When Mr. Dongguo went out on a trip, he encountered a frozen snake, so he held the snake in his arms and warmed the snake. Unexpectedly, after the snake woke up, it bit Mr. Dongguo and finally died.
Every time I think of the story of Mr. Dongguo and the poisonous snake, I can't help but sigh, "Is Mr. Dongguo too kind?" Or is the snake too vicious?" The world's right and wrong, good, evil, blessing, misfortune, beauty, and ugliness originally came from the thought in the heart. One thought is a Buddha, one thought is a demon, or one thought is good, and one thought is evil. Between mind and thought is actually the human heart and the void.
Mr. Dongguo's good thoughts are to save people, his heart is not described by the sea or the mountain, his heart is a void, and everything can be accommodated. The poisonous snake seen in Mr. Dongguo's eyes is just a snake, a frozen snake, it has vitality. Anyone who sees a living being has a compassionate heart.
Looking at Mr. Dongguo's goodness through the eyes of the Buddha, we will say that his heart is already filled with everything, including good, including evil, and also contains everything, including life, including death. So carrying a poisonous snake in his warm arms, his heart is empty, and he can hear his inner voice. If he hadn't saved the serpent, he wouldn't have known what the true void was, so he gave up everything just to use goodness to get through all suffering.
When I read the story of Mr. Dongguo and the snake when I was a child, I felt that Mr. Dongguo was quite aggrieved and sacrificed his life in vain to save a poisonous snake. Nowadays, when people read it again in middle age, they find that Mr. Dongguo is the real great wisdom. "The endless sea of bitterness is the shore." Mr. Dongguo has long recognized his own heart, even if an ant is still full of worship for life, let alone a human being? There was an endless stream of passers-by who walked past the venomous snake, and most of them just walked by, passed by, and saw it, knowing that a venomous snake was frozen. They know that the poisonous snake in front of them is really a poisonous snake, so they choose to see the truth of the real thing itself. Just avoid it. But Mr. DongGuo is different, he has compassion. Now that he was kicking this frozen snake in his arms, when he was in trouble in the future, would anyone come to his aid? He stopped and decided that even a poisonous snake would be willing to awaken the evil of the poisonous snake with a kind heart. Unfortunately, the snake is a snake after all, it is not a human being, it does not understand gratitude.
There is nothing wrong with Mr. Dongguo being kind, and the fault is wrong in paying wrongly. "At the beginning of man, nature is good." There is nothing wrong with being kind, but it is wrong to recognize whether the object of one's giving is a man or an animal. The Buddhists always exhort people to see others and the world with compassion. Compassion is not just a thought, but above all an essence. It is a foundation of goodness that everyone has. It's just that how many people in this world are wolves in sheep's clothing? How many people are mouthy and bitter, snakes and scorpion hearts? We are always naïve enough to think that all people in this world are good, simple, clean, and compassionate. But they don't know that the kind people in the crowd are always called fools by smart people. In the end, I don't know how I killed myself. This is just like the sentence "Knowing the face of the person does not know the heart, it is difficult to draw the skin of the tiger and the bone." ”
Mr. Dongguo's compassionate heart is there, the viciousness of the poisonous snake is there, and how to fill or dissolve the gap between good and evil may only be a distance. People walk in the world of people, snakes swim in the world of snakes, and each other is a parallel line that does not intersect with each other, but in ancient times, there was the love affair between Xu Xian and the White Lady, but in this life, there was only the good and evil friendship between Dong Guo and the poisonous snake. If Mr. Dongguo saw that it was a poisonous snake, he could put it next to the stove or put it in a warm place, but he would carry the poisonous snake in his arms, thinking that this would make himself a way. As everyone knows, the venom of the poisonous snake is innate, and how much good thought Mr. Dongguo gives it, how much venom the poisonous snake will give back to him. This viciousness is inherited and will be inherited. The serpent will turn all its warmth into an even more terrible destructive force to take revenge.
The evil thought is not a seed, it is a venom, it is the most vicious means of destroying goodness. Mr. Dongguo died with a compassionate heart, and the poisonous snake was not cursed by resentment and brought himself into the hell of death.
In real life, the story of Mr. Dongguo happens around us again and again, if we can't do both, it is better to leave one step on the road and leave three points. Cai Gen Tan said, "In the light of stone and fire, competing for strengths and competing for shorts, geometric time? On the snail horn, more female and male, Xu big world. ”