Although the safflower is good, it also needs green leaf support.

Story 1: Although the safflower is good, it also needs green leaf support.

There is a young man, the father is the owner of the vineyard. He is the owner of the garden. He knows that one day he will become a successful grape supplier like his father. But that is the future. He wants to take advantage of the fact that he is still not tied, go out and take a trip, and touch the colorful world.

This year, my father passed away. He returned from the field to mourn and inherit the family business.

He turned around a few rounds of his own vineyard, and there were some sighs, and the memories of playing in the garden as a child were still there.

To everyone’s surprise, the first thing he did after inheriting his family’s business was to cut off all the fences around the vineyard, because the fence could not make grapes and land in vain.

However, after the fence is cut, people and animals can enter the vineyard. Until all the vines were damaged, he realized that although the fence could not bear a grape, they could protect the vineyards, and they were as important as the vines.

The meditation story is a small story of Buddhism: although the safflower is good, it must be supported by green leaves. Green leaves are not a simple decoration, but a kind of protection. A person's ability is bigger, and there are more achievements. It is also inseparable from the help of people around him.

Story 2: Normal heart is the road

The Longyashan residence has been a meditation for a long time, but it has not been effective. In order to obtain a thorough understanding of the truth, and to see the nature, he decided to go to the end of the Nanshan Cuiwei Zen Division to participate in the Zen. In Zhongnanshan, he sincerely asks for advice, but in more than a month, he has never been summoned by Ms. Cuiwei.

He couldn’t bear it. One day, he went to the court to ask Cuiwei Zen Master: "School has come to the Zen Master for several months, why is the Zen Master not showing a law?"

After listening to Cui Wei, the teacher asked, "What is it?"

This counter-question made it impossible for the family to take the lead and had to bid farewell to the school. The experience of Kluang in Deshan is no better than that in the end of Nanshan. It has not been for a few months.

One day, he took the courage and said to the Zen Master, "The scholar has long heard of the Zen master of Deshan, but I have been here for a long time, but I have not got a Buddhist scripture."

After listening to the teacher, Deshan Zen also replied: "What is it?"

Kluang was very surprised. The answers of the two Zen masters coincided, but he still had no way to go. If he had no choice, he would transfer to the cave teacher of Dongshan to attend the school.

One day, Kluang found an opportunity to ask the good teacher of Dongshan: "The Dharma is in a tight place, and the teacher is a teacher."

The good teacher of Dongshan told him: "When the water is flowing backwards, I will tell you again."

It means to say: Our ignorance and troubles are like water flowing. We must think about enlightenment, we must reverse the flow of life and death, and we cannot follow the worldly opinion and flow along the water. After listening to this sentence, the dragon lord Zen master finally realized it. The world uses suspicion to participate in meditation,

Use the experience to participate in the Zen, ask the way to participate in the Zen, and finally use the usual heart to participate in the Zen. Our life in the world is all in the midst of contradictions and delusions. If we can understand the reverse flow of water, it is normal. Suspicion, no longer a normal heart. The so-called Zen is a normal heart.