Exploring the hidden Zen in Lingyin Temple

Exploring the hidden Zen in Lingyin Temple

Lingyin Temple, blue tile yellow wall, high-bottom staggered temple group, located in the valley surrounded by peaks, the temple in front of the mountain spring accompanied in the gurgling flow, the temple in the ancient trees towering, tree shade sun, haze, so that Lingyin Temple worthy of the name. Walking into Lingyin Temple will immediately make people feel far away from the mortal atmosphere. The best place to go is Lingyin Temple.

There are many temples and Zen rooms in Lingyin Temple, the incense in the ancient temple is flashing, and tourists are bustling. How many people are ordinary people? How many people are millionaires and dignitaries? I don't know. How many people come purely for pleasure? How many people have come to ask for God's blessing? How many people have come to ask about Zen? I don't know. For many years from ancient times to the present, incense and fire have been incessant in Lingyin Temple, this curl of fireworks wandering at the junction of ancient and present, drifting on the edge of the shaking light and shadow. In this earthly world of different sentient beings, in this smoke-filled temple, many people choose how to chase prosperity and let the gods bless them, while others just look for a quiet place, and they all walk in the ancient temple in the direction they desire. Along the way, bustling back and forth, or walking in silence, leaving noisy and quiet scenery, enriching themselves and infecting others, more people may have come here just to see the elegant demeanour of the ancient temples in the south of the Yangtze River. When night falls and the temple is quiet, there is no trace of how people come to Lingyin Temple during the day. The Buddha said that there are all things in the world, and all living beings are equal. No matter whether you are a dignitary or a commoner, in the eyes of the Buddha, you are all common people in the mortal world. They all experience joys and sorrows, birth, aging, sickness and death.

Perhaps I came to Lingyin Temple just to find a post station where my soul was moored. I came here with a half-dream and half-awake mood. Looking at the ancient temple which has been surrounded by smoke for a thousand years, stepping on the deep and shallow footprints of our predecessors, passing through the circuitous ancient roads in the mountains, facing the fluttering prayer flags in the wind, listening to the melodious Sanskrit sound, and in front of the tall Buddha statues, to look for the back of the ancient temple edified by the misty rain for thousands of years, to find the destination of the soul and to explain the true meaning of life.

Since it comes from understanding Zen, since it is asking about Zen, it is all on the same question. At that time, Bai Juyi also asked Zen when he stepped into Lingyin Temple, as evidenced by a poem: he specially entered the empty door to ask Kukong, and dared to ask Zen Weng about Zen. It is a matter of floating life to restore a dream, and it is a dream to resume a floating life. I think whether it is the dream in the body or the body in the dream, walking into this temple outside the world, no matter how flashy the heart is, it will be quiet. In front of the Buddha, I really want to understand the true meaning of Zen.

The most famous Daoji Zen master in Lingyin history (that is, the living Buddha of Ji Gong) wrote a poem that he forgot about himself in the past 60 years. After entering the empty door, the dust was blown away and the fragrance of Lantai candles dissipated. Who am I 800 years later? Ji Gong was originally a man of great enlightenment. He had a wild life and unknowingly enjoyed all his years of fun and play. when life and death came, he also had troubles, and he could not help asking, "who am I in 800 years?" What's more, we are mortal, how can we surpass the groaning of floating life is a dream.

The Sanskrit sound is dotted with the sound of music like the sound of nature. Life is full of Zen, Zen life: indifferent. Indifference is the most perfect state of mind in life, a calm honor or disgrace, a good quality that does not mess up in case of trouble, and a sublimation of the soul. Life, in fact, is the pursuit of happiness with longing, the pursuit of dreams with hope of a life experience, no matter how good and hard life has given, only indifferent state of mind, so that you can have the best happiness.

Because indifferent, so simple, because simple, so will be happy. In fact, this is an attitude towards life, a philosophy of wisdom, a kind of ordinary fireworks, a place of peach blossom far away from earthly troubles, and a pure land of mind. Life is sometimes impermanent, but the vicissitudes of life on the road have also taught us to treat all the difficulties encountered with an indifferent state of mind, to meet every wind and rain in life with a smile, then we will have a lot less worry.

The rare thing in life is simplicity and detachment. In the accumulation of life, we need to learn to use an indifferent state of mind to precipitate the weight of life. All the troubles in the world are due to wanting too much, but most of the time, life gives us too little. If there is more than one share in the world, it is bound to add another burden in the heart. Instead of being burdened with dust and smoke, it is better to hold a Zen indifference, let the heart return to a simple peace, and make life a little more peaceful.

To look down on some people and things is to protect yourself in the end. To see too deeply is to indulge in obsession. If you go too deep, you will eventually get hurt. Only when you see it shallowly can you put it down and not be obsessed with it. That is the great wisdom. Only indifferent people can see that mountains are mountains and water is water. Indifference is a kind of mature mind, indifference is a kind of plain beauty, no trace, no vanity, the heart is as clear as a lotus. Have a plain ordinary mind, put down the obsession, get out of the complicated fetters of the world, is a kind of line to the water is poor, do to see the cloud when the chic, is a free and easy detached from the fame and wealth of material.

Life, only through different paths, to know that losing may be having, and the beginning may mean that it is coming to an end. Do not care about gains and losses, do not pursue excessive perfection, everything is only half-satisfactory, because life can not be more satisfactory, as long as it is given by the years, imperfection is also a different kind of beauty. Throwing away the prosperity and being a pure self is the best thing to have in your life. Prosperity is not flamboyant, loneliness is not silent. Whether it is simple or complex, or sad or happy, what you give is time, and what you get is the understanding of life.

Time is Zen, and time is the best incense. Everyone in the world is depicting the trajectory of his life until the end of life. Life is endless and fleeting, and there is no room for mockery. The past, of course, will not come again; the future, can not be predicted, only the calm of the moment, only in their own control. The beauty and ugliness of the trajectory of life do not care about the past or the future, but about the present which is like a dream but not a dream. Only by being kind to the present and having a calm heart can we live up to every spray in the long river of life. The wind sparks the bamboo, the wind passes but the bamboo does not leave a sound, the wild goose goes to the cold pool, the wild goose goes but the pool does not leave a picture, things come and appear, things go and the heart is empty.