@TIME What is the fundamental chasm between China and America?Yes between the normal people of both nations, but not between elite classes of two countries
“The friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water.” -- Confucius. That is what a good friendship shall refer to. Intimate relationship, in the end, often hurts
When this society turns arguing into a fashion, there are few ways you can get around it. I don't like arguing, but it sticks on me like a bitch and I had to face various excuses and scoundrels in courts.. But I know that if you tremble with anger at this moment
Mindfulness is not only applicable to some unpleasant life situations, but in fact, by mastering mindfulness, a person's worldly troubles are basically eliminated, because mindfulness can also be used in work and finance. The distracted thoughts of the mind
'Fighting with people, fighting with the earth, and fighting with the heaven bring endless joy.' This is truly a great feat of a great man. For ordinary people, being calm and retaining composure without causing anxiety is a direction of self-improvement.
In recent years, I have been involved in a lawsuits and I am not comfortable with confrontation. I have been forced to fight alone and engage in verbal battles with Australian lawyers and barristers. The fight even spreaded to Chinese courts.
Fighting is not the goal, but a tool. The purpose is to teach people to see through the mess by planting lotus flowers in the fire in their minds, thereby eliminating troubles. This is probably also a way to cultivate qi. There is a saying that goes,
太清元道经里问,“今且天地久長即爲人不能長久者,何也?”,答案也许就在道德经里了. Laozi said the heaven reduces the redundant and supplements the insufficient, while man is doing the opposite. The sage therefore never flaunts his feat (regarding the show-off as waste of energy)
the west can't argue with that...The compassionate yet critical perspectives of TE serve as the reminder to western protectionists that people's interests always lie in the center of all political affairs