The layman surnamed Lu, his father died young, and his family was poor. Huineng supported his mother by selling firewood. On the way home selling firewood, I heard someone chanting the Diamond Sutra, which made me have the heart to learn Buddhism. In 670, he left home to study Buddhism. In 672, Huineng went to Dongshan Temple, Huangmei, and then to Huozhuoji (now Guangxiao Temple) in Nanhai (now Guangzhou). Soon, Huineng performed the Dongshan method under Huo Zhuoji's bodhi tree. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Baolin Temple in Caoxi, and Wei Kun, the secretariat of Shaozhou (now Shaoguan, Guangdong), admired Mu Huineng's Taoist demeanor and asked him to give lectures. The audience exceeds 1000 people. The French he spoke was recorded by disciple Fahai, compiled into the Tanjing and passed down to later generations. In the second year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 7 13), Huineng died at the age of 76.