Poetry about Zen reasoning
The poet expresses his Zen-like enlightenment or understanding of things in his writing. Such poems often have an ethereal state that seems to be otherworldly.
1. An epiphany about life and nature.
Wang Wei, known as the "Poetry Buddha", can be said to be a model in this regard. He wrote in "Zhongnan Bieye (Bieye is Villa)":
In his middle age, he was quite good at Taoism. In his later years, he lived in Nanshan.
Every time you come or go alone, you will know your victory in vain.
Walking to a water-poor place, sit and watch the clouds rise.
I happened to be visiting Lin Sou, and we talked and laughed for a long time.
Forefathers praised the line "Walking to a water-poor place and sitting down to watch the clouds rise", thinking that it has a wonderful mechanism. "Walking to the end of the water" means walking casually and taking it as it comes. However, unknowingly, I came to the end of the flowing water. It seemed that there was no way to go, so I sat down. "Sit back and watch the clouds rise" is an expression of extremely leisurely mood. Yun originally gave people a leisurely feeling and the impression of Wuxin, which is why Tao Qian said "Yun Wuxin comes out of Xiu". Through the description of this line, arrival, sitting and looking, the poet Wang Wei's leisurely state of mind at this time is clearly revealed. Su Xiang of the Song Dynasty said: "This poem is so wonderful in creating a scene that it is as close to the surface as it is to the creation. How can it be that there are paintings in the poem? Looking at his poems, one can see that among the cicadas sloughing off the dust, there are all things floating on the surface." ("Tiaoxi Fishing Hidden") Cong Hua")
Liu Zongyuan, the master of the ancient prose movement, also has high attainments in this aspect. His "The Fisherman" is interesting and picturesque.
The fisherman stays near the western rock at night, and at dawn he draws clear Xiang and burns Chu bamboo.
The cigarettes are sold out and no one is seen at sunrise. Alas, the mountains and rivers are green.
Looking back at the middle stream under the sky, the unintentional clouds are chasing each other on the rocks.
It is normal for the first sentence of the poem to be written at night, but it is strange for the second sentence to be written at dawn. Originally, it was common to get up early to fetch water and make fire. However, "drawing water from Qingxiang" and "burning bamboo from Chu" are novel and unheard of by readers. The fact is that they are just drinking water from the Xiangjiang River and using dry bamboo as salary. Instead of talking about drawing water to burn fuel, using "Qingxiang" and "Chuzhu" as metaphors, the meaning of the poem is different. There is an otherworldly feeling here, which symbolizes the poet's aloof character. The wording here expresses a special interest.
In the third and fourth sentences, when the cigarettes are sold out and the sun rises, and the green water and green mountains appear in their original appearance, I suddenly hear the oar oar's "Oh!" It turns out that the person has disappeared, only in the mountains and rivers. The wording here is also very strange. "Smoking sunrise" and "green mountains and rivers" are cause and effect of each other and have nothing to do with "no people", and "green mountains and rivers" have nothing to do with "alas is a sound". The poem is "The cigarettes are sold out and no one is seen at sunrise, but the mountains and rivers are green", which is very abnormal. But only after you are familiar with the two sentences can you understand that it conveys a sense of surprise; it is particularly pleasant to hear the sound of oars in the green mountains and green waters, and the mountains and rivers seem to be greener and more lovely. Through such strangeness, the author creates a solitary and somewhat mysterious realm, faintly conveying his aloof and lonely state of mind, so it is not interesting for the sake of being strange.
2. Observation of affairs. The philosophical insights here are not expressed in the abstract, but mostly expressed in visual ways.
The first is to express it with the help of scenery. For example, Wang Zhihuan's "Climbing the Stork Tower" written by Wang Zhihuan, who swallows the whole world with his energy:
The sun is shining over the mountains, and the Yellow River flows into the sea.
If you want to see a thousand miles away, take it to the next level.
The first two lines of the poem, "The sun sets over the mountains and the Yellow River flows into the sea," describe the scenery seen from the stairs. The writing is spectacular and powerful. The poet here uses extremely simple and superficial language to highly vividly and summarily summarize the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains that have entered the broad field of vision into just ten words. The first sentence describes the setting sun in the west, which is a sky scene, a distant scene, and a western scene; the second sentence is about the Yellow River returning to the sea, which is a view from the ground to the horizon, from near to far, and from west to east. When the two lines of poetry are put together, all the scenery above and below, far and near, and east and west are included in the poem, making the picture appear particularly broad and far-reaching. As far as the second sentence is concerned, the poet is in the Yellow Crane Tower and cannot see the Yellow River entering the sea. What is written in the sentence is the ideal scene created by the poet watching the Yellow River go away to the horizon. It combines the current scene and the intended scene into one. Writing method.
Writing this way adds to the breadth and depth of the picture.
In the third and fourth lines of the poem, the poet wanted to further see all the distant scenery, and even climbed to the top of the building. The poem seems to describe the climbing process in a straightforward manner, but it has far-reaching and thought-provoking implications. Here is the poet's enterprising spirit and far-sighted mind, and also expresses the philosophy that one must stand tall to see far.
The second is to express it through the details in life. A typical example is Su Shi's poem "Evening View of the Spring River in Huichong":
Three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo are a prophet of the warmth of the spring river.
The ground is full of wormwood and reed buds, which is when the puffer fish is about to come.
Su Shi captured several typical details of early spring here and wrote them without modification, forming a vivid and artistic spring river painting. The sentence "Duck Prophet in Spring River Water Warmth" reproduces the group of ducks playing in the spring river and highlights the main scene of the "Duck Play Picture". But not only that, what is especially clever is that the "inner world" of the ducks that cannot be expressed in the picture is revealed through the words of the "water-warming duck prophet", and the ducks are keenly aware of the spring water changing from cold to warm. The expression of the ducks enjoying the spring water, playing in the spring water, and falling in love with the spring water is described. The ducks in the painting are simply brought to life, and the painting is magical! As a result, the painting suddenly came alive, filled with the intoxicating atmosphere of spring returning to the earth.
The title is Xilinbi (Su Shi)
The original text of the poem is like a ridge when viewed from the side and a peak on the side, with different heights near and far. I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain.
Philosophy If people observe things from different standpoints, they will come to different conclusions. Only when people get rid of the limitations of subjectivity and objectivity, stay outside Lushan Mountain and take a long-term view, can they truly see the true face of Lushan Mountain. To recognize the essence of things, we must observe them from all angles, both objectively and comprehensively.
Title Poetry on the Qin (Su Shi, Song Dynasty)
The original text of the poem says that if there is sound on the qin, why won’t it sound when placed in the box? If the words are on your fingertips, why not listen to them on your fingertips?
Philosophical beautiful music is an organic whole, and the whole is composed of several parts and elements that influence and restrict each other. In the music and the sound of the piano, the fingers, the piano, the player's thoughts, feelings, and playing skills are interdependent and indispensable. There is a close connection between them, which affects and restricts each other. Materialist dialectics believes that the fundamental content of universal connections is the connection between contradictory parties within and between things. Therefore, what this piece reveals is the contradictory relationship between the piano, the fingers and the sound of the piano. If the performer is included, then the relationship between the performer's thoughts, feelings and skills and the piano and fingers can be seen as the relationship between the internal contradictions of things (internal causes) and the external contradictions of things (external causes). . The former is the basis for the production of music, and the latter is the condition for the production of music. Both are indispensable.
The title is Impressions from Reading the Book (Zhu Xi of Song Dynasty)
Original text of the poem A half-acre square pond opens up, and the skylight and cloud shadows linger endlessly. Ask the canal whether it is as clear as water? Come for living water from a source.
The philosophy uses a pond as a metaphor to illustrate that the way to learn is to continuously accumulate and absorb new nutrients. Everything moves, changes, and develops, and everything can only maintain its existence in motion. It is this kind of uninterrupted movement, change and development that allows things to exist in constant self-renewal. Once this movement ceases, things cannot exist. Without the continuous updating and accumulation of knowledge, a person's knowledge will turn into a pool of stagnant water, devoid of vitality and progress. This is the way to do academic work, and it is the same way to do other things.