Lucas always said the Jedi were basically meant to just knight coded Buddhists, but actual Buddhism rejects both hedonism, and asceticism.
Chasing perfection out of fear is also giving in to the dark side, because in doing so you deprive yourself and others of the simple joys of the world, when those things are what keeps us human.
The path to enlightenment isn’t to surpass humanity, it’s to fully recognize and embrace the cosmic essence of what humanity, and all other things are.
Yaddle musta made him look like a horny little creep at the life day party one year after turning down a move
More seriously, Dark Side Yoda from the Netflix finale of the clone wars constantly talked about not being allowed to come out and play,
This makes me think that Yoda had a Ghandi complex, complete with the very weird notions of needing to resist the thiccness to achieve maximum powaz.
That’s definitely part of it, any tiny slip and the sith can abuse it, so the only protection is perfection?
Kinda but also kinda not.
Lucas always said the Jedi were basically meant to just knight coded Buddhists, but actual Buddhism rejects both hedonism, and asceticism.
Chasing perfection out of fear is also giving in to the dark side, because in doing so you deprive yourself and others of the simple joys of the world, when those things are what keeps us human.
The path to enlightenment isn’t to surpass humanity, it’s to fully recognize and embrace the cosmic essence of what humanity, and all other things are.