach of us mortals, and "Seeing the Buddha and hearing the Dharma, there is no life after testifying" in Guan Jing is a realm of life that we mortals cannot comprehend. At that time, he died at the age of 63 in the Yat Ching Room of Wenling Nursing Home in Buerci, Quanzhou. On my deathbed, I also wrote the words "the intersection of sadness and joy", celebrating my liberation and mourning the distress of all beings.
4. The word "the intersection of sadness and joy" is good. I think it is only part of what Li Shutong wants to express, mainly the meaning of the word. The intersection of sadness and joy is a summary of his life and draws a full stop for his life. Sadness and joy are relative and intersection, which is a summary of his first half and second half, before and after becoming a monk. -----------------personally, I agree with the viewpoint. Because Master Hongyi's near-death experience hasn't started yet, I can't see so much, can I? It should be that he summed up his life+state of mind at that time
The theme in his masterpiece is "the intersection of sadness and joy", with the words "seeing the classics" as the note. Viewing Sutra is the abbreviation of Buddha's Views on Infinite Life Sutra, and it is one of the "Pure land three" to explain the pure land of bliss for Sakyamuni Buddha. The other two are Buddha's Views on Infinite Life Sutra and amitabha sutra.
5. The word "the intersection of sadness and joy" does not exist in Guanjing, but it can be found in Volume 6 of the Shurangama Sutra at the top of the Giant Buddha: "Ananda straightened her clothes and folded her hands in the crowd. The heart is round and bright, and the sorrow and joy are mixed. If you want to benefit all sentient beings in the future, you will pay tribute to the White Buddha. " I want Master Hongyi to be familiar with the classics of the Confucian Classics and write "Seeing and Observing the Classics" on purpose, which does not mean that "the intersection of sadness and joy" comes from "Observing the Classics", but tells us that the realm of "being" at the end of life is the same as the scene of the Elysium in "Observing the Classics". Perhaps, this realm of sadness and joy can't be expressed by words, so it is marked "see the classics". This unique handwriting, with a small format, many thirsty pens and no seal, is very different from Master Hongyi's properly arranged books in the past. However, the "intersection of sadness and joy" also tells the whole story of compassion for all living beings, joy in their own death and joy in leaving the pain, so this farewell paper has a unique power to shake people's hearts.