Zen poetry, or Zen poetry, refers to poems that preach Buddhism or have Zen meaning and interest. As Buddhism was introduced from India in the Han and Jin Dynasties, this kind of poetry came into being. The combination of Zen and China's poetry has formed a peculiar variety in the poetry garden-Zen poetry.
Zen poetry generally includes two parts. Part of it is Zen poetry. This part of Zen poetry is characterized by philosophical wisdom and profound dialectical thinking. The other part is poems that reflect the life of monks and literati, such as landscape poems, Zen poems and travel notes. It is the main feature of this part of Zen poetry to express the empty and holy realm and artistic conception of Zen. Most of these poems are based on Buddhist temples and mountain dwellings, describing the deep, winding, clean and dust-free, extraordinary mountain scenery, expressing the ethereal state of mind of monks or literati, leaving all troubles behind and being indifferent and quiet.
The combination of Zen and poetry has its inherent inevitability. Both of them face a fundamental big problem: life. The occurrence and perfection of both are also based on the same situation: consciousness. What Zen and poetry want to accomplish is to experience and open up, so that what originally existed in things can be highlighted again.
Zen poetry has a history of more than 1000 years in China since the Jin Dynasty. In addition to a large number of works by poets and monks in history, poets such as Xie Lingyun, Tao Yuanming, Bai Juyi, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, Su Shi and Tang Yin also left many masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.
Reading Tang poetry is the same as reading Song poetry. If you don't know Zen, then the realm or something must be out of reach. For example, Hanshan and Picked Up, a considerable number of literati in the Six Dynasties have gone with the wind, and their peers have not returned. "Hanshan lives in Hanshan and picks it up by himself" are all "crazy" monks. In fact, aren't their "epilepsy" and "madness" all fake? After watching the world, they were so cruel and vulgar that they simply thought it was real. "Climb high and look far, boundless. No one knows it alone, and the solitary moon shines on Joan Hinton. There is no moon in spring, and the moon is in the sky. Singing this song is not Zen after all. "
Once the poet is integrated with Zen, he can tolerate everything with a heart like a bright environment, regardless of the environment, and respond to things without getting tired. This kind of harmony without harmony is the normal heart. They eat when they are hungry, fire when they are cold, and sleep when they are sleepy. After the enlightenment of Zen Buddhism, it returned to dullness and returned to the original emptiness with a wandering mind. The so-called "no life, no thoughts." To understand a flower, you must become it, do it well, enjoy the sunshine and rain, and grasp the full rhythm of life. For reference.