Ten years, twenty years ...... fifty years, and even a lifetime of mediocrity, cowering and live, not as good as a year, a month or even a day and live a meaningful life, as long as the life once bloomed the light, this life has been worth it, life and death is irrelevant.
There is no difference between those who live to be a hundred years old and those who live to be thirty or twenty. Although the former lives for a few more decades, the latter lives for a few less decades; however, this is only the feeling and obsession of people's conception. For those who recognize the meaning of life and know the true meaning of the universe clearly, the length of their existence is no longer a matter of regret.
Time is eternity, and living to be a hundred years old is the same as living to be only twenty years old; one year is ten thousand years, and ten thousand years exist in one year.
People think that there is no eternity apart from transient time, but this is not true; eternity exists in time, and apart from impermanent time, there is no eternity.
So, as long as you create eternity and elevate your life to the realm of eternity, what does it matter how long or short your life is?
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As long as you live a meaningful life, life will be close to eternity, no longer just a few short decades.
How can one live a meaningful life?
From the shallow side, life cannot be lived without work, so to live a meaningful life, one must engage in meaningful work. What is meaningful work? It is work that is giving and spiritually appropriate.
What belongs to the aspect of giving is to do work that is beneficial to mankind, national society and all living beings. There are many of these works waiting for us all over the world. The spiritual aspect is the pursuit of perfection and living in truth.
Look! The artist can sacrifice material pleasures and be willing to live in poverty in order to pursue artistic perfection.
The writer is willing to revise and transcribe again and again for the perfection of an article.
The singer, in order to sing a song perfectly, has privately practiced it I don't know how many times.
There are also many people in all walks of life who do the work they are engaged in in the same way, without complaining. Not only do they do it without complaint, but they do it with joy; for they feel that the work they do, is meaningful.
When they work wholeheartedly for others, or for their own spirituality, they no longer feel the existence of time - time has stopped; they do not know that old age is approaching - how can life be long or short? Is this, not, eternity?
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As for living in truth, this is the highest state of life, and the eternal state.
What is truth? Truthfulness is not being false or hypocritical; truthfulness is being real and not doing what is not right. In other words: it is a realm where one does not lie, does not act, does not violate one's conscience, and acts purely from the heart.
Because of the absence of falsehood, one's own strengths and weaknesses are clear at a glance, so one can be neither conceited nor inferior.
Because one does not think of anything other than what is right, one is able to live in peace and contentment.
Because one does not violate one's conscience, one's heart is free from any attachment, and one's day is a good day.
The most important thing is: to act according to the nature of the mind, to act when one should act, and to stop when one should not act; therefore, there is no delusion or worry.
This kind of life is beyond meaning, and meaning is within it.
In short, those who can live fully in truth will no longer be ordinary people, but will be transcendental saints.