One day during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Tang, a man dressed in rags and with a wooden look asked to be ordained. The abbot, Master Huang Barberry, ignored the man and left on his own. The man knelt there until the time of the lamplight, when he was called into the meditation hall. Zen Master Huang Berberry asked, "Do you know what it is?" ”
The man said, "I only know that I have no chance, otherwise why did the master speak to me?" ”
Zen Master Huang Barberry smiled and said, "A good 'no chance is over'." I didn't expect you to look wooden, but you have a clever heart. Or you're done. ”
The man finally worshiped under the Yellow Barberry Gate, the legal name: Qiong Jun. So nearly half a year has passed. On this day, Master Huang Berberry asked Qiongjun to go to the Cloth Zen Master of Fahua Temple and borrow a small incense burner made of pure gold to use.
After qiongjun listened, he set off and went to the Fahua Temple to meet zen master Buyi and explain his intentions. But the cloth Zen master laughed and left, and soon after, holding a lotus leaf in one hand and pinching his nose in the other, he walked over with deep affection and strangeness, stretched the lotus leaf forward, and said: "Give, pure gold incense burner, there is still smoke." ”
Qiong Jun looked at it, only to see that there was actually a lump of dung on the lotus leaf. Qiongjun looked as usual, gave gifts, and thanked him. Pick up the lotus leaf in your hand, turn around and leave.
"Slow down!" Zen Master Buyi shouted, "Little Bald Donkey, your Dharma name is Qiongjun." The old bald donkey of Huang Barberry wrote to you, and I ask you now: Is this 'golden incense burner' related to you, or is it not related to you? ”
Qiong Jun held lotus leaf in his hand and said, "No cause is a fate, there is a fate is no reason, and there is a reason and no reason." ”
Then I saw the Cloth Zen Master suddenly look up to the sky and shouted, "Yellow Barberry Old Bald Donkey, you are afraid of this little bald donkey, and now I also feel that he is too terrible, this small pond of my Buddhist family is difficult to tolerate him." "Finished, turned around and left.
When Qiongjun returned, there was nothing in his hand. It turned out that he was carrying a lump of dung to hurry, who could bear it? On the road, scolded, bricks, shoe soles, naturally the "golden incense burner" will also "follow the fate" and go.
Zen Master Huang only waved his hand and asked Qiongjun to rest. Two months passed, and on this day, the Zen master Huang Barberry told Qiongjun: "After three days, we will be the same teacher and go together to make friends." ”
Three days later, Qiong Jun followed the Zen master Huang Barberry and began to dissolve the fate, saying that the good point was the transformation of the fate, in fact, it was to be an ascetic monk and find guilt. Whether it was a bustling city or a remote village, the two masters and apprentices were hungry and full, and traveled throughout most of China.
On this day, the two came to a waterfall, Huang Barberry was poetic for a while, opened his mouth and groaned: "Wear clouds through the stone tirelessly, the far side knows the source of the high ..." After saying these two sentences, Huang Barberry could not go on, a little scratching his ears and scratching his cheeks.
Qiong Jun, who was beside him, was shocked by the momentum of the waterfall's "Milky Way Falling Boundary", and after hearing Huang Barberry's two poems, he opened his mouth for a moment and continued: "How can the stream be retained, and the dragon returns to the sea as a wave!" ”
That night, the two of them stayed at the foot of Lushan Mountain, and the Zen master Huang Barberry by the campfire said to Qiongjun with a grim look: "Disciple, can you tell the master now who you are?" ”
QiongJun looked at Huang Barberry and said, "Master, why do you ask this?" ”
Zen Master Huang Tan said, "Is it not possible to pretend to be stupid for the teacher?" ”
Qiongjun was silent for a long time, and only then did he reveal his true identity.
It turned out that Qiong Jun was the uncle of Emperor Wu of Tang today: Li Chen, the King of Guang. After Emperor Wu ascended the throne, he was very jealous of this uncle, believing that such people were either idiots or great heroes who were extremely deep in the city government. Therefore, Li Chen was declared into the palace and ordered to be killed. Fortunately, because Li Chen had the reputation of "idiot light king" in his daily life, people pitied him. Under the secret operation of the eunuch Ma Yuanzhen, Li Chen was put into a dung cart and rescued, while Emperor Wu declared that Li Chen was dead. At this point, Li Chen went into exile and worshiped under the Huang Barberry Zen Master in order to survive.
After listening, Zen Master Huang Tan asked, "If one day you become emperor, how will you govern the world?" ”
Li Chen laughed miserably and said, "I don't know about the sufferings of the people." If one day I become emperor, I will reorganize the Tang Dynasty and reshape the world. It's just that this is a dream after all, and it has nothing to do with me. ”
Zen Master Huang Barberry laughed and said, "Beside the waterfall, Master Wei has seen that your image of an emperor will eventually become an emperor." Moreover, you have also said that 'it is better to have a fate than to follow a fate', and remember what you said today. ”
I don't know if Master Huang Berberry really has special functions, or if Li Chen really has an imperial mandate. In 847, Emperor Wu of Tang became seriously ill, and with the support of the eunuch Ma Yuanzhen, Li Chen returned to Chang'an City, and with emperor Wu of Tang's illness and death, he became emperor, known as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.
Emperor Xuanzong Li Chen, who also did what he said, began to rectify the court after ascending the throne, using the law selflessly, cherishing the people's property, and recovering the homeland, so that the stormy Tang Dynasty could be revived, and history called "the rule of the great middle"! He was praised by later generations as the "Little Taizong" who was comparable to Li Shimin.