To become a better and happier individual, you need love, compassion, and
altruism. These are the attributes necessary not only for redeveloping or
reshaping your personality but also for sustaining yourself in this aggressive
and ever-changing world. They are the daily foods for your soul to provide you
with happiness, inner satisfaction, and joy.
Humanity and Self
Without compassion, you lack self-confidence, which often gives way to
anxiety, fear, and insecurity. Compassion enables you to see your own
connectedness with others, and you are not alone all by yourself. Once your
inner world becomes imbalanced and disharmonized by a lack of self-confidence,
you lose your inner calmness, without which you cannot properly utilize your
wisdom. Without wisdom, you mind becomes obsessed with negative thoughts of
self, leading to wrong actions and toxic consequences. This is where Tao wisdom
may come into play by diminishing your ego-self and letting you focus more on
others, rather than solely on yourself. Letting go of the ego-self may help you
develop compassion and cherish a sense of responsibility for humanity.
Anything and Everything
Awareness of your own responsibility for humanity may enable you to rein in
your temper and inhibit your anger. Better understanding of humanity lets you
acknowledge the destructive forces of anger, and thereby instrumental in reducing
their strength. Your short temper can benefit from Tao wisdom, which shows you
the importance and necessity of embracing all—the easy and the difficult, as
well as the pleasant and the unpleasant. In life, difficult and unpleasant
experiences not only train but also enhance you mental stability to control
your temper, which often undermines your compassion for others. Tao wisdom
teaches you not to pick and choose but to embrace anything and everything in
life because any situation in life can make you become either a teacher
or a student. Life is about anything and everything that you can learn from,
and this is where true wisdom comes from.
Understanding that anything is everything may also make you see things very
differently. People and things do not exist independently. When there is long,
there has to be short; they do not exist simply because of their own nature.
Everything in life is not only relative but also related. Viewing any life
situation—whether it is good or bad—with this profound human wisdom may help
you see that anything is everything, In other words, any life situation is not
under its own power but depends on many present causes and conditions, as well
as many past causes and conditions; otherwise it could not have come into
being. With this perspective, you can see much more of the whole picture, and
thus you can see the reality of the situation.
For instance, in economics, if you just go after profit, you may end up
with corruption. Failure to look at the whole picture that anything is
everything means your failure to see the reality of everything in life. Failure
to see the reality means your outlook becomes distorted and exaggerated, and
thus leading to inappropriate actions or reactions. To illustrate, if a person
or an event causes anger and hatred, the ugliness of anger and hatred is often
exaggerated when the whole picture of the reality is not seen. An unreal mental
projection of the exaggerated ugliness of anger and hatred may result in
disproportionate actions or reactions that result in unhappiness.
Always look at self and others from the whole
perspective that anything is everything, and you may become a better and
happier you.
Stephen
Lau
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Stephen Lau
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