PEACE AMONGST THE TREES

In a previous life, I lived 5000 human years atop Wudan mountain.

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I remember every lived second. Life is competition. Competition is violence.

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In many modern forms of competition we have attempted to water down the violent aspects, to replicate violence in the most sanitised way.

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We have full grown men, growing as large and strong as possible - to put a ball in a net, as opposed to hurting each other. But the sentiment is the same. It’s a group of men at war with another - with one team being victors. And the other being losers.

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The largest, strongest, most beautiful tree. Violently crushed the surrounding saplings, in the quest for resource.

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Every time I see beauty, I see the struggle required to create it. When I see myself, I know the struggle lived to become who I am. To live as I do.

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The more sophisticated my understanding of the universes state of constant war - the happier, more content and peaceful I feel.

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You are MEANT to struggle. You are here to SUFFER.

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If you do neither of these things, you are either dead or invisible. If you want people to care who you are - become familiar with pain. If you do not struggle to become an exceptional man. You are a nobody. And every female will prove to you - you may as well not exist.

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Evolution requires PAIN. While others complain they do not feel happy enough, I’m happy I’m struggling. I don’t want to be happy. I want to be great. This is the beauty of life as a MAN.

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We are born valueless. And you either build yourself into a King - or you fail. Atop Wudan, I told priest master Yan Hui, how at peace I felt amongst the trees. I could feel life all around me.

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Sitting at the foot of the largest tree, I asked him. “When life is so beautiful, why do we fight?”

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His reply was simple. “Do you think the largest tree you sit beneath, grew so tall amongst many, if it didn’t fight?”

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Such is the way of Wudan.

-TATESHINKAI