Okay I have a few questions... I'll just write them separate so they can be addressed separately or and answer whatever one you like.

Firstly the background of the questions is i've almost finished reading Eckhart Tolle's New Earth and have some fresh questions in my mind regarding that stuff. I've been leading down this sort of path before reading this book, but i'm really trying to practice it now and explore it.. So these questions are fresh in my mind right now..

1. Say that previously I was going from thing to thing to get frustrated about. I was generally unhappy, but mainly I would 'enjoy' getting angry at things. Emphasizing my separateness from everyone else as often as possible, and how they are wrong and I am right. For a specific example, I would get mad at people doing dumb/dangerous things on the road nearly second by second. I would take it personally and get mad, rapt up in emotions, and stay angry, constantly affirming how bad they are for what they did... (to get over this, among other things i've realised that there will ALWAYS someone be doing something wrong.. possibly every minute of every day for the rest of my life.. And I can never change it, so I can either get mad every single time and suffer, or not care about it and spend my entire drive being content) Now say I dropped that negativity. I ignore what they do. I don't let the hateful "righteous" dialog start. I don't let any emotion creep in... Basically it can be a spec of irrelevance now. I see what they do, and my mind, body, or emotion do not even acknowledge it..
But, eliminating all that negativity, I feel like i'm left with nothing.. It's sure better than being angry, obviously, but I don't feel quite at that peace level yet. possibly far from it... It's more of an empty.. It's a lack of negativity which is good, but it's a lack of anything....

1 a) Should the eventual path lead to something other than negativity? like a replacement feeling? or is the state of "no negativity" the ultimate goal?

1 b) Is it that I should just continue to cultivate "no negativity", and slowly a natural happiness/peace will replace it...? It's just that I can't expect to let go of a lifelong negativity for one day, and expect overall for it to be replaced immediately?

1 c) Or, after losing the negativity, ignoring all the negative things in the world I usually play off, I am half way there - Then for that positive feeling I think is missing - I should say - Drive around instead, looking and saying "wow, those are really pretty trees". "The sky is a beautiful blue today"?


Actually, that was only one of my questions, but it's a pretty good one so far.. I have another one but i'll ask it later when I can think of a good way to phrase it... The above one is pretty puzzling to me at the moment.. Because I feel like i've stripped away a lot of the negativity that I would usually 'celebrate' in a way, constantly... But JUST stoppingdoing that, means at least 2 hours of every day now is NOT spent being pissed off or angry, or playing negative stuff in my head over and over... and of course, that has to be a good thing for anyone to do. To ger rid of all that.. But past eliminating the negative - What can I expect next, or what is the next step?