What is Your Favourite Philosophy?

What helps you most? Which do you feel the most? (Everyone shares their favourite philosophy.) Arse-kicking: people don’t do it to themselves enough. Not making negative comments is one example I can work on. Hold nothing, in relation to the first Eternal Dharma Truth that all the appearing form is constantly changing. When I’m experiencing

The Five Developments: Two Parts of Life

The Five Developments are a sequence of ideas that describe how you create your experiences or awareness boundary. (Your awareness boundary is the limitation of your consciousness, e.g. how far you can see, the level of your education, or your emotional maturity.) The ideas consist of two different concepts: Illusion Being and consciousness. Illusion Being

What is worry?

Worry is a strong feeling of concern that you might experience about a temporary situation in the present or future. Because you are focused on your worry, you blind yourself to many of the variables involved in that situation. Eventually, your worry will cause depression, obsession, and anxiety. Although worry is a psychological phenomenon, it

What is emotion?

Emotions are feelings: negative emotions like sadness and fear cause suffering; positive emotions like happiness and gratitude cause joy. They appear when you are aware of yourself in relation to your surroundings. They change according to changes in that relationship and your intention. Everyone has their own way of using emotions as a tool for

What is desire?

Desire is the power of wanting. The power itself is neither good nor bad. It can be the cause of unlimited joy, but also the cause of a black hole of suffering. Blindly following your desire will cause your life to swing between joy and depression, pleasure and pain, without any control. Desire is a

Kung fu

The original idea of kung fu has nothing to do with the martial arts. “Kung” means the time devoted to working on something. “Fu” means a tough guy or an intelligent person. When put together, the phrase describes somebody who works hard at a task. Chinese people even use this to make jokes about their

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

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

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: