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Volunteer's mind 2020-02-18

I can't remember clearly when it started to eat, it's not just about eating.

Looking back on my childhood, eating was a very happy thing.Maybe it was because of the relatively scarce supply at that time, and everything I saw was delicious and everything I had tasted sweet.Rice, noodles, and simple stir-fry can be eaten very well.

Later, life gradually became more and more abundant, and I had more and more foods. Instead, I lost my good appetite at that time and was also involved in the habit of picky food and leftover rice.When I was in college, I didn’t like to eat in the cafeteria. I like to go to the food stall at the school gate in the evening. A group of classmates laughed noisily and felt that I was very happy to eat like this.After work, because I was not good at cooking, I found various specialty restaurants to try it out to satisfy my taste buds’ desires.Although there are many restaurants on the street, they often worry about what to eat. It’s not that there are not, but that they have too many choices and lost their minds.

Later, there was a business event, and eating was more like a purposeful social interaction. Eating was not for delicious food, but for pomp, and extravagance was certain.During the meal, I tried my best to urge me to drink. It seemed that if I didn’t drink it well, I would not complete the task. Even if I didn’t eat this meal successfully.Over time, I felt very resistant and stressed.Later, when I got married and had children, all the themes about food were around the children.The daily diet of my child is a stage for me to show my kind mother and virtuous wife, and I seem to have no sovereignty for eating.

In this way, decades of life have passed.Looking back, I have never eaten a stable meal!

This time I went to study in Xiyuan, and I truly realized what eating is.From the time of scheduling outside the dining hall, I didn’t speak or make a noise, and the whole process was quiet and orderly.Follow the volunteers into the dining hall, sit in front of a table, with two bowls and one chopstick on the table, and the concentrated volunteers put three dishes and one soup into the bowl in turn.After reciting with one another, start eating.I picked up the bowl and looked at the food in the bowl. The white rice was crystal clear, and the carrots, cauliflower, bean sprouts and vegetables cooked in vegetarian oil exuded a burst of fragrance.Taking a deep breath, there seemed to be a hand in my stomach, and I quickly put a chopstick into my mouth and my body relaxed.I chewed and savored carefully, and I never thought that the rice was so delicious, and the dish was so delicious.Take another sip of mushroom soup, oh, the taste is so delicious.

At this moment, I suddenly realized what the meaning of resting in every moment means.On the other hand, I usually eat either, either look at my phone or tablet, or scold my children.Sleeping is either sleeping, or having a lot of delusions or having to stay until midnight.Reading is not reading. You can drink water and make a phone call. You can't concentrate and waste time.Doing housework is not about doing housework, either complaining or being absent-minded. In short, it just doesn’t want to do it well...

From this perspective, I didn’t settle down at every moment, and I didn’t want every moment.Such a life is a waste every moment!Such behavior is consuming every moment!How can you get rid of such a state?It's terrible to think about it carefully!

The teacher said that practice is to correct behavior.Observing every behavior and every thought is also practice. Using the "eight steps" to correct behavior and being able to calm is practice.I have understood this principle for a long time, but after studying it for more than a year, I truly realized the mystery of it. It really fulfilled what the tutor said, "Learning Buddhism does not depend on how many principles you understand, the key is how much you know and how much you can use it."

This time I attended school and had a meal in the vegetarian hall. I realized that there is a kind of practice called eating well!May I have a good meal and study hard!Thank you to the Three Treasures!

Finally, we end with a sentence from the instructor’s teaching: There is no natural Maitreya, nor natural Sakyamuni.All practices start with the "heart"!

2024-02-05 18:08
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