Seeking Knowledge

We should seek knowledge outside of any organized body of do-gooders. Most if not all still live by decision making predicated upon the KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL rather than the tree of LIFE.. they are in darkness in the sense that the determining factor in their observation and decision making operates by way of...well let's describe it like trees; "Putting the manure of greed and lust on the thin soil of folly and delusion;planting seeds of ignorance, transplanting shoots of form, feeling, perception, conditioning and consciousness,producing buds of active habit-ridden consciousness,growing roots of attachment and stems of flattery and deceit, sprouting leaves of jealousy and envy, creating trees of affliction, causing flower of infatuation to bloom,forming fruits of greed, aggression and ignorance". (The Ecstasy of Enlightenment, Thomas Cleary.)

It would be hard to believe or comprehend perhaps but we can develop an understanding of not being disturbed by praise nor scorn. This is not the development of a thick skin rather the development of understanding and knowledge that transcends the vanities and allows one to see others with a conscious outlook of Agape or non judgmental love. Having no care nor rustle of wind to disturb your state of mind as with a need to retaliate. Vanity of vanities all is vanity