I've finished reading the book < Why the Buddhist is True>. What I learned most from this book is " Empty".
What is Empty? Empty means not to think too much about meaning.
One amazing idea the book indicated is that people were designed to benefit ourselves originally. However, as time flies, people often stick to bad decisions, which may be illusion.
Let me hit this idea with an example.
I binge eating even though I know it's bad for my health. I gained weight by eating too much junk food. Since people should benefit ourselves, we shouldn't binge eating. But we are controlled by our thoughts.
There are too much thoughts triggered people to make bad decisions for themselves. Except for binge eating, people may commit suicide because of bad thoughts.
How to solve this problem? The solution from this book is easy----Meditation. People should be able to control our minds. By meditation, we eliminate thoughts in our mind, and focus on the benefit side to ourselves.
How to rate how good we are in meditation? The book can't score on that. But It do emphasize on Empty. By all means, you should be able to set your mind to silent mode so that you can listen to what benefit to yourself.
Yeah, that's what I thought is useful in this book. Although I don't consent to the whole book, I still can't agree more to Empty.
When you are in Empty, you can be anything else in your life.
When you are upset, remind yourself that it's the meaning you proactively added to the matter.
When you are confusing, think empty and manage to do beneficial things to yourself, like exercising, reading, etc. Cause at the end of the day, it's your own opinion you put on your own life. You may think it's meaningful or meaningless. However, by no means, the day would still be the day without your thoughts.
That's all I wanna share today. You know, I complaint to a friend about the lost article I just wrote. But it won't mean anything unless I want to add value to the lost article.
I hope you can try to bear " Empty" in your mind, which will help ease your way of living. Okay, thanks for reading, see you in next piece of article.