A hoe shovels grass, just like grass on the ground. Land is the heart. Use a hoe to shovel grass, but don't hold the hoe too tightly when shoveling grass. Don't take the hoe if it's gone. Your hand is empty.
The shovel is gone and empty again. So both ends are empty ~
It is about sexual cultivation and weeding with hoes, which is the time to cultivate weeds.
After seeing nature clearly, the gentleman began to practice Bodhisattva. Walking is of course a step-by-step exercise. Naturally, it is sweating like rain, and it is extremely hard. The front is weeding and farming, and this time he has gained something. Of course, he can't monopolize it. He took out the harvested grain to accumulate virtue for others. This is of course the Bodhisattva Road.
Riding a buffalo on foot
This matter can be directly explained by quoting a sentence in the Jue Yuan Classic, so as to prepare for the purity and wonderful deeds of the Bodhisattva, and to think of all peaceful people.
On the surface, you are sweating and walking hard, but inside, you are the pure and wonderful deeds of the Bodhisattva! It looks like walking, but it's actually riding a buffalo. Very quiet.
People are walking on the bridge.
This road of practice, walking, walking, walking, will eventually have a result, because finally reached the bridge, the merits have been completed.
All the food was given. Last step, cross the bridge. The other shore is just around the corner.
The bridge water does not flow.
The bridge itself is a still life that does not flow, and the water itself is an animal that keeps flowing. Why did the Bodhisattva say that?
This is probably about inner peace, nirvana-like silence.
When crossing the bridge, I also knew that there was a river. There is water in the river, and there is a bridge on the river. Crossing the bridge is the other side.
When we crossed the river, the still bridge not only flowed away, but also was empty.
Even the running water in the river has run away. If it does not flow, it still flows, just like the flow of a bridge. So even the river is gone. It's empty again
Then this is nirvana silence. It's still moving, still moving, still moving. There seems to be a deeper meaning here.
Generally speaking:
Holding a hoe empty-handed, generally speaking, is the time of initial enlightenment. The corresponding way of Taoism should be to open the door and close the door to cultivate the spirit.
Riding a buffalo on foot should be in the middle of practice if the context is relevant. The corresponding Taoist kung fu should be the spirit-refining kung fu.
People walk on the bridge, this sentence should be about later practice.
The bridge doesn't flow. This sentence is about the realm after becoming a Buddha. The corresponding kung fu of Taoism should be the realm of practicing virtual harmony.