According To Batchelor Buddhism Without Belief

Anguish
In “Buddhism Without Belief”, Batchelor talks about Siddhartha Gautama’s story in which Siddhartha believed that he was living in a perfect place. One day he decides to go out, and when he does, he finds out that his perfect life wasn’t perfect. He then leaves the kingdom, meditartes and becomes anguish, he learns about cessation and becomes stronger mentally.
In this chapter Batchelor says that running away from fear is not helping us, it is not saving us from that danger. If we live a fearful life, and one day if ever had had to face our fears, we will not be ready for it.
We live in a world, where we always want to be surrounded by safer things, we want to be surrounded by people we like. We try to run away from strangers, thinking they might harm us, but the truth is, they are the ones who might make you stronger.
We worry more about things like, who likes us, why person X said what they said and we ignore all the other little things that are more important than this.
According to Batchelor, if we pay more attention to our surroundings, we can get out of our daily routines. And one way of doing this is through meditations.
I believe that meditation is not just emptying our minds, it also helps us focus. It helps us focus on things around us. I believe that little things matter a lot in our lives. We might think that the sound of leaves moving doesn’t have any importance in our lives but it is part of our everyday life. Every little sound counts as at the end, it sums your in our day.
In the beginning of the chapter, Batchelor describes his actions in a simple way, but later in the chapter, he adds more descriptions. He focuses on everything in the fridge, which makes it sound better. Imagine if the fridge had nothing in it, imagine if the fridge didn’t make a sound when it was opened, it would have been boring. Every little thing sums up to something in