Living Life Wisdom
Live your life according
to your inner intuitive spirit, and not according to the have-to-do philosophy
of contemporary world. There is no such a thing as have-to-do, neither is there
a must-follow recipe for living. That having said, to live well, you must get
to do a lot, much more than you would like to do, but do without
over-doing.
To live well, you must be
the creator of your own life. Be creative. A creative approach to
transformative life is empowering: it enables you to ask soul-searching and
mind-stimulating questions to get a better understanding of your problems and
pains in your life. Living is a path of self-discovery—discovering your own
false judgments about the world you are living in. These false judgments of
yours have been made through years of self-seeking that, ironically enough, has
created the self-deceptions and illusions responsible for the problems and
difficulties in your life.
According to the TAO, the
ancient wisdom from China
According to Lao Tzu, this
is how the human mind has become distorted and dysfunctional:
In the beginning, man did not know things existed, and so
he had perfect knowledge.
Later, he found out things existed, but made no
distinctions between them.
Then, he began to make some distinctions, but expressed
no judgment about right and wrong.
Now, he makes judgments of right and wrong, and that
leads to his own preferences of likes and dislikes, which then create his
desires and expectations—the sources of his suffering. In short, the human mind
is like an unbridled horse: it makes judgments, making what does not exist,
exist, and what does exist, does not exist. In the process, illusions and
self-deceptions are created, and they become the substances of the ego-self.
The only solution is to
change the way you think through your mind. If you can change the way you see
the world, your life will be totally different. Remember, the TAO mind is not
the human mind. The human mind is concerned with worldly things and worldly
life, forever making false distinctions and discriminations based on human
desires to seek pleasures and to avoid pains. The TAO mind is a perfect mirror
that reflects everything perfectly, but it does not hold on to anything at all,
because what it sees in the mirror is just a reflection, an image of something
intangible, unreachable, and therefore unreal. Use your mind like a mirror: it
reflects what you see, but does not retain it, and therefore you learn to let
go of everything that you see because it is unreal. That is the true
wisdom in the art of living well.
A TAO mind, however, does
not stop you from living a
proactive life but your activities should fit into the natural patterns of the
universe, and therefore need to be completely detached and disinterested, and
not ego-driven.
Remember, life is but a mirror of yourself and how you live your life..
The bottom line: There is no recipe for living. If there were, it would just
serve to put together the ingredients of both ancient and conventional wisdom,
to be enhanced and complemented by spiritual wisdom.
True wisdom
has no form and no concept; it has to be experienced and internalized in order
to intuit its essence to cope with challenges and problems in life.
Stephen Lau
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
