〖树苗〗

禅坐中，你们必须一直维持正念，如同种植一棵树苗。如果我们将树苗种在一个地方，三天后将它移植到另外一个地方，过了三天又将它再移植一次，最后，它将在毫无成长和结果的情况下死去。

禅坐也是如此，假使你只做了七天的禅坐就走了，后来的七个月你一直在任意染污自己的心，事后在回来做禁语和独处的七天禅坐，这就跟那棵树苗没有两样了。你的禅坐功夫终将无法成长，最后，将在没有产生任何真实的果实之情况下死去。

Seedling

In meditation, you must continuously be attentive, just like when planting a seedling. If you plant a seedling in one place, then after three days you pull it up and plant it in another place, and after three more days, pull it up again and plant it somewhere else, it will just die and not grow up and bear any fruit. Meditation is the same. If you do a seven-day meditation retreat and after leaving it, for seven months you go around "soiling" the mind, and then come back and do another seven-day retreat where you don't speak and you keep to yourself, it's like the tree. Your meditation practice won't be able to grow and it will die with out producing any real results.