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B"H of interpretation of thought waves in the form of spoken or writte n text are a characteristics of being human. This doesn't imply that man survives better than, or is superior to other species. Where simple creatures need chirps and growls, man must organize his labors and manage his food chain with extreme delicacy, (a lousy job of survival means extinction) ; he needs a "mental crutch" (articulate command ments) to prevent his doing more harm than good. Nobody is above the law. To avoid being tr ite, I shall neither conflict with nor wish here to resolve the argument as to whether man is superior because he has the ability of intelligent speech. Let's look also at the other side of our history, to wit, man is the most inept and not adequately prepared for survival as a species, he talks much but many words are hidden lies. Lies may be considered in the realm intelligences of which man is possessed a s many are similarly obsessed with destructiveness - a form of delusion by which he touts his supre macy over his or her subject. Actually, humankind is preoccupied with foolhardiness, war against the existence of the significant other, striving to acquire resources such as rental structures, and distractive affectations . What are we fed? Junk food! I AM debased by events from the past that encapsulate my inharmonious or arrhythmic being soaring to lonely heights in the eternity of timeless spacelessness. How to escape? To "not to be;" neither my cultural, fa milial, nor professional associations in the way I restrain my body as if detached from my being, but impossible to achieve unless I AM. This brings us to the illusion of pain; and this we know because sometimes it's insufferable, to others tolerable, and to the strong of will, imperceptible. It exists as a medium of good to spout forth, from defective; skin from the painful scab. This could explain the patience of people required to negotiate conflict resolution between parties that grow aggravated with narrow-mindedness and incapable of facing more fru stration, but with forbearance and careful handling can be coalesced into a working harmony. The sage knows the route of painful discussion is worth the effort if the benefits will be sought by talk. From what I know much about it, t he Buddhist or Zen philosophy reconfigures an individual to accept personal nullification to a perfection; Oneness in opposite forces, ying- yang. There is no need to define purpose intrinsic to the human is being who/what/how he or she is meant to be every instant of now, 129