Reading Wang Wei's poem "Birdsong Stream", there is no Zen in the poem but there is Zen, how many people know the Zen interest?
Wang Wei's poem "Birdsong Stream" has been widely circulated, especially the two sentences "people are idle and osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and the spring mountains are empty", which is even more popular among literati and ink writers, and has become a content often written by calligraphers.
Judging from the text, there is not a single word in the poem that has anything to do with "Buddha and Zen", but it is an ethereal and quiet landscape painting of spring and night, far away from the fireworks in the world, quiet and unearthly. However, when we read it carefully, we found that this is a very advanced Zen poem. In just two crosses, Zen is full of Zen, Zen fun, and Zen machine is infinite.
The shorter the poem, the more difficult it is to write, and the broader the artistic conception expressed.
People are idle osmanthus falling", osmanthus falling is a natural law, and people are idle or not has nothing to do with it, is it not when people are busy osmanthus does not fall?Whether people are idle or busy, osmanthus will fall when the season comes.
The osmanthus does not fall for you, it falls for yourself, following the natural growth of the osmanthus tree itself, the flowers bloom and fall from time to time.
The blossoming and falling of flowers is a reincarnation, and the impermanence of time is the way.
The idler is absent-minded. No matter how busy you are at work, there is always something to find some free time. You can't work 24 hours a day. Therefore, to be idle is to be idle in your heart.
A person must be idle when he should be free, busy when he should be busy, and die when he dies. This is the way of human life, the way of impermanence.
People often say: since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely. Is it the sadness of autumn, or the sorrow of people?Is it the loneliness of autumn, or the loneliness of people?
Many times, when we see the flowers falling, we feel lonely and feel sad about the petals of that place. How do you know that Luoying also has that colorful beauty.
The flowers have fallen, and a new cycle has begun. Just like the cup full of water, if you don't pour the water and leave the cup empty, how can you fill it with new water?This is true of many things in the world. In a short poem, it expresses an infinite and broad philosophical extension.
There are ups and downs in life, and some people will be very lost and sad when they are unemployed. Let's take a look at the realm of the poet Wang Wei. When he saw the flowers falling, not only did he not lose them, but he felt relieved, and he had a kind of "flowers fell because of my idleness", what a free and easy artistic conception.
Just this sentence, the Zen realm is transcendent.
"The night is quiet and the spring mountain is empty" because the night is quiet and the mountain is emptyOr is it the mountains and the night is quiet?Neither. The night is quiet, not necessarily the real quiet, and the mountain is empty, not necessarily a vacuum. It is because my heart is still, so the night is quiet, and the mountains are empty.
Only when the true tranquility of the inner world is reached, will the outer world be truly tranquil. Those who are selfless are not utilitarian, and those who are not utilitarian are selfless. This is what Zen Buddhism says, "the purpose of the other, the meaning of the other." "I said a lot of things over and over again, and in the end, I seemed to understand and I didn't understand, which is Zen speculation.
The moonrise frightens the mountain birds, and the spring stream sings. The two sentences seem to be written moving, but in fact, by writing dynamics, they reflect the quietness of the night and the emptiness of the mountains. It also expresses the poet's inner tranquility and expansiveness.
The moon comes out of us without a sound, but does the moon turn with a sound?Yes, we just can't hear it.
When the moon came out, it was not the birds in the mountains that alarmed, but the birds that alarmed the poet Wang Wei's heart. The poet's heart was moved, so he expressed the sound of the moon in a way that alarmed the birds in the mountains.
The stream is in the mountains, the birds chirp from time to time, and in the quiet night, the sound is so far away. Does this express the poet's own feelings: I am like a bird in this mountain, and I must also voice my own voice in this world from time to time, share the beauty of the night in the forest with the world, and share the Zen realm in my heart?
What if we wrote a poem from a different perspective?
Osmanthus people are idle,
Spring Mountain night quiet sky.
The moon startled out of the mountain birds,
The spring stream is singing.
It seems to have a different feeling and artistic conception, right?
It's all about feelings
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