Posted By admin on February 26, 2011

Even after birth, we gradually begin to know ourselves and the world. The little child with astonishment sees all around. It still does not distinguish itself from the world. Not perceive the voice of her mother as something “external” and not perceive his feelings and movements as something ‘internal’. Characteristic for the perception of the world by the newborn is the interflowing with everyone and everything around it. When he says words and sentences, the child speaks for itself objectively. Only at the age of 3 the child begins to talk about himself in first person and is called “I”.

The small man builds his vision of the world through observation and experience of what it taught by the people around him.

At school he begins studying various sciences, he acquires more and more knowledge – learns mathematical formulas, chemical compounds, physical properties of bodies and physical laws, he studies history, geography, biology, anatomy and physiology of the human body, astronomy, information technology … etc. etc.

The books, the media, the internet flood us with a sea of information. We know more and more, we can solve complex tasks to assemble in different ways individual elements and thus create new things, we find compelling evidence and arguments in defense of our thesis and learning. The results of IQ tests are high.

But do the intelligence and our accumulation of knowledge tell us we are closer to wisdom?

IQ tests assess the ability of logical thinking, but  how much wiser are we?

Will we ever know everything, we are wise enough and just know, without looking, without having to constantly learn, to explore and prove?

How to acquire knowledge to be wise?
Indeed, accumulation of knowledge take us away more and more from the wisdom. Because – “The further you go, the less you know.”

* What is the difference between knowing and the wise man?
Lao Tzu says:

“The wise man is not well-informed. The well-informed man  is not wise. ”

In his work he painted the image of the sage – sage is like a newborn, learn not to want and learn not to teach, he is not “sweet” and is impartial to all people, not accumulated knowledge or objects and discards, not be compared, there is nothing to prove and avoid any extremes, works by non-action – does not work and ends, he is simply here and now. Live with an awareness of the difficulties, without suffering from them, he does not wander and seek and understand, does not look and see.
A wise man is naturally devoted to simplicity, he is in harmony, not seeking some purpose and not struggling to achieve something.

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