Floating life like tea
Tea releases a deep fragrance because of boiling water, and life can only leave the fragrance of life after encountering setbacks again and again...
A repeatedly frustrated young man came all the way to Puji Temple. He found the old monk Shiyuan and said to the old monk Shiyuan in frustration, "A person like me who is repeatedly frustrated is still alive. What's the use?" The old monk Shiyuan sat as if he were settled, quietly listening to the young man's sighs and chatter. He didn't say anything, but just told the little monk, "The benefactor came from afar. He boiled a pot of warm water and sent it here." The little monk Nuo went there. After a while, the little monk sent a pot of warm water. The old monk Shiyuan grabbed a handful of tea and put it in the cup. Then he brewed it with warm water and put it on the coffee table in front of the young man. He smiled and said, "Lord, please use some tea." The young man looked down at the cup and saw a few wisps of water vapor curling out of the cup, and the tea leaves were floating quietly. The young man asked Shi Yuan puzzledly and said, "How does your temple make tea with warm water?" Shi Yuan smiled and said nothing, but motioned to the young man, "Please use tea." The young man had to take a cup and take a two sip. Shi Yuan said, "Excuse me, is this tea fragrant?" The young man took another sip, tasted it carefully, shook his head and said, "What kind of tea is this? There is no smell of tea at all. Shi Yuan said with a smile, "This is Min Jian's famous tea Tieguanyin. How can there be no fragrance of tea?" When the young man heard that it was a superior Tieguanyin, he quickly picked up the cup and blew the floating tea and tasted it again and again. He still put down the cup and said affirmatively, "There is really no trace of tea fragrance."
The old monk Shi Yuan smiled and ordered the little monk outside the door to say, "Go to the dining room to boil a pot of boiling water and send it over." The little monk went there again. After a while, a pot of boiling water creaked in with a pot of strong white gas. He got up, took another cup, pinched the tea and put it in, and slightly poured some boiling water into the cup. On the coffee table in front of the young man, the young man looked down at the tea in the cup and saw the tea leaves floating up and down in the cup. With the ups and downs of the tea, a slight fragrance overflowed from the cup. Smelling the clear fragrance of tea, the young man couldn't help holding the cup. Shi Yuan smiled and said, "The donor will wait a moment." With that, he picked up the kettle and poured another wisp of boiling water into the cup. The young man looked down at the cup and saw that the tea leaves were sinking and floating more noisy. At the same time, a wisp of more mellow and intoxicating tea fragrance curled up the cup and gently permeated the Zen room. Shi Yuan poured water five times, and the cup was finally full. The green cup of tea filled the room with fragrance.
Shi Yuan asked with a smile, "Does the benefactor know why the taste of tea is very different from Tie Guanyin?" The young man thought and said, "A cup is brewed with warm water, and a cup is brewed with boiling water. Water is different." Shi Yuan said with a smile that if the water is different, the ups and downs of the tea will be different. When the tea is squeed with warm water, the tea gently floats on the water without sinking. How can the tea dissipate its fragrance? The tea brewed with boiling water is brewed again and again. The tea is sinking and floating, floating and sinking, and the tea releases the quietness of spring rain, the blazing summer sun, the mellowness of the autumn wind, and the clearness of winter frost. All living beings in the world, isn't it tea? Those who do not go through the wind and rain live a quiet life, just like the light tea simmered in warm water, which does not permeate the fragrance of their life and wisdom. Those who have experienced the vicissitudes of life, the ups and downs and misfortunes attack them again and again, just like tea stilled by boiling water again and again. They are in the years of ups and downs. It is full of ups and downs, so it overflows the fragrance of their lives like tea brewed again and again with boiling water.
Yes, it's like tea. Aren't we a handful of tea of life? And isn't fate a pot of warm water or boiling water? Tea leaves release their own deep fragrance in boiling water. And life, only by encountering setbacks and ups and downs again, can we leave the fragrance of life!