The Art of Living (Dr. Kam Yuen)
– By Kam Yuen – Reprinted with permission. First published in 2012.
Living is an art, not a science. If it were a science, we would all be in more of a Bunsen Burner flame, boiling hot water centrifugal spin than we’re already in now!
Science, in spite of its flamboyant and glamorous status, creates more questions than answers. Do we need to ask and be asked more questions with no answers, or at best a few answers unrelated to the questions?
Usually science would have approximately one answer per thousand questions. For science to have two answers, or even a second one, it has to formulate an additional thousand questions. By the time we get answers from science, we will be old and gray as I am now, if not already dead, which I am getting closer to.
Science’s answers are not truthful because it needs empirical evidence (whatever that means) before scientists consider anything to be true.
Gathering empirical data puts everyone to sleep, including those doing the gathering and interpreting. It is difficult for science to recognize the answer – even if the answer has been staring it in the face for decades.
The answer is not the truth, because none of their answers are applicable in improving anyone’s lives, or anything else for that matter.
Does science really care to get to the truth?
It is difficult for science to get to the truth because it doesn’t have a sense of humor.
The truth is funny!
Even stones in caves have changed by the time it takes science to form a single postulate let alone reach a conclusion. Carbon molecules would turn into diamonds by the time we get any useful answers from science for us to live by.
Every few years, scientific theory gets discarded and reversed until it contradicts its own previous theory. It is difficult for science to make up its mind— if it even has one.
Have I left anything out that would make us want to separate science from the art of living, as we wish to separate religion from government, so at least we can have a certain degree of life and liberty?
To improve the art of living, we can’t depend on science.
It is really technology that improves the standard of living.
Science gets the credit, just like medicine gets credit for health.
Under such premises, the art of living finds science to be as unreliable as any other human institution. One should not give science more credence than any other limited human system of experience.
The art of living seeks to unchain itself from the yoke of science, to be treated as equal to science, as all things are equal. There is a science and art of unparalleled development of intuition, unmatched by previous generations, that is setting a new baseline standard for future generations.
The art of living takes into consideration intuitive access to our physical, mental and spiritual being.
It is only through intuition we get to the truth;
logic can only point us in certain directions.
There are infinite possibilities for science to ponder, but it is up to our intuition to choose the exact one that is applicable to the given situation. Otherwise, we cannot siphon the truth out from the midst of untruths.
Art is intuition . . .
and science is hard nosed logic with a sinus problem
This new standard of intuition mentioned here can be taught and trained. It gives us the insight, without positive or negative judgment, to know untruths – even though everyone, including all the king’s horses and men, support infinite untruths as the truth.
It is time for people to get off their high wooden horses and smell the aroma of wonton soup—not the chicken soup.
We have been led to believe that if everyone holds something to be true, because it does something only by accident, or from probability of random chance resolved one time, that we must accept it as always the truth.
This is the result of great marketing strategy. If we can get one person out of a hundred better accidentally, we can convince everyone that the other 99 would get better, or even have already gotten better.
There should be no argument about what is and what isn’t the truth!
Remember, if whatever has been said were true,
it would resolve whatever ails us in our lives more times than one.
However, if what has been preached didn’t resolve even one ailment of a person’s life, then there is no truth to what has been said, even though all the gurus are parroting the same thing.
Just because everyone is saying the same worded speech
doesn’t make it the truth.
- Does having passion, gratitude and intention make that much difference in our lives?
- Do we care to count the limited number of spiritual laws?
- Do we need to be motivated and inspired?
- Do we arrive to the New Age by going backward in time?
I will keep you all in suspense until my next or future article!
You know what is worse than listening to one parrot? It is having to listen to a whole bunch of them.
– Kam Yuen
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