Appreciation of Zen Poems in Ode to the Sky-high Price of Five Kings in Dongshan

Ode to five kings and five ministers, the fifth song

Dongshan good price

And [1]:

Who dares make peace?

Everyone wants to get out of the way,

Go back to charcoal and sit down.

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In the final stage of "two-way learning"

I did everything I had to do, and then

Everything is the best arrangement.

What I think, what I think and what I do.

There is nothing but good, evil, truth and falsehood.

Who can accompany me in this situation?

When many practitioners want to transcend.

I am safe in the dark.

Be the most ordinary person.

Analysis and appreciation

Five people with good prices in Dongshan said that the final state is "sitting in charcoal" and returning to ordinary, plain and ordinary. It is really "the beginning is the end, the beginning is the end", which makes people feel complicated about the wonderful arrangement of life in the universe.

Sitting in the charcoal, surrounded by darkness, is not like the brilliant atmosphere of "I have a pearl, which has been dusty for a long time, and now it is dusty and full of light, breaking the waters of Chung Shan Man".

Sitting in this charcoal is absolutely inaction. In language expression, it compares the promising color with absolute darkness.

Dongshan Haojia once said: "One thing is to rely on the sky and the ground. Black as paint, commonly used. "

This is his explanation of sitting on charcoal. In short, people who have just practiced are great, and the longer they practice, the greater they become. A newly enlightened person is simply a superman, and only a perfect Buddha is just an unobtrusive black charcoal!

Finally, it should be noted that although later generations often regard the Five Theories in this practical stage as an important idea of a good price in a cave, it is only convenient to say that if scholars carry out complex philosophical argumentation and ideological deduction on the Five Theories, it will greatly violate the fundamental spirit of Zen.

Auspicious yuanshi county suddenly realized when she saw the bright stars and moons in the middle of the night! His teacher Tian Yifa Cong asked him, "What does the five ministers of Dongshan mean?"

Auspicious yuanshi county said indifferently, "I have no one here!" "

[1] Completion: In the final stage, the work is completed. In the previous stage, the enlightened person actually went to the world to educate all beings, and practiced "worry is bodhi", which can be described as vigorous. In the end, the "simultaneous arrival" was completed, but it returned to normal. Regarding righteousness, partiality and harmony, Cao Shanben's silence is worthy of reference: "Right is empty, nothing; The deviation is * * *, which has the shape of Vientiane; If you are in the middle, you will do the things on your back; Prejudice is reasonable; At the same time, people who take them should follow the fate of many people, and don't get caught up in everything, not being stained or unclean, not being upright or impartial. So there is no true Sect in the virtual avenue. Promoting this article from top to bottom is the most wonderful and yuan. "