Grandma's wanton life

Chapter 323 Ye Feng on Zen
In the solemn and solemn Daxiong Hall, there is a gilded Buddha statue in front, and rows of monks below are meditating.

Ye Feng is also sitting here, with a futon and a wooden fish in front of him.Mr. Ye was sitting in an even and stable manner, which seemed to be the case.

Suddenly an outsider came, and the monks in the hall were naturally very curious.Looking at Ye Feng, the following has already begun to mutter in a low voice.

"Who is this person?"

"Why is there another outsider in our temple?"

"Didn't Master say that we will never see outsiders behind closed doors?"

"Hush! This is a villain. Just outside the courtyard, he injured all our masters and uncles by himself!"

"what?"

"real or fake?"

"He's alone? How come?"

"That's not all. Our gate was broken by him. He broke the gate by himself. It's terrible."

"Our master abbot is not his opponent, is he?"

"The abbot master invited him to come to the morning class, and he wants to discuss Buddhism with him."

In the main hall, apart from the old monks, there are also young monks. The old monks should be very senior, and they all sit at the front, quietly closing their eyes and reciting scriptures.But the group of young monks in the back, their practice is not enough, they chatter non-stop.

Seeing the group of young monks whispering, Ye Feng burst out laughing.I have to say that this group of little monks is a bit cute, the youngest of them is only as big as a baby girl, and they talk in a childish voice.

However, Ye Feng's smile made some old monks in front dissatisfied. An old monk said: "When the benefactor is practicing Zen, why do you laugh?"

The so-called morning classes are actually sitting meditation. Of course, there will be masters coming out to give lectures later, but that time has not yet come.

"Laugh if you want, what's wrong?" Ye Feng said casually.

The old monk frowned, "I heard from the brother abbot that the almsgiver understands Buddhism?" The old monk hadn't gone out just now, and had been meditating in the hall.

Ye Feng glanced at the abbot with closed eyes beside him, smiled lightly and said, "Of course I understand."

At this time, the abbot said, "I thought the benefactor understood the Buddha, but the benefactor has never calmed down, so how can he understand the Buddha? The benefactor should go down the mountain, don't waste any more time." The abbot also felt that Ye Feng A smile is a sign of restlessness.

"That's a bad word."

Ye Feng shook his head and said: "The Buddha used to hold a flower and smile when he was preaching. Why can't I laugh when I meditate? Is my heart not calm, or is there a ripple in everyone's heart?"

"This……"

The old monk was stunned, and chanted the Buddha's name in a low voice, without saying a word.

At this time, another old monk said: "The almsgiver is talking nonsense, how dare you compare with the Buddha? The Buddha has already reached the state of attainment, and our cultivation is still in its infancy. If we don't even have the basic skills of meditation, how can we talk about attaining Taoism?" Buddha?"

Ye Feng smiled, looked at him and said, "Meditate? What's the use of that?"

As soon as Ye Feng said this, the monks in the hall immediately became unhappy, and the old monk wanted to refute, but Ye Feng didn't give him a chance at all, and said directly: "You are born without sitting, and you die without sitting. With stinky bones, what is meritorious work?"

The monks were stunned, and the abbot suddenly opened it.

The young monks below were also stunned, staring at Ye Feng dumbfounded.

This person can speak Zen?
Born to sit but not to lie down, dead to lie down and not to sit, with a stinky bone, what is the homework?

Those who don't understand the Dharma can't understand it at all, but those who really understand it can hear the subtle meaning in it with one ear. The profoundness of this mystery is beyond the reach of ordinary masters!
How could he, a layman, have such profound attainments in Buddhism?

The meaning of these four Zen words is simply that life is a stinky skin. If you are obsessed with how to meditate and practice Zen, then are you learning Zen or Buddhism?If you are studying Buddhism, but the Buddha has no fixed posture, what is the use of learning Zen meditation?You will never succeed in cultivating Buddhahood by meditating.

Many monks in the hall looked at Ye Feng in disbelief, especially those monks just now, such a violent guy, could say such a Buddhist gatha?
They can't accept it.

At this time, the abbot opened his mouth. He first chanted the Buddha's name in a low voice, then looked at Ye Feng, and said, "Although the almsgiver understands Buddhism, he speaks cunningly. You first broke my mountain gate, and then hurt my fellow sect, but you didn't recognize it." Evil, eloquent words and arguments, misinterpretation of Buddhist principles; now he is in a state of uncertainty, but he speaks eloquently and sarcastically, forcibly defending his mistakes. The donor has a deep Buddha nature, but it is a pity that he is in the world of mortals, the six sense organs are not clean, and the five aggregates are not empty. If you take refuge I, the Buddha, must be able to cultivate the right fruit and jump out of the evil of this world of mortals, wouldn't it be good?"

"Excellent, excellent! What the abbot elder brother said is right, the almsgiver should take refuge in my Buddha, so as not to go astray." An old monk followed suit.

Looking at these benevolent old monks, Ye Feng smiled and shook his head and said: "The world of mortals is cultivation, and I practiced just right, so why should the master ruin my chance? As the saying goes, 'Wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha's heart stays'. There is a Buddha, when you look back, there is Lingshan!"

hiss!
Ye Feng's few words stunned all the monks!
The wine and meat passed through the intestines, but the Buddha kept it in his heart?
If there is a Buddha in your heart, when you look back, is Lingshan?

This is really the first time they have heard of this kind of statement!
Moreover, there are many mysteries in it, the more refined it becomes, the more subtle it becomes!
Several old monks were a little confused. They usually fooled others. How many masters were fooled by Buddhism and finally converted?But this time, they discovered that they met someone who was even more foolish than them?Several old monks, listening to Ye Feng's words, "If there is a Buddha in your heart, you will look back to the Lingshan Mountain", they all wanted to convert to Ye Fengna!
"Humph!"

An old monk snorted heavily. The old monk still had bruises on his face. He glared angrily and said, "You villain, how dare you misinterpret Buddhism and deceive people with your demonic words when you hurt people?"

Ye Feng looked at him lightly, and said, "Did I hurt someone?"

"Is it you or who?" The old monk stared.

Ye Feng smiled lightly, and did not answer directly. Instead, he took out the classic story from his previous life, raised the small gavel in his hand, and pointed at a flag in the corner of the temple, "The wind blows the flag, and you say it is the wind that moves it." Is it? Or is the flag moving?"

The smallest monk below answered the fastest, and said in a childish voice: "Of course the wind is moving!"

Ye Feng smiled and shook his head.

The old monk with bruises on his face whispered, "The flag is moving!"

Ye Feng still shook his head with a smile.

At this moment, the youngest little monk scratched his bald head and asked puzzledly, "What's moving then?"

Not only the little monk, but everyone really wanted to know the answer, even the abbot listened slightly.

Ye Feng raised his eyes and said softly, "It's your hearts that are moving."

This little Buddhist story is familiar to us in previous lives. It tells us that we always look at things too subjectively. What you think is just what you think. Do you think I hit you?If you hadn't done it first, would you have been beaten?
The young monk seemed to be thinking deeply, but the faces of the old monks suddenly turned ugly.

This guy still makes sense after beating someone, right?

However, as soon as Ye Feng's Buddhist principles came out, he really made a big statement about his beating!On the contrary, it seems that their group of monks are too reckless and have no Buddha nature.

The old monk with bruises on his face looked very ugly, but the abbot just nodded slightly and said: "The Buddha said, 'Sweeping the floor may harm the lives of ants, and take care of the lamps covered with moths', even ants and moths are not allowed. Accidental injury, wouldn’t the benefactor go to hell if he hurt someone? I don’t know if the benefactor is trustworthy, but heaven and hell?”

As someone who has seen ghosts before, Ye Feng said without thinking, "I believe it!" Then he believed it too much, he believed it more than anyone else now!
The abbot said: "Since the benefactor also believed, why didn't he fear it? A good person can go to heaven after death, but a wicked person will go to the eighteen levels of hell after death."

Ye Feng said: "Dare to ask Master, where is heaven? Where is hell?"

The abbot frowned, he really didn't think about it, he could only put his hands together and said: "I have never been to heaven, nor have I ever been to hell, does the benefactor know?"

Ye Feng chuckled, "Of course I know." He stretched out his hand and said, "It's in your heart, it's in all directions."

"Oh? In my heart? Why can't I see it?" The abbot didn't change his face.

Ye Feng grinned, picked up the small gavel in his hand, and hit the abbot's bald head.

The monks around were suddenly furious, and they stood up and wanted to fight Ye Feng desperately.

Ye Feng smiled calmly, pointed at them, and said to the abbot, "Look, this is hell."

The monks who had stood up immediately froze when they heard this, and they seemed to be enlightened when they stood still.

Ye Feng smiled again, "Look, this is heaven."

As soon as the words fell, the monks in the hall looked at each other in dismay. It turns out that this is what heaven and hell mean in their hearts!Those old monks who stood up clasped their hands together, chanted the Buddha's name to Ye Feng, and sat down again.

The abbot asked: "Then what do you mean heaven and hell are in all directions?"

Ye Feng didn't even think about it, and casually uttered another Buddhist verse, "One flower one world, one tree one floating life, one grass one heaven, one leaf one Tathagata, one sand one bliss, one side one pure land, one smile one fate, one thought one thought. clean."

The monks in the main hall, one counts as the other, were all stunned and stared at Ye Feng blankly.

Even the abbot was slightly distracted, "Since the benefactor clearly understands hell and heaven, why doesn't he have good thoughts in his heart, so he is not afraid of falling into hell forever and not being reincarnated?"

Listening to the abbot's question, Ye Feng smiled slightly, just looked at the abbot without saying a word.

The abbot asked, "Why is the donor laughing?"

When the abbot asked this question, Ye Feng laughed out loud, very boldly, "I laugh at the suffering of all beings, I laugh at the ignorance of the world!" Putting your hands together, lowering your eyebrows and eyes, sighing softly: "Namo Amitabha, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?"

(End of this chapter)