Life is often an enigma and we often ask why is life like that. The answer is that no two are born equal and alike in circumstances. We are what we are and we cannot be what others are. We have our problems which no matter what will not be identical with those of others.
The sages of old would like us to believe that our present life is the continuation or rather the result of our past life. We inherit the good and bad outcome from the past. In the early half of life, our life seems to be more predictable as though we relive the events of past life in some way. What we can achieve and what we cannot seem to be based on some degree of certainty.
But thereafter, we have to modify on that in later half. It is then the time to learn the lessons of life which we have yet to learn in past life. If we understand this, then we will realise that it is fated that we have to learn.
If we can learn and succeed, then we can make it in life in God's way. If we grumble and lament why this and why that, then we have to resign to our fate so to speak. But if we can be reflective and see through life with insight that our problems are not problems but lessons in life for us to learn and for us to pick ourselves up, then we will be able to make good.
Making out in life in God's way is what everyone of us must do, isn't it? But this depends on our insight of life.
We need to have inclination of what we failed to learn in past life and what we are set out to learn in this life. The problems we have in life will provide us with learning. It is God's way or rather providence way to make us learn.
God has for each and everyone a life of our own. We have our own set of blessings and our own individualized woes. How we manage them and make life work for us is left for us.
If we make it, then good as we would have learnt from life and improved on our attributes that we have in past life. Even the skeptical would at time want to know, what has life in store for them and what is it in life that they have to do.
What is it that God wants us to learn and unlearn in this present life? We must cultivate the insight and act based on this insight. Then life will be more meaningful and rewarding even if we cannot have what others have. Do remember that we always have some things in life which others don't have.
The important thing is to know what God wants us to have and to learn in this life. Only then, do we have chance to make it out in life.
The important thing is to know what God wants us to have and to learn in this life. Only then, do we have chance to make it out in life.
Invariably, the answer has to do with yin yang balance. The yin yang interplay and factors differ from one person to another and the specific intervention to achieve this balance differs from person to person.
For Lao Tse, he knew what he had to do. He had to leave the city life of China and his life as keeper of the emperor's archives and ride on the buffalo into the wilderness so as to be one with nature and have better yin yang balance so as to have peace in life as immortal Lao.
But we are not to be immortals as yet though yin yang balance is still the key to peace in our respective mortal life.
God is Tao and Tao is God. It is the same as saying God is the Word and the Word is God. Tao refers to God not just a person but also as a force and energy that is part of everything. Tao is only thrown into disarray by human actions and reactions. Lao Tse exhorts man to find his balance of yin and yang in him and in the world he is in.
From the Tao Te Ching book attributed to Lao Tse as the first author, a popular concept is expounded. This is the concept of Yin and Yang which is the very essence of true balance in nature. Examples of Yin and Yang are gain and loss, good and evil, honor and dishonor, fire and water, east and west, even and odd numbers as well as male and female.
