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No water, no moon. - Posted By ChrisAThill (chrisathill) on 16th Nov 22 at 2:36am
"Now listen," said Nasrudin. "First teach me to swim. Only then will I go near the river. How dangerous it is! If something goes wrong, who will be responsible? Only when I learned to swim would I go near the river. But is there any way to learn to swim without entering the river? So Mulla Nasrudin never learned to swim. It was too dangerous. It was too silly. A person, a learned person, a logical person, can not go to the next step. Logic becomes a tomb and you become more and more limited because life is dangerous. There's no getting around it! It always has to go into the unknown. The river always goes into the sea. This is the course of life: it always leaves the known and goes into the unknown. That's the way of life! There's nothing you can do about it. If you're going to do it, then the Ganges should flow to the gangotri because that's a known thing, not to the gangasagar, not to the ocean. In African mythology, there is a bird whose name is woofle (woofle)-African. This bird is the most legendary of all the myths in the world, and only this bird has that characteristic: this bird is not interested in where it goes, it is only interested in where it comes from-it can therefore go back. It never goes anywhere, because it's always interested in where it comes from, it's interested in the past, which means it's like you're old and going to the womb! This is impossible! But that's what the human mind does. Through logic you go to the source, through love you go to the final blossom-the planes are different. Logic asks, "Who created the world?" It is interested in the Creator, in the past, in the original source,Foam Pump Bottles Wholesale, the Ganges, from which the Ganges rises. Love never asks who created the world, it is always there, so why worry? It doesn't matter who created abcit. Who created the world and how did it affect you? What does it matter whether it is a Hindu God, a Brahman or a Christian God? Love is interested in the ultimate flowering. Love is interested in the Buddha-nature. Love is interested in what will happen to me, my seed and how it will blossom. Remember the difference: logic is always interested in the known, the past, the path you have traveled; love is always interested in the unknown,cosmetic packaging wholesale, the final flowering, the path you have not traveled-not just not traveled, but not even imagined, not even dreamed of. That is why few philosophers come to the Buddha. They are on two very different poles: the philosopher goes into the past, the Buddha into the future. They may split at the same point, but there is no point of meeting. When a philosopher comes to the Buddha -- it happens rarely, but whenever it happens -- there is an immediate metamorphosis. Why? Because if a philosopher comes to the Buddha, it means that deep inside, he has learned about the failure of philosophy, otherwise, why would he come? Deep down, he felt the failure of logic. Through logic, he made all kinds of efforts to understand the truth: always arguing, Cosmetic Packaging Wholesale ,Uv Gel Nail Polish Bottle, opposing, agreeing, agreeing, opposing, he had been arguing and arguing, and now he had come to a point where he knew that the whole process was useless, and through logic, you could not know anything. This failure gave him perhaps the deepest humility in the world, not even an ignorant man, because he had not suffered such a deep failure, he could not understand the pain of this failure, he had not been thrown from the top of the mountain to the valley. The philosopher thought he was at the top of the mountain. Suddenly, he knew he was standing in the valley, but he dreamed of being at the top of the mountain. It's never at the top of the mountain! He had never progressed an inch, the truth was unknown, and his whole life was a waste! When someone feels this, suddenly, the ego disappears and the person becomes modest. You will not come to the Buddha unless you are modest. Only modesty, deep humility, will bring you to the Buddha. Now you're ready to learn because you don't know anything.
So there are two types of ignorance: ordinary ignorance-when a person is ignorant, but he does not know that he is ignorant. When a philosopher knows that he is ignorant-and this is the second type of ignorance, very deep-he has realized that he is ignorant, and he knows perfectly well that he is. When you know that you are ignorant, it is the first step to wisdom. So the first thing to understand: One day, a philosopher came to the Buddha and asked him for advice. There were many philosophers in the time of Buddha. Never before has there been such a true flowering of ingenuity as in those days — not just in India, but around the world. The Buddha is here, mahavya is here, and prabuddhakatyayan, a great logician, ajit keshambal, a great philosopher, makhaligoshai, a rare wise man. Shanjaya vilethiputta and many others in Bihar are now unfamiliar names because they never needed any followers. At that time, there were Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Greece, and these three men made the minds of the whole West. At that time, there were Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Mencius in China. It seems to be at that peak, all over the world, the mind is at its peak. There are only three cultures: one is Chinese, another is Indian, and another is Greek. Only these three cultures exist, and all the others are just byproducts. The whole of the West originated in the mind of Athens,Glass Cream Jars, Greece. There are two completely different types of civilization in China, which originated from the confrontation between Confucius and Lao Tzu. In India, all the beautiful things come from Buddha and Mahavia. And these people only appear for a moment in history. penghuangbottle.com