The DAO

Education (Knowledge), though a necessary evil, is still a stain upon the primal soul. This is what my DAO book says. I kind of believe this is true. Of course education is a great and important thing because it lifts people out of ignorance and gets them to think for themselves, but it also can prevent you from seeing other knowledge clearly. The logic that "this is this, so this must be this" when nothing is so black and white. Also the more you know, ....the less is certain. We can be either lead to over certainty or complete distrust. I myself have experienced both extremes and think I am finally leveling out somewhere towards the middle.

At first I had complete faith that there was a way things were and should be. Then that illusion violently shattered and I completely lost faith in people and the things around me. That illusion is slowly crumbling as my personal philosophy and sensibilities mature. Life is all part of the process. You don't know something until you have lived it, and I have certainly lived quite a few things recently and while here in China. You need a good essential foundation to start from and build on. With that, though your personal structure may crumble from time to time, you will always have something left to go off of. That foundation is your primal soul. You are born with it and nothing can ever destroy it. Sometimes you just need to sweep away everything else to remember that it is there. Creation and destruction. Yin and Yang.