Fable (1)

1 All languages are used to persuade others and to express the speaker’s meaning.

2 There are many ways to express, among which there are the fable, the quotation from sage or the respected and the unprejudiced word of no-self and being flexibility.

3 Nine out of ten fables are convincible; seven out of ten quotations, a little worse in convincing others. The unprejudiced word of “Reaching the Realm of Nature” is the most valuable way of expression.

4 The fable states an idea by making use of a fictionized story. For example, the sour grapes effect, that is grapes are said sour because you are unable to get it. When it is spoke out, it is well accepted by people. The advantage to employ a fictionized story is that it refers neither of teller and listener so its position is aloof.

5 Common customs dissuades father from acting as a matchmaker for his own son. He should ask others to do it, because if he does by himself to boast his son, the counterparty is declined to trust, as if people don’t believe those melon sellers who boast sweetness of their melons.

6 Another advantage of the fable is that if a listener is hurt or irritated by the story, he can’t blame the teller because it is a little bird tells him.

7 Words of common people have weak influence of persuasion because the listener’s response to the content is subject to his mood. If the content is as same as listener’s idea, listener will agree, otherwise, he will disagree or even sneer at it as nonsense.

8 Common people are inclined to give up their own ideas to accept the ideas of the old respected by them. So, if an old person voices in dispute, then the troubleshooting is done and consensus is reached. Most of the old like this are the elder and sainted person in the society.

9 However, we should know that not all they said are truths, their ideas are accepted just because the tellers are sainted and elder. Totally accepting their ideas might incur the mistake of confusing right and wrong and loss of truth. All men are created equal, nobody enjoys privilege when facing truth and right and wrong. If somebody is prior to truth and right and wrong stiffly and persistently, the society will mislead to a wrong direction and be suffered.

10 We should beware of one person calling the shot. Such person we call “Stale Man” or “Dotage”, which remind people of bewaring it.

11 The way to pursue absolute truth is to coordinate many views of each other under the concept that all things are integrated, and then to infer them according to the evolutional rule, so that it is possible for us to attain the truth. The view been created by this procedure stands up test.

12 Speaking strictly, the words out of mouth must hold some of the speaker’s viewpoint. It is difficult to reach the state of no-self and being flexibility; for this reason, if they want to reach consensus, the only way they have to do is to be silent and let the truth and axiom appears naturally by itself.

13 Just like the mature fruit, it will fall down naturally. When the opportunity gets mature, people actually don’t need speaking much and get the things done.

14 So some people speak a lot but express nothing. Somebody speaks little but he knows how to act according to the circumstances or to make use of opportunity. He speaks nothing but gets trust from other by compromising different views to reach consensus. He speaks nothing but achieves better result than earnest talking by common people, which is the unprejudiced word.

15 We know the difficulty or shortage to convince others by language; we should also learn how to listen to others’ words from which we may know the truth of fact. In listening, common people accept others’ idea based on their own views. They agree on the words that conform to their views and disagree on those that don’t conform to their views. They follow the words that convince them and refuse those that don’t convince them. They don’t care about why they agree or disagree.

16 If so, why do we listen carefully? What’s the benefit do we attain from listening or reading?

17 Everything has its own standpoint and the standards of right and wrong. The ideas that stand with its standpoint are always right and good to it. In such a complicated and confusing age and world with different interests and different standpoints, we have to coordinate all different views and make compromise according to the evolutional rule, so that we can reach the consensus which can stand up long test and is widely accepted.

18 If we treat all things in the view of no-self and being flexibility, we may find that all things come from the same source and derive from the same substance. The only differences just are their appearances and characters.

19 In the view of transmigration, in this life we are human; we don’t know what we are in the next life. In this life we are Chinese while we might perhaps become American in the next life. In this life we look down others, but in next life we might possibly be born the people we look down now.

20 Life keeps switching in transmigration. It is very possible for us to play any role, which is the principle of “The Change of Nature”.

21 Having known the principle, we are apt to understand that we must coordinate all views and then compromise them according to the evolution rule so that we can reach the consensus, which is my idea of “Reaching the Realm of Nature”.