Enlightenment of Your "ANGRY NO MORE"

 ENLIGHTENMENT OF YOUR "ANGRY NO MORE"

Angry No More is never easy. You need to know how and why through your enlightenment.

So, what is enlightenment?

Enlightenment is an endless process of knowing and understanding anything and everything that’re simply there and that’re available to all since the begin of time. Enlightenment is just like “knowing” the presence of sunlight at sunrise while “opening” the eyes.

Li Ching-Yuan, a Chinese herbalist, martial artist, and tactical advisor, known for his extreme longevity of well over 200 years—which far exceeded the longest confirmed lifespan of 122 years of a French woman—gave his profound perspectives of “enlightenment”:

“Before I had studied Zen (an ancient Chinese philosophy) for thirty years,
I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters.

When I arrived with a more intimate knowledge,I saw that mountains are not mountains, and waters are not waters.

But now that I have got its very substance, I am at rest.

For it is just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters.” (Li Ching-Yuan)

Enlightenment is an endless process of knowing and understanding anything and everything that’re simply there and that’re available to all since the begin of time. Enlightenment is just like “knowing” the presence of sunlight at sunrise while “opening” the eyes.

Your mental capability to see “mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters”—which is the enlightenment itself—may or may not come to you now or even for the rest of your life. Enlightenment may still be important to you, but not that important. After all, many people pass through life with only some understanding but without really attaining the absolute truths of anything and everything in their lives.  Having said that, it’s important that at least you see “mountains are not mountains, and waters are not waters”—which is already your profound understanding or your conscious intent to know the truths and to separate them from the half-truths or the untruths.Yes, delusions and illusions may go on indefinitely, but enlightenment may take only a moment. It’s the very moment of your consciousness without being self-conscious.

Universal Truths

Enlightenment is instrumental in “opening” your mind to your understanding of some universal truths:

 Impermanence is one of the universal truths. Everything changes with every moment, and nothing lasts forever.

 Nothingness is a universal truth derived from impermanence. Death will come in the end for all and sundry. This is the way of all flesh with a built-in mechanism in the genes to ensure the mortality of all humans.

Spontaneity is another universal truth. Everything in life follows a certain natural cycle: what goes up must also come down—just as life is inevitably followed by death.

Knowing and understanding universal truths may also change some of the perspectives of your anger:

Disappointment and frustration: Nothing lasts forever, and everything is changing. So, be positive and optimistic about your negative emotions and feelings.

 Abundance and lack: Everything becomes nothing. So, let go of all your attachments to accomplishments, fame, and wealth that only  inflate your ego.

Failure and success: Everything follows a natural cycle. So, your failure may be well on its way to success.

Stephen Lau
Author of ANGRY NO MORE