Chapter 13 The middle of dream A way of thinking that biological parents are true parents caused the dual structure of the ruler and the ruled, the discrimination system of succession and inheritance and the society where discrimination, unfairness and wars are rampant and, at last, changed us into such an arrogant creature that declares war on the earth, the true parent. Intellectual power which has brought up science is nothing but a weapon against the earth. Human beings, a quite weak creature on the earth, came to live with two legs because of the weakness, which triggered the merits and demerits. A merit is that the weapon, intellectual power, gave us a boost to be the strongest on the earth while a demerit is that it gave us anxiety, agony and the fear of death. We have been missing the fact that intelligence and anxiety are two sides of the same coin. Buddhism Gautama Buddha founded 2,400 years ago tells us that desire for worldly things draws agony. Socrates and Plato in ancient Greece said that human being is a misunderstanding creature. We human beings, however, have been suffering from anxiety, agony and, finally, the fear of death up to now, and to make matter worse, discrimination, unfairness and wars have continued to run rampant in our society. Why is that? Because we have been missing the fact that intelligence and anxiety are two sides of the same coin. Gautama Buddha, Socrates and Plato only understood with intellect but didn�ft realize that intelligence itself is the main culprit. Then, wasn�ft there anyone who had realized the fact? Yes, there was. Lao Tzu in China and Diogenes in Greece seemed to realize it. They, therefore, never appeared before the public, living alone in obscurity. A true life is the world of aloneness and nobody is allowed to enter the world. So- called life, a world where others can enter, is an imaginary world. Strictly speaking, a play - so-called life - is a scene (image) consisting of a background - so-called dream - and a real stage - so-called reality; others involved in your life are just an image. We should realize that the true life is the world of aloneness where only you sit in the theatre and watch the scene in the play. If we realize that, we could find that it is the best way of living how Lao Tzu and Diogenes did. Religion such as Buddhism is meaningless however persistently Gautama Buddha taught. Philosophy is meaningless however persistently Socrates and Plato taught. We have no choice but to live alone in obscurity. Thinking more makes us aware that we were born alone, shall die alone and have no choice but to live alone in the middle of dream. Here is a key to the true life.

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