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Master Shengkai's essay: The beauty of a night

Buddhist story: Master Shengkai's prose essay 2023-08-26

A night of beauty

Master Saint Kai

It was an inconspicuous flower, thrown in an inconspicuous corner by the lazy we were thrown in.But only that corner is worthy of it.An old house with red walls peeling off, revealing the color of the earth inside, the doors and windows are covered with dust, and a memory of time fills the old house.I didn't know what was placed in the house, so I could only see from the blurry windows that there were all kinds of cabinets inside. Later I realized that it was actually rubbings of Fangshan Stone Sutra.

There is a coral fossil at the door of the old house. I don’t know that the stones filled with sore holes can still remember the years they had been in the sea.Then, there is an arched door, the only way to the Sutra Tower.No matter who it is, when he walks here, he will feel like he is winding and hiding in the secluded place.

The inconspicuous flower was placed under the fossil coral stone pedestal, covered with dust, and we never watered it.After living for a while, a mage told me that it was a flash in the cereus.I was really a little unbelievable at the time. The kind that appears often in classics and is called Udumbaluo Flower.From then on, I began to feel curious about it, and I seemed to get closer.

According to the records of Buddhist scriptures, the Epiphyllum is found in the foothills of the Himalayas, the Deccan Plateau and Sri Lanka.The trunk is more than three meters tall, and there are two types of leaves, one is smoother, the other is rougher, with a length of ten to eighteen centimeters and a slender tip.There are dioecious flowers, and the flowers are supported by large ones like fists and the small ones like thumbs. More than ten are gathered on the trunks. Although they are edible, they taste bad.

According to Volume 8 of Huilin's "The Sound and Meaning of All Sutras", the Epiphyllum is a source of auspiciousness and auspiciousness, and is the smallpox that is not found in the world.If the Tathagata is born in the lower world and is powered by great blessings, he can feel this flower appear.Because it is rare and difficult to encounter, this flower is used in Buddhist scriptures to make it difficult to be born in the Buddha.Because when the Epiphyllum blooms, it hides in the pot-shaped depression of the flower holder, it is often mistaken for being a flowerless plant, which leads to various legends.

From the Vedic era to the present, India has used the coarse leaves of the Epiphyllum as a guardian wood, that is, as a firewood for sacrifice.In Buddhism, the Bodhi trees in the past seven Buddhas achieved enlightenment were different. The Umphala tree was the Bodhi tree in the fifth Buddha Kannamuni Tathagata.

From spring to summer, flowers are speechless, years are silent, and the flashes of cereus are only accidental green, showing the power of its life.New leaves slowly grow from the old leaves, and the dark spots on the leaves fade, giving them a kind of grace and a rich and fresh confidence.Sometimes I water it a little, and when I have nothing to do, I quietly stare at this magical plant, as if listening to the sound of the Buddha holding flowers on Lingshan Mountain smiling.

One day, when I dragged my tired body back to the quiet hut from a distance, I unexpectedly found that the ephemeral cereus was about to bloom.A surprise suddenly came to my heart, and the hard work of the journey suddenly decreased a lot.Looking at the silent flower, like a person who has been away for a long time, I quickly watered it and loosened the soil, hoping for the news of meeting soon.

The life of the ephemeral ephemeral is only one night, the first night and the last night.It was a moonlit night, a bright moon hanging in the sky, and the sky was deep, high and blue.That corner is full of mystery, the old house makes people feel unpredictable, the mottled earth wall tells the vicissitudes of history, and the coral fossils recall the years of the sea tens of millions of years ago.Only that eerie blooms without regrets.The white flowers are like winter snowy nights. They walk with graceful steps, from Lingshan and from Snow Mountain.It enters the most brilliant point of life and the most decadent point with a slow pace, without any reservation.

In such a quiet and uninhabited night, it is as deep as the night, as secret.A listening heart listens to a lonely voice in such a late night.It avoided the hustle and bustle of the day, abandoned the lively flowers, and bloomed in a deserted and regretless manner.A faint fragrance, elegant and free, permeated all around.It is speaking speechlessly, telling the world: life has only one flower, only one fragrance, never repeated, never again.

Life is short, and even more so for the ephemeral cereus.It was already with the exhaustion of the hero, and its smile gradually shrank.The snow-white petals became pale, with only a faint charm.This is like that sad face, standing on the high steps, a kind of sadness that cannot be turned around.

For the life we ​​have, no matter what, we only have one time, we cannot repeat it, and we cannot come again.Many brilliant times, like the flashy cereus of this night, are the most brilliant times, and life is death.I don’t know if I know that I am also a illusion, but seeing flowers is like a dream, for flowers and life, and fully realizes impermanence.

Impermanence does not mean that we are helpless, but a kind of hard work.Because we cannot repeat it and cannot come again, we have to work hard to grasp the present and survive without regrets.Life is now tonight, and the only records left are the moon, night and flowers in the sky.

2024-02-05 18:02
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