The assassin Zhiche was a native of Jiangxi, originally named Zhang Xingchang, and his martial arts were very good.
After talking about the five ancestors, the sixth ancestor Hui Neng lectured in the south, and Shenxiu lectured in the north, and the two heads of the family sympathized with each other, but the subordinates fought with each other, and they both thought that their heads were the sixth generation of Zen orthodoxy. Sure enough, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and this time it is the disciple of Shenxiu who found the assassinZhang Xingchang assassinated Huineng, how will Huineng survive this catastrophe?
Huineng has achieved success in cultivation, predicted in advance that the assassin was coming, and prepared **ten taels to put on the table. Why do you need all this money?It was not to buy the Assassin, but because the master already knew that the Assassin's previous life was the high-roller who gave him ten taels of gold to arrange for his mother to embark on the path of cultivation.
This assassination, if it is well arranged, it is the opportunity to make Zhang Xingchang easier, and if it is not arranged well, it will be a life.
At night, with his eyes closed and his legs cross-legged on the bed, the assassin Zhang Xingchang slashed three times in a row, and the master was unharmed. Zhang Xingchang didn't know what to do, and was about to reach out to find out if it was a living person, when he saw the master open his eyes. Unconsciously frightened, he retreated again and again.
The master shouted"The righteous sword is not evil, the evil sword is not right, I only owe you money, not your life. Zhang Xingchang, what do you want?“
With a thud, the assassin fainted in fright.
Woke up in a trance, opened his eyes and was Master Huineng, hurriedly knelt down to beg for repentance, the master comforted, Zhang Xingchang only felt that the cause and effect were incredible, and he was going to follow the ** monk on the spot.
Master Huineng said, "You take the money first, even if you are apprenticed, you appear in my room quietly to apprentice, and you still have a knife, you can't tell clearly." Leave quickly, lest my apprentices trouble you, if you really want to apprentice and come back another day, I will accept you. “
After Zhang Xingchang escaped, he found a dojo and became a monk, and after a while, he felt that the wind had passed, so he came to Caoxi.
Master Huineng laughed, "Why did you come so late, I've been waiting for you for many days." “
Xingchang touched his bald head and was also embarrassed. After some explanation, when everything was arranged, he also asked the teacher about his doubts.
Since ** let me go, I've been doing a lot of hard work, and I don't know how to repay it, so I want to be a mentor to help more people. I've been studying NirvanaIf you don't understand what is constant and what is impermanence, please teach with compassion.
Master Huineng, "Impermanence is talking about your original awareness;There are constants, which are talking about the difference between good and evil, beauty and ugliness. “
This time he was even more confused, "No, **, aren't you the head of the patriarch?"How can you say something completely different from what the classics say?“
Master Huineng was not in a hurry, and said steadily, "I am the head of the sage's heart seal, how could I go against the sage's original intention?"“
Xingchang continued to ask, "The classics say that nature is constant, and you say impermanence;The distinction between good and evil is impermanence, and when you say that there is permanence, I am even more confused. “
Master Huineng said, "I once listened to the book "Nirvana" and read it once, and explained it to her at that time, not a word of it did not conform to the original intention, you don't doubt me. “
Xingchang, "* less knowledge, shallow knowledge, please ** teach." “
Master Huineng: "You know what?".If self-nature is constant and complete, why should it grow?Why do you still need to develop bodhichitta?That's why I say impermanence, which is exactly what the sages meant when they say that it is permanent. “
Many people are attached to the eternity of their own nature, and this statement is broken).
From another point of view, if the many distinctions between good and evil, good and bad, are impermanent, it means that everything has its own nature, is eternal, and cannot be everywhere. That's why I say permanence, which corresponds to the impermanence that the sages talked about. “
There are also many people who cling to the fact that everything is changing, so they don't do things and don't work hard. This statement is to break this attachment).
The sages are obsessed with the misunderstood concept of 'permanence' because they see the ways of ordinary people. Hinayana people, due to their erroneous attachment to permanence and impermanence, are divided into eight parts. Therefore, in Nirvana, we break down their prejudices (contemplating the body as impure, contemplating suffering as suffering, contemplating the impermanence of the mind, and contemplating the Dharma as selflessness), and deliberately put forward the concept of 'permanence, happiness, self, and purity'. “
You only know how to interpret the words according to the text, memorize the original text, and take the words out of context, even if you read it thousands of times, what good is it?”
Xingchang Dawu, on the spot to make an enlightenment poem:
Because of impermanence, sages have permanence.
Those who don't know the convenience, Juchun Pond picks up
I don't do it now, but my consciousness is before it appears.
If I don't teach it from my teacher, I won't get anything.
Master Huineng was also very happy, "You are enlightened today, change your name, and from now on, you will be called Zhiche." ”
At that time, the background was complicated, many sects in the world attacked each other, and the disciples also had a tendency to have their own fans and friends, so the master summoned ** to tell everyone:
Those who learn wisdom should let go of all attachments to good and evil thoughts, and do not strive for the first place, what is right or wrong. It's true to be yourself in a down-to-earth manner, what is black is black, and what is white is white. The non-duality is the true self-nature, and on the basis of the truth, on the basis of the self-nature, there are all kinds of changes and differences. Everyone is on their own. ”
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Thou art only to understand plasticity, not Buddha nature—The Story of the Six Patriarchs Huineng (17).
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Zhihuang Epiphany - The Story of the Six Ancestors Huineng (15).
Dialogue between the two masters: The story of the six ancestors Huineng (14).
Zen Master's Answer - The Story of the Six Patriarchs Huineng (13).