QingZhuo Appreciation 丨 Zen Poetry: Sending Zen People

Send a Zen person

surname. Yunfeng Wenyue

Zen people don't let me visit Nanzong,

Wu Chu mountains and rivers go several times.

There is nothing to give,

Wannian Pine in Zhu Rongfeng.

My zen friends don't want me to go away, this road is heavy on the mountains and heavy in the water, I don't know what years will be in the future. The poets cling to each other, and the confidants part ways. "Wannian Pine is zhu Rongfeng", the last sentence is majestic and extraordinary. The poet gave the Wannian Pine on the summit of Nanyue Hall Peak to his friends, expecting the Zen participants to step through thousands of mountains and rivers and eventually prove their own nature. The Ten Thousand Years Pine is full of heaven and earth, smiling proud of the floating clouds, and eternal youth, only the Zen practitioners who have reached the absolute top of the lonely realm can appreciate the upright and independent posture of this Ten Thousand Years Pine. In a thousand words, the poet's encouragement to his friends has been exhausted in this unspoken word.

In Zen poems, there are not many farewell poems, but two poems are given for the reader.com. Qian Qi's "Sending Monks back to Japan": "The kingdom of Shangguo lives with fate, and the journey is like a dream; the floating sky is far away, and the death of the Law Boat is light." The water moon is silent, the fish and dragon listen to the sound of Brahman, but pity a light and shadow, and the eyes of thousands of miles are clear. Liu Changqing's "Sending Lingche Shangren": "Cangcang Bamboo Forest Temple, the bells sound late; the lotus belt oblique sun, the green mountains alone return to the far away." ”

Text: Guangxiao Temple