How many cases of Buddhism and Zen Buddhism are there? What are they?

The most famous cases of Zen Buddhism are from the book "Five Lantern Huiyuan", which are all collected from the public cases of the patriarch Dade, as well as "Zongjinglu" and so on. In addition, there are patriarchs from all over the world who have also collected Zen public cases.

"Zen - Empty-handed hoe".

Fu Dashi (Northern and Southern Dynasties).

Take a hoe with your bare hands and ride a buffalo on foot.

People cross the bridge, but the bridge does not flow.

Fu Dashi (497 569), whose real name is Fu Xi, is known as Xuanfeng and Shanhui. "Continuing the Biography of High Monks" is called Fu Hong, also known as Shanhui Master, Yuxing Master, Shuanglin Master, Dongyang Master, and Wushu Layman. A native of Wusheng County, Dongyang County (now Yiwu, Zhejiang).

When Dharma Moses came, he did not set up words, but pointed directly to people's hearts, and became a Buddha by seeing nature. Seeing the nature of the mind becomes the Buddha's way, the nature of the nature: the commonality of all laws, said self-nature, reality, actuality, dharma-nature, dharma-realm, sincerity, truthfulness, and so on.

The case of the ancestors of the past dynasties all refers to this, if according to the common vision of all the saints of the Holy Sect, all the saints who enter the saints will rely on this matter. Empty-handed hoe, this is a broken sentence. Only one empty word is used in the four verses, which means that the importance of this empty word is known.

The so-called empty hand is the hand that has no real master (breaking my dharma), as the Heart Sutra says that there are no twelve places. That is, if there is no real self, I will carry the hoe. So who is using the hoe?

The one that the author proves from within. According to the meaning of Prajna, the meaning cannot be said explicitly, and the intention is to break the attachment and get it. Riding a buffalo on foot indicates the owner and shows the correct sentence.

There is no way to walk and who can do it, and who can do it without legs and feet? The buffalo is a metaphor for the master, which is the proof of the Dharma body. All the laws of dependent cause and effect are based on the nature of the Dharma.

This also breaks my law).

People cross the bridge, the bridge does not flow after the wonderful sentence, people from the bridge that is according to the wisdom of life and death. The bridge does not flow refers to the fact that the scenery along the way is no longer reversed by ordinary people in the past (the water flows and the bridge does not flow), and at this moment it is seen with all the sages and saints. In an instant, at all, there is no gain.

If there is a difference, compare it to the above.

The Zen master asked: Where is the sun?

The apprentice looks at the sky. The Zen master gave the apprentice a stick.

Explanation: The sun is not in the sky.

Who binds you.

On the day of Bai, Zen Master Monk Du preached authentic Buddhism.

A 14-year-old.

The little monk stepped forward to pray. zhi

The little monk asked the Zen master, "What is the Buddha's mind? ”

The Zen master asked rhetorically, "What kind of mind are you now?" ”

Little monk: "I don't have the heart now. ”

The Zen master said, "If you don't have a heart, can a Buddha have a heart?" ”

The little monk asked again: "Please master teach me the method of freeing myself from bondage." ”

The Zen master asked, "Who is restraining you?" ”

The little monk said, "No one has restrained me. ”

The Zen master said, "If no one restrains you, it is liberation." ”

The little monk realized that he had restrained himself!

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Go buy a set of Zen books that have all kinds of public cases in it, and in the end you have to understand it.

Question, "What is the meaning of the patriarch from the west?" The answer was "the tooth plate is hairy".

If you can explain. The little monk will not have his fingers cut off. I want to explain that it is described in words, and reality is a realm.

I told you to keep your balance, keep the left and right center of gravity stable, and you can walk a tightrope. This caption tells you about it. Can you walk a tightrope?

If you can't, then this note is redundant nonsense.

This meaning, my personal guess, is that it is a secret that cannot be said. The monk understands what the Dharma is, but he can't express it in words, because the Dharma is so wonderful. So the monk pointed and didn't speak (similar to the Buddha's smile with flowers).

And when the little monk made this action, the little monk didn't know what the Dharma was, and the monk cut off his fingers, and then he wanted to point but couldn't point out, and suddenly felt that there was no way to express it, and he understood that the Dharma could not be expressed. Of course, this is a personal opinion, and I hope it's right.

If you understand; and became enlightened; This is the wisdom of Zen Buddhism. It's a plain talk. It's useless.

I understand, you can use any way you understand, and others are easy to accept to express to him, and the reason why you can't tell others in words is because the connotation of Zen is non-attachment, and it is a kind of phase in itself, so there are so many people who don't say the case, imitation is a kind of attachment that does not understand the inner fixed program, the old monk cut off his fingers is to tell the little monk to give up attachment, and the little monk understands the true meaning of non-attachment when the fingerless hand is pointing upwards in a hurry.

People who study Buddhism, especially those who start with light, it is best not to look at this kind of public case, it is easy to confuse people.

Buddhist kotan refers to a form of practice of Zen Buddhism.

Zen Gong Case Gong Case originally meant to refer to a case used by the government to judge right and wrong. The so-called 'case' refers to the document. The official documents and judgments are called 'cases' or 'public cases'.

This has been transformed into a term for Zen Buddhism, that is, to refer to the Zen-style questions and answers made by the Zen Buddhist patriarch and the great master when he received the Zen disciples, or some special enlightening actions. This kind of process of receiving Zen disciples can often be used by later generations as a criterion for judging enlightenment, just like the documents of the ancient government, so it is also called a public case. Ancient Monographs Since ancient times, there have been several kinds of works that collect and record such public cases, such as the two books of "Biyan Lu" and "Congrong Lu", that is, each of which contains 100 Zen public cases.

No Door Gate also contains forty-eight articles. The number of public cases collected in the books, plus the five lantern records such as the "Jingde Chuan Lantern Record", totals about 1,700 public cases.

The teacher's "point" is a direction that tells the inquiring person that the Dharma is all the thoughts and all the sights that are pointed out, and then the person thinks about the real essence behind the question.

The little monk's "finger" is purely thinking that the referent is his own finger, and he thinks that an action and a performance is the answer itself, and he doesn't understand that the real answer is not actually a specific thing that is referring, nor is it a specific tool or a specific behavior, so he draws a gourd, but he is just imitating the teacher, and he has no real understanding.

When the finger is cut and repeated in the same way of thinking, it can be found that what is referred to is not referential, nor is it all-encompassing, and there is no distraction, so how can there be a distinction between purification and non-existence? Everything is one, one is everything, and anytime and anywhere is the realm of enlightenment.

It's not that the Dharma can't be expressed, but that if you express anything at will, you will make partial generalizations, so that the person asking will forget the true meaning of the question itself. Words and language are just tools of people's own mind, just like the fingers of a little monk, who are obsessed with the use of tools or the state of the tools themselves, and will forget and ignore the original purpose and direction of the tools. Some people say that the Dharma is unspeakable, or that once it is explained, it becomes wrong.

But this act of abandoning tools is itself a form of paranoia. Explanations of the Dharma need to be tailored to different situations, clinging to the fingers or giving up the fingers, which is not correct, knowing how to use the fingers and knowing how to use them, this is where the practice is attained.

Buddhism lies in the human heart, without attachment and without delusion.

The moon is the truth of all laws, and the finger pointing to the moon is a tool to reach the truth. For example, if you want to cross the other side of liberation, do you still have to carry a boat when you go ashore? If we want to reach the truth that all dharmas are empty, we have to cut off our self-grasping, and the moon does not exist, and the fingers that refer to the moon do not exist. Amitabha.

"Monastery Night Reading".

Wang Mian (1310 1359) was a poet, writer, calligrapher, and painter in the Yuan Dynasty, and a native of Zhuji, Shaoxing, China. Born into a farming family. Lost his father at an early age, herded cattle in Qin's house, used the time to herd cattle every day to paint lotus, and read under the bright light of the temple dean in the evening.

He lived in seclusion in Jiuli Mountain and made a living selling paintings. Painting plum with rouge as plum blossom bones, or dense flowers, unique style, but also good at writing bamboo and stone. It can also be engraved, using flower milk stone as the printing material, according to legend, it was he who founded.

He is the author of "Bamboo Zhai Collection" and "Momeitu Inscription Poems". Also known as Boiled Stone Mountain Nong, Rice Cow Weng, Huiji Waishi, Plum Blossom House Owner, Mr. Jiuli, Jiangnan Guke, Jiangnan Savage, Shanyin Savage, Duckweed Xuanzi, Bamboo Crowned Grass Man, Mei Suo, Boiled Stone Daoist, Lao Village, Mei Weng, etc. He is the author of representative works ......such as "Bamboo Zhai Collection" and "Momeitu Inscription Poems".He made a great contribution to painting.

Wang Mian is a native of Zhuji County. When he was seven or eight years old, his father asked him to herd cattle on the ridges, and he secretly ran into the school to listen to the students. After listening to it, I silently remembered it.

When he came home in the evening, he forgot all the cattle he had grazing. The crown's father was furious and beat the crown. After that, he was still like that.

His mother said, "Why not let this child be so fascinated by reading?" The crown then left home and stayed in the temple.

At night, he came out secretly, sat on the knee of the Buddha statue, held a bamboo slip in his hand and read by the light of the lantern in front of the Buddha statue, and read until dawn. Most of the Buddha statues are clay sculptures, and they are hideous and vicious, which makes people fearful. Although the crown was a child, he looked peaceful, as if he had not seen it.

When Han Xing of Anyang heard about him, he felt that he was different, and took him as a student and became a person proficient in Confucianism. After Han Xing's death, his disciples served the crown as if they were Han Xing. At that time, Wang Mian's father was dead, and Wang Mian brought his mother into Yuecheng to provide for him.

After a long time, his mother missed her hometown, so Wang Mian bought a white ox to drive her mother, and she wore an antique hat and clothes to follow behind the car, and the children in the township gathered on both sides of the road to laugh, and Wang Mian also laughed.

The Zen case of the story, I think this Zen case, frankly speaking, is very good, especially this case is also very huge.

The story belongs to the Zen case, and I think there is water in this Zen case, which is relatively good.

I don't know who it is, the cross, the ministry, to definitely belong to some important things.

In Zen Buddhism, there are a lot of public cases that guide us. First of all, let's talk about the clear mind, the clear mind is to first dwell in the ontology of thinking, to understand what is our true heart, to understand that our current thinking is composed of three contents, as long as we don't match the automatic thoughts. This one is also found in the "Sutra of the Altar of the Six Ancestors".

The Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs, "Wolun Zen Master "can break a hundred thoughts, but cannot afford to be on the state of mind" These are not right, and they live in the content of thinking.

This is about contemplation, and we need to know so much. This is the most critical point, the key elements: First, we must understand that our current thinking is composed of three major contents.

Be sure to understand these three things. The second is the division of thinking phenomena, which is divided according to the activity phenomena of thoughts. All of our empirical evidence is, in essence, nothing more than the phenomenon of changing the activity of the mind, not that we can actively eliminate the thought.

This is the second point. The third point is that the thoughts that arise automatically, as long as we can observe them, can observe them, and do not add any concepts. As long as you are aware, then everything is solved.

This is very critical. This is where the core of Buddhism lies. Some people sometimes think that learning Buddhism is very difficult, very difficult, but in fact, that's all there is to it.

That's basically what it is.

If you look at a lot of public cases in the past, you don't seem to understand these public cases, but all the public cases revolve around this. It is carried out around this purpose. After understanding this, you can go and transfer the public case of the past master in the future and take a detailed look.

Understand what is the fundamental purpose of these public cases? In essence, these public cases are a clear mind. Let you know what to do in ** first.

In other words, the purpose of clear mind is to contemplate the mind. When you meditate after you have clear mind, you will know where to put your efforts. Then you don't dwell on the content of your thoughts, you don't dwell on the ideas that go along with it.

Of course, Mingxin has not fundamentally solved the problem. Mingxin is just a hard work. After the clear mind, it is necessary to further dwell in the ontology of the mind completely and steadily, and then wait for the outer edge to break through this realm.

After it is broken, it will be returned to the Rulai Hide.

To learn Buddhism, you must understand the principle, the principle is not clear, you can only practice blindly, repeat the same mistake for many years, and even the more you practice, the worse it gets.