Blooming Lotus
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I understand that this will probably lead to even furter slide in my popularity here although, because I came here as a budhist ad everything I do is about that, I decided that it was appropriate whatever the repercussion from it.
A story for you all.
Once upon a time, more than 1500 yrs ago, there was a Prince. He had a lovely wife and beautiful children. AS was the trend for the richerst caste in the day, he also had a lovely concubine, with whom he also had beautiful children.
The Prince and his court enjoyed the very best money and power could buy.
In his castle, he had a big comfortable room where he used to like to spend time, for the balcony off that patricular room provided the most amazing place to look down and watch the ppl of the kingdom below acting out their days and lives.
One day, the Prince was watching the ppl down below, and he noticed, with bloody war forever looming in and from surrounding kingdoms, how hard and poor the lives of the ppl had become.
The handsome rich young prince was moved by this.
He was so moved in fact that he wept for what he could not do to change that for them.
After relecting on this for a time, riddlen with empathy, the young prince decided he would leave the castle and go forth into the world to live as they did with hope that he might discover how to amend the predicament.
And so he did, renouncing his throne and taking no money, he left his wife, his concubine and his beautiful children.
The prince wanderd for a time as such. A reasonable amount of time, and still was yet to discover the solution. At this, the prince decided, as through his travels, face and body dirty with dust from the journey and sweat from the hardship of the land, belly empty and no food to be found, that he would stop in the forrest he had just entered, and he would he sit until he came up with the answer.
Ther prince sat and he sat. Many a time as he was fading away, a stranger would approach the prince and offer him food. The prince was flattered and grateful for the offer he knew to be such a sacfrice to the ppl who'd stopped but declined nonethless feeling he could calm his raveous hunger through calming down his desire for it without likewise to the purpose he was pursuing.
And so the Prince continued to sit. and sit. and sit. Many years went by, and the prince still sat trying to think of the solution to the problem that had been before him. Finally a kind hearted sweet faced maiden was also walking inthe forrest and encountered the prince. Unable to go on and not notice the starvation the prince was appearing to suffer through his handsome travel worn face, she approached the prince and enquired of him as to how it came about that he should be in the forrest that day.
Having learnt of how it came to be for the prince, the maiden, saddened and concerned, then departed from the prince .
Several hours later, the maiden returned with food offering it to the prince. It was at having to confront this offer, that finally the answer the prince had been searching for dawned upon him!
He would take the food, get up and walk to each kingdom and tell the kings of those kingdoms not to fight and to make peace with the other kingdoms.
Of course, that would prove slightly harder than the prince had realised at the time.
Eating the meal and thanking the maiden with all of the affection and love and gratitude in his heart, the prince set off on his way.
For many weeks and months and years, the prince walked. He walked and he walked and he encountered all manner of beast, plant insect and person.
As he walked, he would stop to explain his idea for peace that would improve life for all. That news wasn't always received so well, as you might imagine, but it did provide the prince enough support to have his bowl filled ofen enough to continue his journey.
The prince did go from kingdom to kingdom trying to speak with the kings. Time and time again, the prince was told that they weren't interested or that it would never work, for this reason or that, and to please leave.
And so he did.
Finally the prince came to one kingdom and the gates opened. The king loved everything the pirince had said and ordered his townspeople to build for the prince a temple, so that the king might hear his advice and plans and be able to find him when he wanted to.
The towns people did so and loved having the prince amongst them.
After a time, the king set off with the information guided by the prince and eventually the wars ceased and the ppl below began to prosper. The prince grew in popularity as his ideas started to take and bear fruit and he was affectionely therafter named as buddha. The enlightened one.
There are so many ppl for whom succes has been a long and ardent journey full of sweat and dirty paths and also full of rejection and outside skeptisms. Having so many of his own theories rejected time and time again before a door opened and he was let in, David T suzuki is a prime example of one of these people.
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David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, PhD (born March 24, 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has become known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine, The Nature of Things, seen in syndication in over 40 nations. He is well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment. He also tries to convince children to help protect the environment
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I just wanted to drive home to people tat there will always be obstacles to anything big that's worth acheiving. There will also always be people who are mean and cruel and ignorant or without hope themselves who will add the hardship of not giving up.
It's worked for people through time time and time again so i say to you all, dont give up. Rome wasn't built in a day and I along with many ohers in the world beleive that if you hang in and keep working toward your goals, it's pretty dammed likely you'll get there.
I'm not sure how long this post will be allowed to stay up here, but there you all go.
peace and good luck to you all.
Blooming tianshi lotus.
A story for you all.
Once upon a time, more than 1500 yrs ago, there was a Prince. He had a lovely wife and beautiful children. AS was the trend for the richerst caste in the day, he also had a lovely concubine, with whom he also had beautiful children.
The Prince and his court enjoyed the very best money and power could buy.
In his castle, he had a big comfortable room where he used to like to spend time, for the balcony off that patricular room provided the most amazing place to look down and watch the ppl of the kingdom below acting out their days and lives.
One day, the Prince was watching the ppl down below, and he noticed, with bloody war forever looming in and from surrounding kingdoms, how hard and poor the lives of the ppl had become.
The handsome rich young prince was moved by this.
He was so moved in fact that he wept for what he could not do to change that for them.
After relecting on this for a time, riddlen with empathy, the young prince decided he would leave the castle and go forth into the world to live as they did with hope that he might discover how to amend the predicament.
And so he did, renouncing his throne and taking no money, he left his wife, his concubine and his beautiful children.
The prince wanderd for a time as such. A reasonable amount of time, and still was yet to discover the solution. At this, the prince decided, as through his travels, face and body dirty with dust from the journey and sweat from the hardship of the land, belly empty and no food to be found, that he would stop in the forrest he had just entered, and he would he sit until he came up with the answer.
Ther prince sat and he sat. Many a time as he was fading away, a stranger would approach the prince and offer him food. The prince was flattered and grateful for the offer he knew to be such a sacfrice to the ppl who'd stopped but declined nonethless feeling he could calm his raveous hunger through calming down his desire for it without likewise to the purpose he was pursuing.
And so the Prince continued to sit. and sit. and sit. Many years went by, and the prince still sat trying to think of the solution to the problem that had been before him. Finally a kind hearted sweet faced maiden was also walking inthe forrest and encountered the prince. Unable to go on and not notice the starvation the prince was appearing to suffer through his handsome travel worn face, she approached the prince and enquired of him as to how it came about that he should be in the forrest that day.
Having learnt of how it came to be for the prince, the maiden, saddened and concerned, then departed from the prince .
Several hours later, the maiden returned with food offering it to the prince. It was at having to confront this offer, that finally the answer the prince had been searching for dawned upon him!
He would take the food, get up and walk to each kingdom and tell the kings of those kingdoms not to fight and to make peace with the other kingdoms.
Of course, that would prove slightly harder than the prince had realised at the time.
Eating the meal and thanking the maiden with all of the affection and love and gratitude in his heart, the prince set off on his way.
For many weeks and months and years, the prince walked. He walked and he walked and he encountered all manner of beast, plant insect and person.
As he walked, he would stop to explain his idea for peace that would improve life for all. That news wasn't always received so well, as you might imagine, but it did provide the prince enough support to have his bowl filled ofen enough to continue his journey.
The prince did go from kingdom to kingdom trying to speak with the kings. Time and time again, the prince was told that they weren't interested or that it would never work, for this reason or that, and to please leave.
And so he did.
Finally the prince came to one kingdom and the gates opened. The king loved everything the pirince had said and ordered his townspeople to build for the prince a temple, so that the king might hear his advice and plans and be able to find him when he wanted to.
The towns people did so and loved having the prince amongst them.
After a time, the king set off with the information guided by the prince and eventually the wars ceased and the ppl below began to prosper. The prince grew in popularity as his ideas started to take and bear fruit and he was affectionely therafter named as buddha. The enlightened one.
There are so many ppl for whom succes has been a long and ardent journey full of sweat and dirty paths and also full of rejection and outside skeptisms. Having so many of his own theories rejected time and time again before a door opened and he was let in, David T suzuki is a prime example of one of these people.
{quote}
David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, PhD (born March 24, 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has become known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine, The Nature of Things, seen in syndication in over 40 nations. He is well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment. He also tries to convince children to help protect the environment
{ end quote}
I just wanted to drive home to people tat there will always be obstacles to anything big that's worth acheiving. There will also always be people who are mean and cruel and ignorant or without hope themselves who will add the hardship of not giving up.
It's worked for people through time time and time again so i say to you all, dont give up. Rome wasn't built in a day and I along with many ohers in the world beleive that if you hang in and keep working toward your goals, it's pretty dammed likely you'll get there.
I'm not sure how long this post will be allowed to stay up here, but there you all go.
peace and good luck to you all.
Blooming tianshi lotus.
