#1 Cleaning Your Inner Room
Discovering spiritual wu-wei: Get disenchanted with ego-centric actions for true transformation and roam the world as a free spirit
We all have our prejudices and deeply held beliefs. Some of them are unexplainable by logic and scientific principles. At the same time, we also adopt other ideas and views because we tend to think we subscribe to them due to our reasoning capabilities. The paradox of human reasoning is that as long as we stretch it, it becomes even more powerful and limitless. The more we rely on it to make sense of the objective world, the more we are attached to it. We tend to presume that we have figured things out by our thinking capacity without realizing that our rational ability is essentially a double-edged sword in the intricate web of social relations.
There is a difference between being reasonable and relying solely on reason to guide our actions. A reasonable person behaves based on common sense and acceptable social norms. To some degree, being reasonable means one has to make some compromises to reach a consensus with others. This person recognizes, mainly through experiences and wisdom, that this is necessary for achieving natural harmony.
In contrast, guiding one’s actions with pure reason and intellect is a different story, as we can be captured by them. Entrapped in beliefs and assumptions we think are deduced from human reasoning and therefore justifiable, we pursue actions with affirmation and certainty. If we uphold them to the extent of obsession without leaving some room for adjustment and corrections, eventually, our fixation can lead us astray.
