Buddhists believes in the vanity and tranquility of minds and physical
existence. Just like a clean mirror without stained by dusts. They
also believe in the Omni existence of Buddha in everyone and everything.
There's a world in a flower or even in a tiny leaf.
Buddhist poems bring you peaceful mind as if tasting a cup
of fresh tea, when you will forget all the annoyance in life.
Like all the lively traditions deriving from myth and legend, Buddhism
is not an exception. Therefore, the development of Buddhism has much
to do with Sakyamuni.
It is said that once, Krishnamurti was preaching at Lingshan Conference.
He held a flower in front of everybody without saying a word. All
the audiences looked at each other in speechless despair except Kassapa
smiling. Hence, Krishnamurti announced joyfully his theory of being
calmly in meditation while messages are transmitted without verbal
or text medium.
As a result, Buddhism is generated from a flower and a smile. You
may consider this story is too beautiful to be real, but I think this
story is so beautiful that it must be true. The life of Buddhism doesn't
rely on the historic facts. No matter who created this story, obviously
he has grasped the point of Zen: smile because of the flower, blossom
because of the smile.
Kassapa, was said to be the first ancestor of India Zen. After him
the Zen has been inherited for twenty seven generations. Bodhidharma
was the ancestor for the twenty-eighth generation as well as the
last ancestor for India Zen. After Bodhidharma came to China, he
became the first ancestor for China Zen. So, in Zen history, Bodhidharma
build a bridge between Indian and Chinese ideology. Zen is called
'Chan Na' in Chinese, Short for 'Chan'. Based on the original Zen,
it endows Zen with more fresh blood and more flexibility. The rebirth
and surpass of India Zen in China began with the sixth ancestor
in Tang Dynasty, Huineng. It is he that pointed out the dust free
status of Buddhists.
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