Master Mingzang: Teaching the robe and mantle

Master Mingzang: Teaching the robe and mantle

Teach the robe

“After receiving the Dharma in the third update, people will not know it."No one knows, actually, who knows? People now know, and people who see this book know.We can hear, read, and guess and imagine ourselves.

Later generations have also made many interpretations. There is a movie about the Sixth Patriarch that is quite funny and touching. I recommend that you find it if you have the chance.Some of the plots say that after he obtained the Dharma, he was extremely cleaned up by one person in the hunter team, and finally he endured humiliation and overcome all kinds of difficulties.

“Then he taught the sudden teachings and the robe and mantle."Transfer the Zen method from the thirty-two ancestors to the thirty-three ancestors.

“It says: 'You are the sixth generation ancestor.'" is the sixth ancestor of Middle-earth.

“Be good at protecting one's own mind, broaden sentient beings, spread in the future, without any order to be cut off."This is a responsibility, not to say that if you pass it on to you, you can go to bed.Since you are the sixth generation ancestor, you should protect your own thoughts by yourself."Broadness is affectionate", "broadness", there cannot be choices or differences, and it is called "wide"."The spread of the future will be cut off without any order." To this day, we still have this Zen method. This is the explanation of the Fifth Patriarch at that time, and his prophecy is still fulfilling.

“I listen to my verse: "If sentient beings come to seed, the cause and effect will be born again; if there is no sensation, there is no seed, and there is no nature.'"Look at the "Five Lanterns and Essences", from Shakyamuni's teachings to Kashyapa, Kashyapa's teachings to Ananda, Ananda then passed on Shangnahexiu, until Venerable Prajna Tara passed on to Bodhidharma, and the second ancestor passed on to the next generation, there is always a Dharma-sentences, such as "The Dharma cannot be original, and the Dharma cannot be also the Dharma."

Today, there are also these Dharma-sending verses. If I have the opportunity, I will show you the Dharma-sending verses my master gave us when he passed on the Dharma lineage. It is quite interesting.

“If sentient beings come to plant, the cause and effect will still be born.” The next seed must have a land, but without the land, if you plant it in the air, can it grow? It cannot grow.Therefore, "no ruthlessness and no seeds, no nature and no birth."The first two sentences are from the perspective of some, while the last two sentences are from the perspective of empty.Emptiness and existence are perfectly combined, emptiness and existence are non-dual. These are the two doors born from one mind, the gate of existence and the gate of emptiness, so emptiness and existence are non-dual.You can experience it for yourself, it is difficult to use words.