Balanced structure using contrast of emotions.
Once, while walking past a lotus pond in the rain, I saw a vast expanse of green clouds stretching out, with only a single, half-bloomed red lotus standing proudly amidst them.
I stopped in astonishment. It was a red lotus that seemed neither fully open nor closed, hesitant to speak, neither fully red nor yet fragrant.
The rain fell in a chaotic yet indifferent flurry. Amidst the boundless grey, there stood such a red lotus! It was like a cluster of fire about to ignite, like a vessel of color ready to be spilled. Standing by the pond, though I had no intention of reaching for the moon, I nearly lost my footing.
Is life not like a rainstorm? You have leaped joyfully through it in ignorance, and murmured pensively within it—but more often than not, you must endure the cold and the damp, the helplessness and the loneliness, living only on the fantasies of sunny days.
Yet, look at that lotus, how self-absorbed and solitary it remains in the rain! When there is no sunlight, it becomes the sunlight itself; when there is no joy, it becomes the joy itself! Within a single lotus lies such a perfect and self-sufficient world!
If there is a lotus in the pond, and a lotus in the heart, what fear is there in a long rainy season?
有一次，在雨中走过荷池，只见一塘绿云绵延，唯有一朵半开的红莲挺然立于其间。
我一时惊愕驻足。那是一株似开非开、欲语还休、将红未红、待香未香的红莲。
漫天细雨纷然而又冷漠，在广袤无垠的灰色世界中，竟有这样一株红莲！它宛如一簇即将燃起的火焰，又如一罐即将倾泻而出的色彩。我立于池畔，虽无意捞月，却险些失足。
生命不也如同一场雨吗？你曾无知地在雨中雀跃，曾痴迷地在雨中沉吟——但更多时候，你必须忍受寒冷与潮湿，忍受无奈与寂寥，只能以晴天的幻想来度日。
然而，看那株莲花，在雨中竟是如此唯我与忘我！当没有阳光时，它自己便是阳光；当没有欢乐时，它自己便是快乐。一株莲花里，竟藏着这样一个完美而自足的世界！
倘有荷在池，倘有荷在心，则长长雨季又何患？