It was the last quarter of the century: I imagine Lu Hui-neng was the Messenger sent out into the world; he spent the rest of his life teaching in the neighborhood of Canton; I imagine Shen Hsiu remained the Head of the Esoteric School.
Hung Jen, it appears, left two successors: Lu Hui-neng in the south, and Shen Hsiu in the north.
Hakuin gave a new, mystical dimension to the Rinzai school of Zen, even as Hui-neng created nonintellectual Chinese Ch'an Buddhism out of the founding ideas of Bodhidharma.
He then summoned Hui-neng late at night, expounded the Diamond Sutra to him, and presented him with the robe and begging bowl of Bodhidharma-- together with advice to flee south in the interest of safety.
His actual function may have been to supply a direct line of descent between Hui- neng and the man who was to be the creator of Rinzai Zen as we know it today.
He described his father as a high Chinese official who, unjustly banished and reduced to a commoner, died of shame while Hui-neng was still a small child.
It was transcribed by one of his disciples, ince Hui-neng traditionally was said to have been illiterate.
The master Hui-neng stands at the watershed of Zen history.
Hui-neng is as much a symbol as a historical individual, and it was essential that his life have legendary qualities.
However, most scholars today believe that his major emphasis was on the Lankavatara Sutra, not the Diamond Sutra as the legend of Hui-neng would have.
To this Hui-neng shot back, "The people in the north and south may be different, but enlightenment is the same in both regions.
Although it happens to be similar to the condition that can be realized through arduous meditation, Hui-neng apparently did not believe that meditation was required.
Hui-neng departed that very night, crossing the Yangtze and heading south--the anointed Sixth Patriarch at age twenty-four.
Chih Neng compressed her lips and sneeringly rejoined, "Are you going to have a fight even over a cup of tea?
Chih Neng got in a dreadful state, and stamping her feet, cried, "What are you up to?
As soon as he reached the room at the back, he espied Chih Neng all alone inside washing the tea cups; and Ch'in Chung forthwith seized her in his arms and implanted kisses on her cheek.
During the next few days Li-neng left no stone unturned in trying to find the guilty tiger.
The crowd followed Li-neng into the hall of justice.
Li-neng took the warrant back to the judgment hall and told the mandarin that the tiger could not be found.
One day after all the hunters had given up the search in disgust and gone back to their homes in the valley, Li-neng entered a mountain temple to pray.
All the time Li-neng was speaking, the tiger listened closely.
Li-neng slept off his drunkenness, and then saw that his friends were right.
He bent his head forward and let Li-neng slip a strong chain over it.
The tiger drooped its ears, and allowing itself to be bound, followed Li Neng to the magistrate's office.
Li Neng was at his wits' end, and begged that he might be allowed to impress the hunters of the district.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neng" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
