I was watching King Fu Panda the other day.
Yes, the overweight Panda who went against all odds to become thee Dragon Warrior. And yes I love cartoons. Cartoons have a weird way of teaching you life lessons – like if that fictional Panda can fully attain inner peace… why can’t I? Because I mean, I’m real and have unlimited capabilities.
In one of the final scenes, the evil Peacock was trying to kill Po, the Panda. But Po kept deflecting back and using their negative energy presented as bombs slash fierce fireworks of sorts. He was using the negative energy against them, miraculously catching the bombs and throwing them back at them.
The Peacock was very shocked and frustrated by all of this. What Po had managed to attain was Inner Peace. The Peacock asked him, Po… I killed your parents but you still managed to attain and find Inner Peace. How the hell did you do it? I took everything from you.
What Peacock was hoping for was to break Po, that he gets pissed and angry at him – and as such end up acting irrationally in the fight. He was hoping Po would fight negative energy with negative energy. Po not being used to operating in an environment of dark energy and anger and vengeance, he would have lost the fight as he would have been in unfamiliar territory.
Po did not react to what the evil peacock had done, but merely became the observer of the whole situation, accepting what had been done to his parents.
He had transcended to the level of Inner Peace, a state of mind where you see everything that’s bad or good as a higher good. They call this the good of good, where you become the watcher or your own mind – watching the thinker essentially. Inner peace is when you are able to watch all your thoughts and not let them get the better of you, you then become active in the observing on your muscle that is the mind and not reactive to what it perceives.
Inner Peace, Positive Energ, and Productive Energy.
