Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 157
Buddhism was introduced into China from the Han Dynasty, and it has not improved for hundreds of years. Even in the period of frequent wars in the Three Kingdoms, although the traces of Buddhist activities increased, because the meaning of Buddhist scriptures was contrary to people's usual consciousness, there was no outstanding achievement. There is no political promotion, so it is still just a heresy that is not on the right path.

It was not until the Western Jin Dynasty that Buddhist theories were truly accepted by the upper class. During this period, metaphysics flourished unprecedentedly. Prajnaism in Buddhism advocated sexual empty theory and existed as a supplement to metaphysics.

By the time Wuhuluanhua came, Buddhism in the North had an opportunity to be independent of metaphysics.The leaders of the Hu people who originated from the border barbarians had a special affection for Buddhism, which was also a Fan religion. In addition, some Buddhist ideas were also quite conducive to their rule, so they were able to be promoted on a large scale.At this time, Fotucheng, the most famous eminent monk in the Northland, was the guest of Later Zhao Shile.

In Jiangdong, however, Buddhism still has not got rid of the embarrassing situation of being a vassal of metaphysics, and does not have the influence and strength to become an independent religion.At the very least, Shen Zhezi didn't see many Buddhists in the Wuzhong countryside. At this time, it was probably just a fad in the upper class.

The eminent monk Zhu Fashen sitting on the terrace had a clear face, and his clothes were not the kind of cassocks and cassocks that Shen Zhezi was familiar with in later generations, but just plain clothes from time to time, and he just received the precepts on his head.Nowadays, the surnames of monks follow their teachers. Those who inherit from Tianzhu will use "Zhu" as their surname, and those who inherit from Yuezhi will use "Zhi" as their surname.As for Buddhists using "Shi" as their surname, it was not discussed until later by the eminent monk Dao'an.

At this time, what Zhu Fashen was talking about upstairs was not the scriptures that Shen Zhezi understood, but the "Lighting Prajna Sutra" that is quite influential nowadays.As for the "Lotus Sutra", which is more important in Buddhism and advocates that everyone has Buddha nature and can be a Buddha, it has not been translated at all.

Although I have never been in touch with this scripture, but listening to Na Zhu Fashen explain the meaning of the scriptures, I don't think it is too difficult to understand.Even some of these views are quite consistent with some theories in current metaphysics, and they have the same effect.Even when it comes to the feeling of emptiness and disillusionment, it goes a step further than metaphysical theory, and it has a feeling that makes people lower everything and feel dead.

This is not surprising, nowadays Prajna studies are quite similar to metaphysics.And Zhu Fashen uses metaphysics to interpret Buddhist views, which is an important means of localizing Buddhism. It is called Geyi, and it is just a trick.

Nowadays, the pursuit of Buddhist theories by the upper class, apart from being more pragmatic than metaphysics and teaching people to escape from reality, the more obvious academic pursuit is to promote the development of metaphysics with the help of Buddhist prajna theory.

The development of metaphysics reached a peak in the Western Jin Dynasty. Nowadays, famous scholars talk about it with eloquence all day long, but what they say is actually just the wisdom of the predecessors.So even after crossing the river, Wang Daoqing talked only about the three principles of "no sound, sorrow and joy, health preservation, and expressing the meaning", all of which are old topics of the Western Jin Dynasty.

However, Zhi Daolin, an eminent monk, was able to quote Buddhist principles in "Xiaoyaoyou" in "Zhuangzi" and elucidate new ideas.

Metaphysics cites Buddhism to give off new vitality. With such a background premise, it is not difficult to understand that the gentry now admire Buddhism.

After listening to Zhu Fashen's lecture notes for a while, Shen Zhezi became less interested.He does not agree with the completely localized, polished and mature Buddhist theories of later generations.As for Zhu Fashen's intermingled Buddhist teachings mixed with metaphysics and Buddhas, they themselves become illusory and disillusioned, breaking through the absurdity and narrowness of all entities, so he naturally couldn't listen to it even more.

Yu Tiao himself does not believe in Buddhism, but is a Taoist official who accumulates records of the Heavenly Master Taoism. He didn't pay much attention to it at first, but after listening carefully for a while, he gradually became fascinated, and seemed to be very touched.

Seeing this, Shen Zhezi got up, only to find that the maid Yunzhi had left at some point.He didn't care about it either, he walked away from the small building and walked in the garden to pass some boring time.

At this time, the small building was filled with audiences listening to Zhu Fashen's lecture, all of them seemed to be engrossed, and the scene was a little calm for a while.

Shen Zhezi got up and left, but others didn't feel it. Zhu Fashen, who was sitting upstairs watching the audience, was a little surprised. When he lectured, there were a lot of listeners. It is rare to see such a person who walks away halfway through hearing the scriptures, especially at the moment. The verse I talked about is what I deeply feel is the subtlety of the Buddhadharma.

This stunned, the voice of preaching sutras inevitably paused.The audience downstairs were hearing the beauty, and many of them were keenly aware of this anomaly, and then turned their heads around, and saw Shen Zhezi's back not far away, they couldn't help shaking their heads and sighing, secretly said Dead wood is hard to carve.

Yu Tiao also noticed that Shen Zhezi was leaving, so he quickly got up to meet him, and asked in surprise: "I didn't hear the magic of Buddhism earlier, and only the Tao was a nonsense. Listening to Shen Gong's lecture today, I began to realize the true meaning of Buddhism." Interesting. Such a profound theory, how can Zhezi Langjun not hear it?"

Hearing what Yu Tiao said, Shen Zhezi hadn't realized that this guy actually had Buddha nature.It's just that he has never been interested in religion. No matter how subtle the theory is, it is just a way to guide and hypnotize people's thoughts, so that people can comfort themselves and find reasons to comfort themselves.However, if it is said that religion can transform and educate people, that would be a bit exaggerated.

There are quite a few people in the Northern Territory who believe in Buddha, and they will not do any evil that they should do.In the final analysis, the significance of religion to people is mainly the inner feelings. As for the evil thoughts in people's hearts to do evil, it cannot be restrained by religion.

Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties said: If the coast of the land is pure, then I will sit in peace, and what will happen to the husband!

However, in this world, there are those who are sycophants, and those who do evil are even more rare.It is an unbelievably foolish idea to entrust people's enlightenment on this kind of false theory.If people are good in nature, they can live in harmony in the village without believing in gods and Buddhas, without harming others.As for himself, he has many illusory and evil thoughts, and he has done a lot of evil deeds in worshiping the Buddha all his life. Maybe he can find a reason in Buddhism to escape inner condemnation after doing evil.

Just as Shen Zhezi was about to answer Yu Tiao, several people came to meet him. One of the old men was Dai Miao. Shen Zhezi had met once in Ji's residence.As for the other young people, if they guess correctly, they should be the children of the Wang family, and one of them is wearing a hood with a certain Hu style, so it should be Wang Huzhi who is known for wind diseases.

Although they didn't have a deep friendship with each other, since Daozuo met, he always went up to say hello, so Shen Zhezi stood beside the road and saluted Dai Miao.

Although Dai Miao had a close relationship with the Qiaomen, he couldn't turn a blind eye to Shen Zhezi, a gentleman of Wu Zhong, so he responded with a smile, and at the same time introduced the few Wang's children around him.The one with the hood is indeed Wang Huzhi, while the other two are Wang Pengzhi and Wang Biaozhi.The three of them have the same grandfather Wang Zheng, so it is normal for them to come and go together.

Among the three, Wang Pengzhi was the oldest, his eyes glanced at Shen Zhezi and then turned to the side, he didn't even bother to say hello, he was quite simple and arrogant, and he also turned a blind eye to Yu Tiao.Wang Huzhi was the youngest, but he looked at Shen Zhezi a few times, but his expression showed undisguised displeasure and disgust.

As for Wang Biaozhi, who has a little gray hair, he sneered a little exaggeratedly: "Smell the fragrance and avoid it, and go for the smell. Shengong doesn't hear the exquisite Buddhist teachings, so you can see what kind of stupid talent he is."

Shen Zhezi never thought of getting along with Wang's children in harmony. After hearing the words, he also sneered: "Maybe the fragrance of Dai Gong's fragrance can cover up the vulgar smell here, otherwise we shouldn't be on this journey."

Dai Miao took a few steps to the side, signaling that he would not interfere in the quarrel between young people.

When Wang Pengzhi heard this, he reacted a little fiercely, he just spat on the ground, and said indifferently: "Crazy disobedience to the sect, the talent of a martial artist, it's really an insult to the eyes and ears!"

Hearing this old-fashioned and contemptuous words, Shen Zhezi rolled his eyelids, and sighed: "It's really not as good as the Zunfu's shining domain, and the family's blood is always used to wash the court. Such self-cherishing feathers, why can't I understand?"

Since both of them are full of dysentery, why bother to expose each other's faults here.Even though he is far younger than the other party in age and outnumbered, it is Shen Zhezi's specialty to expose weaknesses after all, so how can he be cowardly.

They looked at each other with distaste, and probably the members of the Wang family also felt that the strategy was wrong, so Wang Biaozhi continued the previous topic: "Shen Gong's Buddhist principles are superb, and he has gone in and out of profound Confucianism. Self-defeating and retiring, did you clearly see your own humbleness and ugliness, or did you not understand it at all?"

The voice was a bit loud, so that it spread to the other side of the small building.The Mr. Shen upstairs also made fun of it, and simply shut up and stopped lecturing on the scriptures, so those who listened to the scriptures changed their careers to come here.Some people were displeased by Shen Zhezi's departure before, and when they heard Wang Biaozhi's words, they couldn't help but chime in: "The raccoon only hears the local sayings, so how can they appreciate the elegance of the Buddha's words?"

Most of the people here are from the north, and for Shen Zhezi, it is a real away game.Even if there are a few southerners like Dai Miao and Zhang Mu who don't have much friendship with the Shen family, they might wish to see Shen Zhezi being despised by everyone.

"When I first heard Shen Gong's words, it was indeed a little interesting. It's just that I was impatient to be in the same class as a group of people who look like chickens and look like chickens."

Shen Zhezi has never been afraid to quarrel with others. Now he was stuck here to be ridiculed by everyone, and he simply put on a posture to be an enemy of everyone around him. Before those angry people responded, he said loudly: "Say When it reaches the heart, it feels something, and a verse is born. The body is a bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror stand. Always wipe it diligently, so as not to stir up dust."

"Everyone has heard the Buddha's words for a long time. I don't know if you can teach me?"

When everyone heard this gatha, they turned around and swallowed the words they had blurted out.They didn't expect Shen Zhezi to utter a Buddhist gatha when he opened his mouth, so they were a little surprised.These people listened to Zhu Fashen's Buddha's words, or because of encounters, or because of their recuperation experience, they did have their own feelings, but it was so messy, and it was beyond their power to open their mouths like Shen Zhezi and write such a neat Buddha's verse in a short time.

As a result, the scene was a little cold for a while, because Shen Zhezi expressed their understanding that they didn't have, and there was no reason to attack the other party.But if you want to admit that they are just stunned people, it is somewhat unacceptable, so some good people passed this Buddhist verse to the small building.

After a while, Zhu Fashen came down surrounded by the crowd, looked at Shen Zhezi kindly, and said kindly: "Because of my shallowness in Buddhism, I can't believe in it, so I feel like I lost something. It turns out that Mr. Shen also has a heart for the Buddha. Those who are aware of their words are just saying that they should be wiped away frequently, so why are they so stingy listening to the words of Buddhism?"

Hearing what Zhu Fashen said, the expressions of the people next to him lit up, and they found an excuse to attack Shen Zhezi again: "This raccoon is really talented, and he made a verse when he was detained. It's just that he is a hypocrite with duplicity after all. , was timid after being inquired by Shen Gong for a while. Whenever he wipes it frequently, the dust accumulated in his heart is already several feet thick!"

Hearing others' criticism, Shen Zhezi was not angry at all. The reason why he recited the first Buddhist gatha in this Buddhist koan was to hold back.If they let each other go, then the latter one, which is even more astonishing, needn't be mentioned, but if they are still entangled, whoever comes forward will hit him in the face!

　There is another chapter later, the update is late, it is really embarrassing. . .I'll try my best. . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)