Outside of this, optimism and pessimism do not exist. What exists is the question of “how to face the challenge of facts” mixed into the issue of optimism and pessimism. But this confusion carries great weight, so we will address this related issue separately - the answer is no matter whether you feel the facts make you delighted or fearful, your guesses are wrong.

What you need to do is discern all aspects of the definite event about to happen, and make the proper response.

All facts that are certain to happen are neutral in the long run. It’s not that making you wealthy is definitely heavenly blessing, nor making you sick is inevitable bad luck.

Blessings lurk within disasters, and disasters lie in wait within blessings. Looking at it from a historical perspective, every event will have complex associations with endless future happenings, to the extent that judging it as good or bad is almost meaningless.

Something that now makes your soul fly away in terror, yet ten years later makes you shed tears of gratitude - was it a blessing or misfortune? Something that has you over the moon now, yet five months later leaves you beyond help - was it a blessing or misfortune?

A person who believes that the hurricane will not make landfall, even though the scientist has predicted that it will. A person who believes that the hurricane will cause widespread damage, even though the scientist has said that it is likely to be a weak hurricane.

However, “you happened to see its arrival due to various causes and conditions” - this in itself is a blessing that transcends subsequent fortune or misfortune.

Do you see - “seeing” itself is already fortune. It is a thread of certainty amidst the complex future of unpredictable good and ill.

Feeling joy and sorrow due to impending fortune and misfortune is human nature, but also the cause of sentient beings’ impermanence and suffering. Seeing through this fallacy, resetting it back to the true neutral zero point that aligns more with objective facts, only then can you truly not delight in possessions, not grieve over yourself, not fluctuate between extremes, and not prematurely exhaust your psychological resources by meaningless tossing and turning until you sink into terminal gloom from fatigue.

Not only that, because you understand how to penetrate this superficial emotional explosion, you can also gain a small recharge from appreciating and being grateful for this bit of certainty.

With just this major liberation, and small replenishment, your life experience can already improve tremendously.

And have you noticed? Rational deductive ability allows you to convert more matters that originally required pessimistic or optimistic expressions into “neutral yet faintly sweet” minor positive experiences. The stronger your reasoning skills, the more affairs you can classify into this category of minor positive experiences.

This is the peace of the wise，the peace out of wisdom

This alone is already a tremendous safe harbor.