On this day, Zen Master Dharma planned to return to Tianzhu and said to his disciples, "It's almost time for me to return to China. You have studied with me for so many years. Why don't you tell me what you have learned? "
At that time, disciple Dao Fu said, "In my opinion, we don't stick to the classics, nor do we deviate from them. This is called serving Buddha. "
Dharma said, "What you get is the skin I taught you."
Disciple monk always said, "What I can understand today, such as seeing Afghanistan as a happy event, is that I can't see it again at first sight."
Dharma said, "You got the muscles I taught you."
Disciple Yu Dao said, "I can't see the four empty spaces and five yin."
Dharma said, "What you get is the bone I taught you."
Finally, Hui Ke stepped forward, bowed respectfully to Dharma, returned to his position, and stood with his hands folded.
Dharma said, "You got the bone marrow I taught you."
So Dharma looked at Hui Ke and told him, "In the past, the Buddha presented flowers at the Lingshan meeting. At this time, all the disciples were silent, only Master Ye Jia smiled through tears. So the Buddha said,' I have hidden eyes, wonderful heart, no reality, subtle methods and no words, and I want to tell Ye Jia.' Later, it was handed down from generation to generation, and the last 28 generations came to me. I'll entrust you today. You will be the protector and give the cassock as a Buddhist token. "
After that, Hui Ke was left behind, so he left Shaolin Temple with all the monks and went to Longmen Qian Sheng Temple. Since then, Hui Ke, after Dharma, has become the second generation descendant of Zen in Shaolin Temple, known as the "second ancestor".
It is said that Hui Ke saw a volume of scripture next to the Bodhidharma futon, which is the Yijin Sutra. The significance of this volume of scripture is profound. Hui Ke can study hard and can't get a solution. He thought that Father Dharma had left this passage on the bank of the stone wall for nine years. Although there are few classics, they must be serious, so he traveled all over the famous mountains, visited eminent monks and explained the secrets.
One day, in Emei Mountain, Sichuan, Hui Ke met a monk and talked about Buddhism. Hui Ke took out the Book of Changes and studied it with the same secret. Two monks inspired each other in Jinding, Emei. After July 49, they finally got through.
12 years later, Hui Ke met a young man who was proficient in martial arts on Chang 'an Road, and talked for three days and nights before fully understanding the secrets of martial arts in Yijinjing.
That young man was the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty. Later, he helped Emperor Taizong pacify the Turks, gave birth to Excavate, and was about to marry and seal Gong Wei.
In 593, 107-year-old Huike came to Cheng 'an to give a lecture, so he built a lecture platform more than 20 feet high in front of Kuangjiao Temple. Because Hui Ke's Zen theory is very good, the audience from all directions, young and old, is very big, and the monks in the crazy religion temple are also fascinated.
Legend has it that one day, Hui Ke jumped into the Zhanghe River, then surfaced, meditated cross-legged, closed his eyes and died peacefully. He went upstream 18 to the north of Lu Cun and was buried there.
[Side note]
Yuhuatai is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. According to legend, during the Liang Wudi period, a monk, Master Shen Guang, set up an altar here to give lectures. More than 500 monks sat up and listened. The lecture was wonderful and fascinating, and I didn't leave for a few days. They moved the Buddha, and the rain fell to the ground and turned into stones, hence the name Yuhuatai.
Zen refers to the cultivation and development of mind, and Buddhism attaches great importance to practice. The purpose of practice is to eliminate all kinds of negative mental states and bad personalities that disturb the mind, and at the same time cultivate all kinds of positive mental states that contribute to the growth of the mind, and finally achieve the highest wisdom of truly understanding the essence of all things and realizing nirvana.
Pavilion, also known as pavilion, is a traditional building in China, which is mostly built on the roadside for pedestrians to rest, enjoy the cool or enjoy the scenery. The pavilion is generally an open structure without walls, and the top can be divided into hexagonal, octagonal and circular shapes. Its function is to absorb the scene of the big space outside into this small space.
The Buddhist monk's knife is called Buddhist monk's knife because the Buddhist monk's knife allows it. Knives worn by monks are only allowed to cut clothes, not to kill people. It is said that when the Buddha was in Sri Lanka, a monk tried to cut three pieces of clothes and tore them with his hand. The Buddha is allowed to use a knife. However, because the six people were decorated with miscellaneous treasures, the Buddha stipulated that blunt iron should be used as a knife, which was divided into three specifications: large, medium and small.
The cassock refers to the cassock wrapped around the monk, which is famous for its incorrect color. After Buddhism was introduced into China, people wore red clothes during the Han and Wei Dynasties, and later there were black clothes, tsing yi clothes and brown clothes. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the court often gave monks purple clothes and scarlet clothes. In the Ming Dynasty, Zen monks were asked to wear dark brown clothes and jade robes, while monks were told to wear jade robes and light red robes. Monks are taught to wear soap clothes and light red robes, and then they usually wear black clothes.
Dharma founded Shaolin Zen, which can take root, blossom and bear fruit in China. There must be tenacious communicators, and Hui Ke undertook this great historical mission. Monks in Shaolin Temple changed the name of "Dharma Pavilion" to "Li Xuege" to commemorate the broken arm of the second ancestor Sydney.
When Emperor Qianlong visited Zhongyue Mountain in Qing Dynasty, he was deeply moved by the story of "snow covered with broken arms", so he wrote down the plaque of "snow covered with heart beads" and hung it above Li Xuege's Buddhist shrine to warn future generations that Buddhism was hard-won.