Yesterday at noon I had dinner with a friend, he is a travel blogger. He said that he stopped changing for a while, and every time he ate, he still thought about copywriting freely in his mind, and felt that it was a pity not to shoot this meal, and he couldn't eat properly when he stopped resting.
I said that when I used to be a hotel sleep tester, no matter how tired I was, when I arrived at the hotel, I had to pay attention to the mattress bathroom brand, staff service, catering facilities, and I had to calculate the location of the hotel when I went out, and whether it was convenient to the surrounding attractions and airports and train stations.
When I realized one day that this part-time job had ruined my immersive travel experience, I chose not to do it, preferring to pay for my own hotel stay.
My friend is an atheist, and the impact of the job of self-media on him is not too bad for him. I am a Buddhist, and this is devastating for my practice in this life.
After the Buddha was enlightened, he held a lotus flower in his hand and felt "a flower and a world, a leaf and a Bodhi".
The Buddha did not give a lecture on the teachings, but asked everyone to sit around and eat oranges.
The Buddha said, "When you peel oranges and eat them, how do you concentrate on them? That is, when you eat oranges, you know exactly that you are eating them." You can thoroughly feel the aroma and sweetness of the tangerine. When you peel an orange, you know you're peeling it, and when you peel a petal of orange and put it in your mouth, you know you're peeling a petal of orange and putting it in your mouth. Bana gave me nine tangernes, and every time I ate them, I realized how rare and beautiful they were. So for me, tangerines are real. If the orange is real, the person who eats it is also real. ”
When you eat oranges, you don't know you're eating oranges, you don't feel the aroma and sweetness of oranges. When you peel an orange, you don't know you're peeling it, when you tear it off and put it in your mouth, you don't know you're putting a petal of orange in your mouth, when you smell the aroma of an orange and taste the delicacy of an orange, you don't know that you're smelling it or tasting it. Eat oranges like this, you won't appreciate its preciousness and beauty. When you don't realize you're eating an orange, it's not real. If the oranges are not real, then the people who eat them are not real. ”
A person who practices concentration can see things in oranges that no one else can see. A person who pays attention can see the orange tree, and the sun and rain that nourish the oranges. Feeling the details attentively, we can see 10,000 things that lead to the production of oranges, and then thank them. ”
These words of the Buddha are the two most important points of enlightened wisdom.
One is to be aware all the time and be your own observer. Know what you're doing, what you're saying, and what it means to do that.
One is to live in the present, focus on the present, not thinking about the past, not afraid of the future, and devote yourself to the present. Time does not exist, enter the state of flow, forget the fear brought by time, and settle the heart, so that you can use your true self to see the reality of the world, and explore the essence of life, reality, and wisdom in the realm.
Failing to do the first point is to be in a state of "ignorance" for practice, and this term is often used to describe "sentient beings." ”
Many times, the vast majority of people don't know what they're doing. Their behavior is driven by instinct, following the crowd, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and they do not know that their actions are not the rational choices of their "hearts".
If they know that they are "peeling oranges and eating oranges", every thing they do, every word they say, they will look at themselves, why they do it, why they say it, whether it is out of good intentions, or out of vanity, whether it is driven by righteousness or vileness. When people are aware of themselves and criticize themselves, they will "do something and not do something" in their actions. ”
When a person's behavior is based on rational choice, every step is steadfast, does not bury hidden dangers for himself, deep down in his heart is worthy of the past, and there is no fear of the future, then it is easy to enjoy the present and live in the present.
I've been training to be in a state of "flow" at all times except for "meditative" moments.
However, it's really difficult, I need money to maintain my material life, I need to make money, I need to post on Moments to share my life and keep interactive, I need to shoot materials and advertise for selling fruit and local products...... These things prevent me from fully committing to the present moment, experiencing the present, feeling the present. There are even some contents, I know that what is being passed on is vanity and show-off, but I will continue to pass it on in this way.
Because the less money you spend, the more you earn, I have thought about making videos many times, but deep down I always have a feeling of resistance, afraid that life itself will be destroyed because of holding a camera all the time.
Writing, for me, is a real passion, before writing, I need to feel with my heart and observe the details in my life. When I write, I can also train my mind and brain. When I'm not writing, I don't force myself to update, enjoy life itself, and I won't be affected by it.
The only and biggest drawback is that the money I earn from writing is really a drop in the bucket for maintaining my life, and it is difficult to sustain it.
If I have to make money, and the way we make money from the media will definitely destroy my cultivation to a certain extent, I hope that there will be a positive way to make money, and it will accumulate good fortune.
The organic fruit I am selling is just one of them, and the sales have not been able to rise due to the economic downturn, but every time I sell a copy, I am very happy, and there is a small piece of land, and the fruit produced by the cultivation of the heavenly way is recognized.
But sometimes, I also think that the packaging of fruit gift boxes is also to cater to the consumer psychology of the era of consumerism, as beautiful and heavy as possible, but the resource consumption of this kind of outer packaging is a burden on the earth.
Practitioners always think too much and have a hard time doing things. Before I did it, I was already looking at the "meaning", so I still felt that it was best to reduce personal consumption, withdraw from social competition, not be burdened by things that make money, and lie flat.
Individuals work hard to make money, essentially accumulating excess wealth for society. God has the virtue of a good life, in fact, if you don't work hard to make money, the money you earn by working a few hours a day is enough for people to eat three meals a day and stay six feet overnight.
Living until now, I finally understand why it is said that "the small is hidden in the mountains, and the big is hidden in the world", if you want to make money and practice in the world, the means of making money must not take advantage of the evil and stupidity of human nature, the purpose of making money and opening up the goodness and wisdom of human nature is really more difficult than ascending to the sky [what]
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