glass teapot

One Christmas a few years ago, my husband bought me a glass teapot as a Christmas present. Because the teapot I brought back from Japan was accidentally broken, I love tea again, and I can only buy tea bags from local foreign supermarkets and put them in teacups to make do with it.

Mr. Wang once joked that I was a "teapot killer" because I accidentally broke three teapots in recent years; Even the Japanese teapot I bought him in Nagoya when I was in love with him in Tokyo was not spared: I accidentally broke the mouth of the teapot, but fortunately only a little porcelain was knocked off. Mr. Wang put it away carefully with heartache and warned me not to touch that teapot from now on. So the teapot was put in the showcase of the living room as a work of art, only for viewing, and lost the function of making tea.

That Christmas morning, I opened the delicate wrapping paper and took the crystal clear glass teapot out of the box.

Teacher Wang warned me half-jokingly that I hope my hand, which has broken countless cups, butterflies and teapots, can be kind to that fragile glass teapot.

I asked him strangely, "since everyone already knows that my hand is broken, why do you want to buy such a delicate teapot?"

Mr. Wang blinked and mysteriously replied that he had calculated his life for this glass teapot: "Although it looks delicate, it is hard and has a long life." If you don't believe me, we'll see ... "

I threw a handful of dark green scented tea into the pot with a grain of salt and poured boiling water on it. Crystal clear tea soup, accompanied by the fragrance of tea leaves, flows from the teapot to my tea bowl. In an instant, the coarse tea that I used to drink every day became more and more fragrant and pleasing to the eye.

So I have a lot of love for that special glass teapot, and I am more and more worried about my hand that inadvertently ended the lives of several teapots. ...

In fact, in my family, except me, two adolescent daughters have broken many bowls, butterflies and teacups in their helpless dishwashing work every day; I looked at this beautiful transparent teapot and couldn't help feeling sorry that it had fallen into our "broken hand home" ...

"I hope the life my husband calculated for him is real ..." I thought helplessly.

Therefore, the crystal clear teapot settled in my home, making all kinds of tea for us without resentment, and quietly accompanying the family's diet and daily life. ...

A year has passed in an instant, and two years have passed. ...

The exquisite glass teapot miraculously survived, as Mr. Wang said, "unscathed." (To use an English proverb: Touch wood; Touch the wood to show that it will not suffer the fate of being crushed after I tell you its survival. Does Mr. Wang really have the ability to tell the fortune of teapot?

I asked him puzzled.

Mr. Wang smiled and revealed his fortune-telling theory:

"... the reason why this glass teapot can survive is actually very simple, and that is its fragile appearance ..."

"Its fragile appearance?" I asked in return.

"yes. If its appearance looks rough and hard, people who use it will naturally not take care of it, but this glass teapot is the opposite: it tells people who use it to be careful of its fragility and exquisiteness ... You see, the fate of a person or an object is sometimes determined by its own appearance ... "

Mr. Wang's words remind me of the people who passed me by in real life; Behind the actions of different people, their fate must be different, right?

In other words, if what you want is respect from others, don't show vulgarity and inferiority. If you want to get the attention of others, it is a smart and good way to make yourself soft and fragile.

So through this seemingly broken but miraculously survived glass teapot, I have a deeper understanding of Laozi's sentence "Good as water": Because water is the softest substance, it is also the substance in the world that can overcome difficulties with its softness and even penetrate hard rocks, so what looks weak and fragile is sometimes the most tenacious and vital.

I think: when I encounter difficulties and challenges, I might as well take off my hard armor and make myself flexible; Be gentle. Will this concession bring me a broader world? Will this appearance paralyze my opponent? More importantly, no matter what kind of packaging, don't lose a person's good quality and the principle of being a man; Because this most basic quality is the highest level of a person's external display.

The so-called big world, Buddhism is everywhere, it depends on whether you can understand the meaning from ordinary things.

At this moment, sipping the fragrant tea brewed by the glass teapot, I suddenly realized that under the delicate and fragile appearance of an object, it is likely to be a very strong heart, because the delicate and soft appearance is like an umbrella to protect the strong, so that it can walk smoothly and safely on the muddy road of constant storm and pursuit of ideals.

Sitting in the sunshine in early April and autumn, the weakness I tasted from that pot of osmanthus tea is actually the real strength.