greatest wisdom book

Chapter 26 Success, starting from careful consideration 2
see through, do it

Life is alive, and most of it is used to gain knowledge.But there are very few things that I personally see, and the rest depends on others to know.Our ears are the back door to truth and the front door to falsehood.Most of the truth often depends on seeing, rarely relying on hearing.A person who sees through and judges accurately can control things without being controlled by them.He can penetrate the deepest things, understand and grasp the essence of things.He has rigorous observation, subtle thinking, and clear reasoning. There is nothing in the world that he cannot discover, pay attention to, grasp and understand.

It is often said that hearing is believing, but seeing is believing.In fact, the truth is often mixed in a bunch of illusions. Even if you see it with your own eyes, what you see may not be completely true.Sometimes the eyes can deceive our hearts, and the surface of things often runs counter to the truth.If you jump to conclusions because you see something, it will be difficult for you to get close to the truth, and you will even be abandoned by the truth in the end.

Two traveling angels spend the night with a wealthy family.The family treated them badly, refusing to let them spend the night in a comfortable guest room, and found them a corner in the cold basement instead.While they were making the bed, the older angel found a hole in the wall and repaired it.When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Some things are not as they seem."

On the second night, the two came to a very poor farmhouse to spend the night again.The host and his wife were very warm to them, entertained the guests with the little food they had, and then gave up their own beds to the two angels.Early the next morning, the two angels found the farmer and his wife crying, their only source of livelihood - the cow died.

The young angel was very angry, he questioned the old angel why this happened, the first family had everything, the old angel also helped them mend the holes in the wall, the second family was so poor and hospitable to the guests, but the old angel did not stop the cows of death.

"Something is not as it seems," replied the old angel. "When we spent the night in the basement, I saw through the hole in the wall that the wall was full of gold nuggets hidden here by the ancients. Bewildered, unwilling to share his wealth, so I filled the hole in the wall. Last night, the god of death came to summon the farmer's wife, and I let the cow take her place. Something is not as it seems. "
A young angel is like a young man who has not experienced much in the world. He cannot see the truth hidden behind the complicated illusions.Sometimes, what the eyes see is not necessarily the truth.When people see the appearance, they must have a very accurate judgment ability.When you don't know how to judge, fully question the appearance of things, then eliminate the interference of mentality and external substances, let yourself calm down and think carefully, and believe that you will find the truth you need.

In 1921, Raman, an Indian scientist, made a research report on acoustics and optics at the Royal Society of England, and returned home by boat via the Mediterranean Sea.Among the crowd strolling on the deck, the conversation between an Indian mother and son caught Laman's attention.

"Mom, what's the name of this sea?"

"Mediterranean!"

"Why is it called the Mediterranean?"

"Because it's sandwiched between Eurasia and Africa."

"Then why is it blue?"

The young mother was at a loss for words, and her eyes for help happened to meet Laman who was listening to their conversation with great interest."The water is blue because it reflects the color of the sky," Raman told the boy.

Before that, almost everyone agreed with this explanation.It comes from Lord Rayleigh, a British physicist who is famous for discovering noble gases. He once used the theory that sunlight is scattered by atmospheric molecules to explain the color of the sky, and deduced that the blue color of sea water is the reflection due to the color of the sky.

But for some reason, after bidding farewell to the mother and child, Laman always had doubts about his own explanation. That childish child full of curiosity, those big eyes seeking knowledge, and those "whys" that kept coming out made him Raman felt deeply guilty.As a well-trained scientist, he found that he had unknowingly lost the boy's curiosity to pursue the "unknown" in all the "known", and he couldn't help being shocked.

After returning to Calcutta, Raman immediately started to study why the sea is blue, and found that the experimental evidence for Rayleigh's explanation was insufficient and unconvincing, so he decided to conduct research again.

Starting from the interaction between light scattering and water molecules, he used the fluctuation theory of Einstein and others to obtain sufficient data on the scattering phenomenon of light passing through clean water, ice cubes and other materials, proving that the scattering of light by water molecules makes The mechanism by which seawater appears blue is exactly the same as the mechanism by which atmospheric molecules scatter sunlight to make the sky appear blue, and a ubiquitous light scattering effect has been found in solids, liquids and gases, collectively known as The "Raman effect" provided strong evidence for the scientific community to finally accept the particle theory of light in the early 20th century.

In 1930, the boy's question mark on the Mediterranean steamer brought Raman to the podium of the Nobel Prize in Physics, making him the first scientist in India to receive this honor.

Things themselves do not affect people, but people's inner views and emotional cognition influence people's judgments.If you want to know the truth of a matter, don't draw conclusions without investigation, don't think about it, and don't make judgments.

"Any credible truth is an image of truth." Truth is grasped by human beings in the long process of development.In this process, sensory organs are only used to collect information, and people's ideological progress is an essential leap.People should not only see accurately, but more importantly, judge accurately.

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