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“Everyone judges others using their own mind. People dream of a unified society and a universal world, where everyone can live together under one common rule. Writer William Blake once said, ‘One common law for all the cow-, horse-, tiger-, and fox(-people) is tyranny.’ Nowadays, these kinds of ‘Marquesses of Lu’ are all over the world, so how can we avoid the problem of dictatorship?” Do you know yet? You know already, right? (Yes.) Therefore, the dictatorial regimes cannot last long, (Yes.) because they go against the will of the people. (Yes.) We cannot force everyone to follow the same rules. […]
There was a person who was born blind, and lived in a room. Because he couldn’t see anything, he denied everything that people around him said existed. He said, “I don’t believe it because I can’t see it.” A compassionate physician took pity on him and went to the Himalayas to find a miraculous medicine to heal his illness. Overjoyed, he proudly said, “Now I see all the truths around me.” But someone said to him, “My friend, you only see what is inside this room. That is nothing! Besides, other people can see the Sun, the Moon, and all of the stars, as many as the sands of the Ganges River. […]” This is somewhat similar to our situation. (Yes.) When we haven’t practiced, we think that just by reading scriptures or books, we know everything. Then when we practice a little bit – many people practice a little bit – and know a little bit, then we think we know everything. […]
