无常如盐，咸也好，淡也好 Impermanence is like a meal. Be it salty or light, it is fine.

活在世间，我们常常有很多担忧，担忧物价上涨；担忧自己的健康；担忧子女的前程……各种担忧让我们焦虑不安。

When living in the physical world, we often have a lot of worries - worrying about price inflation, worrying about our health, worrying about our children's future, etc. All sorts of worries make us anxious.
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对未来的担忧，往往来自于我们不敢去面对当下的不完美，所以我们希望借助于外物来改变现状。但是，外物和现状都是要变化的，我们无法掌控，就像我们只能预测却无法完全掌控天气的变化一样。


佛陀开示：“常者皆尽，高者必堕，合会有离，生者有死。”与其担忧未来的事情，不如想好现在能做到的。


弘一大师曾外出到一寺庙，庙里的侍者把第一餐饭做得特别咸，第二餐饭做的特别淡。他问大师口味如何。大师回答：咸有咸的味道，淡有淡的味道。


侍者由衷敬佩大师的功夫---无论咸淡，都以一颗平常心视之，保持内心的坦然与安乐。

This worry about the future often comes from the fact that we are afraid of facing the imperfections of the present, and thus we desire to change the current status by external means. However, we cannot control whether our surroundings and the present status are going to change, just like we can only predict the weather but cannot fully control it.

The Buddha taught us, "All that lasts must end, all that is high must fall, all that is united must separate, and all that lives must die." Rather than worrying about the future, think about what you can best do at the present.

Master Hong Yi once visited a temple. The temple's servant made the first meal very salty, and the second very light. He asked the master about the taste. The master replied: Both the salty and the light meals have their own flavor.

​The servant wholeheartedly admired the master's mastery of the training, which is to the extent that he could equally accept both the salty and the light with equanimity, keeping his calm and maintaining his inner peace and joy.