Dialectics There is a Yugoslav farmer reading a newspaper. He often sees the word "dialectics" and wants to know its meaning, but no one can tell him. * * * The proletariat stresses dialectics-materialist dialectics or evolutionary dialectics. Hegelians also talked about dialectics-life is carried out through affirmation, negation and neutralization, everything is carried out through struggle and conflict with its opposites, and every synthesis becomes affirmation again, and then goes on ... So the farmer ran to the priest and said, "This is very simple. Let me explain it to you with a concrete example. There are two people, one is clean and the other is dirty. They all went to the river. Which one will take a bath? " "That dirty one." The farmer said. "No, why did he wash it? He is used to being dirty, so people who love to be clean should keep it clean. Let's watch it again. There are two people, one is dirty and the other is clean. They went to the river. Which one will go down to take a shower? " "Very simple! The farmer replied, "that one is very clean because it wants to keep it clean." """No!" The priest said, "since he is clean, why did he wash first?" It's dirty people who want to be clean. Let's watch it again. When two people walk to the river, which one will go down to take a bath? " "Both of them will go down. The farmer said that he believed that he had mastered the essence of dialectics. However, the priest said, "neither of them will go down, because why do they go down?" "Clean is clean, dirty is accustomed to his dirty. Someone asked a Zen master, "Excuse me, Master, what is your Tao? He replied: "when I feel hungry, I eat;" Sleep if you want-this is my way. I never eat when I'm not hungry, and I never stop eating when I'm hungry-that's my way! The man said, "It's not like Taoism-because we are doing it! Master smiled. He said, "If you do that, you don't have to come to me." . A devout believer has a man who has been very devout all his life. He prays to God for at least ten hours every day. Then he died. Unlike his atheistic brother, he died miserably and broke. His wife ran away from home, his partner cheated him, his house burned down and his children went bad; However, his younger brother never prayed once in his life. On the contrary, he is very rich and healthy, with a great wife and promising children. Anyway, everything is great. When this very devout man came to God, he asked, "Lord! I'm not complaining. You know I'm not complaining. When you took my house, I prayed to you with gratitude. I know you have a good reason. When my wife left home, I prayed with gratitude again, because I knew you must have a good reason; When all my children were against me, I prayed with gratitude again. Because I know that everything happened with your permission, I bow to divine wisdom. But why does everything happen to this man who prays for you for at least ten hours every day, and not to my evil brother who preaches atheism? " Because, "God said angrily," you are so annoying! Genius and Fool Geniev is one of the greatest storytellers in the Soviet Union. He wrote a story. In a village, there is a man who is considered stupid, and he is. The whole village made fun of him and thought he was a fool, while the whole village appreciated his stupidity. Tired of his stupidity, he asked a wise man, "What should I do?" ? The wise man said, "Don't do anything! As long as someone is praising someone, you are condemning him. If someone says, "That's a saint." You immediately said to him, "No! I know very well that he is a sinner! If someone says, "This book is great! You said, "I've read it and studied it." Whether you have seen it or not, just say, "This is rubbish! If someone says, "This painting is one of the great works. You just have to say, "What's that?" As long as a canvas and paint, children can draw such a picture! Criticize, deny, verify, and call me after seven days. Within seven days, the whole village began to think that this man was a genius. They said, "We'll never know his talent. He is a genius at everything. When you show him a picture, he immediately points out the mistake; You show him a great book and he points out his mistakes at once. He has a lot of brains! He's an analyst! Genius! On the seventh day, he went to the wise man and said, "Now I don't need to ask you for any advice. You are a fool! Once upon a time, the whole village believed in that clever man, but now they all say, "Our genius says he is a fool, so he must be a fool." Once upon a time, there was a mystic named Sophie who went to a Muslim monastery every day. He stood there without saying a word. A few years later, people began to feel curious. Someone asked him; "You never say a word. We haven't even seen your lips move. We pay close attention to you and observe you. We don't think you said anything. You stood there like a stone. What kind of prayer is this? The mystery man said, "Once upon a time there was a beggar standing in front of the king's palace. The king said, "What do you want? What do you want? The beggar said, "If you can't understand me, it's needless to say. I will go to another house and look at me-shivering naked in the cold winter. Watch my stomach. It stuck to my back. Look at my limbs. All the meat is gone. I only have a skeleton left, and you ask me what I want. "My people standing here is not enough? The king was afraid, and the beggar was right, so he gave him many things. The mysterious man said, "I happened to pass by that day." From that day on, I stopped praying because what should I say to the king of the world? "Doesn't he understand how painful I am? Need I say more? Is there anything else I need to advocate? Do I need to tell him clearly? What's the use of telling him if he doesn't understand my existence? It's no use. If he cannot understand my existence, he cannot understand my language. Peace is my prayer, not asking questions is my question, and not wanting is my desire. This is me, this is my whole existence. A man came to me the other day and asked me, "Should I get married? "In India, this is an eternal problem. I said to him, "Ordinary is good, why not get married? But he didn't want to. Not getting married means that he is special. Marriage is very common, and it is so common to be a family man. He said, "None of the great people are married? I told him, "If you want to be great, please go somewhere else. For me, greatness is a disease. If you want to be ordinary, come to me again. He came again, and I asked him, "Close your eyes, listen to your heart and tell me what you want? He said: "Of course, I also want to get married, but it seems too common. My life is wasted on trivial things. In fact, the whole world is made up of ordinary things. Greatness lies not in the thing itself, but in what qualities you bring into your life and ordinary things. There is a famous event about Wen Hewu, about a Confucian scholar who tried to change from a Zen master to a Taoist priest. The scholar often complained that Master's explanation was incomplete and kept some important clues, but Master assured him that he kept nothing. The scholar still insisted that Master must have kept something from him. Later, they walked on the mountain road together. Master suddenly asked, "Do you smell laurel?" The scholar said, "Yes. The master said, "You see, I haven't kept anything from you. This story is strange, but it has a deep meaning. What is Master talking about? The smell of laurel? He said to his disciples, "Do you smell laurel? They always take you to the scene in front of you and don't care about philosophical issues. The scholar heard it and said, "Yes! The master said, "You see, I haven't kept anything from you. Just as you can smell the laurel, you can also smell the Buddha's nature at this moment. He is in the laurel, he is on the mountain path, he is in the bird, he is in the sun, he is in me, he is in you. What are you talking about? What secret are you talking about? There is a very old and beautiful fable in the story of Swetkaitu in the Indian Book of Panissa. There is a son named "Svitek Tu", and his father Udaraka is a great saint. He asked his father, "Dad, who am I? What do I have on me? I tried and tried, I meditated and meditated, but I couldn't find it. Wei Shi Ketu is a child. She asked a very difficult question. If another person asked this question, Udaraka would probably give a simple answer. But how to help a child understand? He asked the biggest question that actually exists. Udaraka had to create a design. He said, "You go and pick a fruit from the tree over there. The child ran over and picked a small fruit from the tree. Father said, "Now cut it open. What do you see in it? " The child said, "There are many small seeds. "Father said," You pick a seed and cut it open to see what's in it? " The child said, "Nothing. Father said, "This big tree came from nothing. The center of the seed is empty. You cut it open, and there is nothing in it. From that emptiness, this big tree exists. It's the same with you, Svetletto. One of the greatest words someone said was born, "That's you, you're that, Sweet. You are also the nothingness that exists in the core of the seed. Unless you find this nothingness in it, you will not be able to reach a reliable truth. You can discuss it theoretically and philosophize it, but you will not really understand it. The child meditated on his emptiness and became very quiet. He mused, enjoyed the emptiness and felt deeply, but then another problem appeared. A few days later, he came to his father again and said, "I can feel it, but things are still not clear." They are still vague, just like fog surrounds everything. " I can see that everything is produced by nothingness, but how does nothingness mix with things? How does existence mix with nothingness? How can existence be mixed with nonexistence? They are contradictory. The father is in trouble again, and the questions raised by the children are difficult to answer. Almost 99% of the answers given by adults to children are false, just to save face, and they are generally lying to them. However, Udaraka doesn't want to deceive the child. His curiosity is not just ordinary curiosity. This is a deep problem, and he really cares. His body may be a child, but his soul is very old. He must have worked hard in his last life, trying very hard to see through the mystery. Father said, "Bring me a glass of water." The child went to get a glass of water. Then, the father said, "Now go and get some sugar. He brought sugar, and his father said, "Mix them together. When sugar is dissolved in water, father said, "Can you separate sugar from water now?" The child said, "impossible, I can't even see where the sugar is." Father said, "You try. Children have self-knowledge, but they can't see any sugar. Sugar dissolved and became water. Father said, "Try it. The child tasted it and it was sweet. Father said, "Look, just like this, you may not be able to decide what exists and what doesn't. Just like sugar and water, they will dissolve with each other. You can taste it and know that the water contains sugar. Now you may not be able to separate them. In fact, no one can separate them because they are inseparable. Truth: I know a senior official. Once I wanted to go to the Himalayas and asked him to accompany me. He said, "Impossible! I can't take a vacation. " I said, "Why? I have never seen him on holiday. I said, what the hell is going on here? He said, "I'm completely useless in the office. I don't want anyone to know about it. " I have to stay there all the time to make others feel that I am needed. Once I take a vacation, everyone will realize that I am not important at all, so I can't take a vacation. Pushing and pulling once, Nasrudin went to see a psychiatrist. He said, "I feel very confused. Please do something. It's impossible. I have the same dream again and again every night, dreaming that I am standing at the door, pushing and pushing, and there is a sign on the door. I keep pushing and pushing, but I just can't push it away. I wake up in a sweat every night and the door hasn't been opened. The psychiatrist began to write down everything he said. After half an hour's conversation, he asked, "Now tell me, Rustin, what's written on the door? What does the sign say? " Nasrudin said, "It says' pull'. William james, one of the most important psychologists in the United States, wrote a book, which became a very important milestone in the study of psychology and religion, and was called Variant of Religious Experience. He traveled around the world to collect information for that book; I wrote many books about religion, but none of them reached that height. William james worked hard for this, and he also came to India. He must. If you are writing a book about religion, then India must come. He came to India to visit a saint in the Himalayas. The saint didn't tell him his name. In fact, the saint has no name, so there is no need to tell him his name. He went to see the sage and asked a question. He reads Indian classics, which say that the earth is supported by eight white elephants. As a logician, he was puzzled and asked the saint, "This looks ridiculous. What are eight elephants standing on? How did they get support? " ? "The saint said," supported by eight other bigger white elephants. William james said, "But this does not solve the problem. What are eight big white elephants standing on? The sage smiled. He said: "The elephant stood on the elephant again, and then stood on another elephant. You can keep asking questions, and I will answer the same questions until the bottom comes out. William james thought he could ask again, "What is the bottom one supported by?" ? The sage said, "Of course, supported by eight bigger elephants. Introduction to Osho: One of the most famous spiritual masters in the 20th century. From the essence of eastern and western philosophy, he extracted meaningful information for the spiritual pursuit of modern people and developed a unique meditation method. His works are widely circulated and are pillow books for many people who pursue spirituality and spiritual growth. Osho ranks alongside Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha as one of the top ten figures who changed the fate of India.