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Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

One

Change the poems of the six ancestors

Text/Yan Yue

Smell the fragrance and open your mind,

Tea is like a mirror table.

Everything is nothing,

How to stir up dust?

Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

Geng Ziqiu, during the tea conversation with Yu Qian's teachers of the Chinese Calligraphy Association, Wen Wu changed the poem to rise up for his words. One of the Song Siya is "incense", the great poet Huang Tingjian smelled the incense and realized the Tao, and made "The Ten Virtues of Incense", and his teacher said, "Do you smell the fragrance of the wood?" Second and third sons, I have nothing to hide, and enlightenment is in this daily life. "Smelling the fragrance of tea not only aromatizes the nose, purifies the body and mind, but also nourishes the mind and health; Mobilize the spirituality of the mind in the joyful mood, and regulate the breath, clear the nose, open the mind, and reconcile the body and mind between the visible and the invisible, which is infinitely useful. There are more people who smell the fragrance, it is said that the body has fragrance, and its people are also good, and they do not wash for a few days, and their hair is also fragrant. It can be described as a person who is incense, knows its fragrance, raises its virtue, and is also Taoist! In the process of learning tea, the purpose of self-cultivation is achieved through the forms of tasting, tea tasting, silence, concentration, and vipassana; Life is like tea, seeing yourself in a cup of tea, being aware of the present, I am tea, and tea is me. "Everything is not a thing, how to stir up dust", if everything is a phantom, then how can we use things to train our hearts? I'm afraid Fo Tuo will have to lose his job too. (Note: Wood Tree Xi is osmanthus)

Two

Offering the Master

Text: Yan Yue (New Rhyme)

Chaimen Penglong opens to the mountain,

The clothes are fluttering, and the Master is coming.

Haomo Danqing Book Qin Han,

Swaying the Tang and Song dynasties is feelings.

Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

Gengzi Xia, for the Ming family wine Ming Zong squandered ink, and specially presented a seven-word ancient poem. "Master" also has the meaning of reason, understanding, enlightenment and wisdom, looking for "Master" instead of "famous teacher", may we meet "Master" in our lifetime.

Three

The thousand-year-old royal temple was repaired

Text/Yan Yue (Seven Uniques)

The mountains are true to their temperament,

There is no guest of honor.

Death and life are separated,

How can the void fall into red dust?

Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

In order to find the truth, we insist on overcoming the seven emotions and six desires, no self, no wealth, fame and fortune, no discrimination, no greed, hatred, ignorance, and impermanence, all of which must be put down, then everything is emptiness, why are we still in the red dust? The world is actually a whole, and there is no difference between the two and the other.

Four

Listen to the snow boiled tea

Text/Yan Yue

The candle flame warms people's hearts,

Snowflakes fly and fall pine needles.

Leisurely strolling,

Red clay boiled tea looks ancient and modern.

Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

Written on January 17, 2023, I encountered the heavy snow that I saw in 30 years at a thousand-year-old temple, and my soul was purified by the heavy snow, as if returning to the joy of childhood. In this icy and snowy place, the only two red candles in the candlestick are particularly abrupt and eye-catching; In the cold winter, the fire is arrogant and reveals a trace of warmth to the outside world, dedicating himself with his life, and also a pious link to heaven and earth; The snowflakes are gradually chaotic and charming, and the snow falling on the welcoming pine seems to have far-reaching meaning, as if it has fallen on the tip of the heart, inexplicably moved; Walking in the yard listening to the snow and seeing the snow cover the snow, let it dye its head white; Then use the red clay stove to cook a pot of hot tea, a tea, a pot of snow to see the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign world.

Five

Ancient temples are secluded

Text: Yan Yue (New Rhyme)

Ancient trees are towering and white mist,

The morning bell and the dusk drum see the thought disappearing.

Coolly in the dust,

Tea Zen cup supreme way.

Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

The picture shows "the heart has nowhere to live, and it is good everywhere". The ancient trees in the ancient temple are towering to the sky, breaking through the white mist (ignorance) around them, and the Sanskrit sound of the morning bell and the evening drum is gradually cleaned up and dissipated; May the cool land in this red dust purify the body and mind, pure and comfortable, and only after reaching a certain stage can I understand that these are all seeking from the outside, there is no boundary outside the heart, and there is no heart outside the country, so it is better to eat tea.

The "tea Zen" in the text is derived from the famous saying of the Zhaozhou monk in the Tang Dynasty - "eat tea". The Song Dynasty monk Yuanwu Keqin tasted the infinite mystery of tea with the concept of Zen Buddhism and speculation, and wrote down the "tea Zen taste". This Zen saying reminds us that tea is used as a carrier to realize Zen, and that true practice and enlightenment do not lie in external forms or complex theories, but in whether we can maintain awareness and equanimity in the daily life of each moment, without discrimination, and without distractions to contact and experience, this is the wisdom of tea Zen. (Ignorance, dust, and thinking are the three major afflictions in the fo religion, "dust and sand" is the attachment of separation, and there are as many afflictions as sand, and "seeing and thinking" is self-grasping, self-seeing, delusional and incorrect, self-righteous, self-righteous)

Six

Half dream, half realize

Text/Yan Yue (Seven Uniques)

Sorayama Ichiji Greed,

A few wisps of smoke confuse the real thing.

Mo Dao let go of everything,

How can the flower dynasty mistake the red dust?

Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

If you want to cultivate yourself in an empty mountain and a place, you can go deep to know that it is like another kind of rivers and lakes under human life, false and true, how many people can really put down wealth, fame, fortune, food and sleep, life and death, greed, hatred, ignorance and suspicion? Don't waste any more youthful tricks, the original intention of life is to let us enter the red dust to experience the world, cultivate the heart in the red dust, experience the profundity of life, the height of life, the intensity of life energy, and finally out of the mud without staining, clear ripples without demons. All things that are combined will corrupt, and you will be diligent in practicing your own salvation. What matters is not what to believe, but how to believe and how to put it into practice, so as to transform one's life.

Seven

Title: Ho Wang Temple

Text/Yan Yue (Seven Uniques)

Fawang Temple, a thousand-year-old temple,

Yuxiu mountains and forests are wonderful.

Several degrees of enlightenment,

The breeze purifies my heart.

Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

On May 25, 2024, at the 5th Licheng Poetry Conference, Liu Qixia (pen name: Yan Yue) recited Liu Qixia's (pen name: Yan Yue) seven-character poem (quatrain) masterpiece: This poem covers the time when I resolutely retreated in the thousand-year-old temple in the mountains for several years in order to change, correct, improve, purify and precipitate myself, and spent countless days of loneliness, loneliness, cold, boredom, and criticism. For this place, I can only be very grateful!! May it get better and better!!

Yan Yue | Zen Poetry Collection (with annotations)

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