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Only real alone, in order to understand the choice of Li Shutong. He chose the life of a religious retreat. I do not believe in religion, but you can choose to secular retreat.
Only real alone, in order to understand the choice of Li Shutong. He chose the life of a religious retreat. I do not believe in religion, but you can choose to secular retreat. People need to practice in solitude only feel is only felt really retired and sit. Busy secular life, in viscous interpersonal, filled with the trivial things of life, some joy, some pain, but the lack of meditation and cultivation of inner desire and time. When a person is alone and thorough retired and sit deep perception of space and time, came to the minds of the people. This is Kant's so-called "state of mind of looking at the stars. Busy with worldly things, in addition to the living environment and the surrounding scenery, feel the space feel; addition to crushing the urgent things and burnout. Only in leisure and solitude when, when sit the seaside look up blue vast sea, only to suddenly feel the space the boundless and time of the passage of time. Universe and vast sky came to the consciousness of the people, to feel like a leaf boat and sway them in the boundless sea, drifting where I do not know, no goals, no direction, no matter how struggling to paddle, just walking around in circles wasting air force. Helpless being, the passage of time, just a few decades, like the blink of an eye. Glance at the other boat and the boat people have nowhere to be seen, the boat uphold floating in the water, it really desolate. Really can not figure out why things came to mind, when this feeling. Buddhism
People need to practice in solitude only feel is only felt really retired and sit. Busy secular life, in viscous interpersonal, filled with the trivial things of life, some joy, some pain, but the lack of meditation and cultivation of inner desire and time. When a person is alone and thorough retired and sit deep perception of space and time, came to the minds of the people. This is Kant's so-called "state of mind of looking at the stars.

Busy with worldly things, in addition to the living environment and the surrounding scenery, feel the space feel; addition to crushing the urgent things and burnout. Only in leisure and solitude when, when sit the seaside look up blue vast sea, only to suddenly feel the space the boundless and time of the passage of time. Universe and vast sky came to the consciousness of the people, to feel like a leaf boat and sway them in the boundless sea, drifting where I do not know, no goals, no direction, no matter how struggling to paddle, just walking around in circles wasting air force. Helpless being, the passage of time, just a few decades, like the blink of an eye. Glance at the other boat and the boat people have nowhere to be seen, the boat uphold floating in the water, it really desolate.

Really can not figure out why things came to mind, when this feeling. Buddhist practice is to see through it, so just sit for life do not do anything, the essence of their practice is nothing being done. This idea can not be said not insights, merely the world mostly unwilling to accept the fact of the desperate and helpless, just keep your own eyes, like an ostrich buried in the sand.

Strictly speaking, the driving force of the world to do everything from persecution had to do, but this forcing two categories, one is forced from the outside world; another type of persecution from the inner world. Forced from the outside world is the pressure of survival: by doing things in exchange for a minimum of food and clothing and comfort as well as the spirit of pleasure; forced from the inner world of the creative impulses of artists, scientists, artists feel the call of the United States, scientists feel the call of curiosity To create this beauty to reveal the answers to satisfy their curiosity, to make their own creative impulse to vent through their own labors.

However, there is the inner impulses need to vent just a very few people in this world, the vast majority of people do things just to survive. Need to survive all been met, why do anything to it? This goes back to the pendulum theory of Schopenhauer: people feel the pain of survival necessities have not been met; feel bored survival necessities are met. Life is like a pendulum in pain and boredom pendulum to swing to. His pendulum theory almost won 99% of the world's people, but fortunately he is 1% of the people spared those inner impulse of the artist. So in a sense, the artist is the darling of God, they are some of the happiest, the happiest people, this world no one can compare, emperors phase star businessmen can not hold a candle to.

If fortunate enough to be born artist, of course, for their own entertainment, secretly glad, however, accounted for the vast majority of the population of mortals how to do it? In my opinion, basically there is no way can only left unchecked, Poguanposhuai the. Just to practice to be able to calmly accept the brutal facts, not to fall into too much heart trouble and tangled. This is the reason I now practice and practice. I practice the goal is to enable themselves to finally be able to accept their status and fate calmly accepted the realm of their own is truly reached the heart.