Su Shi

Life and death are like arms bent, and love makes our generation suffer.

Lotte is not a Penglai guest, relying mainly on the west.

This poem was written in the sixth year of Xining in Song Shenzong (107 1), and Su Shi was appointed as an official in Hangzhou.

Master Serene, whose real name is Fu, now lives in Tianzhu Temple in Hangzhou and became a monk. When Su Shi arrived in Hangzhou, he respected him very much and liked to associate with him. Listen to him when you are in trouble, that is, you have both form and spirit. Xi Ning died six years ago on October 17th at the age of sixty.

The poet's first sentence was about Buddhism, because it was the monks who mourned. "Field of Life and Death" and the Buddhist classic "Sixteen Views" were published. It is said that a strong man, for example, who was born in the west after his death, only needs to bend his arm and stretch his arm for a short time. This is a comfort to the dead. According to Volume 22 of Su Shi's Collected Works, Hai Yue argued it, which is really strange. After Haiyue's illness, Su Shi was sent to Tianzhu Mountain. Su Shi is very busy and can't go at once. When Su Shi arrived at Tianzhu Mountain, Haiyue had been dead for four days. It can be seen that Haiyue was very concerned about Su Shi before his death. Su Shi told Haiyue that since he died, he was born in the west. Now that he has a home, you don't have to worry about worldly things, and you don't have to be nostalgic. This poem is also the poet's self-consolation. Since Haiyue has her own home, there is no need to be sad.

Having said that, the grim reality is that such a monk really left people, which makes people sad, especially those who have been taught by monks like himself. This is a common feeling of human society. The second sentence of this poem talks about secular principles. Such a turning point is more likely to cause people to sing. The author used the word "zhong", which is very accurate, because the poet's feelings are often in a saturated state, which is the most abundant.

The third and fourth sentences are about Bai Juyi (Lotte).

In his later years, Bai Juyi wrote a poem called "Guests have something to talk about": "Recently, someone returned from the sea and saw the balcony in the depths of the seamount. There is a shrine in the middle of the room. I'll tell you more about it. " In the novels of the Tang Dynasty, it was recorded that someone met a strong wind at sea, and the strong wind blew him to Penglai Mountain, a fairyland, where there was a courtyard, the door of which was closed and locked. It was said that this was Bai Letian Courtyard. After Bai Juyi heard about it, he wrote down the answer: "I studied an empty door, not a fairy. I'm afraid this statement is false." Seamount is not where I belong. I should return to the sky. "An empty net" is Buddhism. Buddha said that there are many kinds of days, and pocket rate is one of them; Sakyamuni, the ancestor of Buddhism, was born in Doulutian. Bai Juyi made it clear that he did not seek immortality and believed in Buddhism.

Some time ago, Bai Juyi wrote a poem saying goodbye to the fruit lover, saying that following the fruit lover "need not be disappointed", but "please ask the west to be the master first" and obey the arrangement of Buddhism.

Su Shi is actually talking about himself here, indicating that he sincerely converted to Buddhism, so as to further comfort the author and express his greatest piety to the deceased. As a poem of condolence, it is very appropriate.

Actually, the situation is slightly different. In July (11kloc-0/), the first year of Guo Jing in Song Huizong, Su Shi returned to Changzhou from Hainan. When he was about to die, Lin Hui, a monk from Jingshan, came to see him. He said to Lin Wei, "Laugh at Luo Shi for a lifetime, and the spell really came out." Roche was Kumarajiva, a monk from the Western Regions in Jin Dynasty. Roche asked his students to read a spell to save him before he died, but it didn't save Roche. He died anyway. Su Shi doesn't believe in spells. When his breathing was extremely weak and he was dying, Lin Wei was in his ear and told him loudly not to forget the west and to work hard for it. His answer is "the west is not without" and "the efforts are poor". According to this, it is correct for later generations to say that Su Shi did not really think there was a West. Su Shi is proficient in Buddhism, and many eminent monks are his good friends. He constantly draws nutrition from Buddhist culture and enriches himself, but he is not a Buddhist.