There is The Dark Side Of The Force, and then there is The Force, unbridled.
Is this about star wars?
That’s how I came to Learn about The Force, too.
No one mentions, at least in the normal star wars, skipping the ridiculous 123 millennial soap, and going from episode 6 to 7 with JJ Abrams, an opposite to ‘dark’. There is being, and then there is the dark side of that. Often the dark side is an enhanced side. Somehow the ‘general side’ is exceptionally direly threatened and then the dark side is blamed, and the general side produces an exceptional man, I wont say a hero, because whats a hero, but sometimes there’s a man.
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Jakob is totally nerding out in this thread. I would probably run into him at a Star Wars convention myself.
This thread needs some more Emperor Palpatine in it.
I’ve never watched them.
I’ve never watched the Partridge Family.
Breaking Bonaduce was pretty good.
Is this a serious discussion? As in you actually learned something useful about something analogous to Chi or Will or some paranormal powers from Star Wars movies?
the force unbridled is the dark side, the light side is measured, and the sword of justice comes down [drawing lines of distinction] to arrive at proper proportions such to obtain balance. the dark, baseless, emotional, concerning strength, the light sees that strength has its limits thence being surpassed by intelligence.
Yoda spent most of his time in the swamp force-masturbating before Luke showed up.
Since the Star Wars philosophy is such idiocy, like watered down Zen for, well children obviously, it is hard to take a gif of Yoda as meaning it meaning it was a serious discussion, since star wars fans are often to dense to realize how silly this is, or a wink saying, of course it’s not serious, look at this idiocy. To be entertained by star wars, well, OK. Not my taste, but it’s well done in some ways. But to take the philosophy seriously…absurd. Like learning about Nietsczhe from Kim Kardishan. Not from her as an example of something, but from her wisdom.
Yoda says, ‘Do or do not, there is no try.’
How do you do without first trying?
I like this quote better:
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
― Alvin Toffler
We are all taught bad habits to an extent; some of us have them beaten into us. So, we are forced to learn so much BS, then we have to unlearn it to relearn anything new and then unlearn that if that’s wrong just to relearn something better, hopefully culminating in a right way to approach life.
Taoism 101; The Tao does it straight away, if you trust your instincts. ‘The force’ is here simply a description of the Tao as if it were a physical force. Quite unnecessary except maybe to westerners of the 70’s.
Okay, but Taoism doesn’t seem to account for self-awareness at that point, is all I’m saying; and neither does Yoda.
Once you start becoming self aware, you then have to learn how to get back to the mindless doing it straight away, trusting your instincts. At the same time, self-awareness and awareness of others doesn’t stop, it just keeps going, so you have to constantly learn and relearn it all at the same time as trying instead of being able to just ‘do’.
fair point. perhaps it is the context it is said in that counts ~ where luke is a jedi and so inherently knows the force, thus has only to tune into it, …and just do. I think its is the same in Taoism, where it is true that one can become a master, it is also true that mastery is already there when you find it!
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