Chapter 8 Are you like a neem flower, chasing after love in the past spring? (06)

At first, I didn't find neem flowers. The path is still winding to the horizon, the sun is shining in the distance, and the red leaves of mahogany are colorful. Who will notice that the purple flowers, which are so faint that they are almost invisible, are covered with neem trees?Is spring gone?Why are there purple flowers floating all over the ground?Looking back suddenly, I saw the little tree Zihua standing at the corner of the path, hey! "I only blame the south wind for blowing the purple snow, but I don't know that the neem flowers bloom in the corner of the house"! I looked at the neem tree in the twilight, and under the setting sun, I saw pink and purple flowers intertwined with new green leaves to form a blurred illusion, rendering layers of purple clouds in the sky, just like a dream.

It is said that "neem" means "bitter love" in ancient times, but in Taiwan, it has a similar pronunciation to "poor" in Hokkien, so people are reluctant to plant it in their own yards.Like many beauties, Neem seems to have a Canke fate under its beautiful appearance. When the evening wind blows, the neem tree twirls a purple tulle dance dress, flicking purple tassels, dancing with the spring.Doesn't she know that the spring is fleeting and far away?Why are you still "hardly nostalgic"?Maybe she just wants to grow old with spring!However, why did spring stop for whom?

Many fragments in life, like the blurred shadows of neem trees, form a hazy painting in the fading spring of life; like frozen old photos, they radiate faint light in the depths of memory.Once faced with a familiar scene, the black box of memory is opened, and all the memories beat the heart like a wave. The yellowed details may no longer be recalled, but the feeling remains, or regret, regret, or indignation, or helplessness, Responding to the current situation, the stormy waves hit the shore again in my heart. How impermanent life is.For those who yearn for eternity, impermanence brings suffering—the external environment is constantly changing, living, changing, and disappearing, while our hearts are constantly moving, or recalling the past or fantasizing about the future, without stopping .This kind of deep anxiety caused by the passage of time and the rush of thoughts, the Buddha called it "suffering", which is one of the "three sufferings" in life.No wonder some people say: The essence of life is restlessness!

However, is it really so difficult to make yourself feel at ease?Zen Master Huihai said that the way to work hard is to "eat when you are hungry, and sleep when you are sleepy", but we often "refuse to eat when we eat, and we have all kinds of needs; we don't want to sleep when we sleep, and we care about everything!" In life, focus on the present moment, and learn from Han Shanzi's chicness of "falling in autumn and letting the leaves fall in other forests, and blooming from your tree in spring, sleeping in the three realms and having nothing to do, the bright moon and the breeze are my home"!

(This picture is provided by Wu Xiaodan)