For example, there is a snake with the ending: "I should be in front." At the end of the sentence: "I was always ahead, why did I die?" The first fruit is in front, and the tail is wrapped around the tree, so you can't walk. Putting your tail in front is to fall into a fire pit and burn to death.
The essay "The struggle between the head of a snake and the tail of a snake" is a profound metaphor, which has a warning and exhortation effect on all sentient beings in the world.
The problem of "infighting" is a long-standing fatal injury after the germination of human group consciousness. "Infighting" makes the nation decline, "infighting" leads to the invasion of foreign enemies, and "infighting" ends in embarrassment. Although countless people of insight at all times and all over the world always take pains to shout slogans such as "unity", because various groups gain and lose for their own vested interests, human beings hurt each other and even kill each other, emerging one after another. Because of this, the author of this paper, starting from the beautiful desire to make friends and benefit all beings, concisely expounded a far-reaching philosophy on the issue of "the integration of inner and outer Taoism" in just 48 words.
The "snakehead" has its own importance. As the saying goes, a snake can't do without a head. However, if the "snakehead" loses the support of the "snakehead" because of his arrogance, the result will certainly be that he can't move, not to mention that "the head" and "the tail" turn against each other, which has actually developed into a serious situation of "the tail is entangled in trees" and has reached an unmanageable level. In view of the serious situation that "snakehead" went all out to climb the mountain and was determined to take the place of "snakehead", the author unexpectedly made "snakehead" give up the common sense of "always ahead" and "putting tail first", which finally led to the tragic ending that "head" and "tail" fell into the fire pit together.
The end of "infighting" is bound to be mutually assured destruction. All historical stages of the development of human society have proved and will continue to prove this irrefutable truth with eloquent facts. The so-called Buddhist quotations of "I Buddha is merciful" probably contain the above-mentioned related spirit. This fable shows that any reckless behavior, any compromise and surrender will bring irreparable heavy losses, thus forming a "wall of brothers" and "mutually assured destruction" consequences.
An obvious feature of this fable is that four words and one word, three words and one sentence, and a complete and tortuous story is written in only four sentences. This structure with prominent trunk and no branches is vivid, simple and clear, and concise in style. At the end of some Buddhist stories, comments like "being laughed at by China people" often appear. However, in this article, the author hides it and asks the readers to find out the truth for themselves. Buddha said: don't be crazy, be quiet inside. This is a wonderful embodiment of the author's detached mentality when writing this article.