BE A BETTER AND HAPPIER YOU WITH TAO WISDOM: A description of the book:
This 132-page book is based on the profound human wisdom expressed in “Tao Te Ching” written by Lao Tzu, an ancient sage from China.
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A sample from the book:
To become a better and happier individual, you need love, compassion, and altruism. These are the attributes necessary not only for redeveloping or reshaping your personality but also for sustaining yourself in this aggressive and ever-changing world. They are the daily foods for your soul to provide you with happiness, inner satisfaction, and joy.
Humanity and Self
Without compassion, you lack self-confidence, which often gives way to anxiety, fear, and insecurity. Compassion enables you to see your own connectedness with others, and you are not alone all by yourself. Once your inner world becomes imbalanced and disharmonized by a lack of self-confidence, you lose your inner calmness, without which you cannot properly utilize your wisdom. Without wisdom, you mind becomes obsessed with negative thoughts of self, leading to wrong actions and toxic consequences. This is where Tao wisdom may come into play by diminishing your ego-self and letting you focus more on others, rather than solely on yourself. Letting go of the ego-self may help you develop compassion and cherish a sense of responsibility for humanity.
Anything and Everything
Awareness of your own responsibility for humanity may enable you to rein in your temper and inhibit your anger. Better understanding of humanity lets you acknowledge the destructive forces of anger, and thereby instrumental in reducing their strength. Your short temper can benefit from Tao wisdom, which shows you the importance and necessity of embracing all—the easy and the difficult, as well as the pleasant and the unpleasant. In life, difficult and unpleasant experiences not only train but also enhance you mental stability to control your temper, which often undermines your compassion for others. Tao wisdom teaches you not to pick and choose but to embrace anything and everything in life because any situation in life can make you become either a teacher or a student. Life is about anything and everything that you can learn from, and this is where true wisdom comes from.
Understanding that anything is everything may also make you see things very differently. People and things do not exist independently. When there is long, there has to be short; they do not exist simply because of their own nature. Everything in life is not only relative but also related. Viewing any life situation—whether it is good or bad—with this profound human wisdom may help you see that anything is everything, In other words, any life situation is not under its own power but depends on many present causes and conditions, as well as many past causes and conditions; otherwise it could not have come into being. With this perspective, you can see much more of the whole picture, and thus you can see the reality of the situation.
For instance, in economics, if you just go after profit, you may end up with corruption. Failure to look at the whole picture that anything is everything means your failure to see the reality of everything in life. Failure to see the reality means your outlook becomes distorted and exaggerated, and thus leading to inappropriate actions or reactions. To illustrate, if a person or an event causes anger and hatred, the ugliness of anger and hatred is often exaggerated when the whole picture of the reality is not seen. An unreal mental projection of the exaggerated ugliness of anger and hatred may result in disproportionate actions or reactions that result in unhappiness.
Always look at self and others from the whole perspective that anything is everything, and you may become a better and happier you.
Perspective and Judgment
Through repeated mental training, you may begin to change for the better: becoming less easily angry and more readily loving and forgiving. More importantly, you may become more capable of assessing and analyzing the long- and short-term consequences of your actions on yourself as well as on others. Gradually, you may no longer identify anyone as your “enemy” because, according to Tao wisdom, there should be no judgment, which is no comparison. With no judgment, you may also begin to see anything and everything in perspective, and in its own reality. All material things, people, and even your own body may not be the sources of your happiness. Instead, the material things you always crave may make you sad, the people you love may give your trouble, and the body you own may give you pain. No judgment is part and parcel of letting go, one of the essentials of Tao wisdom, and an indispensable ingredient in eliminating anger and envy, among many other negative emotions that are the real destroyers of your happiness in life.
Hope and Despair
Calmness, which naturally brings mindfulness and concentration, is not only a powerful mental tool to develop true human wisdom, but also a recurrent source of genuine human happiness. Mental calmness gives rise to joy. Any external enemy, no matter how powerful, is unable to strike directly at your mental calmness, which is formless and hence untouchable. Only anger can destroy your mental calmness. To overcome anger, hatred, and other related negative emotions, train yourself to smile when you look at yourself in the mirror on waking up every morning. Your smile will bring altruism, love, and compassion. As you develop your basic sense of humanity, hope will also be born. Hope is not expectation. There are two kinds of hope: authentic hope and false hope. Authentic hope is a genuine belief in the goodness of human nature. False hope is expectation of results due to human efforts; more specifically, it is based on the human ego believing that “extra” human efforts can achieve and satisfy human desires, which include greed. According to Tao wisdom, expectation is the source of all human pain, which includes disappointment, leading to anger, despair, and regret, among many other negative emotions that may ultimately become your toxic thoughts and memories that make you unhappy.
BE A BETTER AND HAPPIER YOU WITH TAO WISDOM
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