A Battleship and a Lighthouse

Would you read this story?

I think this is funny story about our perception, which is think that we are always true.  But…… let’s check this story first.

                Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. The visibility was poor with patchy fog, so the captain remained on the bridge keeping an eye on all activities.

                Shortly after dark, the lookout on the wing of the bridge reported, “light, bearing on the starboard bow.”

                “is it steady or moving astern?” the captain called out.

                Lookout replied, “ steady, captain,” which meant we were on a dangerous collision course with that ship.

                The captain then called to the signalmen, “signal that ship : we are on a collision course, advise you change course 20 degrees.”

                Back came a signal. “advisable for you to change course 20 degrees.”

The captain said, “send, I’am a captain, change course 20 degrees.”

                “I’m a seaman second class,” came the reply. “you had better change 20 course 20 degrees.”

                By that time, the captain was furious. He spat out, “send, I’m a battleship. Change course 20 degrees.”

                Back came the flashing light, “I’m a lighthouse.”

                We changed course.

Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken. Individuals may look at their own lives and interactions in terms of paradigms or maps emerging out of their experience and conditioning, these maps are not territory. They are “subjective reality” only an attempt to describe the territory. Subjective reality is our perception.

The “objective reality” or the territory itself is principles or natural laws. It is impossible for us to break the law. We only can break ourselves against the law.

To sum up this story, I just want to say: keep check our perception, is it right perception or wrong perception? Because live in wrong perception just damage our life.