It is found that many people are talking about pursuing a Buddhist life, and there is a trend of getting younger and younger.
In fact, "Buddha" is an attitude towards life, a realm of life realized through various tempering, and a liberation and obsession with the results of hard work, struggle and persistence. Instead of pursuing nothing, it is not synonymous with depression and decadence.
There are several realms of life practice, which can be expressed in several paragraphs full of Zen language:
The first weight: seeing mountains is mountains, and seeing water is water;
The second type: seeing mountains is not mountains, and seeing water is not water;
The third weight: see mountains or mountains, see water or water;
Some people say that after a long struggle, it is not always "seeing mountains as mountains and water as water".
Not exactly.
This mountain is not that mountain, and this water is not that water.
First, practice, only seeing the appearance of things; The second practice is a bit emotional, but life is life and practice is practice. Through the appearance of things, I saw some essence of things, as well as some twists and turns. The third kind of practice, because of the experience and process, has the consciousness, returns to the original from the essence of things, sees the truth of things clearly, integrates knowledge with practice and is not persistent, which is the real Buddhism and lives in the present.
In the eyes of the same person, seeing the same scenery at different times means the same water in the same mountain and different water in different mountains.
The reason why external things are different in the heart is because of experience, chance and consciousness.
Just like Master Hongyi put aside all the hubbub and converted to Buddhism, and Zeng Guofan wrote, "Poor food and clothing will be enjoyed by the elderly."
Li Shutong, Master Hongyi, was originally the son of the troubled times born in Guinness, but before studying in Japan, he studied hard and thought carefully. Learning temperament, calligraphy, painting, performance, education, brilliant. He is not only versatile, but also serious, learning as he is and doing as he is. Without such a rich life experience, Master Hongyi, who fled into an empty net, would not have spent more than four years writing the Four-Point Method for the Military Capacity of a Bhikkhu, and in his later years, he wrote the Nanshan Method at home. I will not write such a life sentiment as "the intersection of sadness and joy" before I die.
If Zeng Guofan didn't make great achievements in those years, didn't take flowers and eyes, didn't get a yellow jacket, could he still write simple living's Clothes?
The previous life experiences made them re-examine the "mountain" and "water" in their eyes, which are no longer the scenery we ordinary people see, because of philosophical thinking and propositions.
Tell a short story.
There is a rumor going around.
After climbing a mountain, a rich man sat by the sea watching the sunset, and a farmer sat beside him in a daze.
The rich man asked, "What do brothers do?"
"Farming."
"It's still early, why not plant more land in the field and stop work so early?"
"Why do you want to plant so many?"
"You can get more food in all kinds of fields. If you get more food, you can sell more money. If you have more money, you can make an investment, Qian Shengqian, and then you can climb mountains like me, sit by the sea and watch the sunset after climbing. "
"Why? I just sit by the sea and watch the sunset. "
The story seems simple and reasonable. Aside from epistemology, did they see the same sunset?
Buddha's nature is not without pursuit, it is the fate after hard work and persistence, and it is not demanding, persistent and persistent about the result.
Everyone knows that the end of life is between square inches, but now who wants to choose to live in that space?
In the Song Dynasty, an enlightened nun wrote an enlightened poem:
Looking for spring all day, not seeing spring,
Mango shoes travel all over the dragon head cloud.
Come back and smell the plum blossom with a smile,
Spring has been in the branches for ten minutes.
If she hadn't been looking for spring and stepping all over her shoes, would she still smell plums and realize that spring is around?
May everyone have a Buddhist life of "seeing mountains is mountains and water is water".