The first night Liu Hai returned home, he entered a mysterious space.
As early as when Liu Hai merged with the second merit leaf, he had a vague connection with the third leaf. He seemed to be able to sense the existence of the third leaf in the jade pendant. Every time he did a good deed after that, he had a subtle connection with the third leaf.
You can feel the merit added to the leaves.
After waking up in the hospital at noon today, Liu Hai discovered a very strange thing!
Since I fused the second leaf, I have done some good deeds one after another, and the third leaf has also gathered three merits.
Just when I woke up at noon, I suddenly discovered that a big change had taken place on the third merit leaf! - During the time when I was unconscious, suddenly, there were seven more merits on the merit leaf!
A whole seven servings!
Liu Hai thought his perception was wrong at first, but then he entered the mysterious space of the Green Apple Jade Pendant and saw with his own eyes that the third leaf in the bottom cluster of leaves had a large area of light purple!
Sure enough, there are seven more merits! Liu Hai pressed his hand against the third leaf, feeling the message coming from above - ten merits, ninety-nine merits, but eighty-nine more!
How come so much merit has been added at once? Doesn’t doing a good deed only have 0.1 merit?
Is it because he saved the third grandma's life? As the saying goes - saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda? So the merits gained from saving a life are more than those from simply doing a good deed?
That’s not right! Now the third grandma is still being treated in the county hospital, and we don’t know if she is out of danger. As long as the third grandma wakes up, the village chief, Uncle San, and the others will definitely call back to tell the good news!
So to put it this way, my act of saving people last night can only be regarded as a good deed that exceeds the ordinary good deeds. How could it suddenly increase to seven times! That is seventy times the amount of doing an ordinary good deed!
Liu Hai tried hard to recall the entire process of rescuing people yesterday, trying to find the difference from his usual good deeds.
But when Liu Hai recalled all the processes, he didn't realize that what he did yesterday was not much different from the good things he had done before!
The only difference seems to be that - when I saved people yesterday, I didn't think too much about it. I didn't have so much utilitarianism, and I didn't even think about whether I was saving people to gain merit!
Is it because of this reason?
There is a saying from Confucianism: "The way of heaven is to do good with intention but not reward it even though it is good; to do evil without intention but not punish even if it is evil."
At the beginning, I deliberately did good deeds in order to seek merit and obtain merit! The motivation for doing good deeds was not pure. Although I helped others, the purpose was for my own benefit! I did good deeds "intentionally", so although I could obtain merit,
The amount is so pitiful that doing a good deed only has 0.1 merit?
And last night, not only did I do an extraordinary good deed, but the purpose of doing this good deed was not for myself! My starting point was simply to save people! This was a good deed without intention, so it has great merit!
After realizing this, the more I chewed my bangs, the more I felt that my thoughts made sense!
At the same time, I can’t help but reflect on whether it was too inappropriate for me to do good deeds in the past just to get benefits from integrating the leaves of merit.
Just like those celebrities and entrepreneurs who do charity simply to gain fame! Helping others has become an emotionless means, a means of obtaining benefits! Although I have helped others, it will not count as helping 70 people.
, it is also lower than those who sincerely help one person, and will gain less merit!
Liu Hai thought about the joy that he felt from time to time when he saw each other and the warm smiles on other people's faces when he was helping others, and his heart was touched!
The sage said: Examine yourself three times in five days.
Although Liu Hai was just a childish boy, at this time he began to reflect on his own behavior and think about his own thoughts.
Perhaps it is in this process of constant reflection and introspection that talents gradually grow.
A person who never reflects on himself throughout his life may not necessarily be mature even if he lives to old age.
Liu Hai gradually realized that if he could change his personality and become a person who has the element of helping others in his personality, then not only would he fundamentally like to help others and do good deeds, but also because
If you "unintentionally" do good deeds and have a simple motive of doing good deeds, you will gain more merit!
Gently touching the leaf whose tip has turned purple, a sense of enlightenment arose in my heart.
The young leaves sprouted new leaves, and Liu Hai's spiritual world underwent earth-shaking changes. His old outlook on life gradually changed, perhaps starting from the deepest part of his soul!
But Liu Hai also knows that although he has realized this state of not having the intention to do good, he has realized it and just understood that if he wants to do it, there is still a long way to go.
It's like seeing a high mountain in front of you. The top of the mountain seems very close, but you still have to overcome many difficulties and walk a long, long way to reach the top.
After understanding the principle of doing good without intention, Liu Hai couldn't help but start to think about what merit is? What is its essence? But how can Liu Hai, a seventeen-year-old boy, easily think of these things that contain the supreme principles?
Do you understand? The feeling of half-understanding makes bangs extremely uncomfortable!
My bangs feel like there's a cat's paw scratching in my heart! It's unbearably itchy!
I simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, I was still young and had a lot of road to go. Since I couldn’t understand it for the time being, maybe I would understand it naturally as I gain more experience in the future.
Early the next morning, when it was just getting light, Liu Hai went up to the back mountain to inspect the 360 orchids.
Surprisingly, in just one day and two nights, the appearance of the orchids has changed dramatically!
Liu Hai was surprised to find that although the originally withered yellow leaves had not yet recovered, the dry branches that had lacked water now showed a little green and seemed to have some vitality! The most important thing was that the tops of many orchids actually emitted light.
There are new sprouts! This is a really good change!
New buds have sprouted, indicating that these orchids have been revived by space soil!
Liu Hai was extremely surprised! How could it change so quickly! The seedlings that had been abandoned by florists were rescued by space soil in just one day and two nights?
Thinking about bangs, I don’t believe it. Even if space soil has an effect, the effect shouldn’t be so fast!
Liu Hai rubbed his eyes and found that many orchid seedlings had indeed sprouted!
Thinking about it in turn, Liu Hai remembered that he was afraid that he would not be able to save these orchids, but he had used four baskets of space soil on these orchids! That must have weighed at least 700 kilograms! Divided into more than 300 orchids, each one had at least
You can also get more than two kilograms of space soil super fertilizer! This is a big investment! When I fertilized the peppers, I only had a small handful of each pepper plant with my hands, which was only one or two pounds at most!
Liu Hai looked at the new buds on the orchids, and his dull mood during this period suddenly became much brighter - if these orchids can be saved, they will be the new hope of his home!