Chapter 92 Puddle on the ninety-first rock

The landform of Maoshan where Jie Chen lives is quite special. There are many types of soil and rocks, including fertile dark soil suitable for planting flowers and plants, red soil used by benefactors to knead handicrafts, and some strange rocks .Junior Brother Jiechen has a fairly apt analogy. He said that Maoshan is like Jiechi’s clothes, with patches of various colors on the east and west. The distance from Tianming Temple to Miao Town is not too far, but beside this not-so-long stone road, most of the landform features of the mountain are gathered, colorful soil and strange rocks can be seen nearby.

Jie Chen didn't know how such a landform was formed. He had heard Jie Ao explain it several times, but he forgot it after a while. Walking up the mountain road, near Tenmyouji Temple, there is a very special rock, which is some large gray stones.The stone is not high, and it is fairly flat, and most of the surface of the stone is smooth, but there are holes one after another in the middle of the rock.The openings of the holes are not big, about the width of a foot, but the depth varies greatly. Some holes are only a shallow layer, while some holes may sink the whole foot if you accidentally step in.

The rock layer happens to be in the middle of the mountain road. It may be because it is not easy to build a road from the stone. Therefore, the benefactor who built the mountain road deliberately bypassed the mountain road to increase the distance, but also avoided the road from the rock layer. pass by. This rock is not considered steep, and benefactors who are familiar with mountain roads will always want to take a shortcut, so they walk directly on the rocks. Usually only older benefactors or those who accompany the masters need to behave Be calm and guard against anger and arrogance. During those few days, it rained continuously for several days, Jie Chen hid in the monastery and did not go out.There were very few benefactors in the temple in those few days, and it was not until after the rain stopped that benefactors began to enter the temple one after another.

In the afternoon, Jie An saw a familiar benefactor coming in from outside the temple, walking limping, half of his trouser legs were already wet.Jie Chen ran over to ask with concern. The benefactor was sitting in the room, twisting his wet trouser legs, and told us that on the way up the mountain just now, he wanted to take a shortcut, but when he ran over the rock, he accidentally slipped his foot. Stepped into a hole full of water. The benefactor smiled and said that before stepping in, he saw the hole first, but the hole had been filled with rainwater, and it looked like a shallow puddle from the outside.

Jiechen thought, if the benefactor hadn't stepped in when he passed by the hole, then in the benefactor's imagination, the hole would always be just a shallow puddle, and only after the benefactor stepped in, the shallow puddle would disappear. The puddle really turned into a hole full of water. In our minds, the depth and shallowness of a thing is definitely not its real depth, but the depth in your thinking. If you look at profound things with shallow thoughts, then no matter how deep they are, they will become shallow. In the same way, if you look at shallow things with deep thoughts, you will also see a lot of things that are created out of nothing.

The reason why we can't find the right answer is because we haven't used the right thinking to find it.