Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 3:32:35 AM
Excerpt from the philosophy of "The Principle of Universal Parallelism".
Siamak Zandpour
... Humans
prefers happiness and pleasure, and dislikes pain and sorrow. All his activities
are aimed to obtain happiness and pleasure in greater measure than pain and
sorrow. But now at this very outset let us make one point very clear. To
experience happiness and pleasure more than its counterpart i.e. pain and sorrow
is an impossible undertaking because nature, or better “the justice of nature”,
makes us to experience both states in equal measure. This justice is so perfect
that it is not possible to experience on of the two states more than the other.
Happiness and pleasure are
experienced in order to balance out the exact proportion of pain and sorrow one
has experienced. This is the law of
nature in order to establish the state of equilibrium.
The amount of attachment we give to a
certain object will turn to sorrow in exactly the same proportion when we loose
that object.
The beggar looks at the king and thinks that the king experiences more
happiness then himself. And so also the king looks at the beggar and thinks
that the beggar experiences more sorrow than him. This is simply an illusion
rooted in ignorance and educational upbringing. Understanding the above
mentioned facts will transform you to a new being and give you real inner peace.
A man digs the ground with great effort and much sweat in the hope to
reach water. But if he would know for certain at the very beginning that there
is no water beneath the ground he is digging, then he certainly would not exert
his power to dig the ground. Ignorance is the source of hope. If we are 100
percent sure of something, then “hope” has no meaning. Hope becomes meaningful
only if we are not certain about something. In the above parable, the effort to
dig the ground is similar to the effort of men to obtain the pleasures of life.
To know with certainty that there is no water beneath the ground he digs refers
to the understanding that pleasure and pain are experienced in equal measures.
To abstain or loose the power for digging refers to abstain from senseless
activities that are done in the hope to obtain pleasure in greater measure than pain. What is
meant by senseless activities will become clear later on.
We will try to present the philosophy of "The Principle of Universal Parallelism". as simple as possible. Here we will discuss mainly matters which are known to us as “self-evident truths” and which have been taught to us since childhood and later in schools and universities. Since we have accepted these self-evident truths as commonsense and reality, we base all our reasoning and inferences on these so called self-evident truths without ever questioning their validity and investigate them more closely. Our central aim in this paper will be to prove intellectually and logically that “positive” is equal and identical to “negative”, and that their apparent duality and difference is actually non-existent. By proving and establishing this seemingly contradictory statement as to be true and free of any contradiction, then using it as a foundation to build and draw further conclusions we will obtain results which from the philosophical and intellectual point of view are undisputable and of utmost importance having far reaching consequences in all spheres of thinking.. Our conceptions of these terms simply exist in our mind only, and are the product of relative concepts perceived by means of our highly limited senses and interpreted by the central processing unit namely our mind (or rather intellect) which is the cause of all our problems ...