一棵树的定位| How Do We View a Tree?

对于一棵树，不同行业的人会做出不同的定位，商人第一时间会考虑他的商用价值，植物学家会注重它本身的特征以及存活环境等等，而艺术家则会发现它的美，使它赋予艺术的灵魂，而修行人则会看到它的无常生灭。每一个人都因自己的心而评判着世界，业力不同，所给出的定义也不同。是树本身的问题吗，不，是见树人的心不同而已。

    所以，你见的只是你的世界，他见的也只是他的世界而已，在未成佛之前，一切都只是我们自己的迷乱。你越是能够从一切定位中抽离就越会看到美好的存在，同时自由也会更多一些。其实任何事物本身是无利无害的，只是你的心去框住了它，也框住了自己。

嘉样堪布

How Do We View a Tree?

People of different identities would view a tree differently. Merchants would immediately think of its trading value; Botanists care about things like its characteristics and habitat; artists see the beauty in the tree and give it some sorts of artistic meanings; Buddhist practitioners would see the impermanence in it.

Every person creates a unique image of the world out of his or her own imagination, and judges everything in it accordingly.

Is it the tree's problem that every person views it differently? Not really. It’s viewed differently because, simply, people's ideas of what it should be vary. Therefore, prior to achieving Buddhahood, we are all just seeing our own version of the world, and most of us suffer in this distorted image.

However, the more we jump out of our identities, the more beauty we will see. At the same time, we will have more freedom. In fact, things in their true forms are all neutral; we see goods and evils only because we choose to. The longer we confine ourselves in a place, the more it imprisons us.

Khenpo Jamyang