1. We cannot find lasting happiness in the changing experiences of the outside world. Only by cultivating a stable mind that does not flow with circumstances can we feel happiness at all times.
2. A stable heart is a rich and lively heart. It allows everything to happen, to allow all of your emotions to exist. It doesn't cling to troubles, and it doesn't cling to happiness. It observes quietly, allows all experience to flow, it removes inner conflicts, and has the richest experience of life.
3. The war in the external world spoils the human body. The conflict of the inner world ravages the human mind. Only by allowing all inner conflicts to exist can the butterfly effect not be triggered. Permission is the end. Confrontation is a path of conflict that has no end. And inner conflict is the source of spiritual pain.
4. When our hearts are like a babbling stream, bubbling and flowing non-stop. We will clearly see the various experiences come and go. These experiences are like stones in a stream, large or small, that occasionally form a certain blockage. But the stream will soon go around and continue to rush forward. Remember not to fight with these stones.
5. When we look at everything with knowledge and ideas. What we see is not what things are. We immediately enter the illusory world of linguistic concepts, not the real world.
6. There is no absolute freedom in the body, but there is absolute freedom in the mind. The mind can allow everything to exist, while the body needs to do something and not do something.
7. If our hearts are clinging to troubles and confusion and chaos, then the external world we see must also be chaotic. When our hearts are clear, the outside world will be peaceful and beautiful.
8. There are very solid mechanisms of jealousy, anger, and impulsiveness in our subconscious. These mechanisms may have helped us survive better. But it's the *** that brings endless inner conflict and suffering. Accept the response of these mechanisms, thank them for their contributions, and not reject them and run away from them. Accept it, and then peace will be born.
9. When our hearts are able to accept two diametrically opposed outcomes at the same time, we have a higher dimension of wisdom and the unprecedented peace that this wisdom brings. When we allow only one particular outcome to occur, our hearts are often in conflict.
10. The so-called desire is actually a one-way imbalance of energy. That is, to accept only the good and not the bad. Just be better, not so good. Imbalance inevitably brings suffering. The so-called desirelessness is rigidity, that is, the mind sits on a balance point and does not oscillate between loss and satisfaction. As a result, you can always be calm and joyful.
11. We always think that the mind is here to help us live better, but in fact the mind may bring much more troubles than it brings happiness. It doesn't even care if we're happy or not, it only cares about how we can avoid danger and survive safely.
12. A large number of people are pursuing psychological security by compromising their physical safety. It's not a balanced lifestyle. In this way, a person's life will be both insecure and at the same time detrimental to physical health. This is very unwise.
13. Psychological security is obtained by subtracting needs, not by adding. When a person needs more external things to provide a sense of security inside, he is precisely causing his own inner insecurity to be forever insecure.
14. When a person thinks that he does not need superfluous external objects to provide a sense of security to his heart. He will have the most secure and effortless sense of security in his heart. That's the power of subtraction.
15. Only permission can stop all external and internal conflicts. Only acceptance can forge a fearless heart. For allowing and accepting all things is the way of the universe.