Anything that cannot go beyond mind is not TRUE knowledge. Everything we learn in school, college, graduate school are mere routines and methods that help us use our brain as a tool to solve daily problems. To go beyond mind, one has to be able to tame the mind, let the thoughts calm down, and be able to realize without thinking. Yes, this might sound a little beyond imagination. But, the whole point is to not let brain do the work but let the brain, thoughts, and imaginations subside.
Does that mean that we need to stop thinking? Or not use are brain at all? No. We have to still think and use our brain, a wonderful tool, to solve our daily problems, make our living, and make our and others' life efficient. However, everything happening in or around the periphery of mind cannot be taken as TRUE knowledge. If we take them as true knowledge, all we end up with is stress and so many other mental problems like ego problem; unbalanced amount of love, hate, enthusiasm, passion; jealousy, obsession, compulsion; excessive seeking of status and power etc to name a few.
Does this mean that all professors, GPA heroes (straight A students), people who perform beyond chart at work are all ignorant? Yes, they are, if they think that what they have achieved is the ultimate metric for knowledge and success or if they fail to realize that what they have achieved is merely an efficient and elegant use of their brain for practical purposes. If their ultimate yearning is only such achievement that they tie it with status, power, and ego; then they have no TRUE knowledge.
TRUE knowledge makes smart people wise, lessens their ego, moves them away from status and power. Happiness rushes into their heart and kindness is always abundant in them, if they have TRUE knowledge. This doesn't mean that people who have TRUE knowledge have to be poor, material less, and be like hermits. It just means that they KNOW that wealth, material, status or power is just like thoughts in brain that are not TRUE source of fulfillment and contentment. Knowing and acting according to that, is TRUE knowledge!
Does that mean that we need to stop thinking? Or not use are brain at all? No. We have to still think and use our brain, a wonderful tool, to solve our daily problems, make our living, and make our and others' life efficient. However, everything happening in or around the periphery of mind cannot be taken as TRUE knowledge. If we take them as true knowledge, all we end up with is stress and so many other mental problems like ego problem; unbalanced amount of love, hate, enthusiasm, passion; jealousy, obsession, compulsion; excessive seeking of status and power etc to name a few.
Does this mean that all professors, GPA heroes (straight A students), people who perform beyond chart at work are all ignorant? Yes, they are, if they think that what they have achieved is the ultimate metric for knowledge and success or if they fail to realize that what they have achieved is merely an efficient and elegant use of their brain for practical purposes. If their ultimate yearning is only such achievement that they tie it with status, power, and ego; then they have no TRUE knowledge.
TRUE knowledge makes smart people wise, lessens their ego, moves them away from status and power. Happiness rushes into their heart and kindness is always abundant in them, if they have TRUE knowledge. This doesn't mean that people who have TRUE knowledge have to be poor, material less, and be like hermits. It just means that they KNOW that wealth, material, status or power is just like thoughts in brain that are not TRUE source of fulfillment and contentment. Knowing and acting according to that, is TRUE knowledge!
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