In recent years, Zen stone as the stone altar "Venerable", because of its far-reaching meaning and elegant taste and favored by the calm "Thousand Arhats" is to play the Zen stone to the extreme.

Therefore, the meaning of Zen stone is easy to understand, and it should be able to embody the spirit of Zen, the thought of Zen, and the artistic conception of Zen.

In particular, the states of "heart source", "gradual enlightenment" and "epiphany" of Zen Buddhism should be triggered by stones, and can develop at a deeper level, entering into "realizing human nature" and attaining "Buddha nature".

This process is: the stone is the source, the heart is the wing, and the Buddha is the other side.

The form of the Zen stone.

What should be the state of the Zen stone?

To answer this question, Kowloon was in trouble for a while.

Zen, it's easier said than done, it's not easy to explain it clearly, it's not easy, you can't consume it every day, and if you continue to consume it, won't you drink the northwest wind.

Anyway, playing with the stone itself is a Zen process, put it aside first, and resume futures trading first.

During this period of crazy play, Kowloon's mentality has also improved a lot, and he has repeatedly reflected on his own shortcomings, and the most important thing is that he is not familiar with futures varieties, so he will be so unconfident.

Suddenly, there was a flash of inspiration, I used to do stocks, and I couldn't be more familiar with stocks, so why not speculate on a variety, stock index futures?

I once heard people say that it is difficult to do one thing in a lifetime without success.

Stock index futures, the full name is stock price index futures, also known as stock price index futures and futures index, refers to a standardized futures contract with the stock price index as the subject matter, and the two parties agree that at a specific date in the future, the underlying index can be bought and sold according to the size of the stock price index determined in advance, and the delivery will be carried out through cash settlement after expiration.

As a type of futures trading, stock index futures trading has essentially the same characteristics and process as ordinary commodity futures trading.

The popular understanding is that the stock price index is used as the object of the price guessing game, which can be bought up (term: long) or down (term: short), the bullish person is called long, and the bearish person is called short.

Kowloon has taken a good look at the main stock index futures contracts in recent years, and combined with the recent trend of the Shanghai Composite Index, it is surprisingly consistent.

In other words, as long as you understand the trend of the stock market, stock index futures are easy to do, isn't this your strength?

The more Jiulong thought about it, the more excited he became, and immediately called Yun Shui Yu and Xiao Zheng back to continue his futures campaign.

Maybe God loves Kowloon very much, and in less than a month, the money that was paid back to the big customers in Shanghang last time was actually earned!

Even Manager Wu felt incredible, how soon as the big customer left, Kowloon lived.

Jiulong finally breathed a sigh of relief, this is called a catastrophe and will not die, there will be a blessing, as long as people do a good job, good things will come naturally, this is the inspiration given to him by the boss of Liuzhou Wei Chaoyang.

Once the loss is filled, Jiulong's spirit has also come up, he strictly implements his trading methods, only do stock index futures, slowly, the time came to the Spring Festival of 2014, at this time, the futures market holiday for nearly half a month, Jiulong rare opportunity to consider their own book problem.

During the Spring Festival, Kowloon went to visit the calm teacher, his perception of Zen beyond Kowloon is much more, after learning that Kowloon is going to publish a book, there is no reservation, his own perception of Zen and the dish out, and introduced a stone friend Chen Minfu who has a deep knowledge of Zen to Kowloon to know, let Kowloon add him WeChat, I believe Chen Minfu can answer Kowloon's confusion.

Sure enough, after Jiulong added Chen Minfu's phone, the other party did not hide his secrets, and sent him an article about Zen Stone, so that Jiulong could ponder it.

He said that in order to understand Zen stones, we must first trace the roots from the inheritance and application of Zen thought and Zen aesthetics.

Although the artistic conception of Zen and the Tao of Lao Zhuang and the theory of Confucius and Mencius are their own fields, after all, they coexist in the land of China, and their doctrines are similar and different, and they penetrate each other.

Zen Buddhism, as one of the four major schools of Chinese classical aesthetics, has always admired the "Great Circle" with "perfection" as the beauty, Lao Tzuyun "Zhou Xing without dying", "Tao Te Ching" 9981 chapters, with the circle as the cycle system, deducing the symbol of the "Tao" of the endless, cycle and repetition;

Confucius advocated "moderation" and "harmony", and has always regarded "harmony" as the essence of the mean.

It can be seen from this that Zen stones are first of all those stones that are thick, shapeless, round and full.

Its shape is simple, the attitude is vigorous, such as the sun, moon and stars, such as the change of the four seasons, because of the simplicity and thousands of manners.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the transmission of Buddhism, the classical aesthetic theory of "round beauty" has been seen in ancient theories.

Liu Xian, a famous literary critic of the Southern Dynasties of China, in his masterpiece "Wenxin Carving the Dragon", commented on the inheritance and creation of literature, and put forward the principles of literary aesthetics such as "thinking from the circle", "the bones are not round", "the circle is the secret of the circle", "the circle of touching things" and "the beginning and the end of the circle and the order", and the word "circle" is used in as many as 17 places in the book.

Since then, words such as "round", "round", "round", "round", "round", and so on have been frequently seen in China's poetry and literature.

It can be seen that the aesthetic idea of "round beauty" has become the spirit of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and traditional culture. Therefore, the shape of harmony and beauty will always be the excellent inheritance and cultural classics of the Chinese nation, and the round and full stone is the preferred form of Zen stone recognized by the stone appreciation world.

In this regard, Chen Minfu once had a process of understanding.

In the early 90s of the last century, Chen Minfu just set foot in stone appreciation, and always liked to choose those pictographic stones with small shapes and flake stones that he thought had changed greatly.

Later, he went to appreciate the stone and buy the stone with the art master Mr. Xue Zhiyun, and learned a lot of Zen stones should be in a state, so that he understood the wonderful use of the famous saying "those who can play eggs and those who can't play films".

What is the "egg"? The meaning of perfection is the gist of the Zen stone!

Secondly, the Zen stone should be those natural landscape stones that are ethereal and can guide the viewer into a quiet and tranquil state.

Zen Buddhism advocates tranquility and tranquility in artistic emotion, separating people's feelings from the entanglement of the world and turning them into the "Zen enlightenment" of "human nature".

Therefore, those scenery shapes or pattern stones with a clear and leisurely form should be the best sustenance for Zen.

Such as the mountains and valleys, the cold river of the wild temple, the withered vines and strange pines, the cliffs and islands, the hanging waterfalls and flowing springs, etc., can make people feel like a secluded place, send feelings and thoughts, go to the vulgar thoughts and bathe in the breeze.

Third, it is customary to say that the Zen stone should also be the pictographic stone of those Xiao shapes such as Buddha, Tao, Guanyin, futon, and wooden fish. Because although these strange stones are intuitive, they are all directly related to the Buddha's path, and over time, this form has been recognized as the embodiment of the Buddha, and put on the cloak of Zen.

If the viewer sees it, it can be intuitively influenced by the scene, and it is easy to associate it with the state of Buddha or entering Zen.

Therefore, this kind of strange stone is naturally listed as a Zen stone.

However, the definition of Zen stone is by no means so simple.

Because the comprehension of Zen often varies from person to person, from region to region, from culture to culture, from religion to religion, and even from gender to gender.

Faced with the same strange stone, you realize the meaning of Zen, it is the Zen stone.

You don't find that feeling, it's just a rock.