How to understand Buddhism

In the history of China's poetry, there are many poets. A poet, as its name implies, is a poet who can write poems. Among these poets, there are many celebrities, such as Miracle, Jiao Ran and Guan Xiu. Among them, there was a fair-weather monk in the Song Dynasty who was good at writing poems and understood the true meaning of Buddhism. He is Su Dongpo's good friend, monk Fo Yin.

Monks in Fo Yin are fond of drinking and gluttonous, and often go to their friend Su Dongpo's house to rub wine and drink, so they have lost their reputation as a fair-weather monk, and Su Dongpo always takes this opportunity to dig at Jackson. Although monk Fo Yin is a fair-weather monk, he has achieved Zen. It is said that Su Dongpo once went to Jinshan Temple to meditate with Zen master Fo Yin, during which he asked Zen master Fo Yin, "Zen master! What do you think of the way I sit? " "So solemn, just like a Buddha statue," said monk Fo Yin. Su Dongpo was very happy, so Fo Yin asked Su Dongpo, "Bachelor! What do you think of my posture? "

Su Dongpo always likes to ridicule Fo Yin. This time, he replied: "Like a pile of cow dung!" Jackson Fo Yin was also very happy to hear the news! Su Dongpo thought that Fo Yin finally won this guy this time, and he was compared to cow dung by himself, so he was still so happy. Su Dongpo returned home and told his sister Su Xiaomei about it. Compared with everyone else, Su Xiaomei is also a very talented beauty. Su Xiaomei listened to his brother's account of the situation at that time and said seriously, "Brother! You've been played by Zen master Fo Yin again! The Zen master's heart is like a Buddha, so he looks at you like a Buddha, and your heart is like cow dung, so you look at the Zen master like cow dung! " Su Dongpo was speechless.

On another occasion, Su Dongpo visited a monk in Fo Yin. He wrote a letter to Fo Yin in advance, so that he didn't have to see him in person. He thinks Jackson Fo Yin should greet him with the best courtesy-not meet him. However, Fo Yin, the Zen master, ran out from the temple gate to meet him, so he said, "Your way is not as free and easy as that of the great Zen master in Zhaozhou. I wrote to tell you not to come to see me, but you still came all the way to see me. Too cliche. "

Fo Yin's words made Su Dongpo feel ashamed. Fo Yin said, "Zhao Zhou is too modest to meet Wang Zhao; How can it be like the infinite phase of Yi Chan bed Jinshan in the world? "It means: Zhaozhou is so ungrateful to see the prince of Zhao. Where is the lofty realm? I'll meet you. You think I'm really up? The whole world is my meditation bed. I seem to have come to pick you up. Actually, I sleep in a meditation bed. You Su Dongpo only know the bed visible to the naked eye, but my bed in Fo Yin is a big and wide bed, which is empty!

Zen is not knowledge, but understanding; Zen is not a clever argument, but a kind of spiritual wisdom. Jackson Fo Yin's brief words had a deafening sound. However, drinking violates the Hinayana precepts of Han, Tibetan and Southern Buddhism, and eating meat violates the 48 precepts of light in Hanbrahma. If monk Fo Yin can observe the precepts and is so talented, he is really a perfect monk.