Why do monks pay special attention to sweeping the floor?

Sweep the floor, sweep the floor, sweep the heart,

Sweep the floor if the heart is not swept.

Everyone has their hearts swept away.

There is no pure land anywhere in the world.

The beginning of enlightenment is cleaning; the path of an enlightened person is cleaning; after enlightenment, it is still cleaning.

"Buddhists talk about enlightenment as a kind of wisdom. Buddhist disciples are not required to study to become enlightened. They are required to do things such as sweeping the floor and carrying water, and tempering their character. It is possible for spiritual people Enlightenment. But it is difficult to understand the Tao with just the knowledge in books. "The ordinary mind is the Tao, and the Tao is ordinary but not ordinary.

In fact, sweeping the floor comes from an allusion, telling the story of a foolish disciple of Buddha who attained enlightenment.

The Buddha accepted a pair of brothers. The elder brother was extremely smart, while the younger brother was stupid and could not teach anything.

The Buddha had no choice but to assign him to sweep the floor every day, and ask him to read the word "broom" while sweeping the floor. In this way, year after year, day after day, suddenly one day, he told the Buddha. In fact, everyone will have dust in their hearts. If they clean it every day, they will gradually become enlightened. At that time, everyone was shocked by his words, and his brother was even more surprised, because he was very knowledgeable and talented, but he had not yet attained enlightenment. He did not expect that his stupid brother would actually become enlightened. He was very puzzled. The Buddha said that your erudition is not the Tao. You are obsessed with books and hinder your true nature. Your brother is dedicated to sweeping the floor and only has a broom in his heart. As time goes by, as soon as he lets go of the idea of ??a broom, he suddenly realizes his true nature. .