I'm not a Buddhist worshipper, I climbed the mountain to get closer to the nature that is getting farther and farther away from me. In order to avoid the man-made work, but also in order to find some fun, I specialize in picking up those winding paths up until a fork in the road. I carefully studied the tickets in my hand to see where to go first, and that's when I discovered Maitreya Sheng Yuan. It wasn't like the other attractions, densely packed in a straight line from the main gate to the top of the mountain, but rather skirted far away, making a half-circle halfway around the mountain before settling down. This point made me decide to go to see him first - Maitreya Buddha.
Follow the road east until it suddenly changes direction and begins to stretch up the hill. When I looked up, it was the very pagoda of Buddha's light. And Maitreya Buddha's smiling face is under this pagoda, quite a bit of Buddha's light. I can not help but be energized in my heart, I am not a believer in Buddhism, but at this time my heart is full of reverence.
Along the steps all the way up to the foot of the Maitreya Buddha. It was a wide square with light music playing and a group of people dancing happily to the music. They were dressed in all colors, from local residents to sightseeing tourists. They came from all directions, but stepped to the same beat and did the same movements at the feet of Maitreya Buddha. Facing the gods and Buddhas, people are often pious, holding high incense in their hands and kneeling respectfully before them. What they think in their hearts and what they recite in their mouths are all those unfulfilled wishes. But in front of Maitreya Buddha, people can put down the burden, restore the nature, free and happy to release their own!
Other gods and buddhas are high up in the sky, or seated in shrines across the incense, letting people be in awe. And Maitreya Buddha's circumference is only surrounded by a circle of fences, no need for shrines and temples, no need for lotus pedestal, Maitreya Buddha to the sky for the quilt to the ground for the seat. There is no smoke around him, and people tie a red ribbon that symbolizes their good wishes to the column head of the railing, forming a unique landscape.
The Maitreya Buddha is always smiling, his eyes squinting into a slit, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned. He is so close to the people, can't he see the sorrows and joys of the world, or is it that he has seen too much, but instead he is blind to the affairs of the world. Later, I thought of the couplet: "Big belly can tolerate, tolerate the world hard to tolerate things; open to laugh, laugh at the world ridiculous people." He was not blind, but tolerant. He wanted to tell people that the world is often not as good as nine, always maintain an optimistic mindset, in order to live a happy life; to treat things do not have to be calculating, tolerate for a while is calm, take a step back is the sea and the sky.
Leaving Maitreya Sheng Yuan, the heart suddenly relaxed a lot. Looking back, the blue sky like a wash, green hills like a painting, Maitreya Buddha's golden body glittering in the morning light.