Chapter 40 Rapeseed flowers say that every day is a good day(38)

In the Jianan Plain before winter and early spring, golden rapeseed flowers bloom all over the land. The train is galloping, and when you look out from the window, you can see the light yellow and green, extending to the horizon like a canvas, giving people the feeling of Europe; while the pieces of orange swaying in the wind reflect the smoke trees in the distance, The hut, this scene is like southern China... At this moment, rape blossoms are blooming all over Taiwan's farmland.It is said that after the autumn harvest, the farmers sow the seeds in the fields, and after two months, small yellow flowers bloom.In addition to the edible stems and leaves of rape flowers, the seeds can also be pressed for oil or used as feed, and the remaining residues can be used as compost.When it's time for spring plowing, the whole field of rapeseed is plowed into the field and turned into spring mud to provide another nutrient for the earth.As a result of resource recycling, a zero-pollution environment is naturally created.

In this way, rape blossoms should be the commas between the articles of the earth in the four seasons, not the main role. Then, how can it bloom so amazingly?Doesn't it know it's the winter fallow period on the fields? However, the rape blossoms seem to ignore all this. The golden flower field in the cold spring, the free posture stretched in the wind, and the gorgeous and dazzling large blocks of color seem to turn the comma into an exclamation point of the earth! "How should a person cultivate himself?" I thought as I looked at the rapeseed fields that came into view from time to time outside the car window.At this time, I was finishing my ten-year editorial work for a Buddhist magazine, and I was temporarily away from the monastery where I had been a monk for more than ten years.That was the job and place I was familiar with, but driven by fate, I seemed to have to make a choice. This is life!

Even if you become a monk, you still have to face the ever-changing life.Whether it is gaining momentum and sprinting forward, or retreating bravely and starting after a rest, as long as you work hard, every stage can become the food of life.Just like rapeseed, although it is so ordinary, it is in full bloom when it blooms; when the flowers fade, the spring mud protects the soil.During fallow, keep the earth still wonderful. On a warm winter afternoon, I walked into a field of bright yellow rapeseed flowers.In the gentle breeze, there are bursts of fragrant flowers, white butterflies and bees lingering around... I think of the Zen Master Wumen Huikai of the Song Dynasty who said: "There are flowers in spring, moon in autumn, cool wind in summer and snow in winter. If you have nothing to worry about, it is a good time in the world. "When we are not limited by the external environment, but can extract from it the wisdom of seeing life and being at ease physically and mentally, then every day can be a good season, and our hearts can be zero-polluted!

I told myself: I must work hard to find a free and non-attached heart, a heart that faces life calmly, never gives up hope, and does its best according to fate! (This picture is provided by Wu Xiaodan)