Tang Dynasty Song Zhiwen Dynasty Luoyang monks to Wu Zetian Shusheng invited the Shenxiu Zen Master to enter Beijing, when Song Zhiwen as the Empress Wu Dynasty Fengchen Mansion worship, is often accompanied by the court poet of the banquet, it can be described as a spring breeze, and the situation is very different when meeting Huineng Zen Master. "The New Tang Dynasty Book: The Biography of Song Zhiwen" said: "Rui Zongli and Qinzhou with a dangerous edict. ”
Zizhi Tongjian" volume 2 o9: June of the first year of Jingyun, "Yue Governor Shi Song Zhiwen, Raozhou Assassin Shi Ran Zuyong, sitting on the military annex, Wei Jieliuling Table (Lingnan). "This time he was demoted, Song Zhi asked about his personal character, and more importantly, Song Zhi asked about political standing. In the competition between the Li Tang clan and the Wuwei group at that time, in June of the first year of Jingyun (710), Li Longji, the king of Linhai County, and Princess Taiping killed Empress Wei and Princess Anle, and supported Tang Ruizong.
This is the third time he has been demoted (this time in exile). During the exile, he made a special trip from Hengyang (now Hunan) to Shaozhou (now Shaoguan, Guangdong) to meet Huineng at the Guangguo Temple (now known as Nanhua Temple). Why did he make a special trip to see Huineng at this time, and he was reasonable, it should be related to Song Zhiwen's frustration and Mengsheng's birth thought. In addition, Huineng is slightly different from Shenxiu, who was welcomed into Kyoto, while Huineng is stubborn. In this regard, due to the rise of the dispute between the Zen scholars and the gradual controversy, there have been people in history who have said that there are contradictions between Huineng and Shenxiu for the inheritance of clothes. Actually, there is no such thing.
The relationship between the two of them is quite good. For example, after Shenxiu was invited by Wu Zetian to live in Luoyang Palace, he suggested to Empress Wu to invite Huineng to Beijing, which is recorded in history. For example, "The Biography of Song Monks, The Biography of Shenxiu" cloud: "At the beginning, Xiu classmates were able to be Zen masters and their virtues, and they had to carry forward their selflessness in Taoism. Taste the queen of heaven (Wu Zetian), please chase after the capital, can be sincere and fixed. Xiu also made his own ruler, and the emperor of the preface could not get up in the end, and the messenger said: 'My form is not good, and the people of the northern soil see that they are short and ugly, or they do not pay attention to the law. I also remembered that I have a fate with Lingnan, and I can't violate it. ’”
It can be seen that Huineng's failure to Luoyang is not because there is any contradiction between him and Shenxiu, but because Huineng is humble and stubborn. The contradiction between the two is really nothing. Huineng and the Zhongzong Dynasty both ordered him to go to Beijing, but he never went. Acting like this, Song Zhiwen, who was snubbed and degraded by the royal family at this time, felt very close in his heart.
Therefore, he wrote the poem "From Hengyang to Shaozhou Chenneng Zen Master", bowing to Buddhism and describing his heart. His poem says:
Living in the flames, the lonely sails are not tied. More than 10,000 miles away, three springs.
The ape cries in the mountain pavilion, and the rainbow drinks Jiang Gaoji. Xiang'an bamboo spring is secluded, and Hengfeng Stone is trapped.
The ridges are poorly climbed, and the wind and waves are extremely good. My teacher is in Shaoyang, and I am glad to bow to it.
Wash the empty silence, burn incense and swear a fine oath. I wish there was a leakage of the body, and there was no benefit.
The benefits of things are expansive, and the heart is idle day by day. I got this way, and the road was very late.
The grandmaster believes in the law and abandons literature, history and art. Zazen Luofu, looking for different South Sea descendants.
What is the charm of the royal spirit, you can take advantage of the flames. Looking back at the old hometown, Yunlin Hao is in a loss.
Do not make parting suffering, and return for many years.
In the poem, he said that he would be relegated to a great ravine near the South China Sea, like a drifting boat without tie. Walked all the way from Hengyang, trekked through mountains and rivers, and finally arrived in Shaozhou, where I was able to meet Zen Master Huineng in person. It means that he will change his heart, burn incense and vow, and take refuge in Buddhism. With one's own mundane body, cultivate the Buddha, cultivate the body and mind, and explain the truth that the more indifferent you are to the things outside the body, the more humble your mind can be. said that he has now converted to Buddhism, although he thinks that he has realized the Tao late, he is also "a gentleman who travels the Tao, and forgets his worries" ("Hanshu Yang Yun Biography").
Master Huineng made me understand the Dharma, so that I could abandon the "literature, history and art" of seeking fame and fortune. In the meditation Luofu Sacred Mountain, you can get the miraculous Dharma, and you no longer mind the glamour-infested and hot and barren borderlands. In the end, when they were separated, they looked back at their hometown, although they were covered by clouds, mountains, forests and seas, and they no longer showed the bitterness of parting, so as not to be sad with each other, because they all knew that they would not know what year and month they would return.
Mr. Hu Sui pointed out that the poet "feels that the 'floating clouds' that need to be removed most above the heart at this moment are the so-called 'literature, history and art', which refers not only to the kind of erudition and talent who are good at perfunctory and skillful writing by reading poetry and books, but also to the boasting heart that he has dreamed of with this kind of talent in the past." "In the past, he regarded this kind of 'literature, history and art' talent used to praise the saints as self-worth and self-achievement, and took the 'me' in the reputation of 'literature, history and art' as his self, but he didn't know that it was actually a cover and burial of the true self-emotion, and a 'floating cloud' covering his self-temperament. Zen has the saying that 'the fur is all off, only the truth is there', 'literature, history and art' is only 'fur', and the self's temperament is 'real'. ”
The poet's works of relocation and service can often show a spirit of enlightenment, a real life experience. This path of enlightenment first refers to the path of enlightening the Buddha and Zen.
The Biography of the Song Dynasty Monk Hui Neng contains: "The Ming Dynasty is important, and if the Song Dynasty asks for it, it is a long article. The "long" here refers to the poems written by Song Zhiwen when he visited Huineng on the way to Qian. "The Biography of Huineng" also said: "If Zhang Yangong said that he sent ten catties of incense and poems, he attached Wuping one to ......."Wu Gong because of the people of the door let cast a giant bell, for the writing of the inscription, Song Zhi asked the book. ”
Press: Zhang Shuo (667-730) Tang Dynasty writer, poet, politician. The word is good, and the word is said. Originally from Fanyang (now Zhuo County, Hebei), he lived in Hedong (now Yongji, Shanxi) and moved to Luoyang. He was once named the Duke of Yanguo. Wu Pingyi, a friend of Song Zhiwen, and a mourner of Song Zhiwen's poetry collection. It was famous for its erudition at that time. "The New Tang Dynasty Book: A Biography of Wu Ping" contains: "Erudite, through the "Spring and Autumn Period", Gongwen Diction. When the martial arts queen, he was afraid of disasters and did not dare to do things, and he cultivated the floating map method in Yinsong Mountain, and he repeatedly edicted that he should not. ”
Huairang (677-744) was a native of Jinzhou (present-day Ankang, Shaanxi). At the age of fifteen, he became a monk from Master Hengjing of Yuquan Temple, and ten years later he was ordained to learn the Dharma, and under the guidance of Songshan Hui'an, he went to the sixth ancestor Huineng to attain enlightenment, and served Huineng for fifteen years. Xiantian two years (713) began to come to Hengshan, living in the temple (now Fuyan Temple), here to promote Buddhism, monks from all over the world went to pay respect, the Zen master in this Dahong Zen mind, more random education, so that the ** to understand the mind. In Nanyue, the mirror grinding platform once used the metaphor of "grinding bricks into a mirror", inspiring Matsu Dao to study the heart and earth method inwardly. In the third year of Xuanzong Tianbao (744), he died in Nanyue. When Tang Jingzong, he pursued the "Great Wisdom Zen Master". His ** compiled his French into "Quotations of Nanyue Dahui Zen Master", which is popular in the world. From the above, it can be seen that Zhang said that there was a poem sent to Huineng, and Wu Pingyi once made an inscription for Huineng, which was written by Song Zhiwen and cast on the giant bell made by Huairang.