What do you mean, the wind sends water to the pillow, and the moon moves the mountain to shadow the window?

"The wind sends the underwater acoustic pillow, and the moon moves the mountain shadow window" was said by Zen master Dalong Zhihong, which means that the underwater acoustic caresses the river again and again with the wind, and the shadow of the mountain is slowly moved to the window by the moon. ?

Refers to a practice method of Zen. And practice is to cultivate the mind. To cultivate one's mind, one must first set one's mind. It is not necessary to practice Zen outside, but it is not necessary to have civil strife. Not disturbed by foreign objects. Calm is leisure, leisure is god. It is Zen to return the spirit to itself (non-body).

Someone asked Zen master Da Long Zhihong, "What is subtle Zen?"

Zen master Zhihong replied: "The wind sends the underwater acoustic pillow, and the moon moves the mountain window."

Here, the wind and the moon in nature have symbolic significance, both material and realm, and there are countless examples of giving symbolic meaning to objects, which is also an important form of monks' "asking each other".

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Introduction to Zhihong:

He often wrote poems with the literati "South King" and "South Confucius".

According to Wang Yuyang's Juyilu, a monk from the Android Temple in Panshan (Zhipu) returned to the mountain from the south of the Yangtze River, and asked for the title with the album Canglang Gexing. Master Gai visited Wumen, Mu Zongfu, Song Dynasty, and Zhu (also Zun) came out of the five grains and gathered in Canglang Pavilion, and * * * wrote poems to look at his bosom, so did those who painted a history.

Song Shiyun: Clearing the canal will make the old fog glow, and the gourd ladle will cross the road for credit. Destroy a bottle of bean sprouts (dish name, out of Panshan Mountain) to see the peony flowers in March. Because of fate, great things can be achieved, and I am down and out. Good to Canglang Pavilion, sandalwood is in cassock.

After watching the sun and the fish, the yellow bird is quite early. Take the seats of Jinfeng Laoting (Zhu Tuo) and Huairen Silkworm Tail Laoshu (Ruanting). Jade plates are in full bloom in spring, and the flower palace needs to be cleaned at night. With a wave of my hand, I stayed at home and the sky was empty. "

In a literary work of popular Zen Buddhism, symbolic entities are essential. There are three typical examples in this work: Mouse, Ten Cows Map and Minghui Temple. The material mouse is a giant mouse wandering between the stacks and the Xianshilou, while the "mouse" in the realm is a monk who wears a robe but turns into an iron mouse Lai Hao.

The image of ten cows is just a series of paintings, and the image of ten cows in the realm describes the process of a person's enlightenment, in which the symbolic cow is regarded as the prison threshold built by the murderer. Only by gaining the Tao from the ox can we break through this prison threshold and truly realize the Tao from Zen.

The material Minghui Temple is a mysterious temple of unknown origin, while the spiritual Minghui Temple is an enchantment around all monks and a prison barrier to prevent monks from practicing Zen and gaining enlightenment.