Highest Form of Victory

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself, makes you fearless. I remember an old Beer advertisement by 'little moustache' Lin, saying in the line of whether you would change yourself to suit the environment, or change the environment to suit yourself. I would like to believe that mastering oneself is a higher form than mastering others. True, lasting joy and happiness comes from within ourselves. Those joy and pleasures that we derives from the external world can ultimately brings about its opposite, pain.
Which brings us to the saying mentioned by Sun Zi; the highest form of victory comes from not sacrificing a single life to yield the enemy, as oppose to total annihilation. To be able to embrace, accept and indirectly yield the enemy is the greatest art of all. Afterall, there is but only one people under the same sun.


Pacific Century ~ Little Superman's baby. supp .39 , res .435