Research On Hui Neng’ S Thoughts Of Enduring Humiliation

"Endurance is the first of the six paramita".Endure humiliation is an important practice content advocated by Mahayana Buddhism.The early Confucianism and Taoism have a unique interpretation of enduring humiliation.From the aim of benevolent people and lovers,Confucians’ endurance of humiliation is to refine their noble personality,to become saints and sages.Taoists,on the other hand,started from the height of the movement of Daoism,and their thought of enduring humiliation was in fact the pursuit of natural nature.Later,Daoism embraced both,regarded enduring humiliation as a means of cultivation,in order to ensure the safety of individuals and the permanence of life.Different from the meanings of Confucianism and Taoism,Hui Neng,starting from its unique Buddhist thought system of mind and nature,connects the practice of enduring humiliation and mind,and cultivates tolerance,which is actually the practice of mind.Hui Neng subdivides the level of endure humiliation into life tolerance,fate tolerance,Dharma tolerance and benevolence tolerance to help all living beings understand the causes and methods of cultivating tolerance.Based on the traditional view of reincarnation and the thought system of mind and nature,Hui Neng believes that it is necessary to practice endure humiliation on the way to becoming a Buddha.To practice endure humiliation,first of all,we must treat others with the concept of equality of all living beings,always practice universal respect,and learn to introspect and reflect on our own mistakes.In addition,Hui Neng has to understand the inevitable suffering of the world,accept the feelings of the outside world with compassion and tolerance,and generate wisdom.The most important thing is that the practice of enduring humiliation is not only limited to passively facing the external bad fate and adversity,but also requires all beings to be able to actively give up and return to the truth,to wash the secular mind of truth and delusion,to understand the purity of their original mind,to reach the realm of external Zen and internal calm,at this time,only peace in the mind,and then to stick to their own nature,that is,Buddha nature,and get such wisdom.Hui Neng’s thoughts of enduring humiliation is a method of wisdom extrication based on his idea of mind and nature.It is the unity of external practice and internal practice,and more emphasis on the cultivation of mind,internalizing external practice and mind.The final state of humility cultivation is to be intolerable and not to practice.At this time,this practice has been internalized in the mind.All the words and deeds do not create evil karma,and keep the original purity of the mind.Hui Neng’s thoughts of enduring humiliation have important reference value for both maintaining physical and mental harmony and establishing a harmonious society.