Chapter 10 Prose: Conversing with the Moon - Jia Pingwa

Moon, the darker the night, the brighter you are; smoke and fire can't dirty you, and dust can't pollute you; are you a high-hanging mirror in the vast world? You come out every night, but every night is different; after a few days, you will be full, and after a few days, you will lose again; you will be so full, but you will be so flawed!I understand, Yue, the great world, when there is pride and sorrow, you will fully reflect it.When you are exposed, you are sadly looking forward to your fullness, and you are eager to see it; when you are full, you are very regretful, because you will soon be flawed again.You are like this for thousands of years, how many people have you accompanied!Whether it is an emperor, a scholar, or a village child, those who are proud are proud, those who are sad are sad, first they are proud and then they are sad, and when they are sad, they are still proud... So, they all disappeared in the endless changes, but you are still In this way, eternity is obtained!

You are the cassia tree that keeps cutting down to people, and people are the Wu Gang who can't rest to you.Wu Gang is a celestial being, so he can live for a long time, but do people have to devote their short lives to this kind of work? What a wonderful mystery!From ancient times to the present, how many people have thought about it, but they can't understand it.Or be obsessed, the general will die for war, and the relative will die for remonstrance, sorrow, joy, parting, and reunion, attributed to the destiny; It's an arousal, scolding and killing you, saying that it's just a bright moon with vain light, it's just icing on the cake when you're proud, adding fuel to the flames when you're sad, a kind-faced and cruel woman, a calm and peaceful drowning Yuantan.

Yue, I know this is wronging you and misinterpreting you.You appear in the world clearly and brightly.Your existence, your own is explaining this world, and it is an inspiration to the world: everything, like your shape, is completed in a circle, one circle after another! Just imagine, the earth orbiting the sun is round, and its orbit is also round. The pinball played by a child is round, and it also rotates in a circle when it bounces.Is it not the case with human beings?No matter how young a person is, he needs to be an elder; when a person is old, he has the same characteristics as a child.Old and young are round joints.After winter, it is spring, and after spring planting and autumn harvest, it is winter again.Tigers can eat chickens, chickens can eat worms, worms can eat sticks, and sticks can beat tigers.It is such a constant negation of negation, which goes round and round, not always the same, returning to a new circle again and again.

Therefore, I am no longer confused by failure, no longer mad by success, no longer sad for old age and death, no longer happy for having a child.Can I know what was entrusted to me in my previous life?Can you know what becomes of me when I die?To be alive is everything, to be alive is to be happy, to be alive is to be suffering, and to be suffering is also to be happy; just like a leaf, when I should be born, I come vigorously, grow my green, show my shape, and it is time to fall , I go with all my heart, and let other leaves regenerate from my fallen scars.I don't seek a long life, but I want to bless my beautiful work deeply, walk my semicircle steadily, and do my best to complete the great circle of the law of movement of all things in the world.

Moon, what else can I say to you?You are really a bright mirror hanging high in the vast sky and earth, allowing me to see the world and myself.I hope you will last forever between heaven and earth, and I hope my career will last forever.