(a)

The private courtyard that David and I went to see that day was famous in the local area. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is located on a beautiful island that sits quietly in the middle of the large river that crosses the city. There is a ferry departing from the pier every 30 minutes to the island. There are a lot of people on the ferry, and they all go there to visit and buy flower seeds.

The owner of the courtyard took us to park the car at the pier and then went to the service center to get a set of tourist materials. From the introduction of tourist information, we can see that this private courtyard is famous for two characteristics:

One is outstanding garden design; The second is a wide variety of excellent garden plant varieties.

The owner of the courtyard said that he has been actively cultivating and improving various garden plants suitable for the local climate for many years, including flowers, trees, shrubs, turf, etc., and his breeding and improvement works have won awards in some agricultural exhibitions or professional competitions over the years. Some of the seeds have been put on the shelves of large supermarket chains like Walmart and are selling very well. There were also seeds of many more rare crops, which he only sold in the commissary in the courtyard. Many people travel long distances to get here by car and then take the ferry to the courtyard to make a special purchase.

(b)

The courtyard is indeed extremely beautiful, with both oriental-style rockeries, corridors, pavilions, and pavilions, with small bridges and flowing water, and Western-style neat and orderly, and the plants are pruned into various appearances, and are arranged in a staggered manner on the undulating hills. It is really a thousand purples and thousands of reds, competing for beauty, making people feel relaxed and dazzling.

The owner said that in this small courtyard, there are more than 12,000 kinds of plants, including a rare plant area, in which more than 300 kinds of precious plants are planted, which are carefully cared for. These plants are harvested, transplanted, or bred from wild environments around the world. Some have only 10 plants in the world, which can be called worth 10,000 gold.

During the visit, we found one thing:

A tourist asked the owner if there were seeds of some kind of flower for sale in the homes of the surrounding farmers, and those seeds were the same as the seeds sold in the courtyard shop. The master replied, "It's the same." You buy here and buy outside, the flower seeds are the same.

It was a strange discovery: despite the fact that the owner had spent a lot of money and effort to breed some unique varieties of flowers, he did not keep them for himself and make a profit, but gave these new varieties of flower seeds to nearby farmers for free, so that the whole area could be widely cultivated.

The owner's main income from this garden project comes from eco-tourism, breeding and improvement research projects, and garden design.

David was very curious about this move of his master.

He asked the owner why he didn't apply for ownership protection for these new varieties and operate them exclusively, and why he let the surrounding farmers also plant them extensively, so that many tourists didn't have to enter the garden to buy them. They would choose to buy seeds from the surrounding farmers, and in this way, the owners would lose a lot of income. Although the owner's family is well-off, the resulting profits are not something that ordinary people are willing to give up.

To this, the master replied: "Sometimes what seems to be good for you is not necessarily really good; And sometimes the things that make you suffer are not necessarily bad for yourself. ”

He said: "The biological world has the laws of the biological world, and it does not obey the laws of the market. While we understand the laws of the market, we must also conform to other laws in life. ”

"The laws are often mixed, and it is not enough to follow one or the other to keep good luck," the master said. ”

The owner explained that he distributed the seeds to the surrounding farmers and asked them to plant them widely to prevent the degradation and mutation of the developed flowers.

If he only grows these flowers in his own yard, and the surrounding farms are planted with unimproved general varieties, then insects and wind will spread pollen from the inferior varieties in the surrounding area to his garden, thus destroying the purity of the pedigree of the superior varieties, causing the degradation and evolution of the varieties out of control, and disrupting the new improvements that are being carried out in a gradual manner.

The wide distribution of the seeds has created a good and safe environment for experimentation, and has contributed to the scale and fame of local ecotourism, which has led to a significant increase in his other incomes on the project, while ensuring a long-term core competency in the main project: because there are constantly beautiful plant varieties to choose from, his garden design art can be brought to life and always unique.

David was very impressed by these views of the hosts.

David said that he now agrees with me as well, that the master is not only a philosophical gentleman, but also a man of true natural wisdom.

During our trip to the countryside that day, David and I gained more than just the pleasure of appreciating the courtyard design.

(c)

In daily life, people often like to calculate their own gains and losses. This is one of the main driving forces for the development of human civilization. But if you are too attached to such calculations, you may go astray.

Because when you have a different range of vision, the calculations will come to different conclusions.

For example, the owner of the garden, if his vision and insight were limited to the income from the sale of his garden and flowers, he would have calculated like David that the distribution of good seeds was an act of disadvantage to himself, but because his vision and insight were magnified to the biological chain and ecological economic model of the whole region, he calculated that the distribution of good seeds was an act of his own benefit.

In fact, it is only when one is omniscient that one can truly calculate whether a certain behavior is truly beneficial or truly disadvantageous to oneself.

In the absence of omniscience, human beings will always be limited by the problem of perspective, so all calculations may not be correct.

After an event happens, it is difficult to calculate the series of blessings and misfortunes it brings, which is the meaning of the ancient Chinese story of "Saiong lost his horse".

For example, some officials, through their self-righteous calculations, believe that they can maximize their money during their tenure of office and fully realize the power in their hands into economic benefits in old age. But his calculations obviously do not include the restoration of the legal net. At the end of the day, before the term of office is over, the person is already in prison. The stolen money that was eaten was also spit out, which can be described as empty of both people and money.

Since we can't calculate whether the occurrence of an event is ultimately beneficial or unfavorable because of the limitations of our knowledge, it is better not to insist too much on the outcome of our calculations.

If you gain a momentary profit, you should think that because of this, it may lead to a long-term loss, and if you lose for a while, you should also think that because of this, it may lead to a long-term profit.

If you have this kind of middle way mentality, then you will not get carried away when you have a plan, and you will not be distressed when you miscalculate. When we reach this state, we can easily use our calculating instinct to deal with various problems in our daily lives, but we are not controlled by daily calculations, and we do not let calculations erode and poison the health of daily life.

(iv)

From this point of view, our separation as a couple is a temporary loss for both parties, but it may not be a loss entirely. We can also gain important things from this dispersion.

If I keep immersing myself in mourning and remorse for my loss, I'm missing out on what's important.

That's what I understand now.

On the day I visited the courtyard, I didn't think about it.

People are like this, when they come into contact with the truth, they may not be able to think of applying it to their own practical life.

I think what Fondafeng said to his children that he didn't want them to live as spoons was to say that he wanted them to apply the truth to their daily lives, not just to their speeches at school.