Why did Bodhidharma lose a sandal?

 - Legend has it that after Bodhidharma passed away, three years later, Tong Van (the Wei Dynasty), went to the western porcelain, met Dat Mui at Thong Lanh Mountain. I go flying like a fly, Tong Yun asked:

Bodhidharma has only one slipper.

"Grandfather, who has he taught you?"

Dat Ma said: "Later you will know, now we have to go to Heaven!" Finished, the Dalai removed the slippers held in his hand to Tong Yun, said: "You take this slipper back and forth, your home is hard to pass today." Quite ignorant, Song Yun from the moment he returned to the city, then the Emperor indeed has ice.

Tong Van saw that the story of the Dalai Lama was very accurate, so the Dalai predicted the death of Minh De to the new king, Hieu Trang. The king did not believe, ordered the incarceration of Tong Yun into the dungeon. Some time later, when he was less angry, King Hieu Trang called for Tong to come and ask the industry. Tong Yun at this point to meet with Dat Ma told the king. King ordered the dome to open up the grave to testify.When the coffin was opened, there was nothing in the coffin, except for an old slipper.Officers were ordered to search the coffin to see so amazing, bringing everything back to the king. The king heard that, and believed what Tong Yun said was the truth, then ordered the shoe of the Dalai to Shaolin Temple to worship there.

In the 15th year of Khai Nguyen year, in the year of Dinh Mao disciples demanded sandals Hoa Nghiem Pagoda, so far do not know where lost ...

Bodhidharma, the 28th Patriarch of Shakyamuni and the founder of Chinese Zen Buddhism, is also the founder of the Shaolin Temple in China. He passed away in 543, now more than a thousand years. The project of "sandals" has caused people to spend a lot of work to argue and apparently never identified the market.

During a meeting, when King Luong Vu De asked: "From the throne to the present, built pagodas, business records, the increase does not know how much, so there is no merit?The Dalai Lama answered: "There is no merit." The king asked, "What is the true virtue?"Master said: "The mind must be pure Purity. Must be completely empty, so new merit.The king asked again, "Who is facing me?" "I do not know."

Immediately after the Yangtze River immense waves, only with the boat, then up the mountain, sitting facing the cliffs 9 years, the yoga bowl for Hue was completed but the president died. meet him on the mountains of Hung Hoi, a teacher with a stick, a stick with a sandal. And even if he communicates to Hui-ka, ordinary people are not easy to understand.

Legend, before returning, call the student presented the acquisition: "Now I go forth, so each of you to tell me your interests."

Vice Deacon: "According to the view of the child, want to see the director not to accept the script, but also leave the script." "You have my skin".

Ni said, "The place of the child as a joy to see Buddha (heart) motionless, seen once, not see again. "You get my flesh," he said.

Another practitioner, White: "The four elements are not, the five aggregates are not real, so my view is that no one can be." "You got my skeleton," he said.

Finally, the Hui Fei session. Hui Ka worshipers and standing at one spot, not white said nothing. "You have my marrow," he said.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.22/4/2018.