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Idle see autumn cloud

Look at the autumn clouds, fine taste life, perhaps half a day, enough for the rest of his life to savor

By Jane OxleyPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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All the year round, autumn clouds are the best to see, because autumn is clear and cool, blue sky clouds white. One afternoon, in the "green stream red leaves, green forest point white clouds" of the hill, or sit or lie, idle to see the clouds.

"White clouds in the blue sky, just out of sight." Distance produces a sense of beauty, floating people reverie. I stared at the blue sky and white clouds, as if the mountains and villages in my hometown rose over the continuous smoke, and slowly gathered, and finally turned into a snow mountain. Faintly on the snow-capped mountains, fairies in white dress dance lightly, and light dance moves flow in the white clouds. In a blink of an eye, they were riding white horses and driving slowly on the vast prairie. Before you had counted the horses, the prairie seemed to turn into a river shrouded in morning mist. On the river, a white sail was hoisted, ready to set sail. Soon, the morning fog dispersed, sailing away, leaving only dimly visible willow. The mountains rise and fall in the distance. Take a closer look, the mountains on the terraces overlap, straight up the clouds...

Autumn clouds like an inexhaustible ink painting, painting mountains, painting water; Painting the sea, painting the grassland; Painting history, painting the future... As long as you are willing to imagine, think like what, the more you think more like, endless changes; Ethereal and mysterious!

Du Fu's poem "clouds in the sky are like white clothes, we must change like a dog" seems too direct, but Zhu Dungru's words "the world is short like a spring dream, human relationships are thin like autumn clouds" are more memorable. In spring, people tend to get sleepy and their dreams are frequent, so spring dreams are particularly short; Autumn is the bluest sky, the most white clouds, against the background, autumn clouds are particularly thin, light leisurely, erratic, there is no blink of an eye. Perhaps these two lines of poems are simple and profound, and later evolved into the idiom "white clouds and dogs", which refers to the impermanence of the world. For thousands of years, not only ordinary people in the world, but even Buddhist disciples have the sense of changing times. Yao Nai in the Qing Dynasty wrote a poem that "White clouds and canggu have the sense of dying, but also come to the house of Saki in the Empty forest", which urges people to think deeply.

Look up at the blue sky, white clouds patches, really want to ask, you are from the Yellow Crane Tower blowing over? Are you the white clouds of cui Hao's thousand years in the air? Ancient and modern exchanges, on the clouds, always engraved with the homeland, wanderer meaning, despite the erosion of wind and rain, but always so clear. From Li Bai's poem "Floating Clouds wandering around" to Tan Xuan's poem "Clouds in Hometown", it seems that the clouds drifting on the sky are the longing feelings of the wandering children's family members.

Just closed my eyes, a gust of autumn wind blowing, blue sky, blue sky. Looking at the empty blue sky, I finally appreciate the "fleeting clouds" artistic conception, more realize the true meaning of "wealth such as floating clouds". People in the world of mortals, "a full eclipse, sleep three feet at night", why should be obsessed with money, power, fame and wealth and other desires to meet?

Although I am not a follower of Buddhism, I am still fascinated by some buddhist principles. Buddhism holds that the colorful world of mortals is a space of "phases", and the Diamond Sutra thus says, "All phases are empty." If one is predestined to inherit the Dharma, one can break away from the empty and phase space and enter the space of "no living". Looking up at the cloudless, clear blue sky, I really want to ask the Buddhist master, can the vast clear blue sky be a metaphor for "no living" space?

If I can, I have a little understanding of the "no living" space. Although there is no cloud in the sky, because there is a contrast between clouds and clouds in the heart, there is no boundary and distinction with no, the mood will be like the clear brew of blue sky and bright!

Just now the blue sky, I do not know which man of the moment, instantly from north to south thundered over a block of icebergs, not long after, the clouds blocked the sky, there is a "chang 'an not sad" taste. White clouds floating, years long! In the long river of history, how many heroes are so powerful, around the universe, in the annals of history left a thick heavy color!

Han Gaozu's "Wind Song" sings: "The wind rises, the clouds fly, weijia sea, I return home!" The autumn wind of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty said: "Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly, grass and trees fall yellow, wild geese fly south."

With "wind and cloud", Liu Bang expresses a kind of ambition satisfaction, high-flying spirit, and Liu Che expresses is a kind of lamenting old and depressed and helpless.

White clouds drift, time flies, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign, there are worthy of heaven's heroes, but all the heroes into the ground, born must die, just like the autumn clouds on my head, there are scattered together! "Where are the ancient and modern generals? A heap of grass gone from the barrow!" Life dozens of heat and cold, although living in the blue sky on the earth, but such as fleeting clouds, gather in a hurry, scattered in a hurry.

All of a sudden, the leader of the wild geese chirped, and the birds leading back to the forest responded to each other and kept chirping. The sky is late, I yiyi back to the line of sight, the end of the rare half a day idle to see autumn clouds, calmly walked down the hill.

Look at the autumn clouds, fine taste life, perhaps half a day, enough for the rest of his life to savor

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