Behind peace there is constant war going on, wrote Michel Foucault. Behind every selfish activity the actions are borrowed from others, said Alan Watts. The polarity of positive and negative irrigates each-other, claims Hegel. Behind every moral action, or rather the emergence of morality signifies the immoral character of deap-down substratum, suggested by Lao Tzu. Binary takes its birth the moment good and evil are theorised. The true wisdom brings forth ignorance with itself. There is no way to escape binary in language. Deconstruction does show its absurdities. But the perception of absurdities is an intelligent conduct. There is no intelligence in the world which is not equally foolish. That may be the reason why intelligent people are full of doubts and fools are too sure about everything, claimed Bertrand Russel.
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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