The Wisdom of Anything Is
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.
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
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
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