An Eastern Philosophy - On How Both Joy And Sorrow Pass An spiritual teaching drawing lessons for life from the seasons..

[Yratorm, LightMage 0]

This topic will discuss ancient teaching of the east - 'All will pass, and all will come again' - a teaching that draws a lesson for human life out of the ever-changing seasons

 

The law of the cosmos is change - do not regret the bitter snows of winter, for the spring could not be half as beautiful without them. And spring is made even more beautiful by the fact that it is so transient - if it lasted forever, how soon would we cease to appreciate it.

 

And even winter has it's beauty, and it's opportunities. To stand against the cold, and smile at the touch of the snow - to rise above the harshness of the elements and conquer them - here is a simple opportunity for an austere greatness.

So it is with life. Joy would not be so precious were it not transient, were the shadow of past and future sorrow not cast upon it. It is the sorrows we have known, the sorrows that are to come, that make our joys so precious and so beautiful. And sorrow and disappointment carry in themselves great opportunity - the opportunity to rise above them - to climb our dead hopes to greatness, to be strong enough to hope when the weak would despair - to conquer the darkness by turning our faces to the sun.

Ah yes, joy and sorrow, growth and pain - all pass, and all return. Accept them, love them; and as the cycle moves on, grow - grow in courage and strength and contentment and wisdom.

 

 

The steel blade howls when it is plunged into the fire, yet it is the fire that makes the blade immortal.

 

So it is with the souls of men.

[matak 2]

It is true that people often worship only happiness and not sorrow without the understanding that with no sorrow they would not have the same understanding of happiness. Same metafore could be used for many other emotions we have in life, sometimes when we find ourselves sick, we remember how it was good to be healthy. Little people know, or understand that egzactly that is the reason we need to find ourselves sick, just to understand how happy we need to be when we are healthy. Mages all over the world have found the meaning of their quests, and try to teach it to others. But also they know that if their job would be easy, if everybody just accepted their teaching that those teaching wouldn't be worth that much. When schoolar acceptes teachings of his mentor mentor rises even more, and becomes even more aware of his task ahead. Opposite of that is when schoolar doesn't accept or just doesn't understand the tasks put in his path by his mentor, mentor starts to doubt his quest, and if he is week he will quit and abbandon his teachings.That is why all of us need to be aware of our doings, we need to do them by heart and true meaning beacouse that is the only way when we begin to doubt our path, then we will remember that we are doing it from the heart, and that is the only way we are going to succed in our plan.

[linekill 1]

I also believe in worshiping both joy and sorrow. They're both ends of human emotions. In order for us to live life fully, both ends have to be experience. It's just like Yin-Yang. A balance between two opposing sides. A balance in our lives. Maybe this is the same reason that Buddha recognized sufferings as a Truth of our world.