What does the important Buddhist allusion "Smile at Flowers" mean?

"Smile at flowers" contains two meanings: one is a thorough understanding of Zen; Second, mutual understanding and empathy are often used to describe the tacit understanding between master and apprentice.

The flower-picking smile comes from the Buddhist scriptures in which the Great Brahma King asked the Buddha for doubts. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha showed flowers at the Lingshan meeting, but everyone was silent, only the respected Ye Jia broke his face and smiled. Buddha said:? I have a blind eye to the Dharma, a wonderful heart to Nirvana, no reality, no subtle method, no writing, no teaching. I was entrusted to Mock Ye Jia. ? That is to say, once, the Great Brahma King asked Buddha Sakyamuni to say that the Great Brahma King led the people to present a golden Buddha flower and gave a grand military salute to the Buddha, and everyone retired.

At this time, the Buddha picked up a golden Buddha flower with a serene expression, but did not say a word. Everyone didn't understand the meaning of the Buddha, and they were puzzled and looked at each other. At this time, Mahakasyapa smiled gently during the dinner, and the Buddha immediately announced: "I have an esoteric Buddhism that shines on the universe, can destroy the mystery of life and death, can remove false appearances, and can correct the fruit." Its beauty is beyond words.

With that, he gave Ye Jia his used gold cassock and alms bowl. This allusion is "smiling at flowers" in Zen. Therefore, China Zen Buddhism regards Mahagaya as "the ancestor of the western paradise".

In fact, the Buddha conveyed a very meticulous, quiet, carefree and wonderful state of mind. This state of mind is pure, indifferent, open-minded, free, comfortable, detached, unshakable and eternal. It is a state of "spreading Dharma" and a process of "Nirvana", which can only be understood by words, and Mokaya's smile,

More than 2,500 years ago, when only the venerable Ye Jia was present, the Buddha's secret was to smile and know. From then on, chinese zen was founded.