Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, there are green grass and sky.
The evening breeze is blowing the willow flute, and the setting sun is beyond the mountains.
The ends of the sky, the corners of the earth, and close friends are scattered.
A pot of turbid wine makes you happy, don’t dream of cold today.
On the side of the ancient road outside the long pavilion, Master Hongyi finally became a masterpiece of the ages! -
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On the eve of the 14-year-old summer vacation, I accidentally handed a copy of "Uncle Hongyi: Biography of Master Hongyi: 3 Li Zzzy" in the hands of my classmates. Verse:
Life is like a day in the west, and wealth is like frost on the grass.
was stunned for a while.
is the same age, at that time, I thought the future could be expected, birth, old age, sickness and death, even more distant.
remembered the noise of celebrating the holiday all around, I sat by the window, looking at the dazzling sunlight outside, a momentary withdrawal appeared in my heart.
is like me many years later, watching myself right now. For the first time I understand that the youth shrouded in the mist will eventually dissipate.
The most common day when I was 14 years old, but I accidentally got a glimpse of something outside of life.
Photography|Zhang Wang
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I went to the Xinhua Bookstore in the county town and bought all the versions of Li Shutong's biography there. I indulged in it for two months during the summer vacation.
also repeated the practice of "Farewell" and "Great Nations" according to the music score included in the book, and was overwhelmed by the agitated or clear lyrics...
is like an enlightened teacher on a certain level of life.
's so-called "wash out the lead and return to the ordinary", the life described in this gorgeous phrase has only been read in novels.
is Li Shutong's life, let me see a vivid case that has really existed in the world.
At the age of 15, he chanted "Life is like a Western Mountain Day". At the age of 39, he entered Buddhism at the age of 39. He has been lost to Nanshan Luzong for more than 700 years. He practiced cold precepts for 24 years. "Light, Taixu" is also called the four great monks of the Republic of China. A life like
, with great opening and closing, and full of details, is really fascinating for young people. Master Hongyi said:
"A person who is so delicate and exquisite is art. At
, you can give up your life for righteousness, you can regard death as your home, you can see money as dirt, you can see riches as clouds, and you can see colors as a shoe ."
▲ The portrait of Master Hongyi, and Feng Zikai as
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Feng Zikai once summed up his first teacher Li Shutong: because of a strong "desire for life". And divide life into three realms: the three-story building of material—spirit—soul.
"Those who are too lazy (or unable) to take the stairs live on the first floor, that is, to do a good job of material life, to be rich and to eat meat, to honor the rich and to be filial to the grandchildren, and to be satisfied. This is also a outlook on life. They are the majority in the world."
"If you are happy (or powerfully) to take the stairs, you can climb the second floor to play, or stay there for a long time. There are many such people in the world, the so-called'intellectuals'. Scholars are “artists”.”
“There is also a kind of people who have a strong desire for life and strong feet, so they climbed three floors. They are serious people, and they have not enough material desires and spiritual desires. They must explore The end of life."
Li Shutong's life is not harmonious and extremely serious. work,You must do it yourself, if you don't do it, do it thoroughly.
A scene in life, two scenes on stage, half-life romantic and half-world, rare in the world.
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In the late Qing Dynasty 1880, Li Shutong was born in Tianjin Tongda Li's family.
His father Li Xiaolou, together with Li Hongzhang and Wu Rulun, is known as the Three Great Scholars of the Qing Dynasty. Later, because he couldn't get used to the shady officialdom, he resigned from office and started business and became a rich man.
Li Xiaolou believes in Zen Buddhism, and is happy to do good all his life. Every year, half of the money he receives is used to set up a private school to care for the poor and widows. He is praised by Tianjin people as "Li Shanren".
Buddhism says that cause and effect are true. Master Hongyi has cultivated for half a lifetime, and he has become a generation of eminent monks.
The financial freedom that everyone yearns for now, Li Shutong was born with. This saved him from having to delay too long on the first floor of the material.
He is not in vain for the nourishment of the fine clothes and jade food. He has deep learning and outstanding talents. He became famous for his painting and calligraphy when he was a teenager. After
came to Shanghai, his literary talent was revealed, "Twenty articles shocked the world", capable of poetry, calligraphy and painting, good at gold and stone, and melody, and everything is not a general talent. Just taking office is a leader.
Li Shutong is a genius in art.
. Li Shutong's early 20 years of life paintings are also the most abundant emotional art works in his life.
Since ancient times, there have been many romantic talents, and Li Shutong is the same. There is an original wife who was ordered by his mother to marry at home, while outside the house, he hangs around among talented and brilliant prostitutes. This extravagant life of
, I read many biographies earlier, and was often taken by a stroke, as if this is the imperfection of Li Shutong's perfect life.
But I think this is the inevitability for him to bury his head in the world, enjoy it when he has it, and be calm when he loses it.
As Feng Zikai said: "I admire Master Hongyi because he is a very human person."
is like a person. The first point is that he is not hypocritical, is affectionate to people and things, even if absurd. , Also be aboveboard.
His mother died at the age of 26, and the country was weak and withered, and the sadness in his heart could not be dissipated. Li Shutong determined to say goodbye to the turbulent life of the past, and went to Japan to study abroad in order to find a sustainable future.
His thorough life began, and he showed it vividly.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz0Sleeps on tatami mats, eats sashimi, wears two large-sleeved kimonos, takes a shower in the morning, drinks tea in a small cup, speaks with low eyebrows, and when visitors come, the waist is bent to the ground.
Half a year passed, people near the apartment didn't even know that he was a Chinese student.
studied Western painting in Japan. He fell in love with the piano. In order to make his fingers more suitable for playing, he even had a finger cut operation. In
drama, organized Chunliu Club to perform "La Traviata", which caused a sensation and became the beginning of Chinese drama.
▲ Li Shutong plays "La Traviata" Margaret
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"Everyone who has achieved almost all his achievements in the art of art, "Uncle Li has achieved almost every art he has achieved in his art works
"
According to the prevailing logic, he can focus on art first of all because he is rich. There is nothing wrong with
. At that time, he had at least 300,000 assets under his name, and 200 yuan was enough to spend a year for an international student in Japan.
However, the wealth and honor are like frost on the grass.
In 1911, the second year after returning from Japan, Li Shutong was coaching in Tianjin. The Qing government changed the salt industry to "official salt", and the Li family's silver investment in the salt industry collapsed. The wealth of thousands of households saved by
's parents, except for a real estate in Hedong, almost disappeared.
's second brother in charge of the family business is on the verge of collapse, but Li Shutong is very indifferent. In addition to his art to fall in love with, the reality just reflects his mind when he was young, "We are born with the body except naked There is no long-term body."
You can try his fame and fame
You can try his Zhumen Jinxiu,
is prosperous like a dream, full of basil!
Photography|Zhang Wang
Since then, Li Shutong ushered in a solemn and hard-working life.
went to Hangzhou to teach. He wears two cloud-gray cloth gowns, a few black beep jackets, large foreheads, thin eyes, and long faces. He has a sacred and compassionate charm.
Compared with Li Wentao in his youth and Li An in Japan, he is almost completely reborn.
"He did the same, finished the same. He let go of the same, and never looked back. This kind of bravery, which can be seen through, endured, and let go, is something ordinary people don't have."
The letter to the students persuaded, “Be with the light, keep your individuality, and be in the world.” The attitude of
as a person, later generations summed up as “doing into the world with the heart of the world”. , Every point is done thoroughly and without attachment. This is how
can live in the world, but it does not belong to it.
▲ Li Shutong's calligraphy
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39-year-old Li Shutong, whose art has reached the stage, cannot solve the ultimate problem of his life.
"What is the ultimate knowledge of life?" the Japanese wife Xuezi asked him.
Li Shutong said:
"At the beginning, I studied poetry, books, gold and stone, and looked back and thought, but it was just a reflection of the psychology of the temple. After
, I pursued Western comedy, music, oil painting, but which one can this help? What kind of sacred literary and artistic psychology does this world satisfy?"
"The inherent philosophical quality of human beings tells us that we must have wisdom, knowledge, and ambition to create a better world."
Finally, he Said,
"I figured it out, all art in the world, without the nature of religion, can not be regarded as art. But religion without artistic beauty, it cannot be regarded as religion."
noble personality is more splendid The art of art is more lacking than the wealth of Qingcheng in every era. After
entered the empty door, he abolished all six arts and made the world's most talented Li Shutong a thing of the past. Liu Yazi, an old friend of
, called the move "unreasonable" and "made Chinese literature and art suffer immeasurable losses."
In the eyes of the world, he is extremely unfeeling, abandoning his wife and children. The part of
that made many ordinary people feel emotional-Xuezi saw him for the last time, out of control and asked: "Master, you are merciful to the world, why do you hurt me alone?"
Hongyi stood on a small boat with his back on his back, silent. .
earthly warmth, his wife Zixiao, only the first floors, artistic achievement, is the second floors, while the "end of art is religious." After
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Piti, Master Hong Yi before the Buddha vowed:
"never Be a rice-cooking monk who has been crushed to death by the years."
He repeatedly warned himself: "Don't forget the wounds of the predecessors, and be the scars of history! Watch yourself all the time, walking on thin ice!"
At that time, he was facing the bankruptcy of Senglin's virtues and the absence of Buddhism. The intellectual class included Buddhism in the "Three Religions and Nine Streams."
Outside the Buddhist gate, the reality of sentient beings was in darkness, Hong Yi knelt in front of the Buddha, tears streaming down his face, unable to stop it.
"There is no Buddhist pedestrian who strictly adheres to the precepts. If it talks about profound concentration and great wisdom, it is a lie! Buddha's saying: After the Buddha is extinct, take precepts as a teacher. It is the truth that will last forever."
The most remote and difficult law school in Buddhism, because:
"Law has been learned for a thousand years. Because of its dryness and hardship, it has become a must-see. No one has studied it deeply. Therefore, Buddhism's virtues are corrupted, and the precepts become a blank piece of paper. Lament!"
"If I can't vowed to study law deeply, who can I wait for?" From then on,
followed the strictest precepts and entered the Jingge to edit the law and study the Scriptures, and the door of the room was "Although it is still dead" , Used to decline all parties and avoid being a "social monk."
He has reduced his life to the lowest point, in a small closed room, a broken table, an old couch, a bad seat, a ruined account, a meal on the day, no food for lunch.
uses asceticism to dissipate the brand that was once soaked in prosperity, to sharpen the tenacious will and cultivate a compassionate heart.
Many years later, many of the puzzles and doubts that have been accumulated in the belly over the years have been searched for many years. When they meet the mage, they are shocked by the simple and simple temperament, and awe is born out of thin air.
The world’s greatest misunderstanding of Buddhism is to think that it is a passive escape. Master Hongyi said, "The Dharma is extremely active. The emptiness of the Buddha's words is to persuade people to stop the greed in the heart, remove the greed in the heart, clear the distracting thoughts, and the heart is naturally cool and bright, and the compassion for the world is naturally overflowing. "
▲ Luo Hantu, master Hongyi's work
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In April 1938, before the fall of Xiamen, Master Hongyi was in Xiamen, not avoiding the flames, and was devastated. The commander of the Japanese ship sought a visit to Master Hongyi. After meeting, he induced him to go to Japan to enjoy the treatment of the national division. Master
faintly replied: "The monks are fond and shameless, although our country is poor, love is full of love! Especially unwilling to leave when stumbling, even if you die, you will not hesitate!"
has been a monk for 24 years, with My own power has changed the image of Buddhism in the hearts of the world bit by bit.
is especially for the intellectual class. Above the spiritual life, one can glimpse the solemn and joyful soul life. In addition to fame and wealth in the world, noble personality can also be the goal of pursuit.
Since ancient times, eminent monks, great virtues, sages and celebrities, the greatest significance of existence, in addition to gaining the way by oneself, is to establish a kind of personality state that can be referenced for the insignificant people.
One's own shadow gradually became a beacon, shining into the corners of the hearts of the world.
He often said: "The nunnery is always closed, and don't forget that there are many suffering people in the world. Monks must uphold a higher moral standard than the ordinary people in order to save others."
Photography|Zhang Wang
1943, Master Hongyi was 63 years old, before he passed away, he explained the funeral. There is a sentence:
"When you reciting the sutra here, if you see the sorrow, you will have tears. It's not because of him. "
got up and wrote the perfect writing, "Sorrow and joy meet to see the scriptures", and then passed away peacefully.
"When I was a boy, I was like a handsome boy; I was a celebrity in middle age, like a celebrity; I was a drama, like an actor; Learn oil painting, like an artist; learn piano, like a musician; run a newspaper, like an editor; be a teacher, like a teacher; be a monk, like a monk. "
Feng Zikai will outline the life of the first teacher in this way.
Zhang Ailing said: "Don't think that I am a proud person, I have never been-at least, I am so humble outside the wall of the Hongyi Master's temple. "
