Diamond Sutra, Heart Sutra, Altar Sutra

Chapter 15
A monk named Chen Huiming, who used to be a fourth-rank general, was rough in character and behavior, and was trying his best to track him down. He ran to the front of the crowd and caught up with Huineng.Huineng threw the robe and bowl on the stone and said, "This cassock symbolizes Buddhism, can it be fought for by force?"

Huineng then hid in the grass.After Huiming chased after him, he couldn't lift the cassock from the stone, and the cassock didn't move at all, so he shouted, "Xing Zhe, Xing Zhe, I came for the Dharma, not for the cassock!"

So Huineng came out and sat cross-legged on the stone.Huiming bowed to him and said, "I sincerely hope that you can explain the Dharma to me." Huineng said, "Since you are here for the Dharma, you can get rid of all thoughts in your mind and let me explain the Dharma to you. "

Huiming was silent for a long time.Huineng said: "Don't consciously think about goodness, don't consciously think about evil. In this state, Master Huiming, what is your true face?"

After hearing this, Huiming suddenly realized, and asked again: "Apart from the secret words and meanings just mentioned, is there any secret meaning?"

Original
Huineng said: It is not secret to tell you.If you reflect, it will be close to you.

Ming said: "Although Huiming is in Huangmei, he really hasn't seen his face."Now I have been instructed, like a person who drinks water, he knows whether he is warm or not.The person who walks today is Master Huiming.

Huineng said: "If you are like this, I will learn from Huang Mei with you."Take good care of yourself.

Ming asked again, "Where does Huiming go in the future?"

Huineng said: "If you meet Yuan, you will stop; if you meet Meng, you will stay."

Ming Li speech.

After Huineng went to Caoxi, he was chased by the wicked again.But in Sihui, among the refuge hunters, there have been [-] years of history.Time and hunters can talk about it as appropriate ③.Hunters often order to guard the net, and whenever they see life, they let it go.Every meal, send the cooking pot with vegetables.Or ask, then say: But eat meat with vegetables.

Thoughts for a day: Propagate the Dharma at the right time, and don’t run away forever.Then he went to Faxing Temple in Guangzhou ⑤, where Master Yinzong taught the Nirvana Sutra ⑥.Sometimes the wind blows and the flag moves[-], one monk said the wind moved, and the other monk said the flag moved, and there was endless discussion.

Huineng Jin said: "It's not the wind that moves, it's not the flag that moves, the heart of the benevolent moves ⑧."

Everyone was shocked.Yinzong extended to the upper table to ask for the profound truth.Seeing that Huineng's words are simple and reasonable, I can't help myself.Zong Yun: A traveler must be very human.I have heard for a long time that Huangmeiyi is coming from the south, is it a traveler?

Huineng said: "Don't dare."

Zong then saluted and asked to pass on the mantle and show it to the public.Zong Fu asked: "Huang Mei paid the order [-], how to instruct?"

Huineng said: There is nothing to teach and teach, but only to see the nature, regardless of meditation and liberation.

Zong said: Why don't you care about meditation and liberation?

Neng said: It is the two dharmas, not the Dharma.Dharma is the one and only way B11.

Zong asked again: What is the non-duality of Buddhism?
Huineng said: The master taught the Nirvana Sutra, and he clarified that the Buddha-nature is the only dharma of Buddhism.For example, Bodhisattva Noble King Bodhisattva said to the Buddha B12: For committing the four heavy prohibitions B13, committing the five rebellious crimes B14, and one Chanti etc. B15, should we cut off the good roots and Buddha nature?The Buddha said: There are two roots of goodness: one is permanent, and the other is impermanent. The Buddha nature is very non-permanent, so it is continuous, so it is called non-duality;Aggregates and Realms B16: Ordinary people see two, and wise people realize that their nature is non-duality, and the nature of non-duality is the Buddha-nature.

注释
① Stop when you meet Yuan, and live when you meet Meng: Instruct Huiming to stop when he encounters the word "Yuan" in the place name, and to live in a place where the word "Meng" is in the name of the place.Yuan refers to Yuanzhou, and Meng refers to Yuanzhou Mengshan, today's Yichun, Jiangxi, where Huiming later lived.

②Caoxi: A river located in Shaozhou (now southeast of Qujiang, Guangdong). It originates from Gouerling, flows westward and joins Qin water. It is also called Caohouxi because it passes through the tomb of Caohou.In the first year of Liang Tianjian (502), the Brahman Sanzang Zhiyao from Tianzhu came to Caoxikou and drank its water. Knowing that this source is a scenic spot, he persuaded the villagers to build a temple. Because the location is similar to Baolin Mountain in the West, it is called Baolin Temple.The wisdom medicine predicts that 170 years later, there will be a bodhisattva in the flesh to perform the supreme method here, and there will be a forest of people who have attained the Tao.Huineng, the sixth patriarch, preached Buddhism here, so he was also called "Master Caoxi", which later became the synonym for the Southern School of Zen.

③ Suiyi Dharma: Adapting to the different abilities and abilities of all beings, and adapting to different times and places, giving appropriate teachings and proclaiming the Buddhadharma to achieve the full effect is called Suiyi Dharma and Suiyi Dharma.Dharma, that is, proclaiming the Dharma to guide and benefit all beings.

④ Promoting the Fa: Promoting the righteous Dharma.

⑤Guangzhou Faxing Temple: also known as Zhizhi Temple and Zhizhi Temple, now called Guangxiao Temple, located in the northwest of Guangzhou.In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the monk Kubin began to build a temple, named Wangyuan Temple.During the Southern Dynasties, the truth lived here to translate classics, and Hui Kai, Seng Zong, etc. also came here, and the translation of scriptures was very popular.During the Zhenguan period of Tang Dynasty, it was called Qianming Faxing Temple.In the first year of Tang Gaozong Yifeng (676), the sixth patriarch Huineng came to this temple and opened the Dongshan Dharma Gate.After the Song Dynasty, it was changed to Guangxiao Temple.

⑥ Master Yinzong: Tang Dynasty monk (627-713), a native of Wujun.He preached the "Nirvana Sutra" at Faxing Temple in Guangzhou. He met Master Huineng, the sixth patriarch.Nirvana Sutra: The full name is "Mahaparinirvana Sutra", translated by Beiliang Tan Wuzheng, forty volumes. The "Nirvana Sutra" mainly promotes the idea that the Buddha's body is always there and "all sentient beings have Buddha nature".

[-] Banner: It is the general term for banners.It was originally used by warriors on the battlefield to lead the army and show off their military prestige. Buddhism uses it to show the mighty virtue of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in subjugating demons. It is also a solemn offering for Buddhas and Bodhisattvas along with the "building".The shape of the flag is generally composed of a triangular flag head, a rectangular flag body, flag hands placed on the left and right sides of the flag body, and flag feet under the flag body, ranging from large to small.Banners are usually made of cloth, but there are also gold and copper, miscellaneous jade, paper and so on.

[-] Benevolence: It is a respectful name for people, or simply called benevolence.

⑨Fu Zhu: Originally meant to entrust and entrust.In the Buddhist scriptures, it is extended to the mission entrusted by the Buddha to promote the Dharma and preach the teachings.In Zen, it is often used to refer to entrusting cassocks and other things, and it turns to mean that the master imparts the profound meaning of Buddhism to his disciples, so "entrusting" has become a traditional term in Zen.

[-] Meditation: Zen is the abbreviation of Channa in Sanskrit, and it is translated as meditation and meditation.Ding is the translation of Sanskrit samadhi, which means that the mind is fixed in one place and separated and moved.Zen and samadhi both focus the mind on a certain object and achieve a state of non-distraction.Liberation: refers to the liberation from the shackles of troubles, and the detachment from the state of misery.Because it can transcend the deluded world, it is also called salvation; because it is liberated, it is called detachment.In a broad sense, getting rid of any secular shackles and feeling free in the religious spirit can be called it.In Buddhism, nirvana and liberation represent the ultimate state of practicing the Tao.

B11 The one and only method: the unique method.Not two, also known as no two, separated from both sides, means that there should be no distinction between all phenomena, or transcend all kinds of distinctions.

B12 Noble Virtuous King Bodhisattva: Named Noble Virtuous King Bodhisattva with Light and Universal Illumination. "Nirvana Sutra" nineteenth said: "The light shines all over, and the external transformation is broad. The noble and noble king discerns the deep inside."

B13 Four-fold prohibition: Refers to the four extremely serious prohibitions for monks. The full name is the four-fold prohibition.Namely: [-]. killing; [-]. stealing; [-]. sexual misconduct; [-]. lying.

B14 Five rebellious crimes: the five serious crimes, which refer to those who are extremely heinous and extremely contrary to reason.The Hinayana Five Rebellions (Single Five Rebellions) refer to: harming one’s mother, one’s father, one’s arhat, being disgusted and bleeding from the Buddha’s body, and destroying a monk.The five evils of the Mahayana (complex five evils) are: destroying pagodas and temples, burning scriptures and images, seizing the things of the Three Jewels, or instigating others to do such things, and they are happy; Or killing monks; committing one of the five Hinayana rebellious crimes; advocating that everything has no karma, but doing ten unvirtuous karma or not fearing the retribution of future generations, and instigating others to do ten evils, etc.

B15 One explanation: It means not believing in Buddhism, that is, those who have cut off all good roots, have no nature of becoming a Buddha, and cannot become a Buddha.

B16 Aggregates and realms: refers to the five aggregates and the eighteen realms.The five aggregates are the five categories of all conditioned dharmas.[-]. Form aggregates, that is, the aggregates of all physical phenomena; [-]. Feeling aggregates, all feelings born of suffering, happiness, equanimity, eye contact, etc.; [-]. Thinking aggregates, all thoughts born of eye contact, etc.; [-]. Action Aggregate, all conditioned dharmas except form, feeling, thinking, and consciousness, that is, the function of will and heart; fifth, consciousness aggregate, that is, the various gatherings of various consciousnesses such as eye consciousness.The eighteen realms, that is, the eighteen kinds of nature are different, and they are also called eighteen holdings.That is, the six organs of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind (which can produce cognition), and the six objects of color, sound, smell, taste, touch, and dharma (the objects of cognition), as well as the sense organs The six senses of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind that are born in the (six roots) are combined into eighteen kinds, called the eighteen realms.Boundary is the meaning of species and race.

Translation
Huineng said: "What I told you is not a secret. If you can look back at your original mind with wisdom, the magic method is on your side."

Huiming said: "Although Huiming has been practicing in Huangmei, he has never awakened to know his true colors. Today, I have been instructed, just like people drinking water. Only you know whether it is cold or hot. From now on, you are my Huiming. Master!"

Huineng said: "If you think so, then both of you and I will take the Fifth Patriarch Hongren as our teacher, and take good care of our thoughts and practice in the future."

Huiming asked again: "Where should I go from now on, Huiming?"

Huineng said: "You can stop when you encounter a place with the word 'Yuan', and you can stay when you encounter a place with the word 'Meng'."

Huiming then saluted and said goodbye.

Huineng later came to Caoxi Mountain, but was chased by villains again.So in the place of Sihui, I had to be in the hunter's team for 15 years in a flash.During this period of time, he often lectured on the Dharma to the hunters according to their different situations.Hunters often asked him to watch over the animal nets. Whenever they saw animals fall into the nets, Huineng would release them.Every time it was time to eat, Huineng always cooked the vegetables in the meat pot and ate them.Sometimes when asked why he did this, Huineng replied: I only eat vegetables from the meat pot.

Finally, one day, Huineng thought: It's time to spread the Dharma, and we can't go on hiding like this forever.So Huineng left Sihui and came to Faxing Temple in Guangzhou, just in time to meet Master Yinzong giving lectures on the Nirvana Sutra.At this time, a gust of wind blew the flag and started to flutter. One monk said it was the wind moving, and another monk said it was the flag moving, so they argued endlessly.

Huineng came in at this time and said, "It's not the wind that's moving, nor the flag that's moving, it's your hearts that are moving."

All the monks present were astonished.Master Yinzong then invited Huineng to sit at the table, and asked him questions to verify the profound meaning of Buddhism.What Huineng said was simple and clear, every sentence was reasonable, and he didn't stick to words.Yin Zong said: "Xingzhe must not be an ordinary person. I have long heard that the person who passed on the teachings of Master Huangmei Hongren has come to the south. Could it be you?"

Huineng said, "I dare not take it."

Yinzong then saluted Huineng and asked Huineng to take out the cassock passed down by the fifth patriarch Hongren and show it to everyone.Yinzong asked again: "What exactly is the mantle teaching taught by Master Hongren, the fifth patriarch of Huangmei?"

Huineng said: "I didn't say anything. I just explored how to understand the mind and see the nature. I don't advocate liberation through meditation practice."

Yin Zong asked: "Why don't you advocate meditation practice to get liberation?"

Huineng said: "Because practicing meditation to seek liberation is a method with distinction and treatment, not Buddhism. Buddhism is the law of non-duality."

Yinzong asked again: "What is the non-duality of Buddhism?"

Huineng said: "Master, when you talk about the "Nirvana Sutra", you know that seeing the Buddha's nature is the only way of Buddhism. For example, the bright and noble King Bodhisattva said to the Buddha: "The four fundamentals of killing, stealing, adultery, and lying The precepts; committing the five sins of killing father, mother, killing Arhats, splitting the Sangha, and harming the body of the Buddha, as well as disbelief in Buddhism, cutting off all good roots, and ignoring the one Chanti of becoming a Buddha, etc., should be to cut off the Buddha's nature and good roots Is it?” The Buddha said: “There are two kinds of good roots, one is eternal and the other is fleeting.” Buddha nature is neither eternal nor fleeting, so good roots are constantly extinguished. This is the non-duality of Buddhism. The five precepts and ten virtues are good, the five rebellions and ten evils are bad, and the Buddha nature is neither good nor bad. This is the non-duality of Buddhism. Five aggregates and eighteen realms, ordinary people see What is different is the difference, and the wise person understands that its nature is indifferent, and this indifferent nature is the Buddha-nature.”

Original
Yin Zongwen said that he put his palms together happily, and said: A lecture on sutras is like rubble;So he shaved his hair for Huineng, and wished to be a teacher.Huineng then opened the Dongshan Dharma Gate under the bodhi tree.

Huineng obtained the Dharma in Dongshan, suffered all kinds of hardships, and his life seemed to be hanging by a thread.Today, being able to have the same meeting with envoys, bureaucrats, monks, nuns, Taoists and lay people is not only the fate of many kalpas, but also the reason why we have made offerings to all Buddhas in the past, and have the same kind of good roots, so that we can only hear the sudden teaching and obtain the Dharma.Teaching is passed down by the ancestors, not benefiting oneself from wisdom.May those who have heard the teachings of the former saints purify their minds and dispel doubts after hearing them, just like the saints of the previous generations.

After hearing the Dharma, the crowd rejoiced and bowed before leaving.

注释
①Clasping palms together: It is also called clasping ten, that is, combining two palms, concentrating the mind, and respectfully worshiping.This is the etiquette and law that India has practiced since ancient times, and Buddhism continues to use it.

②A: It can refer to others or to oneself.Refer to yourself here.Lectures: Lectures on the classics.That is, public preaching and speeches on the meaning and connotation of Buddhist scriptures.Sometimes, it is also called lectures on topics related to Buddhism.The places where lectures are held are called lecture seats, lecture feasts, lecture halls, lectures, etc., and the speakers are called lecturers, lecturers, lecturers, and lecturers.

③ Hair shaving: also known as shaving hair, cutting hair, wishing hair, falling shaving, falling decorations, falling hair, net hair, and Zhuang Fa.This is the Buddhist disciples who shave their hair in order to get rid of their arrogance, and to be different from heretics, or to avoid secular ostentation.

④ Dongshan Dharma Gate: refers to the Dharma Gate of the Fifth Patriarch. Because the Fifth Patriarch Hongren lived in Huangmei Mountain in Huangmei, Qizhou, the mountain is in the east of the county, so it is called Dongshan.Daoxin, the fourth patriarch of Zen Buddhism, and Hongren, the fifth patriarch, both lived in Dongshan Huangmei to guide students.

⑤ The fate of many kalpas: refers to the fate formed by accumulating many kalpas.Tired robbery refers to the accumulation of numerous robberies.

Translation
After hearing these speeches, Yin Zong was delighted, folded his hands respectfully, and said: "My explanations of Buddhist scriptures are as worthless as bricks, tiles and earth; People cherish it." So he shaved Huineng's hair and shaved his head, and hoped to worship Huineng as his teacher.Huineng then, under the bodhi tree, gave a lecture on the Buddhist teachings passed down by the fifth patriarch Hongren:

"Since Huineng learned the Dharma teaching from Master Hongren, he has suffered a lot, and his life is always at stake. Today, being able to gather here with Governor Wei, officials, monks, nuns, Taoists and laymen at the Dharma Assembly is a fate that has been accumulated for many kalpas." What has been achieved is also the reason why I have heard about the supreme Sudden Teachings of Buddhism today and the reason why I have obtained these teachings. This Sudden Teachings are all Buddhas of all ages. What is passed down is not my personal wisdom. If you want to listen to the teachings of the sages, each of you should let your heart be quiet, and after listening to the teachings, each of you will get rid of the confusion in your heart, then you will be like the sages and sages. There is no difference."

After hearing the teaching, everyone laughed heartily and withdrew after the prayer.

(End of this chapter)