(one )Case article
The monk asked the Zen Master Datong in Touzishan, Shuzhou, and said, "The sun and the moon are not bright, where are the Buddha and sentient beings?Is itWhere?"
(If you realize the delusion of the Buddha and sentient beings, and if you have not yet enlightened your practice, your Buddha nature is covered by delusional habits. )
Zen Master Datong said, "When you see the old monk, you will be angry, and when you see the old monk, you will be happy."
(The sun and the moon have not yet understood sentient beings, and the confusion of sentient beings is deep and broad. They are all delusional and conquered by their views. They do not understand the reasons for all the things in the phenomenal world, but make a delusional view based on their own intentions.If you want to see if the Zen master has achieved the Tao and the Tao cannot be obtained, they will put thirty sticks each. Is it anger?Is it joy?The Zen master has realized the emptiness of self and Dharma. How can there be anger and joy in the pure mind? )
(two )Xuanxiang's explanation
1.Preface
We people always live in this world of falsehood and truth, taking the realm of what you see and hear seriously. In fact, that is not the realm of truth or realm, but you trust your eyes and ears too much, so you often deceive yourself.If you can not cling to it in your thoughts and actions, no matter how reasonable or true you think, if you pass the state, everything will eventually become silent.In fact, it is not really the case. It is very likely that it will happen, or it may not happen, so it will not be like you imagined.
We live in the world, and the six senses of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind are often confused by the six dusts of color, sound, fragrance, taste, touch, and Dharma, and then they are willing to understand them based on their own mood.Like this case, you believe too much about what you are seeing. When you see the Zen master laughing, you think the Zen master is in a good mood today. Who knows his mood?Is it a realm of truth or falsehood?
Another example is that what a person's eyes see and what he hears, if it is not the fact, but is just a manifestation, he often believes in what he sees and hears to irrational people, and responds to the fate, and of course he will live in the abyss of pain.For example, one day when you see your half, you walk on the road with someone you don’t know, and you talk and laugh. Maybe you think seeing is the basis for you and don’t ask clearly, you will be hindered in your heart. Over time, the couple will have a gap.backDivorce ends.For example, some people with bad intentions specially create grievances to harm others. If you are not objective and do not transcend your feelings, you will often be involved in some vortex of right and wrong, and when you make a mistake,backIt's too late to regret.Therefore, if you have something to see and hear, you must be able to see things with a normal mind, think more about others, why did he do this, and whether he has a memorizationbackThe helplessness and unscrupulous difficulties?
2.Explanation of the topic
「The case of deeming false as true is always revealed in our daily lives. We often use familiar thinking patterns to recognize and judge things. The state of mind caused by seeing, hearing, smelling, smelling, smelling, and touching are all thought and determined based on the habits we are accustomed to.People cannot turn a blind eye, listen but not smell, lick but not distinguish between the ups and downs, smell but not know the fragrance but not the odor, touch but not distinguish between the soft and hard, and will live in the painful state of ordinary people.Therefore, sentient beings always live in wrong cognition, which will lead to many troubles.
This case tells us not to always just see the surface of things and not look at the consequences.backThe cause.If this phenomenon is not clear and clear, it is an ordinary person.If you mistakenly think that the state of contact between the five roots of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body will of course be in great pain.This is how society is now. Even though he killed someone, he didn't see it with his own eyes. He could not find evidence in court. The white ones could be said to be black, and the black ones could be said to be white. Everything needs evidence, but it is difficult for even the judge to judge what the evidence is true.Sometimes evidence and witnesses are still unreliable, and they are afraid of people with ulterior motives.
Which worldly things are real?There is no real thing, it is just a temporary appearance. One hundred people see the same thingback,There are a hundred different interpretations, so how can this be true!Therefore, we cannot take everything in the world too seriously. We often consider false as true and read this caseback,A wise man should always maintain a normal mind and not affect your consciousness and feelings by what he sees or hears.
3.Language style explanation
The monk asked: "The sun and the moon are not clear, where are the Buddha and sentient beings?Is itWhere?"The sun and the moon are not clear, which is an ordinary person. Ordinary person also has Buddha nature. If the sun and the moon are not clear, then where is the Buddha nature?What is the personality of an ordinary personIs itWoolen cloth?This case originated from the phenomenal world. Those who have not yet realized their enlightenment will be covered by delusions and habits, so they still live in all illusions.
Zen practitioners often represent our eighth, seventh and sixth consciousnesses with the sun, moon and stars respectively.When the sun is bright, the light of wisdom will appear, illuminating all troubles and emotions.When the moon is bright, you can clearly recognize the eight consciousness seeds, and you will not randomly arise and hold the eight consciousness seeds as true, and enter the fantasy and delusion of the various realms.In addition to distinguishing the world of dust, the sixth consciousness has infinite discrimination and perception, which is the culprit of karma.thisbackThe three consciousnesses are related to our karma and behavior, so the sun and the moon must be bright so that they can control the delusions of the sixth consciousness, eternally escape from troubles, and attain the supreme Bodhi.The first five consciousnesses can only understand the dust realms such as color, sound, fragrance, taste, and touch. If they do notbackIn principle, the combination of three consciousnesses will not create karma.Before enlightenment, the Buddha nature has not yet appeared. At this time, the Buddha nature and sentient beings are (Eighth and Seventh Knowledge )WhatIs itplace?
If the mind is clear, of course, it is to realize the original Buddha nature. The original Buddha nature is clear and it is direct. (Buddha nature is the true present )；Although our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body are able to understand the world of dust in reality, they are not the real reality.Take the eye root as an example. I often say that visual inspection may not be accurate. For example, if I use a ruler to draw a "Ding" character with the same length, which line is longer?You would say that it is of course vertically long, is this an illusion?Or draw two parallel straight lines of equal length, one with an arrow at both ends, such as > one with an arrow at both ends, and one with an arrow at both ends, such as > one with an arrow at both ends, and one with an arrow at both ends, and one with an eye to measure it. Which one do you think is longer?Which one is shorter?Of course you would say that the former is longer, which is another illusion.Because you see me scratching, it is clear that the two are the same length, but the inner arrow looks shorter, while the outer arrow looks longer;If you don’t see me tracing, based on our intuition, you will say that the vertical line of the character “Ding” is longer, and the outgoing arrow is longer. This is all our illusion.You see it with your eyes, would you be wrong?Therefore, it is said that the five senses are still unreliable.
Another example is the imitation show that is popular in TV nowadays. If you don’t see the portrait and just hear the sound of the ears, you will definitely mistakenly believe that it is an artist singing. This is also the direct perception of your ears. Would you be wrong?wrong!wrong!Everything is considered false as true.Therefore, the five senses can only see the appearance of our real life, but the real life is still inaccurate, so the state of cultivation will be even more inaccurate.
「The sun and the moon are not clear, where are sentient beingsIs itWhere is it?"Zen Master Datong replied, "When he saw the old monk angry, he said he would be angry, and when he saw the old monk happy, he said he would be happy."All the views of sentient beings without realizing the eyes of all sentient beings will think that it is really like this, it is really like that. Anyway, if you see the Zen master laughing, ah!The Zen master seems to be in a good mood today, whyIs itWhat's OK?Because he is smiling, you think that the master is in a good mood today and will respond to all your requests. Just ask questions quickly and he can satisfy you.
If the Zen master showed anger today, you would think that the Zen master had a bad temper and could not talk casually with the Zen master today, and he was really angry.Scholars should know that although those who have achieved liberation have anger, they are not angry, they are just responding to the conditions.For example, there is a guy who must beat him or scold him angrily, so that he can change and listen to him. He will persuade him with kind words, and it will be nothing.Is itUse it, so the Zen master should look angry and have no vitality in his heart.
What is angryIs it?It's just a superficial appearance!Is he angry?Is the Buddha nature that is still alive?Will Buddha nature still get angry?Buddha nature will not get angry!It is your habit that is angry, and Bodhisattvas appear to be angry in order to save sentient beings.If you are like a Buddha, this will not be the case, because the Buddha has no temper. He uses his power and power to save people, and there is no need to lose his temper.
Many ancient monks and great masters used this temper to save sentient beings, but in fact they were still in their hearts.Just like in the case, seeing the old monk is angry, and joy is joy, whyIs itDidn't see the real cause?What you see is the result, many of us are like this, not seeing the real cause.
If the repair is done well, the couple will quarrel. What do you knowIs itThe reason is that when you are quarreling, you have one heart that is still, and another heart that shows anger. Only then do you feel what I amIs itWhat about two hearts?One heart is very angry, the other heart seems to beIs itEverything has nothing to do with me. In the inner state, the one who remains unmoved is the true self, and the other who is angry is your false self.If one day I can understand this, I will know that my habits have not yet been eliminated and there is a delusion that is false.
If you realize that I have a calm mind, you can notice what I amIs itWill you lose your temper?The heart that won’t lose its temper is what we are looking for. If you want to see the nature, you must know it. Although you don’t fully understand it 100%, at least you can experience it, alas!That's the unmoving heart.
What is our natureIs it?It is the nature of non-leakage merit, and it is all full of non-leakage merit. How can it beIs itWill you be worried?Will you be angry?Will there be ignorance and greed?HowIs itWill you be foolish?impossible!Because ignorance means not knowing cause and effect, and it (Physical )HowIs itUnderstand cause and effect?It is the present perception of Buddha nature, which does not go through our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body to see, but it has long surpassed our time and space, and knows why a certain year has beenIs itWhat should I do if these things happenIs itTo resolve it?This requires you to experience it from the Buddha nature, and to reflect the Buddha nature’s direct perception and real understanding of that state and that way;It’s just that ordinary people do not experience this, but cling to the realm created by delusions. You think it is a reasonable realm, so this is how you regard the thief as your father.
What's wrong with seeing things from a standpoint?"When I saw the old monk, I said angrily, and when I saw the old monk, I said angrily."Where is the mistake?Now let’s first explain the problem of not seeing the cause. For couples, couples are very happy and have bad causes and conditions, so couples are going to quarrel.When a couple starts to have annoying things about their partner, they will gradually go from a cold war to a hot war to fighting each other.If you have wisdom, use your nature to observe causes and conditions, you will not be so rash and ignorant.
A couple A and B have a quarrel, and there must be a C in the middle that is causing trouble. C may be your enemies, relatives and creditors. It is creating trouble. You can't see it. We ordinary people can't see this, and without practice, it can't see this, just like we see this graphic (Two parallel or vertical lines )，Not sure!It's nothing to see the other person's faultIs it?But your husband is a little lazy and doesn't take off his socks. After wearing them for a long time, the socks will smell bad and not take off. It doesn't matter normally. I was very unhappy today. Why?Is itWoolen cloth?It’s just that C is creating a problem. Have you experienced this?
It doesn’t matter normally. When there are no obstacles, you will say calmly: “You should take off your socks!ThatIs itStinky and still wearing."But today there is a barrier, it's different. You will say in a very bad tone: "SocksIs itI didn't dare to take off the smell quickly, so I was so annoyed."As soon as you say this without reason, your partner will feel unhappy when you hear it. Of course, he will not be happy, and will not give you a good look. This will plant the cause of the cold war.
Tomorrow, if you see something bad, you still don't like it, two or three daysbackThe hot war started and the battle started!This is the enemies, relatives and creditors making a mistake.When we have practiced and realized the nature of nature and Buddha nature, although karma cannot be dissolved immediately, we will know what it isIs itOne thing.For example, some people have relatively high spirituality, how can theyIs itI was panicked today and said that something was about to happen, so I should be very careful and be able to chant the Buddha's name at any time to eliminate disasters.
If you know that an invisible third party invades you couple, then your partner has not practiced, don't blame him, because he knows nothing. When you are about to argue, don't want thatIs itIf you make a serious noise, you can turn it into a low voice. You originally wanted to punch two times, but now you can just punch one more time. In this way, big things can be turned into small things, and small things can be turned into nothingness, so you will avoid the past.
When karma appears, if I notice it, when my partner is about to have an attack, I ignore him and say to him, "I want to go out and walk."I was going to fight, but now you will be staggered as soon as you leave, and the consequences will not be achieved.Practice is to practice this good view of causes and conditions and to be free from the involvement of karma.Practice does not mean that you understand a lot of theories and principles. It is useless to know too much or not to do it!What we're talking aboutIs itMuch, I heard thatIs itLong time, I understand!But when it is really necessary to use it, whether it can be used in time is the most important and practical thing.
When a meditator faces obstacles, as long as you let go of everything, your mind’s spiritual power will come, and you can feel the ending in the dark.Is itLike, but the realm you experience is not thatIs itFlexibility, because we have not practiced and attained the realm of all Buddhas, so as long as you can let go of everything, what is your current thought?Is it?You can prove it,backYou pass by day by day,backWhen the realm arises, oh!So that's it.What are the causes and conditionsIs itIf you can't escape the real perception of your Buddha nature, it will be able to control it long ago. Not only will you know it long ago, you can also control the entire ending;Practice is to control this "fate" so that we can avoid the occurrence of cause and effect. The past causes will not allow them to take shape, and once they are formed, they will achieve the result. We say that "cause" must be "fate" through "fate". When this cause comes, I control the cause, so it cannot achieve the result. Then this cause will never mature and will last for countless kalpas.back.Therefore, the most important thing in practicing is to control this condition, and only when the cause and condition are combined can it become the result.You cannot change the "cause" and the "fruit" does not allow it to achieve it, so you must control this "fate".
So don’t watch the Zen master lose his temper, just say he is getting angry;Look at him happy, you said he was very happy today, but in fact, the Zen master didn't care whether he was happy or not, nor would he say he liked that matter very much.Note: The sun and the moon are not clear, and the confusion of sentient beings is deep and broad, so they can gain insight through their views.Using your own views and habits to gain the world of dust you see.With the dust realm that your five roots are right (This is see )，Of coursebackIsn’t it ridiculous to use your own inner insights as a conclusion you see?
Now let’s talk about the real response of Zen masters. What does the state of "anger" and "joy" represent?Is it! ?When you see the Zen master happy, you say that the Zen master is happy today, you say that he is angry, but in fact he is not angry or happy.The state he appears at the moment is only manifestation of the response to sentient beings, and only enlightenment is enlightenmentbackIn the first stage of the practitioner's cultivation, his mind must be severely killed before he will not have the reaction of the five aggregates.
「No reaction" In Zen Buddhism, it means that the mind is a big dead, that is, there is no interest or reaction to all situations. It is a bit like wood, but wood is also aware of it. If you knock it, it will have a "Qukou" reaction.And we are aware but do not react in our hearts. This is an inevitable way to cultivate our power of liberation and meditation.
Only then can I return to the ordinary after having the ability to lie.Those who can become Zen masters have been rolling around here, butbackGoing back to the ordinary, so "emptiness and existence are the same" and "Bodhi is harmonious". That is, at this time, you will respond to all conditions on weekdays. If you are happy, you can laugh.What do you think of a practitioner?Is itCan you laugh?WhyIs itCan't you laugh?Only you can laugh!You said that practitioners eat vegetarian food, how can youIs itCan you spit it out?It seems that if a person keeps the precepts breaks the precepts, then the person who does not keep the precepts can do bad things generously!Nothing happens!
You go back to Fanyiback,You can still face the situation with an open mind and respond to the fate.So there is a case in the lecture notes. When a king offered music to Shakyamuni Buddha, whenever the music sounded, Venerable Kashyapa would get up and dance. When he saw Venerable Kashyapa dancing, the king said to the Buddha with great concern: "Hasn't Kashyapa achieved the Arhat fruit?Have surpassed the afflictions, howIs itI am still obsessed with this kind of music, so when I play it, he gets up and dances?"The Buddha told him: "No!Actually he didn't dance."The Buddha said it too deeply, and the king didn't understand it and dared not refute it anymore. OK!Since the Buddha said this, he should not be wrong.
So the king continued to play, and together with the music, Venerable Kashyapa got up and danced again. This time the king said, "What is the World Honored One?"Is itWhat about lying?You said Kashyapa didn’t dance, but now he is dancing again!"The Buddha said, "He did not jump!"The king didn't dare to ask again, but the third time he started to music, he danced again. The king didn't understand and said, "World-Honored One!You said he wasn't dancing, but you want to tell me a reason, he was obviously dancing!"The Buddha only then gave him a teaching.
The Buddha said, "When you are playing music, do our mountains, rivers and earth react?"HowIs itNo response!If you shout "ah" loudly on the cliff, the mountains over there will also react "ah". Your sound waves vibrate to the trees, and the leaves will also vibrate. How can youIs itThere is no response?What happens to natureIs itIt will react in the face, and the king said, "Yes!There was a reaction."
The Buddha said there was a reaction, right!When Kashyapa heard your music, he also reacted. If you stop, he will stop, but is he obsessed with your music?No!He is just like all sentient beings in the ten directions. What did you ask?Is itWhat will he doIs itFate, but does he respond in his heart?No!He was open-minded and would not say whether the music was good or not, he just got up and danced with the music.So, in the same way, you will realize that your mind is dead and you will enter the view of emptiness.back,It will deny all external causes and conditions and consequences, and observe that all dharmas are not true. When you reach that state, you will have the skill of meditation.Climbing over the empty mountainback,Understand that all dharmas are cause and conditional dharmas, and this is the case with Dharma causes. All dharmas are illusory and unreal, and all karmas created before are also unreal. If you have the ability to see through it, you will be liberated from everything.
What are you afraid ofIs itAll dharmas?It seems that when I saw a rope, I thought it was a snake, but now I have figured it out that a rope is a rope. In this way, I will no longer be afraid of the rope.Now you face all dharmas, no matter whether they are cause and effect, or all dharmas in the phenomenal world, they have no real nature, they are short-lived phenomena, they are empty, so know them toback,Are you still afraid of it?If you are no longer afraid of it, then I will go back to the mortal world and I will play this method again.When playing this method, it is not just about being happy, but about the realm, and I can only react.
The walker returns to the worldback,In life, you can still live the same life as ordinary people.So when we talk about the five aggregates, there is a case about the five aggregates. (The five aggregates of ordinary people )With these five aggregates (The five aggregates of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas )What's the difference?It was the same, but the content was different, because your five aggregates of form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness were originally false and unreal before you practiced, so you have to abandon it and think it is unreal.Now you have practiced to understand the true nature of all dharmasback,It’s nothing wrong to know that these five aggregates are empty!However, to benefit sentient beings, we still have to use these four elements to preach. If there are no such four elements, what should we do?Is itPreaching?But I saw that all dharmas were not true.If I get sick, I get sick, and I won't care much about what I'm sickIs itLikewise, you will not be swayed by the physical body, and you will get sick if you get sick.
People who are sick have karma. Just as the old master said, people with karma carry a bad shell, and their minds are still liberated and have no worries, so don’t care about illness and pain, be free!If you care about illness, you cannot break the first level of "form" among the five aggregates of form, feeling, thinking, volition and consciousness.Whether it is the effect of emotions, thoughts, some subtle images in the heart, or some of the situations faced by your original mind, or the first five consciousnesses, these are not true before you have attained the purity of your mind;To achieve purity of the mindback,Get it back or use them.If you don’t use them, you will be destroyed, so you should still practice them through the form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness. However, you are very clear about the arising and extinction of the Dharma, so you will not be confused by these illusions, because you know that these are all illusions.For example, if you see something gratifying, you laugh with everyone on the surface or what?Is itLike, but still not moved inside, so he (Ordinary )、this (Buddhas and Bodhisattvas )The five aggregates are still different, although they appear the same on the surface.
If a person is cultivated and proved, he will see what else you haveIs itA special place, like shining!Or if you often show some special abilities and show them everywhere, it means you have something elseIs it?There are also some impure minds that attach to some impure minds.A true practitioner will not show his abilities to others casually, and ordinary people cannot tell what he has to do with ordinary people.Is itDifferent, that is the true practitioner, that is, he has no attachment to Dharma.
The notation also says: All sentient beings seek to see through their views and respond to the Dharma when they encounter them, and they are all delusional and conquer them."Counting" means speculation, measurement with delusional mind.I did not understand the reasons for all the events in the phenomenal world, but the phenomenon world is behind the phenomenal worldbackWhat's the causeIs itIf you can't see it, you will be obsessed with it.Look at the Zen master who can’t get the Tao, and each puts thirty sticks. This Zen master is very strange!If you have a good conversation, you will beat someone who has realized the truth, and if you ask the wrong one, you will beat someone who has a wrong conversation. WhatIs itIf you want to fight, then do you think the Zen master is happy?Or angry?None of them are accurate!Of course, you should beat someone when you are angry. If someone answers well, it seems that you should beat him even after enlightenment. Then do you say that the Zen master is crazy, you should beat him even if he is happy, and you should beat him even if he practices well? The Zen master originally needs to show all kinds of conditions. It doesn’t matter whether he is angry or not, whether he is happy or not. The Zen master has achieved perfect enlightenment. What is thereIs ithappiness?VariedIs itWhat about anger?
But we ordinary people probably think this is the case with this false appearance. In fact, if it is not for sentient beings, whyIs itWhat if he wants to show an unhappy look?If you show this appearance, your heart will be open and you will see it for you, so you must feel it with your heart.
So what if you use your heart to perceive the state of the mind of sentient beings?For example, suppose that the walker has a ability (Psychological )，If your mind is not pure and you feel angry, if the practitioner still has impure mind, the practitioner will also attract a mind that produces qi!If you are so angry that you will feel angry, the practitioner will feel angry. This is the anger of ordinary people, and the seed of anger that inspires the practitioner.Although the saint is aware of the anger you have, he will not show anger you are angry because his nature remains unchanged.The false mind and anger cover our nature, so this nature is in harmony with it. When the mind is not pure, it will be in response to it.So the power of this anger is very strong. Have you tried it?Someone is quarreling, and you feel his anger and cannot suppress it, and you will also be angry, because everyone has the same mind and the hearts of sentient beings are equal, and he will be angry. If he is gritting his teeth for anger, especially the jealousy of girls, it will be amazing as soon as it is released, and you should have some perception.
In the past, when I was taking a meditation class in the Mahayana Monastery, everyone was meditating before the class, but suddenly I felt what I feltIs itThere is an anger that fills the entire void, and this anger is really amazing.As a result, after the fightback,When I started class, I found that a new classmate came to class;classback,This new classmate came to talk about her misunderstanding. Because of the injustice in meditation, he developed anger. This anger actually filled the entire void, which shows how powerful this anger is;backCome on, enlighten her well, and she will gradually be calm.Therefore, don’t think that no one knows good or evil thoughts in the mind, the heaven and earth know, ghosts and gods know, and all Dharma protectors and Buddhas know. Therefore, it is important to be optimistic about your thoughts at all times, and don’t always have delusions.
( 85Said in Fal on August 23, 2018 )
