Buddhist idiom, four-word idiom story

Answer 1

Here are some Buddhist idioms:

** Flowers **
During the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang, Buddhism flourished. Emperor Wu of Liang took the lead in praying to the gods and worshiping Buddha, vigorously building temples, and even hiring ancient Indian monks to preach in China, translate Buddhist scriptures, and train Chinese disciples. The atmosphere of preaching was extremely prosperous. In order to promote Buddhism, Buddhists made up many legends. Among them, Master Yunguang's speech moved the heavens, and flowers fell from the sky one after another, which was surprising. Originally, this idiom was used to describe a person's speech that was full of sound and color and was extremely pleasant to the ears. However, in the Song Dynasty, the original Taoist monk compiled the Jingde Chuandeng Record, which recorded the stories of Zen masters and disciples. It mentioned that one must truly understand Buddhism and object to talking too much. Therefore, this idiom gradually evolved into a more exaggerated and unrealistic idiom, becoming a derogatory idiom.

** Borrow flowers to offer Buddha **
This idiom came from the Karma Sutra of the Past and Present. In the story, when the Burning Lamp Buddha was alive, the Buddha was a Brahmin named Cloud Boy. When Dipankara Buddha came to Lotus City, all the people in the city went to offer sacrifices. Little Cloud also wanted to offer lotus flowers as offerings, but all the lotus flowers in the city had been bought. Later on, a woman gave the lotus she used to support Little Daoist Yun. Little Cloud Child took the lotus to the place of the Buddha and scattered the seven lotus flowers on the Buddha. The lotus flowers turned into a canopy on the top of the Buddha. The Cloud Child draped his leather coat and hair over the mud road where the Burning Lamp Buddha passed by. Because of these merits and virtues, Dipankara Buddha bestowed upon Little Cloud the title of Sakyamuni, saying that he would attain the path of Buddha in the future. Now, this idiom was used to describe doing a favor for someone else's things.

** Goddess Scatters Flowers **
From the Vimalakirti Sutra. The story goes that there was a heavenly maiden in the Vimalakirti room. When she saw that all the adults were listening to the Dharma, she appeared and scattered Tianhua (flowers) on all the Bodhisattvas and the eldest disciple. When the flowers fell on all the Bodhisattvas, they fell, but when they fell on the eldest disciple, they stuck to him and did not fall. Later, it was often described as throwing things or snowing heavily.

** True colors **
It was originally a Buddhist saying. Master Huineng of the Tang Dynasty was the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism. His family was poor when he was young and he did not go to school. At the age of 24, he was enlightened when he heard people chanting Buddhist scriptures while selling firewood. He went to Dongchan Temple in Huangmei County to study Buddhism with Master Hongren, the fifth ancestor of Zen. Hongren wanted to choose an heir and let his disciples do gatha. At that time, Shen Xiu wrote,"The body is a bodhi tree, the heart is a mirror platform; always wipe the Buddha, do not let it stir up dust." Everyone praised him, but Hongren knew that he had not seen his true nature. After Huineng heard Shenxiu's gatha, he recited,"Bodhi is not a tree, and a mirror is not a platform. There is nothing in the world, so how can there be dust?" The "original appearance" here originally referred to the human nature, and later it was used as a metaphor for the original appearance.

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