What song is a flower, a world, a leaf and a bodhi?

A flower is the world, and a leaf is bodhi. These are the words spoken in classic works such as Huayan Sutra and Brahma Sutra. The significance of this sentence is not only that there is a sumeru in the dust and eternity in an instant, but also that a flower and a leaf reflect the infinite size of the world, but they are taken in all directions. What does this mean?

This is the same as the post-enlightenment realm of Zen. Tao is everywhere. Every time you drink water in your life, every rain and wind embodies the Tao. As the saying goes, bamboo is nothing more than Buddha; The gloomy yellow flowers are all dharma. In Schopenhauer's language, the world has been talking about understanding in clear language.

To facilitate understanding, give a few examples:

1. Shao Yong of the Song Dynasty went to enjoy plum blossoms one day and saw two birds standing on the same branch of a plum tree, and both of them fell off. Shao Yong felt a little strange, so he took a divination. According to divination, Shao Yong concluded that a woman would break plum blossoms at night, and the gardener would run after the woman, causing her right leg to be injured. This is exactly what happened later.

2. When a businessman wants to go on a business trip, he goes to the Zen master, hoping that the Zen master can point out the maze and whether this trip is profitable. The Zen master said that he would definitely make more money. Why? The Zen master explained it this way: when asked about this, it happened that the waiter opened the door and came in, carrying a plate full of fruit.

Third, life experience makes people sum up a proverb: Speak of the devil. The content of the chat here is strikingly consistent with the action there.

Jung, a psychologist, believes that this oriental and religious cognitive way is completely different from the logical, connected, causal and thinking cognitive way, because in this cognitive way, everything in the world transcends the division of time and space, and * * * belongs to an organic whole. Everything is you and me, you can see that thing directly from it, and you don't need to do empirical reasoning and reasoning of time series and space series. Jung believes that this cognitive way is a great contribution of oriental wisdom to world civilization, which greatly avoids the singleness and one-sidedness of western thinking mode.

For true awareness, there are no secrets in the world, and everything is presented frankly and without concealment. But this true consciousness is often obscured by ignorance, so the world is full of unsolved mysteries for people, so people need to explore and study, and human beings are knowledgeable and learned. But this kind of knowledge is logical, thinking, rational and limited, which is incomparable with the cognitive way after awakening.