目錄 Catalog：4.1 生命之樹的故事 Story of Life Tree；4.2 禪的故事 Story of Meditation；4.3 說我有桃花運 Said I Have Peach Blossom Fortune；4.4 豬爺爺驢奶奶 Grandpa Pig and Grandma Donkey；4.5 真人醫學實驗的新聞 News of Real-Life Medical Experiments；4.6 一個公案 A Public Case；4.7 靈魂轉世的故事 Story of Soul Reincarnation；4.8 心病入門病例 Introductory Case to Mental Disorder；4.9 花花綠綠的報刊亭 The Flowery Newsstand；4.10 劉團長遺囑 Liu’s Wills

4.1 生命樹的故事 Story of Life Tree

1974年9月的一天，梁伯休假回家，來我家給我講故事。他說：聽人說，生命之樹長得很慢，幾千年才長多了兩個節。這時，我四歲了，聽了很興奮，夢想着自己能有一棵生命之樹。隨後幾年，他多次給我講這一句話的故事，我聽煩了。

我十幾歲時，自己就去找關於生命樹的文章，一看就不喜歡。過些年，我又去找，看了還是不喜歡。可能由於兒童時期對生命之樹產生了感情，總是惦記着，每隔幾年去看看，直到四十幾歲才能理解。

One day in September 1974, Uncle Liang came home on vacation and told me a story. He said, “I heard people say that the tree of life grows very slowly and only grows two nodes more in thousands of years.” At this time, I was four years old, very excited to hear this, dreaming that I could have a tree of life. In the years that followed, he told me this one-sentence story so many times that I got bored of hearing it.

By the time I was a teenager, I went looking for articles about the Tree of Life on my own and didn't like them once I read them. Some years later, I went looking for it again and still didn't like it when I read it. Perhaps because I became attached to the Tree of Life as a child, I was always thinking about it and visiting it every few years, and it wasn't until I was in my forties that I could understand it.

本來生命之樹只有色蘊、行蘊和識蘊三個節。後來，古人發現受和想對人的影響很大，就把這兩法從行蘊抽了出來，另做了兩蘊：受蘊和想蘊，所以人們說，“生命之樹幾千年才長多了兩個節”（如插圖4.1-1下）。我在2014年，寫完回憶錄後，依據《佛學次第統編》重新組裝了生命之樹，參見第11章《生命之樹》。

插圖4.1源自古墨西哥（約公元1325年）。圖1表明兒童時期的墨西哥聽 “生命之樹幾千年才長多了兩個節” 故事，很入迷。圖2是古墨西哥傳說中的生命之樹。圖3、 4、5是墨西哥長大後，根據傳說重新創作了生命之樹。

Originally, the Tree of Life had only three nodes: color node, migration node, and sense node. Later, when the ancients realized that acceptance and think have great influence on people, they took the two laws out of the migration node and made them two new nodes: acceptance node and think node, which is why it is said that "the tree of life only grew two more nodes over thousands of years (e.g., Illustration 4.1-1)." I reassembled the Tree of Life in 2014, after writing my memoirs, based on the Unified Compilation of Buddhist Substantiations; see Chapter 11, Tree of Life.

Illustration 4.1 is from ancient Mexico (ca. 1325 CE). Figure 1 shows that as a child, Mexico was mesmerized by the story that "the tree of life grows two knots longer over thousands of years." Figure 2 shows tree of life from ancient Mexican legend. Figures 3, 4, and 5 show Mexico growing up and re-creating the Tree of Life based on the legend.

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