What Buddha Life Really Means
An interesting term is becoming increasingly popular among young people in Asian countries, especially China, which is called Buddha life. Don’t be scared! The word doesn’t mean that more and more young people are willing to become a monk or nun. In fact, it is a new lifestyle among the generation after 90’s.
Literally, Buddha life means that people try to keep calm in their lives just like Buddha is supposed to do. For example, when people meet trouble, they force themselves to take it easy and keep peaceful, instead of yelling at people or showing their tempers.
When the phrase “Buddha life” spreads throughout young adults around 20 to 25 years old, it extends and develops more subtexts, even influenced by people’s entire life from working to their living style.
Let me show some examples of Buddha life:
As for Working, people in Buddha life are like this:
When they get good feedback from their bosses, they nod and say “Thank you”, but without extremely excited emotion. When they are treated mean by people, they shrug shoulders and say “Makes sense” without anger.
They neither have ambitioms in their career nor are they depressed about their current status. Everything for people enjoying Buddha life is fine, but just okay.
As for Shopping, people in Buddha life are like this:
When people meet a customer who enjoys Buddha life, they usually don’t write any comments or give any feedback about goods or services. If the products or services are useful, they nod and feel that’s fine. If they are bad, they feel okay too and don’t want to waste their time to fight for their rights.
As for Entertainment, people in Buddha life are like this:
In Buddha life, if people like an idol or superstar, they neither follow their socials like Twitter nor do they fight for their icons with other fans. They always keep things peaceful. When their favorites release a new album or screen a new movie, they are willing to pay for it but they never spend all of their attention on their icons.
Generally speaking, when people start to live like a Buddha, their lifestyles can be defined as “Owing something is fine, losing is also not bad”, “No fighting, no ambition and let nature take its course.” Under the high competition and life pressures, these young people start to hold their hot tea and view life from this neither optimistic nor pessimistic point of view.
Besides Chinese Buddha life, in Japan, demotivation culture is becoming popular too. The number of people trying to give up working hard and fighting with the world is increasing. Also Punk Health, which means people have a lot of lousy living behaviors such as staying up all night, but also focus on finding useful methods to keep healthy. These kinds of words are all similar to each other and accepted by more and more young people recently.
On the one hand, young people are trying to be peaceful about everything happening around with them. The majority of them have accepted death and each trouble they meet every day. On the other hand, their nervousness and anxiousness cover them and make them hardly breathe freely.
Maybe Buddha life is too negative for the young generation, but it shows how terrifying the pressure of living is.
