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The best answer in life is not to worry about where the answer is, but to live in the moment.
It doesn't matter what you are born, it doesn't matter what you want, you are in what state you are in, and what you are doing at the moment is at ease with what kind of things you are doing.
One day, when the Zen master and his disciples were traveling to the scenic spot, a person next to him asked the Zen master for advice and said, "Master, can I ask you some questions?" ”
The Zen master said, "Okay, what do you want to ask?" ”
This person asked: "What is the meaning of life, how to look at the problem of life's division and integration, if one day I die, where will I go?" ”
The Zen master listened to the man's series of questions, and at this time replied: "The true meaning of life is to integrate into any time and space, to experience and practice every here and now." ”
This person listened to the feeling in the clouds, and the Zen master then said: "When life exists, it is like heaven sending you a travel voucher for eighty years, everyone can arrange their own place in these eighty years, but you must not stand in the same place with this travel ticket, just think about the problem of the invalidity of the travel voucher after eighty years, and not always think about the problem of missing another scenery after you go to this attraction." ”
"Seeking sorrow and hatred for no reason" is human nature, everyone stands in the present but cannot live well in the present, either worrying about the future, or regretting the past, but the past and future of life are empty, only the present perception of life is "real", and the world does not have a good enough mind to enjoy the only remaining "reality" of the present, so in the end "everything is empty".
Therefore, the best answer in life is not to worry about the answer, not to be distressed by things other than your current situation, because distress is useless, emotions do not have any positive effect except to disturb their consciousness, rather than focusing on a question without an answer, it is better to give up the problem itself, but to save more energy.
There is a saying that the energy of life is very limited, and if you are distracted by some unrelated things, you do not have enough energy to live the current life.
Whether it is the current career, the current life, or the current love, it takes the spirit of concentration to achieve better goals, so thinking too much is the best disrespect for the present.
Only by concentrating all your energy on what you should do in the moment can such a life shape more possibilities.
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There is such a story in the Liezi:
There is a person in the country who is always worried that the sky will collapse and the earth will collapse, that he will have no place to sustenance at that time, and even that he will not be able to sleep or eat because of excessive worry.
After the other person heard his worries, he also began to worry, so he went to comfort him and said: "The sky is the state of qi gathering, there is no place without qi, you bend down and stretch your arms, exhale and inhale are all active in the breath, why are you worried that it will collapse?" The ground is a state of accumulation of soil blocks, the soil blocks are filled in all directions, there is no place without soil blocks, walking and walking are all activities on the ground, where will it collapse? ”
This man who had been worried all day was relieved and very happy, and the man saw that he was relieved, and he himself was also relieved, very happy.
When Liezi heard this, he laughed and said: "It is ridiculous to say that heaven and earth will be bad, and it is ridiculous to say that heaven and earth will not be bad, because whether heaven and earth will be bad is not something we can know, so whether it will be bad is just one thing, we don't have to know the state after death, we don't have to know what happened before death, the future doesn't know the past things, the past doesn't know the future things, so whether the heavens will be bad, why should we pay attention to it?" ”
The same is true for life, we don't know the future, and we can't go back to the past, so why should we worry about something we can't control?
Just as heaven and earth are not bad, what is the difference between bad and not bad for us? Since our worries have no effect, why waste our energy on meaningless worries?
Many people see this and feel: then I am not worried about the future, nor do I regret the past, I focus on my own present.
But it should also be noted here that it is necessary to "live in the present", but absolutely not to "think about the present".
Because there are many ills and misunderstandings in human consciousness, that is, wrong values, when we think about the present with subjective consciousness and emotion, problems will occur at the same time.
"Living in the present" means just living a good life, fully integrating into the present, moment, and moment, without subjectively feeling the difference between good and bad, wrong and right, just like the Taoist thought said in "let nature with no intention".
Make your mind reach a clear and clear state, like a calm lake of water, no wind disturbance, no water waves, calmly illuminate your originally sober and objective life, this is the real life without suffering and happiness.
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