To fully understand the Tao you shall learn the arts of control, knowing each element and its different effect. The secret to learn each art is to have an understanding of what you know. To control fire you must know yourself. To control earth you must be patient. To control wind you must find what you want. To control water you must want to help others.
All men need the elements to survive. The same way, the art of elements need men to be practiced. If there be no elements then there be no humans and also no art of the elements. The elements were not created to make war, they were created to make art. The Avatar is the total controller of the elements. He knows their secrets, and learns from them. The Avatar grows as all men do, and understands the importance of peace and brings it to men.
Fire complements earth, wind, and water. Wind complements earth, fire, and water. Earth complements fire, water, and wind. Water complements earth, fire, and wind. The real achievement that can be celebrated is peace. If there be peace, there be harmony between the elements. All men can control the elements, they create art with them, then calling it the art of the elements.
The four elements are used by their people to celebrate their existence. The earth masters use their art to create things. Water masters use their art to heal people. Fire masters use fire to destroy things. Fire is an aggressive element. The war was caused by their desire. Self control is the key to know the secrets of fire. Only two men have learned the secrets. The Avatar and his fire master.
Each element has its masters who do art with it. These masters live in places, there is a earth kingdom, wind kingdom, water kingdom, and fire kingdom. The biggest of all kingdoms is the Earth kingdom. It is solid as its element. The Avatar know the secrets of each kingdom, and has gone to all of them.
“Before you control fire you must be able to control yourself” said the fire master. “If you don’t you may hurt someone you love” he said then. The Avatar then learned that fire was meant to be danger. “Ambition has been brought by fire” said the Avatar. “The fire king is full with it.” The Avatar has a great self control over his feelings. Each fire lord lacks it. Fire brings desire, a feeling that has been erased by violence and ambition. The men who have desire for things have self control. To desire things is good, it leads you to have a good thought about them.
“Water, and all the elements are not to be controlled by women” said the fire master. The Avatar and Katara were there to listen. “I believe differently” said Katara who already knew how to control water. The Avatar knew her powers. How he had seen here used water to heal people. “Yes” he said “I have seen her work with it, she does know the art to control water.” Then the Avatar taught water masters that all people could control the elements.
To know the control of earth you must feel it under your feet, and learn what it tells you. The earth is moving, and to understand what it says you must feel it, then you can create art with the element. “When I am near earth, I feel comfortable, it is my partner” said the blind girl, master of the art to control earth. The Avatar knew her well, and learned how to control earth thanks to her teachings. All earth masters are harsh, their element is also harsh, masters are the same way as the element that they control and that they do art with.
Wind is an element hard to control. The Avatar was the last wind master in the world, and couldn’t teach it to anybody. Anyways this was his solid companion. All men rely on wind. We breath wind, with no wind there will be no life. But this element means more to the Avatar. He knows the wind, and has learned its secrets. The wind that is made to control is the wind that gives knowledge.
Peace is meant to be created by those who know the secrets of the elements. The Avatar knows the secrets of all elements meaning that he can bring peace and harmony to all men and elements. Only the one who knows the arts of control can teach them. Is The Avatar knows to control it all, he is the one who can teach that. All that was learned by him was taught by other people. If knowledge of the elements be given to you, you must understand the importance of it. These arts must be understood well so then they can be controlled.
Monday, December 8, 2008
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