EVERYTHING IS NOTHING
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 nothing 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 of what is impermanent that we
naively believe and wish that they were permanent. Remember, nothing is
permanent, and every moment remains only with that very 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
Copyright© by Stephen
Lau
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