Conversations of the Taoist Master Fu Hsiang

Fu Hsiang: It is certainly strange, for we are talking about the very same thing in both cases. Also we agreed that if something was a property of something then it remained so however we described it. But here we have a property that seems to appear and disappear depending on how we choose to describe the same event. But we agreed that if something really was a property of a thing, then no matter how that thing was described, it retained that property.

Men Chow: That's right; so you are saying that good and evil are not properties of things at all.

Fu Hsiang: So it would appear. You were lamenting the events that took place in Tibet over fifty years ago. Two years ago did you not visit England to stay in a monastery?

Men Chow: I did. I stayed with the New Kadampa Tradition in a monastery in Yorkshire. My friend Gordon had invited me. They were very kind.

Fu Hsiang: I know that order. They were founded by Geshe Kelsang who is a Tibetan Buddhist - one of the exiles from that very country from where your own father came. The Tibetan Buddhists were driven from the mountains to take refuge in the West. They have flourished because of their discipline. Now the Tibetan Buddhists have more followers throughout the world then they ever had before the Chinese came. You see the paradoxical nature of evil – the invasion and butchery of 1950 was also the event that provided the greatest revival they have ever had.

Men Chow: So you are saying Hsing Bo's misfortune was not a misfortune after all?