A description of the book:
"Anything Is Everything, Everything Is Nothing, Nothing Is Everything" is a miracle of life and living, based on the ancient wisdom of Lao Tzu from China, and the Biblical wisdom. Live your life as if everything is a miracle.
To do just that, you need the wisdom to know how your mind works--especially how it has created your ego-self that demands your attachments to the material world. Learn how to be in the physical world, but not of the material world. More importantly, get the wisdom to know who you really are, and not who you wish you were. Knowing and understanding the truths of anything and everything may enlighten you so that you intuit the ultimate truth that everything is actually nothing, but this nothingness is your pathway to everything in your life.
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A sample from the book:
A Frog in a Well
In many ways, many of us are just like
a frog in a well, looking up at the limited sky above, in that we see only ourselves, and no one else, and
therefore anything is everything to us.
In other words, we see only our own needs and desires that have to be fulfilled
and gratified no matter how, but without seeing those in others.
Just like the man in the car rage who
saw only his own need to get going, but without even considering why the woman might be stalling her car
at the stop sign and not moving ahead right away.
Just like the Chinese couple who saw only
their desire to get their two sons into
These two examples above also
illustrate another basic but major human flaw—the “inflated” ego-self, which is
focusing too much on “anything is everything” related to an individual’s
ego-self.
We are all created to be in this world for only one purpose:
to be our true self. Conventional
wisdom often tells us to find our role model, pursue our life goals based on
that role model. Subconsciously, we may all begin to dream that we are that
role model or someone else that we are not, instead of being who we are
supposed to be. That is how we may
all have created an ego for ourselves; worse, we may even believe that we have
to somehow gratify our ego-self in order to feel happy and contented.
The truth of the matter is that we all have an ego, and that is why we all, without any exception, have
experienced unhappiness to a certain extent at some points in our lives. Unfortunately,
the human ego is also the underlying cause or the main source of all human miseries
and sufferings. That is to say, the human ego is the human flaw responsible for
most of the problems and troubles that we are all facing in our lives.
The reality is that we cannot get rid of our ego because it
is our uniquely individual identity. Having said that, we can still somehow
diminish its size, or at least not letting it get out of control and dominate
us eventually. Remember, the size of
your ego is directly proportionate to the degree
of distortion of your thinking mind, creating the so-called “realities” in your
mind, which often are biased and untrue.
Your ego is your perceived identity, which is neither a
social security number nor just a face. Your identity is your inner self or
your self-worth as a person that you
perceive. Many people even strive to build their identities by manipulating acceptance
and attention from others. Sadly, that usually does not work: your
true identify should be based on how you perceive yourself, rather than
on how you perceive what others may
think of you. That is to say, your true identity should not be built
upon your own inflated ego.
The bottom line: like a frog in a well,
with only limited and imperfect vision and perception of the sky above, you may
then unconsciously distort your thinking mind with your inflated ego.
For example, the Chinese couple with an
inflated ego might have developed an assumptive
prediction that their sons going to
followed by a good marriage, and hence living
happily ever after. But, in real life, nothing could be further from the truth.
To be the frog that jumps out of the well to see anything and everything totally different, you need both human wisdom and spiritual wisdom.
ANYTHING IS EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING IS NOTHING. NOTHING IS EVERYTHING.
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