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I feel that my actions are impermanent and that the sky is empty

In Buddhism, impermanent actions = everything changes. You think empty = everything has no substance, right? I'm sorry if I'm wrong.
In difficult times, this idea helps a lot. The pain I'm having now will end someday. It can be a little easier if you think that everything is an illusion shown by the mind.

However, when it's fun or happy, I feel that these erratic and empty thoughts are empty. It makes me feel empty wondering when this fun thing will end, and if this is also an illusion.

How should we think about fun times and happy times?

4 Zen Responses

There are a lot of things

 Everything is impermanent... everything changes and nothing is the same even for a moment. Certainly, in difficult times, I endure and work hard believing that someday this suffering will end and happy times will come. In the opposite case, if you think that this fun will come to an end and eventually suffering will come again, you will feel empty, and you will not be able to enjoy and receive the fun, and I think that's true.
But a fun moment remains within me as a fun experience, and it also helps me during difficult times.
So let's treat every moment with care.
The colors of bitterness and pleasure change moment by moment. Every moment is natural, and as you accept it as it is, the breadth of your feelings will also change. In other words, it deepens.
A life full of hardships and pleasures. Please firmly engrave the difficult and wonderful things in your heart. Just don't hurt your heart over and over again by repeating negative things. Letting go well is also important.

When it's fun, enjoy that moment to the fullest

I read your concerns.

You seem to have a deep interest in the concepts of impermanence and emptiness. These teachings certainly support the heart during difficult times. However, I understand the trouble of feeling empty when having fun.

First, it is important not to understand the idea of impermanence in isolation, but to grasp it together with the other three concepts.

1. Everything is impermanent: everything changes
2. Lawless Ego: There is no absolute fixed ego
3. Everything Is Hard: This world often doesn't turn out the way you want
4. Nirvana Silence: A quiet state of mind is safe

It is only when these four are included as a set that the essence of Buddhist teachings can be understood.

It is necessary to cherish this moment because everything has changed and there is a lot of suffering. When it's fun, it's important to fully enjoy that moment.

Instead of feeling sad thinking “this fun will end someday,” it is only by enjoying the present to the fullest that we can put the teachings of Buddhism into practice.

The concept of the sky is similar. Precisely because there is no fixed entity, our existence is a combination of components of that moment, and that is why every moment is precious.

In other words, when you're having fun or being happy, you don't need to think about imperfections or the sky. Rather, it's important to genuinely enjoy the moment. When it's hard, I think “this will end someday,” and when it's fun, I think “let's enjoy this moment.” By doing so, life as a whole can move in a direction where there is less suffering.

Buddhist teachings are meant to make our lives richer and happier. Don't feel empty when you're having fun; enjoy that joy deeply. That is truly understanding and putting into practice the teachings of impermanence and emptiness.

Please continue to deepen your learning of Buddhism and practice it in your daily life. I sincerely hope that your life will be richer and happier.

Emptiness leads to lightness (mercy)

The characteristic of the Buddha is that he combines wisdom and mercy.
Wisdom removes attachment by understanding impermanence, suffering, and selflessness.
Mercy leads to the happiness of others and the reduction of others' worries and suffering.
It's probably mercy that the Buddha didn't die right after he realized it and continued to preach his teachings for the rest of his life.
When asked by Bonten to “preach me,” the lightness of being able to start saying “Yes, I understand” is precisely because they have both wisdom and mercy.
Maybe the fun and joy will always pass away, so I won't be attached to myself.
If you reduce your obsession, obsession, and laziness with wisdom, you will be able to move lightly.
Also, if you have mercy, they will easily accept requests from others, saying “yes, OK.”
If you approach yourself empty-handed, it will lead to the lightness of being able to move for others.
So it's good to feel empty.

Most monks and Buddhists talk about impermanence and the sky with concepts and logic, so there is no salvation

When it's fun, it continues to be fun by surrendering yourself to fun.
You can't enjoy it if you stop doing what you enjoy and don't look at things from a dry point of view and critique. If you start worrying about scores, scores, and evaluations while singing a song or playing an instrument, that can't be said to be a state where you're enjoying music, right? It's Sukashichoru.

By the way, hey hey...
The true meaning of impermanent behavior in Buddhism is not meaning, but “fact”, isn't it? Things you should learn with facts. That's because it's not a story about the world “changes” or “things change” according to the way the mind interprets it. Seriously, that's ridiculous.
If you understand “this world is changing” in theory or interpretation, it doesn't have to be Buddhism (*'▽'), right? That's it. It will also improve in science at school. Even children can understand how things change. Do you think Buddha said that? Actually, it's different. This is a trap that over 90% of monks and Buddhists misunderstand.
Also, what is written in textbooks and the like is impermanent ❝ view ❞ because it is an explanation interpreted by a scholar that various acts are impermanent. I mean it's different. Japanese people are all brainwashed by being fooled by impermanence in textbooks. there must be no way such a thing happens? If so, who can be saved by understanding impermanence? At best, it's a pessimistic, pessitic sentimental view of impermanence! 💀 Is Buddha that pessimistic! 👹

When it comes to impermanence, there are many people who understand that “there is no reality or substance.”
There are many people who think that understanding and conceptualizing such things with their heads is impermanent or empty, but that is different. That is thought. I'm not aware that they use the sky and impermanence as dry, nihilistic concepts; they turn the sky and impermanence into Betsumon. In the first place, that way of understanding was misunderstanding = thought, so I thought about it with my head. So, people who have that kind of understanding are people who have really dry thoughts, aren't they?
True impermanence or emptiness isn't like that, is it? (Laughter) There aren't any monks that teach me this kind of thing, so if you're interested, seriously ask for it.
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