Hui Neng
(638 ~ 7 13) monks in the Tang dynasty. Also known as Huineng. The sixth ancestor of Zen in China. Grandfather No.6, Dajian Zen Master. Guangdong Nanhai emerging people, ancestral home in Hebei, often surnamed Lu. According to the records of the six ancestors' magic weapon altar sutra, his father died young, and his family was poor. He often pumped water with his salary to serve his widowed mother. One day, when I went to town with a negative salary, I heard the guests read the Diamond Sutra and had an epiphany. At that time, Hongren, the fifth ancestor, was in Huangmei East Temple and practiced vigorously. I'll pay my respects. When Wuzu asked him what he wanted to come here, the teacher replied (April 348):' My disciple is from Xinzhou, Lingnan, and he came from afar to be a teacher, but he just wanted to become a Buddha and asked for nothing else. Five ancestors said:' You are from Lingnan, a hunter (suspected mule). Are you worthy of becoming a Buddha? Huineng said to him:' Although there are people from north and south, there is no Buddha nature from north and south. The hunting body is different from the monk body. What's the difference between Buddha's nature? The fifth ancestor was amazed at his extraordinary temperament, so he entered the palace and spent August. One day, the Five Ancestors invited everyone to talk about the teaching method of clothes. The audience was so beautiful that they said in the book on the wall gallery:' I am a bodhi tree, and my heart is like a mirror. Wipe it clean frequently to avoid dust. After listening to this, the teacher said that the poem was unnatural, so he asked a boy to write a poem in ghost, saying,' Bodhi has no trees, the mirror is not a stage, and there is nothing. Where can it cause dust? When Wuzu heard about it, he was regarded as a person who could really preach Dafa. They called the teacher into the house at night, secretly taught him clothes, sent him back to the south overnight, and hid him between Sihui and Huaiji.
In the first year of Yifeng (676), he went to the South China Sea, met Master Yinzong in Beitiao Temple, and became a monk. The following year, he moved to Baolin Temple in Caoxi, Shaoyang, and carried out the epiphany method of "pointing directly at people's hearts and treating nature as Buddha". Contrary to the gradual enlightenment advocated by Shen Xiu in the north, it is called' Southampton spread to the north gradually, and the south can be beautiful in the north' in history. His disciple Fahai compiled his teachings into a book called "Six Ancestors' Magic Weapon Tanjing", which spread all over the world and became a later Zen classic. Later, at the request of Shi Shiwei, he managed to build a building in Dafan Temple. Not long ago, he returned to Cao Xi to spread Dafa and worship Taoism and customs. In the first year of Shenlong (705), Xue Jian, an on-the-job servant of the Chinese Sect, called his teacher to Beijing. The teacher said that he was still ill, so the emperor gave him a robe and a green bowl and changed Baolin Temple into Zhongxing Temple. Three years, give more money to' hosenji'.
In the first year of birth (7 12), the teacher once gave up his residence as Guo' en Temple and ordered people to erect a tower in the temple to repay his kindness. In July of the following year, he returned to Guo 'en Temple and died in August, living 76 years. The teacher's body is not bad, but it still exists and belongs to Cao. Posthumous title was the "Great Zen Master" of Xianzong. Song Taizong Taiping rejuvenating the country in the middle of the year (976 ~ 983) added' true Zen master'; Since then, Injong posthumous title "Pujue Zen Master" and Zongshen posthumous title "Yuanming Zen Master". There is a roll of six ancestors altar sutra and diamond sutra formula. Among them, "Six Ancestors Tanjing" was compiled by Fahai at first, but later it was artificially abridged, which failed to see the whole picture of its ancestral righteousness. The virtue and difference in Yuan Dynasty is to explore its four aspects and get its full text. In the 28th year of Yuan Dynasty (129 1), Zongbao re-collated three different editions, corrected their mistakes, detailed abridged them, supplemented the disciples' requirements, and published them. Now they are collected in the 48th volume of Da Zheng Zang. Among the more than 40 disciples who studied under the law, Heze Shenhui, Nanyang Zhonghui, Yongjia Xuanjue, Qingyuan Hangsi, Nanyue Huairang and others are the most famous, and they started Lin Ji, Cao Dong and other five schools and seven schools of Zen. [Buddha Volume 29, Biography of Monks in Song Dynasty Volume 8, Jingdezhen Lantern Festival Volume 5, Five Lantern Festival Volume 1, Collection of Ancient Stone Books Volume 3, Biography Volume 6]