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What does it mean to live indifferently

This is my first consultation in a long time.
Please let me discuss the subject matter.
I became mentally ill due to my relationships and workload at work, and I am currently on leave of absence.
When I went to the psychosomatic medicine clinic, my primary care physician said, “It's important to do work casually. I was told, “Having that image and moving forward toward returning to work is treatment.” I myself think I've lived a life far from living a carefree life. If anything, joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure are intense, and emotions have an advantage over logic when making decisions about something.
What does it mean to live carefree and work casually? The teacher gave me the chief priest as an example, so I consulted with him here.
I'm waiting for answers

5 Zen Responses

I don't follow my thoughts. Don't ruminate.

 No, no, we have our emotions, sorrows, and emotions too. I'm happy when my kids smile, and I'm sad when I go to the funeral. Because it's natural. I watched the movie and was moved and cried, today.
What Buddhism takes seriously is what is called suffering among them, “things that don't go the way you want them to,” which are called suffering. It's easy for humans to forget what they are satisfied with, and they worry about the remaining problems. It is a property that can only be described as “to live better.”
Where does suffering come from? It's called worry. There are three main types: “greed, anger, and ignorance of the truth.”
Emotions are mainly developed to protect you. If you feel particularly in danger, you must respond right away. This is because there is a possibility of getting hurt.
On the other hand, in order to “know the truth,” you have to stay calm and look closely at the object.
So, if you feel in danger, it's important to take the next step. “Dangerous! It's dangerous!” Do you go right and left at a danger signal, or “let's make a firm assessment of what is happening.”
Once you are able to observe your own danger signals in this way, it is often “actually not that big of a problem.” Also, as you continue to respond, learning will progress, and you will be able to understand “Oh, this is the same as before.”
In short, I think it's a good idea to have your own routine to “settle down once and for all.” If it were me, “Eh! what is this! I try to praise a fixed spell, “Namu Amida Buddha,” called “Namu Amida Buddha.” It takes me away from the whirlpool of emotions. So, I'll observe it closely.
Of course, if you know it's a safe environment, you'll be immersed in your emotions to the fullest. They both cry and make a fool of themselves in movies.
The theme this time is “being indifferent,” so I recommend “doing your own routine,” but it's a good idea to practice not letting in your own emotions and not amplifying them.
When my emotions started making noise, I thought, “Now is the time to practice!” Please detect it first. If you can do that, you'll be taking another step forward.

Move your hands while humming

For example, when washing dishes,
If delusional thoughts about the past, the future, and yourself or others expand, and move your hands while secreting feelings such as anger and sadness into your brain, washing dishes becomes an unhappy time.
Meanwhile, if you move your hands while humming, or if you move your hands while enjoying music or listening to reading, you can finish washing dishes while feeling relaxed and happy.
It's the same at work.
There is a big difference in stress during work between clenching your teeth and moving your hands while clenching your teeth and moving your hands while holding back tears while disturbing your emotions due to the past, future, or delusional distractions about yourself or others, and moving your hands while whispering (in a good mood as if you were dancing as if you were singing without actually making a voice), even with the same amount of work.
So, let's reduce the rush of delusional distractions and thoughts.

Please face each one with peace of mind

I read it.
The doctor in charge said, “It's important to live quietly and do things casually.” You're wondering what you should think about those words. I feel like I can somehow understand your feelings.
Well, living a carefree life seems easy, but it may be quite difficult. Humans have emotions, so it may not be that easy to live a life with all those joys, sorrows, and pleasures.
Nonetheless, it would be exhausting to live with all the ups and downs of emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure no matter what. Also, I think that if you respond as your emotions go, you won't understand what is really right or what you should cherish in your life.
Since they are human, they probably have some emotional ups and downs, and I think they also have facial expressions. If possible, I think it's important to live a peaceful and healthy life every day.
In particular, I think it would be good to treat others with a sense of gratitude without feeling too much anger or hatred.
As a result, facing each thing calmly and calmly without getting emotional about work is the trick to being able to carry out work quickly. Let's keep quiet and calm about each task.

I sincerely pray that you will be able to spend the days ahead with peace of mind and peace of mind, that you will be able to calm down and do your work well, and that you will be able to survive each day healthily while helping each other. And I will support you from the bottom of my heart.

The words “live casually” and “work casually” in the consultation are themes that are deeply related to Buddhist practice.

First, being indifferent is not “losing your feelings.”
It never works like a robot by pushing joy and sorrow to death; rather, it indicates an attitude of getting involved while maintaining a certain distance from events without being swallowed up by emotions.

In Buddhist terms, “how about normal mind (how about this)” is probably close.
This means “a state where the mind is quiet and flat is the path,” and it is important not to overly grasp happy or sad things and put them in the flow.

As you mentioned, for those who have been driven by their emotions until now, “indifferent” may feel dull and unsatisfactory at first.
However, modesty is not a “lack of emotion,” but a “sense of distance from emotion.”

For example, when you make a cup of tea in the morning,
It's not “I'm brewing tea today because I feel good” or “I'm not feeling well today,”
Follow the same steps to brew tea regardless of mood or weather.
By repeating this every day, you can create a foundation to calm your mind's waves.

In Buddhist practice, sutras reading, cleaning, eating, etc. are performed simply according to “manners.”
It has the effect of calming the waves of joy, anger, sorrow, and conditioning the mind.

If I were to practice on a daily basis, I could start with something like this.

・Wake up and go to bed at the same time (regularity stabilizes the mind)
・Perform one task while being aware of breathing (washing dishes, organizing documents, etc.)
・Don't label events (accept them as “facts” rather than “good or bad”)

Relaxation is a suppleness of mind that allows you to act without being swallowed up by emotions, rather than denying emotions.
This also leads to a “way of working without being too exhausted by emotional waves” after returning to work.
Gassho

A place that is bland from the beginning is naturally made plain

Hello, Mr. Nemashikusa.
If I had to infer the true meaning of what the doctor in charge said in my own way, I think it wasn't that things wouldn't progress even if you were concerned about “nothing to do” about relationships at work or the point of worrying too much about others rather than the job itself.
For example, when cooking, etc., I think Mr. Nemashi also makes it rather “bland.”
If you worry about the way the egg cracks when you break it or the shape of the oil when you put oil on the frying pan and make changes like this and that, no matter when, you won't be able to finish the fried egg.
That's true even when making miso soup. If you don't worry about the difference in size of each cut tofu or the sense of distance between the ingredients, etc., and don't proceed with making it, no matter when, no one will be able to drink miso soup.
These things sound like half-jokes, but on the other hand, we have a tendency to worry about “nothing to do” in our relationships with “others.”
Cooking is related to “things,” so it's easy to give up and get rough, but “others” are “humans” just like myself. It's not divisible. The reason is that they assume they are living the way they want (based on their thoughts).
Even though things don't turn out the way we want and are struggling, I blindly believe that we will get the way we want (we live by thinking). It's strange, isn't it?
Therefore, I ❝ think about selfish things such as whether it would be good to change “thoughts” for others and for myself, and that such “thoughts” are strange ❞.
But the truth is, that's not the case. Actually, this person hasn't even once been born to think about anything.
Thoughts, thoughts, and feelings only have ❝ realizations ❞ like “self-power (doing things by oneself),” and in fact, ❝ occur naturally within the extremely large and complicated function of life called “other power” ❞.
If that's the case, how about it? Of course, isn't it unavoidable to worry about things that don't go the way you want them to, “things that don't go your way?” Wouldn't it be better to give up moderately and only proceed with what you can do at that time?

Didn't that mean “bluntly...”?

Sowaka Gassho