The night is cold and the winter snow is solstice, and there is no moon in the middle window.
A pillow of Zen dreams, the spring breeze sends a fragrance.
North-south east-west road, several times to return home.
The smoke is lonely, and the cooking cultivators are lonely.
I read a very wise sentence: "The most beautiful fairy tale in the world is that someone really loves you with firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea in the years." ”
Lotus, out of the mud without staining. However, lotus and silt accompany each other for life, and a beautiful lotus flower cannot grow without silt. Just like our life, we can't do without the fireworks in the world, can't do without firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, without the fireworks, we will live in another dimensional space.
In the reinforced concrete jungle of the city, there was a sudden smell of firewood and grass ignition, and I suddenly felt a lot more vitality, because it was the smell of nature. The fire of firewood and grass is the truest fire of the sun in the world.
In the narrow alleyway home, the smell of fried green onions with lard suddenly wafted, and I suddenly felt a lot of saliva in my mouth, because it was the taste of home that you are familiar with. The scallion oil boiled in lard is a traditional taste, and it is a good taste that can be filled with yang energy that can be entered into the Sanjiao Sutra.
Living in the city for a long time, I have long lost the smell of firewood and grass, and I have also lost the smell of green onion oil boiled in lard for a long time.
We are not evolving, but we are stuck, because it has been a long time since we have stepped barefoot on that yellow muddy ground. We are far from the harmony of pure yin and yang.
When we are Xi to restaurants, takeaways, and semi-finished foods, our taste buds will become extraordinarily jumpy and excited, because there are too many high-tech freshness and flavor enhancement additives added to many foods. As a popular saying goes: what you eat every day is "high-tech hard work".
After a long time, when I took a bite of the side dishes that my mother picked up at home, it seemed that the taste was wrong. Because the taste buds will become extra tired after over-excitement, it needs to be stimulated with more high-tech products.
If you love someone, cook for him or her. This tata also includes yourself. Cooking isn't just about preparing food for yourself or someone else, the activity of cooking is a sign of your sincerity.
In the process of cooking, you will use firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and when these are combined, it will produce a special flavor that only you can blend.
As we often think of the taste of mom, because that's the smell of love that you're familiar with.
A thousand years ago, the Taoist sage Lao Tzu gave us a very philosophical answer: "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh." ”
Our lives are full of trivialities and complications every day. We can treat it like cooking, add some condiments, add some water, add a handful of firewood, and cool it down ......
So, you should have plenty of time to cook without distractions, don't expect anything, just cook!
That's part of our practice, it's an expression of our sincere love.