一切現成=Everything is a present reality; 道眼=Tao-eye; 第一義=The first truth; 六相=Six attributes; 接物利生=Dealing with people to live easily; 三界唯心=The three realms are nothing but mind; 丙丁童子來求火=Children fight a fire with fire in the catching fire; 不知最親切=Unknowing is the closest intimacy
The Chinese ch'an (zen), since the sixth patriarch Hui-neng laid a foundation for the establishment, has blossomed and born fruit gradually in the Chinese fertilized. Wisdom-fields develops five sects of "one flower and five leaves". And the establishment of master rev. Fa-yen Wen-yi sect (法眼宗) was the latest, but its principles of ch'an compatibly, particularly it advocated "Hua-yen's ch'an" which completely chinese ch'an combined the Hua-yen (Kegon) school (華嚴宗) to unify into the special characteristic, became unique, and was worth of us studying, and carrying forward. The founder of Fa-yen's ch'an whom great master rev. Fa-yen Wen-yi (法眼文益大師) inherited the sixth patriarch Hui-neng's "self-nature" (Buddha-nature), at the same time, had the thought of master rev. Ching-yuan Hsing-ssu "did not attach the social class", master rev. Shih-t'ou Shi-ch'ien" the agreement between reality and phenomena", worked together non-dual wisdom of Buddha (dharmaparyaya) and as well as master rev. Lo-han Kuei-ch'eng "everything is a present reality". On the other hand, he integrated the fifth patriarch Fa-tsang's "new ten myths" and "six attribute's harmony" in the Hua-yen school.Then, this produced "Hua-yen's ch'an, and caused the study of Chinese ch'an to be more flexible and to be complete. Fa-yen Wen-yi's Hua-yen ch'an based on Chinese ch'an's negative method of "detour in line with meditation" and "beyond language and beyond reason" expression to propose nine linguistic characteristics: 1. good temptation 2. negativity 3. contradiction 4. metaphor 5. poetry 6. convenience 7. immediacy 8. taciturnity 9. practicality, in order to show the unique wonderful use of Chinese ch'an. He received and instructed five kinds of educational methodology: 1. irrelevant replies 2. metaphical and indirect expression of "no explaining frankly" 3. engaging in self-examination 4. redundant method 5. rebutting in reply. It guided all living things to transfer painstaking into happiness. In sum, Fa-yen Wen-yi grasped the spirit of Buddhist "no attachment", all along with the season hetupratyaya, the reincarnation have died, achievement anutra samyak-sambhodhi. (阿耨多羅三藐三菩提,其意譯為無上正等正覺)