What does the six ancestors of Huineng mean by self nature?

The famous verses of the six ancestors of Huineng are as follows:

1. Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform; There was nothing in the first place, where to provoke the sharp.

2. Lost in time, enlightened self-degree.

3. Anyone who is not stupid about his own nature and does not know the pure land in his body, he is willing to face the east and understand people everywhere.

4. Don't think about good, don't think about evil, that's what you are at the moment.

5. The nature of non-duality is the Buddha nature. Everything is one, and one is everything. All the Dharma is inseparable from its own nature.

6. The lower people have the upper wisdom, and the upper people have no wisdom.

7. Buddhism is in the world, not leaving the world, and looking for Bodhi when leaving the world is just like looking for a rabbit's horns.

8. Huineng has no tricks and constantly thinks about it; Counting the state of mind, how long is Bodhi?

9. Born to sit and not to sit, and dead to lie and not to sit; A stinky bone, what is a homework.

10. The mind is nothing but self-precepts, the mind is free of foolishness and self-nature, the mind is free from chaos and self-determination, does not increase or decrease from Vajra, and the body goes to the body to come to the samadhi.

11. That is, the heart is famous and wise, that is, the Buddha is fixed; Dinghui waits for it, and the intention is pure. To understand this method, by your habits; There is no life with the original, and double cultivation is positive.

12. The etiquette is slow, and the head is not on the ground; If you have my sin, you will live, and you will be blessed with forgetfulness.

13. Your name is Fada, and you have not stopped reciting diligently; Empty recitation but follow the sound, the clear heart number Bodhisattva. Thou hast a reason for thy sake, and I have spoken for thee; But the Buddha is silent, and the lotus flower comes from the mouth.

14. The heart is fascinated by the Fahua, and the mind is transformed into the Fahua; The chanting has been unknown for a long time, and righteousness is a family; If there is no thought, it is right, and if there is a thought, it becomes evil; Regardless of whether there is or not, the long royal white ox cart.

15. Self-nature has three bodies, and invents four wisdoms; Do not leave the fate of seeing and hearing, and ascend to the Buddha land detachedly. I now say for you, the truth of faith will never be lost; Don't learn to seek, say Bodhi all day long.

16. The heart contains all kinds of things, and the general rain is all sprouting; Epiphany has been, and Bodhi fruit is self-contained.

Explanation of the Self-Nature of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng: Self-nature is an important concept that often appears in Buddhist texts.

Self-nature, that is, the bright nature and wisdom that people have in their hearts and are self-sufficient, is the spiritual essence of people. In all the schools of Buddhism, whether it is Hinayana or Mahayana, whether it is a teaching, or a sect, it is talked about. However, due to the different core ideas of each school, the meanings given are often different.

Everyone has self-nature, that is to say, everyone has Buddha nature, this thing can understand everything, and it can give birth to a stool of old cuts. Attained people who have practiced for generations have attained enlightenment or enlightenment, and the things and realms they have seen are seeing their own nature.

The self-nature of the ancestors is the true righteousness that is revealed after being free from all kinds of pervasive grasping, because it is called emptiness because it is detached from self-grasping and dharma-grasping. However, the true nature and dharma of all things that are revealed after detachment are indeed permanent and eternal and extinguish, so there is. In this way, the wisdom attained by detachment from all kinds of false attachments is true, and there is such a delusional dharma everywhere as it is, so it is emptiness, that is, the emptiness of existence is a vacuum, that is, emptiness is only true existence.

In the Dharma realm, if you want to say that this Dharma has a separate body, it is definitely unattainable, but the Dharma is dependent on the other Dharma, and one Dharma is dependent on the other Dharma, and there is no existence without all the Dharma! Therefore, it is said that all the dharmas are empty, empty to the point of complete emptiness, and the other dharma is the fate of all the dharmas, which is full of all beings, and there is to be completely there.

Introduction to Master Huineng of the Sixth Ancestor:

Master Huineng (February 27, 638 (February 27, 638 [the eighth day of the second lunar month] 713), commonly known as Lu, was a native of Yanshan, Hebei Province (present-day Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province), and was exiled to Xinzhou in Lingnan (present-day Xinxing County, Guangdong) with his father. The patriarch of Zen Buddhism, the five ancestors of Huangmei, Hongren, taught the mantle, inherited the Dongshan method, and was the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, known as the six ancestors of Zen Buddhism.

Tang Xianzong pursued the Dajian Zen master. It is one of the Buddhist monks who has a significant influence in the history of the country. Chen Yinke praised the six ancestors:

It is specially proposed to point directly to the hearts of the people, see the nature of the Buddha's purpose, sweep away the monks' cumbersome chapters and sentences, destroy the clear, deaf and reinvigorate, and consolidate a major event in the history of Buddhism in our country! ”

The Dharma names of the six ancestors have always been "Huineng" or "Huineng". It is said that the Sixth Patriarch himself was illiterate, but Fahai, a member of the Sixth Patriarch, once recorded that "......Designed for the name, can be up and down. Father said, what is the name of Huineng?

The monk said, the beneficiary. Benefiting sentient beings with the Dharma; In addition, the Nanhua Temple, where the true body of the six ancestors is placed, is also subject to "Huineng", and it can be seen that "Huineng" should be a mistake.

The sages Confucius, Lao Tzu and Huineng, who represent Oriental thought, are listed as the "Three Sages of the East". As one of the most influential thinkers in the history of our country, Huineng's philosophy and wisdom are still useful inspiration and have attracted more and more attention.

Six Ancestors HuinengAll enlightenedVersesIt is the master of the time who has realized his self-control, not thinking about good or evil, and that is your true face at this moment. That is, the heart name wisdom is the Buddha's determination, and the wisdom of the mind is pure, and the understanding of this method is made by your habits, and the double cultivation is positive with the book, and the ritual book is slow down and the head is not ridiculed, and there is my sin that is life and forgetfulness.

The characteristics of the six ancestors who can all enlighten the verses

Thou art now the name of the Dharma is diligent recitation has not stopped, empty recitation but follow the statement of the heart number of the Bodhisattva, you have a reason for you to say today, but believe in the Buddha without words lotus from the mouth, the heart of the Fahua.

Turn your mind to understand the Fahua, recite the long-term unknown and righteous as a family, no thought is the right thought of evil, there is no long royal white ox cart, the heart contains all kinds of general rain are all sprouted, and the epiphany flower has Bodhi fruit.

Self-contained. If you can drill wood out of the fire and sludge, the red lotus is a good medicine, but to the heart to remove the sin, the name of the true repentance, if you want to come to find the Dharma body, leave the Dharma and wash your heart, try to see yourself, Mo Youyou, after the thought of a lifetime, if you are relieved, if you realize the Mahayana, you can see the sexuality, reverence and respect, and ask for the heart.

Bodhi has no tree,Spiegel is not a platformThere was nothing in the first placeWhere to stir up dust. ——Excerpt from "The Altar of the Six Patriarchs".

The explanation of the six ancestors.

Buddhists call the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism Huineng. He studied under the five ancestors Hongren, advocating to go straight to the source of the heart and become a Buddha with epiphany. At first, Huineng propagated the Dharma in Lingnan as the Southern Sect, and later became the "Five Families and Seven Sects Fighting Group", which had a far-reaching influence.

There is the "Altar Sutra" handed down. See Song Zhipan, "Buddha Tongji Dharma Zen Buddhism". Tang Liu Yuxi, "Buddha's Clothes Ming":

The six ancestors have not yet appeared, and their emergence is also slight. Former Shu Wei Zhuang "The Gift of the Buddha's Name" poem: "Thinking about the six ancestors to pass on the heart seal, but never read the Tibetan scriptures."

Qing Gong Zizhen's "Jihai Miscellaneous Poems" Qi Yinyin Bayi: "My book is called "The Legend of the Three Trees", and the six ancestors have a total of one rooftop. ”

Word Decomposition Explanation of Six Ù Number of names, five plus one (often capitalized "Lu" on banknotes or documents): Six Books (six kinds of word-making methods summarized by analyzing the shape, sound, and meaning of Chinese characters in ancient times). Rokko.

Six Arts (..)In ancient times, it referred to the six skills of "ceremony", "music", "archery", "royal", "calligraphy" and "number".Pentachion).

Explanation of the Six Desires Zu Zu ǔ Father's previous generation: grandfather. Zukao.

Grandmother. Zu Yan. Calling people who are contemporaries of their grandfather:

Grandfather. Grandmother. Ancestors:

Ancestors. Ancestral industry. Ancestry.

Ancestral sacrifice. High Hall of the Fatherland. Beginning, Beginning :

Originator. The founder of a certain cause or faction: the patriarch.

When traveling, the god of the road is sacrificed, and by extension, it is a send-off.

What a self-nature. It was quiet.

What a self-nature. Ben does not live and die.

What a self-nature. This is self-sufficient.

What a self-nature. Ben is unshaken.

What a self-nature. It can give birth to ten thousand laws.

All laws are inseparable from their own nature.

When is the nature of self-purity? When is the self-nature not born and destroyed? When is self-nature self-sufficient?

The Fifth Patriarch Master told the Sixth Patriarch the Diamond Sutra, saying that you should not live in love, nor in love, nor in emptiness, nor in existence, but that you should "live without dwelling and give birth to its heart". At this time, the Sixth Patriarch Master suddenly became enlightened. This great realization is to understand this deep wisdom from beginning to end.

Because he understands the wisdom of deep prajna, he is able to "keep all the dharmas from his own nature", and he knows that the mind gives birth to all the dharmas, and the ten thousand dharmas are idealistic. All the ten thousand dharmas are originally manifested by their own nature. He said to the Five Patriarchs:

When is the nature of self-purity: he said, "Alas! I really didn't expect that this self-nature was originally unclean and pure.

If you say that you are not dirty or clean, how can you say that you are pure? When we say purity, we mean that we are not pure, so that we can be pure! This purity is the appearance of the body, and since there is no other name to represent it, it is represented by purity.

This purity is not defilement, and then it is purified; This purity is inherently pure.

When is the self-nature not born and destroyed: He said that I really can't imagine that my own nature is unborn and immortal. Because sentient beings are attached, they are born and die; If there is no attachment, where is birth and death born? And to what place will it perish? There will be no more life and death.

When is the self-nature self-sufficient: He said that I really can't imagine that this self-nature is originally sufficient, and there is nothing to be owed; Not a little more, not a little less. For the sake of the Buddha, there is no addition of a little bit; For the sake of all sentient beings, there is no less.

But the people don't know each other. Why don't you recognize it? It is to feel that the dust is in harmony, so I don't know the treasures I have, so I abandon the basics and pursue the end, the fundamentals and the ends, the pursuit of all material enjoyments, the pursuit of all vain happiness, and the pursuit of all false names and false profits.

Yes! It's too stupid! This is so stupid!

Alas! Now I know that my own nature has everything.

When is the nature of self-nature unshaken: all sentient beings are upside down and have no concentration, but what about this nature? This is talking about the self-nature of each of us, and this is not only the self-nature of the Six Patriarchs, but it is like this, the self-nature of all sentient beings is unshakable, all are the same, they are all equal.

When is the self-performance of ten thousand laws: Ah! I really can't imagine that all the laws are born from their own nature, and this self-nature is all-encompassing, I really couldn't have imagined it before, so now I have proved this kind of wonderful truth! It's wonderful.

Master of the Fifth Patriarch, when you hear the Sixth Patriarch say this, you know that the Sixth Patriarch has been enlightened, has known the true face, and already knows whether your nostrils are down or up? Do you already know that the hand is pointing downward, is it positive or backward? The hand is pointing upward, is it positive or upside?

Is the hand pointing down and pointing upwards upright? Or is the upward pointing inverted and the downward pointing being positive? No one knows that.

Excerpt from the "Six Patriarchs Dharma Treasure Altar Sutra" Brief Interpretation - Xuanhua Venerable.

All appearances are false, these two sentences are said in the Diamond Sutra, and they can also be said to be the fundamental principles of Buddhism. It means that all the aspects of everything should be treated as illusory, and as long as we don't cling to it, wisdom will arise.

The Six Ancestors Gaozhou Hunger Altar Sutra talks about the absence of phase, which means that all phases are illusory phases, not real phases. Although there are phenomena, they are only illusions, illusions, and they are self-emptiness due to the existence of causes, and phenomena arise only because of the improvisation of causes and conditions. If another cause arises, the current phenomenon will change and another phenomenon will be formed, so it is called a false aspect. Since we clearly know that it is not the real state, we will not be bothered by it and will have painful disturbing minds, and then wisdom will appear.

The above is an explanation quoted from Venerable Sheng Yan.

If you see things that are not like each other, you will see them as they are. If you realize that all aspects are not real, then you understand what emptiness is all about, and you are enlightened. This realization is not logically understood, but truly "seen".

From Zhihu Keling].

Shenxiu's verse "Wuxiang": The body is a Bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror. Always wipe diligently, don't let there be dust.

Huineng verse "Six Ancestors Showing the Law Poem": Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform. There was nothing in the first place, and there was dust everywhere!

"Wu Xiang" is a poem by Liang Xian written by the Tang Dynasty monk Shenxiu. The original verse consists of four sentences and two crosses. The first two sentences use the Bodhi tree and the mirror platform as a metaphor for the clear and pure nature of the body and mind; The last two sentences indicate that we should always pay attention to self-cultivation, get rid of all kinds of worldly greed and distractions, and keep our minds clean and bright forever.

The image is vivid and philosophical.

Detailed explanation of "Six Ancestors Showing the Law Poems":

Hui Neng of the Six Patriarchs Showing the Law Poems used the kung fu of gradual meditation to remove defilement and filth, which is the realm of seeking the Tao, not the realm of enlightenment, so Hui Neng thought that Shenxiu failed to make a "great invention", so he wrote another poem, denying Shenxiu's opinion.

Huineng is inclined to the emptiness of all laws, the Dharma body is not Bodhi, this is clear and pure, and the other is polluted, and it cannot achieve great things, so the six ancestors believe that Bodhi and the mind are both pseudonyms, and the Dharma realm is a "vacuum".