It means: it's easy to waste your feet in a thorn bush, but it's hard to turn around when you see a beautiful flower under the bright moon curtain. It is easy to get out in the face of difficulties, but it is difficult to get out in enjoyment. It is a metaphor that people can be brave in the face of adversity, and it is not easy to experience difficulties in a very comfortable environment.

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

There are obstacles everywhere for a person to learn Buddhism, which is equal to thorns everywhere, all of which sting people. Ordinary people think that it is very difficult to get rid of the thorns, but a person who is determined to cultivate Buddhism does not find it too difficult. At best, he is punctured all over! What is the hardest part? It's hard to turn around when the moon is bright and clean. When you completely forget yourself, forget your body, and prove that you are empty, you are told not to settle down, not to enter the realm of purity, but to enter this vast sea of suffering to save the world and save people, which is the most difficult and impossible.

Being a man, doing things and practicing are all the same. Learning Buddhism and doing kung fu, when it is quiet, is like autumn weather, with clear moonlight and beautiful scenery. It is more difficult to jump out of this beautiful scenery than to jump out of the painful realm, so it is called "it is difficult to turn around under the moonlight curtain". It's hard enough for someone not to get carried away when he is frustrated, but it's even harder for him not to get carried away when he is frustrated, and not to think that he is great. Therefore, Buddhism, Buddhism, world law are all the same.

Master Hanshan (November 5, 1546-January 15, 1623) was born in Quanjiao, Anhui. The legal name is Deqing, the word is printed, and the number is Hanshan. One of the four eminent monks in Ming Dynasty, he was the greatest achiever of Zen in modern China. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, from Xuanzong of Ming Dynasty to Muzong of Ming Dynasty, all sects of Buddhism declined for more than one hundred years. Since Wanli period of Ming Shenzong, famous Buddhist monks have emerged in large numbers, forming a prosperous scene of Buddhism's revival in China, among which four eminent monks, Hanshan, Yunqi (that is, socks macro), Zibai (that is, true) and Manyi (that is, Zhixu), are outstanding.

Master Hanshan was honored by later generations as the founder of Cao Xi. He is proficient in internal and external studies, does not establish a portal, and advocates that all sects go hand in hand, Zen and purity, and Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism complement each other. His works include General Meaning of Lengyan Sutra, Notes on Viewing Lengga Sutra, General Meaning of Hokkekyo, Brief Introduction to the Mahayana Sutra, etc. Disciples collected his legacy as Sleepwalking Collection of Master Hanshan, with 55 volumes, and two volumes of his own chronicle. In the 13th year of Chongzhen (164), believers raised their remains with lacquer cloth and enshrined them in Nanhua Temple, which is the real body of Master Hanshan today.