Meaning: It means that life is short, life is fleeting, and everything in the world is like a dream. ?
From: "A Clear Spring"
The meaning is: Visualize on the green hills in the dark and windy night, lightning piercing the night sky shining on the grass dew, silent green hills , people return to the earth.
In such a situation, we have to sigh with emotion about human life. In this short life of busy running around, what can be brought to the green mountains to accompany me to my grave?
Which of the inside and outside of life is real? What is more permanent in this life of joy, anger, sorrow and joy?
Life is divided into three parts of illusory happiness and seven parts of deep-seated pain. Only those who are worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth and worthy of being a human being can find eternal peace.
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Preface to a clear spring
When I was a child, I loved reading poetry and prose. I always fantasized about the artistic conceptions in poetry and prose, which revealed romantic feelings. Excited.
Although I can't fully understand the author's original intention, I can always understand it by comparing it with my own life experience. Over time, I have become immersed in the interest of prose and poetry.
Before becoming a monk, I studied for ten years, and after I became a monk, I attended Buddhist college for another ten years. Especially during the ten years of study after becoming a monk, my future life was woven like a dream.
Once upon a time, I looked at the moonlight alone, enjoying the beautiful scenery of the world in the cold and clean air; once upon a time, I sat alone on a high peak, looking at all the mountains from a small place; once upon a time, I was obsessed with books.
Being in a golden house with a face like jade makes me feel physically and mentally happy; once upon a time, I sat alone in a meditation room, integrating the thoughts of ancient sages and sages in the dim light like beans.
In all these learning and thinking processes, it always inspires introspection about life!
Buddhism has led me to a road leading to the reality of life in the universe. Buddhism This is the road that never turns back.
In Buddhism, I see the reality of right and wrong, love and hatred, birth, old age, illness and death, sorrow and suffering, and karma and retribution. In Buddhism, I see the purity, solemnity, vastness, harmony, and distinct layers of reality. , incomparable subtlety, and selfless nature.
In Buddhism and reality, a bridge of incomparable tenacity is gradually built. Going forward is to complete the pursuit and perfection of one's own life, and going back is to realize the desire and ability of all living beings to escape suffering and achieve happiness. .
Wandering back and forth countless times, giving instructions, calling, shouting, roaring like a lion, beating Dharma drums, and shaking Dharma thunder, calling on all living beings to turn around at the top of their lungs, yearning for the "unification of both sides of the Taiwan Strait" on this shore and the other side!
The sunshine of early spring shines on the face, and everything is full of vitality; the bright moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival shines around us, and the world becomes completely cool.
The world, earth and life are so harmonious that I have forgotten the barriers between right and wrong between people and me. The Mid-Autumn Moon is harmonious and hangs in the blue sky to purify my heart. Gradually, gradually the distance between this shore and the other shore is shortened.
So the bridges leading to each other are blurred in the beautiful reality and ideals. It’s so touching! Reality is ideal, and the mortal world is the pure land. The hustle and bustle of people coming and going is the infinite and wonderful use of the light of mind.
The tragic scene of helplessness and wailing in pain is also an endless interpretation of the bright mind.
The only thing in this life that will not be betrayed is the brightness of the mind that has both pain and joy at the same time.
The brightness of mind illuminates the decades of cold and heat in life, illuminates the beginning and end of life, and illuminates the orderly arrangement of all things in the world, mountains, rivers, deserts and seas. Everything is here. In "illumination", there is light and endless peace.
In this light, I saw scenes of life experience, so tragic, desolate and beautiful.
Youth is like a lifeless and desolate desert, miserable and miserable; youth is like a vast grassland that travels thousands of miles, full of flowers.
Middle age is like the mysterious sea, rich and deep; old age is like a clear spring in the mountains, shallow and deep, clear and bright.
No matter how many winds, frosts, snows, and rains we have experienced, no matter what joys and sorrows we have experienced, it is all to compose the song of life! And in the end, it is.
May life turn into a clear spring, flowing quietly in the mountains for endless years.
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