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Tao Stoic 146

"Master, what did you mean by the 'million experiment' [128]?"

"Oh that is just the finding out of the relation between a statement and Reality. When one gives an answer to a question like: 'what would you do if ...'?, it is absolutely and totally determined by one's knowledge of Reality, the Reality test. Asked about a million dollars, what would you do etc. there is so much real and valid knowledge in the man that the situation will not occur. The test is of course to: a) ask the question, b) write down the answer, c) GIVE him the million dollars. Now, see what happens and ten to one, the actual result is NOT what he had given as answer to the question. It is thus that we need not ask questions like that at all, they reveal nothing." [128]


Ven 2005-01-24