The Dharma mentioned by the great sage of Shakya, in general, is none other than the three sects of Zen Buddhism.
The Zen person is the heart of a saint. Teachings such as Tiantai Huayan Weizhi and so on are the words proclaimed by the sage Chrysostom. The precepts are the actions of saints. The relationship between these three is originally the same and runs through. For it is impossible for a person to have only the heart and not words and deeds. Nor can a person have only words and no inner deeds. In the same way, it is impossible for a person to have only deeds, but not words and hearts.
It can be seen from this that the three schools of Zen law are inseparable, they are originally one, and they are integrated. However, if we want to use the three sects to integrate and forcibly mix the branches of the three sects together, then no matter how much we mix them, they are incompatible, and the more they are mixed with the branches of the three sects, the farther away from the true state of liberation.
The reason why it is difficult for future generations of cultivators to achieve success is because they pay attention to the branches of the three sects and ignore the essence of the three sects. When it comes to learning the precepts, I will study how big the skater to use is in line with the rules of the sage's time, and how many sizes of three clothes to use is in line with the rules of that era. If you only work holding the shackle and wearing clothes, then no matter how hard you work, it is just on the branches of the law. However, some scholars under the teachings of Tiantai Huayan Weizhi and others only use the elimination of texts and sentences, and the recitation of nouns and names as the important task of teaching and learning, then they are also only working the branches. And some people who practice Zen, as soon as they enter the Zen forest, will use the sharp turn of the language as a tea and rice in their studies, and the sharp turn of the language is peculiar, which is just a force on the branches!
Just as, Master Lingfeng Yuyi said in "Lingfeng Sect Treatise - Showing the World": "Zen, teaching, and law are all coherent in the same article, not only Chunlan and Qiuju." Zen Buddha heart, Buddha language of the teacher, Buddha practice of the law. Shi'an has a heart but no words and no deeds, and a person who has words but no actions and no heart? Today's scholars, not only do they divide their families, but they also study all over their hearts, and they do not know how to be consistent. Therefore, as soon as he entered the law hall, he flaunted the mantle and tin rod. As soon as I entered the lecture, I made it a priority to eliminate the text and post sentences. As soon as he entered the Zen forest, he turned his words into tea and rice. After ten or twenty years of walking, he was full of three habits, and he thought of opening a jungle, standing high in the abbot, claiming to be Zen, teaching, and law, and playing horizontally, strangely, deceiving and foolishness, and imprisoning the wisdom of the world. And with the true Buddha's heart, Buddha's words, and Buddha's practice, there are few people who openly recite it. When I first went to school, I didn't have the right eye, I didn't have the true bodhichitta or the real mind for life and death. ”
Some of them took the position of abbot and became the leader of the jungle, believing that he was a master of Zen and teaching. This kind of unconventional person is just deceiving the confused and foolish people, and imprisoning the world's wise and intelligent people. If it is checked with the true saint's heart, saint's words, and saint's deeds, it is rarely not blatantly violated. There is no other reason for this, but because when the person first attends the school, he does not have the right eye, nor does he have the true great bodhichitta or the true mind of life and death.
Master Yuyi of the Ming Dynasty also said in "Lingfeng Sect Treatise - For Daye": "The third law of Zen Buddhism is not always a law outside the heart, it is the stubborn fallacy of separation, and the fallacy of seeking together." Division, stubbornness, and infighting, and conspiracy are rampant. They all go straight to Bodhi by not knowing the pain for life and death, so the name of the picture is not true, and the end of the picture is not the root ear. Fu Zen teachings, all names, can really consciously perceive him, but it is also the truth. The sharp words, the verses are mentioned, and the branches of Zen are also ended; Through the understanding of feelings, Zen is also fundamental. The meaning of the text is eliminated, the names of the chapters and sentences, and the branches of the teaching; Contemplating the mind into the evidence, teaching the fundamentals. garments and bowls, tin rods and shoes, and branches of law; There is no leakage of the law, and the law is fundamental. Gou Yi Zen penetrates the feelings, why not look at the mind into the evidence, there is no leakage of the law. Gou contemplates the mind according to the teachings, and there are constantly leaks in the law, and the understanding is clear. According to the law, there is a leak in the law, why is it not possible to get rid of the feelings, and the mind is proven. Not only is there no separation, but there is also no compatibility. There is no separation, so the great sages and sages from ancient times all run through the three scholars; There is no compatibility, so the real knowledge from ancient times is all specialized. The six ancestors Nanyue and others have not tried to give precepts and say scriptures. Peeping into the long water, etc., I have not tried to drink the precepts for others. Dao Xuan Huaisu and others have not tried to give lectures in the church. Descending from the modern Zunsu, there are also ancient styles to look up to, such as Shouchang Zen Master, who knows the meaning of the teachings and teachings, and finally does not give precepts and scriptures. Master Xuelang knows the meaning of Zen law very well, and never mentions the ordination. The conference showed the power of the two masters, and also knew the meaning of Zen teaching, and never Tan Zong preached. ”
The three teachings of Zen law are not only separated but also merged and not merged. It is precisely because there is no separation, so since ancient times, the great sages and sages of all dynasties have all penetrated the three schools of Zen teaching; Therefore, all the true and good knowledge from ancient times has been revealed to concentrate on one thing.
Why did the great sages, sages, and great knowledgeable people from ancient times do this? It is because the great sages and sages are cultivating the foundation of the three sects of Zen law. Instead of being like some of the current cultivators, who are just the branches of the three sects. If you are a person who has studied the three branches, you will think of merging. And such a merger is tantamount to making the cultivators overflow and do not know what to do.
Because of the three laws of Zen Buddhism, there is always a Dharma outside the mind. Since it is the Dharma of the mind, then in the original mind, it is fully complete and sufficient, and there is no lack of less, and there is one root, that is, three roots, that is, one and three, that is, three and one. Therefore, it is certainly wrong to separate and cling to one sect and one sect, but it is also wrong to seek it together in the branches. Separation and attachment will inevitably breed quarrels, and merging to seek will inevitably lead to overflow and unification.
The reason for this disadvantage is that some cultivators do not know that in order to liberate life and death, they go straight to the Bodhi fruit of the sage, so they try to be false and not true, and they do not want to be the root of the three sects of Zen Buddhism. You must know that the three laws of Zen Buddhism are all pseudonyms, and you can really realize them, which is the truth of the three sects.
Master Yu Yi also said in "Lingfeng Sect Treatise - Showing Confession": "In addition, you must borrow fate, and if you don't read and recite the precepts, where can you get the Tao eye." Nowadays, the lecturers neglect the law, the Zen door and the abolition of the canon, the higher the court, the more evil views are beneficial. ”
If the scholars of the three sects of Zen law really set out to study for the liberation of life and death, then they must be able to learn the three schools of Zen law throughout. How can a true Zen practitioner reject the texts? How can a true Zen practitioner reject strict adherence to the precepts? How can a true student reject the precepts? How can a true student reject the Heart Sect? For those who are studying, discipline is the foundation of learning, and only by studying the scriptures of the sages can they have sufficient Taoist vision. However, if a person who adheres to the law only works his clothes, and a person who studies and teaches only works nouns and appearances, it is also a great disappointment to the original intention of the saints.
Master Yu Yi also said in the "Lingfeng Sect Treatise - Preface to the Gift of Incense Monks": "This is not the case today, the law-holders are not only at a loss for Zen teaching, but also at a loss for 380,000 yuan. The performer is not only lacking in Zen law, but also responsible for contemplating the mind according to the teaching. Those who participate in Zen meditation not only have the teachings not been passed and have not been prepared, but also verify the outline of the sect without the real law, but also do the real law and death puja. ”
The three sects are originally self-integrated, and they are not fundamentally integrated with the three sects, and no matter how much they want to be integrated, they are still only forcibly blended, and the more they are blended, the farther away they are from the liberation of cultivation.
Just as, the old man Yu Yi also said in "Lingfeng Sect Treatise on the Brahman's Room": "If you come to the world, the teaching is random, so the big and small are multiplied, and they are not contradictory." The Hinayana people, who are ordained and ordained, first take the precepts as the basis, then read and recite zazen, and practice the same method, so they do not have to do it at the same time. The Mahayana people must also take the precepts as the basis, and recite zazen meditation at the same time, although they should practice concurrently according to the main help. There is no meditation, and there is no righteousness. Always hold on to it, and don't look at the mind. If you don't understand righteousness, the offense of Zen will be successful, and you will not look at the mind, and talk about the ridicule of food. The three credits of the end of the law are Zhang, and the corpse is only the blessing of the heavens, and the offender has not reached it, and he has not yet protected his people. Meditation falls into unheard of criticism, and abstaining from wisdom and wisdom is often reduced to evil. It is said that every time it is a medium for fame and fortune, and the precepts are abolished, it is rare to fall into empty talk. ”
In fact, the three disciplines of Zen law cannot be separated, and they must be based on the precepts, plus the recitation and study of the canons, and then the study of the Zen method of awareness of the mind. If a practitioner of the Dharma divides the three disciplines of Zen teachings, then the practice of the Vinaya is only a blessing for adults, and if the offender has not yet attained it, it may not be able to keep the blessings of others. If the precepts and wisdom are wasted, then then the view will be reduced to evil and evil views. If the study is obsessed with holding and preaching the Fa, it is inevitable that the teaching of the Fa will always become a medium for fame and fortune, and if both of the precepts and cultivation are abolished, then few people who teach and study the Fa will not fall into empty talk.
Therefore, those who study should never be sideways for the three studies of Zen teachings and laws, and should unify and integrate the three studies of Zen teachings and laws! You must know that the three learnings have always been integrated in the ancients.
Just as the Tang Dynasty pseudo-mountain Lingyou Zen master, his old man said in the "Police Text": "Bini Faxi, once did not accompany him; How can you distinguish between righteousness and superiority? It's a pity that my life has been empty, regret is hard to chase, the teachings have not been prepared, and the mystical path has no cause to understand. "The pseudo-mountain Lingyou Zen master of the Tang Dynasty, as a great master of the Zen sect, is a person who advocates the practice of Zen, and he cannot be exempted from the precepts and the classic works of the sages. In the ancients, they have always been integrated, but unfortunately in later generations, they are divided into categories, giving birth to all kinds of gateway views, and they are not good at integrating them.
It is also known as reciting the name of the saint, surviving the land of the saint, and it is far from the three schools of Zen law that integrates the three schools of Zen teaching, and there is also a method of reciting the name of the saint. Therefore, those who truly recite the name of a saint and those who really seek to survive in the land of a saint will never reject the three studies of Zen teachings and laws, and they will definitely be integrated with the three studies of Zen teachings and laws. In fact, apart from the three schools of Zen teaching, how can there be a method of reciting the name of a saint and surviving the land of a saint.
This is just like what Master Dixian said in the "Quotations" in the late Qing Dynasty: "Reciting the Buddha is the method of pure compassion and self-talk without asking questions." To the round to the ton, the simplest and easiest. The circle is three roots, and the ton is seven days of success. In short, the four-character name is famous, and it is easy to mention it. If you don't work to visualize, you don't have to study, it's the mind that thinks about the Buddha, and the mind is the Buddha. Beyond the Zen teachings, and take the Zen teachings. Why? Meditation to see the beginning of the conversation, chanting the Buddha is a Buddha number for the beginning of the conversation, the line is also Amitabha, sitting is also Amitabha, this is the line of living, sitting and lying without leaving this, and Zen meditation is different? Cultivating the mind in teaching, not contemplating outside. Reciting the Buddha and reciting the Buddha is the Buddha, that is, stopping, and the sentences are clear, that is, the view. Cultivating the mind under the law, the sound and hearing precepts stop committing offenses, and the bodhisattva vows are holding and stopping offenses. Reciting the name of the Buddha in the mouth, the heart remembers the pure thoughts, the three poisons are buried, the six roots are pure, and the law is in it. ”
I hope that all the people who study will be integrated into the three schools of Zen teachings and laws, and will never have the view of the door, so as to live up to the earnest teachings of the great sages and sages!