Anything and Everything
To live well, you need wisdom to know, to understand, and to
act or react accordingly. One of the essentials of human wisdom is awareness,
which is the capability to what is happening to you and around you.
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; they
all exist with a reason; the reason may or may not be apparent to all of us.
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.
Anything Is Everything
The bottom line: anything is everything. Always look at self and others from the whole perspective
that anything is everything; and, accordingly, you may be a better and
happier you.
Stephen Lau
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