Oneness with All Life

Oneness with All Life

With both human wisdom and spiritual wisdom, you may see anything is everything not just for yourself but also for others as well. In other words, you may intuit the wisdom of oneness with all life, which is your interconnection with others, not just with those who are close to you,  but also with those  who are  distant and unrelated to you. Life is all about anything and everything.

No man is an island

According to John Donne, the famous English poet, “no man is an island”; that is, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Therefore, we are all interconnected with, as well as inter-dependent on, one another in many different ways.

Connectedness

Oneness is the law of nature: what we do to others, we also do to ourselves, either consciously or unconsciously. It is the unity of all life—life is what we all have, and what empowers all of us, giving us the enlightening experiences and the holistic ways of living.

The Bible has repeatedly stated the significance of oneness of God’s creation and salvation to all.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

(John 1: 1)

For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. (Colossians 1: 16)

For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles,  slave or free—and we  were all

given the one Spirit to drink.

(1 Corinthians 12:13)

According to Lao Tzu, the ancient Chinese sage, one of the reasons why nature has continued to exist for thousands and thousands of years is that all forms of life in nature have their presence, which depends on one another for their co-existence. Just think about that: everything in nature does not exist just for itself, and that is why it can last forever.

Each and every being in the universe.

is an expression of the Creator.

We are all shaped and perfected by Him.

(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 51)

Blessed is he who has no ego-self.

He will be rewarded with humility to connect with the Creator.

(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9)

So, always focus on others, instead of just on yourself all the time. Focusing on others also initiates your connection with the Creator, providing you with spiritual wisdom to guide you along the rest of your life journey.

According to Buddha, “Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.”  What Buddha means is that it is not uncommon for humans to blame their problems on all the things outside themselves—other people and circumstances that are beyond their control. But the connectedness with all life contradicts that common but erroneous belief; the reality is that what we see in others and in our own circumstances is a reflection of our inner life, of what we believe in—which is the main source of all human  miseries  and sufferings.  The truth  is that  all humans suffer because they do not see the miseries and sufferings in others, except in themselves.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister, and leader in the civil rights movement, once said: “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” So, your connectedness to others plays a pivotal role in helping you become your true self, instead of who you wish you were.

Even John Lennon in his famous hit song “Imagine” says: “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope one day you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” That the world will live as one may indeed become a reality, and not just a dream.

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Stephen Lau

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Be Wise and Knowledgeable to Heal

To heal yourself of any illness, you must be both knowledgeable and wise. Knowledge comes from how your mind perceives and processes the information. Wisdom is how you apply the information acquired to cope with your illness, including your everyday life and living.

The Trauma

If you or your loved ones have been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, or cancer, it must have been a devastating experience for you.

  

Unfortunately, a traumatic experience may have a prolonged effect on the human mind: having overwhelming negative emotions; feeling totally numb and unable to experience pleasure or even pain over a long period of time. The ultimate effect is that it may affect how you think, feel, act, and react in every aspect of your daily life and living.

In other words, your brain is the most important of all your body organs. With its billions of brain cells, your brain is not only most complicated but also most vulnerable to all your health issues and problems related to myasthenia gravis or cancer

Therefore, it is important to keep your brain healthy as much as possible in order to develop a healing mind to cope with all your disease symptoms.

The Healthy Brain

Human wisdom originates from thinking, more specifically, how the mind thinks. Accordingly a healthy brain plays a pivotal role in human wisdom.

This is how you may keep your brain healthy:

Keep yourself hydrated because 80 percent of your brain is water. Drink at lease 7-8 cups of water per day.

Keep healthy gums and floss your teeth regularly to prevent any gum disease.

Enhance and improve blood flow to your brain with your 30-minute exercise at least several times a week.

Eat a healthy diet: high-quality lean protein; low-glycemic and high-fiber carbohydrates; natural and not processed foods.

Avoid inflammation and the formation of free radicals in your body

Avoid sugar and sugary drinks, including all sodas and diet sodas.

Quit smoking, and limit your alcohol consumption to no more than 5 glasses per week.

Manage your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

Maintain healthy levels of nutrients, e.g. vitamin D and omega-3s.

Maintain healthy hormones, e.g. testosterone and thyroid.

Promote good mental health, and avoid anxiety and depression.

De-stress yourself with correct breathing and daily meditation.

Get quality sleep of at least 7-8 hours a night without the help of medication.

Develop meaning and purpose in your life.

In addition to having a healthy brain, you must empower your thinking mind.

The Thinking Mind

The brain is composed of grey matters and neurons or nerve cells that transmit information and messages; they are the building blocks of the brain for the efficient functioning of the thinking mind.

                

Neurons are responsible for all human behaviors in the form of perceptions, which then trigger a mental process in the thinking mind that may result in an action or an emotion. If the process becomes instinctive, then the output in the form of actions or emotions is also automatic and predictable. That is how attitudes and habits are formed, including the fight-or-flight response to any given situation. This automatic or spontaneous mental process is often not “by choice” but by instinct.

But this so-called “learned” mental process is often responsible for the way you think and act, for your beliefs and emotions, for your actions or inactions, as well as for your overall choices and decisions resulting in your behaviors.

The good news is that you can learn to do the following: understand how your thinking mind perceives and processes all your life experiences; recognize your instinctive or automatic mental process; challenge its reality or validity in order to see through the myth or even the deception; and then ultimately change your mental process by taking appropriate actions accordingly.

Wisdom is the capability of the thinking mind to recognize the deceptions behind the quasi-truths perceived, that is, the ability to separate the sheep from the goats.

Your thinking mind processes all your life experiences, and they then become your thoughts and memories, which are the raw materials of your thinking process.

YOU JUST DON'T DIE!

Stephen Lau

Copyright© by Stephen Lau