關於愛，我是個小學生。

2014/11/17
essence of Prof. Miriam Levering's dahui's image portrayed by his stories and teaching style

chronicle:
what is dahui (1089-1163) chronologically? [song dynty (960-1127;1127-1279)]
13 classical education abandoned
16 ordained
74 preeminence

influence in general:
1. advocator for gongan + kan (inspecting with doubts) huatou

2. literary legacy lineage = huikai (1183-1260; the gateless gate) + yuanmiao (1238-1295) + mingben (1263-1323) + zhuhong (1535-1615) + dequing (1546-1623) + yuanwu (1566-1642) + (japan rinzai) hakuin ekaku (1686-1769) + (korea son bddhsm)

is dahui an autobiographer? is what wu pei-yi said right?
1. yulu (fascicle13~18 pushuo: chan masters info/f.19~24 fayu: sermons/f.25~30 letters: q&a for laymen)

2. nianpu (youth/hagiographic tales/fire at 10/pay a fine for inkwell tilting 13 days at school)

3. wuku (reincarnation of xuedou mingjue (980-1052))

dahui's image conformation
1. an autobiographer proper! (pei-yi winced)

2. study all chan lineage texts, esp. linji and caodong, from yuanwu kequin (1063-1135)

3. evasive of and engaged in secular educational class
a. views from hagiographers and historians in song dynty
b. secular vs. awaken

4. linji (dynamic, enigmatic, iconoclast, grotesque, novel) vs. song chan (refined, sophisticated, suave, urbane) neither is dahui?
5. visit to former chief minister zhang shangying (1043-1122) in 1115 + 1120
a. yuanwu keqin
b. political patronage for authority claim and kraft for verbesserungen
c. 20 years' exile: defrocked (1137) by qin gui (1090-1155) and back in 1156

6. meandering, mild, yet sturdy to 3 awakenings (upon hearing keqin's words as blitz, from gongan with keqin, from huayan sutra self-studying):
a. emancipation: 'shun' wind comes from the south, and produces a slight coolness in the palace
b. a song chanted without melodies and lyrics
c. effortlessness in unawakening is for the effort in awakening (wu gongyong fa)

7. silent illumination vs. uninterrupted practice plus doubting (kan)