According to legend, in the Xiufeng Cliff at the southern foot of Lushan Mountain, there is an ancient temple called "Kaixian Temple", which is the study room of Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty. During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a monk who was a monk of the Great Sense, and passed on the heir of the Qingyuan Yunmen Sect to the far Zen master, and the burden was like a family business, relying on the Yuanjue Jialan, and he should ask the monk for the Dharma in his later years, so he opened the altar in the Kaixian Temple to preach the scriptures.
At this time, it happened that the Buddha printed the Yuan Zen master to travel, and came to Lushan, because he first arrived, when he was 17 years old, he had never seen a good Siamese monk, and was only recommended by the daily monks of Baoji Zen Temple, so he first entered the Sangha, and listened to the lecture under the altar. After learning the precepts and scriptures in the summer, I can participate in meditation and enlightenment in the winter.
Once listened to the good Siam monk **, Yuan had a doubt in his heart about the head of the conversation, and met the good Siam monk to ask for advice, and the good Siam saw that he was very young, but he was very studious, and he had a good impression of Yuan in his heart, so he asked Yuan some Yunmen family affairs to inquire about him, only to see Yuan answer like a stream, talk extraordinary, and never leave the opportunity to be very accomplished. Therefore, he is praised as a rare monk in the Sangha. He was left in the Kaixian Temple.
A few years have passed, the Buddha seal traveled all over Jingchu Xiangzhou Dongshan and other visits to the Taoist monks, when he will go to the Yuantong Temple to meet the Zen master, at this time the bachelor Su Dongyu is on a trip to Lushan, he heard that Yuan visited the Kaixian Temple for a long time, so he decided to visit the Buddha seal that has not been seen for many years.
As soon as the two met, they exchanged pleasantries, and Liao Yuan said, "Brother Su, I heard that you have gained something from your trip to Lushan, can you share it with me?"Su Dongpo touched his beard and said with a smile: "Brother Yuan, my harvest is just a few landscapes in front of me, which is not a Zen machine." Liao Yuan nodded, and then said: "Then you might as well spend a cup of tea, you teach me to paint, and I will teach you to participate in Zen." ”
Su Dongpo laughed and said: "Brother Yuan, you are really well-informed this time, and you must have learned a lot of exquisite Zen skills, otherwise don't take it out to raise the bar." ”
A strange smile appeared on Liao Yuan's face: "Okay, I'll teach you a different Zen machine, you wait, I'll come when I go." ”
Yuan Dynasty walked to the botanical garden outside the mountain gate, this day from the incense to the Yuantong Temple, met the Su scholar to come, the coincidence seems to be the same to come with him. He was thinking, but he didn't know when he would be able to come back to listen to Siamese Gong **. In the midst of the verdant cypress trees, he was surprised to find two podocarpus pines about one person high, and he remembered the two cypress trees he had planted when he left Hoji Temple, and from then on he began his journey to visit Daitoku. So he prayed to the gardener to dig up the podocarpus and send it to the mountain gate of Kaixian Temple.
When Yuan came to the guest, Su Dongyu put down the paintbrush in his hand and asked, "What's the matter?"Liao Yuan smiled and said, "The ancestor came from the west without a word," and then led Su Dongpo towards the mountain gate.
Su Dongpo saw two straight podocarpus trees on both sides of the mountain gate, Su Dongpo knew it in his heart, he thought that there was a Zen machine hidden in it?
Liao Yuan handed a hoe to Su Dongpo, pointed to the ground under his feet and said: "You dig a pit in the east, I will go to the west of the opposite mountain gate, and you and I will participate in the 'wordless' together." Su Dongpo understood and said to Yuan: "Isn't this just for me to work, according to your words, it is still inseparable from my 'Dongpo'." At this time, Yuan Haha said with a smile: "Zen is not a dry sitting and talking about reading and painting, the ancestor came to Dongtu, but he didn't bring those things." When Su Dongpo heard him say this, he was really confused, so he asked Yuan: "Then what do you want me to participate in?""I didn't give you a word here, but you 'participated', you deserve to be an old ginseng!."”
Liao Yuan praised Su Dongpo's words in laughter, but what he said was that Zen is not in words, but in physical and mental enlightenment. It is not difficult to see on the above, Su Dongpo's reflection in the extreme words, at this moment, under the enlightenment of the Yuan Zen master, Su Dongpo had a slight understanding, and suddenly opened up and continued: "If you want to seek Zen from the pile of paper, even if the ink is filled with Poyang Lake, you can't draw the classics of Zen." Zen is the method of the mind, it is not used on paper, but into our daily lives.
The two podocarpus trees of nearly 1,000 years in front of the gate of Kaixian Temple in front of him originated from the Zen interest of Zen Master Yuan and Su Dongpo.
Today's Kaixian Temple has gone through thousands of years, and the two podocarpus pines have not changed in wind and rain, and the weather is thousands. They face the baptism of time, have no regrets, and always stand here.
These two podocarpus have a profound heritage of traditional culture, and at the same time, they have also become one of the beautiful landscapes of Lushan Xiufeng. If you have the opportunity to come to Lushan, you might as well go to Kaixian Temple to see these two immortal Buddha Yin Pines and feel the charm of history.