During the Tang Dynasty, a lazy Zen master lived in seclusion in a cave in Hengshan Mountain, Nanyue, Hunan Province, and he wrote a poem expressing his state of mind:
The world is leisurely, not as good as the mountains, lying under the vine, a stone pillow;
The Son of Heaven, how can you envy the prince? Life and death are not worried, what more worries?
This poem reached Tang Dezong's ears, and Dezong thought to himself, this poem is written so freely, the author must also be a free and ethereal character! Should see you! So he sent the minister to greet the lazy Zen master.
The minister took the holy decree and searched the west, and finally found the cave where the lazy Zen master lived. When I saw the lazy Zen master, I happened to see the Zen master cooking on a fire in the cave. The minister then said loudly at the entrance of the cave: "The holy decree has arrived, quickly kneel down and receive the decree!" The lazy Zen master in the cave ignored it.
The minister looked at it, and saw that the lazy Zen master made a fire with cow dung, and the sweet potato was burned on the stove, and the fire became more and more hot, and the smoke in the whole cave was filled with smoke, so that the lazy Zen master had snot and tears flowed. The minister couldn't help but say: "Monk, look at you dirty!" Your snot is running down, quickly wipe it! ”
Without looking back, the lazy Zen master replied, "I don't have time to wipe my nose for laymen!" ”
The lazy Zen master said as he picked up the hot sweet potato and sent it to his mouth, and praised it repeatedly: "Delicious, delicious!" ”
The minister took a closer look and was stunned, what the lazy Zen master ate was a sweet potato, it was clearly a stone like a sweet potato! The lazy Zen master picked up two pieces and handed them to the minister, saying, "Please eat while it's hot!" Everything comes from the heart, and everything comes from knowledge. Rich and poor, raw and cooked, soft and hard, don't you just see it as the same in your heart? ”
The minister could not see these strange actions of the Zen master, nor could he understand the esoteric Dharma, so he did not dare to answer, so he had to rush back to the imperial court and inform the emperor of the strangeness and filth of the lazy Zen master. Dezong was not angry when he heard this, but praised: "It is really a blessing for all of us to have such a Zen master in our country?" ”
The Buddha Yin said that the lazy Zen master is a person who has truly reached the realm of my Buddha, there is no wealth and greed in his eyes, there is no raw and cooked soft and hard, everything is the same in his heart, his heart is truly pure and there is no difference.