Chapter 28 blue potato

Although it is formed by seeing it with the eyes, no one can reach the realm that Buddhism says that form is emptiness. 1. Twenty years ago, there was a well-known designer in Switzerland. He redesigned the packaging pattern for a certain brand of instant coffee, mainly with lavender diagonal lines. The whole composition was perfect, exquisite and impeccable. Design Award.But sales of the brand of instant coffee plummeted after it was launched in new packaging. The reason is that consumers feel that lavender is not the color of coffee, and purple coffee makes people feel weird, which does not arouse the desire to drink and buy.If you don't believe it, just go to the supermarket and pay attention to various brands of coffee, and see what the main color tone of their packaging paper is.They will never be black, green, red, blue or purple, but different levels of brown, which is what we generally call brown.

Every thing has its fixed color, which is human's obsession with color.Few people know how deep this obsession goes. Someone once did an interesting experiment, using harmless artificial coloring to dye various foods into strange colors, and then feeding them to a group of children.When these children ate the potatoes that were dyed blue, they all felt weird and developed symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort or diarrhea.In fact, these artificial colors are completely harmless, so why do they cause diarrhea? Because blue is not the color that potatoes should be, children who have become a little more sensible think that blue potatoes are inedible. After swallowing them reluctantly, a strong sense of psychological disgust induces a physiological reaction, resulting in symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort.If you don't believe me, you can dye pork green, salt black, and tomatoes blue.

Buddhists say: Form is emptiness, but in fact, no one can reach this state.Because the vast majority of people are obsessed with color, especially the color of food that is closely related to sustaining life.It is not an easy task to break the natural or conventional meaning of color. The obsession with color is external and observable. As for all kinds of internal obsessions that are difficult to observe, I am afraid they have similar lethality.