Recording Innate Wholeness: Keep a Diary of the Times You Feel Happy, Internally Motivated, Positive, Energetic, and Peaceful

I suggest keeping a diary to record the times when you feel happy, driven from within, positive, full of energy, and at peace.

These are actually also times when you gradually enter meditative absorption. Everyone has experienced them.

This is, in fact, a record of everyone’s innate wholeness. You will discover that all true happiness is really the same: a kind of “peaceful, supreme bliss.” That is the feeling of “meditative absorption, the true self.” It is just so fleeting and so “ordinary” that you overlook it and think little of it.

To be specific, these days, just shooting some hoops in a relaxed game at a basketball court in the county town, passing the ball back and forth with everyone—old, middle-aged, young, and younger—I already feel “innate wholeness,” peace, and supreme bliss. I want nothing else.

This is actually the most important purpose of a diary.

For more than ten years, I mainly used my diary for notes, stray thoughts, and self-criticism. My strategy was mistaken, a sign that I had not awakened. But all that is in the past.

I do not recommend giving people advice, and I also believe that people cannot give one another advice.

This piece is only a suggestion, and more than that, an observation of a small detail. It is not an endorsement of urging people to undertake spiritual practice. It is more about how people naturally grow and heal themselves, and how even they themselves cannot “intervene” in this process.

Also, this piece is a short section of “Spiritual Practice Is a False Concept: Striving Is Already a Mistake; Let Things Take Their Natural Course.” The psychology of the Marx-Zhuangzi framework discards both “spiritual practice” and “the spiritual practitioner’s ego.”