Once, he went out for a long trip and met a pedestrian who was addicted to smoke. The two walked for a long mountain road and then sat by the river to rest. After Zen Master Huiyuan separated from that person, he thought to himself: This thing makes people so comfortable, it will

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When Zen Master Huiyuan was young, he always liked to travel around. Once, he went out for a long trip and met a pedestrian who was addicted to smoke. The two walked for a long mountain road and then sat by the river to rest.

Because along the way, the pedestrian chatted with the Zen master very much, so he gave Zen Master Huiyuan a bag of cigarettes. Zen Master Huiyuan happily accepted the gift from the pedestrians, and then continued to talk there. The more he talked, the happier he became, and the pedestrian gave him a cigarette pipe and some tobacco.

Zen Master Huiyuan separated from that person and thought to himself: This thing makes people so comfortable, it will definitely disturb my meditation in the future. It will be difficult to change bad habits over time. I'd better quit as soon as possible. So, the tobacco pipe and tobacco were thrown away.

A few years later, Zen Master Huiyuan became obsessed with " Yijing ". It was winter at that time, and the ground was frozen and the weather was cold. So he wrote a letter to his teacher, asked the teacher for some cold clothes, and then asked someone to send the letter to the teacher.

But the letter was sent for a long time, and the whole winter passed, but the teacher still didn't come back to send clothes, and there was no news. So, Zen Master Huiyuan used the Book of Changes to divine him, and found out that the letter he sent to the teacher was not sent.

He thought to himself: The "Book of Changes" is accurate, but if I have been obsessed with this path, how can I practice Zen with all my heart? From then on, he no longer came into contact with the art of the "Book of Changes". After

, he became obsessed with calligraphy again. He studied it every day and achieved some success. Several calligraphers also praised his calligraphy. He thought again: Now I have deviated from my right path. If I continue like this, I am very likely to become a calligrapher, but not a Zen master.

From then on, he focused on his understanding, gave up everything that had nothing to do with Zen, and finally became a Zen master.

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