I have been brewing this article for a long time, always wanting to write something about him, listening to the music he composed lyrics, and at the end of writing I unconsciously shed tears. His legendary life experience, many classic sentences of great enlightenment, gave me a lot of guidance when I was most confused, lost, and sad. Pay attention to my previous headlines, and many of the sentences in them come from his classics. "Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is blue, the evening wind blows the willow flute, and the sunset mountain is outside the mountain." This song is familiar to everyone, I also know him from this song, listening to this song, we feel his legendary life together.
The song "Farewell" has been sung by thousands of singers and on different occasions. When the contemporary singer Park Shu sang this song, he cried as he sang it, and choked up in tears and could not sing it anymore. Why? Because it gives too much sadness to it. Park Shu said a word. If I had made the word, I'd rather die on the spot. He was willing to exchange his life for a poem by Master Hongyi, which was a very high evaluation of him.
Park Shu couldn't cry when he sang "Farewell"
Why this song has been sung for more than a hundred years, it is still enduring. Today we will talk to you about the life of Master Hongyi. Hopefully, after you've finished speaking, you'll find your answers.
Born in 1880 at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Master Hongyi, whose common name is Li Shutong, was a salt merchant whose ancestors were salt merchants, and the salt business at that time belonged to the official merchants, and was a family with a very strong background in the Qing government era. There was also a money bank in the house, which is, in our current words, a bank. Therefore, he is different from our ordinary people's origins, and when he is born, he has a golden key in his mouth. He was dressed to open his mouth. Noble-born, contact with the top people, and receive the highest education. Once his life was also very chaotic, often going in and out of the pear garden and having love affairs with those celebrities. Taught them to sing and talked about many girlfriends.
It used to be a gentleman
Logically speaking, this kind of rich family should enjoy this kind of day of worry-free food and clothing. But he is different, when he was 15 years old, he made a poem called: "Life is like the western mountain day, and wealth is like frost on the grass." "The wealth of each of us will melt as soon as the frost on the grass, and the life of each of us will eventually fall like the sun that is about to set on the Western Mountains." In the faint, he seemed to be ready to say goodbye to the rich. At the age of 26, his mother was critically ill, and he had a very good relationship with her, to the point of being dependent on each other. But when his mother was seriously ill, he went out to pick the most precious coffin in order to let her mother rest in peace after her death. But it was when he went out that his mother died. He wasn't ready to say goodbye to his mother. For example, in a recent hit movie "Hello, Li Huanying", there is a very classic sentence in it: "Each of our lives is constantly letting go, but the sad thing is that we did not make a good farewell." "When one's loved one leaves one, the pain is actually indescribable.
The son wants to raise and not to be kissed, and the tree wants to be quiet and the wind is not stopping. Parents are here, life still has a way, parents go, life is only the way home. It may be that the death of his mother caused a great blow to his life. So, he intends to say goodbye to the 26 years that preceded him. He traveled to Japan to study, and in a few years he was exposed to Western music and art. After returning to China, he also worked as a teacher for several years. In the years of being a teacher, he taught many very famous students, such as Feng Zikai, a very famous painter in modern China, and Pan Tianshou, a master of Chinese painting, who taught them.
Take a group photo with Feng Zikai
Feng Zikai once said that if he let Li Shutong's life go again, renunciation would still be his inevitable destination. He has reached the pinnacle of perfection in many fields. It can be said that when he has wandered in his own spiritual world, it is often because he does a thing, like a thing, does a thing, like a thing, in fact, when he goes to the highest place, people are very lonely, I don't know if everyone can understand this sentence.
When a person does something and has done it to the extreme, the heart is very lonely. I don't know where my restless heart should go, and I don't know where my life should go. When he was 39 years old, he had a chance to go to the Dinghui Temple in Hangzhou Tiger Run to fast, which is what we are now very popular called the Valley Fasting Regimen. He lived in the temple for 17 days, and during these 17 days he was exposed to the influence of incense and saw the daily life of the monastic master. It was as if he had found a way to live with the world, a way to live with his heart, and he decided to become a monk.
After his renunciation, his Japanese wife repeatedly went to the temple to see him, hoping that he would change his mind. But he avoided seeing each other, and his wife finally went through various relationships one morning, in the early morning of the mist, above the lake surface of the West Lake, and the two boats were facing each other. The Japanese wife looked at her husband in front of her and said, "Shu Tong, Shu Tong," "Please call me Koichi," "Well, Master Koichi, what is love?" "Love is compassion." When he said the phrase "love is compassion." We feel that this sentence sounds very pretentious, and it feels like nothingness. But why do we describe the life of Master Hongyi as a half-life prosperous half-life monk, and there is no Li Shutong in the world.
Misty morning Above the West Lake, two boats looking at each other
Before leaving home at the age of 39, Li Shutong, Li Gongzi was personable and accompanied him for half a lifetime. But after he became a monk, there was no li shutong in the world. This flesh that walks in the world may be just a shell of his. He is called Master Hongyi, there is no li shutong in the world, he gave up his little love and integrated it into the big love. When he was 15 years old, he was keenly aware that the prosperity of each of us would eventually leave, and there was no way. When he was 26 years old, he deeply realized that his loved ones would also leave us, and this pain was heart-wrenching. At the age of 39, he said goodbye to this grand earthly world in a very friendly way, so in Buddhist terms "love is compassion."
Love is compassion
At this time, we went back and looked at the poem "Farewell" that Master Hongyi had once made, in the winter of 1914, when the snow was falling, his friend Xu Xianyuan was bankrupt because of his support for the national movement, ran to the outside of Li Shutong's courtyard, and shouted two sentences into the courtyard: "Shu Tong, Shu Tong my family is bankrupt, I am disillusioned, we are leaving" Even the courtyard did not enter, turned around and staggered away. Only a row of deep footprints remained in the snow. At this time, Li Shutong, who walked out of the courtyard, looked at the back of someone leaving, silently leaving his own tears, in fact, each of our lives is like this, in the process of continuous farewell, saying goodbye to ourselves, saying goodbye to the body, saying goodbye to relatives, in the face of these fates, we are always helpless.
Life is a constant goodbye
In fact, each of us is like this, we will eventually experience all the love and hate prosperity of this world, and we will eventually leave without a trace, but Master Hongyi saw this step earlier than us, he left the most touching, saddest, and most prosperous moments in his life in the grand earthly world, and he buried his heart in this earthly world and blossomed.
The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the knowledge of the half-scattered, a pot of turbid wine to the end of the joy, tonight do not dream cold.