What is knowledge?

 We seek knowledge

About the visible, the observable and the provable.

We get knowledge

Through logic, deduction and experimentation.

We obtain knowledge

From intuition, inference and beliefs.

We attain knowledge

From history, geography and mathematics.

Science and technology plays its part.

Religion and philosophy does its part.

All these kinds of knowledge are inadequate

To steer the life in the troubled pool.

‘To attain knowledge, add things everyday.

To attain wisdom, remove things everyday.’

Said Leo Tzy  

True knowledge expands

By reflection. observation and introspection.

‘Compassion, frugality and humility

Are the essence of knowledge.’

Advocates Taoism.

Inner wisdom comes to one

From doing something significant,

Showing compassion where needed

And mustering courage when called for.

Wisdom will not stop things occurring

But will tell how to respond to it.

18.05.2017