"Wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart." This is the most representative of the many legends that Monk Jigong has left among the people. He played in the world, was addicted to alcohol and was hiding people over, leaving behind many magical

"The wine and meat passed through the intestines, but remained in the heart of the Buddha." This is the most representative of the many legends left by Monk Jigong among the people. He played games with the world, drank like crazy, made people hang upside down, and left behind many magical miracles. Mr. Lin Yutang once said, "The greatest mad monk loved by the Chinese people is undoubtedly Jidian monk , also known as Jigong; he is the protagonist of a popular novel; this novel is getting longer and longer, and its length is now about as long as "" "Don Quixote" appears to be endless, because he lives in a world of magic, medicine, pranks and drunkenness, and has a magical power that can appear in cities hundreds of miles away at the same time.

According to legend, this eminent monk was in rags, looked like a beggar and a hooligan, and was neither a monk nor a Taoist. There are many debates as to whether this person actually existed in history. After research by scholars of all ages, most scholars are still certain of the existence of this Southern Song Dynasty top monk. The current common view is that Jigong was born in Tiantai, Zhejiang Province. After the prince's consort Li Duwei in the Northern Song Dynasty, his legal name was Daoji and his common name was Li Xiuyuan. He was also known as Huyin and Fangyuan Sou. His birth year is unknown and he died in the second year of Jiading in the Song Dynasty.

In the Zen pedigree, Jigong is the Dharma lineage of Lingyin Xiantang Huiyuan. "Additional Buddha Daoying" lists him as the 50th Zen master of Zen Buddhism and the Linji 6th generation ancestor of Yang Qi line. Linji's sect style has the attitude of a madman "going wild to the world", and its way of picking up the plane is also very extreme. It is said that "the head of the seven-foot stick opens your eyes straight, and you can drink it to stop the madness."

Jigong was a drunkard and addicted to alcohol all his life. "The world is in the drunken world, and the sun and moon are in the pot." The Song Dynasty Zen master Yin Tieniu described him in "Qi Niu Wen" as "If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and tomorrow you will have no money and you will rest tomorrow." But it would be a big mistake to think that Jigong drank so much every day that he was actually a drunkard. Jigong hid in the world of mortals, drinking heavily, scolding Buddha and ancestors, not observing the precepts, and losing his duty as a monk. In fact, this was a convenient facility. Under the cloak of madness, he always adhered to the highest state of the Bodhisattva precepts. He believed that he was an ordinary person, benefiting sentient beings, and using things to make a living. This is the true face of Buddhism, integrating religious life and real daily life. Jigong carried out his mundane career with a human attitude, retaining his innocence and nature in the noisy world, playing Samadhi with a clear state of enlightenment, so crazy and yet so empty.