It was the lack of understanding about plants, of course, that allowed people's imaginations the free rein to produce such fecund religious symbolism. Yet the Diamond Sutra urges people to "cultivate the heart of a Buddha, by living nowhere." Hence, don't clutch tight to phenomena of this world and to things you are not supposed to desire.
雖然少了對植物精確的認知，可能讓人想像更豐富，但《金剛經》要人「應無所住而生其心」，勿在妄念、現象上產生我執、牢牢不放。