Much ado over the fools and the wise

Learning Point No 330

---- a tongue in cheek post, meant to inject tinge of humor and realization or awakening through humor but others may find the humor distasteful and bordering on arrogance. This is not the intention. Do pardon the use of words 'fools' and 'wise'

Bird of the same feather stick together. Fools think alike and are never alone but the wise are those who never fear of being misunderstood. They find themselves alone. 

Fools have no problem with company but the wise stands alone and do not need company. Fools need acceptance and concurrence by others but not the wise. 

Fools are not sure of themselves and want others to agree with them. Only then will they feel they are right even if in fact they are wrong. 

Those who think they know the doctrine of God must have confidence in themselves. If they need others to say they are right, then they do not really know. 

If they need to win new converts to their views, they are fools and are insecure and want company - the more the better. They badly need reassurance in numbers. 

The wise knows they are right even if others could not see their point of view. The wise thus can stand alone but fools need company. Fools think alike and are never alone but the wise  rather be alone.

Those who know the doctrine stay away from the temple but those who know less or know not the doctrine talk as though they know allot and are at the temple to show they know more. 

But if men know allot in the wrong knowledge but get lost in what they know, they actually know not and are lost. They seek company of others to get reassurance that they know when they do not know. They talk allot because they want reassurance that they do know. 

But empty vessels make the most noise. They attract people of like minds and together they create the most noise but with little or no substance. 

Fools think alike and cannot be alone. The wise thinks differently and prefers to be alone than to be ruffled by the many fools who try to prove them wrong. 

The fools need company and find the wise a pain in the neck. Fools think alike, talk allot and relish company but not the wise.  

So if you do not go to a temple, this does not mean you are not good or wise. Perhaps you either know nothing and are couldn't be bothered type or you are wiser than the many in the temple. 

Lord Bo Tien did say that the near may be far and the far near. Those who are at a temple may know less than those not at the temple. 

But to the lord saint, it is alright to know less so long as you have doubts and want to question, to disagree and to know more. Why? If such men are able to clear their doubts and end up knowing more, they will no longer be far but near. 

But then perhaps they may then find themselves alone and may need to stay away from the fools - those who know not and ask not but think they know allot. 

(The scenarios described would not happen in a Bo Tien related temple for those at such temples would know better. Omitofo)