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This easily programs us against any kind of learning after we quit school, college or vocational training; - an entirely unnecessary blockage that often kills all our thirst for genuine insight and our natural enthusiasm for expansion.
Changed attitude: Ignore those who display vanity because of their supposed 'great learning' - no matter how high their status.
The data they memorized is dead. It does not further inner growth - neither within them, nor within you. Don't invest your life's precious time and energy only to experience the same stagnancy in the end.
Those of real wisdom and insight communicate it without disdain or arrogance.
Lack of knowledge, ignorance We feel we have too little knowledge to really experience higher levels.
Yet this feeling is wrong!
At any time and at any place we are surrounded by an abundance of factors that can make us aware of the immense wisdom dormant within us. We already use this treasure extensively, but mostly in an unaware fashion.
Systematic access to this treasure-trove opens when we progress on the path itself, - never through mere book-reading or any kind of preliminary training that only moves our start further and further into the future and carries the danger of losing ourselves in endless, superfluous preparation.
