The night was quiet and dreary, with a few snowflakes falling from time to time in the sky, and the wind on the cold night was softened by the embellishment of snowflakes. With a crisp cry in the delivery room, the Du family ushered in the first child and the first daughter.

In the first few seconds of the girl's birth, if someone looks up at the sky, they will see a brilliant light piercing the night sky, sinking like an arc above the hospital.

But the Du family had no time to take care of it, and there was nothing more exciting than seeing the birth of the child, so they missed this beautiful celestial phenomenon.

The Du family was not so happy about the arrival of their daughter, because they were looking forward to it being a boy.

The Du family lives in the mountainous area of the countryside, which is a good place to nourish medicinal herbs, and the people of the village make a living by growing them. The Du family is no exception, their family has a medicine garden, which is planted with medicinal materials such as Du Ruo, Atractylodes, Banxia, and honeysuckle. Du Ruo is easy to plant, and has the good effect of anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving, is a common medicine in the local family, and the Du family named their daughter Du Ruo.

Two years later, the Du family added a new ding, this time a baby boy. Little Du Ruo, who no one cared about, crawled around in the medicine garden by himself, watching the Du Ruo plant grow day by day, blooming clusters of white flowers and producing small black ball-like fruits, and then the fruits fell and bloomed again the next year.

Little Du Ruo didn't know why the plant was also called Du Ruo, but she liked this guy with the same name as her very much, and regarded it as her only friend, talking to it and telling stories. Without anyone's constraints, Du Ruo, who can play crazy all day long, spent her childhood either in the medicine garden or in the mountains and forests.

Things have changed, and eighteen years have passed, and Xiao Du Ruo has grown into a big girl. After graduating from university, she found a job with a lot of money relatively smoothly, according to the countrymen, she was transformed from a rural baby in a poor ravine to a decent city person, as for the envy and praise that the villagers often whispered in her ear, such as "promising" and "long-willed", she just pulled her lips and smiled indifferently.

In fact, in the past few years, she has not been happy, she is lonely, and she is also a little depressed.

She often sat under the acacia flowers in the courtyard, looking at the fallen flowers piled up all over the ground, and she was bored, "Why don't I like this world at all?" Occasionally waking up in a dream, she muttered to herself, "The peach blossoms are so beautiful, why did I cry when I saw the peach blossoms in my dream?" ”

She felt a little out of place with the people and the world around her, and she was also disheartened by the hustle and bustle of the world around her, the inequality between rich and poor, the supremacy of profit, and the moral hypocrisy. She didn't like the city, and she began to dislike the countryside that was gradually changing. The sky above the city is forever covered with gray haze, the air is dirty, the countryside is no longer beautiful, and the countryside is either barren or has been built into factories with billowing smoke, starting a new round of pollution. The villagers are happy to see the expropriation without farming, and no one pays attention to this gradually polluted world, and no one thinks about whether they will still see green mountains and green water in the future.

For such a reality, Du Ruo is powerless to change, and wants to escape from such a world, but he has no way.

There was no need to go to work that day, there was a light rain outside, Du Ruo looked at a pot of Du Ruo plants placed on the window in a daze, and his thoughts drifted far away. She remembered playing carefree in the medicine garden when she was a child, and couldn't help but grin and sigh again, those good things were always in the past, and it was difficult to live like that now.

Suddenly, the phone rang, Du Ruo picked up the phone and saw that it was Lin Yuanming calling. She remembered that there was a Zen meeting this afternoon, and the city's highly respected Zen master Guiyuan taught Zen to the believers in the Guiyuan Temple.

Ms. Lin met three years ago at a fundraiser and was the head of a charity. At that time, Lin Yuanming was surprised by this plainly dressed girl, and he paid special attention to her every time he was generous, and then the two often had contact, and the Zen class of Guiyuan Zen Master was also recommended by Lin Yuanming.

After a brief chat with Lin Yuanming, Du Ruo hurried out of the door. After waiting on the side of the road for about ten minutes, she finally stopped a taxi, but soon after getting into the car, she encountered a large traffic jam that she hated. By the time she got out of the car and ran all the way to the hall of the Zen meeting, the Zen meeting had already begun for more than half an hour.

The hall of the hundred-man was so quiet that you could hear a pin falling to the ground. Zen Master Guiyuan was looking at her with clear eyes, without the slightest intention of blaming her, and motioned for her to sit down.

Guiyuan Zen Master is compassionate and kind, and she is kind and seductive, which is the reason why she is happy to come here, and here, her heart can be at peace, forgetting all the troubles and sorrows in reality.

After a few meditation classes, she learned the basic postures of zazen meditation and some methods of concentration. This meditation class is a practical class, and the content is "Keeping Quiet and Enlightening the Path".

Du Ruo relaxed his body, put away his distracting thoughts, concentrated his thoughts on one point, and realized the "quiet enlightenment" mentioned by Guiyuan Zen Master.

After about half an hour, she felt that her body had entered a state of almost clarity, so quiet that she could perceive everything around her, and her mind became extremely peaceful, as if she could tolerate all the hustle and bustle around her. She continued to keep quiet, and suddenly felt that a warm current from the outside world was slowly entering her body, this warm current was very light and comfortable, soothing the meridians and organs in her body, and with the guidance of this warm current, a relatively weak warm force gradually rose in her body, and began to intertwine and merge with the warm current of the outside world, forming a stronger force, wandering around the limbs, as if it was washing the marrow.

After a while, as this magical power swam, she felt that every blood vessel seemed to be desperately expanding, every pore seemed to be opening vigorously, the body's blockage and accumulated impurities were dredged and emptied in an instant, and the body became incomparably smooth and light, and the whole body seemed to be recreated.

Soon after, she began to feel that her body was about to float up like a feather, and she was surprised by this state, and just as she was about to open her eyes, the voice of Guiyuan Zen Master suddenly sounded in her ears, "Concentrate your energy, don't look sideways." She had no choice but to keep her mind and let her body "fly".

I don't know how long it took, Du Ruo felt that the airflow around him had become different, the texture was lighter, as cool as water, and his body was very comfortable immersed in it. After a while, the air became thicker than before, and the temperature returned to normal, and there was a faint sound of music in the air, such as the sound of a flute or a flute, and gradually the sound of the music became clearer, and she could tell by common sense that it was a flute, a very nice song, and there was a little sadness in the song. Then the body began to descend slowly, feeling a breeze blowing on the face, and sending a fragrance mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants, and then the body stopped descending, and felt that my feet were stepping on the dirt floor. She was shocked in her heart, and she wanted to open her eyes to see where she was, but when she remembered the advice of Zen Master Guiyuan, she didn't know what to do for a while.

The sound of the flute is still flowing smoothly, as if pouring out a faint sorrow and as if he is missing something, I don't know what kind of person this flute player is, Du Ruo is very curious. I thought that Zen Master Guiyuan hadn't prompted her for a long time, should I try it? As soon as the thought started, he slowly opened one eye, and after not hearing the voice of the Guiyuan Zen Master, he opened the other eye.

Du Ruo didn't open his eyes, but he was startled when he opened his eyes.