One: Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not a stage. There was nothing. Where did the dust come from?

Analysis:

This sentence comes from the altar sutra.

This is the inspiration of Hui Ke, the sixth ancestor.

Heart is not heart, things are not things, and heart is higher than things.

The heart is the heart, the thing is the thing, the heart and the thing are one, and the heart and the thing are one.

People in the dust, not dust, but dust in the heart, turned into dust.

When people are in the world, there is no fixed law, and then they know that the law is illegal; What's going on in the world is unfinished, why not let nature take its course?

Don't ask for it deliberately. Everyone is based on Buddha's nature and focuses on cultivating the mind, not the outside.

Two: If I don't go to hell, who will?

Analysis:

Originated from the original wish of the Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva could have become a Buddha, but because there are countless suffering souls in hell, he couldn't bear to leave, so he stayed in the hell and solemnly swore: "If I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell will not become a Buddha!" So there is the origin of this sentence, which belongs to Mahayana of Buddhism.

Three: Everything is illusory.

Analysis:

Read the Diamond Sutra in this sentence: everything is illusory; Everything is like a dream, like dew, like electricity, and it should be treated as such.

For love: beautiful love, touching love, are illusory! But illusory love is also the most beautiful! If you are in a dream, you are close at hand, but can't touch it; Distant is always the most beautiful, because it is out of reach and full of imagination, but it is difficult to understand the real beauty. It is located in the dreamland created by human mind. This kind of beauty is worth pursuing all the time. Even if it takes a lifetime to get a heartbreaking ending, we are still looking forward to it.

For life: if people don't cling to all the material fame and fortune in the world, they will not be influenced by material fame and fortune; It is precisely because people pursue these sensory things that they become unhappy. Everything flows. Nothing stays in the lives of ordinary people, because they care too much about their feelings. Because they are in dire straits, they remember the Buddhist saying that everything is illusory.

Life is like a dream, scattered with the wind! Gathering and parting, mixed feelings, are all fate!

Four: don't say.

Analysis:

This sentence comes from "Dapin Prajna Sutra". Many things are "words can only be understood"! Many realms of the Buddha need to be understood, cultivated and enlightened by himself. The Buddha should abandon delusion and persistence and enter a state of no thoughts! The act of "saying" itself requires a delusion to implement, so it is impossible to say it! The Buddha has so many scriptures and so many quotations that he has to do so in order to educate all living beings. Therefore, Zen emphasizes that it is the truth not to cling to words.

There is a sentence that explains this Buddhist scripture well: some things can be said and not done, some things can be done and not said, and some things can neither be said nor done.

Five: color is empty, and empty is color.

Analysis:

This sentence comes from the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra translated by Master Xuanzang in the Tang Dynasty, which is the essence of Zen! The whole sentence is "color is not different from empty, empty is not different from color, color is empty, empty is color, it's all the same when you think about it."

Buddhism says "color" refers to everything the eyes see. This sentence basically expounds the concept that everything is empty, so that you don't cling to everything, make you uncomfortable physically and mentally, and make you talk about empty but love empty. In fact, there is no difference between loving the world and loving emptiness. It is also a phenomenon of clinging to everything that is visible or invisible, and it is an illusion that people have in vain.

Color is emptiness, which makes the human body realize the phenomenon of things and think that many sufferings and troubles are illusory. Empty is color, and people can know what goes around comes around because of the commonness and causality of things. The so-called cycle of good and evil is: knowing the cause of the past, the recipient of this life is, knowing the fruit of the future, and the doer of this life is. Color is empty, and empty is color "is the basis of persuading people to be good."

Six: a flower and a world, a Buddha and a Buddha.

Analysis:

The original text should be: A flower blooms all over the world, and a leaf becomes a Buddha. It comes from Huayan Jing: Once upon a time, when the Buddha picked flowers, Ye Jia smiled and went to bliss. From a flower, he can realize the whole world and ascend to heaven!

Buddha said: a flower and a world, a grass and a day, a leaf and a Buddha, a sand and a blessing, a pure land, a smile and a quiet heart are all a state of mind. If you have nothing, you can spend a world, a grass and a heaven. A flower and a grass are the whole world, and the whole world is as empty as flowers and plants.

There are buddhas everywhere, and all living beings are buddhas.

Seven: Looking back 500 times in my last life is just a brush in my life.

Analysis:

This sentence is not from Buddhist scriptures, but from a story. Buddha said: Only by practicing immortality can we be in the same boat, and only by practicing immortality can we sleep together. Looking back on the past 500 times, I get a brush in this life, and an encounter in this life will certainly breed too many sweet or painful memories of previous lives. Everything is destiny takes a hand, and it is destiny takes a hand! Accidental meeting, suddenly looking back, doomed each other's lives, just for the moment of looking at each other.

Eight: Great sorrow without tears, silent realization, silent smile.

Analysis:

Great compassion is endless compassion, not emotion, so it can't be described by tears; Enlightenment is the opening of great wisdom, which cannot be expressed in words; Laughter is true happiness, but how can laughter express inner joy? The older you get, the deeper you will understand this sentence.

Nine: The sea of misery is boundless. Turn around, put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha.

This is Buddhism's words to persuade people to turn over a new leaf. Shi Puji's "Five Lights Meeting Yuan" Volume 53: "Guangfuhede kills people without blinking an eye, puts down the butcher's knife and becomes a Buddha on the spot." This is a metaphor. Once an evil person knows his crime and is determined to correct it, he can quickly become a good person.

Confucianism leads harmony to social ideals, Taoism to the origin of things and Buddhism to the inner world. Buddhism believes that the environment is peaceful from the heart and everything is harmonious.

There is a cloud in Zen Buddhism: if there is no Buddha in the Buddha's heart, where can I ask for Buddha? All beings have Buddha nature.

Ten: life in the world is like being in a thorn. If the heart does not move, if people do not move, it will not hurt. If the heart moves, if people move wildly, it hurts the body and bones, so they realize all kinds of pains in the world.

Life is like being in the jungle of thorns all the time, and there are dangers or temptations everywhere. Only when you don't move your thoughts, can your inner peace make your actions impartial, and you can effectively avoid risks and resist temptations, otherwise you will suffer. When the heart moves, things move, and when the heart is still, things are still; Foolish thoughts are prajnaparamita, and intellectual thoughts are prajnaparamita; With things, things can be things; If things are not things, then things are not things; Things cannot be named, names cannot be real, and names cannot be real. It is because there is no Buddha's word: life without it, death without it.