Let’s share three Zen stories below and share your own experiences: 1. Breaking the Breaking Bay Mountain there is a temple, an old monk in the temple, and two disciples, one big and one small. One day after dinner, the little monk accidentally broke one of the bowl while washing

Share three Zen stories below, share your own experience and insights:

1. Break the bowl

There is a temple on the mountain, there is an old monk in the temple, and two disciples one big and one small.

One day after dinner, the little monk accidentally broke one of the bowl while washing dishes.

The great monk ran to the Zen room and reported to the old monk: "Master, my junior brother broke a bowl just now."

The old monk closed his eyes slightly and twisted the Buddhist beads with his hands and said, "Well, I believe you will never break the bowl."

Insights:

People who work, the more they do, the higher the chance of making mistakes and the more mistakes they make; people who don't work have no chance to make mistakes, so they will never make mistakes. People who don’t work often like to read jokes from people who work. If they make mistakes, they will criticize and blame or even report them, but they will never reflect on their own mistakes.

2. On the muddy road

One day, a monk and a fellow Taoist were walking on a muddy road. At this time, it was still raining heavily in the sky.

When they walked to the corner of the road, they saw a beautiful girl who was worried about not being able to cross the dirt road because she was wearing silk clothes and belts.

The monk saw it and said, "Come on, girl, I'll help you get there!" Then he carried the girl across the dirt road, put it down and continued on the road.

Along the way, the fellow Taoist kept silent, but in the end he couldn't help but asked the monk: "We monks are not close to women, especially young and beautiful women, but why did you do that just now?"

Monk replied: "What? Is that woman? I have let it go long ago. Are you still carrying her back?"

Insights:

Mencius said a famous saying: "Men and women don't give relatives to each other, which is a ritual; sister-in-law can't help her with her hands, which is power." Men and women should not have excessive intimate interactions, which is a matter of etiquette; but if you see your sister-in-law fall into the water and don't save her, it is pedantic. Saving people is important, and etiquette is light. Extending your hands to save people is a temporary measure, and it is a last resort.

Rules are dead, people live. Although monks have precepts that are not close to women, they cannot stand by and watch when they see others in trouble, and then they will lose their compassion and lose their roots and end. should be adaptable to people’s lives, be flexible, and not follow dogmas or rules. Then you will become a dogmatist person.

3. Gift

A Zen master met someone who didn’t like him while walking. The man followed along the way and cursed him with all kinds of methods.

Finally, the Zen master turned around and asked the person: "If someone gave you a gift, but you refused to accept it, then whose gift belongs to?"

The person replied: "Of course it belongs to the person who gave the gift."

Zen master smiled and said: "You are right. If I don't accept your insults, then I'm scolding yourself now."

Insight:

All dharmas are born from the mind. When others treat us, whether it is flattery, praise, or insult and slander, as long as we remain unmoved, these words will not affect us if we don’t take them to our hearts or take them to our hearts.

Right and wrong are there every day, and if you don’t listen, you will naturally not be able to do so. If others scold us a few times, we will get angry, and then we will be the one who is angry; if we are not angry, we will be the one who is angry, and then we will be the one who is angry.