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Old Man Vowyin: A stick to reveal the five teachings of Huayan

Dade layman 2015-01-18

During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, a prime minister invited all the elders of various sects and sects to hold an unblocked meeting.It is just that there is no cover at all, and everyone expresses their own opinions, directly and happily presents their true nature, and fully realizes the great way.

A master who taught the Avatamsaka Sutra said: "In our teachings, it takes three great kalpas to become a Buddha.However, the sect said that you can become a Buddha with a stick and a drink, which is completely incompatible with the Buddha's teachings.Now, I would like to ask all the great Zen masters here, if you can penetrate the five teachings mentioned by Huayan Sect with just a drink, I admit that you can become a Buddha with just a stick. If you can’t understand the five teachings, then it is the devil’s saying.Which of you please come out to talk about it?”

The Huayan School divides Buddhism into five teachings: Hinayana teaching, Mahayana teaching, Mahayana final teaching, Mahayana sudden teaching, and Mahayana perfect teaching. The teachings go from shallow to deep, and the practice of the Dharma is progressive step by step.

The Zen Master Yuanwu Keqin who attended the meeting at that time was the master of Zen Master Dahui Zonggao.

He looked at the little Zen Master Jingyincheng in his forties with his eyes. Zen Master Jingyincheng understood it and stood up and said to the Huayan master: "It is not difficult to answer your question. It is not worth telling you by the great master who is here. Let me tell you a little elder.Let us first define the doctrines of the five teachings: Hinayana teachings have, there is a way to achieve, there is Nirvana to attain, and there is life and death to do so;The Mahayana teachings talk about emptiness;The final teaching of Mahayana says that neither emptiness nor existence is neither emptiness nor existence;The Mahayana Sudden Teachings talk about emptiness and existence;The Mahayana Perfect Teaching says that it is not empty but not exist, it is not exist but not empty, and it is harmonious and unobstructed.Does this mean?”

The Huayan master said, “Yes!”

Zen Master Jingyincheng shouted loudly and asked the crowd, "Did you hear it?"”

Everyone said, "I heard it!”

Cheng said, "I heard that, that's true!Through Hinayana.”

Emperor Huizong was sitting among the crowd wearing a small hat in blue. He took care of the prime minister and didn't tell him, so he asked him to listen carefully.

After a while, the sound dissipated, Cheng asked again: "You guys listen now, are there any sounds?”

Everyone said, "No more!”

Cheng said, "Nothing is emptiness, and it has been taught through the beginning.”

He also said, "It is not empty now and there is just now, it is not empty;There was just now but not now, it is not there.Isn’t this neither empty nor existing?Through the final teaching.Furthermore, if there was nothing just now, what are you talking about now?If there is no emptiness in the present, why did you say that there was just now?It is said that there is time and space, and that there is emptiness, when there is emptiness, isn’t this empty and exist?Through the sudden teaching.What about the Mahayana perfect teaching?I don't drink it any time, even though I have never drunk it, I am not attached to the appearance at all times.I didn't bite a grain of rice when I was eating, and I didn't have a trace of gauze hanging on my clothes.Even though I was busy at work, it was like I had never worked.This is the essence of the Diamond Sutra, "The mind should be born without dwelling on anything". When there is something, it will not be established at all;When talking about emptiness, the sand world is everywhere;Empty and existence cannot be dwelled on, and are harmonious and unobstructed. This is the most superior Mahayana perfect teaching, and it is the highest realm mentioned in the "Avatamsaka Sutra" - the Dharma Realm without hindering everything.This is also the essence of Zen.”

After hearing this, everyone convinced and praised it, and Emperor Huizong nodded.

2024-02-05 18:05
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