Bodhi has no trees. What do you mean, where does it cause dust?

It means: without bodhi trees, where did the dust come from?

This sentence comes from the third part of Bodhisattva written by Huineng, the sixth ancestor.

1, the original content is: Bodhi has no (non-) trees, and the mirror is not a stage. It is nothing, no matter what it is, where will there be any dust?

2. Vernacular interpretation: There was no Bodhi tree, nor was it a mirror. It's all empty. Where can I get dust?

Extended data:

1, there is "Dharma" in the Tanjing, so it is called Dharma because it is based on Bodhi. * * * There are four songs. Bodhisattva, written by Huineng, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, is a poem that interprets Buddhist teachings. Among them, the first two poems are aimed at Shen Xiu's "No Love", aiming at explaining the purity of "Spiegel"; The third poem is a typical subjective idealism view, which is widely spread; The fourth song focuses on practice methods.

2. According to the Six Ancestors Tanjing, Hongren, the fifth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, wanted to know the enlightenment realm of all the monks in his school one day and asked his disciples to write poems and learn from the Tao. Shen Xiu, the great disciple, took the lead in writing a poem: "Being a bodhi tree is like being a mirror, so you should always wipe your hands and not be dust." Huineng, the sixth ancestor, retorted: "Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not Taiwan. Nothing, where is the dust? "

Beautiful words mean that as a Buddhist disciple, you should lead an honest and clean life, resist temptation and not insult Buddhism; Huineng, the sixth ancestor, thought that Buddhism was not a concrete vessel. Since it didn't appear from the beginning, where did the dust come from? The two people have different degrees of epiphany to Zen Buddhism, and they are often quoted by later generations to interpret the degree of enlightenment to Buddhism!

References:

Baidu encyclopedia _ Bodhisattva