有一位禅师,收了一个年幼的徒弟。这小徒弟很聪明,特别喜欢别人赞扬他,夸他聪明。不管他有什么好的想法,或是做了什么好事,他都会去告诉所有人,也得到许多人的赞扬。有一天,师父送他一盆含苞待放的荷花,对他说:今天晚上,你仔细观察这盆里的荷花,看它们是怎样开放的。小和尚很高兴,心想,一定是师父看他最聪明,才让他观察荷花。于 There is a Zen master, received a young apprentice. This apprentice is very smart, especially like others praise him, praise him clever. No matter what his good ideas, or what good things, he will tell everyone, but also by many people’s praise. One day, Master sent him a bowl of budding lotuses and said to him: tonight, you carefully observe the pots in the basin to see how they are open. The little monk is very happy, I thought, must be the master to see him the most intelligent, let him observe the lotus. in