Eye witness

How do you judge a person?
A teacher once said this(it was a sunday school teacher btw).
"When you said that a person is handsome or pretty, that is because you have seen someone who is not as good-looking before."
Aint that true. How else can we give comments? When we praise someone, it is saying that the person is better than someone they know of. The same goes for things. If you haven't seen the world, you would think a forest is big.
So everything lies in the world of our perception. Yes, our perception. Which is created by the things we see with our eyes, the words we hear with our ears, the feelings we touch with our skin and etc etc. An object alone is of no real value.
So can we say that we are actually all nothing? Yeah I guess, but this is my point of view.
However, if there is a vast universe somewhere which has completely nothing there, what can we say is there without material judgement?
1) Without anything at/in that universe, we can say that there is actually no universe.
2) No such judgement can however be made. If we haven't known anything before, the universe would then be the only thing we have known. It would therefore be everything to us(literally).
Hence the simple line stated in the buddhist scripture, "Se ji shi kong, kong ji shi se"(form is emptiness, emptiness is form)
Maybe I'm missing out a lot of things that I was supposed to explain about the above mentioned. Well I had to take some time to think through this too, cause it means that saying this would be the same as not mentioning at all. Which can be quite true. Think about it =).
On the other hand. Something fun!!!! haha.
Here goes. You have to tell from 2 people given 2 identities.
Once there was a man who arrived at a island. He was told before that there were 2 people on the island, the lord of destruction and the lord of nature.
He had to pass each of them something, but the problem is that he hadn't even seen their faces before. But still he went on in search for the 2 men. Coincidentally, he managed to find the 2 at a same area. One was at a forested area while the other was standing at a wasteland. Looking at them, he could tell between the two's identity.
Can you do the same thing? Which man is the lord of destruction and which is the lord of nature?


Haha. I'll post the answers far far down this post.






































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Ok here's the answer.
The man at the forest is the lord of destruction. The man at the wasteland is the lord of nature.
Can you explain why too? Prolly, if you can't give a little more thought.
Hope you had fun! haha.