Fw: A king was once disturbed

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> > Nisargadatta , sandeep <sandeepc@b...> wrote:

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> > > A king was once disturbed by the relative appearance of truth.

> > >

> > > Being an absolute ruler, he decided to do away with relative truth

> > and to enforce absolute truth by decree.

> > >

> > > His law was simple.

> > >

> > > If anyone entered his city and did not tell the absolute truth,

> > they would immediately hang the liar.

> > >

> > > He was content that he had found the ultimate _expression of truth.

> > >

> > > Nearby his kingdom lived a mad mystic, who, upon hearing the king's

> > decree, laughed long and hard.

> > >

> > > He presented himself to the king the next day and said, 'By your

> > decree, today you will hang me for telling this lie.'

> > >

> > > The king was stunned.

> > >

> > > He could not hang the madman for then the mystic would have spoken

> > the truth.

> > >

> > > Nor could the king not hang him, for then the mystic would have

> > lied.

> > >

> > > The king gave up his kingdom and sat down at the feet of the

> > mystic, to perceive the irrelevancy of relativity.

> > >

> > > And of absoluteness.

> >

> >

> > Thanks Sandeep. This illustrate not only the irrelevance of such

> > terms, but also how naming things that are not there, and then

> > applying logic to such names creates insolvable problems.

> > Can one tell a lie about a future that is not up to me?

> >

> > Obviously, I can lie about doing something for you tomorrow,

> > that is, if I don't intend to do it at all. But I can't lie about you

> > killing me in the future because that is not up to me. When we talk

> > about something that has not happened yet, we are making a

> > prediction, not stating a fact. So, it's often misnaming which

> > creates the insolvable problem.

> >

> > Pete

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>Yes.

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>All questions, all issues, (and the believed answers) is about a

>self-created imagery.

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>And it is the nature of creative imagination to identify itself with its

>creations.

 

Isn't that the Truth?......rofl......hm............relative truth????? :-)

 

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