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Dialogue 173 To know is the key Intelligence is capability of knowing and also to know about death. The raison dfêtre for human beings is to know about death. Real human is who understand that to know about death is virtue. Sewer rat human is who misunderstand that death is evil. To understand that to know about death is virtue and to believe that death is virtue is quite different. To understand that to know about death is virtue is beyond dichotomy. In another expression, it is nothing but to understand the essence of dichotomy. The essence of dichotomy is that two factors are complementary. To believe death is virtue and to believe death is evil are the same. In another expression, to believe death is virtue and to believe death is two aspects of one coin. When you believe death is virtue, sooner or later you believe death is evil. Furthermore, when you believe death is virtue or evil, sooner or later you believe alive which is one aspect of coin is virtue or evil. The reason why you believe so is that death is substantial and alive is absent concept of death. The essence of virtue or evil is evil. This is the essence of absent concept. Therefore, soon or later you believe substance is evil and absent concept of substance is virtue. This is the root cause of our human beingsf misunderstanding. To be aware of this mechanism of misunderstanding brings about to understand that to know about death is virtue. If you believe that this is virtue soon or later you believe this is evil. If you believe that death is virtue soon or later you believe death is evil. This is the key to understand that to know about death is virtue. |