In the chronology written by Master Xuyun, there is such a paragraph:
21st year of Guangxu Yiwei fifty-six years old
Yangzhou Gaomin Temple Abbot Yuelang to Jiuhua. Said that this year Gao Min has Zhu's contributor to the ritual. Even the old days are four or seven. A total of twelve sevens were played. The old man Chishan Fa has returned to the temple. Look up to you to protect the permanent residence. Please go back to the mountain. Will expire. The public recommended to go down the mountain first. After the port of Datongdi. Walk along the river again. Rise in water. Want to cross. boat ask for six coins. Give an unnamed amount of money. The boatman drove away. It works again. Suddenly fall into the water. Ups and downs all day and night. Flow to the vicinity of Caishiji . The fisherman's net got it. Call Baoji Temple The monk recognizes it. Those who live with Senggu Chishan. Shocked. "This Deqing teacher is also." Go to the temple. Save Su. It was also on June 28th. Then the mouth and nose bleed from all the holes. Live for a few days. Go straight to Gao Min. The governor sees Rong Lao. ask. "Is it sick?" said. "None." It was Monk Yuelang. After consulting the mountain. That is, please do it on your behalf. I'm not allowed. Not to mention falling into the water. Just beg to play seven in the hall. Gao Min's family style is severe. Those who refuse to accept the ministry. Regarded as a slow crowd. So table hall. Make incense board. I accept it without saying a word. And the disease benefit worsened. The blood flow doesn't stop. And the urine drips fine. Treat death as a treat. Diligent day and night in the meditation hall. To clarify. I don't know what the body is. After more than twenty days. All illnesses healed. De An, the abbot of Xuan Cai Shiji, sent clothes to offer. Seeing his radiant face was greatly relieved. It is to tell the public about falling into the water. All sighed. The internal duties of the meditation hall are not ordered to be on duty. Practice as soon as you can. Ever since then, I stopped. Time "falls down." Day and night are the same. Action flies. Overnight. When the evening fragrance is put on. Take a look. Suddenly I saw the great light like day. Hole inside and out. See the incense lamp master's comment on the wall. See also Xidan Master in Qizhong. As far as the boat in the river. The trees on both sides of the strait are so colorful. See you all. It's only when it's time to ring the three ears. The next day. Ask about incense lamps and Xidan. really. Knowing is the realm. Don't disagree. To the eighth seventh of the twelfth lunar month. The third night. When Liuzhixiang blooms quietly. Protect seven cases of flushing water. Splash on the hand. The teacup fell to the ground. Shattered. Suddenly cut the root of doubt. Celebrate his whole life. Like waking up from a dream. He has been a monk and wandered for decades. In the Yellow River thatched cottage. Asked by a layman. I don't know what water is. Ruoguo stepped on the stove at that time. See what Wen Ji has to say.If you don't fall into serious illness this time. If you don't encounter Shunshe and Reverse. Knowledge education. Almost missed a lifetime. That has the present.
In the twenty-first year of Guangxu, that is, 1895, the old monk was 56 years old this year, and the old monk Xuyun passed away on October 13, 1959. Counting this, the old monk lived to be 119 years old.
can be said to be a contemporary monk.
The main narrative content of this paragraph is actually the process of the old monk's enlightenment.
The old monk did not meditate until he was 56 years old, his wisdom began, and his enlightenment began.
This is not surprising, meditation is really not that good. Those who have really practiced will know that calmness is very boring. If you don’t work hard, you will easily get confused; if you are too hard, you will easily get drowsy.
Moreover, if there is no breakthrough in a short period of time, the mind will become lack of vitality, stuck in a bottleneck for a long time, and cannot enter or retreat.
has become depressed because of this, in fact, it is not rare. The method of practice is actually extremely simple, but the hard part is balancing one's mind in the process. Without pulling back and forth hundreds of times and thousands of times in self-denial and reinvigorating, it can't be called actual cultivation.
The old monk himself said this:
"From the day of becoming a monk to the time of enlightenment at the age of fifty-six, it is a period of self-sacrifice; in these thirty-seven years, despite all the hardships, there is still joy, Every time you go through the environment to test your mind, the more difficult you are, the more you feel at ease."
Therefore, true practice is not the same as talking about soldiers on paper. The so-called doing something, nothing to train the mind, whether it is to solve the complex and specific mundane things in front of you, or to practice The heart of the heart is the same difficulty and hard work.
A generation of gods and monks need to be in their sixties to get an epiphany. It can be seen that epiphany is not as easy as many delusional people understand. From this we can draw a conclusion:
It is impossible to obtain an epiphany if the training time is too short.
The reason why many people do nothing is because they are too anxious, do not have the patience to wait, and do not have the belief and ability to stick to the hard work while waiting.
Hou Shan has also met many people who want to come and learn with Hou Shan. Easy to learn , Hou Shan told her how to practice. After a few days, she began to lose her mind. She always wanted to be able to pass the sky quickly. Like seeing good and bad luck,But she can't even memorize the six lines of Qiangua .
When the teacher tells her that learning requires a process and time, she starts to wonder if you are lying to her?
greed, hate, idiot, and suspicion all began to come, this kind of person is impossible to realize, because she does everything she does with simple tastes, three days of fishing and two days of exposure On the Internet, such a person is destined to accomplish nothing. In fact, such a person does have a very bad life. In the process of communicating with Hou Shan, I know that she can only make more than one thousand yuan a month and is owed by the company. Salary and personal emotions are not settled. The family is still patriarchal. If you don't mix well, you have to take care of a younger brother.
In short, life is a mess. She wants to change this distressed state, but she is unwilling to put in time and effort. In fact, Hou Shan has encountered many people, and they are typical of Chengmeng.
wants to change the status quo, but does not want to work hard and pay the price.
I want everything, I don't want to pay anything.
It's so easy to think about everything. The old monk Xuyun didn't realize it until he was 56 years old. What about my generation?
People who have no perseverance may become obsessed because of their loose minds, and those who have perseverance may become obsessed because of the enlightenment after enlightenment.
The first type of maturity is actually the most common in our lives, and we can easily understand it. We find that a person’s life and work are in a situation where people like this are generally 100% The state of becoming Mongolian.
This kind of person is characterized by a "victim complex", the specific manifestation is to attribute everything they encounter to external reasons, and the whole world is sorry for them.
The second state of enlightenment is not understood by many people. Many people who have not practiced and enlightened will stubbornly think that after enlightenment, a person will become omnipotent and omnipotent like a "fairy", otherwise , The epiphany is so valuable.
Actually, this is a misunderstanding of enlightenment. If we look at the enlightenment process of Master Xuyun, this misunderstanding can be resolved.
The state of Master Xuyun’s enlightenment:
"When you open your eyes, you can see a big light, the inside and out are clear, the walls are visible, the boats in the river, and the trees on both sides of the river, you can know everything."
This state of the master Xuyun , There is also a description in " Shurangama Sutra":
studied far-reaching with this heart. Suddenly at midnight, I saw distant markets, streets, relatives, family members, or heard the words. This name is compelling, and it is forced to fly out. If you don't be the sacred heart, you will be in the realm of good name;
" Diamond Sutra " has five descriptions of the types of eyes that humans have, namely: naked eye, heavenly eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye, Buddha eye .
The state of "Suddenly seeing the great light, the inside and the outside are clear, and the walls see things" of Zen Master Xuyun is obviously opening the Buddha's eyes through sitting meditation, that is to say, Xuyun Zen.
What is Janna? It is meditation. How do you get meditation ? The mind is free from distraction, drowsiness and greed, anger, and doubt. Simply put, it means liberation.
Through meditation, Xuyun opened the eyes of the Buddha, and then? Then the great monk, who had practiced for fifty-six years, began to indulge in the pleasure of this "realm of fame and goodness".
"Until the eighth or seventh of the twelfth lunar month. The third night. When the six incense sticks are in silence. Protect the seven cases with boiling water. Splash on the hand. The teacup falls to the ground with a sound. The root of doubt is cut off. ."
From the time point of view, Xuyun's meditation should be the first to hit the seventh, and then to the eighth seventh (the eighth seventh of the twelfth lunar month), nearly two months.
During this period, the old monk Xuyun estimated that he was too excited because of the meditation, and eagerly wanted to keep his responsibility, so he used concentration to observe things.
In other words, being immersed in the KONE triggered by samādhi is a bit unable to extricate itself.
Then God helped me.
That day the old monk's hands were suddenly burnt by boiling water, it hurts! The cup fell to the ground with a loud noise, shocked!
an old monk,Pulled out from the mindfulness! The state of mindfulness burst into a froth, and the old monk returned to reality, just like waking up from a big dream.
This centering is actually out of the heart of desire, but there is also a layer of kine on the centering. This kine will make people fall into a kind of pleasure of the unity of nature and man. It is a small universe of self and objective. The universe merges into one.
A small number of people with wisdom roots and great benefits can reach this level, and then get stuck in this kind of pleasure, such as Lu Zhishen in the Water Margin.
He doesn't cultivate good fruits in his life, but loves murder and arson.
Suddenly he opened the golden rope, and the jade lock was torn off here.
Huh! A letter from the Qiantang River came up, and today I know I am me.
Lu Zhishen was a rare "chivalrous man" among the heroes of Liangshan in the Water Margin.
However, after enlightenment, he passed away. This is the home of many eminent monks.
The knowledge of passing away is that these eminent monks and great virtues are indulged in the pleasure of centering, unable to get rid of it, and have completed themselves.
Many people don't understand after reading this, self-consummation is not very good, it is very good, but it is not the highest state of Buddhism.
Practicing self-consummation is the Hinayana Buddhism. Consummation ends. It does not increase or disappear.
It is Mahayana Buddhism to cultivate all living beings to perfection. Consummation is the beginning. You must keep this rare and useful body to save all sentient beings.
If Master Xuyun is not savvy enough, I am afraid that he will pass away at the age of 56 in all likelihood.
Fortunately, the destiny calls, Master Xuyun is destined to keep this useful body, good at spreading the Dharma.
His hands were scalded by boiling water, the 56-year-old self-fulfilling virtual cloud has passed away, and the 119-year-old virtual cloud that saves all living beings has nirvana.
So Master Xuyun wrote two Buddhist verses. The first:
"The cup falls to the ground, the sound is smashed, the void is shattered, and the mad mind rests immediately."
was originally obsessed with distracting the mind and unable to enter concentration. The obstacle was broken in the first stage; then the obstacle that was obsessed with centering and ignored the reality, after being scalded, it broke after hearing that the cup was broken.
is equivalent to going from reality to surreal,Back to reality.
is equivalent to seeing a mountain as a mountain, to seeing a mountain as not a mountain, and then seeing a mountain as a mountain.
Triple realm, two difficulties, at the end of the day.
I'm not calming, and I'm calming. The old monk is really madly resting.
and then say another verse:
"hot hands, broken cups, it is difficult to talk about life and death; spring is full of flowers, and the mountains and rivers are Tathagata ."
Why do you say two songs? The previous one talked about understanding; this one talked about insight.
After meditation, the old monk felt that he was extraordinary and sanctified, and he felt that he had found a home, but when his hand was hot, the cup broke, and the home and self of his delusion disappeared like bubbles (the family was broken and the people died). This is beyond words. .
Use this mind that has no attachments to see the world again, the four seasons of impermanent reincarnation, the seemingly constant mountains, rivers and earth, which one is not Tathagata?
The enlightenment of the old monk Xuyun can be said to be very convincing. First of all, the fact that it is too late to meditate is very realistic. The five covers is too difficult to surrender, not to mention the real burn. Practicing is a long and arduous struggle that cannot be captured overnight.
Second is the attachment that arises from meditation, which is hard to avoid. Otherwise, the "Srangama Sutra" would not be described as the Fifty Great Yin Demons.
Finally, the chance of the old monk breaking the evil spirit is very good. It would be inappropriate and too soft if you call out concentration by yourself, or call yourself out by others.
Only the intense reality of being scalded and the cup being broken can make people feel painful and frightened, so that they can wake up like a dream.
The enlightenment process of Master Xuyun is actually the first nine lines of the Hemeng Gua:
Supplement: the first nine: strikes Meng, it is disadvantageous for Mi, Li Yu Mi.
"Xiang" said: "Using Yu Mi", up and down.
Meng Gua is a thorough explanation of how a person is enlightened from childhood to adulthood. When we are still in a state of ignorance,We need to send out and cover up.
But gaining knowledge does not mean that we can get rid of ignorance. On the contrary, many people have carried on their shoulders the ship of knowledge that ferryed us from here to shore for a lifetime, even if it is very hard. Willing to put it down.
Some people think they should do whatever they want after finishing their Ph.D.;
some people come back from studying abroad and think they should do whatever they want;
some people think they should do whatever they want after they have passed the judicial examination Do whatever you want.
This kind of people are actually people who have carried the ship of knowledge for a lifetime. After learning a little knowledge, they think they are great. Hou Shan has even seen some people in the Guoxue group who call themselves the deity of the Great Tathagata , This kind of person is just learning nerves.
are all self-deception after becoming Mongolian.
So how to break the knowledge barrier, you need to be childish, like the old monk Xuyun, to empty yourself, but emptying itself is not the purpose, the purpose of emptying is to load more things and make yourself more accommodating. The majestic atmosphere is like Baichuanguihai.
So what if a person's understanding is very poor and he can't restore his childish state by himself?
At this time, you need to hit Meng. There are three ways to hit Meng.
The first is like Zen Master Xuyun. It is a coincidence, through the action of burning the hand and scaring the cup, to realize oneself.
was scalded for a while, but was blinded by a blow, and then realized.
The second one is that the comprehension is relatively poor, there is no way to realize it, and it needs someone to fend for it.
For example, Lu Xun's middle-aged people are very negative because of work and family dissatisfaction. In the TV series " Awakening Age", he said to his friend Qian Xuantong:
"If an iron room is absolutely windowless and difficult to break, there are many sleeping people in it, and they will soon die of suffocation. However, you do not feel the sorrow of death from falling asleep to death. Now you I yelled and stunned the more sober people, causing the unfortunate few to suffer irreparable dying suffering.Do you think you are worthy of them?
Qian Xuantong said: "However, since a few people are up, you can't say that there is no hope of destroying this iron house." "
In the TV series, Lu Xun’s answer: I don’t care about these.
But Hou Shan thought that Lu Xun must have thought at the time: I don’t care about this, but what Qian Xuantong said is indeed correct.
So Lu Xun Later, I wrote "Madman's Diary", "The True Story of Ah Q" and other good articles that have echoed through the ages.
This is the need for a good friend or a good opportunity to wake up this person who has become a monk.
This is the No. There are two kinds of hitting blindness.
There is another kind of person who has very poor understanding and cannot understand himself. If others scold him, he can't wake up. If this kind of person needs to resolve the blindness, he may not be hit by himself. The South Wall won’t look back.
You have to experience some major setbacks in your life before you can repent.
For example, Feng Bao in the TV series "Daming 1566", at the beginning of the TV series, he concealed the eunuch in the palace and went by himself Give Jiajing auspicious.
Then he was suppressed, Lv Fang told him to learn: think about crisis and retreat.
Feng Bao finally began to repent after experiencing life and death. This is the need for reality. Come and hit him.
These are the three ways of hitting. Either realize yourself, or have a good friend, or use reality to hit.
Either way, it can be solved by hitting. In fact, there are very few people.
The vast majority of people in this world are neither able to realize themselves nor have such clever friends, and at the same time they are obsessed with setbacks in reality.
such as Luo Tuo Xiangzi, he suffered all kinds of blows, he neither chose to join the revolution, nor did he choose to keep striving for self-improvement. He had no choice with these kinds of methods of resistance, he chose to lie flat and be fucked.
Anyone, in any era , As long as his personal freedom has not been restricted,He always has a way to resist. Of course, people who are enlightened should know that his struggle is possible and that there will be sacrifices, but he still chooses to fight.
Attacking Mongolia is the last and most effective means to break into Mongolia.
Because truth is always within the range of the cannon.
No matter it is to yourself or to others.
Hot hands, smashed cups, it's hard to talk about family and death; spring is full of flowers, mountains, rivers and earth are Tathagata.
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