One breath is a life of Zen

Buddha asked the disciple how long life is, 50 years, 40 years and 30 years wrong! So how long is life? Life is only in the breath. Every time I read this paragraph in "Zen Shu", I will always take a deep breath to prove my fresh life.

Compared to the vast universe, a person's life is really like a short moment of a meteor across the sky. In this instant, people have to struggle in the valleys of the earth, and always worry that they will fall into the abyss.

There is a fable: a man meets a tiger in the wilderness, so he runs desperately, but the tiger is chasing after him. The man ran to a cliff, holding a wild vine in his hands, letting the whole body hang in the air. He looked up and saw that the tiger was still roaring at him, looking down, and seeing another tiger waiting for him to open his mouth. And he only has one dry vine to kill. At this moment, another white mouse and a black rat licked the vine on it, but he suddenly saw a beautiful strawberry nearby, so he climbed the vine in one hand and sent the strawberry into the mouth with one hand: it was delicious. !

In reality, very few people taste the beauty of this strawberry, because our murky eyes only see fierce "tiger" and sly "mouse", but turn a blind eye to the strawberries that are close at hand. In fact, this strawberry grows in our soft breath. It is so fiery, so bright, like a hot heart, burning the most eager desire for life, contains the most real feelings of life: cherish the immediate beauty, the blessing is the blessing.

It is true that people cannot exist in the knot of time, but the past has already turned into a smoky smoke in the world. The future line of destiny is also engraved in today's palm, and today it is blending into the cosmic atmosphere with repeated breaths. We can't live in the memories of yesterday, and we can't live in the virtual reality of tomorrow. Why not live well in today's world?

Life is only in the breath. Breathing, very short and long.