Chapter 76 Both gourd and vegetable melon are good

Accompanying my wife to the market to buy vegetables, I was surprised to find that the price of loofah is almost twice as expensive as that of gourd. The words are translated into Mandarin, which means: if a person grows melons when he is very unlucky, he will also grow loofahs when he harvests.I said to my wife, "This Taiwanese proverb should be changed to 'If a person is bad, he will grow vegetables and gourds'. Or 'If a person is good, he will grow gourds and let gourds grow'. It's a pity that it doesn't rhyme!" In fact, in real life, whether gourds or vegetable melons are good, it is only because of people's discrimination that they are high or low.What's more, it is already very common to "plant vegetables and lettuce melons" in modern farming and transplanting techniques.

I have a friend who grows flowers in the mountains of Wai Shuangxi. He is most interested in discovering new varieties of flowers. Sometimes he also does some experiments on seed cultivation for game purposes.He said: "Just connect the loofah vine to the head (root) of the beetle, and you can grow loofah and gourd at the same time, and even winter melon and watermelon are very simple." Lettuce is something that even God didn't think about, but we make it so easily." My friend took me to see his garden, which is full of apricot blossoms and rhododendrons. Due to continuous cultivation, breeding, and grafting experiments, his garden is so colorful that it is almost unbelievable.My friend said: "If a seed is buried in the soil, although the genes don't change, as long as we work hard on cultivation and grafting, we can produce completely different flowers!" I exclaimed in my heart: Isn't this enlightenment!When a person is enlightened, he should not change its seeds, but graft them, hoping to bloom pure flowers on the secular seeds.

People often ask me about the truth of cause and effect. If we look at the truth of cause and effect without twists and turns, cause and effect will never change. "It is absolute, there is no room for commercial loans at all.But this means that there is no effort at all to cultivate and graft, and it is just the result of letting nature take its course. If we can work hard to do a better job of breeding and connect better branches, then it is not only possible but also possible to grow the most precious varieties of orchids on rotten trees. The relationship between "enlightenment" and "cause and effect" is not difficult to clarify.

My friend took us to visit the place where he grows orchids, the most expensive damolan, and he planted more than a dozen pots.He said that for orchids, he treats them equally, because orchids are not noble or cheap, and they are all the result of speculation by businessmen. Planting orchids is originally an elegant and beautiful thing. People are sad. "In spring, there are too many orchids blooming. I cut off the flowers and fry them into a big plate like day lilies. I eat them with my children. The children think they are too bitter!" We heard from friends that we all endured the pain. I couldn't help being speechless, but then I thought about it: Is there any value between orchids and vegetables?We can make tea with chrysanthemums and jasmines, make plum juice with roses and osmanthus, what's the problem with cooking with orchids?

When I came back from Wai Shuangxi, my friend gave me a pot of slipper orchid. After more than a month, an orchid that looked like a slipper bloomed. I thought: such a beautiful orchid, you can use any kind of orchid, or think of a "Guanyin Orchid", "Manjusri Orchid", "Sakyamuni Orchid", "Jingtu Orchid" and "Hongyi Orchid", ah!By the way, it is called "Zheng Yanlan", "Shengyan Lan", "Weijue Lan" and "Xingyun Lan", which are more popular now, and they may be worth tens of millions of yuan. There is nothing wrong with orchids, and nothing disturbs them.

Every time I see that blooming orchid, I think that loofahs are more expensive than gourds, and that loofahs and gourds can grow on the same vine, and I feel that life should have more in-depth contemplation and thinking, and always have multiple perspectives. Observation and reverse thinking will not be stubborn.Fell into rigid, single views.The so-called Bodhi is always improving and surpassing; the so-called Prajna is always elastic and soft; the so-called emptiness is sweeping away all blind spots, shadows and desires; it is like a clear sky. During the spring break, I read "Mencius" behind closed doors, and found that there are many multiple perspectives and reverse thinking in "Mencius".

"Hold on to your will, don't be violent." - This is straightforward and peaceful. "Don't be subject to the broadness of brown, nor the king of Wancheng; if you look at the king who stabs Wancheng, if you stab the husband, you will not be strict with the princes; when evil sounds come, you must do the opposite."——This is to treat the king or the king with an equal heart. common people. "I don't shrink from myself, even though I am brown and wide, I don't feel worried? I shrink from myself, even though there are tens of thousands of people, I will go." - This is to do self-reflection from time to time, to be straight, to travel all over the world, to be unreasonable, and to be unable to move an inch.

"Benevolence is the home of man; righteousness is the right way for man. He lives in a house without leaving the house, and he can't get out of the right way. It's a pity!"——Tao is human benevolence and righteousness, not another place or a road! "An adult is one who does not lose his innocence." ——Once the innocence is lost, it is easy to become a villain. "If a person does not do something, then he can do something." ——It is not easy to do something, but it is even more difficult to do something not to do. "The inconsistency of the husband and the thing is also the feeling of the thing; it may be twice the same size, or hundreds of thousands, or tens of millions. The world is chaotic." ——Although people have an equal heart to see all things, But everything has its own characteristics, which is normal.

"Shun lives in the deep mountains, dwells with trees and stones, and swims with deer and hogs. The reason why he is different from the savages in the deep mountains is a little different. He heard a good word and saw a good deed. If he decides the rivers and rivers, he will not be able to resist him. "——This is also the difference between practitioners and ordinary people! Those of us who study Buddhism are prone to regard the Dharma as a fixed thing because of the rigidity of our hearts.In fact, there are endless lotus storages in life, and the words of ancient sages and sages are full of cool mysteries everywhere.

Be it gourds or vegetable melons, whatever you want to harvest, just plant them that way.Whether it is life or Buddhism, if you want to be enlightened in that way, you must first contemplate in that way. "The water of the Canglang is clear and can irrigate my tassels; the water of the Canglang is turbid and can wash my feet." Whether it is cool or muddy, it cools and cleanses my dusty heart in the world of mortals; Cloudy ponders my coarse grains of sand, Let that inner diamond shine! Compassionate wishes are like bodhisattva diamonds, Taoist heart is a diamond, with a diamond heart, everything is fine!