How Do We Learn?

How do we learn?
By getting an answer?
No.
By tasting it, and seeing if it works – for us and for others.

If we just accept when we are told something without experience, this is no better than belief, which we repeat. It may sound right, but have we tested it?

How do we test it? By noting our reaction towards others. If it is one of confident, empathetic kindness with genuine interest and no aftertaste, then we know we understand. If it is one of feeling superior for having ‘knowledge’, we’ve misunderstood, and misbehave with much aftermuttering. 🙂

There are plenty of ‘holy’ people and places,
and plenty of followers of ‘holy’ people and places,
but not many genuine, raw-experienced students.

Student: from Latin verb studere, related to studium ‘painstaking application’.

Many think they have the answer, because they have a good memory for whatever they’ve read or heard.
This is exoteric knowledge.

A few have the answer by having a good memory for life experiences.
This is esoteric knowledge.

The purpose of life is to learn,
and realise what we are