After sunrise, cattle were herded, and it was going to rain, so Jing 'an took shelter in front of the school in the neighboring village. Listen, someone reads, "Your father died; You left home when you were young. "What did I feel? I couldn't feel tears. Mr Zhou Yunfan, a teacher, saw it and asked him why he was crying. Jing 'an replied that his parents died early and his family was poor and out of school. He was very sad. Zhou Yunfan sympathized with his experience and left him at school as a helper, where he could listen to books and read books in his spare time. Jing 'an is glad to have this opportunity to study hard. Not long after Teacher Zhou died, Jing 'an dropped out of school. After that, I worked as a buddhist nun in the squire's house, hoping to study in the class. Unexpectedly, the squire is rich and heartless, and he is asked to do heavy work every day and is not allowed to enter the study. He left in a fit of pique to visit as an apprentice and learn his craft. Apprentices in agricultural society are worse than child laborers, and sometimes they are abused. At the age of seventeen, one day when it was stormy, he saw the white peach flowers in the hedge destroyed by the wind and rain, and he burst into tears. He defected to Huokeji in Xiangyin and became a monk according to the tonsure of monk Lin Dong. The master gave him the dharma name Jing 'an and the word Zen. Tongzhi for seven years (1868). That winter, I went to Zhu Sheng Temple in Nanyue and gave me an anklet under the lawyer's seat.
After being ordained, I heard that Zen master Zhi Heng of Ren Rui Temple in Qishan, Hengyang's reputation in Taoism spread far and wide. He braved the heavy snow and went to Qishan in cold weather, practiced Zen according to Zhi Heng, practiced asceticism and worked in temples. After meditating with the public, he listened to the words of Zen master Zhi Heng and got to know a little about Buddhism. In this case, I lived an ascetic life for five years. Later, Zen master Jing 'an wrote a poem about his childhood, entitled "I wish you had a brother to make up for it".
I can't live in a fire house on earth, and I can't cry like rain;
My mother died when we were seven years old, and my brother was still breastfeeding.
That's just like my brother and I will be miserable once my dad dies.
It's hard to lengthen your sorrow and hatred, scratching your head every day to be quiet;
I think I have a younger brother who follows the sect. I learn from my younger brother Fautu.
Is it because of being homeless and becoming a monk, lamenting that life is like sending a line;
Tell my brother not to be sad. I'll try my best.
Or ask, Jing' an dropped out of school and didn't study much. How can he write poetry? It turns out that during his stay in Ren Rui Temple, monk Na Wei of Ren Rui Temple was famous for his beautiful name. He always liked singing. Jing' an thinks that it is a natural combination that literature interferes with Zen: "A monk does not do his duty, but has leisure time to learn human writing?" Jing Yue: "You are young and so diligent, and your future is limitless; As for Prajna paramita, I'm afraid it's beyond your power. " This slightly contemptuous remark had a profound influence on Jing 'an, and his later efforts to learn poetry had nothing to do with it.
On the other hand, studying poetry in Jing 'an also benefited from Mr. Guo's encouragement. Jing 'an said in "Poem Readme" that when he was twenty-one, he went to Yueyang to visit his uncle, and his uncle took him to visit Yueyang Tower, where someone was rhyming poems. He sat down beside Shen Cheng and looked down at the lake. It was a blue sky. Suddenly, he got the sentence "Dongting sends monks" and suddenly realized. Returning to Mr. Guo, a scholar who lives in Suzhou, Guo thinks that his words are "God helps" and he is born with wisdom. Give the book "300 Tang Poems" to persuade him to learn poetry. Jing 'an doesn't study much, and it's very difficult to learn. But he persisted and studied silently. Every time he did something, Mr. Guo praised him more, which finally made him famous in the poetry world. He said in the "Poem Collection" that: ... hard work is particularly bitter, or a word is not satisfactory, such as carrying a load, sleeping and eating, it takes several years to write a poem ... "
In the first year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1875), Jing 'an was twenty-four years old. He left Hunan, traveled to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and wandered around famous mountains and rivers. From then on, he began a career of Zen and poetry. He often practices spiritual cultivation in the valley, and when enjoying his feelings in the green forest, he always looks for chapters and sentences and recites them nonstop. Hungry and thirsty, I picked a handful of cypress leaves and pine nuts and chewed them. I held a clear spring in my hand and swallowed it with water. In many poems, he talked about his singing skills. For example, in the poem I Sing, I said:
A monk's good poem is like a good Zen, and he can't sleep all night.
In the poem "Shixing", he said:
I want to become a Buddha and stay up at night!
In "Four Poems of Mountain Living", I said:
There are only the remaining words, and I always take a poem with determination!
In the second rhyme of three poems to admire Lu Yinqiu and Cai Mao, he said:
Don't be greedy to become a Buddha, but I hope there are good poems in the world.
In the poem "Night Song", he said:
He failed to become a Buddha and wrote a poem by himself.
However, Jing 'an is not a pure poet after all, he is still a Zen monk. If you are a Zen monk, you should not forget the "duty" of the Zen monk to practice meditation. So, on the one hand, he is calm and good at poetry, on the other hand, he can't help feeling:
Worried about the waste of pottery industry, it may not be rich; I think poetry is absurd, but it can't be told. (One of the Trilogy of Spring Mountain Wandering)
At the same time he also sighed with emotion:
After all, bitter singing is always a thing, and ten years is better than temples.
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It is said that Ceng Ming spent his whole life in midnight poems;
It's really bad to think about it. I want to turn a snake into a dragon.
He even wanted to abstain from poetry: "From now on, stones will rot, pine trees will wither, and the wind will no longer sing to the moon, nor will it bark at the moon." Helpless has formed an indissoluble bond with poetry and can't stop. Finally, as for "the name of the poem wins all the rivers and lakes", the name of the poem covers up his Zen name.
He has his own unique views on poetry. Or someone asked him the difference between Tang poetry and Song poetry, and he said:
Tang Shichun, Song Poetry Refutation; Poems and songs in Tang Dynasty are lively, while poems and songs in Song Dynasty are dull. Tang poetry is comfortable, and Song poetry is laborious; Tang poetry is meticulous, while Song poetry is neglected; Tang poetry is sonorous, and Song poetry is rambling; Is Tang poetry as expensive as Gong Jie? Son, romantic behavior; Song poetry is like three villages, rich as an enemy, ostentatious and welcoming guests, and vulgar words.
His trip to the south of the Yangtze River was not all about singing the wind and blowing the moon. He left Hunan at the age of twenty-five, first went to the Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, a famous Zen Dojo, lived in Dachetang, and studied under Dading monks. Soon, he traveled to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, roaming in Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places, and visited Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He loves the mountains and rivers of wuyue. When he first arrived in Hangzhou, he wrote a poem about Hangzhou:
If you want to treat Hangzhou as an orange state, stay everywhere when you have time;
I don't plan to go back to my hometown in this life, but I will see lakes and mountains to grow old.
Jing 'an is a poet, a Zen monk and an ascetic monk. In the autumn of the third year of Guangxu (1877), he went to Ningbo and went to Asoka Temple to worship Buddha relics. Asoka Temple in Ningbo was built in the third year of Taikang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 262). It is said that Huida, the founder of the temple, was instructed by a dream monk. On a mountain in Huiji, I got a stupa, which contains the relics of the Buddha after nirvana. According to legend, this tower is one of 84,000 relics built by Ashoka. The stupa hall of Asoka Temple is covered with golden glazed tiles. It is magnificent, and the four halls of Zhou Song and Cinnamomum camphora are majestic and green. The pagoda is in the temple of the pagoda. Its body looks like gold, but it looks like stone. Its color is green, and its four corners soar into the sky. The light is dazzling. There is a treasure in the center of the tower, which contains a relic.
Jing 'an was very excited to see the Buddha relic. After paying homage, he gouged out a piece of meat on his arm, put it under the lamp, burned two fingers and offered it to the Buddha. Jing 'an shocked all the monks in the temple. Everyone gathered in front of the relic hall and sang the Buddha's name in unison. Jing 'an remained calm, bowed his head and asked questions, and left the relic hall. Since then, it has been named "Eight Fingers Toutuo".
After leaving Asoka Temple, he still roamed the south of the Yangtze River, with Siming Mountain as the longest. In the meantime, he once said, "Look at the gifted child and the snow sinus, which is better than Yu Xia and Moon Lake. Lu Wenzhou, Xu Xiuxian, Hu Lufeng, Ma Wenzhai and Shen from the Chinese Department of the county are all singing. " (See "Continued Biography of Monks and Biography of Jing 'an"). In the seventh year of Guangxu, his first manuscript, Chewing Mei Yin, was published in Ningbo, which made him occupy a place in the poetry circle at that time. In August of the 10th year of Guangxu reign, Jing 'an fell ill in Yanqing Temple in Siming Mountain, and missed Heng Yue. After recovering from his illness, he left Hunan in the first year of Guangxu and traveled for ten years. When he was in Jiangnan, he wrote the poem "Heng Yue's Dream".
Yesterday, I dreamed of Dongting, Junshan Qingshan Bottle; Boiling the moon is like washing the stars.
A crane is ordained, and a dragon comes to listen to the scriptures; Who suddenly blew the flute to wake me up?
Shi Jing returned to Heng Yue at the age of 33. In the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, a room was built under the misty peak of Nanyue, named "Hengshan Jingshe". Since then, he has lived in Xin 'Anyue for 18 years. In the first few years, he had extensive contacts with Wang Yun, Yin Baixiang, Chen, Wu Yanzhou and other Chinese celebrities in Hunan. In the summer of the 11th year of Guangxu, he founded "Bihu Printing Society" with celebrities such as Wang Yun. In September, I went to the Double Ninth Festival in Bilang Lake convened by Wang Yun and Guo Songtao. Because of singing and giving gifts to celebrities from all over the world, his poetry is famous all over the world. In the 14th year of Guangxu, ten volumes of Poems of Eight Fingers Buddhism were published, which contained stories of becoming a monk and learning poetry. The first five volumes are proofread by Chen. The last five volumes are sequels, with Ye as the preface: "His poems are of the Six Dynasties, and they are as clumsy as those of people in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. After middle age, many friends are famous at home and abroad, and their poems are also difficult to understand, so they don't care about their old habits, and almost have the meaning of horns with Yin (white elephant) and Wang (Xiang Qi). There are many poets and monks in Hunan, and they are no better than those who send teachers. "
In the 15th year of Guangxu, Zen master Jing 'an was invited to be the abbot of Shangfeng Temple in Nanyue. Shangfeng Temple is Nanyue Temple, and there are thousands of acres of temple fields behind the mountain, mostly occupied by tenants. Master Jing 'an carefully tidied up, and he did not hesitate to sue in court. Later, he was interrupted by the governor of Hunan, Qing Qing, and was reinstated for the second time. Later, he visited famous monasteries such as Lohan Temple in Hengyang, Daisanji, Miyin Temple in Weishan, Ningxiang Temple in Changsha, Shanglin Temple in Shending, and everywhere he went, drums and snails were all excited. When Zen master Jing 'an was seated in the main Lohan Temple. At the same time, Zen master Li Yun of Lushan Temple in Changsha preached the Dharma for him, and he became the heir of Lu. In the 21st year of Guangxu, Jing 'an retired to Daisanji, leaving behind the seat of Miyin Temple in Weishan, Ningxiang. Miyin Temple, founded in the middle of Nanyue School of Zen, is the birthplace of Luyang School. It is a thousand-year-old temple in China. At its peak, there were 1000 temples and thousands of monks. By the end of the Qing dynasty, the ancestral style was decadent and the temples were left out. The abbot respected the ancestral court and was determined to revive it. After three years, the clan style was revived.
When Zen master Jing 'an was fifty years old, the abbot of Tiantong Temple in Ningbo, a famous temple in the southeast, was packed. The first monk of Tiantong Temple led the representatives of the first two classes to Changsha to watch the ceremony. When the abbot of Jing 'an Zen Master came to Shanglin Temple, he resigned and went to Jinshan, Tiantong Temple in Ningbo. Tiantong Temple is a famous historical temple. Since the revival of Miyun Zen master in the late Ming Dynasty, its scale has been the highest in the southeast jungle. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the abbot was no longer a human being and gradually declined. After Zen master Jing 'an presided over the ceremony, Ren Xian exhausted his energy and spared no effort. He talked about Zen in summer and Zen in winter, which greatly inspired the clan. It is particularly worth mentioning that in the second year after he entered Tiantong, he turned the temple of descendants into a jungle where ten parties chose sages and turned private into public, which was praised by all parties.
Zen master Jing 'an believes that the decline of Buddhism is due to the lack of talents of monks and nuns. At that time, Master Song Feng, the abbot of Baiyi Temple in Hangzhou, planned to open a monk school in Hangzhou. The respected teacher agreed to this move and went to Hangzhou to help. Later, Rusong was murdered by an evil monk, and he respected his teacher very sadly. He once wrote "Hangzhou Baiyi Temple mourns the monk Song Feng" to mourn him. At the end of Guangxu, there was a lot of discussion in society about extracting temple property and setting up schools. The monks in Hangzhou were frightened and didn't know what to do. They contacted the monks of the 35th Temple in Zhejiang and invited the Japanese monk Ito Hyun to preach and protect the temple property, so as to resist the propaganda of the temple property by local officials. Zen master Jing 'an thinks this move is nothing more than humiliating the country and teaching. I sent a letter to the Foreign Affairs Bureau to steal my name and urged me to refuse it. "
At the end of Guangxu, the government ordered the establishment of monk education associations in various places. In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu, Jing 'an Zen Master was called to be established in Ningbo and was promoted to president. He ran up and down for the affairs of "protecting education, helping education and promoting learning", and attached a monk primary school and a common people primary school under the monk education association, which was the object of monk education in China.
In the third year of Xuantong (191year),191year, Wuchang Uprising established the Republic of China. At that time, the slogan of "promoting temple production and learning" was still brewing in the society, threatening temples. In order to protect the temple property and stabilize Buddhism, Zen master Jing 'an came forward, contacted the elders in the mountainous areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and initiated the organization of the "Chinese Buddhist Association". In April of the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), the inaugural meeting was held in Liu Yun Temple. In addition to the abbot of Jing 'an and Temple, there were more than 100 people present at the meeting, including Shixian, Jingbo, Tieyan, Yuan Ai, Ben Zhong, Taixu, and Wang, the representative of the Ministry of War (later became a monk in Taixu, with strict legal name). The Chinese Buddhist Association was established, and Zen master Jing 'an was elected as the first president by the elders of various mountains. At the beginning of the Republic of China, Zen master Jing 'an personally visited Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the temporary president of Nanjing, calling for the protection of temple property and pleading for the establishment of the Chinese Buddhist Association.
In the winter of the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), incidents occurred in Hunan, Anhui and other places, and local monks jointly wrote to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, demanding an answer. Du Guan, director of the Customs and Etiquette Department, could not speak. At the request of Hunan monks, Master Jing 'an invited representatives of monks from all provinces to meet in Shanghai to discuss countermeasures. Everyone pushed Jing 'an to petition in Beijing as the president of the Chinese Buddhist Association. He left in mid-October and arrived in Beijing on November 1st, staying at Fayuan Temple outside Xuanwu Gate. Xuan went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to negotiate with the abbot of Fayuan Temple. Du Guan, the director of etiquette and custom department, was arrogant and argued for a long time, but there was no result. He returned to Fayuan Temple in a fit of pique. Just got off the bus, it was chest pain and physical discomfort. Eager to rest on the sofa, waiters will go to sleep. Looking forward to tomorrow, I made up an auspicious lie to show my silence! That was 19 13 years 1 8, the second year of the Republic of China. Renzi lived for sixty years on the second day of November. Monk wax and abstinence wax are 44 summers respectively.