This shore will never be complete, otherwise the other shore will collapse.

Meaning: this shore means reality, and the other shore means ideal. If the reality is perfect, the ideal has no value of existence. Therefore, this shore can only be incomplete, making the other shore precious.

From Shi Tiesheng's Me and Ditan.

Excerpt:

Between the ugly and weak and the perfect God, it is the eternal path for believers. In this way, I heard the music of hesitation reminding me of one thing: this shore will never be complete, otherwise the other shore will collapse. This is probably the word "sadness" of Buddha's compassion. Kindness is the persistence you need to walk on this endless road.

Extended data

Me and Ditan is one of Shi Tiesheng's representative works, full of philosophical thoughts and extremely humanized. Published by People's Literature Publishing House in May 2002.

This book is divided into three parts. The first part is about my life experience in Ditan. The second part is about my regret and endless yearning for my mother. In the third part, I write about my inseparable feelings with Ditan.

The first paragraph and the second paragraph are included in the textbook of Senior One of Jiangsu (Phoenix) Education Publishing House. The first two parts focus on Ditan and his regret for his mother. Ditan is just a carrier, but the essence of the article is a process in which a desperate person looks for hope and misses his mother.

Creation background

The author "walked into" the Ditan when he couldn't find a job, couldn't find his way and suddenly couldn't find anything. Since then, he has forged an indissoluble bond with Ditan. Until 15 years when he wrote this essay, "he never left for a long time".

The author seems to have gained some enlightenment from this ancient garden which has experienced vicissitudes for more than 400 years, and absorbed the strength of tenacious life and struggle.

In the article "Ditan and I", the author not only extracts what he saw in the article, but also writes about the people and things he saw and met in the ancient garden, expresses his own thoughts, and more importantly expresses his feelings about fate and life and death.

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