1. When you look at Lotus Net, you should know that you don't care. -Meng Haoran's Gong Yi Zen Room in Dayu Temple
Appreciation: Seeing the lotus in the pool is clean and clear, I know that Gong Yi's mood is like a lotus, and there is no thoughts contaminated with dust. In the poem, the sixth ancestor Huineng used "net in the mirror, where is the dust?" Compare and praise Zen master Gao Shuang's Zen mind.
Mixed with truth, I have forgotten what to say. -Liu Changqing's "Nanxi Seeking a Taoist"
Appreciation: Seeing lovely wild flowers in a deep stream makes people calm, enlightened, absorbed and relatively silent. The poet cleanses his mind in contemplation, introspection and self-examination, and his comfortable and peaceful state of mind blends with quiet objects and images.
At dusk, by a dry pond, thoughts can conquer the dragon of passion. -Wang Wei's Crossing Ji Xiang Temple
Appreciation: At dusk, I was alone by the empty pool, and my body and mind entered a quiet and peaceful state, in order to cure the secular dragon Buddhists, who called the vulgar's evil thoughts and delusions "dragon". Only by overcoming them can we realize the profundity of Zen and the interest in quietness.
4. Shuiyue is Zen, and mountains and clouds send wild feelings. -The explanation of "a guest"
Appreciation: A clean place for Buddhists, such as clear lake on a clear moon, is quiet and spotless. Between Shan Ye, the floating clouds are erratic, just like the flowers in the mirror, which open and fall, and can entrust a kind of leisure that is not bound by the world and human feelings.
I was born without a hometown, and my peace of mind is where I belong. -Bai Juyi's At the Beginning of Leaving the City
Appreciation: there is no fixed foothold in life, as long as it is a calm place, it can be used as a home. An uneasy heart, whether it is surprise or fear, worry or sadness, is always difficult to stabilize. Keep inner peace, where can't it be home?
6. flowers will not touch, and water will be idle. -Li Bai's "Two Poems by My Nephew on the Dark Wandering Zen Master Shanchi"
Appreciation: flowers are natural and beautiful without dyeing, water flows quietly, the heart is as carefree as water, and the body and mind are in an ethereal state. As the Buddha said, "color is not different from the sky, and the sky is not different from color." If you can control your mind and concentrate on practicing, you won't be moved by foreign things and escape into Zen.