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Peace
Many people believe that consciousness (thinking power is called brain consciousness) is uniquely human. The French philosopher René Descartes proposed the philosophy of “I think, therefore I am”, but if that is the case then you don’t exist because when you were a baby, you couldn’t think. So that idea is wrong. Animals also don’t…
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Everything is One, One is Everything
When I was young, just a teenager, I read many things from philosophy; many of these books I read were just ideas and beautiful words for me. They didn’t go into my head or heart. They sounded just too far away from normal life; it was like reading a fantasy book: they have nothing to…
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Taoism
This is currently the main Chinese philosophy and religion. It has existed for about 5,000 years. Originally, the principle of Taoism was a pure philosophy of helping people to understand the unlimited strength of life, but ordinary Chinese people were not able to understand it in the right way, so they made a religion of…
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Tai Chi (Taiji)
This is a philosophy as well as a martial art technique. (The correct spelling is “Taiji” but “Tai Chi” is more common.) The philosophy of Tai Chi comes from Taoism. According to Taoism, the essence of life has no limitation. In Chinese it’s called wuji. According to the philosophy, wuji acts in two opposite directions:…
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How to develop a happy heart
Happy Heart You build up stress and get psycho because of a bad habit: you don’t balance your stress every day. It’s like a little snowball rolling down a hill. In the beginning, it’s small and you can stop it. As it rolls, it becomes bigger, big enough to smash your house. If you…