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Peace amongst the trees.
In a previous life I lived 5,000 human 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 aspects, to replicate violence in the most sanitized way. We have fully grown men, growing as large and strong as possible, to put a ball in a net, as opposed to hurting each other.
*Dramatic Music*
But the sentiment is the same. It's a group of men at war with another, with one team being victors and the others being losers. The largest, strongest, most beautiful tree violently crushes 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 I am.
the more content and peaceful I feel.
You are meant to struggle.
You are here to suffer. If you do neither of these things, you're 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.
Evolution requires pain.
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 are a king.
or you fail.
Thank you.
Atop Wudan, I told Priestmaster Xian Hui how at peace I felt amongst the trees.
I could feel life all around me.
Sitting at the foot of the largest tree I asked him,
When life is so beautiful, why do we fight?
His reply was simple.
Do you think the largest tree you sit beneath grew so tall amongst so many if it didn't fight?
Such is the way of Wudan.