From Song Shi's Continued Lantern Story Wenzhou Longxiangjue Zen Master
Translation: I didn't see it when I saw it. You can't see it when you see it. You didn't see everything. Falling flowers follow the water, but water doesn't like falling flowers.
Appreciation: Extended idiom "Falling flowers are intentional, running water is ruthless". Metaphor is the ups and downs of love between men and women. One side is affectionate, and the other side is unintentional. On the issue of love and marriage between men and women, wishful thinking, ruthlessness and unrequited love are similar.
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In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Master Xuan Zen gave a lecture in Yandang, Wenzhou, and one day he talked about the importance of participating in meditation with heart. Ordinary people only see the world with their eyes. However, the information they get through their eyes is one-sided. To understand Buddha's nature, they need to understand it with their whole hearts. This is not what they can see with their eyes, but the induction and acceptance of their hearts.
If people's indirect functions such as "seeing" are compared to falling flowers, and people's sincere rights are compared to "water", this kind of "water" is flowing with the fate, not stagnant water. Seeing people's hearts by "seeing" is like "falling out of the water intentionally", so it is generally difficult to observe this holistic feature, just like "falling out of the water without mercy".