Seeing through is the truth, letting go is a matter. To be liberated, you must see through it. Seeing through the world is just a floating up and down, seeing through life is just impermanence, seeing through love is just a gathering and separation. Only when seeing through can you let go, and if you can't see through it, you can't let go. Today I will give you a few stories to see if you can have some insights after reading it.

No matter how hard you work today, you can't finish tomorrow's fallen leaves

There is a young monk who cleans the fallen leaves in the temple yard every morning.

Getting up early in the morning to sweep the fallen leaves is really a chore, especially in autumn and winter, every time the wind blows, the leaves always fly and fall with the wind.

It takes a lot of time to clean the leaves every morning, which makes the little monk feel a headache. He has always wanted to find a good way to make himself more relaxed.

Later, a monk said to him: "Before cleaning tomorrow, you should shake the tree hard and shake all the fallen leaves. You don't have to sweep the fallen leaves the day after tomorrow."

The little monk thought this was a good idea, so he got up early the next day and shook the tree trunk hard so that he could sweep the fallen leaves of today and tomorrow at one time. The little monk was very happy all day long.

The next day, the little monk went to the yard and was stunned. The yard was as fallen leaves all over the ground as before.

At this time, the old monk came over and said to the little monk: "Silly child, no matter how hard you exert force today, the fallen leaves will still float down tomorrow."

The little monk finally understood that there are many things in the world that cannot be advanced. Only living the present seriously is the most realistic attitude towards life. The green mountains cannot be blocked, after all, it flows eastward. No matter how you should stop what you should live, it will be useless if you will not live. If you work hard, you will have no regrets.

Life is not painful

There are no worries in life at first. When the fire of yù                                                                                                                      

Life is not painful at all. When you start to care about gains and losses and seek more, pain will plague you.

Once upon a time, there was a millionaire who had as much trouble every day as he had as much wealth as he had. Therefore, he frowned every day, and had a rare smile.

Next door to the millionaire, there is a couple who grind tofu. There is a proverb that life is three hardships, grinding tofu on a boat. But the couple who grind tofu enjoys it. The songs and laughters spread to the millionaire's home all day long.

The millionaire's wife asked her husband: "With so much money, why aren't we as happy as the young couple who grind tofu next door?"

The millionaire said: "What's the matter? I'll make them laugh tomorrow."

At night, the millionaire threw a ingot of gold ingots through the wall. The next day, the couple grinding tofu was indeed silent. It turned out that the couple was planning to make up! After they picked up the gold ingots that fell from the world, they felt that they had money. They could not do the hard and tiring work of grinding tofu. But, do business, what should I do if I lose money? If I don’t do business, I will always have a day to lose my life. The husband thought in his heart, if the business was bigger, should I be the one who got a small house or should I leave the yellow-faced woman now; the wife was thinking that if I had known that I could make money, I wouldn’t have married this stinky tofu grinding tofu. Thinking and thinking, the couple who were very happy before had no intention of joking now, and worries have begun to occupy their hearts. What makes the couple even more painful is why there can’t be a few gold ingots in the sky, so that they can buy whatever they want?

There are no worries in life at first. When the fire of yù                                                      

Life is not painful at all. When you start to care about gains and losses and seek more, pain will plague you.

Youth is fleeting, and cherishing the present can lead to less regret

"Children, why not work hard while you are young to achieve something?" An old man advised a young man.

The boy replied indifferently: "Why have to be so anxious? My youth has just begun, and there is time! Besides, my beautiful blueprint has not been planned yet!"

"Time doesn't wait for anyone!" said the old man, and led the young man to a basement where he could not see his fingers.

"I can't see anything!" said the boy.

The old man polished a match and said to the young man: "Where the match is not extinguished, you can choose anything in this basement and go out."

With the help of the faint light, the boy tried hard to identify the items in the basement. Before he could find something, the matches burned out and the basement suddenly became pitch black again.

"I got nothing, and the matches were extinguished!" the boy complained.

The old man said: "Your youth is like this burning match, fleeting. My friend, you must cherish it!"

Life is not short, and those who live long can live to a hundred years; it is not long, but in a blink of an eye. However, the green mountains cannot cover it. After all, it flows eastward. If you only regret the life you have passed by until the end of your life, it will be too late. Instead of regretting it at that time, it is better to do more today, at least when you go back, you will have mixed bitterness and joy, and tears and smiles coexist. A little bit of regret will have more aftertaste.

Suffering is fertile and nourishes people's growth

The suffering that comes to you is often the one that God wants to strengthen your mind and grow stronger and more upright. Suffering is a very nutritious supplement for a person who is willing and eager to grow!

In the twelfth month of winter, a monk named "Dripping Water" went to Tianlong Temple to pay homage to Zen Master Yishan. It was snowing heavily outside, but Zen Master Yishan refused to let him enter. The monk was kneeling outside the door, and this time he knelt for three days. The disciples of Yishan saw that he was pitiful and pleaded for him. But Yishan said, "I am not a shelter here, and I will not take in those who have no place to live!" The disciples had no choice but to walk away one after another.

On the fourth day, the monk's body began to bleed. He fell down again and again and again, but he still knelt there, unable to move. Yishan ordered his disciples: "No one is allowed to open the door, otherwise he will be driven out!"

Seven days later, the monk couldn't hold on and fell down. Yishan came out and tried his nose, and there was still a trace of breath, so he ordered him to help him in. Drops of water finally entered Yishan's gate to study.

One day, monk Dishui asked Zen Master Yishan: "Why is there any difference between Wushu and Prajna?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yishan punched him and shouted: "How can you ask this question? Get out!"

Drai Shui was dizzy by Yishan's fist. There was only Yishan's roar in his ears. Suddenly, Drai Shui figured it out: "Whether there is and nothing are our superficial consciousness. You see I have, I see I don't."

Another time, I caught a cold when I was rubbing my nose with paper, but I was seeing it. Yishan shouted loudly: "Your nose is more precious than other people's blood and sweat? Are you wasting white paper?" I didn't dare to wipe it any longer after the drip.

Many people can't stand the coldness of Yishan, but Drop Water says: "There are three kinds of monks in the world. The lower-class monks use the influence of their masters to promote themselves; the middle-class monks appreciate the compassion of the master and follow them step by step; the upper-class monks become stronger under the master's key hammer and finally find their own sky."

Monk Dishui later became a great monk of enlightenment.

The whip you waves often asks you to raise your head higher and your back straighter.

The suffering that comes to you is often the one that God wants to strengthen your mind and grow stronger and more upright. Suffering is a very nutritious supplement for a person who is willing and eager to grow!

Living the true meaning of life

To live, you must do meaningful things, and to do meaningful things means to live well.

Some people never understand what is meaningful in their entire lives. In the eyes of many people, they are too small and cannot do anything earth-shaking. In fact, whether a thing is meaningful does not depend on the size of the matter. No matter how small it is, as long as it is what you should do, you do it with your heart, which is meaningful.

On a hot day, the flowers in the Zen temple were wilted by the sun.

"Oh my God, let's water it quickly!" the little monk shouted, and quickly ran to carry a bucket of water.

"Don't be anxious!" said the old monk, "The sun is strong now, it's cold and hot, so you must die. Wait until later."

"It's time to water the flowers!" In the evening, the flowers in the Zen temple had turned into "dried dried vegetables", and the old monk remembered to water them.

"Don't water it early..." the little monk muttered, "It must be dead and can't water it anymore."

"Water!" the old monk ordered casually.

Not long after the water was poured, the flowers that had already hung down actually stood up and were full of vitality.

"Master!" the little monk shouted, "They are so powerful. They are held there and can't stand them."

"Nonsense!" the old monk corrected, "It's not that I can't stand it and live well."

"What's the difference?" the little monk lowered his head.

"Of course it's different." The old monk patted the little monk's head, "I'll ask you, I'm over 80 years old this year, should I keep going to die, or live well?"

During the evening class, the old monk called the young monk to the front: "How is it? Have you figured it out?"

"No." The little monk still lowered his head.

The old monk knocked on the little monk: "Stupid! Those who are afraid of death all day long will be able to survive; those who look forward every day will live well."

Everyone has a life. No one's life is more noble than others, and no one's life is more humble than others. The problem is that not everyone understands the meaning of life and knows how to cherish their own life. Those who cherish life know how to live well will be a gift to them; those who fear life will not die, but life will become a burden to them.

There was a disciple named Dazhi under Zen Master Fo Guang. After going out to study for twenty years, he returned to his master.

In Zen Master Fo Guang's meditation room, Dazhi told him about his experiences and insights after studying abroad for twenty years. Finally, Dazhi asked: "Master, are you doing well alone in the past twenty years?"

Zen Master Fo Guang said: "Very good! Very good! Lecture, preach, writing, and translator, and wander around the Fahai every day. There is no happier life in the world. Every day, I am very busy and happy." Looking at the elderly master, Dazhi said with concern: "Teacher, you should have more time to rest!"

It was late at night, and Zen Master Fo Guang said to Dazhi: "You have a rest! Let's talk about it slowly in the future."

The next morning, Dazhi was woken up by a wooden fish sound. Dazhi walked out of the Zen room, and the sound of beating fish and chanting scriptures was heard from Zen Master Fo Guang's Zen room. It turned out that Zen Master Fo Guang gets up early and goes to bed late every day, and is busy. During the day, Zen Master Fo Guang tirelessly talks about Zen to group believers who come to worship Buddha. When he goes back to the Zen room, he either reviews the experience reports of the monks or draws up teaching materials. There are always endless things to do every day.

After finally seeing Zen Master Fo Guang’s conversation with his believers, Dazhi rushed to ask Zen Master Fo Guang and said, “Teacher, for the past twenty years, you have been so busy every day, why don’t you feel that you are old?”

Zen Master Fo Guang said, "I don't have time to grow old!"

"There is no time to grow old", this sentence has been ringing in Dazhi's ears later.

We say that you must live well in life. How can you be considered a good life? "Forget food and be happy to forget your worries"! Don't be idle, do what you should do. This is the highest level of life, that is, live well.
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