I like Gesanghua. Tell me about it.

A few days ago, in the WeChat circle of friends, I saw many friends drying Gesanghua.

Gesanghua, originally the spirit of snowy plateau, has gradually entered the metropolis of China in recent years. We can also find them on the edge of the city and in the parks in the downtown area. In this way, Gesanghua entered the city with the pace of human civilization, and conveyed a spiritual ideal, a fashion feeling and a moral Buddha nature to the "reinforced concrete forest".

It is found that Gesang flower has no specific flowering period, and it is uncertain which kind of flower it refers to. Gesanghua is a general term for the unknown flowers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by the ancients, and those flowers that can't be named are called Gesanghua.

According to the research of modern botany, the varieties of Zi Yuan, Sargassum, Cosmos and Cuiju in Compositae are often called "Gesanghua". Others call roses, rhododendrons and Saussurea involucrata of Rosaceae Gesanghua. At present, Gesang flowers widely planted in major cities are generally varieties of cosmos or Asteraceae.

Let's go back to the "no phase" of Gesanghua. The reason why Gesanghua has no specific variety and appearance actually stems from an emotional sustenance of ancient Tibetans. They call their prayers for a better future "Ge Sang", which contains rich ideological connotations such as "happiness and auspiciousness, beauty and holiness, and cherishing fate". They attached these beautiful feelings to the unknown wild flowers, praying in their hearts and having flowers in their eyes, so this flower is "Gesangmeiduo". "Mei Duo" means "flower" in Tibetan.

It suddenly dawned on me that "Ge Sang" is not just the name of a flower. Really an elf, like a dragon and a phoenix, bearing the totem and great ideal of a nation. "Ge Sang" is synonymous with all good visions, all great dreams and the pursuit of a happy life. Gesang flower is actually a flower of ideal, happiness and prayer. It is a kind of "Zen flower", just like Gong Yue's "Zen is a flower".

There are many legends about Gesanghua in Tibetan culture. Ge Sang is not only the living Buddha of Ge Sang, but also the God of Ge Sang. In a word, Gesanghua has a very high position in Tibetan culture, and Lhasa regards Gesanghua as the city flower. Since 20 15, the "Lhasa International Gesanghua Culture Festival in China" has been held every year. Similar activities with Gesanghua as the cultural theme are also colorful in various parts of the country and cultural and educational institutions.

I like Gesanghua and admire Gesanghua even more. They are generally petite and look weak but not afraid of the cold. For example, gold can survive tenaciously in an environment of MINUS 50 degrees. These elves, almost prostrate on the ground, have very gorgeous bodies. Pick any one and you will find them so charming and dazzling. Although they rarely publicize individually, when they gather together, they become a big bright and dazzling sea of flowers!

I marvel at the individual beauty of Gesanghua, but Gesanghuahai is the real beauty. These nameless and messy wildflowers embrace each other and set each other off. From the low-key luxury of individuals to the prosperity of all beings. This is a mental image that shocked me. The beauty of the group is greater than the beauty of the individual.

Group dependence and mutual assistance can best reflect the elegance of Gesanghua. Gesanghua represents the "saint robbery" in the reincarnation of Buddhism. In this "great robbery" of 65.438+0.35 billion years, thousands of Buddhas will be born, so it is called "many sages". What is the concept of a thousand buddhas? A Buddha has 84,000 faces, but it's much more than that. So how many pictures are there in a thousand buddhas? Therefore, Buddha has no phase, and all beings are boundless.

All sentient beings, if they have the fate of meeting, knowing each other and living together, what a "small probability event" it will be, and how many years and cycles will it take to happen! Therefore, in dealing with the relationship between interpersonal relationships and everything, and in dealing with the internal development trend, the core idea expressed in Ge Sang is to cherish fate and the connotation of great love, happiness, auspiciousness and sacredness. This is also the flower language of "Gesanghua".

Cherish the fate of a happy flower, and return it to Ge Sang without a phase. In this troubled world-the whole world, whether in cities or villages; Whether we are working or starting a business, we are all like Gesanghua-life is just a short journey, and we can all become Buddhas with me. So I often say "where there is love, there is home". This is Ge Sang.

(Chief expert of China Campus magazine, education consultant of Meng Tian, Guangdong, WeChat meiti800)

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