sushil soni
14th November 2013, 06:21
The sage does not hoard
Having bestowed all he has to others,
He has yet more;
Having given all he has to others
He is richer still.
- Lao Tse: Tao te Ching
Everything about the sage is sacred. His eyes, his speech, his smile, his walk, his intentions – the very being of the sage is pure, sacred. Luckily for us, our worlds have been augmented and enhanced by the sacredness of the sages for many generations – continuously being consecrated by the footsteps of the sages.
These sages have, in their quest for Truth, imparted a sense of comprehensive vision to us common mortals; given them an awareness which they generously shared. They have, in their unique ways, expanded human knowledge and consciousness, and thus, attempted to alleviate human suffering. Luckily for us, sages are not people who lived in the past, or in the books and scriptures. Even today, they walk the earth, here and now.
These sages are pure souls who confer upon other human beings the transcendental eyes to see the Infinite and to realize the Nature of Reality. These sages are pure souls because they combine knowledge with wisdom, since without wisdom knowledge can become harmful. In other words, a lack of wisdom can make the power of knowledge move in the wrong direction.
Scientists in the world are taught to preoccupy themselves in a single part of the whole. Science classifies. But nature is holistic. Alan Watts in “Nature: Man and Woman”, writes: “Whereas formal scientific knowledge is departmentalized, the world is not, so that the mastery of a single department of knowledge is often as frustrating as a closetful of left shoes”. To remove this frustration has been the sole purpose of the sages. They imparted a kind of education where they emphasize the importance of being completely free and yet highly disciplined without compromise. This puts a tremendous responsibility on the sage.
And what of a sage? A sage ought to be generous, sharing what he knows with his disciples and still remaining richer. A sage provides his disciple a tiger of wisdom on which to ride and himself goes back with what he had at the beginning. Which means that wisdom can be taught. Bertrand Russell asked this question: “If it can, should the teaching of it be one of the aims of education? I should answer both these questions in the affirmative.”
Having bestowed all he has to others,
He has yet more;
Having given all he has to others
He is richer still.
- Lao Tse: Tao te Ching
Everything about the sage is sacred. His eyes, his speech, his smile, his walk, his intentions – the very being of the sage is pure, sacred. Luckily for us, our worlds have been augmented and enhanced by the sacredness of the sages for many generations – continuously being consecrated by the footsteps of the sages.
These sages have, in their quest for Truth, imparted a sense of comprehensive vision to us common mortals; given them an awareness which they generously shared. They have, in their unique ways, expanded human knowledge and consciousness, and thus, attempted to alleviate human suffering. Luckily for us, sages are not people who lived in the past, or in the books and scriptures. Even today, they walk the earth, here and now.
These sages are pure souls who confer upon other human beings the transcendental eyes to see the Infinite and to realize the Nature of Reality. These sages are pure souls because they combine knowledge with wisdom, since without wisdom knowledge can become harmful. In other words, a lack of wisdom can make the power of knowledge move in the wrong direction.
Scientists in the world are taught to preoccupy themselves in a single part of the whole. Science classifies. But nature is holistic. Alan Watts in “Nature: Man and Woman”, writes: “Whereas formal scientific knowledge is departmentalized, the world is not, so that the mastery of a single department of knowledge is often as frustrating as a closetful of left shoes”. To remove this frustration has been the sole purpose of the sages. They imparted a kind of education where they emphasize the importance of being completely free and yet highly disciplined without compromise. This puts a tremendous responsibility on the sage.
And what of a sage? A sage ought to be generous, sharing what he knows with his disciples and still remaining richer. A sage provides his disciple a tiger of wisdom on which to ride and himself goes back with what he had at the beginning. Which means that wisdom can be taught. Bertrand Russell asked this question: “If it can, should the teaching of it be one of the aims of education? I should answer both these questions in the affirmative.”