First and foremost, you must know and understand
human wisdom before you can learn how
to let go.
Albert Einstein
once said: “Thinking is difficult; that’s why so few people do it.”
Wisdom
has much to do with your thinking mind: how it perceives and processes life
experiences, as well as what questions it asks to seek the relevant answers.
The
Wisdom of Asking Questions
According to Thomas Berger, “The art and science of
asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” Therefore,
your wisdom comes from the application to your everyday life and living all the
knowledge you may have acquired through asking questions.
There is an old proverb that says: “He who cannot
ask cannot live.” Life is all about asking questions, and seeking answers from
all the questions asked, including questions about “letting go.”
Thinking is a process of self-intuition through asking
relevant questions to create self-awareness
and self-reflection. It is the
natural habit of the human mind to solve all problems by asking relevant questions
and seeking answers from them. Through the process of solving problems, the
human mind may then make things happen.
Empower your thinking mind to increase its wisdom by
asking questions to initiate its intent to learn, to discover, and then to
change youself for the better.
What Is
“Letting Go”?
“Letting go” literally means releasing your close or
tight fist in order to abandon or give up something that you are holding in
your hand. If you are close- or tight- fisted, you also cannot receive
anything. “Letting go” is detachment.
The opposite of “letting go” is “attaching to” something
that you are stubbornly holding on to.
To live well, you need to ask yourself many other
self-probing questions as you continue on your life journey in order to find
out: who you really are, and not who you think or wish you were; what
you really need, and not what you want from life; why certain undesirable
things happened while certain desirable things did not happen to you.
Without knowing the answers to those questions asked, you can never be
genuinely happy because you will always be looking for the unreal and the
unattainable, just like the carrot-and-stick mule forever reaching out for the
unreachable carrot in front.
In many ways, the human brain is like a computer
program. Your whole being is like the computer hardware with the apparatus of a
mind, a body, and its five senses. The lens through which you see yourself, as
well as others and the world around you, are the software that has been
programmed by your thoughts, your past and present experiences, as well as your
own desires and expectations. In other words, it is you—and nobody else—who have programmed your own mindset. All these
years, you may have been trapped in a constricted sense of the self that has
prevented you from knowing and being who you really are. That is to say, your
“conditioned” thinking mind may have erroneously made you "think" and
even "believe" that you are who and what you are right now; but
nothing could be further from the truth.
By asking relevant questions, you may have the human wisdom
to "change" that pre-conditioned mindset, and thus enabling you to
separate the truths from the half-truths or even the myths that you may have
created for yourself voluntarily or involuntarily all these years.
The important thing in questioning is
to experience everything related to all the questions you ask concerning
yourself, others, and the world around you. Live every question in its full
presence.
Always ask yourself many “how” and “why”
questions regarding whatever you may do,
say, and want in your everyday life and living. Ask questions not just about
yourself, but also about all those around you, whether they are connected to
your or not.
Be patient toward all those questions that you cannot
find the answers right away. Enlightenment may dawn on you one day when you ask
fewer or even no more questions, because by then you may already have got all
the answers; that is your ultimate
self-awakening to the truths.
Stephen Lau
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
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