In fact, the author does not read much about the literary genre of prose, but there is a collection of essays that I really love. These essays stirred my soul like the ripples of a leaf of Bodhi falling into the waters of a lake.
For such a collection of essays, the author thought about it for a long time and waited for a long time before he dared to write the article. Because once this review article is not good, it has failed to live up to these turquoise-like prose. I don't want to sell Guanzi anymore, what I want to introduce to you is the prose collection of Xu Dishan, a famous essayist in modern times- "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain"
<h1>Xu di shan</h1>
Xu Dishan, (February 3, 1894 – August 4, 1941), known as Kun (kun), zidishan, pen name Luo Huasheng (in ancient times, "Hua" is the same as "flower", so it is also called Luo Peanut), born in Jieyang, Guangdong. Born in Taiwan to a family of patriots. Xu Dishan is a famous modern Chinese novelist, essayist, and one of the pioneers of the new literary movement during the May Fourth period. There are also studies in Sanskrit and religion. In 1917, he was admitted to the College of Literature of Peking University, graduated in 1926 and stayed on to teach. During this period, he co-sponsored the "New Society" with Qu Qiubai, Zheng Zhenduo and others to actively publicize the revolution. Before and after the "May Fourth", he engaged in literary activities, and then transferred to Mansfield College of Oxford University in the United Kingdom to study religion, Indian philosophy, Sanskrit and so on. In 1935, he was appointed as the chief professor of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Hong Kong, and his family moved to Hong Kong. During his time in Hong Kong, he was also the Chairman of the Sino-British Cultural Association of Hong Kong. In his lifetime, he wrote many works, including "Flowers" and "Falling Peanuts".
Some people may be a little strange to Xu Dishan, but when we were young, a text called "Falling Peanuts" is estimated that everyone will not feel very jerky. This short essay selected from the Human-Taught Edition of the Language Book is from "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain". Basically speaking, each of us is ordinary, but the silent dedication of ordinary people is extraordinary, just like the peanuts silently carrying on the fruits.
<h1>The Buddhist principles and emotions of "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain"</h1>
The reason why "Empty Mountain Spirit Rain" is called Xu Di Shan is explained in an article. After reading it, I felt that the general idea should be a little tear that comforted people's hearts and souls flowed out of the empty mountain, and such tears vented some faint sorrows, and when they cried out, they were at ease and calm.
I. The Buddhist "Theory of Suffering" in The Unhappy Nature of Life
"Theory of birth and suffering" is a word I coined, that is, we are born miserable. Xu Dishan believes in Buddhism, and he has such a feeling lurking in his heart all the time. Seeing trees sentimental trees, seeing cicadas sentimental cicadas, seeing bees sentimental bees. In "The Spider with the Web", he feels that people are like spiders, constantly weaving the web and then breaking the net; and then weaving the net and breaking the net and so on. In fact, here we have seen what Xu Dishan wants to tell us, just like Yu Hua's "Alive", everything is in a cycle, constantly making you miserable but you still have to worry, everything is in vain and futile. Xu Dishan had a sense of disillusionment and nothingness in him, and he had a skeptical attitude towards reality. Struggling bitterly in nothingness, feeling sentimental in delusion, those negative philosophical mysteries of Buddhism are infinitely magnified by him here. It seems painful to read, somewhat sad, and the absurdity of man's existence seems to have become nothingness in religion
Second, the Buddha understands reading love
The theme of the whole "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain" is roughly the sweet boudoir story of the love between sheng ben and his wife mentioned above. Xu Dishan can be regarded as a high-level spoiled wife demon and a master of wife pampering. In "Snake", he attributed the awe and respect in the love of husband and wife to fear, just like people are afraid of snakes and snakes are afraid of people, and no one will be the first to shoot and eventually hurt each other because they are not afraid. Or in "Laughter", he goes to his wife to find something she loves across thousands of mountains and rivers, and does not come home for a few days and nights. In front of his own children, he was not shy about kissing the sweet love of his wife. In "Incense", he compares his wife's body fragrance with the Dharma, and he feels that he loves his daughter-in-law's incense like the incense that naturally loves Buddha. Most of the time the Buddha is opposed to the female color, but we have also heard the story of the 500-year fossil bridge of Azuma being trampled by a lover. At this time, Buddhism is no longer a simple metaphysical thing, but has been contaminated with the noble and somewhat tacky taste of red dust, so that love transcends a kind of sea oath mountain alliance, and that kind of love with religious piety is the concept of love that Xu Dishan wants to express in this collection of essays.
Third, the mysterious color
Most of these small articles were written when Xudishan was living in seclusion in Southeast Asia. In fact, Southeast Asia is not less influenced by Buddhism than China, like Thailand, which uses Buddhism as the state religion. For Xu Dishan, who lived in Southeast Asia, his life, his prose has long been overshadowed with a mysterious and hazy color. All the stories, you will feel that the believers in a foreign mountain are like a squire, and the article tells you one by one the truths of the Buddha. It reads exquisitely, and of course you will reminisce about this life. Perhaps his mind was complicated and chaotic, and Xu Dishan used such a way to make himself peaceful. The prose carries the aroma of strands and sandalwood.
The hidden mind is great because of The Buddha, and this is what it is called: hidden and great!