A world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a flower. What do you mean?

"One flower and one world, one leaf and one bodhi" means that the whole world can be seen from a flower, and one leaf can represent the whole bodhi.

A, allusions:

In the past, the Buddha touched the flowers, but Ye Jia smiled, and then he went to Elysium. From a flower, you can realize the whole world and ascend to heaven. Buddha is Buddha. Who can have such a state?

Buddha said: a flower is a world, a tree is a floating life, a grass is a day, a leaf is a Buddha, a sand is a blessing, a pure land, a smile is a dust, and a meditation.

All this is a state of mind. If you have nothing in your heart, you can spend a world, a plant and a tree and a heaven.

Understand these, a flower and a grass is the whole world, and the whole world will be as empty as flowers and plants. There are many sayings about "world" in Buddhism.

For example, "Hua Yan Jing" said: "Buddhists have five-color stems, one flower for the world and one leaf for the Buddha." All Buddhist scriptures, even all religions, look at life pessimistically, think that life is painful and demand liberation; Everyone thinks that the world is flawed and miserable. Only Hua Yan Jing says that there are no defects in this world, even if they are defects, they are beautiful; The world is true, good and beautiful; It is a true dharma circle, where all laws are at ease, becoming buddhas everywhere and becoming tao from time to time.

Second, the understanding of "one flower, one world, one leaf and one bodhi":

A flower is a universe. A person is also a universe. Everything is small or big, and the micro world or macro world is a world. For bacteria growing in flowers, where is their soil? For creatures bigger than us who grow outside the earth, our earth is just a rubber ball

When you have Buddha nature in your heart, you don't have to dwell on the appearance of Buddha, so you won't see Buddha with sound and emotion.

Everything has its own innate Buddha nature, but it is not discovered by itself, and ordinary people do not have the ability to see it. So trees are also bodhi.

When you have the vision to change the micro and macro at any time, you want to open a lot of things and don't care about many things. You will find yourself just an ant on the flower of the macro world.

When you have the idea that everything is equal and Buddha-like, when you feel the joy and pain of everything and yourself, you will be tolerant and satisfied, regardless of any little gain or loss.

Third, the scientific answer:

Buddhism believes that a grain of sand can see three thousand worlds, which is now scientifically called cosmic holography; Buddhism believes that people can cultivate millions of incarnations, and technology can now have a primary so-called "clone"; The most interesting thing is the scientific understanding of the most basic components of things. It was once considered as an atom, then a particle, then a proton, and so on. In fact, it is equivalent to saying that the highest level of understanding is not complete now, and Buddhism thought that "everything has no self and no essence" as early as more than 2,000 years ago, even before infinite light years! One word-emptiness, explains the root of everything. Buddhism and science are in the same direction, revealing the true colors of things!