Writing about the interaction of opposite forces in previous blogs, there is also a preferential method of identifying stable forces as a catalyst. Similar to the bar that moves away from and toward balance as opposing forces cause it to spin rapidly, the bar itself is a structure to find a center.
Somethings are a simple part of life. They are immutable objects most people agree are obvious. There are challenges in identifying these sustainable objects. The relationship between friendship and enemy can be a supporting bar for selflessness and selfishness. The reverse motion is also true. However, the relationship friendship and enemy are less flexible concept because the social forces inhibit this relationship. Self is usually and inward activity.
Many people wonder about the balance between selfishness and friendship. There are magical principles about not using magic for selfish reasons. Is it really selfish to save your soul?
There are reference to giving someone your shoes. Is there an association between leadership and taking care of people? Is helping another person selfless?
It is a choice to believe in magic. It could be magic or a higher reasoning of the mind that is not explainable by science. Watching shows about heroes, there is a principle to only use powers for good. It is every person's responsibility to control their behavior and seek a better way of life.
If a person is unwise and makes bad personal choices, they are frequently in need of help from other people. Therefore, if someone has a special power they should also seek wisdom to help themselves. They can use this power to heal their wounds, improve their humanity and defend themselves. In taking care of themselves, they also learn how to take care of another person and teach another person to take care of themselves.
There is a line between wanting to win the lottery and improving yourself to live a happier, longer life to continue helping people. There is also a line between satisfying vices and bevelings the edges so actions have an even flow of consequences.
Lao Tzu references shoes. He is not the only one. The utility of shoes is a great benefit to people. They protect our feet from abrasion and make it easier to walk.
Buddha is also popular for statements of giving things to people when they do not have the proper tools for current circumstances. This is an act of friendship.
Commonly, people place themselves in the role of giving or receiving. Wealthy, intelligent or successful people have more to offer. Wealthy give to the poor. Poor work to produce objects, hostility or hospitality that make wealthy people wealthy. Giving someone shoes represents sharing things that another person lacks so they may walk the path of enlightenment with a greater level of comfort.
When a person seeks to give to another person without conditions, they realize their value to society. There are several inappropriate qualifiers on friendship. Po Chui was not as wealthy as Lao Tzu. He had insights of living in a rural town. He knows the needs of his town.
Lao Tzu had educational opportunities and knowledge of living in the city. He also had the reputation to become an authority with a listening audience.
When loosing judgment, they are friends. They gave shoes to each other. They worked to ensure the trade is not uneven. This increases both of their abilities. Po Chui is a successful mayor who protects his town. Lao Tzu is a successful bureaucrat that has useful insights about leading people.
Friendship and selfishness are like living in an unclean home. Roommates are friends. They are a part of coexistence. One person can have frustrations without being a traitor. Spending a long period of time around someone, it is easy to become irrational because of life and have traitorous thoughts about people who are close to you. Even though the roommate is vastly agreeable.
Frustration can lead to malice that tests virtue. With love a person makes meaningful changes. Even when paying back past debts and choosing to not runaway.
In an unclean home, they breathe the same air. One senses the issue. With malice or ignorance, they are too consumed with hatred to notice deadly mold. With calmness, they look around and know they can fix it. If they are discontent, they may want to expose flaws.
Seeing the mold and knowing it causes disease, they might convince themselves they are leaving soon. The other person will suffer disease. Since they are aware of the problem, the mold empowers them to leave. They know their safety is as much in danger living in the home as living on the streets. If unable to leave, they suffer the same fate. Only pure hate would make someone sacrifice their life to show the other person is unclean.
These issues force the question of friendship. Someone might be very angry, yet want to save their roommate. Even with frustration caused by selfishness, they still want to give their friend years of life and health.
When they clean the walls and floors, they clean the air they breathe. It is possible to stay in the home longer. There will be more opportunities to improve their personal life.
We frequently breathe the same air. The people closest to us are the most noticeable. There is a ripple affect of upward and downward momentum in cultures. It is common to contribute the health of the community as much as contributing to the disease.
There is another ripple from people who are overflowing with selflessness and selfishness. Without focusing on one or the other, it is possible to control personal behavior through friendship. This opens the mind to clarify another aspect of life.
Selfishness is not the opposite of friendship, yet friendship is method of finding a balance between selflessness and selfishness. I have few friends, many acquaintances, many competitors and few enemies. This is similar to most people.
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