My ideal self
Indian parable.
Four blind people walked around the city.
“Stand back,” they shouted to them, “they are leading the elephant!”
– What is an elephant?
The driver stopped the elephant and allowed it to be touched so that these people had an idea about
what an elephant is.
“Well, now do you understand what an elephant is?”
“Yes,” answered the first blind man who touched the elephant’s foot, “the elephant is like a large column!”
“The elephant is like a fat snake!” – said the second man, touching the elephant for the trunk.
– An elephant is like a big barrel! – said the third, because he touched the belly of an elephant.
“An elephant is like a rope,” retorted the fourth, for he touched the tail of the elephant.
They all told the truth, but were very far from the truth.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, observing one of the chess maestro, exclaimed: “He does not play, he just draws a pattern, perfect Raphael!”
Grandmaster E. Torre “Looking through the best games of famous masters, a person who understands chess experiences aesthetic pleasure, just as when he admires the masterpieces of art, chess is like life. This is their special beauty. Besides all the advantages, there is one more advantage that is very important for a person’s whole life – the art of not repeating his mistakes, which chess certainly teaches ”
To confirm what has been said, one could cite the many Beautiful parties that any Maestro has. But we will give only one study by Kralin and Kuznetsov
White wins
1. Bf3 a1F 2.a8F! h1F +! (2 … F: a8 – 3.Le1 + with a win) 3.C: h1 F: a8 4.Le1 + Kh2! 5.Ce4! (5.Ca8 – pat) 5 … Qa1! 6.Lb1! with imminent obscenities Rh1x
This creation is almost perfect. In life, what is ideal is what is not yet, but what needs to be realized. This due is directly related to the moral ideal. Even Plato, striving for the Beautiful, dreamed of creating an ideal state. The life of people in this state should not consist of their white and black stripes as it usually happens, but be one solid white strip, since the people living in this state should be beautiful.
Anyone who wants to overcome all obstacles and achieve perfection must learn to control themselves, to learn restraint. This path is difficult, but the Beautiful is worth it. Abstinence is necessary not only in order to lead a righteous life, but also for happiness, which, as you know, is given only by restraint. Want your wishes come true, learn to restrain them.
However, abstinence cannot be turned into an end in itself. R. Tagore: “The desire to suppress passions becomes our seventh passion, in addition to the six known: sensuality, temper, greed, obsession, drunkenness, make. If abstinence turns into passion, austerity can force out the feeling of the Beautiful from the human soul. ”
Reasonable abstinence implies common sense. It is necessary to fully enjoy the beautiful. An unrestrained person is like a child: food enters not so much in the mouth as on clothes and on the floor. Absorbed in pleasures, we cease to feel all pleasure. Unbridled passion comes into discord with the outside world. Anger and greed see everything in a distorted light: the small seems great, the great small, which comes eternal. The object on which passion is directed grows to gigantic proportions, obscuring in our eyes the great truths of the world.
Skeptics may ask: “There are many people who live very well without abstinence and without chess and understanding of the Beautiful. And many became famous and happy, although their life path is clearly not worthy of imitation.
The answer will be: “Why do we believe the facts? Sometimes what seems to us an undeniable fact in the life of a famous person is mostly hidden. Seeing only an insignificant part of the event, we think that we saw it in its entirety. (recall the parable about the blind and the elephant) Therefore, some consider the same event as positive, others as negative. Some, for example, consider Bobby Fisher a genius, while others are crazy. Some call Napoleon the “Great Frenchman,” others “the Corsican cannibal.” In this case, all refer to the facts. And really in
people’s actions are many contradictory.
Contradictions in the visible part of the event have their explanation in its invisible part. Truth most often lies in the depths of the secret, and does not float on the surface of the obvious. Often noticing a person’s deficiency, we draw hasty wrong conclusions. It is impossible to conclude from the example of a successful bribe-taker official that bribery is the best way to succeed.
Just as cognition should make all the truths the property of our intellect step by step, so perception of the beautiful should turn truth for us into a source of joy. “Life is given for joy. If she is, look for where you made a mistake, ”wrote L. Tolstoy.
