Master Hongyi taught the world when he preached the BuddhaDo not be vain, but return things to what they are. Drop itThe insurmountable sacredness of the heart, there is no need to cling to the appearance of vanity, and things will naturally be restored.
The Diamond Sutra says: 'All appearances are false. All appearances mean that all phenomena in the world, whether they are solemn, ugly, defiled, pure, ordinary, sacred, good, sinful, etc., are of the same essence, and that is falsehood.
However, since the beginning of time, ordinary people have been accustomed to taking illusory illusions as reality, as if they were wearing color-changing glasses to see things, and with different colored glasses, they mistakenly think that what they see in front of them are all kinds of colors, and they cling to the fact that these colors are real. Ordinary people are like this, from ignorance comes attachment, and after attachment becomes even more ignorance.
There was an old monk, who was on the ** step in the night, and suddenly felt that he had stepped on something under his feet, and he thought to himself: "Oh, it must be a frog that was trampled to death by me." In the middle of the night, he dreamed that countless frogs came to him to beg for his life, biting his feet and pulling at his clothes. The old monk woke up with a scream, and quickly called all the apprentices to come to the Buddha to confess their sins.
Early the next morning, an apprentice saw an eggplant that had been trampled under the steps, and only then did he know that the frog he said yesterday turned out to be an eggplant! The old monk was very ashamed and said, "It turns out that I have this kind of vain attachment in my heart, so I can scare myself!" Because of the "self-grasping" is so strong, I find trouble for myself. ”
The Lengyan Sutra records that a man who lived in the city of Murora was called Yanruodata. When I get up in the morning and look in the mirror, I like to see the person's head and eyebrows in the mirror clearly, and blame myself for not being able to see my real head. He thought that the top head was a ghost, and that his true head had been lost. Therefore, he went crazy, and wanted to leave the ghost fake head that he was carrying, and to find the clearly visible head in the mirror.
The head that Yan Ruodatta hopes to find is like our own nature, and the head in the mirror is a metaphor for the delusion that ordinary people cling to, and many people often mistakenly think that the delusion is the truth, and cling to it, resulting in all kinds of confusion and horror. Zen people can rest but delusional, so they will not lose their heads and recognize the shadow, so the Taoist Zen master said: "I can't open my eyes on the way to the sudden dawn." This means that in the process of cultivation, the mind and eyes should not climb to the outside world but should be introspected, and naturally they will not become crazy and confused because of delusion. As long as the mind can see, it can see its own nature.
Tisha was a monk of the Acropolis. One day he was very happy to get some nice robes. He wanted to put them on the next day. But that night, he died.
Because of his inappropriate attachment to these robes, he went so far as to cast an insect and live in the folds of these robes.
Since no one could inherit his relics, the other monks decided to give the robes to everyone. As they were about to divide their robes, the insect was furious and cried out loudly, "They are destroying my robes." ”
At this time, the Buddha, through his supernatural powers, heard its crying and advised the bhikshus to dispose of the robes after seven days. On the eighth day, the robes that belonged to Tisha were distributed to the other monks.
The Buddha later explained why he suggested this: "When Tisha was dying, he was attached to these robes, so in the first few days after his death, he first turned into an insect and lived in them. When you have to deal with the robes, he is in great pain, and he runs around inside the robes. If you had really disposed of those robes at that time, he would have been reborn in a state of even greater suffering because of his extreme hatred for you.
Now, because of his previous good karma, he has been reborn in the state of bliss, and I will allow you to dispose of these robes. Bhikkhus! Attachment is very dangerous, just as rust corrupts the original piece of iron, and attachment destroys a person and causes him to degenerate into a worse form of life. A bhikshu should not indulge or cling to worldly delusions, because attachment will slow down one's progress in practice. ”
Master Hongyi said:It is like a lightning switch, like a city of Qianminpo, and the cloud is not to others. How many are born of joy and anger? "The city of Qiandharpo is an illusion, not a reality. There are all kinds of impermanence in the world, and if you are persistent, you will be miserable. Stir your heart, follow your own will, and rejoice; It doesn't suit your own wishes, and you feel angry. I don't know that everything is fake, it's just a dream.
So how do you break through the vanity and not be attached? Linji Yixuan Zen Master said in the "Linji Quotations": "Be the master everywhere". In any environment, at any time, in any place, we must not be turned by the environment, not be polluted by the environment, not be polluted by the words of others, and do not fall into any trap. In other words, it is necessary to break all limitations in order to be able to reverse adversity.
All the environment, all the fate, don't distinguish it, don't say that people hinder me, don't say that this environment is not good. In fact, it's just that our heart is still confused and not enlightened. To understand this truth is to be a kind of wisdom without attachment.