The secret to preserve or rather nurture happiness, love, and peace is not to over-emphasize its necessity. Only an indifferent soul is the best lover of life. In ancient time, religious institutions were dominant force to preserve sacred and divine; their active zeal for sacred and divine cause culminated into "descralization of attitude". Human beings lost their faith in sacred and divine, rather ritualistic part of religion replaced its ideological foundation. Similar attitude could be traced with respect to virtue and morality. In the very foundation of its branches immoral possibility is inevitably realized. Nietzsche beautifully explains this law of opposites: "Morality as attitude- is opposed to our taste nowadays. This is also an advance, as it was an advance in our fathers that religion as an attitude finally became opposed to their taste, including the enmity and Voltairean bitterness against religion" (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil). Probably, the best experience of our life is preserved in our tenderness. Manhandling attitude is antithesis to enduring and sublime enchantment of life.
Student: I want to excel in my life. Over the years, my graph of success is achieving a new height. I am doing hard work to become one of the smartest and richest persons on the Earth. Teacher: Wonderful! Who is achiever and what is achieved? Student: I am the achiever. My name and fame are shining day by day. Teacher: Who is this ‘I’? What is the material by which it is produced? Student: I is the ego which is the agent achieving successes and facing failures. Teacher: Whether ego is real or imaginary? Student: It is made of name, form, and function. Teacher: Whether name, form, and function are eternal? Student: No, they are changing. Teacher: Anything changes does it exist? Whether these are real or merely fictitious images appearing and disappearing before the sightscreen of mind? Student: They are the images constructing my identity as a person. Teacher: Well said! What is the stuff by which these images are made of? Who is maker and what is made? Student: They ar...
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