It means: It is easy to stand in the thorn bushes when there is a small space, but it is difficult to turn around when seeing a beautiful flower like a flower under the bright moon curtain. It is easy to get out of difficulties, but it is difficult to get out of enjoyment. It is a metaphor that people can be very brave in the face of adversity, but it is not easy to experience difficulties in a very comfortable environment.

This sentence is a famous saying by Master Hanshan in the late Ming Dynasty. The specific original text should be: It is easy to get down among thorns, but difficult to turn around under the moonlight curtain.

There are obstacles everywhere for a person to learn Buddhism, just like the ground is full of thorns, all of them stinging. From the perspective of ordinary people, it is very difficult to get a foot in the thorn bush, but a person who is determined to practice Taoism does not find it too difficult. At best, he will be punctured all over his body! What's the hardest thing? It is difficult to turn around under the bright moon. When you have completely forgotten yourself and your body, and have realized the aspect of emptiness and purity, I ask you not to enter samadhi, not to enter the realm of purity, but to do what others cannot do, to endure what others cannot endure, and to enter this vast sea of ??suffering to save the world. Saving people is the most difficult and impossible thing.

Being a person, doing things, and cultivating are all based on the same principles. Study Buddhism and do Kung Fu. When you reach that pure time, it will be like the weather in autumn, with white moon, clear wind, and beautiful scenery. It is better to jump out of this beautiful scenery than to escape from it. It is even more difficult to jump out of a painful state, so it is called "it is difficult to turn around under the moonlight curtain". It is already difficult for some people to be able to remember their true feelings when they are frustrated, but it is even more difficult to ask them to remember their true feelings when they are happy and not think that they are great. Therefore, Buddhism and worldly laws are all the same.

Master Hanshan (November 5, 1546 - January 15, 1623), whose common surname was Cai, was from Quanjiao, Anhui. His dharma name is Deqing, his courtesy name is Chengyin, and his nickname is Hanshan. One of the four eminent monks of the Ming Dynasty and the greatest achiever of Zen Buddhism in modern China. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, for more than a hundred years from the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty to the reign of Emperor Mu Zong of the Ming Dynasty, various sects of Buddhism were in decline. Since the Wanli period of Ming Shenzong, famous Buddhist monks emerged in large numbers, forming a prosperous scene of the revival of Buddhism in China. Hanshan, Yunqi ( The four eminent monks, namely Shou Hong), Zibai (ie Zhenke) and Manyi (ie Zhixu), are the best among them.

Master Hanshan was honored as the Patriarch of Caoxi Zhongxing by later generations. He was proficient in internal and external studies and did not establish any sect. He advocated the simultaneous advancement of all sects, the dual cultivation of Zen and Purity, and the complementarity of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. His writings include "The General Meaning of the Surangama Sutra", "The Avalokitesvara Sutra", "The General Meaning of the Lotus Sutra", "The Comprehensive Meaning of the Huayan Sutra", "A Brief Introduction to the Mahayana Sutra", etc. His disciples compiled his posthumous writings into "Dream Walking Collection of Master Hanshan" ", among the fifty-five volumes, there are also other important chapters" and two volumes of self-authored chronology. In the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640), believers enshrined his remains in lacquer cloth and enshrined them in Nanhua Temple, which is now the true body of Master Hanshan.