Mulberry under the window

I have lived in this yard for several years and have never noticed a mulberry tree planted by the roadside under the window. I didn't know until my mother came to live with me last year and picked up the fallen mulberries.

I was surprised to know that there was a mulberry tree in the yard. I like eating mulberries very much, but I have never found such a tree that is close at hand and far away. It can be seen how alienated I used to be from life and the surrounding environment. Most of the time I live in my own mind and spiritual world, and I turn a blind eye to many beautiful things around me.

However, I may not fully understand everything in this yard yet, but this discovery will always remind me to live better in the present and find the beauty and happiness around me.

This year, the lower branches of mulberry trees were sawed off by the property. It is said that someone picked mulberry leaves, so they were sawed off.

Looking at the scar after sawing the tree, I was speechless. There is no right or wrong between picking mulberry leaves and sawing branches, just because mulberry branches are useful. In this regard, Zhuangzi gave several examples:

Long, tall and thick trees, cut down early to make all kinds of utensils, can not enjoy the days, can not live forever; Long crooked saved his life.

Due to physical reasons, the disabled will not be dragged to the battlefield in wartime, and there are relief subsidies in famine years, saving their lives.

Zhuangzi sighed: "Everyone knows what is useful, but I don't know what is useless." Everyone knows the useful use, but they don't know the useless use!

This is the relationship between useful and useless. Everyone wants to be useful and very useful, but they often don't know the relationship between usefulness and uselessness.

In this era, we can have ideal goals, but we should base ourselves on reality, accept reality and enjoy it. Any kind of living condition is the best. If you feel worthless now and just want to be valuable, then you need to cultivate a humble and indifferent heart after being valuable in order to protect yourself safely. Life needs a wonderful and useful bloom, and it also needs to look down on all the joys.

I believe that in this era, everyone and everything are valuable. These two winding roots will become beautiful works of art in the hands of artists. So it is best to develop according to the material. Everything is useful and valuable, and it doesn't need to be better or the best. Because it's good.

On the day when mulberries are ripe, my mother often gets up early and goes downstairs at night to pick up mulberries that have matured and fallen to the ground. When I get up for dinner in the morning, there is often a small bowl of washed mulberries waiting for me. I feel extremely happy in my heart. I asked my mother to eat, too. My mother always said that she had eaten. I was no longer humble in Jiao Jiao, and soon I ate up all my time. No matter how old a mother is or how old a child is, a child with a mother is always a treasure.

Once, a male neighbor shook the tree twice, and many ripe mulberries fell to the ground. I am anxious to crawl around to pick it up, and I feel like a child again, very happy, very happy and very excited.

I ate my hands full of black and purple, only to find that there were many ants on my hands. It turns out that ants will climb on mulberries that have been falling for a long time, but because mulberries, ants and hands are all black, and the small protrusions on mulberries are similar in size to ants, it is really difficult to find them if you don't pay attention. I may have eaten a lot of ants, right? Well, consider it a medicinal tonic!

Later, I suggested that my mother shake the tree, too, so that the mature mulberries would fall. Mom said she shook it, but she couldn't shake it. I said I can shake when I see a man, and my mother said that men have power. I don't believe it. I don't think that tree is thick either. So one day I went down and shook it, and it really stopped moving. This made me realize that when we have no experience, we often just take it for granted. In the future, we should respect the words and opinions of others and allow and accept others more. We don't know much.

One day, I looked up and admired the tree quietly. Green leaves, black, red, light red and green mulberries are dotted among them, which has an indescribable charm and beauty. How did nature create such a magical tree? !

Mulberries have existed since ancient times. Not only people like to eat it, but also some birds like to eat it. There is a poem in the Book of Songs that pigeons like to eat mulberries. If they eat too much, they will get drunk and can't wake up. Poetry is used to alert women's attitude towards love;

Mulberry leaves flourish before they fall.

There are no mulberries in the nest!

I'm a woman, what's there to worry about!

I can still get rid of my troubles,

You can't get rid of women's troubles!

Mulberry leaves have not fallen yet, and they are moist and fat.

Lament those pigeons, don't eat more mulberries.

Advise women not to indulge in love.

Men are addicted to love, but they can also let go of liberation.

Women are addicted to love and can't get rid of it.

Women are sensitive and dependent, so they are easy to indulge in love. Indeed, beautiful love is often as attractive as a mulberry with black and shiny branches.