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Eastern philosophy has always had very
similar goals to Western philosophy that
of making us wiser less agitated more
thoughtful and ready to appreciate our
lives however the way that Eastern
philosophy has gone about this has been
intriguingly different in the east
philosophy has taught its lessons via
tea drinking ceremonies walks in bamboo
forests or contemplations of rivers here
are a few ideas to offer us the
distinctive wisdom of a continent and
enrich our notions of what philosophy
might really be this is the first and
central noble truth of the Buddha and it
states that life is unavoidably about
misery the Buddha continually seeks to
adjust our expectations so that we will
know what to expect sex will disappoint
us youth will disappear money won’t
spare us pain for the Buddha the wise
person should take care to grow
completely at home with the ordinary
shambles of existence they should
understand that they are living on a
dung Hill when baseness and malice rear
their heads as they will it should be
against a backdrop of fully vanquished
hope so there will be no sense of having
been unfairly let down and one’s
credulity betrayed that said the Buddha
was often surprisingly cheerful and
generally sported an inviting warm smile
this was because anything nice sweet or
amusing that came his way was
immediately experienced as a bonus a
deeply gratifying addition to his
original bleak premise by keeping the
dark backdrop of life always in mind the
Buddha sharpened his appreciation of
whatever
stood out against it he teaches us the
art of cheerful despair Mehta is a word
which in the Indian language of poly
means benevolence kindness or tenderness
it is one of the most important ideas in
Buddhism Buddhism recommends a daily
ritual meditation to foster this
attitude what is known as met
Bhuvana the meditation begins with a
call to think very carefully every
morning of a particular individual with
whom one tends to get irritated or to
whom one feels aggressive or cold and in
place of one’s normal hostile impulses
to rehearse kindly messages like I hope
you will find peace or I wish you to be
free from suffering this practice can be
extended outwards ultimately to include
pretty much everyone on earth
the background assumption is that our
feelings towards people are not fixed
and unalterable but are open to
deliberate change an improvement with
the right encouragement compassion is a
learner bull skill the Buddhists tell us
and we need to direct it as much towards
those whom we love as those we are
tempted to dismiss and detest one Yin is
a saintly female figure in East Asian
Buddhism strongly associated with mercy
compassion and kindness she occupies a
similar role within Buddhism as the
Virgin Mary does within Catholicism
there are shrines and temples to her all
over China one in the province of Hainan
has a hundred and eighty meters statue
of her when he ins popularity speaks of
the extent to which the needs of
childhood endure within us she is in the
noblest sense mummy
across China adults allow themselves to
be weak in her presence her gaze as a
habit of making people cry for the
moment one breaks down isn’t so much
when things are hard as when one finally
encounters kindness and a chance to
admit to sorrows one has been harboring
in silence for too long
when Yin doesn’t judge she understands
that you’re tired that you’ve been
betrayed that things aren’t easy that
you’re fed up she has a measure of the
difficulties involved in trying to lead
a remotely adequate adult life Wu Wei is
a Chinese term at the heart of the
philosophy of Taoism it is first
described in the Tao Te Ching written by
the sage Lao Tzu in the sixth century BC
Wu Wei means not making an effort
going with the flow but it doesn’t in
any way imply laziness or sloth it
suggests rather an intentional surrender
of the will based on a wise recognition
of the need at points to accede to
rather than protest against the demands
of reality as loud sue puts it to be
wise is to have learned how one must
sometimes surrender to the whole
universe
reason allows us to calculate when our
wishes are in irrevocable conflict with
reality and then bids us to submit
ourselves willingly rather than angrily
or bitterly to certain necessities we
may be powerless to alter some events
but for loud sue we remain free to
choose our attitude towards them and it
is in an unprotected acceptance of what
is truly necessary that we find the
distinctive serenity and freedom
characteristic of a taoist east asia has
been called the bamboo civilization not
mainly because bamboo has been widely
used in daily life but also because it’s
symbolic qualities have been described
and celebrated for hundreds of years in
the philosophy of Taoism bamboo is
surprisingly classified as a grass
rather than a tree yet it’s tall and
strong enough to create groves and
forests unlike a tree trunk the stems of
bamboo are hollow but its inner
emptiness is a source of its vigor it
bends in storms sometimes almost to the
ground but then springs back resilient
Li we should as as loud sue become as
bamboo already is the greatest painter
of bamboo was a Taoist poet artist and
philosopher Genji of the Qin Dynasty
Genji is said to have painted 800
pictures of bamboo forests and saw in
them a perfect model of how a wise
person might behave beside one pen and
ink drawing of bamboos he wrote an
elegant script hold fast to the mountain
take root in a broken up Bluff grows
stronger after tribulations and
withstand the buffeting wind from all
directions it was a message addressed to
since the 16th century Zen Buddhist
philosophy in Japan has been alive to
the particular beauty and wisdom of
things which have been repaired kansui
is a compound word made up of two ideas
kin meaning in Japanese golden and tsuki
meaning joinery in Zen aesthetics the
broken pieces of an accidentally smashed
pot should never just be tossed away
they should be carefully picked up
reassembled and then glued together with
lacquer inflected with a luxuriant gold
powder there should be no attempt to
disguise the damage the point is to
render the fault lines beautiful and
strong the precious veins of gold are
there to emphasize that breaks have a
rich merit all of their own it’s a
profoundly poignant idea because we are
all in some ways broken creatures it’s
not shameful to need repair amended bowl
is a symbol of hope that we too can be
put together again and still be loved
despite our many evident flaws we
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Eastern philosophy has always had very
similar goals to Western philosophy that
of making us wiser less agitated more
thoughtful and ready to appreciate our
lives however the way that Eastern
philosophy has gone about this has been
intriguingly different in the east
philosophy has taught its lessons via
tea drinking ceremonies walks in bamboo
forests or contemplations of rivers here
are a few ideas to offer us the
distinctive wisdom of a continent and
enrich our notions of what philosophy
might really be this is the first and
central noble truth of the Buddha and it
states that life is unavoidably about
misery the Buddha continually seeks to
adjust our expectations so that we will
know what to expect sex will disappoint
us youth will disappear money won’t
spare us pain for the Buddha the wise
person should take care to grow
completely at home with the ordinary
shambles of existence they should
understand that they are living on a
dung Hill when baseness and malice rear
their heads as they will it should be
against a backdrop of fully vanquished
hope so there will be no sense of having
been unfairly let down and one’s
credulity betrayed that said the Buddha
was often surprisingly cheerful and
generally sported an inviting warm smile
this was because anything nice sweet or
amusing that came his way was
immediately experienced as a bonus a
deeply gratifying addition to his
original bleak premise by keeping the
dark backdrop of life always in mind the
Buddha sharpened his appreciation of
whatever
stood out against it he teaches us the
art of cheerful despair Mehta is a word
which in the Indian language of poly
means benevolence kindness or tenderness
it is one of the most important ideas in
Buddhism Buddhism recommends a daily
ritual meditation to foster this
attitude what is known as met
Bhuvana the meditation begins with a
call to think very carefully every
morning of a particular individual with
whom one tends to get irritated or to
whom one feels aggressive or cold and in
place of one’s normal hostile impulses
to rehearse kindly messages like I hope
you will find peace or I wish you to be
free from suffering this practice can be
extended outwards ultimately to include
pretty much everyone on earth
the background assumption is that our
feelings towards people are not fixed
and unalterable but are open to
deliberate change an improvement with
the right encouragement compassion is a
learner bull skill the Buddhists tell us
and we need to direct it as much towards
those whom we love as those we are
tempted to dismiss and detest one Yin is
a saintly female figure in East Asian
Buddhism strongly associated with mercy
compassion and kindness she occupies a
similar role within Buddhism as the
Virgin Mary does within Catholicism
there are shrines and temples to her all
over China one in the province of Hainan
has a hundred and eighty meters statue
of her when he ins popularity speaks of
the extent to which the needs of
childhood endure within us she is in the
noblest sense mummy
across China adults allow themselves to
be weak in her presence her gaze as a
habit of making people cry for the
moment one breaks down isn’t so much
when things are hard as when one finally
encounters kindness and a chance to
admit to sorrows one has been harboring
in silence for too long
when Yin doesn’t judge she understands
that you’re tired that you’ve been
betrayed that things aren’t easy that
you’re fed up she has a measure of the
difficulties involved in trying to lead
a remotely adequate adult life Wu Wei is
a Chinese term at the heart of the
philosophy of Taoism it is first
described in the Tao Te Ching written by
the sage Lao Tzu in the sixth century BC
Wu Wei means not making an effort
going with the flow but it doesn’t in
any way imply laziness or sloth it
suggests rather an intentional surrender
of the will based on a wise recognition
of the need at points to accede to
rather than protest against the demands
of reality as loud sue puts it to be
wise is to have learned how one must
sometimes surrender to the whole
universe
reason allows us to calculate when our
wishes are in irrevocable conflict with
reality and then bids us to submit
ourselves willingly rather than angrily
or bitterly to certain necessities we
may be powerless to alter some events
but for loud sue we remain free to
choose our attitude towards them and it
is in an unprotected acceptance of what
is truly necessary that we find the
distinctive serenity and freedom
characteristic of a taoist east asia has
been called the bamboo civilization not
mainly because bamboo has been widely
used in daily life but also because it’s
symbolic qualities have been described
and celebrated for hundreds of years in
the philosophy of Taoism bamboo is
surprisingly classified as a grass
rather than a tree yet it’s tall and
strong enough to create groves and
forests unlike a tree trunk the stems of
bamboo are hollow but its inner
emptiness is a source of its vigor it
bends in storms sometimes almost to the
ground but then springs back resilient
Li we should as as loud sue become as
bamboo already is the greatest painter
of bamboo was a Taoist poet artist and
philosopher Genji of the Qin Dynasty
Genji is said to have painted 800
pictures of bamboo forests and saw in
them a perfect model of how a wise
person might behave beside one pen and
ink drawing of bamboos he wrote an
elegant script hold fast to the mountain
take root in a broken up Bluff grows
stronger after tribulations and
withstand the buffeting wind from all
directions it was a message addressed to
since the 16th century Zen Buddhist
philosophy in Japan has been alive to
the particular beauty and wisdom of
things which have been repaired kansui
is a compound word made up of two ideas
kin meaning in Japanese golden and tsuki
meaning joinery in Zen aesthetics the
broken pieces of an accidentally smashed
pot should never just be tossed away
they should be carefully picked up
reassembled and then glued together with
lacquer inflected with a luxuriant gold
powder there should be no attempt to
disguise the damage the point is to
render the fault lines beautiful and
strong the precious veins of gold are
there to emphasize that breaks have a
rich merit all of their own it’s a
profoundly poignant idea because we are
all in some ways broken creatures it’s
not shameful to need repair amended bowl
is a symbol of hope that we too can be
put together again and still be loved
despite our many evident flaws we
partnered with Skillshare today and they
have given us an amazing offer to pass
on to you the first 500 people to sign
up using the link in the description
will receive a 2 month free trial if you
haven’t heard of Skillshare before it’s
home to thousands of classes in graphic
design animation web development music
photography design and more you can
start learning how to do just about
anything in two months you could easily
learn the skills you need to start a new
hobby or business is there a project
that you’ve been dreaming of completing
but just aren’t sure if you have the
skills to do it why not start right now
and sign up to skill share using the link below
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