WHAT MAKES PEOPLE STUPID!
The mystics have compared a man to a ladder. The ladder can be used for two things: You can use it to go upward, and you can use it to go downwards. You use the same ladder for both purposes, only your direction changes. The ladder is the same but the result will be totally different. The man is a ladder between heaven and hell. That's why it is only human beings who repress, who manipulate, who kill, who try to conquer the natural flow of nature. Only human beings are stupid, And that is because they can be buddhas. Because human beings have intelligence, that's why they can be stupid. Stupidity does not mean the absence of intelligence, It simply means you have not used it. If there is no intelligence, you cannot call a human being stupid. ...