What is the original poem about putting green seedlings in the field?

The whole poem is "Put your hand in the field and bow your head to see the water in the sky. Six clean roads are roads, and retrogression is progress. " This poem is from the poem of transplanting rice seedlings, which is a seven-character quatrain written by Qi, a eminent monk in the Five Dynasties and the Liang Dynasty. On the surface, this poem describes the knowledge and consciousness of farmers when transplanting rice seedlings, but in fact it has covered all the inner realms and mysteries of monasticism.

The transplanter holds the seedlings in hand and irrigates them into the paddy fields one by one. When transplanting rice, they can look down and see the endless blue sky and white clouds reflected in the rice fields. Transplanted seedlings need "roots" to be clean and not rotten before they can grow into "rice (road)". When transplanting rice seedlings, it seems to be retreating while inserting, but in fact it has been moving forward.

Revelation:

This poem tells us that we can see the distance from near, and retrogression can also be regarded as progress.

Ordinary people have a tendency: look high, not low, and seek far, not near. For example: respect people who are more knowledgeable than me; If someone is richer than me, please please please please please please him. If this person's condition is worse than mine, I will ignore it, and I don't know the truth that' climbing high will make me feel inferior, and walking far will make me feel inferior'.

Zen masters' views on the world are obviously different from ordinary people. For example, the poem says' bow your head and you will see the water in the sky', which means that only by bowing your head modestly can you truly know yourself and the world.