According to "Five Lights Meeting Yuan", Dahui (word, real name Miaoxi or Yunmen) is the son of xi, a native of Xuancheng (Ningguo County, Anhui Province). He entered the township school in 12. One day I played with my classmates, threw an inkstone and accidentally hit the teacher's hat, so I made compensation. When I got home, I sighed and said, "A gentleman reads secular books and studies law. So I dropped out of school and went to Dongshan Huiyun College to serve Huiqi. At the age of seventeen, I was bound to read the book of the ancient cloud occasionally, as if I had read a classic book. So, I went to Yi Zhiguang to teach Zen master to practice. I have read quotations from various schools of thought. Because I have doubts about the differences between these five schools, I travel around and learn Zen from the old house in Cao Dong. Then go to Baofeng Qiaozhan Hall to be a quasi-Zen master. Zhantang sees great wisdom and extraordinary wisdom. As a waiter, leading the way is a shortcut. But Dahui refused to admit defeat and confronted the teacher for many reasons. At this time, the monk reprimanded Dahui and said, "Before you realize it, your illness will be solved by consciousness, and you will be known as an obstacle. When Zhan Tang was about to die of illness, the will Dahui said, "When I go, I will see Qinchuan, and I will make full use of my machine. 」
After the death of Zhantang, Dahui visited Zhang Wuji and asked him to write an inscription for the monk. Zhang Wuji's family background is very high, and it is not easy to meet people, but he hit it off with Dahui, so he wrote Miao's name to him. When we meet again in the future, Endless also advised Dahui to visit the Zen master. At this point, Dahui started Tianning, and one day he heard it.
At this time, Wau said, "The monk asked Yunmen, how did the Buddhas come from? The door says, "Dongshan rises." If it is sunny, it is not. Suddenly someone asked: How did the Buddhas come into being? I only told him that the south wind was coming and the temple pavilion was slightly cold. 」
Hearing this, Dahui suddenly realized. Although he reached the realm of "moving without being born", he "wanted to sit in a quiet place", so he realized that "it is not easy for you to get this scene. What a pity! You can't live if you die. There is no doubt that this is a serious disease. If you can't see the road, pull back from the cliff and be happy. I can't bully you if I don't see you again. You must believe this truth. Wu Wu ordered Dahui to live in Ugly Mother Hall (the place where scholars stopped) as a waiter, so he had to meditate with the literati every day. Whenever Dahui meditates in meditation, he gets the revelation that "there are sentences without sentences, like vines leaning against trees" and he asks them. At this time, Dahui wanted to open his mouth to answer. He realized that he would say, "No,no." Don't ask big hui again. In this way, after half a year, one day, the wise man asked Wau, "I heard that the monk asked this question in Uzu. I wonder what Wuzu said? " I realized that I just laughed and didn't answer. So Dahui went further and said, "At that time, the monk wanted to ask the public, so what's the harm of saying it now? At this time, I have to answer, "I asked" without a word, like a vine leaning against a tree, what does it mean? The ancestor said, "If you can't draw, you can't draw." I asked again, "what if the tree falls and the vine withers?" The ancestor said, "Come with me." . Dahui suddenly realized, "I will. Then, I realized that I would cross-examine Da Hui with a few more public cases, so that Da Hui could "reward him without dragging his feet." Yi Wu said happily, "I knew I didn't bully you." "And will write the original Lin Ji awarded to dahui, to palm archives. Soon, Dahui was assigned to a separate room to teach his disciples. After the scholar was enlightened by the bamboo grate held by Dahui, many people came to meditate in the jungle, so he became famous in Beijing. At this time, the right prime minister Lu Gongshun asked the emperor to give him purple clothes and give him the name of Buddha Day.
Besides the six volumes of True Eye, Da Hui's works include twelve volumes of Da Hui Quotations, three volumes of Da Hui Fa Shi, five volumes of Da Hui Pu Shuo, two volumes of Da Hui Zongmen Arsenal, one volume of Da Hui Chronicle and Da Hui Pujue Zen Master Tower.