Sayadaw U Zaw Tika - Staying Clear in the Confusion

Stay clear in the chaos

The big and small business owners have a lot of work to do. Business and work are different from before. They have to do a lot more. These days, we can no longer live a normal life. We have to do a lot more than before, so our minds are a lot more tired. If we can't somehow relieve this mental fatigue, then in the long run, the physical and mental fatigue can lead to health problems.

I've heard of nervous breakdowns. So, during the day, when we go about our daily lives, we encounter many things that are not in line with our own feelings, that are not pleasing to us, that are not comfortable. When we move around in the world, we can't live without experiencing discomfort. The nature of the world is that there is always discomfort. The world will never be what we want. If we don't live with such discomfort, we will be very tired and miserable. So we need to live. We need to be mindful.

In a chaotic and uncertain environment, you can find your way. For example, in a river with a strong current and many rocks, sharp edges, and curves, people are floating. Some people are floating with their whole bodies submerged. They will be pushed by sharp edges. If there are curves, they will collide. They will be hit by large logs that are floating with the strong current. Some people are floating with their heads up. They can avoid danger. They can avoid it from a distance. It is very comfortable. So, while floating, a person who is floating with his head up is very comfortable. You need to learn to float with his head up.

To avoid being sidelined

You can't change the outside world to be what you want. I don't know if you can do it a little bit if you try really hard. Even then, I can't say much. However, if you know your own mind and can look at it with awareness and wisdom and correct it, you will gradually become more calm, peaceful, and mature.

In terms of quality of life, if we talk about material wealth and food security, the quality of life is high. If a person is very poor in material wealth and food security, and cannot even afford to eat, their health will be affected due to malnutrition. They will also suffer from mental distress due to food security. So, if they are poor in food security, they will suffer from health, charity, social security, education, and everything else.

So food is important. However, the quality of life cannot be said to be complete just by having food. Only when you have good health, happiness, and time to spend happily with your family... Only when you have such a complete life can you say that the quality of life is high. Only when you have money can you say that the quality of life is complete. Therefore, when you think about your life, it is very important to think without being biased.

A great liar I once knew

Some people work very hard. The work is very comfortable. They make a lot of progress. But everything else has declined. A certain businessman I know has a lot of business. The business is so comfortable that he has to expand his business a lot. When he expands too much, he has to work from dawn to dusk. As soon as he gets up in the morning, he leaves home. He doesn't come home in the afternoon and eat. He eats outside.

He usually comes home at 7:00 PM after the rain sets in. When he gets home, he is so tired from working all day that he can't do anything. He goes to bed right away and sleeps. He wakes up at 9:00 PM and eats. After eating, he sits down to list the bills and receipts from his day's work until 11:00 PM. After doing that, he goes to bed early in the morning (7:00 AM) and rushes to work. He has no time to talk to his family at home or to talk to his children.

Without him, his children, his wife and his family are a little unhappy... To put it simply, he doesn't have time to talk to them calmly. He feels like he doesn't get love. He feels like he's starving for love. His children are also starving for love. His wife is also starving for love. His wife says, even if she eats, she has to eat alone. She can't wait until her husband comes home. There is no happiness, peace, or joy in such a family.

So, to be honest, his wife started crying when she talked about it. He had a lot of money, his job was very good, but he was not happy.

There is no advantage. So when you think about your life, you need to be very careful not to get sidetracked like that, to have a balance.

Times of change

Nowadays, there are so many changes. There are so many changes that sometimes people

They are more anxious because they don't know what will happen next.

The ability to handle stress is one of the talents that can play a key role in helping you enhance the quality of your life.

Being able to cope with stress is a very important factor in improving the quality of your life.

If you can't handle stress, you'll become depressed. You'll end up thinking, "I can't do it anymore," and you'll end up unable to do anything.

What are the skills that everyone needs? They need to be able to stay cool, calm and collected, make the right decisions, multitask, and maintain a good frame of mind.

Feeling sad and depressed is something that people inevitably experience. Therefore, it is necessary to understand and live with sadness.

Even though there are things that are troubling us, we need to deeply understand how to keep doing what we need to do, how to stay strong, calm, and not lose the meaning of our lives.

Going forward, being busy will be the norm. I won't be able to answer because I'm busy.

If you want to live your life comfortably in the future, you must have the ability to maintain peace of mind. Even if you are tired, don't get discouraged.

You have to think deeply and study how to build your self-confidence.

People are overwhelmed by change.

People are overwhelmed by too much change, too fast,

We have to condition ourselves to chaos.

The English word chaos refers to the state of disorder and disorder. “We must train ourselves to tolerate chaos.”

Conditions are going to be changing at a faster pace in the future.

In the future, things will change even more quickly.

Just think about how much change has happened in Myanmar in the past 4-5 years, and how fast it has happened. It's so fast. Some people can't even keep up.

The pendulum swings are going to be wider.

A pendulum is a pendulum. It's like a big clock pendulum. The pendulum swings back and forth, it swings the same way it used to. It's going to swing farther than before, it's going to swing wider than before. Before, it was just a little bit closer, now it's going to swing farther. I'm talking about it metaphorically. There are a lot of changes happening in life.