The Creator has created for us a world of changes:
everything is changing with every moment, and nothing remains permanent. It is
through changes that we transform ourselves into a better and a happier human
being. Even in a difficult and challenging
environment, we learn from our mistakes and wrong choices in life, and change
ourselves. Transformation is educational and self-enlightening. Transformation
is synonymous with impermanence, which is the essence of change.
Understanding that everything is impermanent is
self-enlightening. Nothing is permanent: the good as well as the bad things
that happen to us are impermanent; nothing last forever. We all are aware of
this universal truth. We all know that we cannot live to one hundred years and
beyond, and yet we resist our aging, continuously fixing our faces and bodies
to make us look younger. We may have the face of a forty-year-old but the body
of the seventy-year-old. We simply refuse to let go; we desperately and
self-delusively cling on to the permanence In other words, we wish the
impermanent were the permanent. It is this wishful thinking that makes us
unhappy. We were once healthy and now our health has declined, and we are
unhappy. We were wronged by our enemies, and we hold on to our grudges, instead
of forgiving and letting them go, and we are unhappy. Our past glories gave us
the ego, which we refuse to let go, and we become depressed and unhappy.
Life is about changes, and living is about letting go what is
impermanent that we naively believe and wish that they were permanent.
Remember, nothing is permanent, and every moment remains with that moment.
Therefore, live in the present, and live your moments to their best.
Get the wisdom of Lao Tzu, the author of Tao Te Ching, the ancient
classic from China
Stephen Lau
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