" I'm not kidding. I'm telling you what I've found. knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. it can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught. this was what I, even as a young man, sometimes suspected, what has driven me away from the teachers. I have found a thought, Govinda, which you'll again regard as a joke or foolishness, but which is my best thought. It says: The opposite of every truth is just as true! That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one sided, all just one half, all lacks completeness, roundness, oneness. When the exalted Gotama spoke in his teachings of the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into deception and truth, into suffering and salvation. It cannot be done differently, there is no other way for him who wants to teach. But the world itself, what exists around us and inside of us, is never one-sided. A person or an act is never entirely Sansara or entirely Nirvana, a person is never entirely holy or sinful. It does really seem like this, because we are subject to deception, as if time was something real. Time is not real, Govinda, I have experienced this often and often again. And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, i also a deception".
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This passage clearly explained the difference between having an experience and wisdom. People can learn and also be thought from experience, while wisdom cannot be thought or learned. The passage also uncover what is know as truth. Truth can only be true and and always one sided. If a truth or any other meaningful things has other side of the meaning, then it lacks oneness, completeness and roundness.
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I was able to think and rethink, anything truth should be pure and not being attached to any other things. There must not be other meaning to truth. it's like calling a spade "a spade."
Hi Alatise, I am a little confused about your comment. You wrote “wisdom cannot be thought or learned.” How can we acquire wisdom? My understanding is that we can learn wisdom through our experiences.
ReplyDeletehello Alatise, I agree with your interpretation of the passage and i think your referring to the wisdom as the revelation and Nirvana that cannot be taught by one man.This is only when that person reaches that state can they be wise.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I don't see your five questions on here did you post them?