From a Taoist perspective, anything that stirs your emotions is often something you’ve become attached to. Those who recognize their own attachments possess awareness. If you expand this awareness to observe why you experience emotions, you are someone with introspective ability. If you can use introspection to examine the root causes of your attachments, you are someone who can transcend appearances. By transcending appearances, you dissolve attachments, shifting from being governed by external circumstances to mastering them through your mind— this is the state of enlightenment. Those who achieve this level are exceedingly rare!