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Originally Posted by FallingLeaves
these guys were awesome! here is my take on this one.
Knowing vs lack of knowing
It is better, lack of knowing
Knowing is a disease.
In the end only when the disease is sick
Appropriate lack of the disease happens.
Sages lack the disease
It happened the disease was sick.
In the appropriate way, lack of the disease happens.
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The problem with knowing something is that it often gets in the way of knowing other things. It's like an uncarved block of wood. As soon as you put the knife to it and start carving, as each shaving is removed, what it can be carved into becomes more and more limited.
Too often we like to use our knowledge to point out the speck in the eyes of others, not realizing that our knowledge may be a beam in our own eye.
Perhaps it is better to just be aware of things, not being to quick to know them as truths. That way we we do not blind ourselves to what may be the equivalent truth of their opposites.
"The opposite of every truth is just as true." - Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“The opposite of a fact is a falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.” – Niels Bohr