Awareness lets you be conscious of what is going on in your
mind. It brings about mental calmness, mindfulness, and concentration—they are not
only powerful mental tools to develop true human wisdom, but also recurrent
sources of genuine human happiness.
Mental calmness gives rise to joy. Any external enemy, no
matter how powerful, is unable to strike directly at your mental calmness,
which is formless and hence untouchable. Only anger can destroy your mental
calmness. To overcome anger, hatred, and other related negative emotions, train
yourself to smile when you look at
yourself in the mirror on waking up every morning. Your smile will bring
altruism, love, and compassion.
As you develop your basic sense of humanity, hope will also
be born. Hope is not expectation. There are two kinds of hope: authentic hope
and false hope. Authentic hope is a genuine belief in the goodness of human
nature. False hope is expectation of results due to human efforts; more
specifically, it is based on the human ego believing that “extra” human efforts
can achieve and satisfy human desires, which include greed. According to Tao
wisdom, expectation is the source of all human pain, which includes
disappointment, leading to more anger, despair, and regret, among many other
negative emotions that may ultimately become your toxic thoughts and memories
that make you forever unhappy.
Stephen Lau
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