Why you saw more clearly than the fish?

 

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A note from the writer: 

I  had finished writing the article several days ago. But I was reluctant to release it as it is in the height of a conflict in Ukraine, few would have the patience to read something not concerned. 

And then I have a second thought. What we are discussing here is some thing about "level". It is an important subject in the art of war. If people can go up one level, they must be simply like watching the gold fish in a fish bowl. They could see more clearly than the fish.......

I heard the following story from a mobile:  

Someone had used a simple method to explain the theory of genocide. 

He invented a story that there were four people on the end of a rail track and a rail cart was running toward the four. However, he had found a fat guy was on the side of the rail track.  His question was whether he should push the fat guy to the rail to stop the running cart and save the four. He said it was  a moral matter to decide whether to push the fat guy is justified or not. 

He invented another story that if you are a surgeon and there were four people in the clinic waiting for organ transplant. One of them need to change a lung, the next to change a liver,  the third needs heart, the fourth a pancreas. You just had no organ donation and you didn’t know what to do. 

It was at this moment another guy came in your clinic; he was healthy. Should you use the organs from this guy to save the other four? 

He said genocide is not justified even using one life to exchange four. 

“Should you push the fat guy?” He asked the audience. 

From the response of the audience I knew he must be well-trained. And it was broadcasted during the height of the Ukrain-Russian conflict, when the United Stated president is accusing the Russian "genocide". Maybe he wanted to let the audience know more about "genocide".

A thought came to my mind. 

If the speaker was Buddha, he would never thought of pushing the fat guy into the rail, and he would have never thought about the guy is fat or not; but instead he would have jumped into the rail himself to save the four. 

Actually it was a famous Buddha story.

When Buddha was a king, a pigeon suddenly flew into his feet trembling for help and a fierce eagle was at the door step wanted to grab the pigeon. 

Buddha stopped the fierce eagle, “I will give you some food from my kitchen and please let go the pigeon”.  

But the eagle refused. He wants only the meat of the pigeon. 

Buddha said, “Ok, then I will give you some of my own meat.” He took over a sword and cut a piece of meat from his own thigh. But the eagle was angry when he saw the piece of meat. The eagle said, “ your meat is too small, not enough to trade for a pigeon. “

Then the Buddha King ordered his servant to prepare a scale, putting the pigeon on one side and his meat on the other side of the scale. His meat seemed to be not heavy enough to balance with the pigeon. 

Then Buddha cut another piece, and another piece, until he had cut himself all blood strained and the weight was still not enough. 

I dare not to say he was wrong. He was kind- hearted and noble. His mind of love is to be admired. He didn’t hurt anyone else to save the pigeon. 

However, it needs to raise up one level to ponder about the problem. Using a simple arithmetic calculation like 

        5 -1 = 4

cannot solve the problem.

An upper  "level" inspection can lead us into a deeper thought. 

How can the four people be saved? 

May be there was a reason of their sickness. 

What is the problem and how do we solve the problem?

Can you tell all the eagles or tigers or lions be  kind  eating only vegetables? It must be a real genocide this way as you would kill all of them. 

We need to go up higher to inspect the problem. 

All were like gold fish inside the fish bowl. You simply need to get out and look back, and you will see how were the fish swimming. 

Now we have only three fish here. 

From your eye they were but fish, but others thought they were giants. 

The Western Giant seemed to be in a suicidal mind trying to kill the other two. It is suicidal and he didn't know it. 

How are you going to tell those fish or giants not to fight against each other because it is suicidal?  How can you stop them? 

With a thought like this, now you can jump. 

You can go back to the fish bowl because you were still a fish not an outsider. Though your vision is more clearly than before. 

How would you tell the other fish the actual situation? 

It is absolutely not easy. 

And let us get back to Buddha on the sword, or Jesus on the cross to look upon them. 

They were on the air and we were swimming fish. 

They must have seen some thing. There must be some very extra-ordinary things happened in their mind by that moment. 

They must be inspired. 

They saw what we didn't. 

And now the task is still waiting. How would you treat a suicidal patient? Would you like to kill him or heal him? Or be killed by him? It must be the greatest problem since we were born. 

Don't tell me whether you are Western, Eastern or Northern. There were other problems other than suicidal for us.

We need to fly into the air one more time to look back.