AO members, please read...

One day, when Fan Chih was attending the teacher near the Rain Dance altar, he said,

"May I ask about increasing the level of peace and harmony in society, reducing the amount of tension and conflict and knowing when I am confused."

The teacher said,

"What an excellent question?

If you focus on serving others and not on the reward you will get for serving others, you will increase the flow of peace and harmony in the nation.

If you focus on reducing the amount of tension in yourself, you will automatically reduce the amount of tension in those around you.

If you allow anger to possess you to the extent that you are oblivious to the harm you are inflicting upon yourself as well as others, you are certainly confused."

In seeing, one attunes to seeing clearly.
In hearing, one attunes to hearing correctly.
In one's appearance, one attunes to being cordial.
In one's demeanor, one attunes to respectfulness and courtesy.
In one's speech, one is trustworthy.
In one's work, one is diligent.
In one's doubts, one asks advice.
In one's anger, one considers the consequences.
In one's pursuits, one is attuned to what flows in peace and harmony.

Sayings of Confucious (Kung Fu Tzung)

After seeing and reading some post and realizing the tension among eachother in this community, i thought it might be good to shed some positive Chi in this site..

Nice!

P E A C E

:hippy:

I like this alot

"If you focus on serving others and not on the reward you will get for serving others, you will increase the flow of peace and harmony in the nation. "

That's just good Karma

p.s.
FRANK N BEANS ~check the avatar! ROFL

.....I think I'm going to be sick. Would any of you "goodies" want to come over and **** my dog while you are at it?? Those attitudes of yours are sickening. When you are all thru giving each other a reach around....why not post something interesting....maybe a bit controversial.
.......disgusting........ :flip:

Although you'll admit that the good feeling you get from helping others is somewhat self-serving (although much less so than the alternatives)

Before anybody else posts to this, please ignore haraam77. He obviously wants to start a flame war. Don't get sucked in.

I personally feel that this thread is a lesson to most of us. There isn't a person here who wouldn't be wisened by this philosophy.

harram77...
The Great Confucious once said..

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Unbounded bravery degenerates into foolishness. Too much candor is rudeness.

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Most people are for the most part too impetuous or too cautious. The impetuous can be totally foolish in their endeavors and the over cautious never seem to live life to its fullest.

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So please try not to be so foolish...

Yeah whatever that was dude i got something important to say, dude has anyone seen John? I ****ing went to go pick up a sack, and i know you got high at the bar, dude said you wandered out into streets, WHERE THE **** ARE YOU? lol i looked for you for like 10 minutes man. Hope ya ducked tha PO PO. heh =)

the pods are everywhere. whatever you do, do not fall asleep...

Here's a quote that's a quicker picker upper in times of trouble. I found it on some martial arts site:

"The meaning of life is struggle and its goal is domination. There are deeper meanings and higher goals but the reality of life is war. You may walk down a path in the woods one day and see a large tree growing out from a slab of granite. That tree once started as a little seed; but even a seed has a dream. This seed had a dream of domination. The seed did not seek this confrontation nor did it submit and die. It only obeyed the first law of the universe:

TO WIN!

So day by day, year by year, the seed slowly pushed upward, seeking every crack in its monolithic opponent, making its home in the granite's weakest points until one day the tree smashed through to victory.



Very inspiring, even though how any tree can survive deprived of light, is beyond me. Although most of the folks who go for Asian philosophy tend to slant to the wishy-washy Taoism and Buddhism, I prefer the stuff that works in the real world like Sun Tzu's Art of War and the Book of Five Rings. Hardcore warrior philosophy...

hehe mickeymont i see.. ur into inner strength...
whilst i am into inner peace...

in peace one can think, hear, feel, see clearly..
once a higher level of awareness is attoned, mastering the skill is within reach.. from there balance and flawlessness of your technique and skills is achieved..

Man.. im startin to sound like ma granpa.. hahaha

Granpa: FOCUS!! FOCUS! FOCUS!!
Me: I am focusing!!
Granpa: No you're not!! you're staring at her breast and thinking what is under that Gi!!
Me: hehehehe...

Nice post and good karma for AO members :).

hey sonic nice post.. generall what happens is we all complain about everything which is
around us.. that this is not good he is not good.. and try to sort that.. but we never see
at ourselves..

if we change ourselves.. we will see that world is changing...

great post...

intruder..

Nice stuff man!

It nice to see some good karma around here for a change - looked like the forums were gonna melt for a while there with all the flamming thats going on >_<; oh well hopefully it'll all calm down sooner rather than later ;)

v_Ln

Nice to see a positive post like this every once in a great while. I wonder when the next one will come along.

Mickeymount, that post is kinda of depressing. Lving with violence and war is definatly not a good thing. One does not win a war, one can only end it on his own terms and hope that the price has not been too dear.

It's all about the game and how you play it.
It's all about control and if you can take it.
It's all about the debt and if you can pay it.
It's all about the game!

Ok put it this way that was an awesome post sonic. It is good to help each other and I'm all about that. I think you have to rely on inner strength and inner peace. When you are a nice person people will try to take advantage of you and give you a hard time. I know that much from experience. So you must stand up for yourself when that time arrives so you won't let yourself be picked on by stupid *******s that have nothing better to do than mess with you to make themselves look better. It would be nice if everyone could get along but it's just human nature to have conflict.

In the world of paranoia and mass hysteria, we need to understand that karma of any kind is better than no karma at all...

What?

Haram77 is taliing about beastiality? Hmm....

Normally, I would blow up and flood his ass with negative antipoints, but...

I have been karma-ized so....

He sees not but a brickwall, cold and unforgiving in it strength... this brickwall is keeping his mind closed... we must "tear down the wall" and let him see the light of the almighty Turnip... or if he will not accept the Turnip, then maybe the Beet will suit suit him nicely... it tastes like and over-ripe potato on crack... Yummmmmm....

But if he cannot accept either...then, well... he was never made for the Turnip and will forever burn in Beetland, where his skin will become like beet and he will do nothing but eat porridge (three days old and moldy too).

Instead of complaining, how about we all shoot the **** about what pisses us off and figure out a way to get rid of the problem.....

(It seems those tranquilizers are working today!) :)

Damn you s0nic! There is NO *****ING TENSION HERE, Ill kill you when I get ahold of you ;)
Heh, Its sad but true.... There is al ot of tension here, most of it leads to fights in IRC, flame wars, and other foolishness :)

I think this calls for a group huge.