![]() He was destroying the very foundation of the ancient sannyas, because in the ancient days a sannyasin meant a very old man. He was destroying the very foundation of this class-divided society – a society divided into castes, varnas. ![]() He was destroying the very laws that Manu had prescribed for the Hindus. Their anger was almost righteous because Buddha was destroying the very foundation of their rotten culture. He was passing through a village and many people gathered, insulting and condemning him very much. You can go on trying to push his buttons but Buddha will not react. You can praise Buddha or you can condemn Buddha, it will not make any difference. If somebody appreciates you, you are flowing and happy – he pushed another button and you are under his control. The other person is the master – he pushed a button and you are under his control. If somebody insults you, you are insulted. You don’t have any control over your own mechanism. His response will not be mechanical – that’s why I say it will not be a reaction.Ī reaction is a mechanical thing anybody can push your buttons and you react mechanically. And his response will not be because you have insulted him his response will be out of his awareness. He will respond, but he will not react at all. If you hit him, he will not react the way an unconscious man will react. He no longer walks unalert and inattentive. He has become more aware – that is his knowing. His knowledge is not an accumulation of information his knowledge is an explosion, an inner explosion of light. Buddha’s knowledge is not about things his knowledge is about his own being. Buddha certainly never knew as much as Bertrand Russell knows – but Buddha is a knower and Bertrand Russell is not. More information is not more knowing – more knowing does not necessarily mean more information.Ī buddha may not know as much as Bertrand Russell knows. He has more information but not more knowing. As far as the being is concerned, he is the same as you. ![]() He is not more of a knower than you the knowledge is not yet qualitative. Bertrand Russell of course knows more than you but the knowledge is quantitative. There is no basic difference because the innermost core remains the same. If Bertrand Russell succeeds, he is as happy as anybody else. If Albert Einstein fails, he feels as frustrated as anybody else. If you insult an Albert Einstein, he becomes as angry as anybody else. You will find him as ordinary and ignorant a person as any other. Just scratch a little and his knowledge will not be of any help. Scratch the man of knowledge and soon you will find ignorance coming out of him. If the knower himself is in deep darkness all his knowledge is just superficial, it cannot even be skin deep. You know science, you know things, you know the world, but you don’t know yourself. We must have misunderstood the very nature of knowledge.īefore we enter this very symbolic and very significant parable, a few things have to be understood.įirst, unless you know yourself, all knowing is useless unless you know yourself all knowing is only pseudo-knowing – you appear to know but you don’t really know. Man knows much knowledge has grown every day and yet deep down man remains as ignorant as ever. It is as if you have made a big building and the foundation is missing. You know many things but the fundamental knowing is missing. So the fundamental question is: What is the nature of knowledge? What is real knowledge? Man knows many things and yet remains ignorant. In this darkness, if frustration happens, what more could you expect? In this darkness, if you only die and never live, it seems logical. In this darkness, if failure happens, it is natural. We have not yet attained to the light of inner being which can enlighten our path. What greater darkness can there be? We are not even aware of who we are, where we come from, or where we are going. What is light? We are born in darkness not knowing who we are. Naturally, the first question that any intelligent being will ask is how to find light. What is real knowing? One attains liberation only through knowing, one comes to know oneself only through knowing, only through knowing is the truth revealed. One of the most fundamental questions that has always faced humanity, and that will always be encountered by every human being that is ever going to be born, is the nature of knowledge. Therefore the sage scrutinizes not the fact of survival or ruin, but its reasons. ![]() This applies not only to archery but to ruling oneself. Hold onto this awareness and do not lose it.” He went away to practice and after three years again reported to Kuan-yin. He sought advice from Kuan-yin who asked him, Lieh Tzu was studying archery, and hit the target. ![]()
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