Incomplete knowledge

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Knowledge can for example be 2 + 2 = 4, or that the word 'car'

usually means something with wheels that one can drive around in.

This knowledge is good in the sense that it gives life meaning.

 

Incomplete knowledge is for example " I wonder if I will have enough

money all my life " , or " I wonder if I will get enough money to buy an

Aston Martin " .

 

Incomplete knowledge often breeds a negative sense of insecurity. The

reason we feel that incomplete knowledge gives a sense of insecurity

is because virtually all incomplete knowledge will remain incomplete

and knowledge alone cannot solve this incompleteness. The negative

stress and insecurity begins when we try to cope with insecurity from

a state of knowledge, i.e. the belief that by thinking about a

particular problem, then one may solve it. When one realizes that no

knowledge in the world will solve a particular problem then the

thinking mind begins to release its never ending struggle with that

problem. And then it dawns upon the mind the possibility that the

confusion and negative sense of insecurity is the result of trying to

think endlessly about a problem that cannot be solved by using

knowledge. For example, all thoughts about the future are incomplete

knowledge. So, living from knowledge alone will always create a

conflict between what is and what will be.

 

Having seen that thinking cannot ever resolve the problem called the

future, one begins to suspect that there may be another way of living

life, and curiosity will sometimes lead that mind to find out for

itself if there is a state in which there is no conflict whatsoever,

no conflict in any way, or on any level.

 

/AL