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Originally Posted by Gem
I like your representation of the knowledge competition. To me it says that although the Indian knows far less, he is wiser. In this context that is relevant, because many people seem to think that knowing a lot about Buddhism is the mainstay of Buddhism - they argue over right and wrong too much - but Buddhism is much more about insight and wisdom that it is about knowledge. In the schools (at least the schools I have attended) the Buddhist philosophy is explained along with meditation practice so that people 'see' what is later talked about. Not to remember what is said, but to understand it though the insight of seeing for yourself. That insight or direct seeing is a different kind of learning. It's the understanding in realisation that transforms you toward wisdom through the real lived experience. So the Indian realises the insignificance of what he knows in reltion to what he understands, if that makes sense.
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it is after much reflection and introspection (and a smoke of the pipe, lol) we find the words to describe something that is hard to see just by the mere fact it size is incomprehensible for example.. I am an insignificant speck of dust in the physical universe yet within I behold vastness of the emptiness as a reflection
When I was younger I loved to climb trees, from those lofty heights I could see the horizon, below my friends would ask I what it is I can see, I would try in words to describe the endless green ocean canopy and I am higher than all of them, of course in there ignorance they can only see the trees for the Forrest, there view limited by how far they can see
I would often stay up there swaying in the breeze looking out to the horizon asking what it is that is beyond, when these dull eyes of mine can no longer see beyond I have reached a limit, yet deep deep down I know there is more to explore and continue to climb the proverbial spiral of transcending wisdom within that is to have light shed upon its mysteries, for what is beyond the human eye is is child play to a mind that is open