THE ONENESS WITH ALL LIFE
In this day and age, to live well is not easy. Contemporary wisdom may provide a blueprint for living, but that may be too inhibiting without giving you true freedom to live the life you want to live. You are not free so long as you indulge indiscriminately in your inclinations to succeed in your life at any cost. You must understand Nature's natural laws and abide by them in order to attain true freedom. Ancient wisdom in the oneness of all life was founded on basic realities of human nature itself. To pursue these realities is the essence in the art of living well.
Contemporary wisdom is exclusive—even to the extent of wishing
others fail so that one may succeed in life. In addition, it states that one
must do this or do that in order to succeed and live well. Ancient wisdom, on
the other hand, focuses on doing whatever one has to do but with a sense of
true freedom—the recognition and realization of the wisdom in the oneness with all life.
Wisdom in the oneness with all life is based on one of the basic
laws of Nature: that is, we are all inter-connected, just as the famous
poet John Donne says: "No man is an island." .This
universal moral principle leads us to true and lasting freedom and wisdom in
living. Once we understand that the life flowing in our veins is the same as
that flowing in the veins of others, we will learn how to show love and
compassion towards others. After all, we are all created in the image of God,
and we are no more than expressions of God.
Wisdom in the oneness with all life frees you from the bondage of
anger, competitiveness, disrespect, discrimination, envy, ridicule, and many
other negative attitudes of the mind, which adversely influence how you live
your life. Jesus' saying of "Love thy neighbor as thyself"
and Mahatma Gandhi's advocacy of non-violence must be understood in
subtle ways. If you "kill" the enthusiasm of someone, you are
"harming" that individual because you are in fact taking away the
life within that individual. Remember, love and compassion are expressions of
the oneness with all life—a mental attitude that liberates human bondage from
self-centeredness and gives freedom in the art of living well.
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Stephen Lau
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