Today Xiao Lou recommends a poem by Li Shangyin, "Beiqing Luo", which is one of the few Zen poems in Li Shangyin's poems, and the tail link is a famous sentence throughout the ages.
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The remnants of the sun enter the west into the song, and the hut visits the lone monk.
Where are the fallen leaves, several layers of cold cloud road.
Knock on the first night chime alone, and lean on a vine.
In the dust of the world, I would rather love and hate.
Li Shangyin's poem is about a search for monks. Beiqingluo is the name of the mountain, in the middle of wangwu mountain. Around the ninth year of Yamato (835), Li Shangyin studied taoism at Wangwu Mountain and Yuyang Mountain, and this poem may have been written at that time.
崦 (yān), an ancient legend has it that the sun sets. The Classic of Mountains and Seas has a mountain of mountains, which is a daily entry.
As the sun set and I descended into the valley, I went to the huts in the mountains to find the monks who lived alone.
The leaves are full of people, where are the people? The cold clouds obscured, and the mountain road was heavy and heavy.
The first night, just into the night, refers to dusk.
At dusk, the monks rang the bell alone and leisurely leaned on an ancient vine.
The word "world", which we now commonly use, was originally a Buddhist term, and the Lengyan Sutra has clouds: "What is the world of sentient beings?" The world is the migration, and the boundary is the direction. You should know that the east, west, south, north, southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest, upper and lower are bounded, and the past, the future, and the present are the world. "Simply put, the world refers to time, the boundary refers to space, and what we often call the world is the collection of time and space.
In the dust of the world, the Fa Yan Sutra has clouds: "For example, if the scriptures write three thousand world affairs, all in the dust." Sometimes there are Homo sapiens, who break through the dust of the other, and out of this sutra. ”
Everything in the world is just a speck of dust, so why should I tell what is love and what is hate?
Li Shangyin's poem takes going into the mountains to find the orphan monk as the clue, and finally in the process of searching for the orphan monk, he understands the feeling of "in the dust of the world, I love and hate". The process of the poet's search for the lone monk, that is, the process of realizing life and thus attaining enlightenment, in this process, there are many twists and obstacles, the road twists, and the fallen leaves, cold clouds obscured, but the poet finally found the monk, just like the many obstacles in life, but the poet still gained spiritual enlightenment.
In the dust of the world, I would rather love and hate. From the Buddha's point of view, the world is no more than a speck of rice dust, too small to be small, and all kinds of fetters in the earthly world are really unattractive. From the perspective of our real life, the world that individuals can touch is probably only a speck of dust in the vast universe, so from a transcendent point of view, the love and hate in the world are no longer enough to worry about.
However, the truth is used to persuade others, Li Shangyin in his life, can not be liberated from the love and hatred of the world, a moment of enlightenment, can not get the liberation of life.