What does it mean to sit idle?

It means that you finally have to be free at night to do your own thing.

1. In ancient times, it was used to dust and repel mosquitoes and flies, and later it was used as one of the royal halogen books and ceremonies in the feudal era, and it was also used to catch the wind and wash the dust.

2. Dust, also known as dust whisk, whisk, dust tail, is a tool or utensils attached to the front end of the handle with animal hair (such as horse tail, tail of the deer) or silk linen, generally used to sweep away dust traces or repel mosquitoes and flies. The dust whisk is also a Chinese Buddhist ritual instrument, symbolizing the removal of troubles.

Third, the dust whisk is similar to the tail and can also be regarded as an item. The tail was first seen in Jin Tao Yuanming's "Biography of the Great General of the Jin Dynasty and the Great General of the Western Dynasty: "Liang covered his mouth with the tail and smiled. ”

Related origins. In ancient India, due to the hot weather, there were many small mosquitoes, and people used a whisk to drive mosquitoes away from their side, which was called "mosquito brushing" in India. Whisk dust is also known as whisk or whisk in China. That is, a utensil made of animal hair, cotton, linen, etc. tied on the handle.

Dust whisk is a tool used to get rid of mosquitoes. Regarding the origin of the use of whisks in the Sangha, it is said in the "Miscellaneous Matters of the Root Saying of Mulasarvastivada Vinaya" translated by the Tang Dynasty monk Yijing: "When the Buddha was in the high pavilion hall on the side of the monkey pond in Guangyan Castle, the bhikshus were eaten by mosquitoes, and their bodies were itchy and scratching.

According to the above, India had a whisk in the time of the Buddha 2,500 years ago, called "whisk mosquitoes", and the Buddha also allowed monks to use the whisk to repel mosquitoes.

When you return late from the dust, you have to sit idle, which means that you can sit here when you have time to clean up the dust and come back at night.

The dust symbolizes sweeping away the troubles, and the phrase "sitting idle when the dust returns late" can be understood in this way, and when you get home at night, you can sweep away your troubles and have time to sit down.

Dust and return to sit idle means that when you get home at night, you can sweep away your troubles and have time to sit and sit freely, which is a Zen saying, Zen mainly refers to the essence of the sentence from the Buddhism, the words are simple, the meaning is far-reaching, and it has the role of spiritual food for life and thought. Because of the elegance and timelessness of the Zen language, it is often used in literary and artistic works.

Cicada", the sound is "Zen", which means "knowing", knowing and doing clearly, but worrying.

"Cicada" is a kind of understanding, and the words of the Master of Self-Degree: "Knowing the coming and going is the happiness of the happy celebrant, and the willingness to become the ultimate eternal."

"Cicada" is a kind of realm of Yu guessing, Tang Yu Shinan's poem "Cicada": "Drink the dew and flow out of the dredging tree." Raising his voice from afar, not by the autumn wind. ”