Are
you happy? Or, why are you unhappy?
Happiness
has much to do with attachments to the material world we are living in. Are you
attached to your careers, your relationships, your past, your emotions, or your
ego-self? Letting go of all your attachments is the only way to happiness. But
letting go is not easy: it requires both human wisdom and spiritual wisdom.
The
pursuit of human happiness is forever elusive and evasive. Why? It requires
human wisdom to ask the right questions, and spiritual wisdom to seek
self-enlightening answers to the questions asked throughout one’s life journey.
Human
wisdom comes from the mind: an empty mindset with reverse thinking; mindfulness
living in the present with no expectation and no picking; and spontaneity with
understanding of the natural cycle of all things, that is, what goes up must
also come down. The ancient Tao wisdom from China may enhance human wisdom.
With
human wisdom, one may see the wisdom of letting go of all attachments in the
material world. Attachments are the raw materials with which one often creates
the self-delusive realities of the ego-self. Letting go of the ego and all its
attachments may let one see the true nature of everything: who one really is, not who one wishes to become, and what one really needs, not what one
desires.
The
ego is the human flaw that not only undermines the natural human wisdom but
also distorts the lens through which one sees the world around. Therefore, one
needs spiritual wisdom to complement the inadequate human wisdom, to guide the
soul on one’s life journey. Spiritual wisdom can only be attained through trust
and obedience to the Creator, which is letting go to let God.
Stephen Lau
Copyright© 2018 by Stephen Lau
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