Virtual cloud says Zen is pure.

1955, I went to visit the old monk Xu Yun in Yunju Mountain, Jiangxi Province. One day, the old monk invited me to his meditation room for dinner. I asked the old monk: monks in northern Hong Kong often show off with "four bamboo slips". On the one hand, they said, "Zen has no pure land, ten people go the wrong way, and they will go with him before the shadow suddenly appears." Goode always said that the pure land is the pure land of idealism, and with a clean heart, it is a clean Buddhist land. How can we divide Zen into two parts? Zen is all the way up, pointing to people's hearts and treating nature like Buddha. Why do you say "ten people go the wrong way"? Zen master Huishan said: "From the smell of Taoism to the truth, the truth is profound and wonderful, with a round and bright body and no confusion." Zen is also a philosophy. Neither born nor dead, nor dirty, neither come nor go. How can it be "let it be before the shadow suddenly appears?" Ask the old monk for a detailed explanation. The old monk readily replied, "You asked a good question. On March 20th, I explained to the public the origin of this "four-material bamboo slip". If you let the preacher read it, you can see it clearly. "

? Manjusri Bodhisattva in the Shurangama Sutra chose Yuantong, saying, "There are no two ways to return to the Yuan, so it is convenient to be multi-channel, and it is convenient to advance and retreat without being sanctified." He also affirmed the wit in his ears in many ways, saying: "This shore is really religious, and its sound and smell are pure. I want to take three motifs, but it is actually in the smell." He pointed out that "everything comes from the rest of the convenience, which is the Buddha and the god of power, namely." He said to Sakyamuni: "The actions are impermanent, and the mind is born and died. Now the cause and effect are different. How can the cloud be bypassed?" "Master Yongming has a book" Four Materials of Pure Zen ",which says:" Zen has no pure land, and ten people go astray. Before the shadow suddenly appears, I will go with him; If there is no Zen, there will be pure land. Thousands of people will go there, but they will see Tommy. Why not be enlightened? Zen has pure land, just like a tiger with horns, being a teacher in this life and a Buddha in the afterlife; There is no Zen, no pure land, copper beds and iron pillars, and there is no one to rely on. "Modern people who cultivate the pure land only know that they are stubborn in the Four Simple Books and seldom study Tong Yuan with an open mind. They also misunderstood Tong Yuan. This not only failed Manjusri Bodhisattva, but also exhausted Master Yongming. In the end, they could not master the correct practice and regarded the pure Zen method as fire, water, ice and charcoal. Virtual cloud, have to be speechless:

Gao Shouzu (Zen Master Yongming Shou) was born in the Song Dynasty and is the son of King Yuhang. He is one of the three most prolific writers in ancient China. Volume 26 of the History of Buddhism says: Shouzu was a tax expert when he was in Yue Qian's house. He used official money to buy fish and shrimp and set them free. He should have been abandoned when the incident happened. Yue let people see it and tell them: cut it if the color changes, and give it up if it doesn't change. The color remained the same, so he borrowed his life. Later, he joined a Buddhist monk in Siming Cui Yan and became a monk who didn't wear clothes or eat. I went back to visit the wok and discovered the essence of the soul. I went to the Wisdom Rock for a second peek: one said, "I meditated all my life" and the other said, "I recite all the goodness, solemn pure land". That was the careful prayer of the soul, and I saw all the goodness, even seven degrees.

Zen master Yongming is the third generation of the Sect, and he has written many works, such as Heart Fu Jing Xin, which is about understanding the heart and seeing nature clearly. "All good things come together" is a harmonious combination of teaching and learning. 100 The Record of Jing Zong is an incisive exposition of the essence of flowers, which combines the interests of various factions and takes flowers as the heart. Japanese divide Buddhism into 12 cases, while China divides Buddhism into 10 cases. "Jing Zong Ji" takes the heart as a case and takes enlightenment as the reason. Although deep and shallow, it is completely poor, showing this kind of heart to ward off evil spirits and help righteousness in detail, so that future generations will not go astray. He said a lot in his life, but he never said that it was bad under the imperial clan. Since he learned it from his clan, how can he spread the pure land? Because enlightened people, law and law are harmonious, meditation is the Tao, and chanting Buddha is the Tao, even as we dig the ground through labor is the Tao. In order to save the poor in the last law, he studied pure land and was the sixth generation of the pure land Sect. He praised the pure land all his life and everyone admired him. After his death, he built a tower in Jingci Temple.

? "Buddhist History" also said: A monk came to Linchuan and said that I was sick and wanted to be released. When I saw the statue of the monk in the temple, Yan Luowang came to bow down. I asked: Who is this like? Yue: The master of Shouchan in Hangzhou is also said to be the top grade in the West. Jing Wong is a man, so this is a gift. Buddhists in China regard the 17th of the winter month as Amitabha Christmas. What is the basis? The Amitabha Sutra says that Amitabha lived more than 10 trillion buddhas in the west, but who knows that he was born on the 17th of the winter month? This was originally the birthday of Zen master Yongming, because he came back with Amitabha's wish, so he took his birthday as Amitabha's birthday.

As soon as the "four material slips" came out, Zen Jing and the other two cases frequently went to war!

Pure land Sect said that "there is Zen without pure land, and ten people go the wrong way." A person who practices Zen is immortal; Single repair of pure land, ten thousand people repair; Zen has horns like a tiger; Zen without pure land is the evil person on earth. It is still unknown that the pure land Sect criticized Zen.

When Buddhism declined in this world, Master Yin Guang was a rare good knowledge, and many people believed him. In the 21st year of Guangxu, a monk from Putuo Housi went to Beijing to learn from the scriptures, and Master Yin Guang met him in Luohong. Later, he accompanied Buddhist monks to Putuo and held a lecture on Tommy Sutra in Si Qian, Putuo. At that time, the fate of the law was not smooth, so he stopped giving lectures. Monk Wenhua told him to go to Housi to read Tibetan scriptures. He stayed away from Putuo Mountain for many years and concentrated on studying Buddhism. The layman Di, who lived in Guangxu for 30 years, ran a newspaper and often exchanged messages with him, inviting him to live in Taiping Temple, the lower house of heming Temple, which was really a way for monks to protect him. Since then, it has been said that the letters are merged into "printing master's paper money" to worship the pure land, which is very good. But there is prejudice: whoever asks him about Zen will be scolded by him. He often criticized Zen with "four materials", repeatedly said the disadvantages of Zen and repeated master lianchi's words:

"After becoming a Zen master, such as Su Zizhan and Qingcaotang, such as Zeng, such as the post-elders of Assistant Minister Li, such as Chen's post-Nan 'an, such as Zhang's post-knowledge-hiding, and Wang Guiling's post-first seat, the Zen master was the son of Korea, the temple monk was the master of disambiguation, the good monk was the daughter of Dong, and Zhu's daughter was even the son of Qin. This number of men, to create pure land, then how can there be this? For ordinary people, women and villains, it is not what the Buddha should expect, even if it is a famous minister. What a pity! The west cannot be born! "

I think the man of practice is getting worse, but he is not in the Dharma. During the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, the official prostitute in Yingzhou served as lotus incense, and the monk Shu said: This woman was originally from Nepal and has been chanting Hokkekyo for 30 years. It's not Hokkeyo's fault to recite Hokkeyo and reincarnate as a prostitute! Just as a Zen participant is a woman or a villain, Zen meditation is not a mistake.

The thirty-two times of Guanyin Bodhisattva should be based on what she is, that is, what she is now. Is Guanyin's reaction to her body also inferior? Amitabha was transformed into a monk named Yongming, and he was transformed into a good monk. After becoming a good monk, Song Lian: monk Yongming is not as clear as Amitabha; In the Yuan Dynasty, Zen Master Shanji used a bloody book "Hua Yan Jing" in Shousheng Temple, a pond outside Suzhou Changmen. His Buddhist career is half that of Zen master Yongming. Song Lian was a minister and was killed. It is better to follow the Zen master; Is amitabha also tossing and turning?

The first statue of Chantai was carved with incense, but it was forbidden in Jiu Feng. Those who can come and go with paper clothes are not allowed in Cao Shan. Pedestrians in Pure Land often criticize the mistakes of Zen Buddhism. They didn't notice that this criticism came from Jiu Feng and Cao Shan. This is the correct view of the good knowledge of Zen, so we should admire Zen, why should we underestimate Zen instead? Now who can carve incense and sit and die? Do we dare to despise Zen, even if we are not as good as the first poet in Thailand as the paper-clad Taoist?

I think sects are shallow and deep, Buddhism is gradually evil and righteous, and so is chanting Buddhism. There are many differences in the depth of Zen: ordinary people, heretics, Hinayana, Zhongya and Mahayana all have their own Zen. The Zen of China Zen is the superior Zen in the world, which is different from the Zen mentioned above. But in the last days, pedestrians did go the wrong way, and it is no wonder that Yongming's "four materials" were responsible.

Only I usually pay attention to laws and regulations, and have never seen the "four materials" contained in any of Yongming's works; But it has been circulating around the world for a long time, and I dare not say it is false. It accuses "Zen has no pure land". Is Zen pure two? Pure land and Zen are the only way to see oneself, that is, pure land and Zen are pure, but today's people must be limited to pure Buddha and Zen. I used to become a monk in Mount Tante. I started with Alan in Canaan. After studying for three years, I don't need to settle down. After returning to Lan Fu for three years, you should decide whether to study or not, and give up when you know you are wrong. Then I went to Xiangtoushan and other foreign roads to eat a hemp and wheat eclipse. After six years, when the eighth star of the twelfth lunar month came out, I suddenly realized that I was awake, but sighed: "What a surprise! All sentient beings have the wisdom and virtue of the Tathagata, but they are obsessed with delusion and cannot prove it. " Where did Zen and tranquility come from at that time? Forty-nine years later, I didn't tell the truth until I smiled at the flowers and paid Ye Jia, not saying the word Zen.

Zen is the final multiplication, just like pure milk. The milk seller adds some water every day, so there is no milk at all. People who study Buddhism are like pure milk mixed with water. Yongming saw that the Zen saying of "mixing water" that "Zen has no pure land and ten people go astray" does not mean that pure milk is the evil path of Zen. Master Yongming caught a second glimpse of the purity of Zen on the rock of the wise man. If "purity" was his inner desire, he wouldn't make a decision at the seventh degree. Moreover, Master Yongming was born in Zen Buddhism and is the third generation of Fayan School, so there is a reason why Zen Buddhism is not good.

The methods of participating in meditation, such as "seeing parents' true colors before their death", only seek to be clear-minded and see sex; In violation of this law, later generations went to meditation and gained some pure realms. They suddenly became "quiet" and thought they had time. In fact, they stayed in the dark all the time, but they didn't know an idea came into being and couldn't go any further. Therefore, Yongming said, "I will go with him before the shadow suddenly appears", but it is better to read Buddha and "cultivate ten thousand people." "

You have to "have pure land" to see Amitabha! ? If we take "but we can see Amitabha, why not be enlightened" as reliable, it is another wrong delusion. In the Shurangama Sutra, Ananda said, "I am a Buddhist, and I am a monk. I am strong by Buddha, and I often think to myself: I will be called Tathagata, benefiting me; I don't know my body and mind, I don't want to be a substitute, and I lose my heart. " So is it that the power of Sakyamuni Buddha cannot be relied on and can't benefit me samadhi? But the great god of amitabha can rely on me. Can he benefit me from samadhi? It is better to dream of three evils and five desires than to miss Buddha: dream well and wake up happy; Have nightmares, wake up feeling depressed, so blindly delusional, it is better to concentrate on Buddhism. If Buddhism is universal and "Zen has pure land", it is the noblest practice. If a tiger has power, who can provoke it with two horns? It is only natural to become a Buddha for a teacher. As for those who have no good roots, they don't believe in Zen and purity, and confusion will rob thousands of lives. "There is no one to rely on."

I have never advised anyone not to read Buddha in my life, but I am dissatisfied with others' advice not to participate in meditation. Every time I read the Shurangama Sutra, I feel that the words of evil teachers are like Ganges sand, which makes me sad. Therefore, I will now briefly debate the meaning of "Four Bamboo Slips", and hope that all pedestrians will stop arguing about two methods of Zen purification because of the bias of "Four Bamboo Slips" and don't disappoint Master Yongming.

—— The above excerpts are from "Fifty-three Zen" published by Xianghai Cihang in Sandietan, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong.