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In a previous life, I lived 5,000 years atop Wudan Mountain. I remember every lived second.
Life is competition.
Competition is violence. In many modern forms of competition, we have attempted to water down the violent aspect, to replicate violence in the most sanitized way. 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. The largest, strongest, most beautiful tree violently crushed the surrounding saplings in the quest for resource.
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. The more sophisticated my understanding of the universe's state of constant war, the happier, more content and peaceful I feel. You are meant to struggle. You are here to suffer. 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,
And every female will prove to you, you may as well not exist. 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. We are born valueless, and you either build yourself into a king or you fail.
told me, Priest Master Xianghui, how at peace he felt amongst the trees. He could feel life all around him.
Sitting at the foot of the largest tree, he asked me, "When life is so beautiful, why do we fight?" My reply was simple. "Do you think the largest tree you sit beneath grew so tall amongst many, if it didn't fight?"
of Wudan.
Teichinkai.
War Room