Ode to practice
Master Song Shenxiu
I am a bodhi tree, and my heart is like a mirror platform.
Wipe frequently, and don't create dust.
Shen Xiu is the founder of Beizong Zen. He compared man's body and mind to a bodhi tree and a mirror platform. The human body is the Buddha's body, and the heart is clean. Just because of persistence, I have a relative understanding, so that I am often contaminated by dirt.
Therefore, in order to keep the mind clean, we must "wipe it often, so as not to accumulate dust", that is, through tenacious practice, we can gradually realize the Tao and become a Buddha.
Beautiful poems vividly condense the three stages of Buddhist practice: abstinence, determination and wisdom, and embody the basic world outlook of Buddhism.
I will walk until the river blocks my way, then sit down and look at the rising clouds.
My retreat in Zhongnanshan.
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After middle age, I have a strong kind heart, and I didn't settle down at the edge of Mount Zhongnan until my later years.
Interest concentration is often unique to play and have a happy thing to enjoy self-appreciation.
Sometimes go to the end of the water to seek the source, or sit and watch the ever-changing clouds rise.
Occasionally I met a village elder in the Woods, and I chatted with him until I often forgot to go home.
Wang Wei's poems and paintings are full of Zen, and he is known as "Shi Fo" in the history of literature. What does "water poverty" mean? Climbing up, the stream finally disappeared. The climber just sat down and watched the clouds rise on the mountain. It turns out that water turns into clouds, and clouds can turn into rain. There will be water in the mountain stream, so why despair?
So is the realm of life. The process from water poverty to cloud to rain is like a person encountering great difficulties in the process of spiritual practice, including physical obstacles, psychological obstacles and environmental obstacles. If you give up because of this, you should return your thoughts to the angle of starting your heart. There was nothing at first, but looking back at the situation at that time and now, isn't it a long way?
If you don't mind your own business, this is a good time on earth.
Ode to a Normal Heart is the Tao.
Hui Kai Zen Master in Song Dynasty
There are flowers in spring, moons in autumn, cool breeze in summer and snow in winter.
If you don't mind your own business, this is a good time on earth.
These poems have the flavor of mountains and rivers, and some people can understand them at once. Zen pays attention to epiphany, and this poem also presents a gesture of pointing fingers at the ignorant to some extent. Mind your own business, that is, worry. The key is whether we can find the way to the romantic realm in any environment.
A hundred flowers bloom in spring, a cool breeze blows gently in summer, a bright moon is in the sky in autumn, and it is snowy in winter. Wind, flowers, snow and the moon can symbolize open-mindedness in different periods, that is, enlightened people can remain calm and calm. To put it bluntly, if you are open-minded, calm and not disturbed by trivial matters, then every day and every season is a good time.
Life is like a reverse journey, and I am also a pedestrian.
Linjiang County Songqian Mufu
Su Shi in Song Dynasty
Since we have been in Beijing for three years, far away from the world, you have traveled around the world.
When I meet with a smile, it's still warm as spring.
Your heart is like an ancient well, not water, and the peak is like a bamboo pole in autumn.
My heart is melancholy, because you want to separate the sails overnight. When you see me off, the clouds are the color of the moon.
Don't frown before bottling.
Life is a difficult journey, you and I are both passers-by, just like stopping at different hotels.
Life is like sending, Li Bai's "Preface to the Spring Banquet in Peach Blossom Garden" says: "Those who are rich in heaven and earth go against everything, those who kill time, and those who have passed through a hundred generations." Since everyone is a passer-by between heaven and earth, why should we care about the reunion and reunion in front of us? By comforting friends and releasing their hearts, we can not only be moved, but also reveal all the old attitudes towards life.
Although Su Shi actively joined the WTO all his life, he had distinct political ideals and opinions, but on the other hand, he was deeply influenced by Laozi and Zhuangzi's Buddhist thoughts. Whenever the officialdom is frustrated and in a difficult situation, he can always "handle it with ease" and "break up in discord", respond to external interference with a calm and comfortable attitude, and show his broad-minded and free-spirited feelings of being detached and happy.
Trouble comes from love, fear comes from love.
The king of wonderful colors seeks the solution.
All love will last for a long time.
There are many fears in life, and life is in danger of exposure.
Trouble comes from love, fear comes from love.
If you leave your lover, you have no worries and fears.
Most men and women are entangled in the world, and it is always difficult to leave the word love and hate. Buddha said, "Love breeds trouble, and love breeds fear; If you leave your lover, there will be no worries and fears! " It's about Buddhism and Taoism. It is about people's secular desires, greed and ignorance.
Buddhist practice pays more attention to introspection and achieves the realm of consciousness through Zen. What is Zen? Probably everyone has their own "Zen" in mind. From the perspective of modern people, Zen has a wider meaning. A flower and a tree is Zen, so is eating and drinking Lazarus. Everything in the world is Zen, and there is a reason for Buddhism.
Zen is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word Zen, which originally means meditation. Through yoga meditation, you can meditate, look back at yourself, get rid of love-hate entanglements, cut off greed and delusion, and thus eliminate all external influences, understand the truth of everything in the world with people's original heart, and master the ubiquitous Buddha nature. Trouble comes from love, fear comes from love.
What can you do? A secluded heart makes a secluded place.
The fifth part is drinking
Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty
Building a house is human, and there are no horses and chariots.
What can you do? The heart is far from being self-centered.
Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely.
The mountains are getting better and better, and the birds are back.
That makes sense. I forgot what I wanted to say.
Many people in the world are familiar with "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely", while others prefer "asking what you can do is far from self-centered". Tao Yuanming's poems are as natural as jade, expressing his feelings directly without any affectation. "When you ask what you can do, your heart is far from self-centered." This artistic conception is the lifelong pursuit of every modern person, but it can never be realized.
In fact, sometimes, we should gather our body and mind, stay away from some worldly pursuits of fame and fortune, and our mood will naturally become calm. Gradually, people and society will be more real and natural!
The world laughs at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it.
Excerpt from Peach Blossom Garden
Tang Bohu in Ming Dynasty
I hope I die of old age. I don't want to bow my head in front of horses and chariots.
Cars and horses are rich and interesting, and hops are poor.
If wealth is better than poverty, one is underground and the other is in heaven.
If we compare Hua San to chariots and horses, he will deprive me of my leisure.
Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it.
There are no graves of Hao Jie in Wuling, no flowers, no wine, and no hoes to plow the fields.
If you compare wealth with the poor, one is in the ground and the other is in the sky. "Cars, dust and horses are just the tastes of the rich, while flowers and wine are destined to become attached to the poor. If measured by money and material things, the lives of these two kinds of people are very different, but from another angle, those rich people have to be nervous all the time and walk on thin ice carefully, while the so-called poor people can have more leisure and fun, but live more naturally, truly, easily and happily.
However, the real meaning is not understood by everyone. Don't you see "people laugh at me for being crazy"? And "I", however, disagreed: "I laughed at others and I can't see it." Don't you see that kings and princes who used to be all-powerful and rich are now? Not only is the body gone, but the situation has also fallen. Even the flowers and wine they despised before their death can't be counted on, and even the tombs are not guaranteed.
The Buddha is far away from Lingshan, and Lingshan is only in your heart.
Zhang Zi, Zen master of Wu Chao on the Journey to the West.
Wu mingcheng' en
The Buddha is far away from Lingshan, and Lingshan is only in your heart.
Everyone has a Ling Mountain Tower, learn from Ling Mountain Tower.
Buddhism and Taoism are integrated, that is, Buddhism and Taoism are integrated. Tao gives birth to one, two, three and everything. There is no way, and it is useless to look around at this cost.
Master Huineng said in the Six Ancestors' Tanjing: A saint seeks his heart but not Buddha, and a fool seeks Buddha without his heart. There is no Buddha outside your heart, and your purity is Buddha. If we heal our hearts, have pure and upright thoughts, kind words and deeds, and contented hearts, our lives will naturally be stable, peaceful and happy.
Peace of mind is the way, and retrogression is the way forward.