Two years ago, when Xiao Jie was looking for the answer to life, he broke up like this, but after a while, he lost it and returned to his original shape. This is the way many people break up. Unfortunately, this way can't bring us real happiness and peace.
In fact, the highest state of minimalism is also the highest state of practice, and they are almost the same process!
Xiaojie wrote several homework about minimalism to help you understand what minimalism is.
I recently glanced at the book Minimalism and found that the author didn't really understand the core of minimalism.
The concept of minimalism is correct, but I find this book is not "simple". It stays in the right place, which is not in line with my principles. I like to ask only "decision points".
The purpose of "Jane" is very simple, and it is also emphasized in my recent homework or article from all dimensions of life. Its purpose is to get rid of our fears represented by "anxious hearts", especially the thoughts behind these emotions.
Therefore, the core of Jane is "idea", not anything else.
I won't say "true" anymore. The analysis of train of thought exists in my recent article and is the core of everything.
Because when I saw this action table in the book, I was reflecting on how I was "Jane" recently.
I find that I have enough time now. I take a lunch break 1.5 hours, and then have tea 1 hour. From 4: 30 pm to 9: 00 pm, it is almost housework and family time. I usually work at night on weekends and spend the rest of my time with my family.
I deliberately slowed down, and the opposite and slow thinking have already talked about why. I'm a little flattered by this state.
It makes me have few inner distractions at all times. It seems that every moment is the most important. Indeed, for me, every moment is the most important, because I can see Tao's figure all the time, no matter what.
Every moment, I am aware and growing, which keeps my brain in excitement and novelty.
Another advantage of this state is that when I do anything, I am no longer in such a hurry, and there is no longer too much fear to push me constantly. I want to do everything faster than before when I was ambitious or stressed.
Because all the trouble is that we divide things into "high and low" thoughts. Once these thoughts come into being, we will have all kinds of anxiety and anxiety because of them.
For example, I want to finish reading a book and a video as soon as possible. My anxiety makes my reading superficial and my study superficial. As a result, I was in a hurry to write the article, and the product was more superficial, thus forming a vicious circle.
The same is true of career and life.
Now, on the contrary, if I decide to read a book, my purpose is not to completely absorb and transform it, but to fully chew and digest it. Therefore, I won't set a time for it to be finished. At the same time, once I decide to read it, it may be all I have in this period of time, whether I have it at hand or not, but it exists in my whole life at present. I am not only reading it, but also experiencing it, reflecting on it and testing it.
This is my current reading and learning state, and to achieve this state means that I must do subtraction at other levels, simplify it to the extreme, and "simplify" everything that doesn't matter.
Because as long as there are many ideas in our hearts, these ideas will form a strong attraction for everyone at this moment and urge us anxiously.
Recently, I have been pondering a theme, that is, the all-round development of Laozi's life of doing nothing.
For example, when I was thinking or immersed in my own world, Orange came to me to play with him. Many times, my instinctive subconscious will raise negative emotions and unconsciously reject him. Later, I realized that Lao Tzu's inaction was the opposite at this time, so I let go of myself and naturally entered the orange world without emotion. From self to self.
This is an example of real-time reflection and consciousness. Instinct in life is very fast, and the frontal lobe often can't keep up. The same pattern will appear again and again until you find it and break the cycle.
Only then did I realize that I was very angry with oranges, because I didn't "do nothing", so I began to encode these scenes comprehensively with oranges.
This kind of real-time reflection means that all my thoughts must be in the present, instead of thinking about brushing my mobile phone, reading articles, chatting with everyone in the group, or watching the planet.
I have to subtract everything I can't get. I must leave my frontal lobe to the most important thing, to "pursuit" rather than "desire"
Doing nothing means keeping your heart extremely clean until you have no thoughts of self-desire.
Live purely in every moment, so that every moment is the best. Life is not for the result, but for every process at present.
This is the real minimalism, a kind of inner "inaction", pure pursuit of dreams, pure polishing products, not for any desire.
If you don't understand this bottom layer, just talk about things and subtract something from the surface layer, it is difficult to solve the problem fundamentally.
Therefore, all simplicity must aim at "thought". As long as we have thoughts, we will inevitably have corresponding fears, and of course we will not be able to achieve real inner peace.
On the basis of homework "the core purpose of slow thinking" and "minimalism", I will constantly refine the core points during the whole punching process.
The core purpose of slow thinking is to achieve two purposes: "control the amount of information and reduce the interference of thoughts."
There are two words that can accurately describe the state of true minimalism, and that is "pure".
These two words appear many times in my articles or homework, which is very important, because it means that when we do that, our hearts are extremely "clean", pure and free from any other thoughts, which is the essence of minimalism.
For example, even if we sit quietly at home alone, all kinds of thoughts in our hearts will continue to "surge", and it is these things that make us unable to "be pure".
I have been trying to improve my "purity" recently, whether it is reading, studying, writing or living.
Then it means that my heart is further "cleaned", and more obsessions are detected, coded and then "put down".
For example:
Because oranges have to go to primary school, and the primary school is in another district of Guangzhou, they have to move, so they have to rent out the existing apartment. My wife has been urging me to rent recently, and I feel a little annoyed because I am slow. I didn't know until I realized that I didn't want to sell my peace too early.
I told my wife that I would rather receive a month's rent less than receive many consultations and interruptions too early.
I am often consulted, and even often talked about cooperation. As I mentioned before, former partner J introduced me to the "opportunity".
All these can bring "money", but it is not conducive to my deep cultivation. Those projects that run counter to my long-term dream are all things I am focusing on.
Because money-related projects are the easiest to control people, the easiest to reduce my "purity", the easiest to occupy my thoughts, distract my energy and make me lose my perceptual wisdom.
My creation always has two purposes:
Over the past year, these two things have always been my key awareness and vigilance. I am constantly adjusting the relationship between the two, and the most difficult point is the "material demand". No matter how I adjust it, it will always be powerful for me, but I will definitely challenge it.
Because I found that when I was covered by it, my article was doomed to be superficial. When I can transcend material interference and immerse myself in pure thinking, I often find new inspiration. All my discoveries about human solutions are the products of this state, and even I am surprised.
And my method is "take something, don't take anything".
That is to say, apart from the benefits of column courses, I am always vigilant, such as consulting, project cooperation, and even taking part-time jobs in e-commerce before me, including making my courses into audio or video.
As long as it is not conducive to the deep cultivation of knowledge and my pure in-depth thinking, I will "simply drop".
For money, we must not be greedy.
Lao Tzu said, just have a full stomach and don't be greedy, because you should be careful. This society is trying to hijack our dopamine with "money" as a temptation everywhere.
As long as you have the idea of wanting more, you can't escape the hijacking of these things without knowing it.
There is a popular saying: "prioritize things."
And my statement is: "the most important thing is only one thing, the others are distractions, so try to' simplify' them."
For example, for me, the most important thing is to ponder and cultivate the Tao. I can always follow the Tao, not go against it. As long as it conforms to this principle, it is the most important thing, and everything else should be "simplified".
For example, I accompany my children and do housework, which I used to want to escape. Now is also the most important thing for me, because when I accompany oranges and do housework with awareness, I am aware that I am constantly practicing in dialogue with Tao.
Therefore, there is only one ultimate minimalism, that is, there is no state of self-obsession, and the heart is always full of "that" of "fate * * *", and this one is all we have.
This is also the only purpose of practice, to get rid of all unnecessary thoughts, not for any result, but for every process of living in the present. Life is not for the result, but for the process.
The thinking mode of first principles is the theoretical basis of all Xiao's articles, especially the related principles at the level of brain science.
These principles include, but are not limited to, brain neurons, animal brains, prefrontal lobes, dopamine, norepinephrine, dodson's law, emotional mechanism, the law of entropy increase of energy and the principle of minimum action, the characteristics of all things evolving into human beings under the action of this underlying principle, mindfulness, meditation, the integration of knowledge and practice, Buddhism, Laozi, quantum mechanics, progressive compensation, Feynman learning, kazuo inamori and Jobs.