These three books give you the inspirational stories you want in life.

Buddhism: how to be a happy person

Author: [Japan] KUSANAGI Long Instant

The book is divided into six chapters-Buddha's troubles, Buddha's thoughts, Buddha's feelings, Buddha's life, Buddha's competition and Buddha's life. It tells the root of troubles, how to face troubles correctly, how to manage emotions, how to communicate with people, how to face competition correctly and how to achieve a "complete life". Every part directly hits people's pain points and blind spots. Everyone who is in emotions and troubles always doesn't know it. The author tells us from the Buddha's point of view that as long as we know, feel and see emotions and troubles, it is the starting point of a happy life.

Empathy can help us calm down, face the flow rationally and calmly, and then let ourselves distinguish between "delusion" and "reality". Then as long as you focus on the present, you have the key to happiness. All the troubles and pains we face have solutions, with the emphasis on methods. This is the message that Buddhism conveys to the secular world. The Tao emphasized in this book refers to eliminating unnecessary reactions through correct understanding, so as to realize a complete life. As long as the mind is right, even in the secular world, we can still return to the correct way of thinking if we encounter any problems.

The core of Buddha's thinking method is to face up to "spiritual response". Why people worry stems from the "reaction of the heart", which is reflected in the eight sufferings, that is, birth, old age, illness and death, and nothing to ask for. What is a "spiritual reaction"? Buddha said "torrent", commonly known as "three poisons", namely greed, anger and delusion. How to face up to the "spiritual response" through mindfulness meditation and admit that existence is reasonable. The author advocates Buddhist thinking, that is, not over-judging. The author believes that the root of trouble is the "illusion" of clinging to delusional judgment and making oneself feel right. The key to getting rid of troubles is to stop judging, especially denying yourself, and learn to be honest.

This book is not only a "world view" of how to look at ourselves and the world, but also provides many practical and effective "methodologies", which can help us to explore and understand ourselves and the world when we are emotional, and get along with the world and ourselves more warmly and smoothly.

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Spend your energy on the life you want.

"An interesting person can not only please others, but also please himself, and can please himself in any external environment and material conditions." That is, "spend your energy on the life you like."

What you see in this book is an interesting person, how to make his life interesting. After seeing his life, you will also look up and think about your own life. Maybe you don't have to be naked resignation like the author and put yourself in a completely different rhythm, but you can make some small attempts in your favorite field, even if you insist on doing a sport, cooking once a week, learning to cook a new dish … or changing some living habits and ways of thinking … and constantly enriching your personal experience. And as the author said, "See the personal defects exposed in the process of constantly enriching experience, and how to repair and correct them after discovering them, so as to make yourself more perfect."

"Happiness is compared. Your comparison object is not a multimillionaire that has nothing to do with you, but yourself yesterday. If you can always be better than yourself the day before, you are the really interesting person ... "

The introduction begins with the cloud: Everyone has the right to enjoy life. As long as you are happy and feel worthwhile, other people's doubts are irrelevant. Such a simple sentence touched my inner state of longing for life.

Nowadays, the pace of social life is fast. On weekdays, everyone is doing the same boring work over and over again. Finally, at the weekend, they were still busy dating Duke Zhou. Is this life really what everyone wants in the future?

Everyone wants a different life, but is the life you are living now what you want? Why not throw away some necessities and pick up something you want? Life is short, what you want is the most important thing.

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It is not easy to be blown away by the wind in the universe.

Author: Feng Tang

The Universe Is Not Easily Blown Away by the Wind is a collection of essays published by Feng Tang after four years of silence. This book combines aesthetics, Zen, secularity and affection. There are his insights into the world, his unpretentious novels, his calligraphy and brush inscriptions, and 63 photos of him, which show us an all-round Feng Tang who is proficient in all 18 martial arts.

The theme of "the universe is not easy to be blown away by the wind" can be broadly summarized as "the beauty of things", which is divided into many parts such as eyes and ears, mouth and body, and describes various spiritual things in life. Everything is an artifact, whether true or false, which not only contains the two peaks of China's traditional artifacts-ancient jade in Shang and Zhou Dynasties and ancient porcelain in Song and Jin Dynasties, but also takes paper books and poems as the representative of beautiful artifacts, adding a bit of interest and elegance to the impetuous and boring modern life.

If you don't know Feng Tang, after reading this book, he will stand in front of you vividly. All his three views, intermittent experiences and his concentration will suit you just right, and he will be extremely modest. If you are familiar with Feng Tang and read this book, it seems that you have had a date, a long talk and a drink with him, and you are still the Feng Tang you used to know.

Objects have souls. As a collector of ancient jade, Feng Tang wrote about jade and himself. One of the functions of collecting utensils is to always remind yourself not to do things that are not worthy of this good thing. This is the wisdom of things and the restraint of people.

Feng Tang said in the book: "People need a little spirit, a little psychic spirit, or they will easily slip away and become a walking corpse, letting the dark side of human nature drive their animal bodies and do some decadent things in the world." People who can say such things attach great importance to their spiritual pursuit.

It is not boring to read, because such wise and simple sentences will occasionally appear, which will make you start thinking about how to live this old problem in life.

This is an essay that you can read at will, but it can give your mind a short release and freedom. And everyone will have their own answer, about, in the universe, what is not easy to be blown away by the wind?