yeah it's a good question, how to apply the buddha's ideas into your life. this is a thing.
i will tell you my way first for your reference, i live, i study , i work, but for what ? this is a thing, feel shy to tell you that i am now actually trying to compose a book with the title named :what we are living for? so maybe i would work out the answer then,
but here i would like to share a part as i learnt at moment,
to be honest, it is quite hard to explain all this to you in english , since i have no english version of these teachings , i mean i am in short of english ones that i can read, so i don't know a lot of speacial buddlism
words in english, maybe you can teach me in the future, but i am trying my best to explain to you herewith.
do you happen to know life reincarnation (samsara), there are six different forms of existences of the reincarnations in different worlds; in your past life , maybe you were an animal, in this life, you are human , next life, you may become an ghost down to the hell; in in the life after next , you may reincarnate into a human again. so there are human being , ghoul, hell, animal, celestial being, and AxiuLuo, so this is life turn, you have to know how your incarnation will be is destined by carma, what you have done in your past life, in this life , and in your future life are all recorded, no matter the bad or the good, you do good things more, your reincarnation will be better, such as become human being, or celestial being, but if you do bad things more, then your reincarnation will be in worse condition, to the hell, or become a ghost, so all of this are by carma.
why do we live? firstly i wanna tell all the human being that we are lucky , coz we are human being , neither animal, nor ghost, we suffer less than them , so why we live ., we are living to cultivate ourselves for a better future life, i mean a better reincarnation ,
we learn , we practise, we repay , we cultivate , that is what we should do, you know all the human being have done both good and bad , you have done bad things, that is the debt you commit , then you have to pay back, until you pay off your debt, then you would be better, so we are cultivating ourselves to be enlightened and meanwhile pay our debt, i have a friend in singpore who is a buddist as well. she told me that she has killed a monk in her life before last, she made the evil , so her last life was very hard , she suffered a lot , she tried to pay back, in this life, her life is better, and she realized what she has done in the past and how she should do in this life, so she does worship, she does alms, she does good things at maximum, try to remedy the bad deed she has committed, so we all suffer from what we have done, the only way to remedy this is try to do as much good things as we can , do alms, to learn , to practice, to cultivate ourselves in accord with the Dharma.
i don't know whether you have got the answer in the above, certainly not 100% of the human being know the cause and effect, not 100% of human being believe in Buddhism, so this is something about root , or destiny, this is also why to be really enlightened and to become Buddha is hard, there are millions of millions of Buddhists in the world , but how many of them become Buddha, how many of them pass away at perfect rest, how many of them pass away to the pure land, we have to count at minimum , coz it is hard for every body to forgo the "society" forgo the attachments, as you mentioned, because we are living in such a complicated society, colorful and materially alluring, so hard to give up everything, you give up everything , then you may become a monk, or else you may be enlightened, so to be a monk is not a thing that everybody can do, so for this point, we have to pay great respect to the monks, hope you do;)
so to believe in Buddha is never a conflict with your life, if it is, then you were misled, or you mislead yourself, have to reconsider all these ideas.
now let me tell you what i am living for, i am living to let more and more human being understand why they live, to miss ionize Buddhism, and to remedy the mistakes i have made in my past life, so to put my ideas into practice, i am seeking, i am seeking for a success in business, i have to be rich with money, knowledge, and power, which can facilitate my work in supporting Buddhism, so anyway I will try my best to support the work in publicizing Buddha’s thought, to release souls from suffering, so this is the reason why I live. buddha's teaching is never contrary to our life, so try to meditate , but you don't have to sit as the monks do, and try to tell the spirit from the material, to work, to make money is not a fault , but the thing is how to make money, how to use it as well, you make money and apply your money in the right way, there is nothing blamed, one more thing is our body and spirit are separated , our body is just a carrier of our spirit or soul, to better carry your soul , we have to eat, we have to keep healthy , and ..........
did i untie your question ?
by the way, i guess you were from china in your past life, coz you seem to be concerned with this land, well just my imagination , hope you were:)
and hope you understand what i told about , half buddha's idea, half my idea, and my ideas come from buhhda, so all in all, buddha see through everything , to study buddha's teachings is the way to release our souls.
Hope you have a wonderful day:)
Fu jian guo a friend in china
Hey welcome Niki,
evrebody stands up, and say :"welcome Niki', a little boy is runing to you, and says:"this is a flower for you from that gentleman" who is saying hello to you :)
hehe a joke, guess who is that gentleman, it's me :)
but i am not as gentle as a real gentleman, since i don't know what and who is a real gentleman.
let me answer your questions one by one:
i am not doing any things great, great is not the word for me, so forget it. i am just doing ordinary , common little things, so to be honest ,most of these bosses or managers i work with are buddism pursuers, so our mind is most alike, to do business together, to make money together , and to share money togeher, then we all feel happy, certainly it is also full of frustrations, since it is hard to expect everybody else to do busienss in the way as we do, to be honest, frank, and to trust are not the words to everbody.
i like the music played by piano, guita, saxophone, flute, mouth organ, chinese suona(clarinet)teo-stringed chinese fiddle, etc.it seems that i like all genres of mucic, po music, classical music, rock music, country music, folk music, so hard to classify, but i like all the music that makes you feel relaxed.
disco is my choice as i mentioned in my last post to you, so i like free dancing, social one, seldom, since i am not the lucky one always invited to a party, coz i am not a handsom , tall, catching man at all.
i like watching feature films, scenic films, science and educational films, kung fu films, space opera, science fiction, etical films, what 's more? hard to list all of them, but any ones interesting and inspiring would be my choice, so never mind what it is, hope these answer your question.
well about my relationship with time, my idea is never push yourself, if you push, time will run your life, if time runs you, then your life seems to be much tight and stressed, coz you are driven by the time, so you have to slow down, slow down dose not necessarily mean you are losing time, time is in your mind, but the condition is that you have to keep a cool head anytime no matter quick or slow, keep a cool head, keep a clear mind, then you can make the right judgement, right decisions and right directions, then everygthing in your life would be in order , so let's come to buddha's though, "Let go of everything and Gain true freedom"
Everything in the world , both good and bad, is telling us to wake up, good things help us wake up to the positive aspect of things; bad things make us aware of the negative side of things. If we awaken to both the good and the bad, there is no problem. if we don't wake up to the good, we 'll be attached to good things, if we arn't aware of the bad, we 'll be attached to bad things.either way, we will have attachements and be unable to realize the way.we must see through both good and bad, and be at ease in both favorable and adverse situations.we shouldn't be affected by external circumstances.The Vajra Sultra says:
All worldly phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles and shadows; like dew and like lightening,we should contemplate them thus。
the things of this world are no more real than a dream;they are as ephemeral as bubbles, as intangible as shadows.they are as fleeting as the morning dew and flashes of lightning which disappear in the blink of an eye. regarding them in this way, we will be able to see through them and let go o them.if we continue clinging to them, we won't be truly free.we should relinquish our attachments to pleasant as well as unpleasant events.we can be truly free only when every last bit of attachments is gone.
so the wisdom of life here is don't cling to anything, let go of them, you cling to it, yo would be stressed, you would be unhappy , an example, it's just like chasing girlfriend, you love a girl fit to kill, i mean you love her very much, but she doen't love you, then how? if you continue clinging to it, you would be unhappy, coz you can't gain her love, this is the thing, so let go of it.
don't know whether you can catch what i try to express, since my english is far from being fully understandable
a friend far from china
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