0 Doing vs. not doing

_20.6.2021_ Good habit is doing, bad habit is doing. It can cancel out each other. A person can do good and bad at the same time. A few bad acts can ruin great good acts. In reality you eat good healthy foods for years and accidently eat a spoon of poison, you die. What you don't do sometimes matters more than what you do. So not doing is not trivial matters. Do only what is good and it is great. So not doing is also the part of doing. Not doing harm is actually doing good. Not doing good is actually doing bad. So you are always doing, always choosing. Not doing is not neutral. Therefore doing good = doing good + not doing bad, and doing bad = doing bad + not doing good. I real life example it's often very hard to not doing bad than doing good. It's easier to exercise than not eating too much or eating unhealthy food. It's easier to work hard than not wasting time on social media. Sherlock Holmes describe this perfectly, “I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” (― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet) It's necessary to be concise and selective. Simplicity is extremely important. When I'm writing this, I do something else, I multitask, I don't do it single mindedly. So I don't do it effectively. Focus is always a challenge nowadays for all people, for me. Sherlock's advice is spot on. I crowded out my little attic. I must meditate regularly to practice focus and patience. I should do one single thing at a time. My brain is addicted to distraction. Recognizing this is considered good. So I fix something only when I know what is wrong. Life is full of problems and it's good like that. Without problems, life will be lifeless, like a movie without enemy, so boring and monotonous. Working as hard as possible is also good. It makes life more interesting. Because all is doing, why don't do it to the optimum. Always do what is the best, never do less than that. I know that saying is easy, it's not. If you can say it, it's very likely you can do it. Never do and have something unnecessary. This is the lesson I get from Sherlock brain attic. Keep it simple. When I fail on something, the necessary to do is just try again, the unnecessary to do is complaining. It is doable and life will be easier this way. The most important question to ask when I do something is this: "Is it necessary? Is it the best thing I can do right now? I always end up doing useless things like checking social media and watching random videos on YouTube. Those things are definitely wasting my time. I better doing exercise, studying mandarin, or reading difficult books to strengthen my brain. Anytime I do not watch my thought, it will repeat unnecessary thoughts, negative thoughts, fear, worry, doubt, bad memories, over and over again. To tell the truth, I don't really read books regularly every day. I know this is very important. Instead, I always check YouTube videos and reading people's status on social media. It's the most ridiculous thing I often do and keep doing. Reading whattsap status and creating one. I wonder how things turn into something totally unintended. Is it because of my weakness of the soul? The thoughts are often out of control. It seems that it doesn't belong to me. Even when I do nothing, I can't ask my own mind to be quiet. Finally, I can only accept it and control it sometimes. I can't control it directly but I still can do something to influence it. I realize that my own mind is not me. I'm my whole sum of experiences, patterns, thoughts, and all I don't even recognize at this time. Just like my cells have their own lives, so do my thoughts. The best way to act is by acting with certainty but mindfully. I can't even control my own cells and thoughts, nothing to lose, just act freely and happily. Whatever happens in life is considered good. Life is good death is good, suffering can also be good depends on how it is perceived.