Life is like a stage, in which everyone plays their part, sometimes feeling sad and happy, sometimes feeling happy and priceless. Life is also like a long journey, with occasional scenic scenery along the way, but most of the time it is full of dangers.
Every grass and tree is Buddha-nature, a mountain and a water show Zen, Zen is deeply hidden in the incense and the melodious bells, but also alludes to the lotus tea fragrance and the empty mountain bird language.
Zen Buddhism advocates not writing, but seeing sex becomes a Buddha. If there is no enlightenment, even if you are in the Zen realm, you do not understand the random nature and the fate of fate. On the contrary, even if you are not in Zen, as long as you are pure and quiet, you can feel the joy of Zen. The following is a high monk drunk riding a white crane, this Zen poem is difficult to distinguish, but it is full of Zen fun.
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Yuan Dynasty: Zhongfeng Mingben
Drunk on the white crane to climb the silver que, dreaming of crossing the green luan into the palace.
The wine is awake and the eyes are not seen, and a river of peach and plum is from the east wind.
Ming Ben, a monk of the Yuan Dynasty, commonly known as Sun, Zhongfeng, And Zhijue, was the abbot of West Tianmu Mountain. Since he was a child, he liked Buddhism, and he recited the sutras in a little ink, often accompanied by lights until late at night. At the age of 24, he came to Tianmu Mountain and was taught at a Zen temple, working hard during the day and learning the Tao tirelessly at night, so that he became a high monk.
The gist of the poem is that the poet rides a white crane in the drunken village and soars up to the silver-white platform. He rode the green bird in the illusion again and gently flew into the crimson Immortal Palace. After waking up from the wine, he opened his eyes, and suddenly nothing was gone, only the peach and plum in the river were still ice bathing in the east wind and blooming brightly.
Legend has it that the Five Links Immortal once asked The Emperor, "If there are six links, I only have five links, what is the scene of the other one?" His Holiness replied, "What do you ask me?" The Buddhists did not say what that one was, but instead answered the question and skillfully answered it.
The World Lords robbed and pushed the boat along the water. Immortals are good at asking questions, and the world is good at answering, which can be described as unprecedented. Mingben's poem describes the process of sleepwalking in wonderland in drunkenness and waking up to nothingness, using this metaphor to "that pass" is actually just an illusion, and does not exist.
The first two sentences quote the legend, "Drunk on the white crane to climb the silver que, dream across the green luan into the palace." In his drunken dream, the master seemed to ride a crane and a green bird to the wonderland. There are no bustling tourists, no lively places such as the Red Chamber, only the sanskrit sound like a natural sound, and the secret place away from the hustle and bustle.
The Silver Que and the DaiGong are both places where the gods and immortals live in legend; and riding the white crane and the green bird is also the behavior of the immortals. The white crane is often used as the vehicle of the immortals, and the blue bird is also a legendary bird like the phoenix. Although the poet does not describe the magical scene of the fairyland, these images have made the reader have endless reverie.
Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" in "The people of the past have gone by the Yellow Crane", and Li Bai's "Ancient Wind" in "Driving the Hongling Purple Underground", all describe this kind of scene. However, this scene is illusioned after drunkenness, in fact, it does not exist, so the last two sentences express their own feelings, "The wine is awake and the eyes are not seen, and a river of peach and plum is from the east wind." The master opened his eyes, and the wonderland was gone, only the peach and plum in full bloom, facing the warm east wind.
The three words "all invisible" express a feeling of surprise and disappointment; and a "self" word conveys that the poet sees the illusion disappear, and the peach and plum in front of him bloom leisurely, and also feels that life must know how to choose, and it is even more important to know the release.
This Zen poem appears hazy, the author first writes hallucinations, and then writes landscapes, virtual reality is difficult to distinguish, all things are one, just so-called, emptiness is color, color is emptiness. It also reminds people of Bai Juyi's famous sentence, "Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog." The night comes in the middle of the night, and the dawn goes", it is really like a spring dream, going like a cloud.
With rich imagination, the author describes the wonders of ascending into the wonderland, and suddenly returns to reality, facing the beautiful scenery of peach and plum. Ups and downs, full of fun. "A river of peach and plum from the east wind", free from nature, vividly depicts the artistic conception of the peach and plum east wind. The reader can not only feel a kind of Zen fun, but also understand that life should be down-to-earth, and it is more necessary to follow the fate.