The Jingshe is caught in the rain
(One is enough to stop, the other is Dai Shulun)
The empty door is silent and my body is light, and the stream rain gently washes away the dust of the guests.
Lying in front of the white clouds, my love is not over yet, let him be drunk by the yellow bird.
In the quiet monastery, I naturally took my own existence lightly, but the gentle rain washed away the dust on my body. Lying in the monastery towering into the clouds, I suddenly felt endless true joy and boundless Buddha's wisdom. Who cares about the flying yellow birds and the fragrant flowers and plants!
[About the author]
Ke Zhi (860-934), a monk at Changshou Temple in Luojing during the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. His common surname was Ma, a native of Fanyang Gaoqiu (now Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province). During the Qianning period of Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 894-897), he wrote a poem to express his purpose and was given a purple cassock. Emperor Mingzong of the later Tang Dynasty served as the abbot of Changshou Temple and was awarded the title "Master Wenzhi". The poem had a name at that time, and the poems were compiled into "Sanshan Collection", which is now lost. Nine of his poems are preserved in "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty".
[Explanation] The Jingshe was originally an old study room and a school building, where students gathered for lectures. Later, the place where monks and Taoists lived or preached was also called a jingshe. "Book of Jin: Chronicles of Emperor Xiaowu": "The emperor initially worshiped the Buddha's teachings and set up a spiritual house in the hall, leading all the ascetics to live there." This refers to the latter, which is a place where the master can stay and meditate. Ke Zhi is good at rhythmic poetry, but rarely sees quatrains. On the surface, this poem describes the fresh and bright natural scenes in the spring rain, but in fact it mainly expresses the author's feelings and interests of being indifferent to worldly affairs, not fighting against the world, and concentrating on hermit cultivation. Of course, sitting in your study in the continuous spring rain, enjoying the infinite spring scenery, the fragrance of flowers and the chirping of birds, is really a great pleasure in life.