I don't know when more and more of my friends started using Buddhist wisdom to guide their transactions, which is really good, I started to get into mindfulness meditation around 2012 and I feel more and more benefited. Both for life and for trading.
The Buddha found that life is universally filled with suffering, and he wondered if one could be completely freed from the sea of suffering.
He was a very serious man! Why would he say that? Because we are human too, we all have our pain, but we are constantly at odds, and maybe at some point we have had questions like Buddha's, but we lack his kind of letting go, the perseverance to pursue the truth: to face the question and to go to the bottom, never giving up without finding the answer.
Our general idea is that there is always a way to solve the problem. If you are poor, make your child earn money, more money won't hurt; if you are ugly, go grooming, it will not hurt; if... we are busy dealing with a specific problem, press the button and it will float, hands and feet will be messy. Fortunately, the problem is not unique to me, everyone has it, even if I don't deal with it, you can always learn from others!
Buddha, unlike us, loves to drill. He is a thinker, or a philosopher. He takes an abstract way of thinking, he does not want to study how to make money, how to be beautiful, how to get promoted, the solution to these specific problems does not bring happiness. He is concerned with something deeper: the bitterness that lies hidden in all concrete things, he realizes that only by breaking this core syndrome can it be done.
If the Buddha were alive today, he would probably be like a university professor, writing a best-selling book like his most popular Harvard Happiness Lecture, and sucking up tons of pollen. Why?
I'm not sure if these questions make sense.
If suffering is the essence of life, the basic property of life, as if there is light, it must be bright, then why do we not have to struggle and struggle?
Well, that's great. Then the next question is: How do I live without suffering?
This is a very valuable goal to live a life without suffering. Oh? etc, isn't this like giving your happiness to someone else? So, you could say that Buddhism is a university question, an exploration of the ultimate question of life.
Many people do not like Buddhism, mostly because they do not like Buddhism. There are too many branches of this religion, and there are disputes among them, but fortunately the Buddha himself was not involved.
The old man didn't found Taoism, Confucius didn't found Taoism, why are they so big that they get caught doing signage and not put in; this is also not possible.
I have a fondness for Buddha, and I have a great love and admiration for what he has done. He thought deeply about the questions we all have but don't understand. And he found the answers. He gave the answers, he helped people to understand. This is a true teacher.
If one does not confuse the differences between the different sects of Buddhism, and simply looks at the most basic thing in Buddhism, then it is inevitable that the Tao Te Ching ─ i.e., the suffering collection and annihilation ─ will be: first, to know the existence of suffering, second, to investigate the causes of suffering, third, to construct a theory of suffering, fourth, to point out the method of practice.
The last tunnel tunnel, corresponding to the eight roads, is:
1⁄2, correct. Don't talk too loudly and keep your mouth shut.
2 ̊ Work. Don't be a jerk, control your hands and feet.
3, right and proper.
4, Improving. Do not forget to learn and strive to improve.
5, correct. You should practice Zen.
6, Mindfulness. You have to practice mindfulness.
7th, think straight. Think the right way.
8, Right. To have the right view of the world.
Learning is gradual. The eight paths, which correspond to the three parts of precept, determination, and wisdom, are called the Three-Schools of Yoga. The detailed division is: by precept, determination, and observation.
To use an analogy, an unrefined heart is like shaking a basin of muddy sand mixed with water, and we get nothing but chaos. The first thing to do is to stop shaking, so that the mud will slowly sink down, so is the ritual. As the mud sinks, the water becomes still and clear, this is certain.
The Buddha goes further and divides wisdom into three levels:
The first is to hear wisdom.
2, Wisdom. Wisdom derived from logic through one's own thinking.
3, Shihui. Wisdom gained personally through one's practice.
Obviously, the sense of hearing is not stable, which belongs to the listening; the sense of thinking is immature, because it remains only at the level of thought, lacking real experience; only the sense of hearing is replaced by pure gold and silver, which grows from one's own heart, belongs to one's own.
From the three levels of Hui, you can also examine the level of teaching of the teacher. As a teacher, first, you have to tell the correct knowledge. That is, bring the students to know Hui, this is the most basic. Second, to explain knowledge in a solid, logical, rigorous, vivid image, show the process of inference of knowledge, bring to the students to think.
Thirdly, and most importantly, a good teacher not only rides a horse, but also gives a ride. He leads his students to practice. In the process, he sets a good example and gives a good example.
It is obvious that the Buddha did these three things during his lifetime.
Many years ago, I read a book written by a German philosophy teacher about his experience of learning traditional Japanese archery. In the first year, the teacher taught him the correct breathing and archery methods, but he struggled for many years without success, several times wanted to give up, even doubted the teacher's teaching. However, the teacher's own stubborn existence is the best proof of the practice, the teacher himself is like the incarnation of the practice.
Read this book and you will find that archery and Buddhism are one and the same, and it is no wonder that it is called the Zen practice of mindfulness. The process also involves the practice of mindfulness: first, eliminating the wrong way of doing things, adhering to the traditional breathing, rituals, and posture to shoot arrows, which is mindfulness.
In the process of abstinence, there are doubts, stagnation, backsliding, even the desire to give up. These negative impulses emerge, accumulate, and eventually disappear.
When the perfect arrow was finally fired out, he didn't even realize it! This was the first time he was surprised. In the days that followed, after consciously repeated refinement and strengthening, he became more and more aware of the arrow. In turn, the more conscious voluntary, decisive and executive performance of the ring also improved, thereby entering the virtuous cycle.
So, what is the difference between trading and arrow shooting?
The first thing to do is to eliminate the wrong behavior. From the perspective of trend trading, it is important to avoid falling into the four main dead ends: heavy positions, reversals, frequent losses and non-stop losses.
It is a form of self-restraint, driven by willpower, with compulsion, which can be metaphorically described as: deliberate restraint. It is a bit like forcing oneself to tighten the muscles.
However, after abstinence, the deadly acts cease, and the irrational impulses to self-destruction subside. The mind is easier to calm down, and when calm, reason is easier to restore and maintain.
Next, focus on learning two things: first, not wanting to move when you shouldn't, which is determination; and second, having to move when you should, which is execution.
Attraction is a relaxed state of alertness. It is the most relaxed, but also the most compact. The author spends a great deal of time in the Zen book of Zen practice describing how to attack it.
Teacher Yang taught: Fingers are like bamboo leaves compressed by snow, which stop at the most tense critical point, when the time of collapse comes, snow falls, leaves fall, it happens naturally.
The student's arm was always stuck, and the arrow either shot too late or too early, or the arm shook violently at the moment of the shot. The teacher explained that it was because the teacher wanted to shoot the arrow so badly that she couldn't shoot it.
Why can't we be like that?
We want to do every single one of them. Too much to think about, too much stress, too much worry.
The timing is not always ideal, it is either too early or too late, or the action is distorted. The more the machine works, the more the machine tries to compete with the market, but the market is ridiculed.
To achieve this determination, it is necessary to pay hard practice, how to practice? is to adhere to the precepts. Don't expect to be solved by enlightenment, fantasy one day you will become completely enlightened, and then all the problems will disappear. To actually do, to control yourself with a set of rules, is like a curse against Sun Wukong.
The Taoist monk obeyed Son Wukkah, not on the basis of old thoughts, but on the basis of the curse. After completing the second half of the course, Wukkah was glad to obey, not because of fear, but because of trust and love.
Afterwards, the face changes to achieve qualitative change. One day, the heart will be submissive, the desire will be put away, and the pressure will be put away. Do not do what you should not do. And, being ready at all times, do what you should do.
That feeling is like a newborn mother who, no matter how well she sleeps, wakes up instantly at the sound of her baby's crying and goes into battle with her spirit; acting decisively and with love, not with resistance and complaint.
If you follow this correct path, I believe that you can earn money in person as long as you cooperate. This is a real yoga practice. Students see the process of operation, and the results of operation, and thus have no doubt about the inevitable connection between the process and the results of yoga. At this time, recalling the teacher's teachings, one by one with their own experience, the principle of operation is more deeply impressed.
A sense of joy and pride arises at this time, and in the words of Buddhism, you have personally completed the path that Buddha took that year. Now, despite the time gap, you are still on the same path.