One must cut away the hard outer shell of the lotus seeds to get to the nourishing white seed, which is "like the Buddhist nature of people," says Lu Yen-ping.
蓮蓬上成熟的蓮實，必須剝去黑而堅硬的外殼，才是人們食用的白色蓮子，「正如人的佛性」，陸豔冰說。