Give up and get

 Give up and get　

 

The God of the Snow Land created everything in the world and also allowed human beings to enter the vast world. In order to make human beings enlightened, know how to distinguish between good and evil, know right from wrong, and respect equality, the God of the Snow Land made the Bodhisattva of Wisdom incarnate as Agudengba to visit the poor and care about their suffering, relieve refugees, punish evil deeds, and admire love.

In accordance with the request of the God of the Snow Land, Agudengba went to India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, and is now on his way from Bangladesh to Myanmar.

During the journey, Agudenba learned about some local history, culture and customs, and also made some friends. Among them, the young girl Dawa became his companion. On the way from Bangladesh to Myanmar, the appearance of Chu Sanxing gave Agudengba a new understanding of Bangladesh.

Chu Sanxing and his wife Xiang Qima decided to go to Burma with Agudengba and Dawa, which made Agudengba very happy.

As they were traveling along the Brahmaputra River, the god of snow suddenly appeared in Agudemba's dream.

The God of the Snow Land said: Mr. Agudengba, you are now the incarnation of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom. I am letting you incarnate and come down to earth, not to travel around mountains and rivers for leisure and vacation. I ask you to do more useful things for the people and help them become wise and work hard to get rich. I also ask you to punish those evildoers and lazy people, so that they will not dare to misbehave again. But what did you do? I remind you that you can only feel the suffering of people who are poor and have lost their freedom. Your responsibility is to save all sentient beings.

Agudemba woke up from his sleep.

Agudengba led Mahu, the donkey, to the river alone. It had been a long time since he had been alone with his donkey.

When Agudemba led the donkey to the river, he saw a strange scene:

A camel caravan is resting by the river. A businessman unloaded the pottery urn carried on the camel's back. The pottery urn contained some millet. He poured the grain in the pottery urn onto the ground, and the camel bent down to eat the grain.

The businessman and his companions sat by the river and chatted.

Unexpectedly, the camel finished eating the millet on the ground, put its head into the pottery urn, and ate the remaining millet in the pottery urn. The results of it? The camel's head couldn't get out of the pottery urn.

The businessman was very worried that something like this happened.

A companion of the businessman said to him: "Don't worry! I will teach you how to get the camel's head out. If you listen to me, you will be able to get it out quickly. You should chop off its head and it will come out naturally." .”

The businessman took his advice and cut off the camel's head with the sword he carried.

Seeing what happened in front of him, Agudengba smiled and said to the donkey Mahu:

The merchant could have smashed the pottery urn and saved the camel. But he cut off the camel's head, probably to save the pottery urn. Which is more valuable, a pottery urn or a camel? In fact, this businessman killed his own camel and broke his own pottery jar. Such a fool will be laughed at by the world.

Agudengba said: If you are willing to give up, you will gain. If you are not willing to give up, you will gain after giving up. "Letting go" is a Buddhist term that teaches people to let go of their attachments. Everything is an illusion, so why bother to persist in it? But letting go is not a sudden enlightenment after experiencing the world.

In fact, "giving up" is two words, "giving up" and "gaining". Only when you give up can you get something, so sometimes you can't be too obsessed with what you want to get. If you are too persistent, you often ignore the thing itself. Perseverance is just for the sake of persistence. That’s all. Just like pursuit, too long waiting becomes a test of self-esteem. In the end, it may not be for love, but just to restore the remaining self-esteem and competitive spirit. ​

But letting go is the hardest thing. Because we are unwilling to let go, we become slaves of persistence. We are unwilling to admit failure. Maybe the thing itself is not wrong. What is wrong is that we are unwilling to admit our failure, even if we finally strive for it. It is no longer what I want.

When you are confused, you begin to hesitate, doubt your choices, and whether your efforts are worth it. Are you willing to give up? Many times doubt is the beginning of giving up.

Humans are very strange animals. Sometimes even we don’t know how many unopened sectors we have. The greatest task in life is to know yourself!

  Agudengba impromptuly sang a self-composed folk song "You Have to Give Up to Gain":

 

in our lifetime

Faced with too many choices

Somewhat no time to think

Then make a hasty decision,

Sometimes worrying about gains and losses

Difficulty in choosing

                    

The reincarnation of cause and effect in the world

everything happens for a reason

everything is caused

everything has consequences

everything is fruit

 

willing!

Reluctant to part with it!

Reluctant to part with it!

From affirmation to denial

Then doubt the choice

There is still no answer!

 

Since I want to preserve this,

I also want to preserve that,

The end result is very strange;

Whichever one can be saved.

 

The world is safe and secure,

If you don’t live up to the Tathagata, you won’t live up to your Majesty.

There must be choices in life,

Otherwise both are lost.

 

willing, willing,

Only by giving up can you gain.