Friday, February 27, 2015

Assignment Due 2/21

Assignment Due 2/21: For the next assignment please choose a passage from the book that interests you.  Once you have chosen a passage please do the following and post it on your blog. 1) Write out the passage; 2) Explain the meaning of the passage; 3) Explain why this passage is important to you.



"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 be 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 entirely 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, is also a deception."

                                                                                                               Siddhartha

 According to Siddhartha wisdom is very different from knowledge. Knowledge can be useful and can't be transfer from a teacher to a pupil. But in this passage knowledge is acquired and can be conveyed from one form to other. When a person gains knowledge they become enlightened in their thoughts and behaviors and the ways to live their life. Siddhartha compared knowledge to wisdom because wisdom is gift that cant be taught in words. The opinions of knowledge are different between Siddhartha and Govinda. 

Siddhartha also viewed teaching as dividing and categorizing the world. Siddhartha saw the world as united and as a whole. Its something that can't be taught but only experienced 

I like this passage because I believe in education and gaining knowledge. knowledge can be use in a positive way, its what helps an person to grow by experience. You can't teach knowledge you can only live it. knowledge is a form of power that can take you places, and help you achieve goals. 


No comments:

Post a Comment