This Zen monk is a master of contemporary Zen Buddhism. He has followed Xuyun for decades and has been influenced by his eyes and his extraordinary words and deeds in half his life have made a legendary master Xuyun feel happy: It is my real Dharma lineage , which is the tenth generation of Dharma Eyes. A lifelong action attracted thousands of sentient beings to pay homage to him: He explained the true appearance of the Zen monk. However, all these praises and legends are the fate of Buddhas that survived the disaster.
Some people say : "He is like the incarnation of monk Xuyun, inheriting the authentic Zen style."
Some people say : "The drops of great compassion water from monk Xuyun finally made him survive the disaster. He realized his true nature and achieved extraordinary success."
He is a contemporary Zen master, a proud disciple under the seat of the legendary monk Xuyun, a tenth successor of the Fayan Sect , and a spiritual elder . Next, let us step into the lifelong path of Elder Lingyi’s extraordinary Buddha nature and realize the Zen Buddhist connection between him and Monk Xuyun.
1926, in Shanyin County, Datong, Shanxi Province, a boy was in charge of this. His name was Hongru and his courtesy name was Lingyi. The birth of this boy is like a Buddhist son descending to earth, or like a destined cause and condition in the dark. He may have become a Buddha in this life and save all sentient beings.
If thousands of Buddhas and monks have attained enlightenment in one day, they must go through half their lives in the suffering of the mortal world, and have a miserable fate to meet the empty gate. Then, the spiritual Buddhist journey began early.
Time flies, and years have passed in a hurry and may still look young in the entire road of life. At this time, the spiritual meaning was over 20 years old, and there should be many choices for future fate. It is time to make a business, start a business early, or serve the country. However, a young man who should be full of enthusiasm actually had a trace of Buddha nature in his heart, and he made his ambition at this moment: I want to take Zen as my ambition and realize the true nature.
Perhaps the lotus seed has already taken root in Lingyi's heart when he was young, just waiting for this moment to bloom.
In this way, Lingyi's life has a destiny here, and the legendary Buddha road of the future quietly arrives.
Then, Lingyi converted to Master Huiguo of Datong Temple and officially became a monk. He was influenced by Buddhism for a long time. Afterwards, he received the full precepts under the seat of Master Cizhou in Beijing. This year was 1947.
At this moment, murmured the Buddha's voice, the fragrance of Buddha is gone, the green lamp and the ancient Buddha are accompanied by, is quiet and inaction . The young spiritual Buddha path finally became smooth and settled. Perhaps, the future path will be to save one's own mind in the temple and achieve one's own way of maintaining one's own life. In this life, Yijie Zen monk lived like this. In order to make your practice more diligent, you will study everywhere and travel around, which is also considered to increase your experience and insight.
Unexpectedly, after a year of practice, the wheel of destiny rotated violently, everything was like the will of heaven in the dark, and like the ultimate test brought by the Buddha himself, and encountered unexpectedly... This year, in 1948 (some say it was 1949), an accident completely changed his life's destiny and determination.
This accident was extremely difficult and almost killed him.
Little did he know that it was this accident that eventually made him meet Xuyun. Xu Yun's words and deeds became the first drop of sweet rain that he achieved extraordinary achievements.
In the spring of 1948, Lingyi and his brothers had 8 wizards, who were studying everywhere and happened to take a train from Hangzhou to the south. However, this journey is extremely difficult. At this time, on the eve of liberation. Under the changes of the times, the world's situation has not yet stabilized and the times are experiencing disasters.
On the train, groups of refugees were exhausted, hungry and cold, and very miserable. The mage and his group were only on the roof of the car.
Along the way, for days and nights, cold and hunger filled every cell. Lingyi and a group of monks, with compassion, had already shared the food and water sources with refugees, and there was not much left.
All the way, fortunately, the Buddha blessed them, and finally arrived in Shaoguan, Guangdong.
The body is hungry and cold for several days, and it is approaching its limit. Drinking water at Dajian Temple made them curious about the scene before them.
I can only see that more than a dozen masters in the temple carry their luggage like they do, as if they want to travel.
Lingyi was curious and went to ask. Unexpectedly, the words of the masters in the temple made them feel happy in an instant, as if most of the fatigue had been eliminated.
"Where are you going?"
"Let's go to Yunmen Temple."
Yunmen Temple three words are as thunderous as the true nature suddenly sees it. It is a temple where the great master Xuyun of the contemporary era is stopping. It is really a special thing to be able to go to study.
Lingyi and his group had no idea and decided to go together immediately, hoping to follow the footsteps of monk Xuyun to study.
But no one expected that this decision would become the ultimate test of Lingyi's life.
It was bumpy and exhausted again. The fatigue of the previous group has not yet been relieved, and the immediate travel has put everything in danger.
In the end, the crash was about to break out.
When he arrived at Yunmen Temple, Lingyi and his party obviously couldn't stand it and fell ill one after another. After being exhausted and panic all the way, Master Lingyi was even more infected with wind and cold, his whole body was swollen, his high fever did not subside, and his teeth were tightly closed. This situation shows that life is in full swing and is terminally ill.
More than one second will be one step closer to death.
At this time, the appearance of a Zen monk was like the Buddhas in the heavenly mind saying in the ears of the spiritual mind: Your birth should not be eliminated, and you still need to follow the great responsibility in the world.
This Zen monk is a legendary master of Buddhism today, the old monk Xuyun.
Suddenly, Monk Xuyun didn't say anything and immediately invited the doctor to come and treat the masters. He even guarded Master Lingyi day and night, taking good care of him in every possible way.
Lingyi teeth are closed and cannot be given medicine. Then, Xuyun fed the potion drop by drop from the gap between the spiritual teeth. Drops of medicine, drops of great compassion water, like this sweet rain slowly flowing into Lingyi's mouth.
A few days later, the spiritual intention gradually awakened, and in front of him was the famous monk Xuyun. Xuyun asked him to take more rest and walked away with peace of mind.
The masters were immediately moved to Lingyi and told : "It was Monk Xuyun who guarded you day and night, pulling you back from the gate of hell."
This time, it was like breaking the defense. A wish turned into tears, and I should be grateful. It was at this moment that the firm belief with a rock-like heart arose.
"I want to follow Monk Xuyun all my life, he is a great good teacher." This thought arises to repay kindness, that is, this thought. Without any regrets, he officially opened up the ultimate and extraordinary Buddha path for the second half of his life.
Then he always followed Monk Xuyun, protecting Buddhism, spreading the Dharma and benefiting sentient beings, opening a temple, building a ancestral temple, strictly abide by the precepts, and correcting ascetic practices. Every word and action is influenced by the eyes and the righteous spirit of Xuyun Zen. I followed this way from Yunmen Temple to Zhenru Temple in Yunju Mountain, Jiangxi for 11 years. This became his belief.
xuyun's life move made the spiritual mind bow to the heart: I want to inherit Master Xuyun's character that is integrated into blood for the rest of my life.
1, during a meeting in Beijing, Xuyun took a special trip to Datong to worship Yungang Grottoes and Huayan Temple . Lingyi and several people accompanied him. In order to ensure the safety of the Xuyun, the country specially left an empty carriage and did not arrange other passengers.
There is no one else in the carriage. Xuyun sat in the purchase order, and there were two other masters next to each other.
When the train is driving, the two masters immediately get up and sit down in the back row. They were worried that Master Xuyun would be tired from riding the bus, so they deliberately left and right empty spaces so that Xuyun could lie down and rest.
What did you think? Xuyun immediately called them, and with a few words and scolding, the two masters felt ashamed, and even more respectful to the spiritual spirit beside him: "Master strictly protects his dignity, emphasizes the law and neglects the body, so he salutes this."
"Why are you not in the position?"
"Let's sit there, master, you can lie down and rest for a while."
Xuyun then scolded him one after another.
"When no one is there, you should not break the precepts. People who practice practice should keep their hearts alive. Although there is no one in other positions, we have not purchased them, so we naturally have no right to sit there, otherwise we will violate the precepts of stealing."
In this way, this word and action is the most terrible when there is no one." becomes the mindfulness that the spirit will be integrated into the heart for the rest of our life, strictly discipline ourselves, and spread to future generations. And this Xuyun Body Teaching is better than the character of the words Teaching. The spiritual mind uses this to realize it and save sentient beings.
Later generations often say : "Whenever I meditate in morning and evening classes, I am physically and mentally exhausted, I see that there is always a kind old monk Lingyi who is leaning on a crutch without any fatigue in the palace. This gives us encouragement and spiritual transmission."
Monk Lingyi could not have worked so hard anymore. Sitting in the lobby every day is the inheritance of focusing on Dharma and neglecting the body. This will infect your disciples. You should not neglect your practice. You should persist in your life and be diligent for your hardships.
When an apprentice takes Lingyi's clothes that have been worn out in private, Lingyi will always scold : Whoever asked you to wash it? You have to rely on yourself to be liberated after escaping life and death, so everything should be done by yourself. "
Lingyi will be faithful to Xuyun for the rest of her life, build temples and monks, restore the ancestral home, practice asceticism, and cultivate farming and Zen. After decades, she spared no effort to make outstanding contributions to Chinese Buddhism continuing Huiming .
No wonder, the old monk Xuyun couldn't help but admire: Lingyi can take on this great task and inherit the family tradition of Zen. It is my true Dharma lineage.
Then he inherited his mantle and became the tenth descendant of the Fayan Sect.
1993, Jing'an County was restored Baofeng Zen Temple, in 1999, built Baolian Zen Temple and Guanyin Temple in Inner Mongolia. In 2005, he was built in Lengyan Temple in Ying County, Shanxi Province. He has never stopped building a temple.
Someone asked him, Master, you should let go of these busyness. Lingyi said as it is: The people have not yet been saved, when will they stop? This is the Master’s vision and my vision.
life inheritance until 11:52 on February 25, 2022, Xuyun Fazi, Master Lingyi passed away peacefully at the age of 97. I pay homage to this.
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