Nong Zen, or exactly the Chinese Zen Buddhism, was a great improvement of ancient Indian Buddhism.
To speak of agricultural Zen, first of all, beg for food.
Before Nong Zen, the Buddha practiced monastic practice by monks by begging for food. The Twelve Heads of the Sutra says, "There are three kinds of food: one is invited to eat, two monks eat, and three are begging for food." If the first two eclipses, there are all kinds of leaky causes. So what? If the person who is invited to eat is clear, he will say that I have a good person: if I do not invite, I hate the other, or I despise myself, and if it is the law of greed, I can cover the way. If a monk eats, when he follows the dharma of the people to judge things and take care of the monks, his mind is scattered and obstructs the way. If there is a cause of confusion, it should be subject to the law of begging. ”
Begging for food is for the cultivation of the heart.
The Diamond Sutra says, "(Hexagonal Mountain Man Press: Buddha) wears a robe and a bowl, and goes into the great city of Wei to beg for food, and in his city, the second beggar has been returned to this place." "
Shakya Buddha begged for food
The Dharma Sutra says that the Buddha begged for food for three meanings: one is not greedy for treasures, and the beauty and evil are equal. Second, for the sake of breaking me slowly, there is no choice for the rich and the poor and the poor. Two, compassion and equality, great profit.
It is also because of begging, bhikkhus or beggars. The Great Wisdom Treatise once said, "The bhikkhus are called beggars, and their pure lives are called beggars." Repeatedly, the name of the bhikkhu breaks the defilements, and the name of the bhikkhus is therefore the name of the bhikkhus who can break the defilements. Repeatedly, the monks have the name of the monks, such as hu han qiang yu each has a name. Repeatedly, when I was ordained, I said that I had taken the vows for the fullest life of a certain bhikkhu, hence the name bhikkhu. ”
Begging for food is meant to do merit. The Sutra of Retribution for The Distinction Between Good and Evil says, "If there are bhikkhus who hold bowls and beg for food, there are ten kinds of merit." What are the ten kinds of clouds? One is immature, two are mature and sentient, three are far from slow hearts, four are not greedy for fame and fortune, five are blessed with zhoupu, six Buddhas are happy, seven Ares and three treasures, eight Brahmans are perfect, nine lives are lifelong, and ten are full of silence. If it is merit, if it is always held in a bowl and begged for food, it will be obtained. ”
Thai Hinayana teaches disciples to beg for food
Begging is a precept. According to the Treatise on the Doctrine of the Manifest Holy Teachings, there are five places where begging is not allowed: not to eat the house of the singer, not to eat the house of the adulteress, not to eat the house of the drunkard, not to eat the noble relatives of the royal palace, and not to eat the house of the butcher.
Begging for food has a ritual. The Law of Four Points says: The bhikkhu who enters the village to beg for food, the Qingdan purifies the hand, goes to the hanger, raises the garment with one hand, the shaking in the other hand, wears the seven self- and carries the coat on the shoulder, and if it is in the bowl, the stick is in the path, and when the good Dharma is contemplated. If you see someone, first ask the question: Good come! If you are close to the settlement, you wear a coat. As for the village gate, we should look at the alley phase, the empty place phase, the first door phase, the seventh door phase, the right hand holding the staff, the left hand holding the bowl, the road side, the second brother begging for food. If the layman sends food, he shall not take it, except for summoning, taking it back and forth, and shall not forcibly take it, but shall know that he should wait for it, and that he shall eat it, and even go out of the village to land on the ground, and if the sangha is advanced to Aranjo, he will eat it together. When a bhikkhu begs for food, he or she must have sufficient begging rituals: dressed in a coat, holding a bowl in his left hand and a staff in his right hand, and walking on the side of the path. When the laity gives food, it is not allowed to receive it, in case there is a state of flattery. After begging for food, he went out of the village one by one to place the bowl on the ground, then folded up his coat and returned to Alan ruo's residence, where the masses ate together.
Begging for food has a ritual
The Baoyun Sutra: "Whoever begs for food is divided into four parts: one with brahman, one with the poor beggar, one with the ghosts and gods, and one with one to eat oneself." ”
That is, a person who devotes himself to the same Brahman, the so-called one who practices with the Brahman, that is, a person who practices pure practice with him. When begging for food, there will be fellow practitioners guarding the premises, or those who are inconvenient to walk such as old age and illness, and when the monks return home with food, they will give it a portion so that they will be full and will be able to practice with peace of mind. When a poor beggar is begged for food, when he encounters a poor beggar, he should have compassion and think of himself as hungry, and give it with one point, so that he will be full, and persuade him to cultivate goodness. One point with the ghosts and gods, who are about to beg for food, is stored in a purifier, and when it is fed on the day, it is blessed with incense and satire, and all the ghosts and gods are full, so that they are full, out of bitterness, and liberated. One point of self-feeding is called begging for food by the monks, except for the first three points, only one point is left, and more or less self-eating. Eat yourself, walk in peace, and do not accept faith and charity.
This school is the original Buddhist school. To speak of breaking the heavens is to regard doing Buddhist deeds only as the first major event in the world. Eating without doing, eating without doing, clearly it is like that, and it is ultimately the cause and effect of "eating and lazy".
Nong zen is a great merit of the sinification and modernization of Buddhism
Begging for food without agricultural Zen will be the rule of heaven
The Ten Precepts, the Brahma Sutra, etc., all take the participation of monks in agriculture as precepts.
By The Time of Fu Dashi, this ancient Hindu law began to change step by step.
Cultivators and contributors began to merge, and later generations revered Master Fu as the ancestor of agricultural Zen. The Japanese people said: "DuFu Qi (Six Presses: Fu Dashi) is a mahayana, who has entered and left the Buddha, and who has been inspired by the Zen sects in later generations.
Fu Qi's collection
The Nongchan school, followed by the Great Deeds, also had Daoxin, Hongnin, Huineng, Matsu Daoyi, and Baizhang Huaihai.
One day without doing, one day without eating.
Great Sailor
By the Tang Dynasty, the role of a Zen master in the development of Zen agriculture in Matsu Was irreplaceable.
The monks of the Agricultural Zen Double Cultivation received land support from the society and the faithful, and also formed the agricultural production of the Zen Temple with Chinese characteristics. When Emperor Dezong of Tang was in the Yuan Dynasty, The Huaihai Zen Master entered Baizhang Mountain (Six Presses: Fengxin, Jiangxi Province) to build a temple and made the "Zen Garden Qing Rules". Clearly put forward "one day without doing, one day without eating", just like the stone breaking the sky. And take this as the belief and code of conduct of Zen people. Thus, the agricultural cultivation of the Zen practitioners is based on interpretations that conform to the precepts and ethics. As a result, the unity of agriculture and Zen has risen to become an important method of Buddhist practice.
Modern agricultural Zen practitioners
Its significance: In the essence of religious ethics, there is a deeper understanding of the morality and legality of labor, which is consistent with the rational values and worldview of the Chinese agricultural culture tradition of attaching importance to labor, opposing begging and unearned gain.
The Zen ritual of "not doing a day without eating a day" promoted the widespread establishment of Zen agriculture in the land of China.
This alone swept away the thousand-year-old decay of ancient Indian Buddhism. Those holy monks who blindly emphasize the equality of all sentient beings and do not kill, believing that "settling in the fields, planting everything, cutting down grass and trees, and reclaiming the land" will surely harm countless lives and fear immeasurable sins, are essentially parasites that eat without work.
Zhangjiajie Agricultural Zen Festival
Or it is the emergence of agricultural Zen that has injected new inheritance impetus into Chinese Zen Buddhism.