Twenty-four Zen pictures The contents of twenty-four Zen pictures

When the Buddha was alive, there was a Brahmin who offered sacrifices to the Buddha with two vases in his hand.

The Buddha said to the Brahman Blackstone, "Put it down!"

Brahman put down the vase in his left hand.

The Buddha said, "Put it down!"

Brahman put down another vase in his right hand.

Then the Buddha said to him, "Put it down!"

At this time, Brahman Blackstone asked, "I have no hands. What do you want me to put down? "

The Buddha said, "I'm not asking you to put down the vase, I'm teaching you to put down the six things." Put them all down, and you can transcend life and death and be reborn forever. "Brahman Blackstone realized that there was no patience. When the founder of Dharma arrived in Dongtu, he was welcomed by Liang Wudi. Liang Wudi asked:

"Since I acceded to the throne, I have built temples to write scriptures and taught many monks. What are my advantages? "

Father Dharma replied, "These are not real merits, but only small merits."

Liang Wudi asked, "What is the real merit?"

The founder replied: "If you gain the fundamental wisdom, purity and harmony, that is the real merit.". True merit cannot be achieved by doing something in the world. "

Liang Wudi asked again, "Excuse me, holy monk, what is the first meaning of holy truth?"

The founder did not answer directly, but said, "The Dharma realm is empty, and there is no sacredness at all, let alone holy truths."

Liang Wudi asked inexplicably: "Who is facing me now, not a saint?"

Knowing that it was unrealistic, the ancestor shook his head and said, "I don't know." Hui Ke, the second ancestor of Zen Buddhism, was open-minded and well-read when he was young. Not satisfied with Confucianism and Taoism, he visited sages everywhere to seek truth. I heard that Dharma, a monk from Tianzhu, lived in Shaolin Temple, so I went to visit him. Although Huike waited for an opportunity to ask questions from time to time, Dharma often sat face to face without showing it to him. Hui Ke had to wait outside the cave. In the festival of deep winter, one day, it snowed heavily, and Hui Ke was still standing in the snow outside the cave. The dharma patriarch asked:

"Why did you stay so long?"

Hui Ke said with tears in his eyes, "I just want the monk to show me the supreme magic method."

Seeing many knowledgeable people talking about mystery and curiosity, Dharma simply said to him:

"Tathagata is a wonderful way, not secular knowledge. What can be done and what is difficult to do need perseverance, perseverance and perseverance to be studied. It is intolerable to covet small wise men, those without virtue and righteousness, and those who flatter and despise. " Unexpectedly, Hui Ke cut off his left arm with a knife and put it in front of the founder of Dharma to show his determination.

Hui Ke's firm pursuit of Buddhism was finally recognized by the founder of Buddhism and was named "Hui Ke". After that, Hui Ke followed the founder of Dharma and practiced day and night for nine years. Finally, he won his heart and inherited the mantle method. When leaving, the founder of Dharma said:

"Two hundred years later, this kind of Tathagata Zen will spread widely in China. Although there are many people who reason, few people who reason, many people in Ming Dow and few passers-by, there are still thousands of secret witnesses who have participated in it since the Enlightenment. " One day, a monk from Yunshui visited an Tang run by an old woman and had a rest. He asked the old woman, "Shigu, is there any other family besides you?"

Old woman: "Yes."

Monk Shuiyun: "Why didn't you see it?"

Old woman: "Here! Mountains and rivers, grass and trees are all my homes! "

Monk Yunshui: "Ruthlessness is not sentient beings. Do those mountains and rivers look like grandma? "

Old woman: "What do you think I am?"

Monk Yunshui: "laity."

Old woman: "You are not a monk either."

Monk Yunshui: "Sister, Buddhism and Dharma can't be confused."

Old woman: "I didn't confuse Buddhism!" " "

Monk Yunshui: "A layman presides over the security hall, and every grass and tree becomes a friend. You are not confusing Buddhism. What is it? "

Old woman: "Master! You can't say that. You know you are a man and I am a woman. Have you ever been confused? " When Yong Guang, the Buddhist monk of Nanta, just joined the Buddhist monk of Yangshan, Yangshan asked him, "What are you doing here?"

Yong Guang replied, "Come and visit the Zen master."

Yangshan asked again, "Have you seen the Zen master?"

Yong Guang replied: "I saw it!"

Yangshan asked again, "Does the Zen master look like a donkey or a horse?"

Yong Guang said: "I don't think the Zen master is like a Buddha either!" "

Yangshan continued to ask, "If it's not like Buddha, what is it like?"

Yong Guang calmly replied, "If there are similar things, what is the difference between them and donkeys and horses?"

Yang Shanda was shocked and sighed with emotion: "Every saint has forgotten two things, and his feelings are revealed. For twenty years, I tried this on people, and no one could understand it. Please do your job well. " Since then, Zen master Yangshan praised people as soon as he saw them: "The light is surging, and it is a Buddha." A monk walked past a teahouse. He stopped for a cup of tea because he was thirsty. When the shopkeeper saw that it was a monk, he greeted him warmly: "Zen master!" " Did you try hard? Tea? "

I saw a Zen master looking at the shopkeeper with a glassy eye and nodding his head.

The shopkeeper seems to be a master of Zen, and he said cautiously, "I think you are a master of Zen, and you have a deep sense of Zen." I want to ask you a question. If you tell me, I will support you. How come? "

A monk said, "Ask!"

The shopkeeper asked, "What if the ancient mirror is not polished?"

A Zen master quickly replied, "It's as black as paint."

The shopkeeper asked again, "What will happen after the ancient mirror is polished?"

A Zen master replied, "shine according to the sky."

The shopkeeper disagreed and said, "I'm sorry!" " I won't support it. "Said turned and walked away.

A monk paused and thought, "I've been in Zen for decades, and now I'm not even as good as this tea seller." I am very embarrassed! " So I made up my mind to study hard, study hard behind closed doors, and finally become enlightened.

Three years later, the Taoist Zen master appeared at the door of this teahouse again. The shopkeeper still greeted him kindly: "Oh! I haven't seen you for three years, but I still want to ask the old saying, what if the ancient mirror is not polished? "

A monk said smoothly, "It's not far from Hanyang."

The shopkeeper asked again, "Where are the worn old mirrors?"

A monk replied, "Nautilus Island in front of the Yellow Crane Tower."

After listening, the shopkeeper said sincerely, "Please accept my support!" Then he turned and shouted, "Dude! Make tea, make tea, make tea. Su Dongpo, a scholar of Hanlin, was very dissatisfied when he heard that Zen master Cheng Hao in yuquan temple, south of Beijing, had a towering Zen gate. So I asked for it incognito, and wanted to try the Zen of Master Cheng Hao. As soon as we met, Dongpo said:

"I heard that the Zen master is very good at Zen. What is Zen? "

Cheng Hao, the Zen master, did not answer, but asked, "May I ask your official's name?"

Dongpo replied:' the surname is scale, saying that the elders in the world have multiple scales!'

Master Cheng Hao shouted, "How heavy is this drink?" Dongpo felt wrong and resigned. Tan Ying, the Zen master of Jinshan, once came to Beijing and lived in Li Duanyuan's garden. One day, Qiu asked him:

"Excuse me, Zen master, is there a hell that people often say, or not?"

Tan Ying, the Zen master, replied: "The Buddhas said that there is nothing out of nothing, although there is nothing; There is nothing in what Qiu is looking for now, and there is nothing. When people see the prison in front of them, why can't they see the paradise in their hearts? Joy and terror are all in your heart, heaven and hell are all in one thought, and good and evil can be achieved. If Tai Wei can know his own heart, there will naturally be no doubts. "

Qiu: "Heart, how do you know?"

Tan Ying: "Don't think about good and evil."

Qiu: "If you don't think about it, where will your heart go?"

Tan Ying: "My heart has nowhere to go. As the Diamond Sutra says, you should have nothing to live in but a heart. "

Qiu: "Where do people go when they die?"

Tan Ying: "If you don't know life, how can you know death?"

Qiu: "I have known about life for a long time."

Tan Ying: By the way, where did life come from?

Qiu was meditating when the Zen master patted his chest and shouted, "What are you thinking here?"

Qiu: "I see, I only know how greedy I am, and I don't feel wasted."

Tan Ying: "A dream in a hundred years."

Qiu Liduan now willing to enlighten, and said:

"Thirty-eight years old, but ignorant. If you have knowledge, why not be ignorant? " Once, a monk asked Zen master Wei Kuan, "Do dogs have Buddha nature?"

"yes." Zen master Wei Kuan answered without thinking.

The monk asked again, "Zen master, do you have Buddha nature?"

The Zen master replied, "I didn't."

The monk asked inexplicably, "The Buddha said that all beings have Buddha nature, why don't you?"

The Zen master said, "Because I am not all sentient beings."

"Since it is not a sentient being, it must be a Buddha?"

"It's not a Buddha either."

"What the hell is that?"

"It's not a thing."

The monk thought for a moment and asked, "Can you see it? Can you imagine? "

The Zen master smiled and answered, "Incredible, incredible, so incredible." A monk came to visit Zen master Zhichang. He was weeding in the field. Suddenly a snake appeared in the grass, and the Zen master raised his hoe and cut it. The preacher said disapprovingly, "I've heard about Zen master's Tao for a long time, but when I saw it today, I turned out to be a rude Saman."

Zen master Zhichang said, "As you said, are you thick or am I thick?"

The preacher started a debate and asked, "What is vulgarity?"

The Zen master put down his hoe.

The missionary asked again, "What is good?"

The Zen master raised his hoe and made a gesture to cut the snake.

The preacher didn't understand Zen master Zhichang's meaning, and then asked, "Why do you do this?"

The Zen master said, "Why don't you say something? Excuse me, where did you see me chop snakes? "

The monk confidently replied, "Now!"

Zen master Zhichang said to the preacher in a reproachful tone, "You can't see yourself now, why do you come to see the snake cutting?"

Missionaries finally have a province. Zen master Deshan was originally a master in the north, but he came to the south to defend himself because he was dissatisfied with the saying that Zen Buddhism in the south told other stories. When I arrived in the south, I was ridiculed by an old woman. Since then, I have been arrogant. Excuse me, old lady, is there a guru nearby who can visit? The old woman told him that there was a monk in Longtan, five miles away, and she was deeply impressed.

When Zen master Deshan arrived at Longtan, he couldn't wait to ask, "What is this place?"

Zen master Longtan replied: "Longtan!"

Zen master Deshan forced him to ask, "Since my name is Longtan, I am visiting here, but I can't see either the dragon or the pool. Why? "

Zen master Longtan bluntly told Zen master Deshan: "You have worked hard, and you have arrived in Longtan!" " "

That night, Deshan asked the Buddhist monk Longtan for benefits and stood in front of the Buddhist monk Longtan's seat for a long time. Zen master Longtan said, "It's late at night, why don't you go down the mountain!" "

Deshan said good night, walked back, walked to the door, and came back, saying, "It's really dark outside, and I didn't know the direction when I first came."

Toutuo Longtan lit a candle for him. Just as Deshan reached out to pick it up, the Zen master Longtan blew out again. Deshan suddenly realized that he immediately knelt down and bowed to Master Longtan. Master Longtan asked, "What do you see?"

Zen master Deshan replied, "From now on, I no longer doubt the tongues of all Zen masters in the world."

The next day, Zen master Deshan took his sparse bill and went to the main hall to burn it in public. When the flame was lit, he sang: "Poverty is space; Exhausting the cardinal's energy is like a drop of water thrown into a huge valley. " Besides going out to preach, Master Liang Kuan usually lives in a humble hut at the foot of the mountain and leads a very simple life. One night, when he came back from preaching outside, he happened to run into a thief who patronized his cabin. When the thief saw the return of the Zen master, he panicked and didn't know what to do.

Master Liang Kuan calmly said to the empty-handed thief, "Can't you find something to steal?" I think your trip is in vain. Tell you what, you can put this dress on me! "

The thief grabbed the clothes and ran away. Master Liang Kuan, naked, looked at the thief's back in the moonlight and said to himself with infinite emotion, "It's a pity that I can't give him this beautiful moon!" " "Wenxi monk went on a pilgrimage to Wutai Mountain. One evening, he passed by prajna temple in King Kong Cave and met an old man holding a cow.

Wen Xi asked, "Excuse me, senior, can you stay overnight?"

The old man replied, "You are persistent and can't keep you."

Wenxi explained: "I have no persistent heart."

The old man asked, "Have you been ordained?"

Wen Xi replied, "I have been resigned a long time ago."

The old man said, "since there is no persistent heart, is it necessary to be ordained?"

Wenxi Jackson was speechless and excused himself. When I looked back, the old man and the temple had disappeared without a trace, but when I looked up, I saw Manjusri Bodhisattva floating leisurely in the colorful clouds on a golden lion. Later, Wenxi went to Kannonji, Hongzhou, where he learned from Master Yangshan and was in charge of cooking in the temple. One day, the image of Manjushri suddenly appeared in the steam in the kitchen. Wenxi raised his spoon and hit it, saying, "Manjusri is Manjusri, and Wenxi is Wenxi. How can it disturb my mind? "

Manjusri Bodhisattva said humorously, "Bitter root and bitter gourd are sweet, and practice is the three major disasters, which this monk suspects." The King of Zhaozhou went to visit Zen Master Cong Nian of Zhaozhou, but the Zen Master didn't come out. He sat on the Zen bed, saw him, and asked first:

"Do you understand what I mean?"

"I don't understand." Zhou replied.

When the Zen master saw that the king of Zhao did not know what he meant, he explained, "I have been fasting since childhood, so please don't take it amiss when I see people unable to get off the Zen bed."

King Zhaozhou not only didn't get angry, but paid more respect to the Zen master. The next day, he sent a general to present a gift. When the Zen master heard this, he got out of bed and greeted him with a present. Afterwards, the disciples were puzzled, so they asked Master Cong Nian, "Why didn't you get out of bed when the king came, but you got out of bed to meet him when the king came down?"

The Zen master said to his disciples, "You don't know that people are divided into upper, lower and third grades, but you don't talk about status. When the gentleman comes, he should deal with it on the meditation bed; When the middle class comes, go to the meditation bed to receive it; When the last group of people come, they should meet outside the mountain gate. "

Disciples are enlightened by words. When the Japanese pro-Luan master was nine years old, he had the determination to become a monk. He let the Zen master in Cizhen shave his head, and the Zen master in Cizhen asked him:

"You are so young, how can you think of becoming a monk?"

Qin Luan said, "My parents are both dead. I don't know why people must die. Why am I separated from my parents? I heard that monks understand these truths, so they want to become monks. "

Zen master Ci Zhen praised his volunteer very much and said, "Good! I see, I am willing to accept you as an apprentice. However, it is too late today. I'll shave you until tomorrow morning! "

Hearing this, Qin Luan was delighted and anxious, and urged, "Master, I'm not sure if my determination can last until tomorrow. And master is old, who can guarantee that he will be alive when he gets up tomorrow morning? "

Zen master Ci Zhen felt that the child's words were completely reasonable and said with great certainty, "You are right, now I will shave your head!" " "A monk went to visit Fuchuan, a Buddhist monk, and met an old man selling salt on the road. The monk asked:

I'm going to visit Master Fuchuan. Can you tell me how to get there? "

The old man was speechless for a long time, and the monk asked, "How can I get to the boat?"

Unexpectedly, the old man asked, "Are you deaf?"

The monk asked inexplicably, "What did you say about me?"

"Tell you the way to the boat." The old man said.

"Can your old man meditate?"

"Don't talk about Zen, not even Buddhism."

So the monk said, "Since you can meditate, please tell me."

The old man pointed to the salt in the basket and asked, "What's this called?"

The monk replied, "Salt." And asked, "What's your name?"

The old man replied, "I can't tell you this is salt!" " "One day, Fo Yin Jackson and several disciples just sat down indoors when his old friend Dongpo lay man suddenly visited. Fo Yin Jackson looked around the room. There were no empty seats, so he said smoothly:

"There is no place to sit. Where do laymen want to sit? "

"Then sit as the four great masters of the Zen master." Dongpo layman, who likes Zen debate, replied half jokingly.

The Zen master said, "I have a question. Please feel free to sit down if you can answer. If I couldn't answer, I lost the jade belt tied around my waist. Dare? "

Dongpo readily promised.

The Zen master asked, "The layman said that he would take my four bodies as seats, but these four bodies were originally empty. Where are you going to sit? "

Dongpo couldn't answer for a moment, so he really took off the jade belt and left it in the temple as a souvenir, which is still preserved in Jinshan Temple. It is said that a monk with clouds and water has long heard about the Taoist style of Master Hui Xun. He came all the way to the cave where the Zen master lived and prayed:

"At the end of the study, I admired Master Gao Feng and made a special trip to get close to me and ask the monk for mercy!"

Because it was already evening, the Zen master Hui Xun said, "It's getting late. Let's stay for one night first! "

The next morning, when Wen Dao woke up, Master Hui had already got up to cook porridge. When eating, because there were no extra bowls in the cave, Master Hui took a skull out of the cave and filled Wen Dao with porridge. Wen Dao was very upset and refused to use it. So Hui Xun Jackson said:

"How is it possible to deal with things with pure filth and love and hate?" When the Taoist monk became a monk, he solemnly swore in front of his parents: "I don't want fame, I sincerely learn Taoism, and I am willing to give up my life and forget my death." After gaining the Tao, he made a great exposition of Zen, and his reputation spread far and wide. Local officials told the court that the emperor gave him a purple robe and gave him a number to show his approval. After the Zen master thanked him, he always explained the reason and refused to accept the reward. The emperor made another imperial edict, but the Zen master still refused to accept it, so he was sentenced to resist the imperial edict and sent to Zizhou. Because officials admire the virtue and prestige of the Zen master, they can be exempted from punishment as long as they show that the Zen master is sick. The official asked:

"Are you sick?"

"No disease." The Zen master replied.

"I heard that there are scars on my body."

"I used to be, but now I am."

Officials asked Jackson to do something, and Jackson said:

"I appreciate your kindness, but you can't lie for peace." So I went to Zizhou to serve my sentence, and many people saw me off. The Zen master Xuefeng went to Lizhou with the Zen master Yantou. On the way, he was caught in heavy snow and could not go forward, staying for several days. Master Xuefeng meditates diligently every day and never slackens. And Zen master Yantou just eats and sleeps, which is very leisurely.

Master Xuefeng complained, "Brother, you always sleep. Why don't you care about me? "

Master Yantou: "What have you been sitting for?"

Jackson Xuefeng pointed to his chest and said, "How dare I deceive myself?"

Iwate Jackson felt that the time was ripe, so he said sympathetically:

"If so, you tell me your opinion. I will prove it for you, and I will break it for you. "

Master Xuefeng told a story about Zen that he had learned. Hearing this, the Rock Head Jackson loudly said:

"Haven't you heard of it? The person who entered through the door was not Jia Zhen. "

Master Xuefeng: "What should I do in the future?"

Master Yantou: "The real enlightenment lies in direct commitment. If you preach great religion, your words must flow from your own chest, and you must be able to stand up. "

Hearing this, Jackson Xuefeng quickly got up and prayed. In the Five Dynasties, at the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu invited Zen master Yunmen and his monks to spend the summer in the palace. Liu Wang and his family provided it to monks and asked them how to participate in meditation. Yingying Yanyan was very lively, and only Zen master Yunmen sat silently.

An official in charge of the temple often saw this situation, so he asked Zen master Yunmen for instructions. Jackson Yunmen kept silent all the time. The official realized something and wrote a poem and posted it in front of the temple. The poem wrote:

"The practice of great wisdom begins with Zen. Zen should be silent and should not be noisy. To be honest, if you lose the Zen gate, you will never say it again. " On one occasion, the poet Bai Juyi asked Zen master Wei Kuan:

"How to cultivate body and mind?"

Zen master Wei Kuan said: "Those who are supreme bodhi regard it as dharma, speak it as dharma, and act in their hearts as Zen." . Three users, one for each. For example, Jianghuai Hehan has different names. Although the names are different, there is no difference between water. Dharma is Dharma, Dharma is inseparable from Zen, and body, mouth and heart are unhappy. What is the cloud in the middle? What's the difference? "

Bai Juyi: "Since there is no difference, why cultivate your mind?"

Zen master Wei Kuan said, "If the heart is not damaged, why repair it?" You know, whether it's dirty or clean, I can't remember it! "

Bai Juyi: "I can't afford to be dirty, of course." If you can't even afford to be clean, how can you? "

Zen master Wei Kuan said: "Although gold chips are precious, they are also eye diseases;" Dark clouds will cover the sky, and white clouds will cover the sky. "

Bai Juyi: "What is different from ordinary people without self-cultivation and thought?"

Zen master Wei Kuan said: "Ordinary people are ignorant and persistent. The two diseases, ignorance and persistence, are true cultivation. A true yogi will never be diligent or forget. Diligent people are close to persistence, forgetful people are clear. This is Zen! "

Bai Juyi was enlightened and finally became a Buddhist practitioner. In the Song Dynasty, only Zen masters practiced in Tiantai Mountain, Zhejiang Province. He built his own thatched cottage in the mountains to feed his hunger with wild fruits and lived alone in the mountains all the year round. One day, a woodcutter passed by buddhist nun and met Zen master Wei Ze. He asked curiously, "How long have you lived here?"

However, the Zen master replied, "About forty years is easy."

The woodcutter asked again, "Are you practicing here alone?"

But the Zen master nodded and said, "There are too many people in the jungle and deep mountains. What are the needs of many people? "

Woodcutter: "Don't you have any friends?"

But the Zen master clapped his hands and saw many tigers, leopards, birds and animals coming out of the back of the house. The woodcutter got a fright, but the Zen master motioned for Tigress to return to buddhist nun and said:

"There are many friends, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, insects, snakes and beasts, all legal couples."

The woodcutter admired him and volunteered to be an apprentice. In Qing Dynasty, the emperor shunzhi sent a letter to welcome the Buddhist Yulin into the palace, and asked the Buddhist for instructions. The emperor shunzhi asked:

There are so-called seven points in the Shurangama Sutra. Find out where the heart is. Is the heart in seven places? "

Yulin Buddhist replied: "You can't get it if you find your heart."

The emperor shunzhi: "Do awakened people still have emotions?"

Buddhist Yulin: "What are emotions?"

The emperor shunzhi: "Mountains and rivers are born of delusion. If you think about it, what are the mountains and rivers? "

Buddhist Yulin: "When a person wakes up from a dream, is there anything in the dream?"

The emperor shunzhi: "How to study hard?"

Yulin Buddhist: "The end arch is inaction."

The emperor shunzhi: "How big?"

Buddhist Yulin: "Light four tables, grid up and down."

The emperor shunzhi: "How to participate in the original face?"

Buddhist Yulin: "As the Six Ancestors said, how can you be yourself without thinking about good and evil?"

Later, the emperor shunzhi said to everyone, "It's really been a long time."