The real self is only our consciousness. All external things, fame and fortune are just your endorsement, not your main body. Everything you own, including your body, will pass away. The only things you can carry with you are your memories and feelings. Foreign objects are just a carrier, don’t do it the other way around. Don't realize that your master has worked for your servants all your life until you are old.
When you think about yourself, you must put aside all external interference, because all external objects may leave you at any time. Only you and yourself can never be separated, the me who thinks and the me who is thinking. I think, therefore I am, what I think and the me who is thinking are both a process and a carrier. The separation of the two is the moment of our death. This thinking process is what truly makes us ourselves.
So all your goals should be based on enriching the brain. Material wealth must also serve the brain, and the brain must not be controlled by external objects. Just don't let the master become a slave. Things are dead and we are alive. Villas and luxury cars will not move there, but we can move and think. If you are bound by things, doesn't it mean you are locked in a prison of dead things. Freedom is the most important thing to us. When you lose your freedom, you are just like an ordinary thing, not a person.
A person is a conscious body full of various possibilities, and these various possibilities exist in the brain. His externalization requires a process, and not all thoughts in the brain can be externalized. The world in the mind can be understood as a parallel universe, or it can be thought of as a channel connecting another world. Reality and nothingness. Being is born from nothingness, and nothingness is the root of everything.
I think one day our breakthrough in understanding the world will come from ourselves. It is better to look for answers in the endless universe than to look for answers in your own mind.
Those who live satisfying lives, who are in harmony with both the past and the future, those who we consider happy, are usually those who live by rules of their own creation. They act according to their own schedule, and they understand their own motivations and limitations. They have made a small free choice. Usually they are not the kind of people who have a lot of self-desire. They may be ambitious dreamers, great builders or doers. But their goal is not to satisfy their own sensory needs, controlled by genes, culture, or ego. They do things for which they enjoy meeting life's challenges. Because they enjoy life itself, they believe that they are part of the cosmic order and they want to grow in harmony.
Our existence has nothing to do with others, only our own thoughts. Unless you hand over your control, happiness in life comes from taking control of your life. The reflection of your life value is also the result of your control over your life. If you lose control of your own life, you will be just a tool for others, a slave of material things, a part in the social machine, and you will lose yourself.
Luck is just a booster for hard work and is indispensable for success. Hard work is the carrier of success. If you don’t work hard, luck can’t help you. And hard work alone without the blessing of luck will sometimes lead to no results. We are not yet the masters of this world, and there are many things we are still powerless to do. It's also the fact that we still have a certain amount of control that keeps us motivated.
I went to make dumplings, and my wife was urging me. I can influence my wife's mood, but in the end it is she who has the final say whether she is happy or unhappy. For me, part of it is controllable and part of it is uncontrollable. What is controllable is what I do, what is uncontrollable is how she reacts.
