1974年9月的一天，崔凤龙休假回家，来我家给我讲故事。他说：听人说，生命之树长得很慢，几千年才长多了两个节。这时，我四岁了，听了很兴奋，梦想着自己能有一棵生命之树。随后几年，他多次给我讲这一句话的故事，我听烦了。
One day in September 1974, Uncle Dragon 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.
到我十几岁时，自己就去找关于生命树的文章，一看就不喜欢。过些年，我又去找，看了还是不喜欢。可能由于儿童时期对生命之树产生了感情，总是惦记着，每隔几年去看看，直到四十几岁才能理解。
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.
 
本来生命之树只有色蕴、行蕴和识蕴三个节。后来，古人发现受和想对人的影响很大，就把这两法从行蕴抽了出来，另做了两蕴：受蕴和想蕴，所以人们说，“生命之树几千年才长多了两个节”（如插图4.1.1-1下）。我在2014年，写完回忆录后，依据《佛学次第统编》重新组装了生命之树，参见本书的第11章《生命之树 https://web.6parkbbs.com/index.php?app=forum&act=view&tid=3408355》。
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 4.1.1-1)." I reassembled the Tree of Life in 2014, after writing my memoirs, based on the Unified Compilation of Buddhist Substantiations; see Chapter 11 of this book, The Tree of Life.
插图4.1-1源自古墨西哥（约公元1325年）。图1表明儿童时期的墨西哥听 “生命之树几千年才长多了两个节” 故事，很入迷。图2是古墨西哥传说中的另一种生命之树。图3、 4、5是墨西哥长大后，根据传说重新创作了生命之树。
Illustration 4.1-1 is from ancient Mexico (ca. 1325 AD). 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 another 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.
 
插图4.1-2-1和-2是古日耳曼人传说中的由雷音创立的生命之树。图3中，雷音发现自己坐乘的飞天羊车（亦作人天乘，参见15.3节，https://web.6parkbbs.com/index.php?app=forum&act=view&tid=3469604）的公山羊睚眦瘸了。图4、5、6中人物都是睚眦和磨牙，即亚当和夏娃。图4表示学习羊乘教法的法门是咀嚼生命之树的五果（参见11.6节）。笔者在加拿大多次发现欧洲人在圣诞节时在房门外悬挂葡萄，认为能招福。那福是什么？看了图6我才知道，夏娃是福，她喜欢吃葡萄。为什么睚眦和磨牙是一对山羊？那是古日耳曼人在提醒未来的子孙：他们的父亲雷音之死，睚眦和磨牙难辞其咎！
Illustrations 4.1-2-1 and -2 show the Tree of Life founded by Thor in ancient Germanic legend. In Fig. 3, Thor discovers that Tanngnjóstr (Adam), the male goat of the flying goat-vehicle (aka. Human Sky Vehicle: cf. section 15.3) in which he rides, is lame. The figures in Figures 4, 5, and 6 are Tanngnjóstr (Adam) and Tanngrisnir (Eve). Figure 4 indicates that the juristic door for learning the Goat Vehicle is to chew the five fruits of the Tree of Life (cf. section 11.6). On several occasions in Canada, the author me found that Europeans hang grapes outside the doors of their houses at Christmas time, believing that grapes can attract fortune. What is that fortune? Looking at Figure 6 I realized that Eve is fortune, and she loves to eat grapes. Why are Tanngnjóstr and Tanngrisnir a pair of goats? That was the ancient Germanic people reminding their future descendants that they two were to blame for the death of their father, Thor!

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