"One should act positively by doing something with other people cooperatively and harmoniously. The key is to respect people and treat them equally. Only in this way can true peace and harmony be established in a community." - I-Ching Translation by Taoist Master Alfred Huang.
Community - a group of people living in a particular local area; The term Communion is derived from Latin communion (sharing in common). The corresponding term in Greek is koivwvia, which is often translated as "fellowship".
To me that is any two persons who join together to do something in a cooperative and harmonious manner. It can be a moment in time or it can be an ongoing endeavor where the community or communion of like souls grows into the many.
How does it grow into the many? One must understand the other(s) in many ways in order to know how to commune within the community. A person must work hard to learn about others so that they may enter into this communion of others with harmony and mutual cooperation.
Tatsuo Sensei expressed this many times over the years in the hopes that practitioners of his way of the wholeheartedly practice art of Okinawa Te would see the importance and provide effort in following that way to better understanding of one another.
Study the ancients for to learn from the past will help us not repeat bad things but to understand and bring about peace to all human kind. To connect to the Tao and its offerings. Simply open that doorway and walk through.
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