On the road of life, patience gives you strength

How to choose your own life path

There was a young man. One day, just because he was in a bad mood, he walked out of the house and wandered around aimlessly, and unknowingly he came to the depths of the forest. There he heard the gentle birdsong and saw the beautiful flowers and plants, his mood gradually improved, he wandered, feeling the perfection and joy of life.

Suddenly, a whirring sound of wind sounded beside him. When he looked back, he was so frightened that he was so frightened that it turned out that a vicious tiger was rushing towards him with its fangs and claws. He ran and ran under a big tree. He saw a big hole under the tree. A thick vine went deep into the hole from the tree. Without thinking, he grabbed the vine and slipped down, he thought , maybe there is the safest place to escape catastrophe.

He breathed a sigh of relief, clasped the vine tightly with both hands, listened to the movement outside, and extended his head to look at it from time to time. The tiger paced around and refused to leave for a long time. The young man's dangling heart became tense again, and he raised his head uneasily, which surprised him again. A squirrel with sharp teeth kept biting the vine, the vine. Although it is thick, how long can it withstand the bite of a squirrel? He subconsciously looked down at the bottom of the cave, it was incredible! There are four large snakes in the bottom of the hole, staring at them all the time, and rolling long letters in their mouths.

Fear came from all directions, and he was completely pessimistic. Climbing out there is a tiger, jumping down a poisonous snake, can't go up, can't go down, think so, but there's a squirrel biting the vine, he even heard the click of the vine where it was bitten. An unbroken sound.

The story goes there. Brothers and sisters may have realized that this story is not a special case of life, nor is it a concrete reality of life, but a metaphor of life situation. Buddhist scriptures explain that the tiger is nothing but impermanence; the squirrel is the moment; the four serpents are the inescapable birth, old age, sickness, and death of life; the vine is our lifeline

There is no doubt that tigers exist in this world, just like disasters, like troubles, and like disasters flying from the sky. These unforeseen events will always come to the world. Whether it comes to you or to him, whether it is encountered once or often, this may have to be accidental.

The Buddha said, this is impermanence. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are innate, and this is a fate that no one can escape, from princes and generals to merchants and pawns, no one can get rid of them. There is still time that cannot be escaped. On the surface, time does not pose a threat to life, and we even think it is a free train that carries life, but what really gives us a fatal blow is time, and time is always there. biting the vine of our lives.

In fact, life is such a bitter hole. People are driven out of the mother's body, and they are driven into this hole. In addition to the misery of birth, old age, illness, and death, there are many unexpected setbacks and blows. Maybe you are often closely watched by suffering. live. So what are you going to do?

Well, let's continue reading the story of that young man.

The young man thought: it is impossible to hang still, the vines will not let you hang; there is no way out if you jump, it is a dead end, and there is no place to escape; but outside, there are terrible tigers, but There are also birdsong and the fragrance of flowers. Young people are thinking, is this the fate of life? Somewhere, he heard a voice shouting: Don't be afraid, run.

So he didn't do the rest of the thinking, and climbed up one by one, he finally climbed to the ground, and saw the tiger under the tree closing its eyes and resting (yes, suffering also closes its eyes sometimes), he looked at this Opportunity, run wild, and finally got rid of the tiger and returned home.

Maybe our potential is indeed limited, maybe our doom is really inescapable, but we don't need despair, we can't escape birth, old age, sickness, death, we can't escape the limited years, but we can escape the tiger, escape Get rid of the disasters that come your way. In the face of misfortune, setbacks and blows, we can run and struggle. The way for the antelope to get rid of the lion's pursuit is to run faster than the lion, which is the way to survive. The so-called way of life is the way of life.

This story seems simple, but its meaning is very profound. What it wants to give us is a fearless spirit and a deep understanding. That is to say, we must learn and understand the life of mastering ourselves. It is not easy to be cowed by all kinds of threats that can come at any time. Being afraid of wolves before and fearing tigers is not the way to be human. The real principle of being a human being is to understand and flexibly use our wisdom to eliminate all dangers. Let yourself know how to break out a new path in life.