I would like to ask: Who was I before the Buddha gave birth to me, and who was I when I was born? What do you mean?

It means: what was I before I was born and who was I when I was born? Everyone comes from the void and goes to the void. Names, wealth, and relatives are just passing by. Some people are obsessed with what happened to me, such as falling out of love and suffering losses, so they have a lot of troubles. But am I really that important? Will the world collapse without me?

Buddhism began to spread Zen in China, "pointing to people's hearts, regarding nature as Buddha, not writing words, teaching people". The Buddha smiled at the flowers, and Ye Jia understood that this was considered as the beginning of Zen.

Not writing means that Zen is divorced from words, and language and words are just code names that describe everything. This is also the reason why Huineng knows no one, but is familiar with Buddhist scriptures. As long as you know your heart and nature, you can become a Buddha.

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According to Dharma legend, when crossing the river, you don't take a boat, but you fold a reed on the river bank and stand on it. Now Shaolin Temple still retains a stone tablet depicting Dharma's "crossing the river with a reed". Confucianists have different opinions on the explanation of "crossing the river with one reed". They think that reeds are not reeds, but a big bunch of reeds.

After "crossing the river with a reed", Dharma stayed at Changsi Temple in Jiangbei Road, and then went to practice on the side walls of Buddhist temples such as Dingshan. Up to now, Dingshan Temple has also left the remains of Damocles Rock, Banquet Sitting Stone and Damocles. Among them, the statue tablet of Dharma is the earliest statue tablet of Dharma in China, which is 120 years earlier than the ancestral tablet of Shaolin Temple in Songshan. Dingshan Temple has become an important jungle of Zen Buddhism and is known as "the first scene of Buddhism".

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