Reach into the field with green seedlings and lower your head to see the water in the sky. A pure heart is the way, and retrogression is the progress. Who wrote this poem?

A seven-character quatrain written by this monk in the Five Dynasties Liang Dynasty. The poem is called "Poetry of Transplanting Rice Seedlings". This monk, also known as the cloth bag monk, was a monk in Fenghua, Mingzhou (now Fenghua District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, and became a monk in the Five Dynasties.

Translation:

Looking down at the rice seedlings with seedlings in hand, you can see the blue sky and white clouds reflected in the paddy field. When our body and mind are no longer polluted by external material desires, we can be in harmony with the Tao. On the surface, when transplanting rice, it is inserted backwards at the same time, but it has always been forward.

The monk explained the realm of meditation from the retrogression of transplanting rice seedlings in actual labor.

Extended data:

This poem tells us that retrogression is also progress, and those who retrogress are more advanced and more beautiful. The ancients said, "Retreat for progress" and said, "Everything is worse than retrogression". How comfortable it is to give in to fame and fortune!

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