“With Knowledge, appears the EGO
With Ignorance, disappears the EGO”
The above statement may read counterintuitive to most. It goes aginst all we’ve been taught to believe about knowledge dispelling the darkness within. We’ve been raised with the notion that knowledge conquers all, even the failings of one’s own characater such as an XL size ego. Just like we’ve been programmed to answer ‘‘A for? ’’ with a prompt, unthinking, “Apple.”
Coming back to the point however, this article is about ‘Ignorance’ and ‘Knowledge’. I want to begin by saying that notions of ‘my knowledge’ and ‘I know’ are self deluding. The state of ‘Ignorance’, of ‘Not Knowing’, of being able to say, ‘I don’t know’ open new pathways to learning. These are the gateway to enlightenment.
‘Ignorance’ is a childlike state, where learning new things is exciting, awe-inspiring and constant, this state does not suffer the impediments of a large ego saying ‘I know’. It is a myth purported by so called ‘knowlegeable’, ‘egoistical’ men that the learned behave with seriousness and dignity. The truth is that the enlightened, the truly desirous of knowledge, don’t wear their learning on their countenance. They are unselfconscious and unaffected in their behaviour and uninhibited in their thirst to learn.
The whole world, religions, societies, countries, and communities would benefit from a stripping of the ego that only an acceptance of one’s ignorance can bring.
