A young man asked a monk: “Master, some people say that I am a genius, and some people call me a stupid person. What do you think?”
The monk asked, “How do you see yourself?” And the young man was puzzled.
“A kilogram of rice is a few bowls of rice in the eyes of the housewife; a biscuit in the eyes of the baker, and a fine wine in the eyes of the brewer. Rice is still rice. Similarly, you are still you, but how much you can accomplish depends on how you treat yourself. So how do you think of yourself?” And the young man was enlightened.
Someone asked Picasso: “How can we understand your paintings?”
Picasso said: “Have you heard birds sing?”
“Yes.”
“Is it nice?”
“Yes, it’s nice.”
“Now do you understand?”
Buddha: “What is most precious in the world?”
Disciple: “It is the thing you lose and the thing we cannot get.”
The Buddha was silent. After several years has gone by, the Buddha asked again, and the disciple answered: “The most precious thing in the world is the thing we truly own!”
禅的故事
一个年轻人问一个和尚：“师父，有人说我是天才，也有人说我是笨蛋。你觉得怎么样？”
和尚问：“你怎么看你自己？”年轻人很困惑。
“一公斤大米在家庭主妇的眼里不过是几碗饭；面包师眼中的饼干，酿酒师眼中的美酒。大米还是大米。同样，你仍然是你，但你能完成多少取决于你如何对待自己。你觉得自己怎么样？”这个年轻人开悟了。
有人问毕加索：“我们怎样才能理解你的画呢？”
毕加索说：“你听过鸟儿唱歌吗？”
“是的。”
“好吗？”
“是的，很好。”
“现在你明白了吗？”
佛陀：“世界上最珍贵的是什么？”
弟子：“这是你失去的东西，也是我们得不到的东西。”
佛陀沉默了。又过了几年，佛陀又问弟子：“世界上最珍贵的东西，就是我们真正拥有的东西！”
