2018 Daily Insights: If you change your mind, things will become ordinary; if your mind will change things, they will become holy (20180727)

In the morning, it was cloudy. At this time, many people have difficulty breathing due to air pressure, which naturally affects their body and mood. When I came out of the subway station, I naturally thought of a saying, "If your heart changes with your environment, you are an ordinary person; if your environment changes with your heart, you are a sage." It's easy to say it, but it's really not easy to do it.

There is a saying in Buddhism: "When things turn to the mind, they become ordinary; when the mind turns to things, they become holy." "Heart turns to things" means that your heart remains unchanged, and you use your heart to deal with external things. If your heart and sensitivity transform the external objects you see, you can become a saint. On the contrary, "things change the mind" means that your heart does not have a real concentration, opinions and opinions. External objects will change your thoughts and concepts. You follow what others say, believe whatever you see, and believe whatever you hear. Believe whatever you want, this is what ordinary people do.

Extended to a higher level, it will be like what Zen Buddhism says: "The heart turns with the surroundings, and the places it turns can actually be quiet; follow the flow of knowledge to gain nature, without joy or worry."

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It is not easy for a person to reach this level. If the mind changes with the surroundings, you will be able to do things freely and freely; the place you turn around can be quiet, and there is true spirituality in the freedom and ease; it is even more rare to realize nature by following the flow, and the Hinayana's "impermanence and no self" transitions to the Mahayana's "always happy with myself" net'. Zen practitioners all talk about selflessness, that is, the three truths of "the cessation of suffering". However, Zen practitioners start from "the mind changes with all circumstances" and then return to the original existence of "following the flow of consciousness to gain nature". It can be said that the "the cessation of suffering" is the fourth truth. It is really rare to realize the truth and return it to unity.

It’s easy to understand but difficult to implement.