The fable of philosopher Honeybee

It is impossible to agree on all; to disagree on everything is just as impossible, but if we like a fable, we may live with it: life will be better than with a story we would not choose for ourselves.

A tale of counsel inspired with reading about Confucius

Honeybee said, it is precious, the reason to live and exist given us from Heavens to be intrinsic love in us all, in every human being. Agreeably to get along with this intelligent idea on Earth already — is in our best interest.

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The philosopher

Honeybee was a philosopher praised as well as followed. He remains reputed to have schooled thousands of students, hundreds of whom became of notable merit to the country. As the teaching evidently deserved esteem, we do inscribe here, the philosopher never advised anything he would not have practiced himself first. The honors his students paid him were those for skill that worked really, and some people held those for worthy of the President. Honeybee was his name.

Always modest and decent, at all times did he disclose, the teaching he brought was not entirely his own, but founded on writs by philosophers as distant to him in time as he is to you people today. The sincerity has inspired our honest endeavor.

The people

Bee people promoted three habitudes, for their living to be of the mind and of the heart as well: first, you reckoned on own self; second, you thought about other people; third, you considered life after physical death. They decided to have habitudes because nobody got to take notes, to Heaven or Hell.

Honeybee had shaped his course for those who wanted independence and success without giving up whatsoever, on a possibility for good living after bodily death. Let us introduce the Bee people a bit.

After the Creation of the World, there were three Combs, claim the Great Chronicles. Of one there was Heaven, from the other there was Earth, and the third gave origin to Man. Generations of the third 8 introduction Comb lived some forty-nine thousand years, and the thirty-five Bee people tribes enjoyed uninterrupted success, but here the chronicler agrees it is more certain to begin the Bee story with Honey Man.

The Great Story about him is not free of folktale. This is where we find that Mother Honey Man accidentally walked into a place where the Giant Bee had passed, and Mother Man beseemed enveloped with a rainbow, which was the very moment she envisioned herself with a child. It is also where we can read that Honey Man had combs with tops as hats and bottoms as serpents. That story was gross to all Bee people, who denied and derided the description on Honey Man combs in detail, that they had spots or pictures as “holy glyphs”, though the people would approve of a blue monkey with saffron.

Own self

Who only meditates, wastes much time. The human power to envision, design, and create would be fruitless, said Honeybee, without the speaking, writing, and generally ability to move about, that brings ideas to effect. His philosophy is described as knowledge of Will, Desire, Love, and Hate.

We looked up the words in a big dictionary, because we do not like hate, and we are individual in all our feeling and thought. We would not take up a path where to feel the same with other people at a set time, or hatred is required as in a curriculum. The resource showed symbols yan, in popular sayings or idioms too, and we could tell that Honeybee philosophy is “Knowledge of the Yan”, or, in words simpler still, it is for us to know our salt.

There would be yans that show 验 to check, 言 a word, and 眼 to the eye. Another yan, 彦, would say elegant, accomplished, and ingenious, like you had your yans right and might be happy with the yan 厌 of literary style.

Now, if Honeybee would have only meditated, never written or spoken a word, and other people, likewise, would have only meditated too, there would not be this big dictionary, and we would never have been able to make observations.

Fortunately, Honeybee was quite an expressive pragmatic, and thus we may avoid in our concise pursuit the commonplace fallacy of presuming a person deficient in spiritual self-determination, should he or she have partaken in earthly activity or business. To the contrary, we accept and approve of Honeybee saying, do not seek enlightenment in privation; it is the heavenly resolve that your soul belongs in your body on Earth.

Do not becloud yourself with excess — was his reservation, which we accept and approve of as well.

Mind and soul

Honeybee business was a matter in hand, writs and their making that was, where at the same time he was a person capable of highest transmundane reference.

We people are not truly sovereign on Earth as persons, he said, because the body can feel pain, need, and craving. We may become individually sovereign in afterlife, where the body cannot press.

To want such sovereignty is natural, but we as naturally expect there are some requirements, for us to be allowed the life. To observation, the Creator is as a brilliant artist and experienced master: the work is known to be good, you only learn to use it right; it will not go to fractions owing to misconduct.

Two principles are as likely, as sure: never to force yourself on another, and never to rob or thieve. Heaven could not be a place they have police patrols.

Universal: Everyone has feelings for oneself

Good philosophy is not about lying to oneself, or lying to other people. Good philosophy is about what there is really — possible, probable, or not at all.

If I denied there is me in my everyday living, it would be a mediocre lie. It would be a lie to verge on indignity, said Honeybee. I am my own mind, soul, and self. Death of my physical body would not change this state of my being; my existence would only take on another form — and I am a standard human person. What follows, it is improbable that such a state would be without own feelings also in other people.

There would be no justice, should people each never care for oneself a bit. The sense for equality begins with own self; whereas if we do care, there can be no error in recognizing the affect as inner love: the feeling is natural and intrinsic, and it is no manufacture. We would be merely forbidding ourselves a word — for no real reason at all. Love is an elegant shape of a word, he smiled.

In me, the feeling is direct and simple, spoke Honeybee from experience. I can love other people, or arts and crafts. I am capable of altruism. My affect for myself yet always is, and I do not think it would be in itself anything wrong or bad.

For the Great After possibly to become the home of the soul when the physical body has died, it is important to understand this love. The philosopher guessed, inner affect would last as long as the soul would; therefore, getting along with the intrinsic love — in us, and in other beings in the Great After — looked a better idea to him than trying change on the matter. Eternity would not change for the sake of mortal thought.

The love is not a thing to be received. It is in every human being by the original Design, like composure, and it cannot be lost, taken away, or added.

We like to remember about one Thoreau who said, if you took a plank away from a drowning one, you would not save your true life. We think we would not rob anyone of their plank, because that would be transgression on his or her love for oneself; and we would keep ours, not to transgress on our love for ourselves; but preferably, we’d learn to float and share that wood; draw in air, lie our backs on water.

Everyone is own perfect identity

Country governments might produce much paper, metal, or other things to tell your name. No such earthly identification yet could go with you into afterlife, even if you had it in your coffin. At the same time, there is never any way to show another person to you and say they are really you now.

At the Great Gate, all we could say for the time would be as, It is me, because all earthly life is past. No money, even if millionaires before; job experience potentially irrelevant; acquaintances possibly void, because no one would go to Hell for us, and we would not give up on Heaven, as those would be real living conditions this time, for a longevity eternal.

Things would be much better than for a little baby, whereas the new reality might give us intellectual powers beyond infinity of space; and, honestly, we would not absolutely despair on Earth already, even if shipwrecked on a milk and honey shore.

Doubtlessly, minds capable of comprehending the infinity would not just grow on trees. If the process for mind progress is Earth and then the After, let us accept things as they are, because there is no better idea.

Me and afterlife

When it comes to the human self, teachings may contradict one another, sometimes even to deny own course as well, in the spiritual aspect. A deep reason for this may be the human attachment for own earthly form. We are born as bodily people, and we live as such. To meditate on further existence, many teachers would deny or negate earthly living, because according to their reasonable minds, this is what follows physical death, explained Honeybee.

He emphasized, we all live in a physical world. Sound propagates in physical air. Water flows according to physical gravitation. Day is physical light. Therefore, on Earth we can neither deny nor affirm on the Great After, as it is likely made of something different from our earthly, partible physics. It is a difficult outlook to begin with, but possibly, a proper one.

Earthly reality might show some heuristics for the lasting form, yet mortality cannot demonstrate immortality. Here Honeybee gave an exercise.